Webb Schools - El Espejo Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

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An infinite iourney is suddenly and cruelly ended. With the termination of this school year has ended a most wonderful pageant of ioy and sorrow, of hope and regret, of enthusiasm and despair-it is gone and can never be re- lived, but through the sketchy and fallible medium of memory. What has been the essence of our education?-certainly not the garnish that covers it: the grades and kudos-most unsatis- factory indicators that hardly scratch through the student to reveal the man . . . or the boy . . . but indicators which blind him and divert his thought, his energy, his spirit-certainly not this garnish. Essentially, education must be an understanding-an idea, however vague, of life. Here was opportunity for achieving this understanding--an opportunity manifested not only in slide rules, history books, and Study Hall, but also in racks of sweat-thirsty football ier- seys, in unnumbered extracurricular activities, in Chapel, in bull sessions. This education pre- supposes that the mind and body are receptive to outside influence-but no scholar was trained or athlete conditioned from the outside in-no man was made who lacked that vital spark of love for life, of willingness, or dogged deter- mination. Time spent here is a test--a challenge accepted with varying degrees of enthusiasm by the students and offered by the combined forces of stubborn teachers and anxious parents. Clandestinely, we fool these antagonists with grades and report cards-what we really learn -our experiences in this small arena of life- we hold secret and dear. Rain on a Tin Shack roof, a glorious spring morning, a rally or bon- fire, the peaceful bliss of Sunday afternoon, a pulled m-uscle in Football or Track, the fever be- fore Term Exams, an occasional swat, sneak lights, Monday morning breakfast, a stuffy de- merit hall, Commencement-all fleeting pains or pleasures that colored Webb life-bits of nostalgia.

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SPONSORS MR. MRS. MR. MR. MR. MR. MR. ond MRS. EDWARD GEREMIA KELLAND MARY B. and MRS. RICHARD W. MILLAR RICHARD S. SMITH and MRS. and MRS. E. E. TREFETHEN D. K. WASHBURN SAMUEL ZEMURRAY

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