Anna Head School - Nods and Becks Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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dint of loving care and patience, is responsilile for his final triumph o er himself and hostile forces. The author has divided his stud} ' of temperament into three olumes. The first of these observations upon life, The Early History of Jacob .Stahl, tills one with enthusiasm; the second, A Candidate for Truth, arid, by the way, a remarkable bit of psychology, is inclined to leave rather a bad taste in one ' s mouth, while the third, The Inxisible Event, satisfies entirely. The trilogy is probably one of the finest that the school of realism has yet produced since Romaine Rolland ' s Jean Christophc. Concentrating upon the commonplace feelings and happenings of life, Mr. Beresford has given us human nature as it reallv is, without attempting to heroize his characters, nor to translate them into terms of his own temperament. Rari!. r. Simpson ' 20. C a 1 1 f () r n 1 (I Death I ' alley The sun beats down ujjon the arid plain Whose breathless heat a thousand souls has slain. An endless stretch of shifting, seething sand — A scorching, glaring waste of desert land. The Sierra A ' ezvda ' i ' he stately pines and rustling fir trees high Are silhouetted ' gainst a calm blue sky ; The swift, cool mountain waters rush and leap To valleys green from mountain ridges steep. BAi ' tr.AR.v SiMrsoN ' 20. 7 ' h e L II r c u f t li c D e s e r t Have vou e er been out in the desert When the air is cold and clear? Have you ever been out in the desert When God alone seemed near. ' ' When vou ride for miles and miles Through the sage-brush grayish-green? Well, it gives you a wonderful feeling, . feeling pure and clean. Anil all the cares and worries. Unhappy things of the day, The ' glide away like shadows Into the desert grey. Mak.iouii-: Roach ' 20. IS sr

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