Berkeley High School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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Departure of ' 03 And the toilers still remaining. Glad to leave behind the rulers, Oh, those dreadful, awful rulers! Who had made tliem most unhappy With their laws and rules of conduct. And yet there were some who went out, Who seemed sad at thought of leaving — Thought of all the friends they knew there, Whom they left behind on going; Thought of rulers kind and loving, Who had helped them when they stumbled, Wno had often cheered their toiling, Who had made their sojourn happy In the blessed land Higliskoolum. And they sighed and went out weeping. IRENE GAINES. ' Oa. BERKELEY HIGH SCHOOL

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The Departure of TWAS the time when days grow longer, Wnen the sun is on the hilltops, On the hilltops and the valley. Making warm the verdant meadows; When the blossoms bloom in beauty Without fear of icy north winds; When the streamlets flow in murmurs, Towards the great and mighty ocean, Kissed by warm and loving sunbeams. ' Twas the time of early summer, When all nature seems most happy. That the great and mighty prophet. The far-famed and learned scholar, James, the Wise Man of Highskoolum, Did declare, with voice majestic: Hearken to me, oh my people. Hear me, for I wish to warn you. If you do not heed my warning. Woe betide you — I have said it — I have noticed some among you. Some among the tallest of you, Some among the eldest of you. Some who think themselves the wisest, (Naughty-three, they call each other) Who will soon usurp the kingdom. Who will rule our land, Highskoolum, If their schemes are not prevented, If some measures are not taken. By which this can be averted. They are getti ng quite unruly. They have what is called the Big Head. Naughty =Three . We must send them from Highskoolum, Or they will corrupt the morals Of the youngest of my people. We must send them into exile. Never more to come back to us; Into long eternal exile. We will send them to U Ceum, To that famous seat of learning. Where they ' ll soon be cured of Big Head. We will give them slips of paper. To admit them to that country. And when they have once departed To that famous land U Ceum, We can sit back and be happy. Fearing not an insurrection. Thus spoke James, the learned prophet. And the rulers of Highskoolum, Thought his warning was most timely. For they too had seen the symptoms, Of that dread disease, the Big Head; Seen the people grow unruly. And they thought it best to send them Into long eternal exile. To the great land of U Ceum. Thus they left for larger regions. For a new and unknown country, Where the laws were very different. Where they knew not all the customs. Of the people dwelling in it. Still there were some glad to go there. Glad to leave behind Highskoolum,

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The Wonderful Century and the = 9. Wonderful Class of ' 03. » N 1900, when all the glory of the Century was on every tongue, when Columbia, goddess supreme among nations, had reached a point in progression never yet attained by any other country, when the great Century was passing away in all its magnificence, in that year which rounded to the full the wonderful period whose achievements mark it as superior to any that went before it, there gathered within the walls of the Berlceley High School, a class worthy of the departing Century, one which, on going from the school, was destined, just as the age, which it resembled, not to die, but to live in spirit and its exploits forever in those halls. I do not mind confessing to you that some of us Juniors thought it rather a fitting climax. Certain people in the classes following us were unkind enough to say later that we really never recovered from the idea. But I hope to prove to them that we have been fully juti- fied. Still, comparing our class to our century, we should look first at the inventions of each. In the nineteenth century three distinct methods of locomotion have been originated and brought to a high degree of perfection. They are: the steam car, the steamship, and the application of electrical power. We ' 03 ' s also have new methods of motion — two in number. One we might call Lack-o ' - motion, — for was it not in our time that Mr. James com- menced his endless cry of Move on? The other mear.s is employed in cutting to go to Mason ' s. This inven- tion, though a credit to our brains, was not one to our morals, so we dropped it, and it has lately been used chiefly by the Middlers. This century has, moreover, a few inventions which have the character of quite new departures; since they not only greatly diminish labor, but perform, by mechanical de- vices, operations which had been supposed to be beyond the power of machinery to execute. The more important of these are the sewing machine, the typewriter and the combined reaping, thrashing and winnowing machine. Into a contrivance like the last we each have formed our- selves, and, going through the Library, we have reaped where we cared to, thrashed our material thoroughly, and finally separated what we wanted from what we did not want. By this invention, the Hackley Reaper, Thrasher, and Winnower, each of us, in a short time, can get a result that it has taken before us many people several years to obtain. In the line of communication we also have gone ahead of the century. The history of the progress of communi- cation between persons at a distance from each other has gone through three stages which are radically distinct. At first it was dependent on the voice or on gestures, and word to one far away could only be sent by a messenger. Then writing was introduced, which simplified matters some. But the third stage, when by means of electric signals it was rendered independent of locomotion, is that