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

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Freedom LURING my recent trip East I visited High Schools in twenty-one cities. I saw many splendid institutions. Some are entirely different from ours. For instance, in one citv I visited a Tech- nical High School which teaches all kinds of trades. It has an attendance of about four thousand. The new building is eight stories high, has elevators large enough to take whole classes from the basement to the roof, and cost ov er four million dollars. With the old building the plant represents an investment of five and a half millions. In most places there seems to be more money to spend for schools than we have in Berkeley. In other cities I saw beautiful High School buildings for boys only, and others for girls only. Everywhere the people seemed to be studying the problem of adapting the education of their children to the changing demands of the present times. But nowhere did I observe a better spirit than we have right here in the Berkeley High School. In the Trade Schools the students seemed very much interested in their work, which was due, no doubt, to the fact that they were getting a training from which they expect financial returns immediately. In the regular academic High Schools I did not find the freedom and spontaneity which we have here on the part of either teachers or pupils. I cannot explain why this is. It may be due to the fact that the schools in the East have more years and traditions of enforced orderliness and routine back of them. To my mind our freedom, our individual responsibility for work is the ideal condition, so long as we remember that its purpose is to secure the highest self-development. That is our big problem as students and teachers. Our freedom is our most precious possession, so long as we use it to make ourselves better. Whether we are doing this or not is a ques- tion that each must answer for himself. How is it with you? C. L. BlEDENBACII.

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Loo: of the Term AUGUST, 1923 13.. Fall term opens. 24. Old Clothes Day. 27. Vaudeville Tryouts. 27. Election of Senior Class officers. 31. Freshmen Reception. SEPTEMBER 4. First Football Rally. 6. First Boys ' Dinner. 21. B. H. S. defeats Technical. 28. Senior Play Tryouts. 28. B. H. S. gridders defeat University High. 29. IVIeeting of the Federation of H. S. girls of San Francisco Bay Counties held at B. H. S. OCTOBER 5-6. Vaudeville. 6. B. H. S. holds Stanford Freshmen to a scoreless tie. 12. B. H. S. vs. Oakland High. 18-19. G. A. Play— The Trysting Place. 20. B. H. S. vs. Cal. Frosh. NOVEMBER 2. B. H. S. vs. Piedmont. 5-9. Pod Sale. 9. B. H. S. vs. St. Mary ' s. 17. B. H. S. vs. Alameda. 21. First Interscholastic Debate. 23. Senior Play. DECEMBER 10. Pods distributed. 21. Fall term closes — graduation.