Billings Senior High School - Kyote Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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A Year 1923 Q g ess U ma . To the North of the Great. Sea .dweltgthe , . Greeksywho werefinoted for their learning: and 4 culture. They too borrowed ideas' from the other nations, chiefly from the Phoenicians, and formed an alphabet of their, own greatly improved over - all others then in use, by adding the vowel soundsgg - g all other alphabets hitherto, having used the con- sonants only. So nzuch more perfect was' the -' Greek alphabet than all others- preceding' that .Q A scholars all over the world beganiits study and. - use, even Hebrew writers using it in writing por- tions of the scriptures, and its use became general K among nations of western Europe. s J e ' To the north of the Great Sea and to the ' ' west of the.Greehs dwelt the RomansQ Miglzty g ' ' men of warwerethey and their armies went forth against thosefof all other nationsg In-the time of our 'Lord ,they made warlupongthe Egyptians and -found the newly conquered country full of strange lpicturesg which seemingly 'had to do with fits former history, though none of the Ronzanscholars, could decipherthenz. These early people had learned how to preserve speech for the benefit-of their descendants ,that 'these descendants might profit by knowledge of .theirmistakes and accomplishments of the t past. In the absence of fi hey it was a sealed 'boohi Egypt was a store house filled withdocurnents which no man living could decipher and so were of no usef ' Seventeen centuries more passed away and Egypt still remained a land offmystery. ' Finally from the land of the Franks'-came Bonaparte, the greatjleader of the' French armiesy to make war upon the Egyptians. . Though his el-cpedition was a failure from a military standpoint, it resulted in unravelling the mysteries of, early Egyptian ihistory, for the hey was found. V s . . - f ' Y . For one day a man nanzediBroussard, a general on the expedition strayed from his camp for a-few idle hours midst the ruins of the lVile Delta and behold,-a stone' he found' which became known as, the famous Rosetta stone, whichlihe everything: else in this land of promise and mystery was covered withfigures, but this stone was different f as some inscriptions were Greek and the Greek .language was known., For twenty to translatetthe message. And today we possess a record which covers forty 'centuries of history. ' ' Y Now it was found that the Egyptian writings were of three systemsg and some inscriptions were called de1notic,eand they were used for common and trading purposes f and 'some were called hieroglyph- ics and they were used on rnonnments and public huildingsg and the others' which were sacred to the priests were called hieraticp And the systems all consisted originally of figures such as houses, fea- tures, and farms. fl nd these figures were scratched on temple walls and papyrig. It has always been the belief that the Egyptian system was asign language: it was now discovered to be a sound language. fl nd it was. learned that years man 'The Story of Mankind by Hendrick Van Loon. SRO- setta Stone-Basalt Steele stoneinscribed in demotic and Greek. Found 1799 nem' Fort St. Julian. -Now in. British Museum. . ' 'Vli S.. 1'l'L?7'J7TTK7'7'TfV . l'7HZZZ77l77'Z.73'L7?Z7777,Z7T7TfUfU77Ull I 77 77 H I ,-'il77H41 , - W I r o f .......,, 1- - .priorit-

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In 5- fr fl'helUotc ms 4 ' M8 a gnumber of-pictographs could be useflfitofgxpress otherwords notfso conveniently pic- tured- but having the same sounds, by .adding to the symbol for a-cierftainfohject'a dis? tinguishing .mark to indicate a similarly sounding word. This systenziwasudevelopedito a system almost purely 5phonetic.k 1Now,sh2wing invented .this style of writingthe Egypi tians developed it even until theyghad ample meanslbyiwhich they- werefable to set 'down for posterity their thoughts,-desires?'mistakesandfachievements.Q f f - - ' g I t was but a stepffurther tojtheuse ofa sinzplefarbitraryqsymbolito represent ,each of the various soundsjfandzlo, arialphabetfwas the resultg 'fronfwhich bydcombirzations 'to depictfthevsounds uttered inthe spoken word, the written word became afact. ' .Itrernained for aznation of traderslike the Phoenicians-to developit further to suit Ytheirfneeds in the field of business and a nation of culture, as theAGreeles, to develop it'still further .to meet the demands of 'literatureg until theslample Greek alphabet resulted. - . b -i . Y e,'o if 5 n c ggi o i be is ' But' from whence came the letters which we daily fuse and take, forigranted? re they Egyptian, Babylonian, .4rarnaicQ-Rhoenic'iart,g,Greek? kNo, they again, are made up of all fthese aforementioned languages. f The systejn was not ,developed suddenly by any scholar or groupfoftscholars butfdeveloped fande grew'-tlzroughoutfthe centuries of the Christian era even as ,mankindeinzveased inlnurnlzerfandg knowledge. ' ff, ' The triumph of-fChristianity'rand thlekliteraliohedience to the conimandl:k'G53ye into all the worldandpreachwthe gospel bythe missionaries of the Christian religion has resulted in not onlycarrying the Gospel butour language or that of some other nation using thefsame alphabet to the for corners' of the earth until today the alphabet withwhich we stisuggleyinour early school life' isiused by the most highly ,developed and civilized half of theqworlds' popnlation. Q . o Q 4 n 1 g W p 5 4- kind thus has 'progressed ourlanguage until ,methods of the typewrittenfsyrizhol written and printed word were devised 'to make in accordance with that spirit of progress prevalent throughout, the world moreisimplensystemslofqwriting this English alphabet. Some time in the fifteenth century 'a German schoolmaster was wandering through thewoods. 'To amuse.-his pupils he 'cut from the bark of a birch. tree a. numberl-of letters and lo,,he noticedkthe stainsithatfthesap nzadef+they were perfect imprintsi only reversedf' Thusthefiprinting press was developed, -'ln the year' fourteen hundred and thirty A. ,Guttenberg produced. his .famous V press with movable ,metal type. 'In 1476 William Caxton :brought this press to England. iBut when ibookssand newspapers became popular this was found impractical so the great mechanical' presses were devel- oped. .Then the linotype, which sctsra line? of 'type inbut a few seconds was invented. - e In 1784 Beniarninfranklin, nranking colonist of' the times. printed thefirst news- paper in Almericawn' one of the' simplest 3 hand presses. Today-Ywith. the development of all ymodern printing' devices at total Qof 20,694 different'-'papersiini tlteflinglish language are printed' in the United States alonej f i - 2 A3 ll - c u The twenty-six words of ourpalphahet are . coined into more than half a million English. words and new. wordsfare being coined daily. . Eighty-six languageszare spoken in India alonee- b in France are a dozen dialectsg . c i,,g X Will civilized man someday speak Esperanto! lv ' or some other common tongue instead of English, Spanish, French, German, and others? .Perhaps the written word is further from the endiof 'itsv process of evolution than weqthink. ' i 1 .- , - ,n 4' fx CV .ff , its . - a s f L ,WQffrf223m2IHf1J.iCz272WTfcaaguafrvformal cm mifzzyffaz iI,u1113:2Lu17ZafLu4z77Z2Zf1U?QZU77 rzmzffmn-rnmzu