Brackenridge High School - La Retama Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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One of the early trains of the period when Mark Twain began lecturing. CONTENTS Administration and Faculty Classes Senior Junior Sophomore School Life Favorites Features Activities Stage, Press and Music R. O. T. C. Clubs Athletics The most remunerative of Mark Twain's several occupations was lecturing on his travels and his books He filled the house to capacity and held his audience spellbound.

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The Quaker City” on which Mark Twain sailed for his first visit to Europe. FOREWORD Our reason for making this a Mark Twain Edition is two fold: first, to honor America's beloved humorist at this the hundredth anniversary of his birth; second, to give to the students of Erackenridge both now, and in later years, that same happy experience which Mark Twain hoped for the readers of Tom Sawyer , namely: to try to pleasantly remind adults of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in. At seventeen, as a printer, Mark Twain started out to see the k io travels continued to the last year of his life and embraced the globe.

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 Magdalen College, Oxford where the doctor of letters was conferred. DEDICATION To our friend, Mr. Roy R. Kay—sincere, competent, tireless; distinguished by understanding and tolerance; one for whom all Brackenridge has a deep sense of gratitude for his devotion to the happiness and welfare of Brackenridge — we dedicate this 1935 La Retama. Mark Twain had to stop school at twelve, but continued his education through life Yale honored him with two degrees; at seventy-two, Oxford conferred on him his crowning honor, the degree of doctor of letters.