Carl Schurz High School - Schurzone Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Eight Class Officers Roy CARLSTROM ............ President Technicalg Radio 3, 45 Outdoor 43 Swimming 2, 3, 45 Chess and Checker 4. Roy merits his fI0f7ll1l17'lIlj'. GRACE A. ESDOHR ....... 'Vice-President General Historyg French 3, 45 Schurz Vlforld 45 Chorus 2, 3, 43 Dramatic 4. Om' most jvofmlar girl. BONITA BOOKWALTER ........ Sccrcfazjf General I-Iistoryg Schurz VVorld 45 Literary 3, 45 Outdoor 4g Dramatic 37 Poets 4g Debating 4. Her actions will make her great. RICHARD S'roN12s1FER ......, Treasurer Connnercialg Radio 45 Outdoor 43 Schurz 'World 4 3 Chess and Checker 3 and 4. A dandy fellow and ri good 771'i!l7C7'. ERVVTN H. BEISLER. . .Delegate-out-Large General Scienceg Lettermerfsg Foot- ball 2, 3, 4g Debating 4. Tlwre inf! muclz. that he can? do.

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Commonly speaking, an appreciation of the H116 arts constitutes culture. I am conscious that I have met many cultured people who are not particularly familiar with all of the fine- arts-could not sing or play an instrument, could not draw pictures or write poetry., and in all probability could not build a cathe- dral, and yet I had that indefinite feeling that I was in the presence of someone who was cultured. It is evident that we are born with certain mental powers. VVe suspect that the unfolding or developing of these powers has only begun. T he possibilities of the future are immeasurable. Nature- lures us along certain lines of thought and feeling by something that we call beauty. She beckons us to travel that road. Can you look at a sunset or the twilight's purple hills and not think of another world where the prevailing light is not the common glare of our earthly day? Can you look at the stars at night and not think of the quotation, In my I7ather's house are many mansionsn? Can you read Tenny- son's lines, Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me,', a and not experience the deep religious calm that was over him? Can you per- ceive or remember the fragrance of sweet peas, the violet, lilacs or the rose, with- out suspecting that there is a separate meaning to each? Can you hear the Pilgrims' Chorus from HfIiZl1111l'lZlL1SC1',, or Hallelujah Chorus of Handel and not yearn to know what each separate thrill means? Can you gaze at two faces and note wherein the one differs in glory from the other, and not suspect that, as Lowell says, T here is a thread of the All-Sustaining Beauty that runs through all and cloth all unite. Culture in a sense is a yearning for this beauty-beauty of all kinds. To translate this into terms of human co-nduct means to so live that the windows of the soul are always open, that the different powers of the mind are not impeded in their unfolding, that all the subtler influences which can affect the mind may come in and find a sensitive registering plate. Culture in a sense is the po-wer to put one's self in a. condition of complete receptivity. It means the obliteration of egotismlg it means the desire to create, for we always want to create the thing we love. It means the many-sided development indi- cated in I-Inxley's definition. It means not letting the coarser things of life shut out the more spiritual things. If I were to- choose from all these quotations the very essence of culture, I should use Macdonald's language, To keep the way open for the entrance of deeper, holier, grander feelings emanating from the same riches of the Godhead. Your four years in this school have substantially opened the way. Keep it open. , Seven

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