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

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14 ,, . 'w ,W 1 l ll w 14 ul E. lil ---me--WW-afg.e.e ,-sfigesiy -ep 1 ,C H Tile UHCFOSSGA Goal The last years of my father's life were characterized by an exceeding clear- ness of memory concerning his boyhood days. He seemed much impressed and constantly referred to the arduous tasks which he was called upon to perform in his Rhode Island home on Narragansett Bay. He was a great swimmer. For him swimming took the place in the realm of sport whic basketball, football and baseball hold in the lives of boys today. It was his onl ecreation. Most of his young life was spent picking stones out of a none too fe e farm, piling them up to make the fences, carrying water from the bottom of th hill up to his mother's kitchen, hewing wood with an ax, and dressing it with' n adz for use in his father's carpenter shop. He constantly referred to the phy al strain of his tasks. The great strides civilization has made in the coinforgmife and in the ease of procuring a living must be apparent to the young peopleftod We are practically set free today from the more arduous tasks. The greayutigence that is behind nature seems to have provided us with the steam powe that omes from coal and oil, and the hydro-electric power that comes from gravitation. The heavy work is done for us, leaving us to merely direct these great forces placed at our disposal. There must have been an unusual physical development produced among the men of this nation from the time of the landing of the Pilgrim fathers down to the middle of the nineteenth century, due to this sturdy contact with nature. It may or yy not be correct to say that from now on our progress is not to be in the line of the development of the physical body. It, perhaps, would be more accurate to say that we may expect unusual development in the nervous system rather than in the muscles, for today, with sixty-five per cent of our population living in the cities, where all people ride and few walk, there is a great tendency for the mus- cular system to fall into disuse. Nature abhors sudden changes. In the place of ' il the exercise which in the olden days was necessary for the maintenance of life, we find athletic sports. Something in the subliminal mind cries out against a too .4 El ra id de eneration of the muscular s stem. Games of a ph sical nature are taking M P E D Y Y I 'WH the place of the hard physical work that wrought a bare subsistence out of the lm unfertile fields of New England. It is not surprising that every boy feels that it lj, is his physical birthright to live out in the sunshine and the fresh air, and feel the ,lu thrill of resilient muscles that comes from the desire to excel in the many sports if that bring young people together today. l .It is equally apparent, in addition to the physical thrill, that there is a deep li lil Spiritual ignihcance in sports as they are being developed in America. We wor- il Ship fair play. No one would tolerate football games if those games were perme- ated and predominated by what is commonly called dirty work. The essential li of sportsmanship is that we respect our playmate and not only wish him to have a fair chance to win, but resent any process that may deprive him of that privilege. Wig In boyhood days we call it the love of fair play. As we grow into manhood, we call it the love of justice. It is the bottom fact underneath all governments. We ll ii have one department of government called the judicial -department, consisting of a ll, il system of courts constructed purposely as the bulwark of our nation, founded on lil this idea of 'ustice. We can not tolerate life itself on an smaller ideal than that, J. f J . Y . as a race of human beings, we respect others as ourselves. Perhaps high school boys do not realize that in these ecstatic days of youth and physical prowess they NQf?V are laying the rock foundations on which nations are built. We have two kinds of . ffm 55 li TW5 by JT..-,.a5Ei,...,.....:g:,.a,,L,A ,.,.., ... . . 'LXJ fl Fm. gf T 1 ga K, may ,

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mind, known to the scientific World as an intellect and a subliminal self. The subliminal mind is, perhaps, that deeper portion of our operating machinery that contains the record and the tendencies that come down through generations. It is a portion of the mind that does not stop to reason why, but seems to manifest itself in great emotions and tendencies, as though the history of the race had previously decided the correctness of its action. I have often wondered why there is a greater thrill in watching a football game than in watching a game of chess. If we dare tear the flower to pieces, I suspect the reason is that in the subliminal mind we adore the glory of youth and respond to the development towards justice, even if we only call it clean football. This issue of the SCHURZONE would be at fault if it omitted a tribute to the football team of 1928, many of whom are graduating with this edition. All honor to the team Whose goal line was never crossedg to the team that possessed the Lindbergh modesty 5 to the team that has never 'tbreathed a word about its loss , to the team that was ever conscious that they carried the name of Schurz. My name, once mine, now thine, is closelier mine. To this group of boys who have so Wonderfully set the ideals of young man- hood to their under-classmen, this tribute is affectionately inscribed. . ' i i WV. F. SLOCUM. ., K4 t1Af3L1QZ4,p 21 fm.. , at K p QV K mfs- .s i,g,Qff'f .. 1 X 9:5-l:,f'iLkaXi?t,.wM:4.J' 51.1. , ,hi 17, .4 ji., .--J 5 .diff g'f':':' ,, , ,,,, Q rf-gf, ,af-an 1, cfs