Catlin Gabel School - Garrulous Pine Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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E ArchlTecTure may well be placed as The mosT subsTanTlal gaTeway To The basT ages IT us The leasT perashable oT all The sTeppung sTones Tor hav noT The greaT pyramids sTood Tor Thousands oT years and wall They noT conTnnue To sTa'ud aT leasT long enough so ThaT all The knowledge ThaT They conTaln may be wrnTTen down and recorded7 Cn The very walls oT EgypT s Gre-aT Pyramnd are paunTed plcTures oT The llTe oT The AncnenT Pharoah burned wuThun :Ts walls The cusToms and mode oT lnvmg are also depucTed There Scenes oT The Egyphan mer charuTs oT The every day laborers and oT slaves druven cruelly by mercn less whnps Tell us beTTer oT ThaT lnfe Than could anyThung else Then There IS The wonderTul Temple oT Karnalc a greaT monumenT To many Egyphan dynasTles Each greaT pnllar us a documenT oT hnsTory In nTselT and The sTaTues oT The pharoahs are There Telllng us oT Theur glornous reigns From EgypT we may go To Greece Then To AThens and on up To The very Acropolns nTselT There The ParThenon sTands somewhaT devasTaTed by devices oT a modern age buT neverTheless a glorious remembrance WhaT could be a greaTer lnheruTance To The presenT day7 Thus bunldlng noT only depucTs an sculpTure The AThen1an TesTuval and The gloruous vlc Tories oT Greece buT :T shows as well The greaT masTery ThaT The Gre lcs had oT geomeTry and archlTecTure The caThedrals un Europe sTand as monumenTs To The medieval age ln Theur unbellevable and almosT mmraculously sculpTured sides The unTnr :ng zeal and labor oT The arTusan as porTrayed These worlcers musT have been :nspured Tor They Touled Theur whole lnves Through accomplnshxno a l1TTleThnng noT meanT Tor human eyes buT Tor The eyes oT Thenr God and Vnrgun Mary So These caThedrals sTand relics oT ThaT relngnous period The ThnrTeenTh cenTury Thus we may read In almosT every greaT pmece oT archuTecTure The hnsTory oT I s pasT Today as an age oT sTeel and :ron and bun dungs made wlTh a speed unThoughT oT by Those anc1enTs YeT why may noT our slsy crapers and bndges lasT as Those oThers have lasTed and remann an cmb oT Thls surpnslng Mechanlc A e7 Al ce STrong 32 40 TH GARRULOUS PINE A GATEWAY TO THE PAST I- .15 - I . . ny- T V

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