Central YMCA High School - Centralite Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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3f'u-lsff ..u-5-:5-'-1-g'v:-2f'-nf.'1l?io ' - 1ldlJuk4vMiJ s1!-fl-..'-Llxgg E was ,L J 9' -I LITERARY 5' 41 3. Q5 SCHOOL SONG 7 LK C -S THE EIGHTH WONDER P.. I fl QA Modest Tribute to Central to the Tune of Solomon Leviuj xl' 3 7' '.L I ig. Oh, you may travel the wide world round, 2' it O'er many a land and sea, 51' ,I And visit the Sphinx and all the ginks Q- That rule in majesty, Q' if And you may go to the ends of the earth, 5' g The wonders seven to see, is But you're out of date, till you see number eight, E' Ts The school they built for me! K '14 CHORUS: ll' ts 'l Cheer, boys, for Central-queen school of the West! if' E Yea bo! Central--school we love the best! 5- '.- Rahfrah-we've got the rep, we've got the e gi 'S We've got the faculty: ' 1 The blue and white will ever fight 11' Its way to victory. o':f II Q When elephants played on mandolins ' J. On the Paleozoic stage, ' And cavefmen beat their wifies meek, :Q Our yell was all the rage, , tl When Greeks and Babylonians 'I' :F Were looking for a sage, J' We sent our profs to teach their L'sophs Ii The wisdom of the age. 'If lv III .E You'll find our men in Kalamazoo, 4. France, Borneo, or Maine, Along the Nile, where the crocodile ' Eats men to ease his pain, FQ In Timbuctu or South Sea Isles, ,gf From Yap to sunny Spain, 2, ,S The cannibal goop says Central soup , 4, Has won itself a name. ' Page seventyffour 1' . 1 I 1 L l '? '

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v I ' l I LITERARY I ' MY HERO li Away from the city Its noise and its strife, To the country we went To enjoy our brief life. P The fragrance of flowers Freed my heart of its care, As I looked in his eyes 1, And saw happiness there. I was thrilled with joy P For he loved me true, , And his eyes saw mine lf' Filled with love for him too , f We sat down to rest In the shade of a tree, ,o His head in my lap, His eyes feasting me. 3 Then I suddenly noticed, , Jo As we sleepily lay, QL A long wriggling serpent K, Not five feet away. 5' Stupid with terror, 'tk As if petrified still, gc To speak or to shout wp 1 had lost an my Wm. Q. I5 But HE came to the rescue L The serpent to kill, V, At the risk of his life ' He fought with a will. : He severed its body With a last vicious shake: 'lf' My hero had vanquished 3- The hideous snake. 15 I would gladly have kissed him I: Right there on the spot, But--HE was only my collie, Q' So I kissed him not. ' DANIEL J. LEBER. 5 I Page SCUC'I1ty'IIl18C if im-w'-afrf'aer4'wF1eri?2:01'tf'rirv419'aw'1ri?aeF?5i'a-we:+wfwf24Pfx

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LITERARY IV In Po-pofca-tefpetfl Or in Ve'zafgafpuftam, Old Central's pep has quite a rep In Kiel and Rotterdam, Along the winding Kongo Or away out in Siam Our Central guys will put them wise To the best old school what am. I THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS AND THE PENCIL I sat reading and listening to the radio when I knew I should be studying but I thought, Oh well, I'll rest a while and then start that home work. I' have a whole hour anyway. The story I had been reading dealt with an ancient god who owned a harp from which he produced such wonderful music that stones literally danced themselves to' gether into a stone wall. I could not help meditating upon its impossibilities and wondering what manner of people had been so simple as to take such tales as their religious faith. Dwelling upon impossibilities my thoughts turned to the radio. There it sat, a mass of inert wires emitting miraculously Iifeflike sounds. I fell into a lethargic state of musing. Radio, I soliloquized, you almost seem to think and speak of your own accordf' and after a pause a voice coming from the radio answered, I can speak. It's rather thoughtless and inconsiderate of you to doubt that, when I have always entertained you whenever you wished. I beg your pardon, said I, it was ungrateful of me to speak that way, although you sometimes insist upon entertaining me with things that I am not in the mood to listen to. Oh, well, it ironically replied, at least I give you a diversity of subjects and that is something your books and pencil can't claim to do. The books had taken no part in the conversation thus far but now they began to show signs of irritation at the somewhat unwarranted attack upon them. The English book fluttered its leaves and propped itself upright against a pile of other books and with a very erudite display of rhetoric, began a lengthy discourse calling attention to mistakes in diction that it had heard from time to time issuing from the radio. It gave evidence of continuing its rather wordy and boresome lecture indefinitely when it was sharply interrupted by the algebra book who in a few concise sentences gave Page scventyfjive