Curtis High School - Curtis Annual Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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on the great mass of light which illuminated the sky, lake and coun- try around, and gave Chicago the name of the 'KCity of Eternal Day. The brightness hurt her eyes, so she loolged up at the stars and espe- cially at one very red one and wondered at what she had seen and heard that afternoon. So they Hew on, over this great city, now the metropolis of the world, containing over ten million happy and pros- perous human beings, to their homes in that beautiful and populous suburb, Roseland. vt? fd 'B hav J Seven ty- five

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Yes, things were very different, when I was a boy. Everything was very crude indeed, but we considered our civilization most ad- vanced. Do you see that building out there? That was once a tuber- culosis institution. When this terrible disease was wiped off the face of the earth, the building was used for other purposes. And that building over there along the lake? Is Fort Sheridan, or used to be. Before universal peace, we had soldiers, such as you often read about, stationed there. Now men do not have to waste their time, and the nation its money and energy in keeping up an army and navy. Why, just think! millions of dol- lars used to be spent upon battleships, such as those old relics in the lake near the fort, and they were seldom if ever put to their real use. Not that it would have been better if they had been. You young peo- ple cannot comprehend what a terrible thing war was. Here we are at the observatory, w'e'll get out here and see the new telescope which brings Mars within forty miles of the earth. By the way, uncle, did you read this morning, that last mes- sage from the inhabitants of that planet inviting us to visit them? Perhaps we shall be able to, in one or two years. They were now landed. Passing into the observatory, the pro- fessor allowed them to View Mars through his wonderful telescope. Elsie could see the mountains very plainly and many green meadows and silvery threads which she knew to be rivers. The cities were also distinctly seen and the buildings seemed large. Oh, if I only could see their houses plainer! They say they are very wonderful. Yes, said the professor, their immense palaces are of a new and indescribable architecture and style, very graceful and unlike any- thing in this world. Their beauty is unsurpassed for they are made entirely of a marble which is not found here and is unequalled by any of our own. After they were through looking at Mars and had admired the many wonderful astronomical instruments, they flew back till they reached the great waterway. Here they sat on one of the many de- lightful recreation piers along the lake and watched the great ocean steamers coming in and out. ' Elsie liked to watch the people landing and embarking. They did not have to hurry home for supper for Elsie had brought some tablets of the Elixir and so they staid till after dark. Then without any mishap at all, they slowly flew home. Elsie dreamily looked down Seventy-four

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WITH APOLOGIES TO SHAKESPEARE Ut will be noticed that Hamlefs famous lines have made a great im pression on 145.5 To fail, or not to fail, that is the question Whether 'tis nobler with the class to suffer From long assignments of outrageous teachers, Or to take zeroes in all our subjects And by so doing fail in them. To fail, to loaf, No more, and by loaiing to say we end The headache and the thousand other ills That students art heir to. 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To fail, to loaf: Perchance to miss an opportunity-Ay, there's the rub For in that lapse of laziness, what chances may come When we have shuffled off the studentis cares Must give us pause. Thereys the respect That makes calamity of a Hunker's life, For who would bear the whips and scorns of teachers, The oppressor's wrong, the wise studentls contumely, The pangs of despised efforts, low marks' delays, The insolence of the successful, and the spurns That a patient student of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With ,a round zero? VVho would speeches bear, To grunt and sweat over a dry old book, But that the dread of something later in life Some undiscovered opportunity which knocks Once only at our door, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those cares we have Than play hookey even in winter time? Thus conscience does make students of us all And thus the native hue of rebellion Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of obedience And pupils with no pitch or moment With this regard their efforts turn to work And lose the name of flunkers. Seven ty-six