De La Salle High School - Delta Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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 Voyageurs. Later It was the proposed site of the state capitol. Now it lies hidden in the heart of Metropolitan Minneapolis, though few people realize that there is actually an island in the center of the city. The school proper consists of two buildings. The smaller one, built in 1900, houses what is known technically as the Commercial Department. It also encloses the band quarters and the library. The larger building, finished in 1922, goes under the title of the Science Building. March of this year marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of Above-A front view of the Science Building. Right—The rear of the Science Building os it appears from the ball field. Below—A viow of the Commercial Building. the first class in the Science Building, which also contains the business and administrative offices of the school. The gym and auditorium take up the center portion of the Science Building. The west end of the campus is marked off by a low hedge; to the east the tall poplars form a sheltering wall of green. Velvety stretches of green grass flourish around the buildings, set off in the spring and summer by flowers in beds along the walls. The western end of the campus is dotted with a variety of trees, which serve to shade the front. We are justly proud of the home of the Islanders. Page seven

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V 9 y lid flame-colored forests and c breezes, we suddenly see that ime for us to approach again Mississippi-guarded sanctum ig our a b c's. After a happy Hi-Ho to the many Joes we've possibly forgotten during our summer solace we buy books and just bang around for a time. We see that autumn is again here with our annual retreat, homework headaches, and wistful waits for streetcars. Autumn brings the time of roughin' up the pigskin a bit—the time when gay gals in blue jeans hop in the old jalop and buzz out to the bleachers to lend the support of their feminine finesse to make this first game a smashing Islander victory—when homecoming buttons veritably blare forth their threats to our challengers whose defeat we believe, with the faith of Job, is certain. We'll always remember, too, the fun we had at the Homecoming Dance and dinner at the Red Feather with that best gal. Our autumn, too, is the season of Hallowe'en and of the pumpkin which recalls to us the efforts of our Pilgrim Fathers who led us to observe Thanksgiving with its turkey, cranberries, and all the fixin's. It's the season of the hunter, who, at the crack of dawn, with his trusty bird dog, frightens the haughty mallard as it ducks and splashes about in the echoing retreats of the marsh. With autumn the beginning of the school year, we like to think our freshmen personify it, for, like the autumn sun peering into a country valley of peace and contentment, our freshmen are taking their first look at a high school career of pleasure and achievement.