Edison High School - Wizard Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

Page 21 text:

are garlands and crowns to the brow that is wrinkled? I is but as a dead flower with May dew besprinkled. Then away with all such from the head that is hoary! What care I for the wreaths that can only give glory! —-ZJl roo

Page 20 text:

( talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.

Page 22 text:

WHEN we consider the fact that Alexander Hamilton was only fourteen years old when lie took over the management of his uncle's counting house in the West Indies, that he was a captain in the army of the Revolution at nineteen—that the revolution-fathers” were in reality only hoys in their early twenties—that at the age of forty-two Theodore Roosevelt became the youngest president of the United States, his political enemies considering him a mere boy”—that the philosopher, John Dewey, was assistant professor at the University of Michigan at the age of twenty-five—that I)r. Marion I.. Burton, former president of the University of Minnesota, was called the “boy president when, at the age of thirty-four, be became president of Smith College—that Glenn Frank, Wisconsin's youthful president at the age of thirty-five, guided by an unfailing enthusiasm youth alone can create, has left behind many time-worn educational customs and traditions—that Dr. Charles Eliot himself, when only thirty-five years of age became president of Harvard University and inaugurated many radical changes which are now traditions in all universities—that this year, Robert M. Hutchins, graduated from Yale University at twenty-one, and made secretary of the university at twenty-three, has been made dean of the Yale Law School, the youngest of deans and of one of the oldest of universities.