Englewood High School - Purple and White Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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and bust of Shakespeare so vague and general as to be almost meanmgless Besldes as Iohn Dewey the great ploneer of progresswe educatlon pomted out long ago hte does not Walt to begm untxl after you graduate from school You are very much ahve Whlle you are 1n school So school 1S most dehnltely part ot hte and not lust preparat1on for hte Nevertheless lt 15 true that hlah school helps areatly to enlarge your capaclty for a r1ch and full hte lt helps develop 1n you a capacrty to see feel sense understand apprec1ate and enyoy certarn thrngs and exper1 ences Whlch Wrthout that capaclty would rema1n closed books to you Another Way of saymg thls IS to note that hrgh school helps open up to you the vast Wonderful world of splrltual and aesthehc values Splrztual aesthetlc oh yes you may thmk to yourself 'l have a general ldea of What these Words mean l beheve lt someone sald to me You have a splrrtual expenence when you take part tn a rel1a1ous SGTVICG l would get the 1dea I beheve too l would catch on 1f l were told I have an aesthetlc expenence when l look at and really see an exhlblt ot pa1nt Mrs. Reel with group of her English students studying model of London's old Globe Theater

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Mr. Thompson W i t h student m e m b e r s oi special orches- tra rehearsing instrumental accompaniment lor Arizona - Fernando operetta. Mr. Zlatnik explaining tine points of a com- position to section of school band. X ..-4 ff m y x, '41 'Za Xiu! By Richard Hunt By Richard Hunt ings by Rembrandt, such as was held in the Art ln- stitute several years ago, or listen to and really hear the New York Philharmonic Orchestra play Bee- tl'1oven's Fifth Symphony. Thats line. Only you can have spiritual expe- riences outside a church or synagogue as well as inside. And Rembrandt, Beethoven, the Art Institute and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, even con- sidered jointly, do not have a monopoly on aesthetic experiences. You can have an aesthetic and a spiritual expe- rience at one and the same time reading Walt Whit- man's Prayer ot Columbus or Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. You can have an aesthetic experience designing a garment in a clothing class, or making a drawing in an art class, or singing a song in a music class, or writing a poem, story, or essay tor an English class. You can have a spiritual experience by feeling deeply the sense ot fellowship which belonging to a school club can give. You can, likewise, have a spiritual experience just by taking part in a school assembly, or attending a football game, or by par- ticipating in any school activity which gives you a deep sense of belonging and of doing your part. A notable example of the kind ot school activity which gives one a stirring spiritual experience - and, yes, an aesthetic experience at the same time - is the type of graduation program for which Engle- wood has become widely known the past decade or so. Splendid in various ways, it has been particu- larly remarkable for the way in which it has given the spectators a feeling of being participants. The words spiritual and aesthetic are rich and many-sided in meaning. One cannot grasp all their