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

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Page I2 Sung by Mixed Chorus, Under Direction of Mr. Bottom, Christmas Carols Fill Air with Joy ents of students. Some-perhaps most-have been more or less byproducts of general trends in the com- munity and in the held of education. Speculation along such lines is interesting but not very fruitful in the way of conclusive findings. One cannot even draw a sharp line of demarcation between the products of what we call chance and those of deliberate planning. Moreover, is it not true that every student who ever attended Englewood High, every teacher who ever taught in it, every principal who ever directed its general course of action came here, at least in part, by what we call chance? All right, then, all of us are at Englewood in a measure by chance. Also, we realize that in many respects the Englewood tradition is not very different from that of many another American high school. There still remains, however, the fact that we are identified with Englewood, that it has become an indelible part of us and we of it, and that there are in its history and tradition elements of a distinctive, if not unique, character.