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

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Tit 'N e , Hearts are Light and Spirits High at Banquet given hy the Home Economics Department for our Foothall Team What are these distinctive elements? What is their value? How do they affect us? Such questions are much easier to ask than to answer. That in the Englewood tradition which is dis- tinctive or unique and its impact upon us may be compared in nature and value to sott music at twis light, sunrise on the ocean, a summer sunset, the smile of a baby, moonlight on an orchard in full bloom, the courage of a lone individual rushing into a blaz- ing house to save the lite of a neighbor, the tortitude ot a scientist risking everything to carry through a crucial experiment, any oct ot unostentatious kind- ness or friendship, a song ot love sung on a spring evening, a poem, a painting, an eternal truth beauti- tully phrased, Look over your shoulders, boys and girls, as you proceed on your way through Englewood l-ligh School. Behind you stretches a long, long procession reaching all the way back to 1859. The thousands and thousands in that procession have passed much on to you-much that you should cherish, much that can help you. -g,ww-M-, ,W Paqe I3

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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.

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Symbolic Rifuals Honor SocieTies' Assembly Page 14 Featured aT The school song brings iT To you. So does The lVliliTary Roll of Honor. So do our sTained glass win- dows. So do The many and various Trophies, inscripe Tions, and The like. BUT noThing can bring IT To you so Tully and forcibly as your own imaginaTion. And whaT can you do To be worThy of such a TradiTion? The answer To This is The same as The ad- vice appropriaTe for anyone who wishes To be like some greaT man or woman. Anal TT is This. Be True To The besT in yourself. ThaT is The prime essenTial of greaTness and of all worThwhile achievemenT. Be True To The besT in yourself. ThaT is The 'rinesT conTribuTion you can make To The Englewood TradiTion. ThaT is The mosT valuable way you can help keep iT marching onward wiTh banners held aloTT. J. Z. Jacobson l Lf. , A l