Girard College - Corinthian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Mr. Robert Long Chairman, Social Studies Dept. The Historian is a prophet looking backwards. History is only a record of crimes and misfortunes. History, a distillation of rumor. What is History but a fable agreed upon? — Except from a term paper written by Robert Me Clennen (only joking, Mr. Long!) Mr. Edward Vavalo

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Mr. Joseph Devlin Halpem, (Mrs.) Evelyn Chairman, English Dept. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. And still they gazed and still the wonder grew, that one head should carry all it knew. Litrature is my utopia, here 1 am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet gracious discourse of my book friends! They talk to me with¬ out embarrasment or awkwardness. — A student in “Paradise” Francendese, (Mrs.) Janet Mr. William Stein

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Zeil, (Dr.) WilUam Every artist was first an amateur. A picture is a poem without words. It is clever, but is it art? Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aes¬ thetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern. Everything passes. Robust art alone is eternal. The bust out¬ lasts the citadel. He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sun of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. Every artist writes his own biography. Daniels, (Mrs.) Mary Ruth HTJmo H3)