John Burroughs Middle School - Burr Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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FLOYD H. TAYLOR

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.X -- 5 'N t 1 I f X., I 1.1 Y jf ' V. if f J 'J Y Z 1 r ki: FORE WORD The Imperial Elephant, twelve feet tall, that roamed the campus of the John Burroughs Junior High School two thousand centuries or more ago, contesting for contentment with the sabre-toothed tiger, the giant sloth and the great wolf, to say nothing of the big Arctic- therium Klook that one upj, had a life span of several hundred years, it is said. Indeed, so-me of them were cut of in their youth, when but 250 years old or so, being caught in La Brea Pits. The lineal descendants of those Pleistocene playmates, the anod- ern elephant, the wild-cat, wolf and bear, no longer possess their ancestors' staying qualities, nor their ponderous stature. They a-re living proof that Nat-ure is speeding up, crowding a life-time of ex- periences into a briefer period. And as Nature rules the destinies of birds. and beasts, so she governs the fate of men. Tradition has it that our accepted three score and ten as ma-nfs allotment of years was, in old Biblical times, 'mere boyhood. Ti-me is at a higher premiumg it is more precious now than then. In this speed-ing-up process Nature has given us compensations, however. A high school boy today has more knowledge at his com- -mand than the wisest seer among the Ancients. He can go farther and swifter and see more, and he can rise to power, and influence and honorable distinction faster than ever before in all history. Catch! then, Oh Catch, the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies. Life's a short Sze-miner-man a flower-- He dies-alas! how soon he dies! Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote that after one of those indigestible English breakfasts. But the idea is there for all of us to heed and proyit by. G. ALLAN HANCOCK. . W

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DEDICA TION To Floyd H. Taylor, who year after year has given his services to Rflfll Burr, and who has probably JON? more llmn any oiher . one fmrson foward its success, this bool' is grate- fully dedi- rated.