Latin School of Chicago - Sigillum Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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SIGILLUM New London, and O Sea, Meticulous, past midnight in clear rime, Infrangible and lonely, smooth as though cast Together in one merciless white blade- The boy extuaries Heck the hard sky limites. -HART CRANE Recall all this, these fading dreams. O sea, and sounds, and stars and sky! O sea, wind-ruflied, spread out flat, or spitting fury to the gods, And sounds, of slapping breakers in the rocks, and sprinkling puddles on the sand, And stars that guided sailors on the deep, the moon that warned of storms, And sky, grey and blanket-like, touching the rims of latitudes Beyond the human eye. New London . . . Sea, Recall all this. Requiem So dream, so dream, O pensive towns, We know you in our hearts. If you are still and quiet, tradition's true retreat, If ghosts at night slip from their time-Worn graves And leave the church-yard's mythic shade, You cherish still . . . a fragmentary breath Of glory past. If, though, but placards mark those days, If life has left you almost lost, and the rattle of trolleys and din of work's traflic, Pause but a moment . . . consider your richness 5 Then let daily problems, your life, rush on. The past, the past . . . the present weaves it in its web, And what our lives no longer need we give up Unto Time.

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SIGILLUM Q E TURN AND LOOK for a moment down the backward path, sunlit with memory. To those Whom we find there, We bow-respectfully, perhaps a bit humbly. To William McLeod, whose keen spirit and knowledge freshened the lives of school gen- erations, to Marie Arnold, Whose German courses culminated in the annual festival of the chocolate pigs, to Catherine Crocker and and Katharine DeMeritt, Whose kindly in- struction raised the French department to a point of high efiiciencyg to Mabel Slade Vickery and Julie Adams, Whose zeal in historic research led sometimes to Sunday sessions, to Ellery Bates, whose flashing Wit and artistry were long a school tradition, to Ida Taylor, Esther Kennedy, Louise McKelvey and Alice Murray, who gave the light of their personalities to the flickering lamp of learning, to these and to all those others who aided in the rearing of this, our school, to its standard of sound scholarship, We offer homage of respect, and gratitude.