Liberty High School - Lion Yearbook (Brentwood, CA)

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atory elements in your mf .l:o-up beloved Seniors, tl e.t pre WvjJi| worth intrusting to ' pen s.nd ink; consecuontly s. fev; lines v ill | not be amiss. Throughout tho ye. .ry you have shown yourselvc: , to be blessed with the essentials requisite to the attachment » of placards, hearing the v ords uocd-hcnrted. School spirited. , a.nd Progressive , upon your coat sleeves, Oi:r critical Judges: ; (shall v;e say gossips) who spare the reputation of no man send! in the report, Passing Fair ' ' , uliich is almost too much to ex- ' , pect from this body. If this is not adcquite proof for the I 1 curious minds of the mob, possibly the proposition ma y be solved to the satisfaction of all unbelieving misbelievers. j Hov; have the Seniors gained the title, good hearted ? j Sim.ply understa.nd and practise the following quotation, con- j cocted from the Book of Sayings, never said, and you mpy enter j i I i the Ilingdom of Wise Fools! Treat all men, as well as diLmb j creaxures, as you would have them treat yoUr Not to worry j ; I tired brains, I shall patiently explain how this applies to j the Seniors attitude toward students Y:ho are not blessed with their bre.in power. Ilever mind such words fis condescension, sa.rcasm, knoiv it all , and others of the like auj.lities been j i associabed with their redoubtable characters, ' e forgive tnen ' .; if in the stress of finals, their visages wear Ganquine, flurried expressions, which will not permit them to speak sweetly to their inferiors. Poor Seniors, you have heard the term, school spirit , I i from the time you burst the bone ' s of childhood and entered the : realmis of the A E C ' s. Again you are to hear it, but this tiri ' ' -. t to your own advantage. Be thankful for this, if nothing ' else- i i never wi I], you feel the prickings of conscience when some i

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;70uld- ' oe- reformers entreat you to show a little cia s t- .j Jit-- , for you have it. | You hg ve left your own tombstone behind you (or to be le?;. -; - , i deathly, your memorial statue; and on it is the engraven ; epitaph — Merit System. Does it not caupp you. to be fi ' ' lr;d 1 j v;ith conscious pride, and self-satisfactioxi vhen you think of yourselves as the originators of this system ' i Fe only hope ! that you will not have v:a-sted your precious moments in stiug- | i gling so nobly for an end v;hich jould not benefit you; yet -vve j I consider ourselves capable of furthering the success of such vi enterprise. Now in closing, the Assistant Editor wished to state thc t this is not micant as a sarcastic treatise, but as a v ork- of praise told in an elusive manner. The reason is as follows: owing to certain tim.id and bashful qualities of those dopa.rting, carefulness a,s to praise must be used in order to help dispel I their extreme embp.rrassement a,nd self-consciousness. f ' -A • ■•:.- .0| V ' 1 ' j r c: ::: y x rj - -- i y y ' ' ■ ! I i i 1 r ' ■w . ' • 1 1 J j c. . ,■- ■] I ■■ M i i : i U-.. i ' ' icl, I - ' X ' '