Lowell High School - Red and White Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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L8l THEREDANDXYHITE Positions on the' business and editorial staff give valuable training to about 200 students each year. The result of their work is a newsy and interesting paper and a beautiful book, a permanent reminder of the happiest days in life. VVould any of the substitutes have any real sentimental value? Would they not be merely statistical, lacking the human interest ? Parents are concerned, not with any compilation of facts, but with the social, scholastic and athletic life of their children. Such information, written in the natural style of youth, is the mirror of future hopes and ideals. Value of Lowell Publications Fon IVIANY YEARS Lowell rested secure in the knowledge that she possessed the best annual and bi-weekly in San Francisco and all Northern California. Then doubts were raised and during the last two terms the question has been asked, Is the school getting full value from her publications? Counter queries might easily be propoundedg have those dissatisfied with present conditions any better plans, do Lowell students really want a prospectus in booklet form, or a loose-leaf collection of photographs, as has seriously been suggested? Yet some day an editor may arise who will alter the whole scope and purpose of the high school journal with the full consent and approbation of the school involved. It is true that Lowellites are paying a great deal of money for their paper and the RED AND VVHITE, collectively, but when we consider the large enrollment, the cost per capita amounts to almost nothing. Then, a portion of the sum is always obtained through advertising. This aid the business men voluntarily give toward the encouragement of our young citizens, that they may accomplish bigger things.

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THEREDANDXVHITE L71 group, and a number also very n1uch larger than that of any of the schools showing a higher percentage. If a compilation should be made of the records of the highest third of the last Freshman class, the rating of the San Francisco schools would be even more favorable. The evidence for this claim may be found in the numbers of the Edward Frank Kraft Scholarship awards as reported early this year. These comparisons suggest the question whether or not the San Francisco schools possess any advantages over the East Bay schools in personnel of students or teachers, in buildings and equipment, or in the opportunities offered in the course of study. It might be discourteous to discuss the first point. A visit to the buildings would show that the advantages are on the side of the East Bay or are rapidly being made so. An examination of the courses of study will show advantages in favor of the San Francisco schools of value and importance. The chief of these is the five-study plan followed by all the San Francisco schools. Outside of San Francisco, high schools uniformly follow a four-study plan, that is, a normal program includes four subjects each entitled to a recitation period daily. Our San Francisco plan is based upon a program of five subjects each entitled to four recitation periods a week. The difference is that a San Fran- cisco student has the opportunity to study continuously the mother tongue, a foreign language or languages, history, mathematics and science. Other oppor- tunities as in drawing, music and vocational subjects are, of course, offered also. On the four-study plan some one of these departments must always be sacrificed. The student graduates with a much narrower acquaintance with the field of secondary education. A Literary Annual THE NEED of a literary annual is generally recognized. Surely the belles-lettres of our scholars should receive some attention and nothing is more encouraging to the young writer than to see his work in print. The constitution of the Lowell High School Students Association authorizes such a book in the following words: During the Spring Term, the Editor of the RED AND WHITE shall prepare f'or publication . . . at a specified date, the Literary Annual of the school. At the suggestion of Mr. Clark the work was to be issued on the day that we celebrate the birth of James Russell Lowell. Owing to a fault in our election system no action was taken on the matter for the year 1923. The difficulty is that our editors enter into office only a few weeks before the anniversary. It is therefore impossible, in this short space of time, to issue a publication worthy of so large a school. Furthermore, the same man is expected to edit the usual RED AND XVHITE. VVe suggest that the office of editor of the Annual be created separate and dis- tinct from all others and that the voting take place six months ahead of time.

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'I' H I2 R E D A N IJ W H I T E I 9 1 3 Dux .xI.II GORDON BROVVN GEORGE BUSHNELL Editor Manager The Red and VVhite Staff Editor, TIIIa RED Asn NYHITE ........... Gonnox Bnnwx SENIOBS GILHIQRT ROOT .....................4............ Ediior ITATHARINE BOYNTON Nrltx Cooplzk ART M.u1sHAI.I. SBIITH. ......................,. . ..... Editor S'rIeI'HIzN BRODER, GIQRTHUDE Hlzss, EZRA GOTTHI2I,If ACTIVITIES I40l'IS HEILBIION ..................,. ............ l Editor CRIQAGH, XVII.I.I,uI ZECI-I, Hvxna JACOBS, xIII.IlREll IPswIT4:H, H,AROl,ll Lisnxlaa. BIERRICK V Ronan Baum, :XLAN HARRISIIN, LIONEI. PEREYRA, XXvII.LlARl BIaIuiI.s0N ATHLETICS How,mn CURTIS. .................. . . . . ....... . .EdlI4J1' HERHIQWI' BIENSING, Al1El.lZ Mokomav, .IIIIAN FnIIsnxI.aN BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager, 'PHE Ran ANII XYliI'l'E, GIa0RGIz BvsH x IaI.I, ASSOCIATES XXvILl.lADI BIzRIaI.s0N, STIQIIHIQN ScHwIaI'rzIsR, KATHIJQIIN NIA!-IONEY, xIl2l.Yll,I.E 'lwHREI.KEI.ll ASSISTANTS MCCAR'I'x', RICHARD ITYGGENHEIBI, BIARTIN XxvEII,, ETHIQI, OHBI, JOHN Nlosus, AI.x'I1lz Hmfxuxx EIIITH FIBUSH, SEYBIOUH Suxrz, NVII.I.IInI Joiissox, RIauIx,u,n Ih'xIwIaI.I. ADELE Nlnuoxliv, Slnxm' Lula