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

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The RED EG? WHITE DECEMBER, 1926 A Message from Mr. F. H. Clark M9 . SCHOOL and CITY We count the years of the Lowell High School from 1856, the date of the establishment of the original high school in San Francisco. Seventy years: and who, if not THE RED AND WHITE, shall recount the events of our lifetime or hand down the memories to those who come after us? This year, 1926, has seen the celebration of two great anniversaries-the sesquicentennials of the independence of the United States and of the beginning of San Francisco in the foundation of the missions, events at the time separated by the width of the continent, but now brought together in the mighty stream of American history. Lowell and San Francisco, our school and our city: the one name brought to us from the Eastern seaboard, with its heritage of brilliant scholarship and social and political leadershipg the other cherished as our birthplace and home. What can this issue of THE RED AND WHITE contribute to the credit of the school and the honor of the city? One must honor both or neither: they cannot be separated. Athens, rallying from defeat and strengthening herself against Macedonian dangers, turned to her youth verging on manhood for the defense. Beset by no such outward perils, San Francisco, however, rests her hopes for the future in the honor and the integrity of her valiant youth. Equally, our school and our city need the devotion of the students and of citizens. As something to recall in times of temptation and stress, THE RED AND WHITE takes advantage of this noteworthy year and offers to the student body of Lowell High School this slightly modified translation of the old Athenian oath: We will never bring disgrace to this, our school, by an act of dishonesty or cowardice, nor ever desert our comrades, we will uphold the ideals and sacred things of the school, both alone and with many: we will revere and obey the city's laws, and do our best to incite a like respect and reverence in othersg we will strive unceasingly to quicken the general sense of public duty, and transmit this school greater, better, and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us. -MR. F. H. CLARK. ll 8 ll

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DECEMBER, 1926 The RED E99 WHITE SUB PONDERE E CRESGT E The hope of Truth grows stronger, day by dayg lhear the soul of man around me waking, Like a great sea. its frozen fetters breaking, And flinging up to heaven its sunlit spray, To sing huge continents in scornful play, And crushing them, with din of grinding thunder, That makes old emptinesses stare in wonder: The memory of a glory passed away Lingers in every heart, as, in the shell, Resounds the bygone freedom of the sea, And every hour new signs of promise tell, That the great soul shall once again be free, For high, and yet more high, the murmurs swell Of inward strife for truth and liberty. -JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. lvl

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DECEMBER, 1926 The RED EG? WHITE l CLASS-ES Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. -JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. E01