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

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A GREAT CAUSE NEEDS A CHAMPION S STUDENTS of history, we know the meaning of the words-a great cause. We know that in the fullness of time the great cause finds its rec- ognized champion. Throughout the history of the American people. whether it was the cause of liberty and democracy as against the arrogance of an English aristocracy, or the cause of national unity threatened by the narrow- minded selfishness of slave-owners, the leader and the champion appeared. Today we live in a different age. With the forces of nature harnessed in the service of man, the old employments of human hands have gone. With wealth mounting to the colossal, with opportunities for gain beckoning this way and that. the old straight highway of industry and thrift seems no more than a by-path. With the old landmarks obliterated and the old sign posts obscured or obsolete, youth stands today eager, expectant, but unguided. There is no main highway with plainly marked guideposts pointing the way toward the better society-the true democracy that the world needs. The wisdom of all the ages lies at hand, but little understood and lacking interpretation in terms of the present and the future. Wealth and leisure invite to pampered luxury. Everywhere youth is tempted to individual experiment, but always at the risk of personal ruin. Now, right now, the cause of youth needs its champion-the leader who shall understand youth and his perplexities: the wise one who knows the past, comprehends the present, and still more has the vision of the better world to be. Youth needs to look toward the future with confidence and encouragement. The Lowell High School, as every high school, is dedicated to the ambitions and the aspirations of youth. What we do here, what we here come to know and to understand, will count in clearing the ground and in laying out the highway toward the more perfect life of the future. -FREDERICK H. CLARK.

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FREDERICK H. CLARK Principal

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HAIL, RED AND WHITE Hail, Red and White, may you conquer left and right,' Down Black and Gold, our enemies of old 5 List to our yell, may you hear it everywhere, So get behind it, Lowell High, and make it rend the air!