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EDITORIALS 27 Competition became so fervid that on certain occasions guards camped on the spot all night to guard the sacred numerals. Since the passing of the old traditions, annual Poly events of interest are the Pasadena game and the bonfire and serpentine preceding it, the senior and junior plays, the Christmas concert, Low Life, the class rush, the annual Catalina trip, the interelass track meet, junior-senior reception, senior reception, crowning of the May queen, the publishing of High Life on the first day of school, and the ringing of the three bells for assembly. Just how large a part these traditions play in the life of Poly today the student will realize when he becomes the old grad of tomorrow. DRURY, ALL-AMERICAN To consider Morley Drury in a fair way, one must think of him in a double aspect, as grid star and as civilian. The world acclaims Drury because of the honor he has won for himself, for his high school, and for his university. Caerulea wishes to congratulate him further upon having retained, despite his achievement, a degree of modesty which becomes him and which is perhaps the greatest achievement of the Drury we know and claim. It is with this in mind that we present a full-length picture of Morley Drury on the title page of our athletics section, which we dedicate to him. APPRECIATION Those of us whose pleasure it is to labor over the publications of Poly High come to experience, as the days and their problems are met, a feeling of comradeship for those of the faculty who, with kindly guidance, steer these projects. Here it is that the teacher is in every respect the friend. To Miss Florence Carpenter, who went this year to teach in the new Junior College, we of the publications group owe a great debt. During her four years as High Life adviser, her high journalistic standards, her originality of thought and expression, and her unusual ability in adapting new ideas to old problems have meant much to Poly High and its publications. ACKNOWLEDGMENT Caerulea takes this opportunity of acknowledging the work of Walter Neweomb, Seth Felt, Dolph Winebrenner, Billy Nute, and Ronald Larson, who were forced by heavy programs or mid-year graduation to give up their staff positions during the year. Margaret Wheeler, Ruth Buffum, Helen Clarke, and Richard Emery were also valuable to Caerulea in their work above and beyond their own departments. William Olsen and Texas Dalton assisted in last-minute assembling of the books. To the typing classes, who handled a large portion of the Caerulea copy, and to Miss Mertie Davis, their adviser, as well as to the various faculty members who aided US in collecting the material in the book, we express our appreciation.
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26 CAERULEA ' 28 CAERULEA ' S BIRTHDAY In presenting this, our first issue of Caerulea, to the public, we do so with tlie request that all imperfections be overlooked, modestly wrote the Caerulea staff in March, 1903. This is not just another Caerulea, write the editors of the twenty-fifth volume in 1928, proudly aware of the fascinating succession of books and their editors and of the growth of the tradition they are upholding. The first Caerulea was a fourteen-page monthly in blue paper cover. Its dedicatory page solves the much-vexed question of the origin of the name Caerulea : We on the shore land of the western sea, Which ancient people called CAERULEA, Launch with glad hearts today our precious freight. Oddly enough, its theme, though phrased in language quaint to our modern ears, expresses the idea which has motivated this year ' s birthday number — the forward look towards achievement. Reading it, one lives in a world full of slightly musty Ciceros, of pigtails and hair ribbons, of class picnics and proms . One gathers that the students whose record this is must have been immensely absorbed in the things they studied, so thoroughly is their book permeated with allusions to Victorian literary lights and to the major Greek divinities of classic mythology. The books which followed are in themselves a miniature history of the evolution of book-making during the last twenty-five years. One notes the change from paper to composition leather covers; from rough news stock to highly glazed, cream-colored pages; from crude cartoons to finished pen-and-ink illustrations; from a collection of notes on school activities to elaborately developed organized departments. One reflects on the men and women whose ideals and ambitions are herein set forth. They were the pioneers. And now the Caerulea of 1928 is in the hand of its readers. What will some editor of twenty- live years hence write of it? POLY ' S TRADITIONS To the old grad many fond memories cluster about the traditions of his school. As Poly High School has grown so have its traditions undergone changes, some to increase in scope, some to vanish. For many years, it was traditional to hold indoor track meets in the Municipal Auditorium. Signs of old age in the structure perhaps caused the discontinuation of that yearly event. Rigid enforcement of the senior section privileges in the high school auditorium has long since ceased, along with inter- girls ' scholastic athletics, the faculty-senior baseball game, and Tacky Day , a senior event which gave way in 1922 to the Catalina trip of today. In the old days before oil was discovered on Signal Hill, various classes vied for possession of the hill, that they might emblazon their class numerals on the hillside.
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