Roosevelt High School - Log Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Art Explanation ITH the desire to make the beauty of the Lantern significant, this art explanation has been written. The lanterns on the picture backgrounds, as they shimmer- igie ingly cast forth their ray-like messages, are only suggestive of their true brilliancy. It is the written description that gives the full intensity. 1lThe lamps that have given light down through the ages have been made to live on these pages as symbols of learning, always diffusing mental illumination. Each lantern appearing is characteristic of the time. 1lThe subject of the book-plate, the crude light that cast shadows in the cave of primitive man, and the winged bull of Sumeria, precede in skele- ton form the introduction into real enlightenment, the Egyptian era. Musingly the Egyptian sits, as the smoke of the lamp begins to screen the light of the old civilization, in preparation for the new, the Greek and Roman. TlAmidst Roman pomp, the Greek imparts his culture. The lantern now emits beams brightening all darkness. TlThis very brightness fades to a mere ticker in the Middle Ages that is kept burning by the Monks. Timidly at first the flames escape from the transparent panes, but fired again and again by the zeal of these ambitious and far-seeing monks, they are revived to eternal life, in accordance with the general rebirth of all things. 1lAnd so gleams of light escape even through the stern Colonial Days, until now the scintillating lantern of learning vies with the sun for supremacy.