San Diego State University - Del Sudoeste Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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:0 WHITE AND GOLD could ever have existed on this-one of the most beautiful spots that God ever made! A day was spent at Geneva on the southwestern extremity of the lake. What a beautifullcity! I wonder if San Diego will ever equal it! It has nearly, if not quite, all the possibilities of the Swiss city. Lausanne is a unique city, built along the face of a mountaine its streets meandering back and forth and winding their tortuous way from base to summit, with here and there a funicular railway running straight from the waters of the lake to the summit. The trip from Lausanne to Paris oifers nothing of striking interest. But Paris itself is a city of. striking beauty. Its broad and well-paved ave- nues and boulevards-lined and double-lined and quad-ruple-lined with stately shade trees; its clean streets, its hundreds of open spaces, its hand- some buildings, make it one of the handsomest, if not the handsomest city in the world. With these and its scores of historic places and buildings its interest for many people ends. We visited beautiful and historic Versailles with its fine chateau and surrounding gardens. St. Cloud, too, if possible, still more beautiful, otfered another day,s interest and pleasure. But we were longing to hear the English tongue, and eat an English breakfast; so at the end of two weeks we started for London , arriving here on the evening of May 3rd after a dirty trip of four hours across the channel. And here we are in the heart of this great noisy, bustling city of more than seven millions. Friends met us here, who have made our visit so far very enjoy- able. We have visited the Bank of England, where we saw tons of gold bullion stored in the vaults like so many bricks, and boys printing bank notes in denominations of five to one thousand pounds sterling. We have been to the theatre, seen the King and his family, visited St. Paulls, and spent a. Saturday at Windsor Castle, twenty-one miles west of London, where we were privileged to see all the royal apartments, and to drive through the beautiful grounds of the park and forest. We also visited Eton one of the most noted boys' public schools in England. We saw the bOYSw ranging from twelve to nineteen years in their black clothes, white collars and silk hats. The junior boys wear tiEton,, jackets-a short, rather tight- fitting garment that comes down to the waist, while the larger boys wear long coatSL-but all wear the high hat. They were an interesting looking set of boys, and are fairly representative of the English HPublic School boys. We have got to journey through England and Scotland, and perhaps Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine country. And then across the Atlantic, the United States, to our well-beloved and best-beloved California. London, May 14th, 1911. THE TWO PILGRIMS.

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F 44. -;-. - 44 WHITE AND GOLD 9 Leaving Cairo by rail we embarked at Port Said for Naples, where we arrived on the afternoon of a cold Christmas day. Fifteen days were spent here-mostly cold and rainy. We had an opportunity to see the beauties of the matchless bay, to attend the Grand Opera, and to walk through the silent streets of Pompeii-this last sight alone being worth almost all it cost to get there. We saw smoking Vesuvius, but did not ascend to the crater, as the last 2000 feet of the ascent was covered with snow. We, however, did enter a crater at Pozznoli, where smoke was issuing from a score of crevices warning us of the uncertainty of the ground over which we were walking. Seven weeks were spent in Imperial Rome-in many respects the city of greatest interest in all the world. We visited the chief objects and places of interest many times, so that the Palatine hill, the Forum, the Coliseum, the Pantheon, St. Peters, the Vatican, St. Paulie without the walls, the cata- combs, the leading art galleries, etc., etc. are quite familiar to us. One of us was present at an audience given by His Holiness, the Pope, and received his blessing. We visited the house in which Keats spent his last days and saw where Herminius held the bridge. The old Roman baths are full of interest to all travelers: They must have been immense affairs, and really social clubs instead of mere bathing places. From Rome we passed on to Florence, the center of Italian art, and saw it all, but fear we did not appreciate it as Miss Lamb or Mrs. Coldwell did while they were there. We stood on the spot where the immortal Savonarola was burned for consciencei sake, and visited his cell--a dingy place-re- markable chiefly for its want of ventilation. Several visits were made to the great Duomo, the UHizi gallery, and Ponte Vecchio, which is lined with goldsmithst workshops-a quaint old bridge over the Arno river. We toured the heights surrounding the city, where magniiicent. views may be obtained. An intensely interesting day was spent at Pisa, where we visited the magnificent cathedral and climbed to the top of the leaning tower. From Florence we proceeded to Venice, the horseless city, with its nar- row streets, its canals, its gondolas, and its bad smells. We visited its beau- tiful cathedral, the Doge,s Palace with its Bridge of Sighs, and its an- cient prisons; we fed the pigeons at San Marco; and we made several trips to adjoining islands, on one of which we did see a few horses and one car- riage. Here, too, we saw the German Emperer pass along the Grand canal in a boat rowed by sturdy German bluejackets. From Venice we passed westward to Milan with its beautiful cathedral glistening in the sunnthat is, when the sun shines. It did not shine while we were there. In fact, it snowed during the night before we left, and one of the pilgrims saw snow falling for the first time. After a five daysi visit we departed for the Italian Lakes. The ground was white the whole distance with snow, which at Como was a foot deep, so instead of stopping there we continued our journey to beautiful Lucerne in Switzerland, the country in Which there are no beg- gars, where all earn an honest living. What a relief ! After leaving J apan we had found them everywhere until we crossed the Alps into this little republic on the roof of Europe. While at Lucerne we ascended to the sum- mit of the Rigi by funicular railway, finding at the top the snow was three or four feet deep on the level-that is, where there is any level. What a grand panorama from the peak! To the east, to the north, to the west and the south, rose the scores of white-capped peaks-many of them piercing the clouds thousands of feet above the surface of Lake Lucerne. We cir- cumnavigated the charming lake, visited all the many points of interest, then passed on to Lausanne on beautiful Lake Leman. HHow the little lake shinesP, Around the lake, stopping at the Castle of Chillon, made famous by Byron's Prisoner of Chillon , where we saw the pillar to which the prisoner was chained for four years. What a pity that such barbarity

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SAMUEL T. BLACK. Elected President of the San Diego Normal School in 1898, resigned Sept. Ist, 1910; now completing a tour around the world. EDWARD L. HARDY. Appointed President May, 1910, appoint- ment taking effect Sept. :st. B. L., Univer- sity of Wisconsin; graduate student, Chi- cago; study of European secondary schools, 1898-1899; Head Master, Los Angeles Mil- itary Academy, 1899-1901; Principal High School, Riverside, 111., 1901-1906; Principal San Diego High School, 1906-1910. JESSE D. BURKS. Appointed Registrar and Head of Depart- ment of Pedagogy, resigned in June, 1901; studied two years at Columbia University, where he took his Ph.D; now head of the Teachers, Training School, Germantown, Pa. DAVID P. BARROWS. Appointed Head of Department of History, resigned in June, 1900, to take the position of Assistant Superintendent of Public In- struction of the Philippine Islands, where he was soon promoted to the Superintend- ency; returned in 1909 to University of California, where he now is Professor of Political Science. HELEN BALLARD. Appointed to the Department of English in 1898, resigned in January, 1904; now studying medicine in Los Angeles. CHAS. T. MEREDITH. Appointed Head of the Department of Mathematics in 1899, resigned in 1904, is now Principal of the Union High School in Elsinore. ARTHUR W. GREELEY. Appointed to the Department of Biology in 1899; resigned in 1901 to study at the University of Chicago, took his Ph.D. and was appointed Professor at Washington College, St. Louis; died of appendicitis in 1907. FLORENCE DERBY. Appointed Head of the Department of Music in 1899, resigned in 1903; now Mrs. Alexander Graham, resides in Berkeley. ALEXANDER GRAHAM. Appointed to the position of Librarian and teacher of Chemistry in 1899, resigned in 1901; now employed by the United States Government as chemist, with offices at the University of California. HARRIET MORTON. Appointed Head of the Department of Drawing in 1901, resigned in 1903; now Mrs. John Garnett Holmes, lives in Los Angeles. WHITE AND GOLD II Faculty .0 F ACULTY HISTORY MRS. NORMA DUNLOP. Appointed Assistant Librarian in 1901, re- signed in 1905; now teaching in Los An- geles County. HARRY SHAFER. Appointed Head of the Department of Pedagogy and Director of the Training School in 1901, resigned in 1903 to be- come President of the Cheney Normal School, Washington; later became Presi- dent of the Ashland Normal School, Ore- gon; now Vice-Chancellor of the Univer- sity of Pittsburg, Pa. ANNE MOORE. Appointed to the Department of Biology and Physiology in 1902, resigned in 1905; now resides in New York City and is en- gaged in literary work. JOSEPHINE BATCHELDER. Appointed to the Department of English in 1902, resigned in 1905; now in the Eng- lish Department of Wellesley College. F. E. THOMPSON. Appointed Head of the Department of Pedagogy and Director of the Training School in 1905; resigned in 1906 to study at Teachers? College, Columbia University; now Professor of Education in the Univer- sity of Colorado. PERCY E. DAVIDSON. Appointed Assistant in the Department of Education in 1905, resigned in 1907; now Assistant Professor of Education at Stan- ford University. MRS. LYDIA M. HORTON. Appointed Librarian in 1905, resigned in 1910; is now residing in San Diego. EDITH MILLS. Appointed Head of the Department of Music in 1905, resigned in 1906; now Mrs. Carroll Scott; resides near Pacific Beach. ANNA H. BILLINGS. Appointed to the Department of English in 1905; resigned in 1909 to travel abroad for the purpose of study. MARY MYNES SMITH. Appointed Head of the Departments of Drawing and Manual Training in 1903, resigned in 1905; now Mrs. W. C. Weld; resides in Seattle. CLARA M. COOLEY. Appointed Teacher of the Ninth Grade in 1906, resigned in 1907; now Mrs. Alfred C. Aitkins; resides in Berkeley. HARRIET H. GODFREY. Appointed to the Department of English in 1905, resigned in 1910; now Mrs. Edward Mulford; resides in Berkeley.