San Jose High School - Bell Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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The Bell Godspeed When Yesterday holds converse with To-day CGree'tings and Hail to Graduates, especiallylh The smug temptation is to say When I was your age- To seold a little and compare, To sign the way, To cry Be careful! and Beware! - And shake the head sedately And to stare- Wha,t are they coming to ? CYou know, of course, They worry over you In novels and in plays And solemn artic1es'?J Well, possibly a little of it's true! It may be that this generation In the hot haste to lighten ship Of the dull horde Of dingy doginas and old dictums Has flung overboard Something that's precious . . . Something of reverence and reticence and g If that is so, Then you will sense the lack And plunge in after it And bring it back, Or something saner, st1'onger, in its place. It is a wonderful time to be graduating! A wonderful time in the year- A wonderful time in the vvorldfl To be seventeen CO1' sixteen or eighteen!J For the battle llags are furled And tired eyes have seen The red, futile 'folly of war: It is a sadder, wiser world You are making ready for. You will mark this season in your memories This year of graduation With remembrances like these-- It was when the Santa Clara Valley Had almost enough rain, And the hills greened overnight And blazed with poppies, And the orchards made a White Solid sea of bloom From mountain range to mountain range, And there were orioles Spilling a riotous tune, House-hunting, giddily, A month too soon: 1'ilCC . .

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The Bell lt was when 'Stanford wo the Track Meet , . n Or when California lost- Whiehever way You say: It was when you danced To Moonlight and Roses . But it was a more vital time than that, VVith a bruised and battered civilization Shaking oil' its shackles And its poses, Ceasing to shrug- lt always has been, so it alw Housing to shout- We'll stop it! We'll uncover! W'e'll tear it down! We'll build it up! We'll make it over! You see? It's a gallant time to be Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen! That's why I shall not sigh And shake my head- WlLen I was yomfage . . But I exult instead When you are my ageg- ays will be V' You'll have helped to tear down and build up, To stop, and to uncover, To make over! I say Godspeed, -for you are travelers Setting out Without fear or doubt For the gay and the grim Adventure of Living! C'l'here will be less of getting In your day And more of giving.J Your grandfathers or great grandfathers Blazcd trails And pushed out boundaries And you shall do no less But more than these, Blaze trails thro' ignorance an Meet Wrong with Bight, Evil with Good, And widen the boundaries Of Brotherhood. Godspeed, sixteen, seventeen, Glorious ages: d prejudice eighteen, I have not come onto these pages To sigh, I have come down to the station to see you entraing I have come down to the pler to see you Sfl1lQ 1 have come out to the field to see you fly! -RUTH COMFORT MITCHEl,ll. Q