Soldan High School - Scrip Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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6'1ce,ESQLQ4l JQ Thls mbht all the black corners of the fine old tlmbered room seem filled Wlth ,Ghostly Whispers Thls mght Robert Green leavmo behind hmm h1s vlcxous pamphlet has Gone to hls reward To the Mermafd hastens his arch enemy Rlchard Bame to further blacken the dead man s name But Shakespeare rose to the moment He was of our craft H was brother to us he clalmed Let no 1ll be spoken of h1m Months pass the plabue IS on Many a brazxer burns agamst the horr1d v1s1tat1on Thxs nxbht there steals 1nto the Mermald hke a grey lmpersonatlon of the darkness Thomas Nash hls face a yellow parch ment When these who would flee hlm as death came to themselves the bhastly story of Marlowes takln off filled the room wlth a loaded Klt Klt httle Krt' Klt was abaxn the Cobbler s httle son IH Canterbury He called to h1s father O look at the p1lgr1ms r1d1n by O look at them look at them Prlest and prloress abbott and frlar Thou and I must rxde hke th1s by Glastonbury and Samarcand London and Persepohs all the way to the Holy Land Falry beobraphy Perhaps one of the most solemn really majestxc nm hts at the Mermald was when the a ed sexton of Peterborough was the buest He came 1n w1th clothes heavy of the earth of the church yard h1s spade and h1s p1ck axe to 1ve h1m courabe 1n thls wondrous company All through the story runs the blftter of a matchless ruby the very heart of blood of that breat lover Mary Stuart He IS telllng of the m1dn10ht bur1al of the queen m the Oreat Cathedral of Peterboroubh Down throubh the roads and lanes lt comes all the country slde asleep Ah such a pabeant of woe down an avenue of torches such a pageant as earth will never see avaln Then 1nto the bloom of the cathedral a first tlme and a second t1me he takes us When all the pabeantry has passed we hear the death l1ke yes the deathless voxces of Mary and Chastelard her French poet lover t1ll our very hearts are wrunb so eternal and movlnb IS the story of a reat love And we can close the tales wlth Ben Jonson now deep 1n years almost alone Th1s nlbht he tells the story of the end of the Kmght of the Ocean Sea the betrayal and death of the great Slr Walter Ralelbh and of the revenge taken on h1s betrayer by Lady Ralelbh and so we close our Mermald days It IS w1th sorrow that I omlt the relatlon of the Inn and Tavern yard to the OI'1b1I'1 and ,Growth of the theatre but there IS a hmmt to our tlme and to our story A half century passes before the tavern IS abam the centre of the hterary llfe of London It has changed 1ts name now to the coffee house and every coffee house had Its orator Wlthout a parhament wlthout a munlclpal councll publlc meetxngs proh1b1ted newspapers yet 2 AX L .ff-'N eyiy -1-Cr 1 :XJTELI ,J-R if- affix' L55 at V uit 'T ,, . A if ,L L if filing' . .on . . U . ' . . v . 8 . . b ' . . e 7! - 46 ' ' 77 ' U . A . A . or ' ' 0' ' b sllence. Suddenly a voice, actually gay, broke the heavy gloom- O Klt, . . . . ,, y. D . , . . . ,, . . . . O' O' . . . .Or ' D . O' ' O' 6 . , . . O.. . 0- . . D . . 0, - ' . . D 5 0' - O, . 1 . I Y C, . , . 4 . . O 23 ' 7 . . Q on v 1 l O-v . on . OA C, . , , ' . .og . V I . .U V Y . .O- , -0, U . . . , , . . OA . 1C

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Y + , s 6me,ERsmmrm f unrnvented the coffee house was the chref orvan of publrc oprnron and debate Every class of socrety the merchant the lawyer the Whrg the Tory the country bentleman the lrterary man each had rts favorrte coffee house T1me thou h permrts our sorournrno at just one of these notable Oatherrnb places We find ourselves at the entrance of Wrlls Coffee the spacrousness and grandeur of the reat Elrzabethan days we reach what mroht almost be called the tread mrll of En lrsh letters As you entered the room the ,creat rush was to et near the charr where Dry den sate always rn wrnter rn the cozrest corner by the fire and rn summer on the cool balcony To bow to the laureate says Macaulay to hear hrs oprnron of Racrne s traoedy was an honor rf forsooth you recerved from hrm a prnch of snuff your fame was made You heard talk of the poetrc unrtres you learned that Paradrse Lost were better wrrtten rn rhyme Then that the strll vrtal play of Venrce Preserved had not followed the rules and should rn all Justrce have been hrssed from the sta e As we turn the corner of the century the coffee houses become strll more hrghly speclalrzed Dryden dead the Krn shrp of Letters falls upon joseph Addrson and the meetrnt, place passes from Wrll s to But tons Here met Addrsons Lrttle Senate Here came to lr ht the Tattler and the Spectator Here was the laboratory of that famrlrar prose strll the desparr of all who try to rmrtate rt About three quarters of a century pass before we meet the next world famous tavern company These are the days of the famous Dr Samuel johnson To take Just a baker s dozen of the men who strll bulk larbe rn the popular memory brves us some deHn1te measure for the Oatherrnb of the Lrterary Club at the Turks Head There was breat Dr johnson hrmself There was james Boswell the standard for brogra phers for all trme There was Davrd Garrrck the breatest actor of hrs aoe and Rrchard Sherrdan and Olrver Goldsmrth the Dreatest wrrters of the comedy of manners Then Edmund Burke and Charles Fox stood pre emrnent rn oratory and state craft There was Brshop Percy who revealed the splendors of ancrent poetry There was Edward Grbbon who left the monumental Declrne and Fall of the Roman Emprre I the fields of musrc and parntrno Srr joshua Reynolds and Dr Burney stood supreme Then there was Adam Smrth who rn hrs Wealth of Natrons may be sard to have establrshed a new scrence Even the Great proconsul, Warren I-Iastrnos, lent hrs presence at trmes to balance through achrevement rn world affarrs all the theorres of hrs antagonrsts And over all ruled the great Dr Johnson But Ah, that by product of tavern lrterature, the tavern song and the dance Shades of Shakespeare, of Ben Jonson, of Sucklrng, Waller and Lovelace' Sprrrt of old Isaac Walton. of Robert Burns Forgrve me IX 1- -- -is ' M---'Qv'J2JiTr-q- f f-'rf Y fxmffivfpf' -f'f'5- -2 , A- rt C M fr Y 'ff UG' . X-E-1 ALL- L ,.,., L JE ,Q-,-LA eff' 7 T: Q ,if , . Y I Z - , v 1 v O, , - . . ' i ' b ' D u . OA . , 6 . House where the great john Dryden presides as King of Letters. From . A O, . D . Y - . on . b D ' O' O' . - ' D 7 7 li YY ll . . . , S 2 . ' v . . . . Y U . ,, . ' ' ' 44 ' vs O. D . . , D . . O. . , - . . . .. . .. -0, . . 6 OA . Op. . ! , ' O, ' v O. 1, . A .... ob . b , , - . . - I . Y Ci ' . ' U rl 5 . 5 5