South Pasadena High School - Copa de Oro Yearbook (South Pasadena, CA)

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11 IS AN EDUCATION WORTH WHILE? Does it pay for a person to fit himself for a superior position? Does it pay to acquire a true character-wealth which no disaster or mis- fortune can destroy? Does it pay to make life-long friendships with industrious and ambitious young people, many of whom will occupy high places in the future? To every scholar the answer to these questions would be yes. But do we follow that principle? The student of today must not content himself with the mere browsing over books; he must make an application of those principles and ideals that make for a broader scholarship and citizenship. Scholarship is an ideal towards which all of us should be striving. Any individual who attempts to improve himself intellectually is traveling to- ward a successful and happy future. Unless he utilizes this knowledge to help his fellow-men, it is of little avail to him. In our own school, we too often notice that the book-worm forgets his: re- sponsibility of citizenship and does not share in the activities of the school. Furthermore, we find that those who are engaged in student activities often forget their responsibility as scholars. The leaders of the future will be those who have realized the importance of these two factors combined and have looked to them as ideals. Education is the training of the mind to solve the world problems, the training of the hands to do the world’s work, and the training of the heart to beat in sympathy with the world’s needs. Education must develop in the individual self-reliance and responsibility. It must produce intelligent citi- zen-people with initiative and the habit of team work, so let us not be con- tent with an education of mere facts, but let us learn to think clearly and independenly, for, as Frederick Harrison has said, ‘‘Every bit of stray in- formation whic h we crowd into our heads without any sense of its impor- tance is for the most part a bit of the most useful information driven out of our heads and choked off from our minds.’’ When a person has learned to think for himself he has attained much toward the ideal of true citizenship as a result of excellent scholarship. hn

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THE COPA DE ORO OF 1923 The Annual Staff this year has tried to produce an annual of which t he school could be justly proud. We have endeavored to produce a book which will present this year’s activities in concise but inter- esting form. Believing that we have accomplished this objective, we present this Copa de Oro to you. Although the Copa de Oro is a senior publica- tion, there are others who have helped to make it a Success. Miss Lauman and the Art Department have worked perseveringly and have co-operated to the ereatest extent possible and we take this oppor- tunity in thanking them for their efforts. To our advertisers who have helped us financial- ly in this publication, we wish to express our appre- ciation. Moreover, for the support and co-operation of the Student Body, for the help of Miss Evans and the Journalism Classes, and Mrs. Linn and her Typ- ine Classes, and to other departments which have helped materially, the Annual Staff wishes to ex- press its gratitude and appreciation. THE TIGER SPIRIT OF 1923 At the beginning of the school year the fresh- man were earnestly requested and the upper class- men reminded to ‘‘get into’’ the spirit of South Pasadena High. When we look back over this year, we must realize that this has been accomplished. The freshman have taken hold and the upper class- men have carried on in the spirit. The athletic con- tests were full of fight and good sportsmanship, as well as all the interscholastie contests. The plays, the programs, and the operas were all carried out in the spirit of co-operation between coaches, stu- dents, and public. In scholarship, a spirit of good will and co-operation has existed between the faculty and the students. And so in the interscholastic activities, in the athletics, and debating; in all school affairs, yes, even in our studies, we have maintained that policy of fight, good will, and co-operation that represents the true ‘‘tiger spirit of S. P. High,”’

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SUN THAT BRINGS THE MORNING This morning when I opened my eyes The sun was telling the trees outside my window To remember the time for getting up; I like this sun that makes everything wake up In time to see the morning; Else I should miss the grass all wet from the tears The moon sheds in leaving; The moon is sad in the mornines; There is a deep orchard sound in the bird sones When the sun has just said eood-bye to the rainbow, That makes me think of the flowers the sunset plants Behind the mountains. O sun that brines the morning, Do not ever forget to wake me up before the grass Has forgotten the moon in the dry after hours. But everybody does not like the sun that wakes the trees up; They like to sleep when the morning birds are crooning; Do you think the garden the sun makes for the moon in the evening Will be enough for them? —Harold Hoyt Taylor. FOREVER LOST A. trail without end elides by my door, A lonely trail I will try no more. It winds on and on forevermore, From the Land that has never been, To the Land that will never be. A longing impelled me once, unrest, To pursue this path; at its behest I found my way thru a boundless west, To the Land that never will be, From the Land that never has been. And there I was met by a lily dream, Subtly idyllie, like a silvern beam. She took me by the hand And led me thru the land, And we passed an Elysian day In this warden, far away. Now my reminiscent hours seem drear; I came from that vernal realm most dear; My trail is lost; T shall ne’er go near The Land that could never be, From the Land that never had been. —Robert Holman.