St Ignatius College - Ignatian Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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T . illlrlpnnwtw Ukn Jmitatiunb Muse of pure poetic taste, No Isthmian strife your verse can mary You smile not on the charioteer Who fast careers in Grecian car. For Martian arms your care is small And proud and haughty leaders' tauntsg The mellow strains of stringed lyre Alone can cheer your classic jaunts. The sight of fertile hill or dale, The babblings brook or rolling sea, The dense and clustered shady grove, For you have charms, Melpomene. I, O Muse, by Rome am classed Among her bards of lyric fameg My humble tribute, mistress fair, Accept for that distinguished name. Fred S. Johnson

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28 IGNA TIAN deep, have detracted nothing from his true workfto traverse the field of belles-lettres, replenishing its byways With Scottish grace and Gallic artistry. So the tower of mine eminence leans was not written of himself, and, had it been, the recognition that pursues his name would have fore- stalled its effectiveness. William M. Queen. Mlrtahility The tender bloom of innocence-what thrills Of joy it brings to those who fondly gaze Upon its splendor. O, were it thus always! Alas! like wintry cold, temptation chills That growth so delicate-and all the ills That fallen flesh is heir to, blight the days Of future hope and honor, joy and praise: It fades, imbibes the death that sin instils. And is this life? Ah, death, a blessing thou To free us from vicissitude. Behold The dazzling sun, the mountain's noble brow, The sky perennial, and all unfold A realm of peaceful bliss, toward which e'en now We daily journey spite our woes untold. Raymond T. Feely.

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Iieimgngiral Eemilhermrnt its allotment of abuse in this destructive iw Q age when even the most sacred things .are being criticiaed, 1s.not, in itself, aph cibjtict for surprise, but it is surprising a e abuse should come from men and women who have been identified with the system all their lives. At- tacks from without might have been expectedg it was alto- gether unexpected to hear of internal dissension and it was astonishing to find the dissenters so full of destructive criti- cism and of unmistakable bitterness. One public school teacher writing in The Ladies' Home Journal tells us that the system is the most momentous failure in our American life today. From another we learn that the high schools in particular are little more than fool factories. And when we add to these thoughts the criticism of the universities that appeared some time ago in Everybody's Magazine under the general heading Blasting at the Rock of Ages, we are forced to wonder what they are going to do about it. - ll I-IAT the public school system should receive if M' E ' I 5 Q fi? While thus wondering we beg leave to offer a few thoughts of our own, which may be of advantage in deter- mining just what is wrong with the system. That some- thing is wrong is now generally admitted, and the articles recently contributed to The Ladies' Home Journal empha- size this general conviction. Still we fail to see that any of the critics have indicated the real source of the evil. They are self-constituted physicians, and, in our opinion, they are very faulty in their diagnosis. In fact, one of the articles -that of Professor Frederick Burk, Principal of the State Normal School of San Francisco-affords a very beautiful, though unconscious illustration of the real pedagogical dis- ease that is afflicting the schools. The learned professor, than whom there is no higher authority in the land, builds his article in criticism on the results of a common sense I