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

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Oluntvntz Frontispiece ........ Paths of the Padres... A Song of the Road ..... Qur President ........... The Smith-Towner Bill. .. The Hermit's Rosary. . . A Son of Two Worlds ..... Solid Rock or Shifting Sandi . . The Two Brothers ...... The Gasoline Dash ........ . The lsle that 'lack Found ..... Monsignor Benson ....,.. A Tribute to a Friend .... Blood ls Thicker Than-? Editorial .............. Alumni ..... Law Notes ....... University Notes. . . Athletics ............ High School Athletics .... Ti IUC' 'G 6 7 12 16 17 2-1 26 34 40 -12 -15 53 57 59 63 67 71 SO S9 96

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Hatha nf Thr lgahrva , HE long solitude of the centuries in Cali-- X ,I ,X fornia, the early explorations through its fm il, trackless canyons and parched hills, the 1 foundation of the rude and simple mis- sions, the rule of the Spanish military - governors, the revolt against Spanish do- minion, the romance and happy idleness of the Mexican era, the unique lilear Flag Republic, the hauling down of the Bear Flag at Monterey and the raising of the Stars and Stripes, the days of forty-nine, the development of a prosperous State! Do we under- stand it all? Do we appreciate the past glory of Cali- fornia? Ask the Oriental, squatting dreamy-eyed with his fuming pipe, to describe his poppy-dreams. For us also the California poppy has an inliuence-a tyrannous de- licious spell-unless we are of those who motor luxur- iously up and down the State, or travel in commercial haste along the city streets, unashamed of our ignorance of the past, feeling never a desire to learn of the men, the modes, the manners that were once realities upon the same landscapes, beneath the same California skies. The laudable effort, now being made to restore and P1'6S61'VS the California Missions is an encouraging symp- tom. Piut let us not be satisfied with mere 1'omance. Poetry and rambling phrases concerning the missions have been fed up to us even to surfeit. There are those who see in the missions nothing' but Himsy charm. For all other purposes they were stupid, crude attempts at civilization by a mediaeval, old fashioned church when no other means for civilization were at hand. There are those who look upon the missions as mere resting places for chattering tourists. mere models of a unique