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

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HE wraiths lift slowly at Meniory's beckon- ing-and another-a newer era stands re- vealed. The city is the roistering giant at the gateway of the West-a hundred flags crowd its wharves and a thousand streets entwine its domain, but close to its throbbing heart is its college-- enthroned in a inanner befitting the lirst born and the first loved. Yet the still, ealin, graeiousness has passed, from the raniparts of the world Adventure swirls its red cloak. The century resounds with inar- tial note, seions of the city and sons of the college niareh shoulder to shoulder down the Avenue, the long line of blue pauses before the gate of the college -a blaeltrobed teacher raises his arin in blessing-the regiment swings away, that inoinent is part of this book.

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'DECADE passes . . . and with the promise of Spring high in the air, inexorable Catas- D trophe strikes surely and hercely . . . a metropolis huries its grandeur in ashes-its college is no more. Born of twin travail it meets com- panion destruction. The city is not alone of walls and towers-the college of book and cloistered nave, and ere another Spring trips north, a city is rising Phoenix- like, and in rambling, hastily erected structures, its college has flung open its heart to another generation of Youth. The generation is followed by yet another -the city exulrs in Antean strength, yet its college pauses-falters . . . it has given its strength lavishly and without stint to lift its city to the higher pinnacle and itself lies exhausted and nigh forgotten in the shadows cast by the magnificence it has, with un- svverving loyalty, created.