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

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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.

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this dark hour the Hame instilled in cloister, classroom and campus leaps high, the college-poor in fortune, and impover- ished of men-lifts high into the heavens its banner-confident that its sons will return to its crumbling walls . . . This generation has witnessed their response, the long shadowy line of men-men of the sea, men of the plains and valleys, some em- blazoned with the midday glory of worldly con- quests, others from the black night of obscurity, but yet, unfailingly they have come. In the far Hung reaches of the world the cry has been heard and in answer, year by year, class by class, man by man, they have come-and now do place a diamond crested diadem on the brow of Alma Mater. -AVE ATQUE VALE.