University High School - Bisbila Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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A Word From Our President THERE is .1 popular impression that the high schools of today arc better than they were a generation ago. This may be true in certain respects. Certainly they are different; their courses have been expanded and their spirit and atmosphere have been modified. But fundamentally they serve the same purposes and accomplish the same ends as did the high schools of yesterday. While times have changed, graduates today arc intellectually no better and morally not superior to their predecessors. The school they have been attending still represents, as always, society’s sacrificial effort to fit youth for the consideration of the problems of its day and generation. It is society’s attempt to short-cut the laborious processes of trial and error. It is well to remember that we arc not better than our forefathers. The problems we face are more numerous and more difficult. The schools our fathers have established have been improved to fit us better to meet the demands of our day than our fathers were fitted to meet the demands of their day. Whether we meet these demands successfully depends largely upon individual willpower and purpose. L. D. Coffman President, University of Minnesota

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To The Spirit of Adventure As Seniors, we leave U High behind us to enter, more fully than ever before, this world of romance. Adventure lies before us. It is then to the Spirit of Adventure, synonymous with the Spirit of Youth, that we, the Class of 1931, dedicate this, our annual.

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FOREWORD WE, the graduating Seniors of the Class of 1931 of University High School, present you with our Bisbila. We have dedicated our annual to the Spirit of Adventure. As symbolic of this, we have chosen for our theme the Arabian Nights, which have stood through countless ages, and will stand for countless ages more, as the Spirit of Adventure, Glamour, and Romance. We have tried carefully to carry our theme through our entire annual. The characterizations beside the pictures in the Album are actual excerpts from the stories of the Arabian Nights. As we are departing, we leave behind to you, the other classes of the school, some few things by which we hope we may be remembered. This, our calendar, a record of persons and events, is one of them. The pages which follow are filled with pictures and accounts of the studies, the work, and the play of the four years we have spent here. We leave them to you between these two covers with the hope that they may be a constant reminder of cherished memories and of our farewell words to you: Good-bye, good times, good luck!