University High School - The Cub Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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B ' THREE CS RO ' X 13 — State 13! Brown player injured, he is being taken from the game! ' e don ' t know who ' ll be put in. Reg Gaines is on the bench with his injured shoulder and apparently there is no ' tither man to play the position, the pulilic speaker announced. Gaines ' entry into the game raised the morale of Brown ' s team. The halfback carried the ball, making large gains. State called for time out. We have just got to stop Gaines, said Red Stuart, the State cap- tain, and stop him hard enough to put him out of this ball game for good. After we get him we ' ll win this game — he seems to know our plavs. Any ■ injuries, fellows? and as there was no response Stuart signalled the referee and the ball was put into play. The gridiron battle between Brown and State is one c,i the football classics. Intense rivalry always prevails and this year was no exception. The week earlier Reg Gaines had been injured and the advantage of Brown had been destroyed. Now he was in. however, showing his true form by making the State team look seriously ill. Gaines took the ball on an end run and as tackled by Hall, the State quarterback. In the heat of play. Hall, contrary to rules, jjurposelv kneed Gaines in the shoulder, opening- the injury and causing him tn be carried from the game. Hall never arose until noon on Sundays and the day after the Brown game was no exception. . t dinner he was profusely showered with con- gratulations for having stopped Gaines run yesterday. With each succeed- ing congratulation Hall felt worse for he knew that he was sailing undef false colors. To tell the truth, he felt miserable. More to escape the queries of fellow students than for anv other reason Hall went to Chapel Hour that Sunday evening. At State the University authorities invite eminent speakers to lecture to those students that care to go each Sunday e ening. Strange as it mav seem there is usually a good sized audience. On the Sunday following the Brown game the lecturer was a prominent Y.j I.C..- . man who had earned a big S some years before. Dr. Arthur Hollands. These gatherings were held in the front rows of the main auditoriunr. Tonight a strange sight met those who arrived early, for there in the center of the platform stood an old fashioned rocking chair. On the dot of six o ' clock the little door to the side opened and a distin- guished looking man stepped out. He was followed by President Cottinger of the university who frequently introduced the speakers. His stature could

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THE SEA S( i.M I ' ri 1 1 Xl 1 ill cvorvoiie is irresistahly drawn to tlic ca. Its cease- lc s rhytlim lulls tired spirits! It fascinates with its ever chaiifj iii; moods. When all is calm, a sinister mood seems luulerlyinfj. as a jjiant whose exes hold a smoiilderinsj flame. When its fnrv is un- lashed, it is a demon who demolishes souls as well as shijjs. In any mood, a sii] ernatnral force seems superintendiiifj all. causing the calm of heaven or the anjjer of the furies. The (|uiet of the sea after a storm is so stni)en(lous that its very breath seems to lie — 1 am I ' ower. — Frances Merrill. MID-DAY IMAGES The brick-purple leaves of the Japanese plum tremble like a humming bird thru the north wind gusts. S The garden of grouped shasta daisies sparkled like a bank of snow ; over these swam a swallow tail breathing the summer sun. A long bed of geraniums against a dusky brick wall ; and a few pink ones intermingled guarding the gods of the slums. A listening plum conference, spreading far their branches to breathe in the vastness and immensity of sugar from the heat. Backyard weeds and grasses and dust, olive-green, yellowish-hay, and brown ; each in spots, receiving the sun-beats, and occasionally nodding drowsily. — Richard Irwin

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not have cxceede l five feet six : yet he was not a dapper man for liis sliouklers we re as liroad as Hall ' s. To look at liiin, one wonld easily iinafjfiiu- liiin a suc- cessful Wall Street hanker. After a few brief introductory remarks the ] resi lent retired and Dr. Hollands seated Jiimself in the roekin!, chair, lie C(iinnieiue l li ' casually sayinjj. This morninjj i was jircijared to fjive you a talk on a subject different from that which you are f oini; to hear this eveninjj. This afternoon, while listening over the air, 1 heard an orj an recital played by a master over cjne of our ])rominent stations. The majority of the program was of medium quality but all of a sudden the organ broke into brilliant melody. My mind, at ease with the world, had not even noticed the announcer when he had told the name of the selection and I would probably have forgotten the composer had I not noticed the peculiarity name. It was a Scandinavian name and at this moment I cannot even recall it. The selection had the dei)ths and resounding qualities of the fjords, the song of the snow, and above all it had a message for all of lis. During the jilaying of the composition there ap- peared at frequent intervals harmonic chords in groups of three. This re- minded me of a graduation speech delivered some twenty years ago when I graduated from high school. The subject ' The Three Cs ' has given to nie the best conception of life that it has ever been my good fortune to hear. To- night we shall apply those same three c ' s with our own meanings and inter- pretations. The first is Courage. One in college must have courage. Only yesterday did members of this school exhibit courage to a high degfee out there on the gridiron. The necessity of courage has been emphasized for at least three thousand years and it shall still insist upon staying with us. To bring closer to us the real meaning of courage let us consider the courage of the Pilgrims. They pushed civilization into the wilderness just as hard as those eleven stalwarts yesterday upon the gridiron i)ushed the l:)all over the goal for a touchdown. Let us consider the second C, co-operation. W ' sterday again u])on the grid those same eleven athletes, representing you, co-operated and won that game. Just in this manner have men throughout the ages combined to help their brother men. Ves, fellftws, w e need co-operation as much if not more than we need courage. The third ' C, consecration, sounds rather formidable, doesn ' t it? Well, first let us think what it means. Consecration means for us the dedication of ourselves to the attainment of a given end. As the knights of the Round Table consecrated themselves to the protection of the ])oor, weak, and de- fenseless, so in the stadium yesterday eleven strong men consecrated them- selves to play clean, hard, and square football. Yesterday these same three c ' s were put into actual play. It does Thirty-five