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

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takf a kit of courage to stop a man running- al)Out three feet per second, particularly so when that man weighs close to two hundred pounds. Those eleven men co-operated and won the game playing as one instead of ten or eleven parts. Those same fellows were consecrated yesterday when they went onto the field to fight hard, fight squarely, and to fight fairly, and to win for State. After this concluding statement there was a short discussion and the meeting broke up. Hall went to his room to prepare for classes on the fol- lowing Tuesday because he knew that it would be impossible for him to study on the morrow as there was a field trip in Paleonthology scheduled As this was to be a fossil hunting expedition, all of the party were to look for peculiar rock formations. Hall ' s mind was so far off the subject ■ that at the end of the day he had nothing to show for having gone on the trip. The only thoughts that would come into his brain were those concern- ing the Brown game incident. ( )n the following Thursday morning Hall was walking across the cam- pus when Paul Red Stuart, the football captain, touched his arm. Say. it surely is great that you ' re winning the Hickingbotham Medal, he said with a lusty back slap. It isn ' t official yet, you know, but one of the committee let it slip before he knew it. The Hickingbotham ledal for citizenship! Say, you are as crazy as a loon. he caustically remarked after considerable effort. Well, it is true, replied Stuart. Maybe, Hall said. Then as if remembering something he muttered a hasty thanks and left the wide-eyed Stuart standing amazed. That morning Dean Rice, Dean of Men, received a visitor who refiused to state his business to the assistant in the outer office. Good morning. Hall. What can I do for you? he cordially inquired. I just heard from Paul Stuart that the winner of the medal was to be myself. I really don ' t want to seem over anxious, but might I ask? ' ' Well, Hall, that is rather a hard question to answer. after a pause, please regard this as strictly confidential. Then slowly, as if choosing his words with care, he continued, i would not be surprised if you re the com- mittee ' s choice. Well then, it is not too late to reconsider your choice? No, it isn ' t. Here goes. he said with a sigh as he began to recount the incident of the Brown gatne. After finishing with this narrative the dean excused him and he went to his room, relieved for the first time in about a week.

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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

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It was autumn sunu ' ton years after tlun llall a ain lelt the nffiee of the Dean of men. It was the day uu whieh the student awards were made, hids to honor societies were i i en. the initiation to the V fr S Society was lield, and above all, the awardinj;; of the citizenship medal was made. It was the custom for the student iiody to assemhiy in the (Ju.idr.inic ' e and to ijo from there in a body to the . udilorium to hear whom the committee h.id selected as the most representative citizen of the i;: ra(liiati in class. After the journey from tiie (Juadrani;le to the . uditorinm had i)een completed, and the audiince seated, tlie I )ean of Men arose. Uaisiilfj his hand for silence, he commenced, l ' aculty, students, and friends, before the awardinsj of the Hickinyhotham Medal we have a prominent ijcntleman who will address us. The l i.i.;ht llonoraiile Paul Stuart, Senator from this state. Mr. Chairman, faculty, and students. he henan. five months afjo John Hall, a ]iast winner of the 1 lickintjbotham Medal passed away. His ' life, a brilliant ins])iration to all of those whom he made ac(|uaint ance. broui ht him many friends. Several cjf his friends decided to honor his memory ith a fitting tribute. Rememberin the iiitense feeling of loyalty to his Alma Mater, we decided to i)lace upon this campus a memorial. These friends of his bestowed u])on me the gratifying pleasure of presenting to you the John Hall Memorial Trophy to be i)resented yearly to the most outstanding athlete in the graduating class. May I ask you to bow your heads for a few seconds in memory of John Hall, a strong man ])hysically, mentall -. and morally. — Gordon Arlett A FOG Oh, niany ' s the night that I ' ve waked u]i And found the city all entombed In silent, soft, enfolding fog. The eerie silence of the mist That closes in upon the town Has dulled the tumult down below; But out across the bay I hear The melancholy fog-horns sound To lone, lost ships their warning call. — Bettv Bailev Thirty-seven