University of Illinois High School - U and I Yearbook (Urbana, IL)

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JUNIOR RESPONSE Thank you. My opponent's remarks are quite pointed. However, I come to bury the Senior Class, not to praise it. I appreciate being the agent who restores this ancient axe to its due position of honor. I am apprehensive, not so much for the hatchet, but rather for its donors. Even though we dispunge and ignore the Senior dissimulative disquisition, we, in generosity to fallen foe, shall reward them with this gilded soap box for future orations. When cracking the Senior nut, we seek the sweetness in the kernel,-there is none. We, the Iunior Class, are disseminators of light and truth. The Seniors deny this. Yet how can they see our wisdom? How can the blind see, the deaf hear, the unenlightened know? The Senior Play-I've already forgotten its name-was fine, as Senior produc- tions go. The Photo and Snaps Editor of the U and I asked me to take pictures of the play. They were to be used to refresh onels memory at a later date. Why any one would care to remember the play is beyond me. I went to the thing with some doubts. It is suflicient to say that the above mentioned editor preferred to go skating that night. The Iunior Play was a success unparalleled in the history of the theatre of the school. By virtue of Iunior preponderance in the face of marked Senior paucity in the field of sports, the reputation of the school has been greatly enhanced. I wish to leave to the Sophomore Class this candy cane to assist them up the steep path of our accomplishments. We shall not be critical, even with an infinitesimal measure of success this hatchet shall be theirs. Lastly, a fond farewell to the Senior Class, and congratulations to Mr. Cagle upon his framing of an excellent Senior motto, Nihil, e nihil ergo nihil. Translated, the motto becomes Nothing can come of nothing, therefore we have nothing. CHARLES WHITMORE Page Twenty-:even .AM

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Page Twenty-.fix HATCHET ORATION It has been the custom of my predecessors to laud unduly their own classes and to defame, in each case, the one which was to follow. I detest those who boast, but I have no compunction in relating the unvarnished truth about my class. As concerns the customary defamatory remarks, none need be made in this case. Among the outstanding successes of the year was the Senior Play. In fact, so outstanding was our dramatic presentation that my worthy opponent, seated in the first row, blistered his fingers in removing photo-Hash bulbs. University High School, by virtue of the Senior Class, has seen the most outstanding season in its sports history, which, I am proud to relate, has been the very essence of probity. However, having said this, I am here to present to the present Iunior Class this hatchet with a remarkable past. Prophecy with regard to its future does not become me. It is scarcely possible that I may exclude a note of pessimism at this timeg but since I perceive a spark of knowledge glowing in the present Iunior Class, I feel that if this spark is carefully fanned by our faculty, it may develop into a mediocre flame which will dissimilate a small amount of the light of wisdom in the year to come. With this rather Utopian dream I present this hatchet to the Iunior Class. F. WILLIAM CAGLE -5 fn' Mimi

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Page Tufenly-ezghl WELCOME ADDRESS Q .- C As a ship coming into port for the last time, we come -f' I here tonight. Our voyages have been many, and the suc- cess of them we owe to those who have given us help and guidance. We encountered many difficulties on gg these voyages, at times we were tempted to leave the ' ship and to take to the lifeboats. But, in general, the trip was of itself suflicient attraction to keep us pressing for- ward. Tonight we have attained our conquest, tonight we may think over what we have accomplished for the past four years, realizing that each trip was designed to strengthen skill, add to knowledge, or sharpen apprecia- tion. It is well to study carefully these small excursions out of our sheltered harbors, for they were but preparation for a much longer voyage-the voyage of the future. What the future holds we do not know. It may bring storm, or it may bring calm. The nature we cannot determine, but we may influence the result by maintaining a cool courage. From this time forth we are on our own. It becomes our duty to maintain the excellent records others have set before us, but above all it becomes our duty to attain such a place in society that we may respect ourselves, for then, through achievement, we may make the world a better place in which to live. We have other responsibilities. Each of us has the responsibility of keeping up the standard he has tried to maintain during the past four years. It may seem diflicult at first to be responsible only to oneself, but it is to himself that each of us must look as he leaves the port of University High School. In this connection we may say with Ella Wilcox, One ship drives east and another drives west, with the self same winds that blow-'tis the set of the sails and not the gales which tells us the way to go. We welcome you here this evening to the Commencement of the Class of 1941, and we invite you to join us as we set the sails for our future voyages. IOANNE HILLS