Waukesha High School - Megaphone Yearbook (Waukesha, WI)

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DISCOBOLUS fCourtesy of Brown-Robertson Co., New Yorkj Discobolus is a work of the Greek sculptor, Myron, who lived in the fifth century B. C. There are several copies of the statue which are found at the Vatican. the Massimi Villa at Rome. the Capitoline Museum at Rome, and the British Museum. DiscoboIus is wonderfully effective, and We feel as if we must see the throw made. and the tense muscles relaxed. before we can leave it. lt is an example of the highest Greek art in the representation of the physical frame and diflicult action. Page One Hundred Seven

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CHAPTER SIX Character fan 8292 9222 1-Sbswdli HE following essay, entitled Our Heritage from Greece, was written by Hugh Hulburt, of the Class of June, 1933: We are proud of our freedom in America, but do we realize that our form of government was first practised by the ancient Greeks? We are glad that we can say what we think without fear of jail, but do we know that freedom of speech was first advocated in the age of Pericles? We point with some pride to our successful business, yet the Greeks originated many of our basic principles of finance. It was in Greece that most of our literary forms were first produced. Greek architecture is still copied in our buildings. The founder of the science of medicine, Hippocrates, was a Greek. His oath of professional ethics is still admin- istered to our medical school graduates. Most of us know well, or should know well, Euclid's book on geometry. Greek philosophers still guide our thought to a certain extent, and we are still trying to answer questions, which they raise. Thus, all through our lives we have been, and will be influenced by Greek practises and methods of thought. Greece is not nearly so dead as we might suppose. Perhaps we are nearest today to old Greece in our love of sports. The Greeks placed much emphasis upon physical development. They, like us, included it as a major study in their education. They had their Bobby Jones, and their Babe Ruth, whom they followed with just as much vigor and interest as any twentieth century American. Speaking of Babe Ruth, ball games were popular in Greece. So great a place did athletics hold in the Greek mind that formal games were often held in honor of a national hero. Most of us know of the Clympic Games. These, held every four years, were so important that time was reckoned by them. Truces were often declared, if Greece was at war, so that nothing would interfere with the games. They consisted of races of various kinds: two hunderd yard sprints, distance runs, chariot races, races in full armor, and boxing and wrestling Page One Hundred Nine