West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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content ❖ ❖ ❖ SPRING.................Rook I ...Spring, the suset spring, is the year's pleasant king. Then blooms each thing, thtn maids stance in a ring. ■S SUMMER.................Book II ...The showers utre short, the mother mild. The morning fresh, the evening smiled.....” ❖ FALL...................Book III ...Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store:” •S WINTER.................Book IV ...Blow, blow, thou winter winds. Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude.. $ ELYS1AN FIELDS - - - - Book V ...Fear no more th‘ heate of the sun Nor the furious Winter’s rages...”

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To JOHN N. GREER ❖ As head of West High School t f t y t ❖ The scholar and able teacher t f t f f f As a principal for more than forty years f The leader of Minneapolis education r r r ♦ As a calm mediator of student problems f which he has kindly and wisely solved ♦ Who—by a well-spent life which exemplifies the utmost in service to every good cause he could further—has gainca the admiration and love of countless students TTT + tTttTTttTftT

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CITY BUILDING rOT a cold mass of steel and stone, but a living J Y breathing thing, is a skyscraper. A monument to the hopes and ambitions of its builders, every new girder put in place is a new stone in the foundation of the city: every stone laid is an integral part of the walls and spires which constitute the ideal Minneapolis—a city which has made heauty a watch word x xAnd when the building is completed it is a fairy castle whose spires ierce the air and inspire the passer-by—a castle where eauty and business work in harmony ttttHHttt