West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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WATER POWER NOTHING is quite so beautiful as a Minnesota y river Gliding along so smoothly, it holds an endless fascination, urging the voyageur ever onward into new lands. Occasionally the water roughens, sharp rocks appear in the smooth course and the once calm river is transformed into a raging torrent, foaming down a rocky bed, or dropping from dizzying heights This force of nature, the last untamed thing,, has at last been harnessed by man. Without loosing any of its former beauty, it has become an aid to the community.

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GRAIN TERMINALS A GRAIN terminal is an essential part of a Minne-jSJi tot a city skyline. Rearing its huge bulk against the sky, it represents all that has made the state prosperous and beautifulw Especially at dusk is this building impressive. Its sharp lines loose their harshness and blend into the horizon y blue-gray. Like an unfinished cathedral, the massive structure stands out against the sky, and the growing darkness serves only to accentuate its beauty. More than any other thing does this building represent the state; it is the realization of pioneer hopes

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 AGRICULTURE HEN the first pioneers toiled sloivly across the plains in their covered wagons, their purpose was the finding of a promised land. One can imagine the line of wagons coming over the crest of a hill to look down on the majestic, slow-rolling Mississippi, with its fertile bottom lands and then to see the rolling lands across the river, veiled in a purple haze, with the sun painting every hill scarlet. Yes, this was and is the promised I a nd Modem science has made farming a pleasure; it has made the desert blossom like a rose.