Wheaton Warrenville South High School - Timberline Yearbook (Wheaton, IL)

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llllIIlllllIIlllllllIIIllIIHIllIllllllllllllllllllllIIllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllIllllIllIIIllIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIiIlIlllllllllllllllllllllilIIllIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll muIInnIlInIm1iIIIIIIIIIuIunImumnIn4in111u111111in11nIIn1111iI1i11u1:14uuI1mmumnnlumnnnninIIImuIIIInuiumnI111111Ii4iimusunuimuunnimnnnisiiniInmmnIIIIIin11m1n11ilinIInIIIIIIlllIIIIIuummuuininnmllmmuunn Q Vision A V l QErnest Shaw.J ' ' The fire was a bed of glowing coals, casting ghostly objects in the gloom. Somber shadows came and went as the fire gained fitful strength. As QI sat watching the flames flickering and flaring the soft light of the fire grew faint- er and fainter as the embers slowly turned into ashes, till at last my mind, fa- tigued with thought, gave way to the forcible expression of sleep and slumber, andfancy unwilling yet to drop the matter, presented me with the following vision: i I dreamt that I was admitted into a long and spacious hallway, the sides of which were adorned with the paintings of the great masters who were dead. .After viewing and wondering at these pictures for a long time, I lowered my eyes and cast them down the hallway, and I saw here and there a few indus- trious persons delving in the dusty volumes of yore. I observed an intellect- ual looking youth stepping up and down from one of these industrious crea- tures to another, retouching the work of each. I saw-that he used his pencil lightly, that it worked imperceptibly, and that it seemed scarcely to produce any visible effect on the woiik, so perfectly had it been done. However, as he busied himself incessantly, heinsensibly wore off every little bit of gloss that had appeared on the writings. I turned to the old man who had silently appeared beside me out of the .lark and dim recesses of the hall and I respectfully asked him the reason for all this. This, said he, is the Staff of the Wheaton High School Annual. That busy youth whom you see criticising here and correcting there is the Editor-in-Chief. Wondering, I turned to survey more closely this old man, but, as I did so, sleep left me and my dream was at an end. E E R Ciba jfall of ations Four thousand years before the birth of Christ, there arose on the plains' of Northern Africa a nation destined to become the most powerful of all ancient monarchies. Governed by the mighty Pharaohs, Egyptbecame the intellectual center of the world, and her fleets swept the Mediterranean. The Pharaohs have long since perished, and the nation has become but a memory. And yet, they have left along the Nile those structures whichthe world will never forget. The Pyramids, tfhose monuments of a dead race, will ever remain as tombstones reminding us of the glory of a race unsurpassed in ancient history. Time passed on and Greece arose out of the ruins of Egypt. Her larger. llllllllllIIIIlllIIlIIIlllIIIIIlllllllIIlllllIlllIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIMIIlllllllllllillllIlllllIllllIIIIIIIlIllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllIllllllIllIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll IIlllllllllIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllll'llllllIlIIIllIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll .alias

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