Title

The Oracle, June 1933

Creator

Bangor High School (Bangor, Me.)

Date

June 1933

Edition

Graduation Number

Description

Foreword: The many and diversified classes of oracles in ancient Greece acted as intermediates between gods and mortals. Thus Pythia, priestess of the oracle at Delphi--most famous of old oracles--gave responses after being thrown into an ecstacy by a cold vapor issuing from a cleft in the mountain side; this "ecstacy" partially explains the very ambiguous revelations given to the votary. However, all oracular responses were so worded that whatever the outcome of events, the oracles preserved their prestige. A representation of the entrance to an ancient oracle as it may have appeared in former times with its marble walls, tripod, and smoking crevice, appears on the cover. Snakes, which in ancient pictures are many times seen entwined about the temple tripods, and eagles perched on either side of the oracle were regarded with awe. The Sybil, or prophetess, at Cumae sat at the entrance of a cave, wrote messages on leaves and tossed them forth, while the wind gently wafted them about until they became fixed in crannies whence they could be dislodged only with difficulty. The seers decreed that the prophecy was annulled if the order of the leaves was disturbed. Just as the Cumaean oracle, pictured at the beginning of the literary section, tossed forth inscribed leaves to be read by those who would be wise, so seven printed leaves of this ORACLE bring their message to knowledge-seekers. As the oracles of old brought to seekers both fact and fancy, so this ORACLE of today hopes that it has published for the students during the last year a little of the sense and nonsense of school life.

Contents

Seniors--Literary--Activities--Advertising

Subject

Bangor High School (Bangor, Me.)--Alumni and alumnae

Bangor High School (Bangor, Me.). Class of 1933

Bangor High School (Bangor, Me.)--History

Bangor High School (Bangor, Me.)--Periodicals

Bangor High School (Bangor, Me.)--Photographs

High school students--Maine--Bangor

High school students' writings

Student publications

Type

Periodicals

School yearbooks

Spatial Coverage

Bangor (Me.)

Temporal Coverage

Nineteen thirties

Twentieth century

Language

English

Source

Bangor Public Library Special Collections

Note

Published Six Times a Year by the Students of Bangor High School Bangor, Maine.

Rights