Adel High School - Scarlet and Black Yearbook (Adel, IA)

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Hero Stuff. Frosty has a broken arm, Ike, a fractured thigh. Dave's ankles are all out of true And Dick has lost an e e. They're no good to their dear old Dad, But they're heroes iust the same. They worked right on, thru good and bad. And this is how they won such fame. Bill's head bears a two-inch dent, Chance's ribs are smashedg l'lub's spinal column is badly be t And Racky's back is gashed. Not one is able to earn his keep, And often with pain thev sigh, But think of the glory they live to reap In the name of old Adel High. Hol lost an arm at the elbow, Cofhn has a broken nose. Button's head show effects of an awful blow, Also Young lost a finger or so. But we're for these youths with the flashing eye, And the foretelling jaw, Who swear they are loyal to Adel High And would die for the dear old town-Rah! Rah! F. K. M. 'I6 Geometry Problem. Theorem-Prove that what E. H. : C. H. D what P. M. : R. F PTOOP I . 2. 3. What E.. H. :C. H. is not less than what P. M. :R fFrom daily observations., What P. M. :R. F. is not equal to what E. H. :C H fFrom evening observationsj Therefore, what E. H. :C. H. D what P. M. : R. F Q. E. D

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urnphed over the visitors, I5 to 9. Mary Fox and Marguerite Kinnick trade excellent baskets. February 26 the high school team contested the town team and won by a score of I9 to I. The older boys fought hard but it was evident that practice would have helped out. The two girls' teams played the curtain raiser, the first team defeating the second. March 5 our team played a return game at De Soto, the first game away from home. The girls won by a score of 26 to I5, but the boys were defeated by a score of 23 to ZI. On March I9 took place two of the most exciting games of the season, those with Minburn's teams. Their team 'was noted for its ability but our boys put up a brave fight. Storm made a number of free throws and Wright threw some excellent field baskets, but Adel lacked team work so Minburn won 33 to I3. Our girls were rather confused in the first half by the use of side centers and made little progress. These side centers were dispensed with in the second half, so our girls raised their points till time was called and the score was 8 to 9 in favor of Minburn. Mildred Beache's skilful guarding kept Minburn from making many baskets. The season closed March 26 with games with Linden. Our boys won by a score of I9 to I6 and our girls by a score of I3 to 6. Our season was short, owing to the unfavorable conditions for laying the floor in our gymnasium, but we have a good start and next year hope to have two winning teams.

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F or the Old Order Changeth, Yielding Place to New. - IdyIls of the King, Tennyson. T was during the spring of l9l4 that it was decided by the ' taxpayers of Adel that we should have a new school building. Work was begun in the cellar and part of the walls raised before the spring term was finished. Only a short time after the new building had been given into the hands of the contractors, the old one was consigned to the hands of the destroyers. Day after day bricks fell from the walls: partitions were torn out, and floors of the old landmark were destroyed. One night when the moon was in full I passed by it and was astonished to behold the ruin wrought. The moonlight fell upon a roofless and jagged building, whose windowpanes from top to bottom were torn out, and around whose base lay confused, rugged heaps of stone and brick. The clear, mellow light lit up the bare stairway, which formerly led to the second story in the interior of the building, but just now spanned the space between the isolated, and as yet undestroyed, north wing and the older part of the structure. Light streamed through the paneless windows of the old assembly on the third floor, while a prophetic silence seemed to brood over all. My heart was burdened with sadness and sympathy for the old build- ing which was now falling at the ruthless hands of the despoilers. Did they only think of the money to be derived from their work, or did pictures sometirres arise in their vision of all the old school had been and of the memories that clustered about it? Could they picture it in its youth, the pride and admiration of its builders: the ambition of is tenants: and did they get an inkling of the hopes or ideals that may have been inspired or realized within its walls? In removing some scarred and initialed seat could they hear in immagina- tion the voice of a chiding teacher or the whispered approval of another pupil, because of the marring of the furniture? Was it possible for them to see in imagination a little child starting in the lowest gradeg slowly but surely making his way up the ladder of fortune, round by round, till he reached the top? Were the joys and sorrows encountered by the persever- ing ones again worked outg love for old teachers and companions recalled: sorrow for the loss of this or that one remembered? Did no visions of former classes or societies arise to recall long-forgotten lessors or program days? Instead of all these did only the bare, exprecsionlecs walls confront them with no tale of former grandeur or memories of bvgone years: was only the piece of work the occupant of their minds? Perhaps: who can say otherwise? Those floors will echo no more to tread of feet nor the walls throw back the sound of familiar voices. The building has now for long months been in ruin. The grounds are cleared and lie level and black in their newness, while just beyond the site of the older seat of learning stands a newer one, a more modern edificeg more spacious and pretentious, which may, with the succeeding years, encase its own cherished thoughtsg but they can never be the ones of the other building, for they live only in the hearts of the alumni and other members who have gone out from its doors forever, never to return except in thought. M. A. F. 'l 5