Annie Wright School - Shield Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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26 H Y A K Miss Harnish (in chorus class) — “Can anyone tell me what diction means ?” Unknown Voice — 4 4 Pronunciation. ’ ’ Miss II.— “Yes, and— ” Corinne — 4 4 Renunciation. ’ 9 88 £ £ £ Miss Smith — “What is a cockatrice. Marion?” “Marion — “A grasshopper, I guess.” £ £ £ £ Theresa — “The principal fruits of Italy are olives, Oranges and eggs.” £ £ £ £ In French II, reading about shipwreck: “At five o’clock bugles and tambourines (tambours) sounded.” (So appropriate.) £ £ £ £ Another French translation: “The mother on twinkling her eyes rushed from the house.” £ £ £ £ In seventh English. Merle Case: “Thou, too sail on. O ship of State! Sail on. 0 Union, strong and great! Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on our gate!” £ £ £ £ Frances, translating French: “Tout craque” (everyone was cracked). £ £ £ £ Miss Smith, in Junior English (evidently not over the effects of Cicero class the period before) — “Cicero puts such songs all through Twelfth Night.” £ £ £ £ French translaion: “He would some day grow large enough to be a dragon” (dragoon). £ £ £ £ M. K. (Caesar) — “When they saw it actually moving and the forti- fications approaching the wall — ” £ £ £ £ Miss Smith — “Yes, Shakespeare is said to have died the same day that he was born.”

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H Y A K 25 Miss Criswell (when Katie was translating French in a mournful monotone) — “ Katie, wake up!” Katie (rousing herself and translating) — “Her anxiety woke me up.” 88 88 88 88 A. B.-r-n (translating French) — “He could—” Miss C. — “But it is a participle.” G. V. F. — “Why ‘coulding , 9 of course.” 88 88 88 88 Miss Frahm — “Name the different kinds of tissues, Marie.” Marie — “Well, there are muscular tissues, and er— feminine tissues.” 88 88 88 88 Mary Louise, in Art History — “By harmony is meant fitness to pro- pose” (purpose). 88 88 88 88 Anna, in French — “An hour before her arrival she was there al- ready. 9 9 88 88 88 88 Theresa (looking at some photographs that had been colored) — “Why, Helen, does your camera take water-colors?” 88 88 88 88 “Yes,” said our Scotch lassie, “we have pancakes next Tuesday. It ’8 Scrub Tuesday and we always get them then.” 88 88 88 88 E-t-r M. — “We get germs from damp milk.”

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H Y A K 27 The Hyak acknowledges with thanks the following exchanges re- ceived since Christmas: Whitman College Pioneer, The Maroon, The Review, The Postern, The Focus, Whims, The K. I. Review, The Calendar, Wheat, The Toka, The Alphian, Stephens Collegian, The Spinster, The Camosun, The Tahoma. The March number of “Whims” is excellent. We have no fault to find. The “Focus” needs a few cuts and cartoons. The article on “Old English Customs” is very interesting. We should like to see an exchange department in The Alphian. Toka, your new department, “Alumni,” is a very good plan. Best wishes for its effect on your subscription list. The Lincoln number of “Wheat” is very good, and the essay on “Abraham Lincoln’s Boyhood” is well worth reading. The exchange department is also good. S2 8 8$ SS EXCERPTS Other papers all remind us, We can make our own sublime, If our fellow schoolmates send us Contributions all the time. Here a little, there a little — Story, club note, song or jest — If you want a slick school paper. Each of you must do your best. God helps them who help themselves — but not to pencils and tablets. Now I lay me down to sleep, Down on my little bunk, I pray that I may die tonight And save another flunk.