Annie Wright School - Shield Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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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.

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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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28 H Y A K You can lead a horse to water, But you cannot make him drink ; You can ride a Latin pony, But you cannot make him think. . 4)1 Buttons, buttons gone from clothes, Name the place where they repose. In mite boxes, many times, You will find them ’stead of dimes. “Popcorn, peanuts, taffy,” echoes through the hall, “You can buy which one you like, or you can buy them all; Popcorn, peanuts, taffy, get them any time, Swell the Easter offering, penny, nickel, dime.” Many pearly buttons gone from many waists; Can it be the latest style? Can’t account for tastes. Can it be the waists are tight ? Or do the girls forget their plight?