Appomattox State Agricultural School - Agricola Yearbook (Appomattox, VA)

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so 525,62 A Youth and Spring VIRGINIA ITANCOCK Oh! the joyousness of Spring, When flowers begin to wake, And the sky takes on its glowing tints, The earth new beauties take. Oh! the joyousness of living- Of living and being young, Of mingling our spirits with notes of the birds, And hearing songs never sung. Then let us enjoy the Spring and our youth, For the days so swiftly fly, When comes the chill of the Winter ls age, And the flowers all droop and die. But let us not forget that Spring must pass away That budding flowers must fade, And the throbbing heart cease at last, When the debt we owe is paid. Let not the falling of the leaves make us sad, Nor the stop of the 1nusie's strain, For in the budding of the flowers, We feel that we too, must live again. 52 7

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Our Qfllma Mater' 1908-1918 EN YEARS AGO, we were attending school, in a small three-room building located where Mr. T. VV. Moses now resides. There were only about a hundred pupils, including those in the High School, who were taught in a small cottage back of the jail, but I am glad to say such conditions did not prevail long, before the progressive people of Appomattox-led by the principal, Mr. Crawley-saw the necessity for something better, and a meeting was held and funds subscribed for our present building, which will accommodate over five hundred pupils. This school is now called Appomattox Agricultural School. The new school, a two-story building with basement, has twelve rooms, among these an Auditorium, Library, Manual Training Vllorkshop and Chemical Laboratory. It is heated by two furnaces and lighted with gas. The dormitory building, which was erected in 1915, is a three-story brick structure. It contains a reception hall, reading room and home accommodation for forty-four pupils. It is also steam-heated and gas-lighted. The location for the new building was well chosen, it being in the most desirable part of the town. Since the new building was erected, the following subjects have been included in the course of study: Domestic Science, Domestic Art, Music, also a Corn Club, Canning Club, Poultry Extension, Live Stock and Practical Agricul- ture. All this has proved a successful addition and the number of teachers in- creased from four to fourteen. There are seven school wagons that bring in children from the country, for the people were quick to see the advantage of consolidation. The enrollment has increased from one hundred and sixty to five hundred and four pupils. One hundred and ten have been graduated from this school. There are two Literary Societies-The Wzishington and The Lee. These are important factors in the intellectual and social life of the school. Athletics is an important part of the work during the school year, special hours being arranged for baseball, football, basket-ball and tennis. All pupils are urged to take a part in out-door exercises. L The Y. M. C. A. and Boy Scout Organizations oder opportunities for those interested, and enables them to do good work for the school and community at large. - SUSIE BOOKER, '18. 51

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gee Sign of Peace WA LK ER- TUORNHILL, '18 VVhen we View the situation, Wrought in every single nation, And the armies on the way To that Anti-Germann fray, There is one thing we can say, And it 's happening every dayf Germany is getting weaker and wiser, And we are going to get the Kaiserf When we view the American fleet, And our soldiers on their feet, When we see them cross the ocean, And they've got a fighting notion, I'll tell you boys, itfs true, Watch the Red, llVhite, and Blue, Make old Germany somewhat wiser, And subdue Old Bill, the Kaiser. When you the boys in line, They have left their girls behind, While they face the cannon ball, Some are destined, there, to fall, In the wind the ilag will flop, But Old Gloryl' is on the top, Germany knows the world eyes her, And it hurts Old Billy, Kaiser. When we see our boys are gaining, Doing justice to their training, And their eyes begin to shine, As they peep across the Rhine, And the French with them uniting, For they are all doing some fighting, Old Germany is getting wiser, And she has a trembling Kaiser. When we hear the drums are beating, And the Germans are retreating, And our aeroplanes are hurling, Bombs into the heart of Berlin, And the earth, it seems to shake, And dead men almost awake, Tho' we know he 's been a prizer, It's good-bye to the Kaiser. 53