Campbell County High School - Camel Yearbook (Gillette, WY)

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: 'Z fini - ' air Nea: 1 9 2 s C A M F. L Latin and was beheaded after a few days. Martin Luther instigated the Rebellion of Worms. julius Caesar is noted for his famous telegram dispatch, I came, I saw, I conquered. In the chapter under Literature, which is not so bad, I und the following names and things to memorize: Edgar A. Poe was a very curdling writer. Cotton Mather was a writer who invented the cotton gin and wrote histories. Shakespeare translated the Scriptures and was called St. james because he did it. Homer's writings are Homer's essays, Virgil and Anid and Paradise Lost. Some people say that Homer did not write these things, but that they were written by another man by the same name. 'When the student wrestles with the problem of American govern- ment, the following is the result: The first Conscientious Congress met in Philadelphia. The Constitution of the United States was made to insure domestic hostility. The Constitution of the United States is that part of the book at the end which nobody reads. Gongress is divided into civilized, half civilized and savage. One rule from oratory is quite enough when you find that: Em- phasis is putting more distress on one word than another. We pause for a moment on Physiology which contains more than one rule that should not be lost to science: Physiology is the study of your bones, stomach, and vertebrae. The gastric juice keeps the bones from creaking. The growth of a tooth begins in the back of the mouth and extends to the stomach. In the stomach the starch is changed to cane sugar and cane sugar to sugar cane. To find the weight of the earth take the length of a degree on a meridian and multiply by 622 pounds. The last, but not least that we come to, is the study of Geography, which from the looks of the crippled game that is brought in, was hunted with a, shotgun: The capital of the United- States is Long Island. The principal products of the U. S. are earthquakes and volcanoes. The Allegahany mountains are mountains in Philadelphia. The Rocky Mountains are west of Philadelphia. Mason's and Dixon's line is the Equator. Hindustan flows through the. Ganges and empties into the Mediterranean sea. Ireland is called the Emigrant Isle because it is so beautiful and green. Climate lasts all the time and weather only a few days. The most famous volcanoes in Europe are Sodom and Gomorrah. In Austria the principal industry is gathering Austrich feathers. The five seaports of the U. S. are Newfoundland and San Francisco. , It seems as if a pupils instruction consists of cramming him with wordy rules which he does not understand. It would be just as useful to cram him with ball bats-they would at least stay. And with those touching words of Wind-Blow-Snow-Round-Wigwam, Wawkawampan- oosuc, winnebagowallawsagamoresaskatchewan'', I will close this com' position of rules and rules and more definitions. -Don M cPherson Page S e 0 'J et fc

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Q- A TT- ,iaA--ff-.-,,gfgf21.5i!,'Qi,, - 1928 CAMEL .355 Jig, 6? lLfE1f.?if??-EflE?ff1:'Qj J OPPORTUNITY This l beheld, or dreamed it in a d-ream:- There spread a cloud of dust along a plaing And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords Shocked upon swords and shield. A prince's banner Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes. A craven hung along the battle's edge, And thought, Had I a sword of keener steel- That -blue blade that the king's son bears-but this Blunt thing! -he snapped and flung it from his hand And lowering crept away and left the field. Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. -Edward R. Sill. A Few Things A Student Remembers From The First Grade to The Grave When one looks upon the definitions that have to be memorized, and the dates and places that must be learned is it any wonder that there are so many failures among all classes? The definitions that come under mathematics I put first upon my list, mainly because of their weight: A straight line is any distance between two points. Parallel lines are lines that can never meet until they run together. A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle. Things which are equal to each other are equal to any- thing else. A small sample of the definitions from Grammar is quite enough when one sees such as: Gender is the distinguishing nouns without re- gard to sex. Adverbs should always be used as adjectives and ad- jectives as adverbs. Every sentence and the name of God must begin with a caterpillar. When they are going to say some prose or poetry before they say' the poetry or prose they must put a semi-colon just after the introduction of the prose or poetry. We come now to historical matters or historical remains. As one looks through an examination paper orvisits a history class he is im- pressed by the depth that the date-1492--is pounded into the American child's head. The date is always at hand but what happened at that time is quite another matter. The student, when in doubt, always manages to say' his l49Z. He also applies it. for anything from the in- vention of the steam engine to the number of miles of the earth's circumference. The Puritans found an insane asylum in the wilds of America. The Stamp Act was to make everybody stamp all materials so they should be null and void. Lady jane Gray studied Greek and 1' fy s 'J if 44 - .TQ

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QL I RifvfAQv3,,,k -3 l'93?72-MT l c A M E L l MVN l 1 9 2 8 s Jll ffi' y-I The Junior Page Ordinarily a page is dedicated to some class or individual in a class. To so dedicate this page would be to advertise the junior class. That has never been the purpose of this class. On the contrary, we as a class, have always held high before us the banner of Service. Our desire has been to aid those who have made an honest effort, but who perhaps have failed to aid themselves. Rather, these people remind us of the old couple, who have worked hard for a life-time or nearly so, only to find that they are unable to support themselves in old age and must call upon society to keep them in honor till they reach the grave. Our idea and our ideal has been to help all along the way and our effort here was to help them in their final struggle to be remembered. Sincerely, TH E JUN IOR CLASS + '4 K 4,3