Haverhill High School - Thinker Yearbook (Haverhill, MA)

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Do you thlnk H1c Yi hrtmore wrll lead rn prayer? You know he ras gryen up l1s rdea of go1ng to war and has hecome a new thcuvht leader Hester Floyd knows more about rt than l do for she IS a sort of H1 h Pncstess and has rrade rrany ccnyerts to the new farth And what are you do1ng Mllly J I asked Oh laughed Mrlly l haye started a new occupatron l am CHQCIHI chaperone at college frat house partres It s just l1ke old tlmes and l hay en t a nernute to n'yself To morrow l start for Tufts and after tnat It s Bowdorn Who are those h1lar1ous grrls that haye just come IDB l asked deslgnatlng two 1nd1yId1. uals 1n rather startl1nU ralment Why dont you rememlzzer the ack g1rls3 uret modest l1ttle persons3 They are chorus grrls at the Colonral and dreadfully popular O temporal O rroresl l exclarmed aghast and the younv man on my left turned to survey me rn drsapproval Cut out the l..at1n he commanded wrth l1s usual courtesy Sh warned lVl1lly That s RICE Haven t you HOtlCCd how neryous he lS3 H made a terrrhle mlstake ln marrlage and she jars upon f1s hlvhlv sensltlve temperament It was really qulte a romance she fell ln love wrth hrs lntellect Cracrousl l exclarmed She must haye read scrre of RICIC s Englrsh themes' ust then two scholarly gentlemen entered deep 1n the dr cussrcn of the value cf a French educatron wh1ch hy the wav has always eluded me l was much surprlsed to recognlze Lyle Morse and Harold Klmhall Thelr recltatrons ID 209 never prophesred that they would become French professors Speaklng of professors yolunteered Cl1f just look at Kelley Wculdnt you know he was a dean For the hrst t1me I agreed w1th RICIC Anyone that looked as hemgn and serene as Kelley couldn t he any th1ng more frlvolous than a dean There s A mrtstead he cont1nued contrary to Mr Cav s op1n1on eff went IH for tne sportlng l1fe and has put lVlathewson and all those other old heroes lntO the shade eff gets smaller every day drsappear soon Hello there s Beatrlce Osgood They say Bee has sung before the crowned heads of Europe and nearly llfted the crowns from the aforesa1d heads And there s Lawrence Greene someone told me Larrv was st1ll trvrng to frnd a place to put all those Hs he won hack 1n the old days At thls moment my attent1on was attracted hy Penwell and Earle Dav1s who were ev1dentlv gett1ng CXC1tCd over party rrghts or platforms and all that stuff we used to struggle wlth 1n lOl At least that was my supposrtron for they were stumpmg the state 1n a mad rryalrv for the goy ernorshlp Whrtrng was the next old frlend to arouse my rnterest He had hecome a poet of great fame some Sald h1s works were hound to become classrcs hut my flrppant ne1ghhor was rmmensely d1sappo1nted because Whrtlng was never selzed wrth a poetlcal frenzy hut dld hrs compos1ng 1n qurte a practlcal manner Some fellows were clrngrng to the1r old occupatrons 1 e Frackleton was st1ll startllng the world Wlth hrs freshness VE ehster was dlVldlDg h1s trme between gr1nn1ng and watch 3 ..s.-susns.-sus.-sus.-Q..s..s..s..s..s..s. .s..s..s. -01. sus.-snsvs. -xnxnsus..s..s.-snsns. H . . , . . . . . y . 1 1 ' D ' v . , 1 y g y I A . . Q , , . . - . , , , , , U . . K K Y U ' I S ' ' V V . I , y . . 1 . . . . . . . ' - , . A . 1 . . . . . 5 K ' 1 ' s - V l Q u , , . o ' S S V 1 ' v n 7 Y , , . , . d . . , , , . I I 1 V ' ' ' ' 1 ' - o . rr - v - - - , , 1 . C 5 Y 1 ' I 5 V ' 1 1 I , 1 , . . . C ' ' 3 Y ' . . . . . , , A y i s 4 5 I 1 7 ' S K a . Q I O 9 f Q 4 A n J Q V , .. .. V ' 7 ' Q V y - Y 1. . , , . . . . , , . y ' f - . - A, ,x v v f 1 f y . . V 5 6 5 v 9 Y ' 6 6 9 ' ' ' Y' , . - , y , . . . 5 . , . , - . . . 1 , . . , V V - . . , 5' u -K - y 1 1 v r r M Q . 1 , , V 1 K . . , , 7 , V . 4 , . , . - 9 . . , ' 1 ..s..s..s..s..s..s.-s.-sux.-5.-S..s..s..s..s..s..,..s.-5.-sus. 5..x..s..s..s..s..s..,.-sus.-snsns..