Hudson High School - True Blue Yearbook (Hudson, WI)

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TRUE BLUE 19 SOMETHING WRONG Just stop and think a moment, And I’m sure you all will say That it’s apt to keep us hustling. If each teacher we obey. “How long did you study your History?” Asks Miss Holden in accents clear. “One period ma’am,” “Twill never do; You won’t get thru this year.” And Shorthand needs two periods. Not a minute less will do. Physics needs two also. And English Literature two. Now we have just seven periods To study and recite, Reciting six, and study nine. Have I got the number right?

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18 TRUE BLUE PROVERBS 1. An answer in the head is worth two in the book. 2. A good answer turneth away zero. 3. An answer in time saves nine. Say, P., and J., and E. And all you awful chumps, Yot’ll have to mend your manners, And not make so many jumps When you go down stairs. Or sure as you’re alive You’ll have a private column Five minutes after time. So you better keep your feet right And mind what you are about, Or Miss Feeny’s agoin’ to get you. Ef You Don’t Watch Out. It is the psyche twist which all girls wear, Who would the latest “do up” have in hair. Year after year behold the silent toil! Each one a martyr to her lustrious coil. Build up more stately headress, O my girl. Keep up the pace in old Dame Fashion’s whirl. Let each new coiffure crimpier than the past, Cover your head with a dome more vast, Till your identity be lost in hair And all forgotten the pretty face once there. SOCIABLE CONUNDRUMS If you were to quit school suddenly, would anyone miss you? Are you a real part of the school, or are you a wall flower, or desk orna- ment? Are you a booster or a knocker? Do yon go with the brainless scrubs, and knock, or do you boost? Anyone can be a knocker; As anyone can be a rough neck. But it takes a MAN to be a MAN. Subscription to True Blue, given by writer, to person showing most noticeable results. —L. C. ’15.

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PURPOSE OF ATHLETICS IN A HIGH SCHOOL Perhaps as you have journeyed around this terra firma ,a yell from a group of High School students as they gave a bon voyage to a parting team or welcomed a victorious team home, met your ears. Perhaps if you possessed the quality which killed Ix t’s wife, you asked, “Why a celebra- tion?” Then some excited youngster exclaims, “Why this is our team.” What does athletics mean to the general public? A form of gladiatorial combat wherein might makes right. What does it mean to the average school board? 1st. A good form of cheap advertisement. 2nd. A good way to keep some of the more energetic youngsters busy and so out of mischief. 3rd. A form of exercise which tends to make physical giants out of their boys. To the average student school athletics may mean: 1st. A chance for personal glory. 2nd. A way to spend odd hours. 3rd. A cheap form of amusement. 4th. A good way to show some neighboring hamlet that our High School can carry off the bacon at any and all times. Such people clamor for a winning team irrespective or ways and means and as a result H. S. athletics defeat the very purpose for which they were placed in the high school. What should be the aim of athletics in the High School? 1st. To givp a form of enjoyable and agreeable physical exercise open to all High School students. 2nd. To give something of general interest to all where each one will put aside their petty grievances or false standards and stand on an equal footing with his or her fellow creatures. 3rd. To make sports of all, not in the street sense, but in the great, broad, democratic- sense. Perhaps we had better define this term. Who is a sport? Not one who cannot put aside the joy of cost, nor one who would steal by trickery from an opponent a prize won. But one who knows the rules of the' game, who fights hard, plays the game from the word go; men, high minded men: