Philadelphia High School for Girls - Milestone Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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information that when the ground is covered with snow this bird procures its food by picking the microbes out of the snow. The morning salutation in Room 27 was, Good morning, have you used Listerine? Here we learn about Alimentary Principles, Proximate Principles, Abnormal Appetits, etc. One good guesser in -f. ,z-Q the room startled the class one day by boldly gl 75 asserting that Alimentary principles are 196 -' principles found in the alimentary canal. i w? Our psychological studies were contin- an ued in the Senior Year. This work was ex- X V' j , ceedingly interesting. We were asked, Do 2 ,,' fi I t you ever hear a voice or feel the touch of some If one, without any external stimulus ? Those I 6 g' gi 7 V' who suffered with that disease recorded the by ' M fact under A, those who did not stated so . you ever associate any color with a certain taste? Xvhereupon one of the girls rose and said, She never had anything like that, K .k'J v ' W eff? under B. Another question was, Do l . f f A I N but whenever she heard Caveleria Rusticana I I she always associated the music with the odor A y of violets, which was very clear logic to say A ,Z the least. lv. In the Physical Laboratory we labored I X ' in , long and. patiently with the Rheostat and I ! X .X Wheatstone's bridge, until the latter was f l ry 'X Tl' christened the Bridge of Sighs. In chemistry -h H - - 'A I we electralyzed various things, including our 11nT,QL6 ww- Ffnnewfll beautiful blue denims, which were the pride of the Professor's heart. We went to the 16

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Professor's room once a week, To sleep, perchance to dream, and incidentally to hear how this mundane sphere came into existence. We learned that during the first stage our oceans were oceans of boiling soda-water, and here many girls closed their eyes to get a good mental picture of this state of affairs, and by tl1e time the Professor reached the fifth stage the mental pictures of each girl must have been perfect, judging by appearances at any rate. It has been said that Music hath charms, but the charm of hearing a lesson taught by the New Method is simply unsurpassed. Any one passing the lecture room when these lessons were in progress might have been alarmed to hear sucl1 queer sounds as Pon1-pom, pom-pom, and had this person stepped into the room, he or she would have seen the cause of the queer sounds which was only a bunch of keys suspended by a long string to the gas fixtures and used asa pendulum. Verily, verily, this is an age of progress ! In Room 18 we gave talks for five minutes, more or less, generally lessg the least said about these talks the better. fit ',f 'tL:f ,,,, ' ii Here we heard of the children who loved I, I school to such an extent that they would Q lg r remain after school hours on Friday afternoons A 'ff' to hear their teacher read to them, and of ' if 1 ill' others who would become so interested in f iii, their work that had a whole menagerie been , ,, ,ill let.loose in the room they would have gone on .Q Timgwgjggihz quietly with their work. - A +43 -f ' If to do were as easy as to know what 'E I 1 I fi Q were good to do, we would all be great w f fi 'vwiw artists. Many of us know what we should I practice during sixteen hours a day, but alas, 151- V ,Q !J'I??l the knowing was easier than the doing, hence s, wig- the scarcity of Angelos and Raphaels among ifm tf -- T---7 l us. However, those who have had their 'V , -Q33 rv, ,, gif' f'1Ti': .i-u , , r, . i H, ,,,s - , I8