Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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THE ORACLE The untiring generosity of the Class of 704 has again shown itself in the basket of fruit presented to the Faculty on the morning before Thanksgiving, by the girls of that class. In the English class; Babcock, rising in his seat and addressing the fallen angels of 1904, ‘‘ Princes of Hell!’’ He has not yet finished. John H. Kyte spends his spare time in the laboratory, pursuing his special hobby—mixing up ex- plosives. ‘“Charley’’ Eliot has the making of a great chemist in him—he has already caused two explosions and burned three holes in his trousers. SOPHOMORE. THE CLASS OFFICERS ARE: President, Harry C. Thompson; Vice-President, Miss Edith Jarvis; Secretary, Miss Florence Derby; Treasurer, Chester Briggs. Chester Briggs, while accident- ally breaking a pane of glass in the tvpe-writing room, cut his hand very severely. Bugler Thompson’s reduction is a severe blow to Frau Musica. FRESHMEN. THE CLASS OFFICERS ARE: President, Harold E. Lavcll; Vice- President, Miss Carrie L. Mulford; Secretary and Treasurer, Miss An- toinette Aalholm. Mr. Macnab’s class sent him a large bouquet of flowers as a token of their esteem. £9 The beginning bookkeeping class has been handling a great deal of money lately. The Freshmen colors, orange and white, were chosen before the class entered the High School. STUDENT GOVERNMENT NOTES. OFFICERS OF THE SCHOOL SENATE. President of the Senate, Miss Dorothy Waldo; Senior Senators, Miss Helen C. Moody, Arthur F. Conant; Junior Senators, Miss Jessie Maclay, Francis K. Ander- son; Sophomore Senators, Miss Edith Jarvis, Harry G. Thompson; Freshman Senators, Miss Ethel Murray, Samuel Bogart; Faculty Senators, Miss Cuming, Miss Bur- roughs. The student self-government plan, which has been so successful for the past few years, was put in operation again last September. A President of the Senate from the Senior Class and a girl and boy Senator were elected from each of the classes. The Senate has during its session this year amended slightly the statutes in operation last year, punished offenders and appointed a body of Tribunes, whose duty it is to supervise the conduct of the school, and who are assigned to special study periods in the study- hall. The School Senate has appointed the following corps of Tribunes: 1st Period, Miss Mae Bachelor, Van

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18 A number of the people who at- tended the social g iven by the Jun- ior Class did not get any farther than the door during the course of the evening. Max Perkins, of Leal’s School, is taking a supplementary course in chemistry in the High School. “Character Books” are passing among the girls with this inscrip- tion: “ Dear friend, in this book, I invite vou to write, But to tear out the pages I deem impolite.”’ The preparatory class is raising money for framing the Great Char- ter of England. Tke meetings of the lower classes so far this year have been concerned chiefly with general school elec- tions, SENIOR. THE SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS ARE: President, Miss Dorothy Waldo; Vice President, Norman C. Hill: Secretary and Treasurer, Albert D. Beers. The Senior Class recently adopt- ed a class pin. It is a triangu- lar gold pin, composed of a small triangle in green enamel containing the class numerals superimposed upon a large triangle in white enamel containing the school let- ers: Shakespeare's Midsummer Night’s Dream will be presented by the Senior Class shortly before the Christmas Holidays. ‘Mike’ . Moynihan with his THEs ORACKIE “trumpet,” uniform and bright yellow announcer’s badge was a conspicuous figure at the field meet. Keep your eye open for ‘ puns- ter’’ Brakeley. He has quite de- moralized his classmates by his skill. Since the janitor puts the gas out the class in Senior Hysterics no longer meets. The Senior Class held its fortieth class-meeting on November 21, JUNIOR. THE CLASS OFFICERS ARE: President, Van Wyck Brooks; Vice-President, Francis K. Ander- sou; Secretary and Treasurer, Miss Frances K. Van Deventer. The class of 1904 entertained its friends at a sociable held in Frank- lin Hall Noy. 22. The Committee which had the affair in charge was composed of Miss Elizabeth Phillips, Chairman; Mae Batch- elor, Harold Fenno, VanWyck Brooks. The entertainment netted the class a neat little sum of ‘““Xmas money.” Charles Neagle, ’04, won thecom- petition among the students of the drawing class for the design on the cover of THE ORACLE. He secures as hisreward, a free subscription to THD ORACLE for thé year. Ata recent meeting of the class, the following important resolution was passed:—‘That no one shall hold any class office who has not been a regular member of the class since its organization.”’

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20 Wyck Brooks; 2d Period, Miss Mary Griggs, N. C. Hill; 83d Period, Miss Lillian Snodgrass, Harold Loovell; 4th Period, Miss Antionette Moody, George Babcock; 5th Period, Miss Florence Derby, Frank Lock; 6th Period, Miss Harriet Randall, Howard Craig. TRIBUNE MEETING. “The King of France with forty thousand men marched up a hill, and so marched down again.” A meeting of the august Tribunal was called at 1.15, on Nov. 15, and was dismissed at 1.16, having con- sidered many weighty questions and weighed many considerable matters in this great stretch of time. ATHLETIC NOTES. 1S © Bak ae BOARD OF DIRECTORS. President, Frederick T. Van Auken ; Vice-Pre-ident, Herbert Munro; Secretary-Treas., Robert W. Meeker. G. A. Brakeley, C. W. Ulrich. MANAGERS OF P.H.S. A. A. TEAMS. Basket-ball manager, Arthur F. Conant; Hockey manager, Jose Tweedy. The basket-ball schedule as thus fararrangedis: Dec. 20, Hasbrouck Institute, Jersey City; Jan. 16, Leal’s School, City; Feb. 6, Leal’s School, City; Feb. 12, E. Orange High School, E. Orange; Mar. 6, Leal’s School, City. The handsome silver cups won by the tennis champions were pre- THE ORACIEE sented to them at the morning ex- ercises on November 13. The ribbons given by the Athletic Association to those winning places in the closed field meet were distrib- uted at the morning exercises on November 6. Red ribons were given for first, white for second and orange for third. Practice has been started by the basket-ball team under Captain R. W. Meeker. At the first practice a large number of candidates appear- ed, and it is probable that there will be a strong team in the field. The Captain desires that enough candidates turn out tof rm several scrub teams. Let everybody come out to the practices. If you can play at all hand your name to the Captain. All candidates for the baseball team are urged to make their in- tentions known to Capt. VanAuken as soon as possible. The example set by some of our untrained athletes in the class re- lay race is a good object lesson for those whose training beforehand left them with weak knees or ‘‘ heart desease”’ on the day of the field meet. Manager Tweedy has been mak- ing arrangements to secure an en- closed pond for the Hockey team this winter. BASKET-BALL. The first of the champion basket- ball games took place Friday, Oct. 31, when a team composed of Sophomore girls lined up against the Scrub team. It proved to bea very excitizg game, the score at