Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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YEAR BOOK --- CLASS of 1906 Chairman, BENJAMIN. E. HERMAN. Committee, GERTRUDE L. HunvtER, ARTHUR S. WHITNEY. Senior Class Day Class Poem P, gentle Knight, gird on thy shining sword; Thy vigil thou hast watched ; forth to the fray! Thy mettle in thy Master’s cause display, Thy valor in the service of thy Lord.” The King hath spoken; low his -servant bends, And hastes to do the thing his Lord commands. His gleaming arms he dons with eager hands, And gayly from the castle gate descends. Before him stretch the tender fields of spring, Warmed by the climbing sun of early day; And louder, as he hurries on his way, The echoes backward sounds of tumult fling. Straight through the struggling host of friend and foe, With sword unsheathed, and helmet proudly high, His hand untired, undimmed his ardent eye, The Knight, full brave in youthful strength, doth go. And some they staunchly stand, and some they fall, Unnoted, while the battle stills roars on; Here these. have lost, there those the conflict won ; The day wears on in ceaseless strife for all. His helmet gone, his arms no longer bright, The Knight yet plies his sword with weary thrust: His garment all befouled with blood and dust, No pageantries to battle now incite.

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AN EBD AOU MO) Ome 21 Ceesar. First Prize, Esther Barton Crampton. Second Prize, Roy Clifton Whitall. Honorable Mention, Marjorie Mae Brown. COMMERCIAL PRIZES. Given by Mr. Ernest R. Ackerman. A first prize of three dollars and a second prize of two dollars, to be expended in books. Bookkeeping (First Year.) First Prize, Walter Edward Knowlton. Second Prize, Francis Parsons Wilcox. Honorable Mention, Mary Mathews. Typewriting (Beginning. ) First Prize, Charles Henry Line. Second Prize, Eleanor Ackerman Thompson. Honorable Mention, William Talbot Lambert. Stenography (Beginning. ) First Prize, Donald Cameron Mortimer. Second Prize, Leslie Edward Palmer. Honorable Mention, Eleanor Ackerman Thompson. Advanced Stenography and Typewriting. First Prize, Clara Evelyn Hallard. Second Prize, Mildred Vera Caleen. Honorable Mention, James Malcolm Davis. AMERICAN-HISTORY. Given by Mr. L. N. Lovell. Green’s History of England. Prize, Margaret Virginia Leggett. Honorable Mention, Nettie Garretson Stillman, Harriet Clarke Knox, David Rogers. Owen Moore came to town one day, Owen Moore than he could pay ; Owen Moore left town next day, Owen Moore. Ex.

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THE ORACLE: 2s A cruel wound is sapping at his life, Sore tempted he to leave the doubtful fight, To snatch a single hope in coward flight,— But still he presses onward in the strife. Nay, now, my gentle Knight, thou sure must cease ; Another thrust, and thou art pale and still; Thou seem’st with buoyant life no more to thrill; Thou wert a noble Knight: mayst sleep in peace. Up to the castle gate they bear him. Yea! The door is opened. Steps the Master down. “My noble Knight! receive thy victor’s crown!” And in His arms the drooping Knight they lay. —ELIZABETH CRANE WINTER. Senior History AVING undertaken the somewhat stupendous task of narrating the glorious achievements of the class of 1906, the historian begs a few moments of your time and attention, and craves your indulgence toward anything which may seem incredulous to you. Do you remember, classmates, the feeling of awe which we felt upon entering the old High School building and gazing with unspoken admiration at the Seniors of that year? How high and mighty we felt as Freshmen, and would it be possible that we should some day reach the position of a Senior? With the expectancy of some day being upperclassmen, we toiled on through four years of school life, and we are here tonight with no apologies for our class, and nothing but feelings of pride for old 1906. After we had become used to the run of things at the school, we decided, as Freshmen, to make a name for ourselves. In our first year we made a reputation in scholarship and—but who can blame us? We had to relieve the monotony of deep study—a characteristic of 1906. We were dubbed “slow” by other classes then in the school, and so we have been living to vindicate that accusation. Whether or not we have succeeded the historian leaves to those members of the faculty who had an acquaintance with us. At Christmas of the year 1902, we were remembered by the Sophs with little beds on which were pasted some little verses. The verse read: “Early to bed and early to rise Makes the young Freshie good-natured and wise.”