Renton High School - Illahee Yearbook (Renton, WA)

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A FRESH MAN BY ROBERTA HARRIS I The morning sun was rising fast, As through the hall a Freshie passed, A youth with books beneath his arm, ' Who never did a bit of harm, A Fresh main II His brow was glad: his eye beneath Shone like the sun on the blooming heath, And like a Soph. when he was young, Rang the accentsof that well known tongue, .4 F'7'l'S'h7lI'll'77 III Through school-room doors he saw the faces Of Juniors and Sophs. suffering exam. disgraces. In front, the teacher sits and writes, For he has heard of recent fights, caused CD by .4 l1'1'1'.s'711m1fr1- I V Go not in there! a Sophomore said, The Domestic Science girls are making bread, Their teacher is in great dispair! But quick his error did repair, .A .F7'0SlI7'7?f!b7l

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FRESHMAN DEBATE HERE is always much benefit derived from a class debate. Ixo place is so well suited for practice as the classroom, and nothing more instructive than a debate on some leading topic. For four successive years our classmen have met in debate. This is the first debate given by the Freshmen. The questien was: Resolved:That the City of Renton should be annexed to Seattle. The participants were all Freshmen for it was a debate between them- selves. Grace Jones had the rebuttal for the affirmative, and Lorena Evans for the negative. The main points on the affirmative were, from the Financial, Business, and Social standpointsg the points for the negative were from the Financial, Educational and Moral standpoints. The negative won over the affirmative by a unanimous decision. The value of being able to discuss topics in an intelligent manner is being recognized more and more each year, and we, the R. H. S. are endeavoring to become intelligent debaters. We hope that Mr. Revenaugh, our faithful instructor, will help us along this line as he has already done, and we owe him numerous thanks. K f WEATHER TABULATIONS One of' the most interesting parts of our Physical Geography course this term was the weather observations. We began to observe the weather conditions on April 21st, 1913, and continued to, until May 21, 1913. It may be surprising to know that during the entire month from April 21 to May 21, we had only four clear days. These occurred on April 28, May 5,, May 6, and May 215 also that the average temperature was 59 5-25 degrees, a trifie more than 595 deg. ft., and that the average pressure per square inch was 30.328 or 30.33 in. The amount of rainfall that we have had this year is 9.98, which is 2.81 below last year's rainfall. This datum is taken from Januarv 1 to May 28, 1913.

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AV' O go! the Juniors cried, and to here 0 . ur teacher bring, for we have dead batteries we fear! A question wrangled in his mind, But HE was generous, willing, kind, J Freslmmrz, ' Vfl Beware our shorthand papers neat! Beware our English on that seat! This was the Seniors' greeting phrase, But HE forgave for he knew their ways, .fl lf'1'e.9l1,l11rm, V11 At nine o'clock, as to their class The pupils and th A Sophomore has no l e teachers pass, esson right, But that young man holds his book quite tight, A lf'rfaslL1'1m n VIII An inspector, by the Juniors' physics work Was disgusted, and his duty was about to shirk, When he heard a sound of three A minus nine! A d n to hear an algebra student was just in time, J lf'ruslm1,f1m, LX' There in the school-room, bright and ga yy Quiet and intensive they studied-aye, And to a question about square root, An answer came quick as a falling parachute, A .F7'6SfL7lIftL71,