Alexander Graham High School - Snips and Cuts Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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A g , ' IFJ -'Agn 'X dl .- . ' rum A rule had been made in our Freshman voyage that, if every three months we made an average of ninety or over in our duties, we would be free from a day of extra hard labor on that duty. This rule was especially valuable to us now, as the duties were harder and we wished to get out of them. About the middle of this voyage, the. engine broke down and the influenza waves were rolling up on the deck of the ship, so we stopped at a halfway port and had a short vacation. We then started on, and towards the end of the year, a great banquet was given at the death of Julius Caesar, to which all the officers were invited. At the end of the voyage we stopped at the second Vacation Port, and here we acquired a New Captain and some new shipmates, and lost more shipmates than we gained. YV hen we entered the Junior Sea a great madness seized many of the boys and some of the girls, which the ship's doctor, called in to diagnose the case, pronounced to be athletics 'fThis is a disease, said he, 'fwhich must be allowed to run its natural course as no remedy is knownf, Among the boys this took the form of football, and among the girls, basket-ball. W'hile convalescent, many parties and dances were given on shipboard, making a happy time for allf' Toward the end of the voyage, because of crowded conditions, we were trans- ferred to the beautiful new ship, The Alexander Graham High School. There were many changes in our mode of living, but we enjoyed them and they were for the better. ,f We finished this voyage with great lightness of heart because we would soon start out over the Senior Sea. ' At the beginning of our Senior voyage, we placed at the mast-head, a great banner of green and white with Carpe Diem written thereon, which same we had adapted as our class colors and motto, to proclaim to all who we were. Then the football madness was growing worse, and so many were affected by it that there were chosen from among us: Gwen Woodside, David Yates, and Rutledge Dudley, to lead us in our shouts of joy and jubilation, at the games played with those stricken with this same disease and who were from ships in the same sea. At the basket-ball games we were also led by Owen in our rejoicings. Many were the parties as we sailed the Seniors' Sea, many were the good times, long to be remembered. And on this, our last lap, when we so reasonably expected our full share of the usual Senior Privilegesf' as some sort of compensation for the sufferings in our past and which we had heard and dreamed of all through our voyage, what have we received? Alas! In Charlotte High School, Senior Privileges seem this year to have become as obsolete words and to have been stricken entirely from the vocabulary of the ship's officers. Is it any wonder that we are not always gay? Furthermore, we are graduating and we need many dollars to publish our 73 ' H