Arlington High School - Indian Yearbook (Arlington, MA)

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THE ARLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL CLARION ESSAY ON A QUADRUPED ANIMAL SANS PI EDS The animated canine, otherwise known as tin hot dog, is a peculiar specie of dog, now found on the Atlan- tic and Pacific seaboard, infesting mostly the pleasure resorts. Professor Zvarklberg, an eminent dogologist, declares, after many years research, that this specie is the mis- sing link in the prehistoric chain of sausage. The origin of this animal lias been traced to Germany in a section known as Frankfurt. Hitherto all re- search in this line was confined to the bologna, a larger specie, found in Italy and the North End of Boston. The nearest relative to the bologna, states Professor Zvarklberg, is the dacha bund, but, during some process of elim- ination, the tail, legs, and other encum- berances have been lost — undoubtedly in the grinding machine. The animated canine is usually rec- ognized by a growth, composed of Hour, water, salt and yeast, and a yel- low plant juice of a rather trenchant taste, but not intoxicating. A series of lectures will lie given by Professor Zyarklberg, beginning next Saturday evening at twelve-thirty with: “Where Do Dead Horses Go?” — Anon. SPRING FEVER “Spring has come Ho-hum.” There are many diseases and many kinds of diseases. They come in all the desired (or undesired) sizes and shapes — long, short, hard, soft, made- to-order, and incurable. Most of the last mentioned are not at all pleas- ant, but ther e is one of them in which most people seem to take a peculiar satisfaction. It’s part of the disease, I suppose — Spring Fever. Spring fever, I maintain, is the di- rect result and disastrous after-effect of Mid-Year Examinations. No, it is not too early for spring fever in March. Ask any normal high school pupil. Be- sides March is the first of the spring months by the calendar, and the time when the hard worked student begins to look forward, count on his lingers, and say, “Only three more months of school !” Then he remembers that the reward for his labors will be nothing less than another set of exams even worse than the just passed ( ?) Mid- Years. lie groans; then with a final spurt of energy (the last for inany-a- long day) he summons up the courage to revolt. He resolves with good and bad reasons that under no circum- stances, forced, enforced, or any other way will he do any hard work. No!

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4 THE ARLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL CLARION Mid-Years. We go on with our work as before except that a strain and fear has been lifted from our minds and our heads feel lighter. Our tasks in- deed seem lighter but we must all be on our guard for now the germ of an unsuspected restlessness is in the air, and on our right and left we see our comrades fall beneath its fatal influ- ence. I have seen some wandering aimlessly about school with no interest in work or play. They are thirsting terribly for something new and think they have spring fever. But no, not yet. The germ that makes them rest- less is the anticipation of spring fever. The most sweet air and the melting snow give a false suggestion of spring, and help the willy old restless germ. Oh, woe betide the man or maid who falters for they will not recover ’till spring. Woe betide the books for the will lie unused ' till they are furied in their own dust. So to save our friends from this peri 1 we must all write and work together. This, then is the next step — to be wide awake. This is the next task to accomplish — to banish the germ of restlessness. And we must go into school to do this. To be sure Mid-Years are over but the evil germ is abroad seeking its prey. We must all watch out. At school, to be sure, is a great life if we don’t weaken at the first false sug- gestion of spring. Hilda Frost. FORGET — BUT — Forget the slander you have heard. Forget the hasty, unkind word: Forget the quarrel and the cause, Forget the whole affair because Forgetting is the only way. Forget the storm of yesterday, Forget the chap whose sour face Forgets to smile in any place; Forget to even get the blues, But — don’t forget to turn in news. Library Notes A library makes life better morally, keener mentally, sounder physically, and richer commercially. IMPORTANCE OF SCHOOL LIBRARIES There seems to be increased interest in the use of school libraries. Both school officers and teachers are coming to see that if the school library is properly selected and administered it is the most valuable part of the school equipment. The following are its most important functions : 1. Training the children to read for pleasure, that they may form the read- ing habit. 2. Training them to read for infor- mation, that they may acquire a fuller knowledge of geography, history, sci- ence, and other subjects taught in the school, and at the same time form the habit of reading for information, a habit which will be of value to them all through life. 3. Training them to read books which will tend to rouse in them the desire to make the most and best of 1 hemselves. 4. To form the library habit so that not only after leaving school but be- fore, they will use the public library, a habit which will be to them a source of pleasure and profit as long as they live.

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(; THE ARLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL CLARION By Caesar, Stone and Mill is, Frazer and Sqnair, Hitchcock, and all the rest, NO! What he considers hard work he leaves to his conscience. And alas, his conscience also refuses to work. There is a general strike on all sides, for he has contracted the spring fever. Even such strong minded individ- uals as vow at the beginning of March to attend strictly to business and bring up their marks and so on, and so forth, have to give in when the first balmy days of April come — soft and warm and moist and deliciously languid. The poor people have to submit. They come in like lions but they go out like lambs. There is a question as to whether spring fever is limited to hard worked individuals alone, or whether anyone is susceptible to it. That is, can teach- ers as well as pupils catch it? I don’t know. Not being a teacher I cannot tell you. 1 can only say: How much nicer it would be if everyone who had spring fever was treated with as much consideration as lie deserves consider- ing his serious condition. Those on t he danger list should be kept at home. Those with lighter cases, let strictly alone and treated with the best ante- dote — no work. Let the world recog- nize that spring fever is no joke; also that it cannot be helped; also that it has its good points as well as every- thing else. There are two sides to every question. So t lie next time you find yourself yawning remember it is the season of yawns. For Spring has come Ho-hum ! Ruth Hopkins, ’ 26 . WHISTLING MARY Two ex-army air pilots bought an old army airplane cheap, through which they intended to make their liv- ing. They lived in a little town in the western part of Massachusetts. Jack was the older of the two and lie was a pilot during the World War. His chum Fred was his mechanic and vice- versa. ‘“Well,” said Fred, what are we go- ing to call our machine?” I think we shall call it Whistling Mary” because of the way the wind whistled through the stays when we were coming from Buffalo. When do we give our first exhibition Jack? I think we shall en- ter our plane in the contest given at the Fair in Detroit on June Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth. The contest ran as follows: On the first day there was to he a five mile race in which the contestants were to fly at an altitude of not more than three hundred feet for the last mile. On the second day, there was going to be a loop the loop contest, the winner being Hie entry that made the most loops. On the third day there was go- ing to be a contest to see which plane | could reach the highest altitude, and on Hie last day a hundred mile race. The entry making sixty points won the contest. The points were given as fol- lows twenty points for the five mile race, the loop the loop contest, for the ship reading the highest altitude, and forty for the hundred mile race. “ ' We are going to win the contest Jack,” said Fred. We sure are, Fred, but that Italian with his Standard is going to make the pace hot. It was a gray, sort of a cloudy day, but huge crowds were at the Fair when the planes lined up at the starting line for the five mile race. With the pop of the starter’s gun, five planes | roared down the stretch with a small biplane in the lead. At the half way mark the biplane still lead with