Ashtabula High School - Dart Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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FRESHMAN CLASS ROLL EVEN ANDERSON JOHN ATWATER JAMES HOYLE KATHLEEN BABBETT EULAII BARTHOLOMEW JENNIE BATTLES Ml RIEL BRASH BESSIE BELDEN ROBERT BLR WELL ROBERT BURKE ELMO CALLENDER NEIL CHAPMAN ELIZABETH CALLOWAY BERTHA CAMPBELL IRENE COOK MARGARET CULLEN MARY COSTELLO ADA DAVIS IYA EATON LAWRENCE ENOS CLARENCE FULLER JENNIE FORBES LLOYD FOULDS SAM FRIEDMAN FANNY GAPE WILLIAM GILLEN EFFIE IIAZELTINE CARL HOGAN MILLARD DICKERNELL EDWIN E. HILL WILL HOLCOMB FLORENCE HOUGH RAY HOUGH MERL HOY CLYDE IRWIN RALPH JESSUP MARGARET KING JULIUS KING OLIVER KITTINGER SUSIE KLINGENSMITH KATHERINE KONTER JESSIE KURTZ LENA LAZAROW RICHARD LOUTH LEONARD LUCE GEORGE LEA PI I ART EDITH LEONARD FLORENCE LEUTY DOROTHY LINDSLEY CHESTER LYON ALBERT LOFTUS FL ORENCE MacLAREN BERNICE MADDEN NELLIE MADDEN EDWARD MADDEN MARGARET MANNING THOMAS MILLS GORDON MITCHELL FRANCES MOORE ROBERT MUNSELL ROBERT McCAULIEFE FRANK MACKEX FRANCIS McGRATH HOWARD McNUTT TRACY NILES FLORENCE PERRY MARGARET PHELAN GRACE POND FRANK PRENTICE TERESA REYNOLDS SUSIE RICE EDWARD RYBERG ARTHUR SMITH HAZEL SMITH BIRDE SNYDER MAYME SPERRY FREDA SQUIRES MILDRED STOWE CLARENCE SULLIVAN MYRLE SARGENT JULIA SAVAGE MILDRED SHARP NINA SMITH VERNA STEINER JAY TAYLOR ABB IE VAN STYKK BESSIE WARREN LOLA WEISELL EDNA WHITTAKER jltt fttrimirium HARRY BENEDICT, 'll. 23

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CHRONICLE OF THE FRESHMAN CLASS 1. Xow in the year of our Ijord nineteen hundred and seven, in this year entered the Freshman Class. 2. And l efore them goeth the class of nineteen hundred and eleven, the class of rowdies, and following them will come the class of nineteen hundred and thirteen. :i. And they were large and mighty and they numbered one hundred and thirteen less ten and five. And one-third of the host were men. and two-thirds were women. 4. Then on September the fifteenth this class entered the land of the Schoolites and Bookians, and their bones waxed exceeding cold within them and they were sore afraid. And when the buzzer buzzed they were sore perplexed for they knew not whither to go. ►. I ut the Good Shepherd, Kurtz, did have compassion on them and did go out on the stairways and hallways, and did gather in the lost lamhs. 7. And now at length, it was come Halloween and this people did assemble, and had much feasting and revelry. And. behold, they sat up far into the night, even unto eleven and twelve o’clock. X. And now they had prosj ered and had gained much learning, both in bookkeeping and in the language of the Ancients. ! . Rut lo, the teachers did conspire against them, and there was a mighty examination, and many were destroyed. 10. And now is the Spring Vacation over, and this Freshman Class has returned and they have come in the same numl)ers as they were in the beginning. 11. And from this time henceforward they are resolved to do better that they may live long in the land which the I'acuity, their master, hath given them. Advertise in tiie “Lakota.” It pays. Wanted—A box of chocolates, almonds preferred. Address. Die Deutsche I jehrerin. Wanted—An encore by the Girl's chorus. Wanted—To know how long a goose can stand on one leg. Miss E. R. Warmington. Wanted—Bookings for next season. Address the High School Orchestra. We know two selections. Wanted—Someone to sing in the morning exercises. Good salary. Apply mornings A. II. S. Wanted—Seniors who are versed in the gentle art of honesty, l’rof. Harsh. 22

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The hirst Prize Oration of County Contest in 1907. AMERICAN INITIATIVE ()f the many prominent men of affairs in the I'nitcd Sjates today, one of the most interesting is Judge Peter S. Grosscup. of Chicago. 11 is interpretation of the law notably in the Chicago Strike and the Beef-Trust Injunctions—and his grasp of American problems have won for him the confidence of the people. In discussing corj orations. Judge Grosscup said: The proprietorship of the private projK rty of the country by the bulk of the | cople is radically narrowing. Corporate dominion comprises now nearly one-half the wealth of the I’nited States.” Today twelve million men are laboring for the corporations and supporting, by the income gained, twenty-four millions of dependents. Moreover, in 1900 an inventory of agricultural interests from Maine to California showed eighteen billions of dollars, while the capital invested in corporations was twenty-two billions. These statistics prove that cor| orate dominion is rapidly over-shadowing private ownership. But private ownership is the rock on which Republican America rests. It is individual enterprise that has made her men and women strong to build and to sustain a mighty nation. The colonists were men of exceptional bravery who were willing to leave a country where they had no chance and make the opjx r-tunity they wanted. They found this country a wilderness. Boundless forests must lx.' felled, great marshes drained, ami the soil, which had never been broken, must l c tilled. They caught their own fish and hunted their own game. While the men labored to establish their homes, the women too were toiling. Theirs was a noble lalx r. Each day found those loyal women going earnestly about their household work. Spinning wheel and loom were ever busy making the cloth which was to protect them from the cutting wind and burning sun. This economic independence reacted on the natures of men and women and evolved that mixture of keenness and ability and energy, aggressiveness and independence which is known as American character. The idea of each man, in so far as possible, doing for himself has found expression in our local government, our bills of rights, our representative system, and in the Monroe Doctrine, which is a declaration of the individual ability of our continent to take care of itself. It was our ability to supjx rt ourselves that won for us in the Revolution and made the North victorious in the Civil War. The same idea of the responsibility of man created the self-determination with which the colonists wrested from France every foot of her magnificent possessions on this continent. In the French colonies a man could not build his own house or reap his own grain without the permission and supervision of prefects. No public meetings of any kind were | ermiitcd. As a result, French dominion in America was annihilated. The French were overthrown by the self-governing colonists of England. John Fiskc says. The town meeting pitted against bureaucracy was like a Titan overthrowing a cripple.” 24