Ashtabula High School - Dart Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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The Dart the way Americans, in their customary haste, are daily mutilating the English language. He urged all students, teachers and actors to eradi- cate the evil. ser We were visited this fall by the State Inspector of Schools, Prof. Twiss. He gave a very satisfactory report of Qur school at headquar- ters and we were placed on the accredited list for a period of three years. We have been on this list for some time, and so this is simply repeating the honor. We feel that this places our school on an equal footing with larger high schools than ours. 38? We, the retiring Dart staff, will and bequeath to our successors our good will, good wishes; our titles, some pleasure and plenty of work. We have in our term of office just passed, learned many things which will, without doubt, be of use to us in future years. We have enjoyed greatly our little “ stunt ” of journalism. An informal fraternity has been formed by the staff members which will, we sincerely hope, last after our school days are o’er and we are separated one from another. We have shared our difficulties and our pleasures equally, and we trust that in future years, when we look back upon our efforts in the literary world, we will remember only the pleasures. We are grateful to the faculty for their assistance, and especially are we grateful to Mr. Diet- erich. He has taken a deep interest in our paper as he does in all our High School ventures. He has given much of his time and thought to the betterment of the periodical. Although he has never written for it, as he believes a High School paper should be entirely the work of the students, yet he has done many things for it of which the students know nothing. He has been ready with his good advice and counsel at every uncertain place. Without his assistance The Dart could never have reached the degree of excellence we feel it has attained. Mr. Dieterich in History—” Give one way by which the people showed their anger toward Hamilton.” Beatrice A.—“ They burnt stuffed dolls just like him.” Wanted—To know what hair tonic Roy Sterling uses. Senior Girls. How do we know that poker was invented before Vergil’s time? Because he mentions a full house (omnis domus) in the Aeneid. 12

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The Dart Considerable comment has resulted from some serious inquiries in football games this year. It seems as though the criticism has been in- tensified simply because a few fatalities have occurred in the large eastern schools, a fact which would cause the risk to be. greatly exag- gerated in the opinion of the hypercritical. Possibly just as many ac- cidents have occurred forrperly, but they have happened in schools not so prominent. However, some changes in rules would prove advisable. Rough tackling is a cause of many serious accidents and ought to be prohibited by rules. Then again if players were compelled by officials to leave the game when unfit to play, it would lessen danger, for it is often the man who remains merely because of nerve and grit who suf- fers. The open play made possible in recent years seems to be an ad- vance in the evolution of the game. There is no reason why other changes can not be made which will still leave it a manly game. It might still be a game, if governed properly, in which boys can delight and in which they may get a training for tackling difficulties and ex- hibiting real courage. In our school football has been a success. There have been no serious accidents. The boys have kept up their studies well during the season. Norman Hackett, the leading actor in DeMille’s great West Point play, “ Classmates,” addressed the students of the High School on Thurs- day, December 2, 1909, in a most interesting manner. Aside from his great popularity as an actor, Mr. Hackett has won an enviable reputa- tion as a scholar and lecturer. He has been honored by invitations to address such large universities as Cornell, Michigan, Virginia, Notre Dame and Illinois, besides innumerable high schools. His main theme was “ The Great Ever-Living Dead Man—William Shakespeare.” He made a direct appeal for a closer study of Shakespeare’s plays, for he said, “ They are a glorious Anglo-Saxon inheritance, the influence of which no one can afford to miss.” He said that students were prone to think Shakespeare deep and beyond them, but if they would cultivate an interest and love for the man by a knowledge of his early life and then apply these influences to the beauty and truth as found in his plays, they would have no trouble, because Shakespeare is always sim- ple, always human, always direct. Mr. Hackett delighted his audience by a number of familiar quotations from Shakespeare, such as the Queen Mab speech, Gratiano’s “ Let Me Play the Fool,” and selections from “ Macbeth ” and “ Julius Caesar.” He closed his address by a strong appeal for the better use of pure English, declaring it an outrage 11

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Athletics Financial Report of Football Season. Sept. 25 Jefferson Game Receipts $ 38 15 Expenses $ 6 75 Oct. 2 Austinburg Game 24 65 6 05 Oct. 9 Oberlin Game 73 95 50 20 Oct. 18 Mitchell Hardware Co. 40 00 Oct. 23 Painesville Game 7 05 20 00 Nov. 13 Youngstown Game 36 00 42 70 Nov. 20 Erie Game 75 00 45 30 Nov. 25 Conneaut Game 130 10 21 75 Nov. 26 Mitchell Hardware Co. 19 85 Printing - - - 13 95 Telephone - - 4 40 Miscellaneous ... - 11 93 Balance $282 88 $102 02 $384 90 $384 90 Robert Dunbar, Manager. The first of the year thirteen football sweaters were presented to the team. To receive a sweater a man must play six full halves. The men who received sweaters were Morris, Cook, Rice, Norton, Kochender- fer, Rogers, Whalen, Barker, Davern, Phelps, Blakeslee, McNutt and Manager Dunbar. The Team Phelps has made a good record as a football player the two years he has been on the team. Generally when a team has a star player, it is lucky if he plays half the games, and he is almost always injured when they need him most. In the last two years Phelps has not been out of the game a minute, nor has he called time on account of injuries. It will be very difficult to find a man to hold down Phelps’ position. His game this year was excellent. He easily led in the scoring. Left End, Morris, ’ll. “ Whiskey” played a star game at end for A. H. S., altho handicapped by a bad shoulder. Gains were never made around his end and he was also very good in catching the forward pass. 13