Atwood Hammond High School - Post Yearbook (Atwood, IL)

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Freshman Notes Mr. Frazier (to history class). When you go to give a speech, stand up so the people can see you. Speak up so they can hear you and when you have talked a little while, shut up so they will like you. Robert. Inanimate means dead then, does it? Lawrence. I don’t understand what you mean. Prof. It is kindly complex. Miss Wiley. What do you come to school for Paul? Paul. Oh, to have a good time. A number of us Freshmen were entertained after school by our history teacher, Mr. Frazier. When you hear Pro. go “Mull hu you may be sure you are right. Miss Orr. An Indian man is called a chief. What is an Indian woman called? Inscoe. (promptly) Mis-chief. Mr. Frazier (in ancient history). Lena, what was sent from Rome to the east? Lena. Peaches and cream. Miss Wiley. Harold, what is so funny? No answer came from Harold. After class. Harold made the remark, “I wonder what she would thot of me if I had told her. There is so much good in the worst of the Freshmen And so much bad in the best of the Freshmen That it hardly behooves any of the Freshmen To talk about the rest of the Freshmen. Miss Orr. Clifford what is meant by a man without a cross? Clifford. Does it mean ‘‘a man without a family?' Pro. Mildred B. if you aren’t good, you will never go to heaven. Mildred. Yes, I will, I will climb the gate. Miss Orr. What are the marks of punctuation? Jessie. Commas and decimal points. The Mothers’ Club does not like to come up in the assembly room, for fear of bothering us from study. But they do not know how well we Freshies like to watch them come.

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Harry, Mr. Frazier asked in Ag class, “What are the advantages of a silo?” “Well, they are good for cattle and stock to eat.” lone not knowing exactly what coup d'etat meant wrote,coup-d’etat is what Napoleon used to destroy the directory with. Written in red ink on her paper, Mr. Frazier put, “Was it a gun or club?” Dunstan went nobody knowed where. Fred Wiley. Ladies hold no preference here; Louis recite. Mr. Frazier in History. Romans, friends, countrymen, lend me yourtongues—er—that is your ears. Garold. The charterists wanted England to be divided into new electrical districts. Mary. Mary Louise doesn’t ask Harry for cough drops any more. Why? “Now Fred, if you were going to Panama from Austria, how would you go?” Mr. Frazier. Fred. “By ship of course.” Miss Wiley’s favorite saying is, “What’s the joke? Why don’t you tell us so we can laugh?” Tode’s highest ambition is to get $150 a month and be married before September. Garold, compare the word meaning graceful, slender. Miss Wiley We have positive proof that Miss Wiley hasn’t any pets for she makes Dolores and Mary Louise sit in the front seats for whispering. “What is the significance of that big tree being struck down by lightning? Miss Wiley. “What! You mean that tree that was electrocutioned?” Tode. Miss Wiley was talking about some mischievous Sophs, when she said, “You know I hate to land on those kids.” Mr. Frazier is a great fisher as well as philosopher and poet. Here is some of the poetized philosophy which he handed to the Ag class, while he meditated on the Creek bank: “Oh that a fisherman’s life were sweeter For how charming it would be, How conducive to glee, If a fish would bite like a skeeter.” IONE PlNCKARD.

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Mr. Frazier. Lawrence don’t you think it is about time you were knowing something? Lawrence. I don’t know? Miss Wiley. Leaman, when do you have a vacant period? Leaman. I don’t have any until 10:30 p. m. till 4:30 a. m. Mr. Frazier. Now are the things outdoors mere objects, or do we imagine these things? Roy. What were the questions Socrates asked? Mr. Frazier. Well—er —I don’t remember the exact words Mr. Frazier knows hypnotism can be did.” Jessie. When I recite Ancient history, I get tears in my eyes. What can I do for this? Kenneth. Stuff your ears with cotton. Harold. Robert won’t you be glad when school is out this evening? Robert. No, because I am going to get a whippin’. Pro. (In ancient history'. Dates seem to be your failing, George. George. Yes, I make only four a week. Roy. Do you think it would make your mother mad if I should ask her for your hand? Cora. Very! Mother wants you herself. Miss Wiley. Now Fred, Don’t you feel ashamed of yourself? Fred. I never did. Mr. Fraziir thinks his history pupils can think better on their feet. Mildred B. (trying to say something and didn’t know how). Suppose a fellow starts. Oh, I don’t ’member the rest of ’em. Virgil. White socks and a good girl. Robert thinks Cora talks like a picture. Clifford (in Eng.). What’s the difference betweeng-r-a-y and g-r-ey? Miss Orr. Only an a and an e. Miss Wiley. (in Algebra Kenneth where have you been ali this time? Kenneth, (pointing to his seat . Over there in the front seat. Miss Orr. Ama, do you have any sympathy forRoderick Dhu or not? Ama. Oh, I don’t know, I was just thinking. Miss Orr. I see a cupola on a barn way over yonder. Kenneth. That’s the water tank. Paul’s best friend in Latin fhis sister Mildred '. Fred Wiley cannot sit up and pay attention in Latin because Miss Wiley hurts his eyes.