Auburn High School - Arrow Yearbook (Auburn, NY)

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'FIIIC 511.1-1oU,1-:'1'T1i:. I3 typographical appearance of our paper. We have added illustrations to our list of attractions and hope our ellort in this line will be appreciated. XVe have made sever- al other minor alterations which were deem- ed advisable, and have attempted these im- provements without making any radical change from tl1e usual class annual and we earnestly hope they will meet with general approbation. For the adaption and drawing of the design on our cover, praise is due to Mr. Carl Somers, whose artistic talent has al- ready won him local celebrity. We also wish to extend our thanks to all, faculty and students who have in any way aided us in this work. If you are pleased with this number of the High School Annual, we beg of you to remember those who have made it possible, the loyal advertisers. It is only by their timely hnancial aid that such a work is possible, and although it is doubtful if the investment is always a profitable one to them, still they stand Hrmly with us. It is the least you can do to stand hrmly by them in return. W DURING THE fall months, foot ball takes up most of the time and attention that school athletes can give to sport. The coming season should bea remarkable one in the history of our school, for it will show what a comparatively new and in- experienced team is able to do, under new management and under virtually new regu- lations. Gur athletics have at least reached a point where we may safely say improve- ment is ditiicult. Many and various plans have been tried during the few years since our Athletic Association was founded, the wheat has been winowed from the chaff, and we are now, perhaps for the first time In the history Of the school, where the management knows exactly what to do and What the result will be. L21StS921S01l WHS, to a certain extent, a successful one, still mistakes were made and we have learned by experience what should be done ill such critical conditions as confronted us last year. In the Hrst place we have learned in two games that f' second teams are apt to be disasterous investments. Colleges are primarily insti- tutions of learning, but it seems to be a fact that there are several foot ball players in some of them who are suddenly seized with a desire to attend school or college just as tl1e season opens and lose all desire to study just before Thanksgiving. We had an eloquent example of this in our game with Hobart 2nd, on October 26. Then in the game we were to play with Union Springs High School, where the whole township had been scoured in order to get men who were able to give us a good reception 3 men who, saying nothing of being high standing students, had not even ever attended the school they were expected to represent. The value of clean, pure athletics is very evidently not appreciated in some places. The game of our second team with Weed- sport High School was another mistake which should never be repeated. Such games can never help High School athletics. Foot ball is a good healthy sport, in fact there is none better, when it is played and encouraged by gentlemen, and not by roughs, such as are to' be found in the prize ring, and the habit of betting on these games should be put down with a strong hand, instead of being countenanced, as it often is, by members of the team them- selves. It is a deplorable fact that many hundred great and honorable men and women, although they do not desire to see their boys brought up milksops or eifemin- ate, are decrying the game on account of its brutality. It is unfortunate that we should be forced to acknowledge that sharp prac- tice occurs in foot ball to a greater extent than in any other game. More acts of meanness occur in the course of one foot

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THE SILHOUETTE. I2 The Silhouette. PUBLISHED BY THE CLASS or '02, AUBURN ACADEMIC HIGH SCHOOL- ,,.-i BOARD OF EDITORS. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. . STANLEY MURDOCK. ASSOCIATE EDITORS. , FLORENCE ANDREWS, EDNA HEMINGWAY. BUSINESS MANAGER. WILLIAM PURDY. ASSIST. BUSINESS MANAGER. CARL C. TALLMAN. ' n STAFF. O. LEWIS THOMPSON, ANITA SPERRY, ALBERT OSTERHOUT, BERTHA MUNDT, FRANCIS BOHAN, PEARL GRAVITT. THE END on existence is as natural as the beginning. Bacon has said, The sear leaf of Autumn is as necessary as the fresh bud of spring g the waning glory at the end of a career as the radiant expectancy of its beginning. Therefore regret should not be one of our emotions as we look for the last time over High School course which is so nearly finished, and realize that in a few short days we shall go forth from these portals never again to enter as undergrad- uates. We have been an extraordinary class. Not in numbers, many have surpassed us there 3 perhaps not in scholarship, although we pride ourselves that we rank among the first even in this line 3 but as an all round class, in the recitation room, on the foot ball field, on the base ball diamond, on the track, in social halls, in literary achieve- ments and on the stage, we challenge the world to produce such a class, under the same conditions. It was ,O2,S pleasant privelege to in- augurate a welcome change in the celebra- tion of commencement week. The week of social gaiety which came with her success- ful Completion of her junior year was such a bright spot in the work of the class, was so thoroughly enjoyed by both Faculty and students, that the junior reception bids fair to become one of the most noteworthy ,events in the bright future life of the Auburn High School. The Class of 'oz also had the honor during the week preceding the Christmas vacation to dedicate the custom of a Christmas dance, which we hope will live as long as the High School exists. Many are the victories whose laurels lie on the brow of ,023 many the struggles with fate and with each other. Those were the beginnings now merged into the end. We have done our work well and are now ready to enjoy that time when we shall stand, bashful and modest as usual, before the assembled multitude of undergraduates and friends, whose admiring glances and subdued whispers will speak the rapture and awe they experience at the inspiring sight, and we shall receive the costly sheep-skin to be kept forever as a token of our career, the climax of our desires. And at the same time we will be regarded as the sear and yellow leaf, useless and un- wanted, to be blown away by the next eddying breeze and with the end of the old life begin a new existence. We, following in the footsteps of our illustrious predecessors, have turned our hand to journalism. How well we have succeeded we leave for your good judgment to say. We hope you will be pleased with our effortg but at any rate, if you cannot praise it, if you can see in it nothing worthy Of coinmendation, grant us at least, the charity of silence. We have wandered slightly from the usual path of former classes in the make-up and WPC We attr: will al o ed 2 pro' cha' earr aPP P desi Car rear Y faci aidl I the ren the tim pos inv the is t the I UP scl cox in shc exj ma lati a P me ha- out wh ani in ms wl

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i I4 THE s1LHoUn'r'r1f:. a whole season of ball game than during ck athletics. Men will punch base ball or tra d kick one another when the referee can- an not see them, and Will resort to all sorts of uld blush to acknowl- edge afterward. But this should not be made the fault of the game but of the play- er. As for its brutality, it is useless to say anything, a certain class of people is so prejudiced against it that talk is vain 3 it is only by those who are not familiar with it that its more brutal element appeals and in their ignorant denunciation of the sport they lose sight of its true purpose and ele- vating results. With the graduation of the Class of ,O2, several men who have helped to raise athletics to their present high standard will leave the school. These men have been the very life of athletics for the past three years and their departure will call forward a new band of athletes to uphold the honor of the Auburn Academic High School. It is proper that we, who are so soon to go out from this school, should leave a few words of advice to you who are to succeed us. How well you will prosper in your un- dertakings only time can tell. You have good material to pick from and there is no reason why you should not meet 'with , success. You have good officers 3 they will lead you to victory if you will only do your share. Remember at all times, that al- though you play to win, you have nothing to lose, and an honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory. You are not playing for money but for honor and your health's sake. The vanquished gain quite as much as the winners if they have done their best, and those players never win who resort to foul tactics although they score many more points than their opponents. It 15 your duty to sustain the reputation we have helped to establish. in mean tricks they wo A Murdock couldn't come Zim time, 1' . D, UNRECORDED. Prior to the presentation of the Eagtey play by the Class of IQO2, Mr. Bartlett re- quested two well known literary sharks of the class to compose a metrical prologue to the play. The prologue was written but owing to a peculiar combination of circum- stances, was never presented to Mr. Bart- lett, and is now for the first time published in all its original simplicity. The author's names are withheld for various reasons. We place upon this mimic stage to-night, A classic play both sorrowful and bright. The Muse of prosody we've wooed in vain, To help us sing a more poetic strain. Though poor, pray let our humble effort stand, Let critics nothing more from us demand. The world's a stage, the poet once did say, A portion of that world is in this play. Truth swayed the minds of men in days of yore, As then, the present and for ever more. The ruling passions whirl the thoughts of men, Through inspired word of tongue or trembling pen To soothe the troubled and to cheer the hearth, Or sway the destinies of this great earth. Precision, skill and nimbleness of mind Rise high above mere strength and all brute kind. But still more potent, rises high above Earth's sordid influence, love, impassioned love. W Professor in Greek- XV hat is the trou- ble with this lesson ? Student-Dicln't have time to get it. Professor- XVell-Perhaps we can give you another year. Student faints. W Let the other fellows cherish the girls, but let George S. go around with ,Clll,H and he's perfectly happy. W Mr. Bartlett-'K It is said that a swan only sings one song and that is when it dies. Hosiner- That the way with inef' Mr. B.-- Uh no, when you sing 501116 one else dies. 6 X-gi xii' .greg .,,-X, fl? I . with ar about party by all. We and n' groun- Paffl' ' housef so fort were in wh were 1 The We mf events able 5 points Schoo detaile elsewl The ed to Since festrie strider ing ds tllllity thoroi- to Cm ef in Y3l'l0U ings L 1-l1Elllls PTQSM