Auburn High School - Follies Yearbook (Auburn, IN)

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HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY. Miss Mae Provines, Eighth Grade. Miss Flora Hoffman, Musical! Director. Orval D. Tyner, Principal, B. B. Harrison, Superintendent. liss Julia M. Hodge, Asst. Principal.

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Lhe SGARS 0g Illustrious class of 1904. Our happy school days now are o’er Although our numbers have grown less We do not lack resourcefulness. We’ve labored hard for four whole years And for the future have no fears. Our victories we need not repeat For we have never known deteat. In one respect we are unique To find, you will have far to seek, Eleven girls without one boy, A fact which does not mar our joy, The Freshmen party proved, no doubt, That boys are better done without. As we explain it triends to you, We feel that you’ll approve our view. That they might furnish fun for all The Freshmen asked each Senior tall To seat herself on a wee brown stool And play she’d just been sent to school, Our teacher was a Freshmen maid Wise and learned, grave and staid. She told us each to make a speech, We roasted the Juniors all and each. So much they had to think about That they, quite inclined to pout. We gave a hit to each lad and lass; DEE CEASSSROEM By JOY M.SHUTT. The teacher said tne Seniors would pass And then she called on the Junior class, Those boys, they acted as green as grass. Instead of doing as they were bid They went to the cellar and there they hid. We don’t know why they did this way Unless they didn’t know what to say. And on that night there were but few Who didn’t wish they were spinsters too. Our class has gifts to beat the seers And no class e’re will be our peers. Floride recites with thrilling power Entrancing hearers by the hour. And Zoe and Dottie have voices so sweet That with them Patti would not compete. The fame of Ruth the prophet grows For things which are to come she knows. If each to her best aim is true No goal’s too high to reach unto. The dues to woman now are given For which she long has toiled and striv’n. It’s been enacted at recent date In Washington City to instate The statues fair of women great In stately Statuary Hall. And Illinois takes the lead of all And give Miss Willard’s statue place Due to the noblest of her race. Such fame as hers we may not gain We’re told not all will maids remain. Whate’re our rank in life may be Let each her powers exert and see That still she strives ur.to her goal Which needs all power of mind and soul. Before to school we say farewell We would a word of the teachers tell. And what indeed we say believe For ’tis our rule to ne’er deceive. Go in Mr. Harrison’s wake The path leads up that you would take Justice and honor light his way Walk in his steps you will not stray. Mr. Tyner is kind and sincere To all his scholars it is clear. And they would each be glad to do What ’ere they could for one so true. Miss Hodge, Miss Hoffman all respect Their work speaks forthem. We expect From them, like us, will others learn The best in all things to discern. As from our school we each emerge Standing upon the future’s verge Let us adopt for our life rule The motto which we chose at school, ««Excellency or Nothing.”’

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The STAR Og 2 ER ae a Galera oa) ORR etl @ oN By DORIS M. GROGG =D Sar WE. We, the Senior girls, or the boyless class as we have been Our class is characterized as the class of 19-4, and the year nine- called, have more opportunities than some like to admit. teen-hundred and four its self affords boundless opportunities for Horace Greely advised young an energetic young woman. men ‘‘to go west and grow up with the country,’’ and I sup- pose he meant young ladies as well. Whether he did or not, we consider this good advice, but you may depend upon it we will not go to Utah. Longfellow pictured Priscilla at the spinning wheel and Evangeline in her plain room with great shelves of linens and that pictures his heroine as a school teacher, a stenographer, or Those woolens she herself had woven. ‘The modern writer maybe a news paper reporter. ‘Times have changed. good old days of long ago are gone forever. We, the women of the zoth century, have more advantages than did the Puritan girl of the 17th century, or the Acadian girl of the 18th century. [he common schools and the high schools are filled with girls, Our great land is dotted with girls seminaries and all the colleges, deserving the name, admit young ladies as well as young men. ‘The time has been when peopte thought it unnecessary to educate the girls, but that time, too, is past. What is the result of this education? ‘The women are hold- ing thousands of positions which used to be held by the men only. Now there are school girls, office girls, telephone girls, lady stenographers, lady photographer, lady teachers, lady preachers, lady physicians, lady magicians; in fact as the little boy wrote when given the subject, ‘Girls’? upon which to write a composition: ‘There are many kinds of girls. | honestly believe there are a thousand different kinds of girls, or one girl can be a thousand different girls when she wants to be.”’ Ancient history records only a tew great women. Aspasia, the wife of Pericles, is said to have been the greatest woman of The best thing that can be said for her is, that she was a brilliant and her age, in fact the greatest of all Greek women. fascinating conversationalist. Cleopatra is the great Egyptian heroine, and she certainly has not been made famous by her virtue and wisdom. B. C., the date of Cleopatra’s death, to the 15th century A. D., no very great From about the year 31