Beloit High School - Trojan Yearbook (Beloit, KS)

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JUNIOR CLASS. Class motto: Labor omnia Vincit. Class colors: Light blue and lemon. Class flower: Pink Carnation. President, Grace Gise. Vice President, Ray Briney. Secretary, Milton Baer. H istory. We have no historyg we are like Topsy, just growedf' As yet no startling facts have been accomplished by us, but we are leaving a blazed t-rail in our wake. Just wait until we enter the arena of life, and then there will be a history worth recording in the archives of time. We began o11r existence as Freshmen with a class of fifty-four members, but in the struggle for existence only the choice of nat- ural selection have survived. In the youthful glamor of fresh- manship we imagined that we might some day be the largest graduating class to leave our alma mater. Everyone knows that wise men sometimes change their minds, fools never,'i and this explains why we 11ow hope to be the smallest class. In the be- ginning we numbered twenty boys and thirty-four girls, and now four boys and half the original number of girls remain true to their colors. The ranks of our Latin class, thinned by the num- erous skirmishes with Caesar when we were Sophomores, and astounded by the eloquence of Cicero, now proudly say, We'are sevenf' In former times we were rather lnischievousg somewhat re- sembling the Freshmen of the present day, but realizing the dig- nity of our position in the school world, we turned over a new leaf, sat down when we got there, and went down the stairs on the steps. The descent into the low atmosphere of the laboratory caused an occasional explosion of accumulated gas, but no acci-

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Seniors Characterized by Geometrical Expressions. Harry Kaull: The converse of anything. Nellie Troutman: A regular prismatic solid. Charlie Johnson: A straight line Ccut offi. Mary Home: The supposition used to prove a straight line. Dawson Bibler: Generatrix of a cone. Josephine Hyde: One-half the product of the slant height by the base. Henry Sloan: Apply the theory of limits. Hazel Barnwell: The angel made by two parallel lines. Merril Cox: Sum of three adjacent angles. 1 Ida Lowry: The right section of an oblique prism. Will Lagergren: The sum of the squares of the perpendicular sides of a right-triangle. A Mary Bartlesonz The frustuni of a cone. Ernest Williams: The ratio of. the circumference to the diameter. Irene Smith: Supposition used fby the class, to prove any prop- osition. Everett Bruin age: A twenty degree lune. Marie Koch: Section of a cylinder made hy a penetrating plane. Leo Bozelle: A prism whose bases are not parallel. Merle Van Atta: The cross-section of anything.

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JUNIOR CLASS.