Berea High School - Prima Luce Yearbook (Berea, NC)

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A Student Yes. (Clide Morris enters carrying a basketball and Annie Frances O’ Brian follozvs him. . Clide appears to be the originator of slow motion and is all present but the zvagging tail and extended cars.) Mr. Stone What is a historical problem? Do people realize at the time that it exists? Is that quite clear ? Clide Morris I don’t think so. Mr. Stone Well, let’s illustrate. Is not a historical problem like an individual problem? Suppose a man were asleep in a house and the house should be burned unknowingly to him, would the burning of the house be a problem to him? Clide Morris Well, not in this world. (Fhe class laughs for three and one-half minutes. Then Charlie Currin enters.) Charlie Currin Gee, I am here at last. ( Two members of the class fall asleep and a third one faints.) Mr. Stone It all depends on the meaning you put on the word problem. ( Another member of the class faints.) Who can describe the historical problem that confronted the world in 476 A D ? ( The members of the class give each other a vacant stare.) Mr. Stone Do I hear an answer ? Charlie Currin It looks like to me the harder we work, the less we know to death. (Looking at Annie Frances O’Brian.) Oh ! I am bored 1V1K. o TONE . There c ‘ in be no solution Of historical problems. Is that understood? Neither is there such a thing as time. The Past is gone ; the Future is not here Tt is nil Present. It’s like “Cash today and Credit Tomorrow.” (Rhodes Frazier is noiv asleep.) Mr. Stone Out of the solution of each problem two more come. Is that clear? (Someone sticks a pin in Rhodes Frasier.) [ Page 78 ]

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Mr. Stone s Class in Ninth Grade History (A Parody on a University Production.) Dramatis Personae : Mr. Stone Clide Morris Charlie Currin Harry Newton Edward Duncan Rhodes Frazier Annie Frances O’Brian and students. Scene : (A room with four -walls and a ceiling. Blackboards exist on three sides of the room. On the South side there arc several windows. Trees can be seen through these zvindows. Five minutes after the scheduled time for class, Mr. Stone enters quoting the folio-wing Latin proverb to himself. “Coccus iter’ monstrare vult,” — the blind man zmshes to shozv the way— evidently someone has just dis- agreed with him. He brushes the dust off the top of the table with his handker- chief as he scats himself at the table. He sits at the table running his hand through his hair for four and one-half minutes. Then a dozen or more students enter the room, leaving the door open behind them.) Mr. Stone It must be spring fever that makes you come in late. A Student No; there was a big cat fight in front of the pomp house. Mr. Stone Did anyone get hurt? Student I don’t think so. Mr. Briggs separated them. {At this moment hd-ward Duncan enters. He has just partaken of a can of Sardines at Dorsey Mangum’s store.) Mr. Stone I believe today we are to talk about Historical problems. We have traced the Course of Civilization through Greek and Roman history. The Roman Empire m the West came to an end in 476 A.D., and the problem of civilization was to find something to take its place. 27 [ Page 77 ]

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PFUMA LUCE Rhodes Frazier That’s the point. . (The class laughs heartily and then three full minutes of silence ensue The quietness is interrupted by the entrance of Harry N avion.) Harry Newton I didn’t know that we had a class today. Mr. Stone Yes, we have been discussing historical problems. We know that much. The Class Yes. A problem is a problem. Mr. Stone Can anyone do anything he doesn’t want to do ? Have you ever done a thing that you did not want to dot You are here in class room, but you may think that you would prefer to be out yonder playing ball or talking. But that is not so. ou realize that if you are not here, you will not get credit for the course, and if you don t get credit for the course you will not graduate, and so on. So you are here because you want to be. y Does anyone want to ask any questions ? All right, we will discuss the bar- barian invasions tomorrow. ( All leave as the curtain slowly falls.)