Berrien Springs High School - Canoe Yearbook (Berrien Springs, MI)

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.Bags.. 22,. The trouble v;ith most humor censers is that they lack a sense of humor. The Romantic Poet: Ifd like to c.o something big. Flapper: Aw go wash an el- ephant. ' Miss Graham: What's the safest form bf invenstment for girls? I-ucille: Sheets, pillow cases and towels and such things as that, because they will always cone in handy. Mrs. Allen: How would you punctuate the sentence 'Virginia is a pretty girl'? George: Why I'd make a das] for Virginia. Children, said a teacher, be doiigent and steadfast and you will succeed. Take the case ci George Washington. Do you rc-membor my telling you of the great difficulty George Washington hr.fi to contend with? Yes, Mr.'am, said a little boy. Ho couldn't tell a lie. PRACTICAL PROVERB? E v'ho lies down with dogs, rises up with fleas. Clothes break the man. Our absent-minded professor put the answers on the board and asked the class to write the quos tions. A CHEMICAL ROMANCE Said Atom to Molly Cule: Will you elope with mo? Said Molly Cule with quick retort: There's no affinity. Beneath the electric light plants shade, poor Atom hoped to mcfcSr. But she eloped with rascal ba.se and now her name's Salt Peter. Warren H.: I must be off. Mr.ribel: That's what I thought when I first met you. COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY Faculty--An organization to furnish amusement for student body. Period—One hour of confinement v ith or without sloop. Recitation—Giving the teacher some inside dope. Absences-To deprive the class of the pleasure of your company and tne benefit of your brains. Quiz.—Means by which the teacher displays ignorance by asking foolish questions. Found on Mark Alger's registration card. Name of parents Mamma and Papa Paul K.: I am a big gun around here. Verne S.: Is that why they are talking of cannon you?

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Page 26 ■ ; Mrs. Allen: What is the def- inition of anecdote? Doris: A short funny tale. Mrs. Allen: Give c sentence using the word. Doris: A dog ran down the street with a tin can tied to his anecdote. Polling Clerk: Your name? Professor Stewart: Mr. Stewart. Clerk: Your professions Professor: High School professor. Clerk Can you read and write — ------- ■■ - — | - 1 Verne: If you don't quite looking at that mirror you will ge1. conceited. Virginia: Don't worry, I don't think I'm half as pretty as I really am. here did you learn to dive Staking claims in Florida. So Lady Nottingham dined with you? Did she bring her coronet? Heavens.' I didn’t know she played one. Miss Graham asked on the history exam. Give for any one year the number of bales of cotton exported from the United States. Mary P.answering after thinking awhile: 1492 none. Bill S: I'll help you with your geometry. I've got it all in a nut shell. Elton S: Oh, so you've memorised it, hugh, Eill? Famous last words in the High School Operetta: Try it Again. Sophistical Maid: Look out Johnny; I'm going to scare you (hisses him), how Johnny, you scr.ro me . ■' Johnny Bool I hang my herd in shame every time I sec the family wash in the bac.k yard. Oil. do they? Sweet Young Thin£: Will you be a stag at our formal next week? Freshman: Sure, I love mas- querade parties. Mrs. Cirittendon: What is the Order of the Bath? Paul C: pa first, then Ma, then us kids and then the hired girl. Mary Jane: I want that fog shot at once. Policeman: I can't shoot him here in this residence district. The bullett might go right through him and hit somebody. Mary Jane: But couldn't you shoot him lengthwise? Little Girl (in the country for the first time): Oh Mamma look at the cute little green snake. Fond Manna (Ditto): Put it down at once. It might be just as danjerous as a ripe one.

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