Blake School - Reflections / Call O Pan Yearbook (Hopkins, MN)

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FIFTH FORM FOURTH FORM

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3untflr (Elass The Junior Class organized in the fall of 1913 and elected as officers Joe Moore for president and Morris Stowell for secretary. As the class was composed of seventeen members it was felt that it was large enough to warrant such action in order to work together better and be able to decide questions of importance to the class. It was proposed to have class pins but these were dropped from consideration in favor of hats in the class colors, blue and white, with the 1913 numerals on them. Numerous class meetings were held and various school topics discussed, such as urging each member to learn the school songs on the occasion of the extra Washington s Birthday holiday. The minutes of these meetings were recorded by the careful hand of Russel Powers after we lost our handsome cheer-leader Morris Stowell. A class basket ball team was organized in January and put up a good fight for the class championship, only losing the final game and the banner to the Seniors after a hard and bloody struggle, 15 to 9. The Junior team was handicapped by lack of material and the irregularity of its players in appearing at the games. The lineup was seldom the same for two successive games, but even these nondescript levies made the unified Senior team work hard to win. J. MOORE.

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Sunuiiirrs’ 9ag, 1913 The second annual Founder s Day celebration of the Blake School was held at the School on the afternoon and evening of October 30th, 1913. While in intent and purpose it was not as formal nor as serious as the celebration of 1912, still it was in many ways a memorable and delightful occasion. Theories of education were not indulged in at this time. No didactic and learned treatises on pedagogic methods or voluminous reports of school officials were heard. The true ideal of the Founders was perhaps better exemplified by the sort of celebration indulged in than it could have been in any other way, for this School was conceived to be a builder of character first and then a great link between father and mother and son The air of homelikeness that pervaded the campus on this day was more characteristic of Blake than would learned disquisitions and dusty theses have been. May we ever keep the proper blend of seriousness and frolic in our school life. May we ever seek to realize the lofty ideals of those who so generously have contributed to make this school like a light set upon a hill. The function began with a luncheon in the school dining room at one o’clock. The student body exhibited its talents here musically and otherwise. A picked team from the Faculty rendered a few vocal selections with much enthusiasm and little harmony. The operatic numbers that they gave were well received. The audience was kind and tried to enter into the spirit of informality and unpreparedness so well exemplified by the quartette. Then there were numerous songs by the school, wonderful tests of lung capacity if nothing else. Lord Jeoffrey Amherst was again disinterred and his praises sung with much gusto. The Princeton Tiger would have hied himself back to the shady copses in some Indian jungle could he have heard the imitation of the sounds he is popularly supposed to emit. Yale also came in for her meed of praise, not to say adulation. Taken altogether it was a very musical affair and would have done credit to almost any kind of an institution, county or state. The main feature of the luncheon was a humorous address by Mr. F. Smoyer. of the English department. Mr. Smoyer was at his best and did not disappoint the crowds of eager hearers who hung on his every word, listening for bits of humor that seemed never to come, waiting for scintillations that seemed ever reluctant to be released. Fie spoke at some length and although some were unable to remain for the final peroration, still those who did avail themselves of this exotic pleasure announced that they were satisfied. Of course there were other speeches. Gregg spoke with great eloquence and real feeling of the work of the Senior Class and of how they were endeavoring by force of word if not example to bring the institution up to that noble place which she ought to occupy and so on. B. Clifford delivered a masterful effort on school spirit as related to our anatomic and physiological condition. Stowell ex-1913-16 and 17. discussed at some length the proper relation of our scholastic