Boston Latin School - Liber Actorum Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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I ENDS 9:13 SCIENTIA Experiments . . . Explosions . . . Properties . . . Laws . . . Theories . . . Acids, bases, salts, pepp er . . . Solutions: solute, solvent, bankruptcy . . . Litmus paper . . . Isotopes . . . Ions . . . Orbits, shells, sub- shells, seashells . . . Covalent bonds . . . Savings bonds . . . Anions, cations, dog ions . . . Lab reports . . . Scientific method . . . Heat, light, sound, electri- city . . . Work, machines . . . Falling bodies . . . Dead bodies . . . Formulas, equations . . . Potential energy . . . Kinetic energy . . . No energy, tired blood! . . . Archimedes . . . Newton again . . . Galileo (he dis- covered pizza too!) . . . Einstein and relativity . . . Proton, neutron, electron . . . Radioactivity . . . Fall- out shelters . . . Chemical dreams . . . Outer space. Hear about the big exec who w ' as a copyboy until someone stepped on his IBM card? First Row: Mr. Vara, Mr. Shea, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Foster, Mr. Miethe. Second Row: Mr. Leiter, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Liberfarb, Mr. Veneziano. 12

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Idiom sheets . . . Idiot sheets . . . Vocab lists . . . One list of rules, two lists of exceptions . . . Orthographic changes ... Is this verb sick? . . . Maupassant, Loti, Merrime . . . Schiller . . . Die Fleiger . . . German saws and fables . . . Hanzel and Gretel . . . William Tell . . . Ah, Paris! . . . Oral practice . . . Conversation . . . Dictation . . . French classic drama (what’s that?) . . . Russian culture . . . The language lab: “Man your microphones” . . . L’ecole, c’est nous! . . . Sight test from “Mein Kampf” . . . Ludwig Van Beethoven . . . “Das ist ein dummkopf!” . . . “Dizzy dopies” . . . “Die Misdemeanormarker, aber mein Herr!” . . . Tou- jours L’amour . . . Alles gut, Endes gut! EXERCITATIO CORPORIS ' “‘Non-uniforms against the wall” . . . “Where’s your of- ficial school sweatshirt” . . . “You guys quiet down or you’ll do calisthenics” . . . “Who stole the badminton set” . . . “Skating in the side yard today” . . . “You seniors cross me, and you’ll be back May 15” . . . “Time to go in:; nah! wait a minute” . . . “There’s the bell, we’re late” . . . “No hot water in the showers” . . . “Hut two, three, four” . . . “Zip the lip” . . . “Head up” . . . “Column left” . . . “Watch out for the wall!” . . . “One more session before prize drill, gentlemen” . . . “Shut up, you guys!” LINGUAE RECENTIAE Row: Mr. Hughes, Mr. Hoelzel, Mr. Scully, Mr. Donovan, Mr. Cameron, Mr. Triantafel, Mr. Giarraputo. First Row: Mr. Thomas, Mr. Patten, Mr. Lambert. Second Row: Col. Kelley, Mr. Chiarini. First Row: Mr. Chester, Mr. Fontaine, Mr. Van Steen- bergen, Mr. Morrill, Mr. McGuffin, Mr. Clark. Second

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Maisey. Third Row: Mr. O’Leary, Mr. Waldron, Mr. Casey, Mr. Salvucci. MATHEMATICAE “What a crazy-looking answer; I must have made a mistake’’ . . . Euclid, Archimedes, Pythagoras, Newton, Descartes . . . Linear, quadratic cubic . . . Abscissa, coordinate . . . The ladder of learning: arithmetic, algebra, plane geometry, trig, solid . . . Real and imaginary, equal and unequal, irrational and rational, unjust and unreasonable . . . “Who stole my cosine?” . . . Probability, chance . . . Application to Las Vegas U. . . . Arithmetic progressions . . . Infinite series . . . World series . . . Compound Interest . . . “Like falling off a logarithm” ... If A can run twice as fast as B while C, who is three times older than D, rows up- stream . . . Graphs . . . Theorems . . . Proofs . . . Logic . . . Constructions . . . Analytic geometry . . . Statistics . . . Elementary calculus . . . Absolute values — Absolute confusion . . . Advanced topics (hah, hah) . . . The boards . . . SUCCESS. But Sir, that isn’t what the answer book says. First Row: Mr. Keiran, Mr. Weinert, Mr. Branca, Mr. Klein, Mr. Buckley, Mr. Cirame. Second Row: Mr. Hewes, Mr. Colbert. Mr. Zanor, Mr. Page, Mr. Sanford, Mr. 13