Bryant Junior High School - Junior Life Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

Page 48 text:

36 THE JUNIOR LIFE What Bryant Needs 1. More study periods 2. Recess 3. Fewer of Mrs. Warner’s after school parties 4. Longer lunch periods 5. A taller Gladys Wilson 6. Bigger and better graduation 7. Red flannel uniforms 8. Modernistic desks There was once a good care-free 9A Whose school-days were usually gay, But when promotion time came, Much to the fellow's shame, In his fine school the hoy had to stay. A fellow in school loved to roam. In study hall never was kjiown, But there came the time And for that same crime Detention room became his home. There once was a student of muscle Who from others his lessons would rustle. But when tests came around, On each one he frowned And was in for an unhappy tussle. Do You Know 1. That the Leviathan weighs ten tons less directly under the moon at low tide? 2. That an ice-boat sails faster than the wind that blows it? 3. That Texas has an out-board motorboat race track out on the prairie ten miles from the nearest lake? 4. T hat banana oil has no banana oil in it but only smells like it? 5. That the courthouse clock has no numbers on it, only bars of iron? 6. That the Empire State Building is a lightning rod for all the other buildings around it? 7. That a perfect vacuum contains: carbondioxide, argon, xehon, neon, helium, crypton, and many other gases? 8. That lightning puts nitrogen into the soil thereby increasing the grade of the soil? 9. That ice-cream increases the heat of the body?

Page 47 text:

TIIE JUNIO R LIFE 35 Bradley Skeels and Violet Johnson. The maidens danced the dance that Mrs. Boylan had taught them. We roasted marshmallows and the medicine man, Earl Broms, closed the meeting. When we spoke of returning home, we were told that we might have an airplane piloted by Brave Boh Hillberg. With such a wonderful close to our adventure, though weary and somewhat sore, we could not but feel that we had had a wonderful, interesting trip. • • Analyze Yourself By spelling out your name with the following alphabet you will see yourself as others may or may not see you. A...............You like all Animals B...............You read many Books C...............You are very Conceited I)..............You are a very good Dancer E...............You are very Envious F...............You have many Friends G...............You are always chewing Gum H...............You like to play Hookey I...............You are very Industrious J...............You like to Joke K...............You are always Kidding L...............You are very Lazy M...............You will have much Money N...............You are very Noisy O...............You keep your things in Order P...............You are forever Primping Q...............You are always asking Questions R...............You are always Resting S...............You are somebody’s Sweetheart (whose?) T...............You have a bad Temper U...............You are very Untidy V ............Y'ou are very Vain W...............You will always Win (in arguing) X...............You will be an X-Ray operator Y .............You will be a great Yodeller Z..............Your next mark will be Zero Would the World End if 1. Gladys Wilson was tall? 2. Ada Olson wasn’t chewing gum? 3. Violet Johnson was seen without Bradley Skeels? 4. LeRoy Grant got a 100 on his spelling test?

Page 49 text:

THE JUNIOR LIE E 37 Our Swimming Class Confusion reigned in the locker rooms but nobody got wet as the first period class crowded in. Above the racket Amelia Nelson’s voice could be heard yelling for Marion Bell. The faces of Ruth Chute and Phyllis Smith were puckered up in dismay because their little white lies wouldn’t excuse them from swimming. T he girls were nearly through with their showers when Mrs. Boylan’s whistle was heard summoning them for inspection. Splash! — in plunged all the girls except Betty Lou Neese, who lingered lovingly by the rails of the pool trying to pluck up enough courage to jump in. Betty Young was sent from the pool in gales of laughter as she couldn't control her mirth after Ada Olson’s dive. After twenty minutes of swimming and diving the girls were sent scurrying to the shower rooms to get dressed. Virginia Gould was having a great time trying to get close enough to the mirror to comb her hair. Lorraine Bush could be seen dashing around the locker rooms trying to find where the detention room was to be for the last bell had rung. We don't blame Mrs. Boylan for giving a sigh of relief as Leanore Olson, Frances Brennan, Donna Hogan, and Violet Johnson hurry out at the last. What Would We Do 1. If we had school on Saturdays; 2. If there were no gym periods; 3. If there was a law against talking in the halls; 4. If the girls were all on one floor and the boys on another, the 7B’s on the third floor; 5. If there were no auditorium periods; 6. If we had two math, periods a day; 7. If we had no library; 8. If the Junior Life Stall were all sick; 9. If we were always caught reading our favorite story books; 10. If we had no Christmas vacation; 11. If the Odyssey were twice as complicated; 12. If we had to memorize five hundred lines for memory work; 13. If we couldn’t go to the store after lunch; 14. If the lunch room staff gave us poor lunches; 15. If we had no clubs; I think we would all be very much bored with education. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.