Canastota High School - Toot Yearbook (Canastota, NY)

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Compliments of State Bank Canastota Resources over $1,000,000 Specialists In Landscape Gardening Take a look at the new school lawn. Plants, Bulbs, Shrubs, Cut Flowers, Etc. Lillie’s Greenhouses Moore, Haskell 6C Barott, Inc. General Insurance Canastota Bee-Journal All the Home-town News for $2 per year Fine Commercial Printing and Advertising The TOOT was printed in the Bee-Journal plant L

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AMUSEMENT PARLOR ANTONIO LUMBRAZO PROP. MODERN MARKET FIVE NEW TABLES E. G. GREMS SHOE SHINE QUALITY FIRST ALWAYS COME IN AND SEE OUR NEW ALLEYS PHONE 25 CONTENTS Literary Board of Education 7 Class History .... 8 Juniors Sophomores .... Freshmen Class Poem Class Prophecy .. Who’s Who in C. H. S 12 Dramatics The Class of 1928 15 Music 18 Athletics Society Alumni Notes ... Smiles HEADQUARTERS for GRADUATION GIFTS, MANY NEW AND APPROPRIATE THINGS DANESI TO SELECT FROM MEAT MARKET C. G. FOWLER AND RELIABLE JEWELER GROCERY Official Watch Inspector For LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD PHONE 377 PETERBORO ST.

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THE TOOT JUNE 1928 PUBLISHED BY CANASTOTA HIGH SCHOOL The Five Main Languages Language is the whole spoken and written body of words and methods of combining words used by a nation a people, a race. There are many different languages and among them the most important are Latin, French, Italian, English and Spanish. Latin was the language of Roman Republic and empire and was used in western Europe and in the Mediterra nean basin. In spite of the breaking up of the Roman empire, Latin con- tinued to be the language of the liter- ary and scholarly classes for many centuries. With the coming of the barbarians the Latin was gradually modified and with it as a basis there were formed a number of new lan- guages called Romance language. They are Italian, French, Spanish, Portugese, Roumanian and Rhaetiau The French language assumed some thing like definite form in the mi,idle of the ninth century. There wne var- ious dialects in different parts of France but soon two supplanted oii others; the language of the north of France and the language of the south of France. Modern French was weii formulated by the seventeenth century and is known for its polish, clearness, and conciseness. It has been the dip- lomatic language of the world since Hie sixteenth century and is still largely used for that purpose. The Italian language in its literary form was the old Tuscan dialect and w°s given literary form thru the writ- ings of Dante, Petrach, and Boccaccio in the fourteenth century. Although Italian is spoken by all educated peo- ple of Italy, there still remains num- erous dialects throughout the penin- sula. This language is spoken in Ita’y, Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, and southern Switzerland and even in Brazil, the Argentine republic and the United States. The Spanish language arose in diff- erent dialects in the small states of 'he Iberian peninsula. Spanish is very important language inasmuch as it is spoken by the people of Mexico, Cen- tral America, West Indies, Philip- rtines, the southwestern part of the United States, and all of the South American countries except Brazil. The Anglo-Saxon, or English lan- guage was introduced into the British Isles in the fifth century by Teutonic tribes. Angles, Saxons and Jutes, com- ing over from the Danish peninsula and northwestern Germany. One of the most striking features of the Eng- lish language is its composite natu.- The English have been the greatest