Central High School - Almanac Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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rules of rhetoric in mind. I have made my climaxes and antitheses by ruleg I have used 'short, melodious Words'g I have used 'words in which vowels and consonants are . F- -. blended'g and 'polysyllables accented near the 'F end'g all in fact- -, .gli O nonsense! Look here, old man, you 3- havenit avoided 'quaint and archaic terms out of fancyg' you have used terms 'not ' KK, 3 y likely to be understoodg' many of your 1- igures would not stand the crucial test ' I I of the ' rules of rhetoricg' you have fre- n , f yy lf , quently 'crowded things together uncon- y nectedg' you have even dared to 'close a it I 'Axim sentence with a small wordg' frequently you do A 1, not distinguish between 'the active and pas- fn ff ' sive,' the 'negative and privativef the 'general f: MD and the paciic--er-specific, I mean-specific 'yr ll -specific-' V, Here it is, sir. Here's what? Your speciiic, sirg Hamlin's Specific. At that moment I found my valet William standing at my elbow with my bottle of speciic for which he said I had been calling repeatedly. I took a dose, although I did not need it, for I did not wish to confess that I had been talking in my sleep.

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the Romeo and Juliet company-Blackfriars, iirst perform- ance. We had to 'double up ', as you say nowdays, and I was stage manager, carpenter, conductor-J' Come, William, you are jestingf' -scene-shifter, property-master, box-agent, prompter and Romeo, but my chief work was as Romeo. We had a specialty to introduce that eveningg I was to sing 4Ange- lina', and I was sure of making a hit. I sang it-part of it -and it was a hit, but the audience made itg it was a tomato- I am surprised, Mr. Shakespeare, that you should con- tinue in such a garrulous vein. It is quite out of harmony With the dignity of your position. And as to my stopping When once started on a thing like that soliloquy, why, I was stopped nity times. First the janitor banged at the door and told me that it was time for Christmas tips, then a coal collector tried to get in the window by way of the fire-escape. After I had shot him, a municipal oificer came running down the hall with a sta- tioner at his heels. The villain took my pen and ink away, which, by the way, were originally his, having been bor- rowed by me indeinitelyg this compelled me to hnish writing on my cuffs with green ink, the whole occurrence was quite disconcerting and then- I see you are growing facetiousf' -and then came the autograph-hunters in such num- bers that my ammunition gave out and- Are you aware that you are digressing from the subject in hand? Perhaps Well, to return: I believe I was speaking of my note-book given to me by my dear preceptress- H Pardon me, but you would relieve me immensely by not referring to the note-book again-and the dear preceptress. Be it so, my lordg but I do assure you that I never Wrote without my note-book-no--no-I mean without the

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M. M-,qv X 'N Q, 0 ig.,- 1 ABCofthe T.H.S. GRACE H. COLLINS. Equals Algebra, Freshrnan's delight, They say 'twill develop the mind, So o'er X : a he works far into night But the Value of a cannot End. I Is our principal, C. G. Ballon, And Brunson, the physicist, of course, folks do l X f For what in the world would we city 5 . I If we knew naught of power and of force. Is for Ganniff, who watches the stairs, A teacher most faithful and kind, But if a poor sinner be caught unawares, .l ...,. if That pussy has claws, he will find. ......-1-1-nu:-v Is for Dunster who of dates knows a string, For Davis who fancies dissection, For Duffy, petite, whose praises all sing, And for Dawson, who's almost perfection. - Is for Eberth and Euclid his friend, Of circles and plans he talks with a drawl, His patience is not like a line, without end,- However, he's well liked by all. Is the future we're all looking toward And for which we are all preparing, With knowledge and facts our minds must be stored, E So we work with an ardor despairing.