Central High School - Almanac Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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now translating Caesar and strange to say, they are learn- ing to distinguish between the different ablatives. The French classes have finished one hundred and sixty-iive pages in their text book and have also read one modern play. Beside this they carry on French conversa- tion daily. The German classes carry on conversation in German daily. They have inished one hundred and thirty-six pages in their grammar. Late in the season we organized. The following ofii- cers were elected: President, Arthur Braun, Vice-presi- dent, Amy Maher, Recording secretary, Anna Bunce, Cor- responding secretary, Frank Merrill, Treasurer, Seavey Brigham, Sergeant-at-arms, Herbert Ellis. I-Iere's to the success of 'O2. A Year's Memories. BY AMY GRACE MAHER. FTER eight long years of work, we finally reached the , High School. What mighty people we were-Fresh- men! ' Still, it was not without some timidity that we came to school on the irst day of this year. We had many fears. We thought of the teachers as stern, unapproachable per- sons, whose chief delight was in assigning terrible lessons, and when we had met one or two Seniors we began to feel our insigniiicance. Really, the teachers seemed so terrible that we never thought of such a thing as whispering, and resolved that, breakfast or no breakfast, we should never be tardy. But after about two weeks of work, we found that the teachers were not unlike those we had known in our child- hood's happy days, and that the lessons were not quite so bad as we had expected.

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Hiftory of the Frefhman Clafs. BY FRANK MERRILL. I-IENEVER a student stops in his wild iiight for knowl- edge Q?j to gaze upon this magnificent building of ours, he cannot help a feeling of gratitude, gratitude that he owes our principal, Prof. Ballou and his Worthy assistants. The class of 1902 have plodded on through their vari- ous branches of study until now, they stand in the twilight of their freshman year. Still there are those who have been so unfortunate as to fail in a certain degree in various branches, but eX- perience is a severe school. The freshman of today has four required studies viz. English, Algebra, Physiology and Botany. He has his choice, however, of Latin, German, and French. The English has been greatly facilitated by the num- erous essays and readings from Williarn's Choice Literature and Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare. Algebra is enjoyed by a fair per cent of the students. To give you some idea of our progress, we have inished simultaneous equations. Our study of Physiology was completed the last of January. . Botany is very interesting and is enlivened somewhat by numerous excursions to the different parks and woods. With the exception of the boys there is not a student in the Toledol-Iigh School who does not revel in this branch of study. The hour devoted to Latin always passes quickly. The Latin classes are making wonderful progress. They are , if

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Many persons had told us that ,the upper classes would make our lives as unpleasant as possible, but we soon dis- covered that a,Senior is human, and can be -as pleasant, as unaifected and aifable as any student in the primary grade. But even after We had become acclimated, We had our Woes. How many times have We Worked ten problems ahead, in algebra, only to find, on going to recitation next day, that those ten Were to be omitted! How many times have We stayed at home evenings in order to learn the next day's lesson, only to hear, the next morning, that there would be no recitations on that day! We were constantly being spoken of as green, and innumerable adjectives, all implying that We Were feeble-minded, and lacking in spirit, were contin- ually applied to .us. But We do not now, resent having been called timid, as We realize that all this jeering made us resolve not to be Worthy of the names applied to us, but to acquire for ourselves names of which we might be proud. The Senior in laughing at aqlzllreshman, makes him a man. We joined literary societies, and learned, for the first time, to what heights true eloquence could soar. We joined the fraternities, and thus acquired the privilege of, Wearing a little gold pin, With mystic Greek characters. And lastly, in April, We Went to the High School Hop, and met, on an equal footing, the students of higher classes. i Our Woes are no more. We shall soon be Wise Sopho- mores, but although this year's school-life may have been slightly clouded at times, its sun shines but the brighter now, and We shall never think With regret of our Freshman year. gn. i