Central High School - Almanac Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Battered and beaten, weary and worn, Objects of pity, subjects for scorn, But brave in their troubles, Of late and of old, They ever were true To the purple and gold! -,QQ Football Team.. In Cicero and Ovid never use a horse, Take a hansam cab as the real thing, of course. I'll be Frank with you, though 1,111 Forster say That Frank is not in his Norma-1 way. There was a young lady named Jo, With a step royal, queen-like and slow,', Who never thought she Could learn geometree ! Oh, that wierd young lady named Jo ! ! Art- Save a piece for Rickie. I Made sunshine in a shady place.-Miss Martin, 'o3. Retina Eds: We get out a monthly edition Whenever we do not forget, To enlighten an ignorant people Our aim-but we've not done it yet. ' The Siamese Twins-Helen Roath and Gene Eppstein. I am a creature made for night, not day.--Mr. Deymond A wee small voice.-Miss Huntoon, 'oo. Her hands und feet vas schmall und need, Und ven dot maiden sings, Dem leedle birds dey glose deir eyes Und flob deir leedle vings.-Laura L., 'oo. She'1l grow up bye and bye.-Nina Bowman. Imps and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles. -Lisle Tilley.

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Some Things Which the CENTURION Board would like to see: e L. Niles talk once in awhile, Lis1e's face straight, Without a smile 3 Priscilla V. with mouth shut tight, Examinations out of sight 3 No receptions after school, Miss Van Noorden break a ruleg Bessie Condit use a pony, Mary Waite a bit more bony 5 The Frenchman in a brand new hat, Nina Beatty getting fat 5 Miss Schmeltz with a Christian name, Bobby play some other game, Study teachers their eyes close, Mark stop wearing giddy hose 5 Fannie Nessle not on time, Laura L. composing rhyme 3 Lulu M. make herself heard, Mary Spayd once act absurd, Helen Foster get poetic, Lily M. more energetic, Catherine Tobin not so youthful, Harold B. a bit more truthful, Berenice use a new expression, Board decide upon one session, Find a class that can be brought To equal that of naughty-naught! Burbank- Now if there's anything I want to do, I do it Whether any teacher is around or not. So we'11 go no more a-roving, so late into thefnight.-The Sign-Painters. Happy with either, were t'other dear charmer away.- Trautwein. How long, 0h Lord, how long !-McKendry. The smith, a mighty man was he.-Karl Smith.

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.All the great are dying, and I'm not feeling well.-Bryce. Weary, stale, Hat and unprofitable 1-Trig. .A bright, particular star.-Melissa. Oh! as the bee upon the iiower, I hang Upon the honey of thy eloquent tongue. Paddock, '03. There once was a teacher named Vance, Who before his class would prance. With gesticulations And articulations That did all his pupils entrance. But now, time has changed him, perchance, He sits and eyes classes askance, And says, I am here To hold down this 'cheerl ' This peaceable teacher, named Vance. 'Presence of mind is greatly promoted by absence of body.- 'Carl Chase. The lirst shall be last, and the last first.-Ethel Thurstin. The noblest Roman of them all.--Havlicek. English Teacher: Give an example of a violation of purity. ' Small Boy Qpromptlylz Hair-cut! Teacher: How so? Small Boy: Why, isn't it a barbaris1n? Oh, Isador! Oh, Isador, How high aloft his mind does soar ! And though, perchance, he'll be no more The laughing Junior, as of yore, And as a Senior wish to roar, We'll all adore Our Isador If he is A Door ! Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean.-Prof. Knott.