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Cfye piatonian Society. Yell. MEMBERS: (Printed according to the length of membership.) Agomen, Derkomen, Bryant Cromer, J. Byers Love, Rip, Ray, Rah, Plato, Plato, Janies E. Gibson, v C. Lester Hall Sis, Boom, Ah! Douglas Atwill, Stanley Stewart, Colors—Apple Green and Pink. John Walker, Arthur Brown, Howard Mullctt, Thomas Reed, OFFICERS: Philip F. Parkinson, Richard McCarty, President, Albert J. Bone P'rcd Lee, Dan McFarland, Albert Bone, Will L. Todd, Vice- President, Lee E. Piiilbrook Lee Phil brook, Arthur Sutermeister, 7 Chandler Watson, Secretary, C. Arthur Brown 1 leberd James, Treasurer, - - Tom B. Reed Clay Dobson, Waltus Scruggs, John Long, Richard Robertson, Critic, - Dan McFarland Lathrop Ripley, Dudley Black, Sergeant-at-Arms, Wallace Lee John Sills. Wallace Lee, Edward Hill, Will Hogsett, Praetor Piatonian, - Ed Hill Harry Lyons, Henry Thayer. -37-
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THE PLATONIAN SOCIETY, AS IT IS. THE “High School Debating Society,” was the first literary organization in High' School. This society was composed of both boys and girls, and its aim was teaching its members to be more at their ease in extemporaneous flirting. Candy was their sweetest fancy; but some of the more fastidious boys became disgusted with the class of candy the girls furnished them, and, declaring that no one could carry on a flirtation with such candy as that weighing on his mind(?) they withdrew, and formed, with the addition of a few outside boys, a society composed entirely of boys. This new society was given the euphonious appellation of the Platonian” Society; probably because not a solitary Plato had ever been guilty of forming a purely Platonic friendship with a girl. But from that day, the word “platonic” took on a different meaning in old Central, and some of the “Platonic” friendships that now exist between Philos and Platos are veritable works of art, or rather of Cupid. In this same year, the old Debating Society,” reor- ganized as the Central Literary Club;” whereupon the Platos challenged them to an annual beauty show, each soc.cty to have four contestants. The Platos, of course, won the first contest, but the second year they sprung a ringer” on us, and, being represented by four white dresses, their victory was decidedly unanimous. This was a terrible blow to the beautiful and fragile Platos. Nevertheless, undaunted still, they set to work to buy Peroxide of Hydrogen,” Pozzoni’s Complexion I o»vder, and all the latest things in rouges and curling irons on the market. Even all' this expense and hard consistent work was just barely able to counterbalance the spell of those white dresses, and for ten years they could do no better than two and two. But last year, two of the Platos, veritable geniuses in their way, discovered a method of curling the hair so that it looked exactly like a frizzled door-mat, and through this invention the Platos were at last enabled to again defeat the C. L.C. From now on we anticipate nothing but easy victories, and in after generations the Platos will bow in praise to the one who invented that way to curl the hair. —28—
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