Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Some Classic Translations FROM THE 1891 CENTRAL ANNUAL 1. Arrectibus auribus adsto. I stand with erected ears. 2. Ecce autem complexa pedes in limine conjunx. But behold, his wife was embracing her feet on the threshold. 3. Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae. I recognize the footsteps of my old “flame.” 4. Ter sese attolens cubitoque annixa levavit. Three times she looked up and strove to raise her elbow. 5. Sese Palinurus agebat. Palinurus was chasing himself. 6. Hie patris Aeneae suspensam blanda vicissim. Hereupon, Father Aeneas blandly waved his suspenders. Up-to-Date 1912 1. Num lumina flexit? Did he bat an eye? 2. Fusique per herbam implentur veteris Bacchi. Stretched out they drank the old wine through straws. 3. Pedem cum voca repressit. He recalled his foot with his voice. 4. Improvisum aspris sentibus anguem pressit et caerula colla tumentem. He stepped on a snake with a prickly bramble, his green collar rising. 5. Aeneas sic dicat an de cur, egessi lictum. Aeneas sicked de cat on de cur. I guess he licked ’um. M.tkm;: un :A0 (!|j« —18—

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Editorial Edicts E IT hereby understood, that this luminescent conglomeration of paragramatists and psychopomps, in the imposition of these diaphanous and ephemeral cerebral gyrations of the Board of Editors, upon the heterogeneous and intramundane rabble, O!! beg pardon; it just occurred to us that the common mob, not indigenous to Central High and not experiencing the sublimating life of the class of 1912, would be at a loss to understand us in our natural tongue and so we descend to English. C$J $3 C$J Hear Ye All LL bones with the Annual Board will be picked June 1, 1912. Mr. Lundquist, Head Potwalloper, will attend to all complaints at the Hockey Rink. Every year, the gentle reader in an eruption of originality (?) and peevishness (!) says a few of the things that Adam said about the Senior of 8092 B. C. This year we will save the gentle reader much trouble and many conscientious scruples by appending his probable remarks. They are numbered so that they can be easily and nonchalantly referred to with the same effect as if perpetrated by the speaker. 1. Well, we’re not to blame. What could you expect from such a punk Annual Board. 2. I think the slams they put in after the names are just horrid. 3. Oh, Rats! They have had that in every year since I was a Freshman. 4. Why don’t they get a new picture of Uncle Mac? 5. I think it was mean of them not to print my joke (picture, poem, paper) about----------. It was lots better than ----------- s joke (picture, poem, paper). 6. Gee, the cover makes a good blotter anyway! 7. Won’t mother be proud when she sees my picture. 8. Look at the picture of the Board! Do you wonder at the book?

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