Central High School - Mirror Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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West Jfltrror PUBLISHED BY THE BIRMINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL Hfune, 1911 contents: Frontispiece 6 Editorials 7 “The Persian Fluid” 9 “Ideals 11 The Call to the Open 12 “Surprises 13 Burled Gold 14 Ole Marse John's Spook” 17 The Bachelor Girls' Camp 18 Night” 21 “Across the Tombigbee on a Ferry 22 Angels In Disguise 23 A Heroic Act” 25 ' The True Character of Hamlet''’ 26 Joy” 27 “Wanted—A Name 28 The Music of the Spheres 29 Going Fishing • 30 The Spirit of the Violin 31 In the Regions of Pluto 32 How the Game Laws Were Enforced 33 Around Tokio In a Jinrlgisha 34 Storiettes 36 Temptation 36 As the Clock Saw It . •. 36 Caught in the Act 37 A String of Coral 38 Clubs 40 Alumni-ae Notes 43 Athletics 46 Social 56 Excharges 58 Jokes 62 High School Reflections 64 The Process of Evolution” 67 Senior Department 68 Class History 92 Statistics 94 Essay: Nature: the Medium of Divine Love 96 Prophecy 98 Poem: Youth and the Sphinx” 101 President's Address. Let Us Strike a Higher Strain 103 A Last Word 105 Conclusions After Four Years of Com radeship 107

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PUBLISH HI) UV THE LITERARY SOH-ETIKS OF THE INK M I N G II A M II I G II SCHOOL. THE MIRROR PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS HOARD OF Editokn-in-OhiIkp Mary E. Forbes Anita Wai.diioust Fiction Leon Israel Eugenia Blount Flora Spahro%v Francks Williams Liter a it v r it h y iibaton Lloyd Bowers Curtis King Clubs Grace Geohf.gan EDITORS Social Sal lie Evens Fannie Evans Athletics Lee pok Exchange Ralph Riddle Wit and Humor . Reuben Lewis Business Dkpartment James a. Moore Walter Orcutt Cartoonists William Beddow Cecil Sims EDITORIAL Real summer lias conic at last because vacation has arrived. Xo maiter how hot it may be it is not summer as long as we have to trudge day after day to school. To us summer means rest and recreation. On all sides is heard the joyful refrain, School is out- Summer has come. Everybody is glad to cease the routine of study and work, to enjoy the outdoors without feeling pangs of conscience, and to indulge in plain laziness. 'The school year of 1910-11 has drawn happily to a close, bequeathing us the pleasantest of recollections. It lias been a very successful year for most of us. and leaves 11s all feeling good except some of the Seniors who realize that next year you Freshies, Sophs and Juniors will reassemble without them. But the Seniors reserve the privilege of coming back whenever a homesick pang overcomes them. The anticipation of vacation joys is in every heart. Even the spirit of the Mirror is looking forward to a period of rest, for in some respects he lias hail a very strenuous winter. So in hearty sympathy with hard-workers the Mirror inscribes a wish that each one may spend a most enjoyable vacation and be ready next fall to be gin again with renewed energy and vigor. 'flic people of Birmingham have for the past week enjoyed one of the rarest opportunities of a lifetime, in the delightful lectures of Mr. Edward Howard Griggs. Mr. Griggs’ afternoon talks were on the Poetry and Philosophy of Browning. Besides giving 11s