Central High School - Snips and Cuts Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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H is for holidays, halves and whole. Whose coming We joyfully do behold. O's for the oflicers of the Senior class, Quite fit to preside o'er eacn lad and lass. O stands for obstructions which We all have met But all, I am sorry, have not conquered yet. L's for the loss of golden times, And also the end of these simple rhymes. MARY DUNN Ross 12

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H Senior-'e View of C. 15. 5. C is for the classes We cut every day And for which after school at times we stay. H is for the history we have not this year, But the Junior's are reading its pages I hear. A is for Algebra which Bill Davis teaches And is served to us after such tiresome speeches. R is for rights of which Senior's have none, Tis only the J unior's that have any fun. ,L is for the Latin, which few of us read, Although our teacher does nothing but plead. O is for the orders received left and right, Which much to our sorrow we lose over night. T stands for teachers, they make such a three, . Men kinder and better you never did see. T's'also for Trig, our highest of Math, ' Which leads us at times on a wide, stony path. E is for English, which all of us take, Upon which we are hoping some good grades to make H is for Harding, he is well known to all, As a man much beloved by both great and by small. I is for idle, which we all grow at times, , And because of such moments I am writing these rhymes G's for the greatness we hope to achieve, And some will acquire I truly believe. H is for a Hydra of studies destroyed, Which eleven long years of labor employed. S stands for Seniors supposed to be wise, But I fear 'tis for us a mistaken disguise. C is for crimson, the color of strife, United with gray of a quiet, sober life. 11

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Rosa Bonbeur ARIE ROSA BONHEUR was a French Artist, born in Bordeaux, France, on October 22, 1822. She was deemed the most eminent woman painter of animals. Her father Raymond Bonheur, who was a draw- ing teacher, gave Rosa, the eldest of four children, care- ful training at an early age, but it was mainly her own study of animals in their natural environments that devel- oped her genius. The family moved to Paris when Rosa Bonheur was eleven years old, and here she copied industriously in the Louvre and the Luxembourg, and also studied from nature. The studio in Rue Rumford, where the family lived, has been described as a kind of Noah's Ark. Birds, hens, ducks, sheep and dogs shared the appartments, and every day Mademoiselle's Bonheur's two brothers took the quad- rupeds down six flights of stairs and out to pasture. At the age of nineteen, Mademoiselle Bonheur first exhibited at the Salon a picture of Rabbits Eating Carrots. Thereafter, until 1855, she was represented annually in the exhibition. In 1845, she received a gold medal of the third class, and in 1848 a first class medal. Her first great picture, deemed by some her best, Plough- ing in N ivernais, was exhibited in 1849, and was bought for the Luxembourg. Meanwhile the studio in the Rue Rumford had been given up, and the artist was studying at Abattoirs on the outskirts of Paris. Finding the attentions of the work- men disagreeable, she adopted trousers, and as she had short hair, fshel easily passed for a man. In 1849, on the death of her brother, Raymond, she assumed charge of a school of drawing for young ladies, which he had been directing. In 1853, she exhibited the famous Horse Fair, which attracted wide-spread admiration. She offered it to her native town of Bordeaux for 12,000 francs, but the offer was not accepted. It was sold afterward in 13