Charlotte High School - Witan Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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THE WITAN anyone leaves his spoon in his cup, I always want to bring my hand down h .rd on the spoon, thereby spilling the contents and causing much derision. 1 feel that I’ve been cheated by Nature when anyone makes more noise at a game than I do. (As you probably know, 1 seldom feel cheated.) Remarks on my stature; getting up and going to bed; Sunday, the day of restlessness; moving pictures that should end sadly and don’t, and men who “eat” cigars, you know, waltar- ing them around in their mouths while talking; doing as I’m told, when I’m told- -all these things make me want to run oir to an unexplored nook of the world and create a little disturb- ance all my own. Florence Tendon '25. DOORS Doors are essentially pieces of wood. They also have panels, and knobs. Necessity is the mother of in- vention, hence hinges. The door slams, and the hinges squeak. The doors also stick. Wood is then re- moved from the edges, and they no longer stick. They do quite the op- posite. In the night they are always closed when you think they are open, and open when you consider them closed. Sneaking thru an open door, which you believe to be closed, never know- ing when you arrive at the threshold, and hurrying thru a closed door which you believe to be open, dis- tinctly aware of the moment of ar- rival, both provide thrilling sensa- tions, somewhat different it is true, the latter composed mostly of noise. When a man is on one side of a door, and wishes to be on the other side, as a rule, he opens the door, anil passes thru. If he cannot do that, he looks thru the key-hole. Doors are of many kinds. Front doors, back doors, cellar doors, side doors, bam doors, and just doors. Front doors are on the front of the house. They are especially construct- ed so that the key-hole may be the darkest place in creation. Back doors and side doors, along with front doors are used principally for entering and leaving the house. Cellar doors pro- vide exits for ash-barrels, and barn doors adorn that part of the space oc- cupied by the barn which is not other- wise adorned. Just doors are used as interior decorations. Baxter Waterhouse '27. AND SO— One day, Studious and his brother, Nou-Studious, on their way home from school met Scholarship. Scholar- ship was a very beautiful girl, and Studious and his brother both loved her very deeply. Scholarship did not like Non-Studious because he was very lazy, and never did anything to win her, but she did not like to tell hJm o. So the next thing for Schol- arship to do was to get rid of Non- Studious. To settle the case, Schol- arship said that the one that studied the hardest would win her. Of course Scholarship knew Studious would win. Non-Studious thought that it would be very easy to win Scholarship, so he did not study very hard. Studious kept right on studying. When the contest ended he was rewarded and won Scholarship, and lived happily forever after. John Brouwer '27. A PRESCRIPTION The ingredients should consist of one or two of Aline Kilmer’s—just a little philosophy taken from someone else—add a trifle of almost anything from Edna St. Vincent Millay—bor- row a bar of melody from an almost forgotten violin song—then a little fairy tale or two—mix them thorough- ly, sprinkle with the last section of Robert Browning’s ’Star”—digest well. Guaranteed not to hurt. Now, don't you feel better? One may vary the ingredients to fit the case, circumstances, mood or conditions. Ethel Whitfield '25. 11

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OUT THE WITAN OUR SCHOLARSHIP Our school days amount to nothing, We think, as the days pass by, But when it conies to the end of the month, We want our marks up high. To get the marks we wish for, Hard work must be our aim, For to a lazy pupil A scholarship never came. So let us give our attention And work with all our will To try to raise our standard high. That our hopes we may fulfill. —Geraldine Gallery ’27. NINETEEN TWENTY-FIVE It takes one year for the earth to make one complete revolution around the sun. During that three hundred and sixty-five days the people of the earth are eating, drinking and sleep- ing, three essentials necessary for life. Yet, despite the fact that they per- form these three essentials, all people are different. Different in appear- ance, different in habits, different in character and intellect. It is during the three hundred and sixty-five days that these distinctions are formed. Would it not he well then for us to think how we are forming these dis- tinctions? Are we making our standard high and trying to live up to it or are we sliding along with no particular standard or ideals, follow- ing our own inclinations whether they he good or bad ? In a word, living along the lines of least resistance— the easy way but not the best way. “Lest we forget” that the old year has rolled away and the new year is upon us, let us take a mental inven- tory of ourselves. Nineteen twenty- four has passed and carried with it all the faults and errors of that year. Nineteen twenty-five comes in with a clean slate, giving us a chance to make our record clean; giving us a chance to perform our tasks each day to the best of our ability, to grasp the opportunities for good as they come to us, opportunities to be cheer- ful and bright, to scatter a little sun- shine on the lives of those around us. Opportunities for strength, courage, perseverance and service. Remember, opportunity knocks but once and when it passes by it is gone forever. Let us then resolve at the threshold of the New Year to “be up and doing, with a heart for any fate, still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.” Elizabeth Brown 26. BROMIDIC AS USUAL Sub-Title—4Pet Aversions” I realize that there is nothing new or original about this topic, but I think it’s one of those subjects on which everyone must express his opinion, at one time or another, in order to get square with his feelings toward the world. Here are the ways some things affect me: When a person says “he don’t,” I feel exactly as 1 do when the dentist starts to drill and says gently. “I may hurt you a little now.” if 10

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THE WIT A N THE MOONLIGHT The moonlight comes in a blaze of white, The clouds part and there is no night; The loitering schoolboy at twilight Is fearfully startled into flight. While we are tucked snugly away in bed, The fox comes out, his young must be fed. Some little mice in the corn lot play, A shadow slinks, then leaps, a mouse is his prey. In battlefields, the moonlight shines Where the dead are sleeping ’neath trailing vines. A weasel sneaks along with the rest, He knows where there's a warbler's nest All in the white moonlight. Richard Post '27. A MYSTERY The mysterious bundles which mother brings home Are very puzzling to me, For if I ask, “Oh, say, what's that 7“ She politely replies. You'll see. And as soon as she gets in the house She packs me ofT to the store. And when I get home it seems as tho' Those bundles have vanished forever more. Edith Stowell ’2b. 1 Looked 1 looked into a crystal ball To see what I could see, It was so large and shiny too It almost frightened me. But then I tho't “I won’t be scared,” When 1 had gone and hid; 1 said, “I’ll go right back and look, And that’s just what 1 did. A lucky member of the III-l Eng- lish class has received a photograph and a message of thanks for a gratifying letter from Mr. Rafael Sabatini, author of a number of well- known historical novels. To say this member is delighted is putting it mildly. BANKING The Thrift Movement in Charlotte High School is becoming more gen- eral. Those who deposit money on Monday morning are scattered thru the different home rooms. One hund- red thirty-one depositors is our best record to date. Amounts are increas- ing. Miss Frances Taylor of the Roches- ter Savings Bank took lunch with us recently. She, with a committee of pupils, has worked out a scheme for promoting interest in Thrift. Posters are being prepared. Dramatic thrift sketches suitable for use in high school assemblies will be purchased by the bank. Ten dollars a sketch is offered. The pupils are trying to save enough money for certain purposes. Vacation, Scout equipment, music les- sons, college and graduation are found to be most popular among the pupils. The pupils do not overlook the fact that banking is simply one phase of the thrift movement. They keep in mind conservation of time, con- servation of materials and the proper relation between earning, spending, giving and saving. —Ethel Shenton, Room 20!K COLLEGIATE (?) Why do High School boys term themselves “Collegiate hpfore they enter college? In Charlotte High School there is evidence of “CollegiatenesB” aplenty. Some of the boys wear army store, navy pea jackets; they say it’s Col- legiutc. A college man would be in wrong if accused of ownership of such a garment. Striped cravats, or neckties as they are known in Charlotte High, adoin the part dividing the body and head of the “dressy.” Are they socks? These highly colored sections of cloth, seen nowr and then below the lengthy and volumin- ous, (again, “Collegiate ) pants, vari- ously material led? Au fait, are cord- uroy (au fait means quite it. ) 12