Charlotte High School - Witan Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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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

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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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THE WITAN Smart boys are not wearing their plaid shirts, wide belts or leather jackets to school above their “Colleg- iate pants. Each of these articles of wear, however, has its place; plaid shirts, with the Yukon miner; wide belts should support “shooting irons, and leather jackets enclose the able bodied athletes while on rink or hike. Flash and unharmonizing tinges are not contributory to correct school dress. White shirt, quiet neckties, suit coat, sane socks and pants are conventional, acceptable and present- able for school apparel. H. P. Declaration of Independence. The wisest men in the land met to discuss this matter and, at the end of six months, they gave birth to the Con- stitution of the United States of America. It took much longer for our liberty-loving ancestors to ratify it, but in its own words it was finally “ordained and established to forever secure the blessings of liberty to our- selves and to our posterity. P, G. ’25. OUR CONSTITUTION Of all the documents on record at our State Department in Washington none is more widely known than the Constitution. Gladstone, one of the greatest lawyers the world has ever produced, once said of this document, “A more perfect paper has never be- fore been drawn up by the hand of man. The century that produced our Constitution is the most glorious in the history of our country. The year 1776 marked the end of England’s control over her thirteen colonies on this side of the sea. The entire world stood by amazed and be- wildered at the audacity of thirteen separate anil distinct states combining and declaring themselves one nation free and independent of their mother country. Seven years were spent, during which time our present liberty was consecrated in the blood of our forefathers The eighteenth century had not yet passed from the horizon when there appeared along the At- lantic sea-coast a republic, strong in the knowledge of its right and glori- ous in its new-found freedom—The United States of America. But by those people who were closely associated with the affairs of our infant country it was seen that our government could not long exist unless founded upon something more solid an«l permanent than a mere COVER DESIGN The cover design on this issue, drawn by Raymond Holly, represents the Scholarship Cup presented to Charlotte High School by the class of 11H9. The names of the- honor stu- dents for the last five years are en- graved upon this cup, which stands in the trophy case in Room 101. The conditions governing the award of this honor are given on pages 2 and 3 of this issue. STAFF APPOINTMENTS With this issue of the Witan the present stafi completes its work. The next issue of the Witan will ap- pear early in March, which means that the appointments to the new stair will be made early in February. Any students who have not worked on the stair and who would care to do so should give their names to Miss Sharer or Mr. Lee as soon as possible after the results of the January ex- aminations are known. Only those who are scholastically eligible will bo considered. As the work offers a variety of interests, students desiring appointment should state if possible which line of endeavor appeals to them most, as Business Manager, Re- porter, Art Editor, etc. A complete list of offices on the staff appears on the first page of this issue. 13