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ANNUAL degenerated, although we are much better than classes which have been considered “average.” We expect 1915 to improve on our example and help bring this already excellent school a little nearer its ideals. Our class has had the privilege of helping to bring about one of the most needed reforms in the school the proper amount of school spirit. Certainly, we have shown our ability to work together for the benefit of the school. The sup- port the football, baseball and basket ball teams have received this year has been far bet- ter than ever before, and tin teams have respond- ed by playing sportsman-like games. A reception was tendered to the juniors on November 21. and every freshie will avow it was “right there.” The program was varied and so interesting that it will not be soon for- gotten by those who heard it. The 1914 men on the football team did them- selves credit as well as the class. The spirit of the team is shown in the case of the Wilming- ton Banquet and the reception to Easton, as well as the fact that all but one touchdown was scored by a T4 man. On Thursday, January 15. 1914. Mr. Mar- shall Darrach made his first appearance of the season in our auditorium before a large audi- ence. Ilis reading of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” was greatly appreciated. In the two following recitals, he read “Hamlet” and “A Comedy of Errors.” Before ’14 made these recitals a financial success, it was thought that the Chester public would not care for such en- tertainment or at least would grow tired of it after two years, but this was not the case. The interelass debate was the closest and con- sequently the finest debate ever given from our platform. The 1915 team won by a very few points. The girls’ oratorical contest was held on May 7. Miss Elizabeth Oliver, assistant in the Eng- lish Department of Swarthmore College, declar- ed the orations equal to those of college grade. Helen Rhodes won first prize, and Esther Nich- ols. second. The boys’ contest was so close that techni- calities alone could determine tin prizes. The first was won by Joseph Koury and the second by Lawrence Ridington. with Arthur Billsteiu a close third. This class also placed a representative in the Swarthmore Interscholastic Oratorical Contest. With the exception of 1911, this is the only class which has qualified for this honor. And as this class of loyal students—mathe- maticians, orators, authors, poets and athletes— leaves this school, some for higher institutions and some for the broader school of life, we heartily wish that succeeding classes may raise even higher the standards set by old 1914. 17 CLASS OF NINETEEN FOURTEEN.
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ANNUAL 16 The finest Peace Day program ever presented lx»fore the school was rendered by this class. No wonder the faculty said “There is good ma- terial in that class.” and 1912 looked on with amazement and even respect. The term ended with good feeling on all sides. Our first act upon our return to the High School in the fall of 1912 was to hold a meeting for the election of class officers for the ensuing year. Clinton Stewart was elected president; Marjorie Black, vice president; Ralph Penning- ton, treasurer; and Elizabeth Reinhard. secre- tary. The next step was to gain a monopoly of positions on the football team, and with such ’14 men as Birtwell. Cochran. Cramp. Hewes, Robinson and Sweney. tin Chester High School enjoyed a very successful season. The Public Debate now made its inevitable appearance, but a little “if” stood between us and victory. Of coarse! we really won. but by some ingenious method of reversing the order of things, the judges rendered the decision in favor of our opponents. But we more than retrieved this defeat in basket ball. The contest could hardly be called a game; it was more like a tragedy; for when 1914 wiped the floor with the poor seniors, tin latter demonstrated their efficiency as mops, brooms, dust brushes and vacuum cleaners. The game ended with the score 26-17. In March the class once more presented Mr. Darrach to the Chester public. The audiences were completely swayed by his interpretations of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Julius Ca sar” and “The Tempest.” Spring brought baseball with all its glory, and Nineteen Fourteen won an undisputed in- ter-class championship. The junior middles were tin only ones able to put up a somewhat animated game, and they would have had splen- did prospects of success if an express wagon had been used to assist their bush league pitcher in putting the ball over the plate. The recital, however, was the crowning glory of our senior middle year; the grand finale to three long years of splendid work. It ushered in the close of the school term, which ended in a joyous class picnic, which will always be re- membered; for the recollection of those happy days that are no mem will earn from us “the passing tribute e f a sigh.” The autumn of 1913 found the largest senior class in the history of the school back from its summer activities and energetic to assume the eluties of the senior year. We started unusually well. We elected a student council and Ralph Pennington, presi- dent of the class. The council was something entirely new to this school and at first it work- ed splendidly, and we were pronounced by our principal to have the true spirit and the right attitude toward discipline, but we have slowly CLASS OF NINETEEN FOURTEEN.
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