Classical High School - Classic Myths Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

Text from Pages 1 - 74 of the 1902 volume:

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TL, V' :': 5 1. wa Tm ,- HIbTOI2Y OI: THE CLASS OI: IQOP ANN X THERESX 'NI XRBL1' 1X 'Xhv firet 1899 the Class of 1909 held rts filet meetmg 1n the XVOTCCSKSI Llfzs lcftl H1gh School Hill at one o clock The clcxss elected tor ofhcers Ur Haskell l,X1ll1'l.l'I'1S Presulent Nhss N111 clled llfl1lfC X ICC PI'6SlClCI1f Mr Hcmx lxcllcx 'lrewsurer Nllss Ilorence Loxxell Secletrry Durmg the s une month the Llrtss held three othcr 1'IlLC'E1I'1U'S The colors gr een and xxhlte those of the Just gr xduated claes xxere chosen 1nd our class pms selected lhe Qlus deculed also to hfzxe no reggulwr COI'1bt1tl1t1OI1 but to folloxx the precedents estabhehed by our prcdecessore 1n thc Hrgh School 'md molc loyrtl for 1ts enforccd scp lr xt1on Our second xewr xx '15 1CIl1ll'lx'1blC tor txxo thmffs first the number of cl rss mcctmgs ten m ull md second our efforts to restrfun the cl rss of 1903 The ofhcers of the second year xxere Nlr Tdffdr Blllflll Presrdent 11158 Florence Lowell V1ce Prem dent Nlr Henry lxelley rI'C'1Sl1lCI' Nlxss Xnnq NI lrble Secretwry A bfmner be xrlng the class motto Ptzsla cz' Pzaesfa Strtnd nrm 'md Fxccel xx as bought md pl xced on the xx 'tll m the othce On February txx enty th1rd 1900 'm mcrdent of ffre'1t 6XLllQLIIlCI1t occurred The C,l'1ss xvae tr'zns'1ct mg 1ts busmess 1n the hall when a member of the clam of 1903 xx as dlscox ered hstemng to wh1t was Page Eleven A 1 L ll Tlfj ', , ' ' .. ' ' ' .' ' ' 7 N 1 1 , ' ' - . . , Y' ' . .' . ' . , ' 1 . 1 . , . . - . . 1 ., . , 1 , . - - , , , . 1 1, L. , . .. , ., . . ' . . , . . , . , - . . ' . . rx 1 Q 4 N- . ' . . ., . . .. . . . . , . , . , . 1 1 ' ' , V Y .' . ' ff 4. 1902 was the first class to be sepztrated into branch schools, but September of 1899 found all the class ' x Y ' x , L -m C ' - ' I- - x t 5- . L Z ' s Q ' ' . as ' z 1 ' ' bs: , H ' Q, ' ' , 2 ' : ' C ' . . L 5. ' , 5 'Q + ' , 'N - Q'- . , Y ' Y . . . V ' . . L , L' C f - , ' N 1 . , , l . , K. , . ., 1 L . . , . . , . . . H , f - Y' H ' ' U v - , f x v ' 1 N , . . L ,. , . . l . . 7 V , . , 1 L . w. 5 K A' 1- 1 1 ' 1 K ,xxx 4 C C - bemg sald It shoxx ed a pralse Worthy Splflt ID the member of that class he xx1shed to see hoxv the Class of 1909 c 1rr1ed on rts busmess that hrs class Ullght copy It and so he xx ms xslted 111 1 kmdly xx ay xx hat he xx IS domg there I 1om h1s rephes It xx ts lc uncd th xt he xx 'rs not there to rmproxe hrs nnnd O no I He xx 'Ls a spx There xx ere crles of Put hun out but he xx xs first courteouslx asked to go After sex er xl rude refusals on hrs part and not l1I'1t1l then the Llass of 1909 'trose IU rts mxght and ejected that 1mpert1nent young person Srnce then there h is been no trouble from spres We looked fOl xx ard xx 1th great 1nt1c1ptt1on to lheld Day 1n 1900 nor xx ere we d1s'1ppo1nted In the morning the Ll xss cxme to school xxe umff 1ts class c tps In the afternoon lt thc frames one of our promr nent members captured the Freshman colors and started to carry them rn dC11b1OI1 across the held The Freshmen Jumped from the1r seats to rescue then' colors and the SODIIOITIOICS to ald the1r fellow class man An ezscrtrng scrunmaofe took place The bophomore class xvon seven points that ye tr and as the lfreshmen won the same number they challenged us to a Duel Meet The challenge xx as accepted but oxxlng to oppos1t1on from the Faculty the meet xx as not held That year came our first class sorroxx xxhen xxe lost by death M1ss Gertrude Kelly Our .Iumor year was '1 year of success 1n athletlcs and the debatxng soc1et1es It IS not necessary to speak of lessons for 1909 has alxv xxs done 1ts duty The thxrd year officers xx ere Presxdent Mr VS 'rldo Parker V1ce Pres1dent Mlss Ixachel Loxx ell Treasurer Mr Charles Dax 19 Secretary 'NI1ss Grace Garland In our .Iumor year xxe xx on the Cross country Run from the Semors and conident Sophomores In the class games we made a score of thxrtv one and one half pomts a la1ge score for 1 .Iumor class agamst the elex en pomts of the Sophomores The day of the cl iss games, great excltement raged True to custom, the .Iumors xx ere not alloxved to hang the1r colors on the flag st ttf 1D front The Semors that year, decorated the loxx er corr1dor and the P xge I xx elxe . . 1 v .Q- 74 .. . Q L 4 Q . . . .., . 1 1 ' '1 1' - '1 -1 ' x 1' 1 V1,-, ' ' v v 1 1,1 .. t . .. I . .. ,L . L. L. L 4 L L, ' 3. '. ' 1' ,1 ,,. , . , . . ' . '. ' , . n n 'ks L S K.. 7 x s Y a A Lx 1 1 y x' - N ' 'I 1,1 1 1- - 1 1 1- 1 , f . . . , 4 . . U 1, . ' a . . 1 N 1 . . I . . N . . .t ,Q , . ... . 1 , ' 1 b . . f.. . . , 1 . ' . . I . 1. . V .1 . In I 4 L L I . , .L . . 1 . . . 1 ,1 . 1. 1 ,- 1 1 11., 1 , s. 1 - , K. 4 . L b . t, L . t G . 4. ,1 - .A. . .-1 , .1 1' ' .'1' , 1 ' .L 1 . . 4 . . 1 . , Q . . y - - . b c . 1 - 1 , .. 1 1 , ,. . 3 1 .. . . t ,L , . .4 , f s y 1 x -' rf fs ' ' 1 Y l , 1 I 1. I ' I , 1. , lf . xi L x K 1 K 1 in s 1 11 1 ' 1 ,Y1 ' 1 . , .. . L . ' ' 1 ' ' 1 1 1 . 1 I , y . - 1 , . 1 . . ,I . 1. , , , 1 Q . 1 ' s . ,I . c'., t ',I . . . 1 . Y Y '- ' ck. l .1 1 - - I1, . . C 1, 1 , ' 1 1 Z ' C I . l I ' 1 - , ' ' .1 y ' Q . , 1 'lv v Sr Q Semor rooms VVhat should we do? Fxc1ted groups of Juniors gathered ln the rooms and corr1dors One Jumor whose gene1os1ty ue shall alu ays remember gaxe us some streamers and xery soon green and uhm, decorated the gas Hxture of Room 17 and there It stay ed most of the mornmg A glrl of 1902 had an 1nsp1rat1on and elrly 1n the mmnmg to our Joy and the Scmors chscomnture our green and uh1te on the State Mutual bu1ld1ng xx u cd 1n the breeze All that mormng the teachers seemed to be 1tra1d that we were gomff to mutate 1901 s bad example and try to take down the Semor colors Of course not VVe were too pol1te and bes1des, 1901 s day was nearlv over Let them enjoy rt vwh1le lt lasted, vse thought In the debatmg soc1et1es that year three members of 1909 were 1n the Jomt debate between the Sumner Club and the Fucle1a Tvto members were on the w1nn1ng team I the Alethela a member of our Class took part 1n the pr1ze debate Early 1n September 1901 began our Semor year Durmg all our cou se we had looked forward to 1t, and we assembled xx 1th great ant1c1pat1on 1n the hall to be ass1gned to our rooms Before the first week was over we had begun to reallze that Semor year meant much more than merely belng Sen lors All the classes that had been wuth us when we began our course were gone and wlth them many of our frlends Then too there were the Senlor respons1b1l1t1es It was our last chance to redeem ourselves 1f we had made m1stakes 1n the past For those who were preparmg for college this has had to be a year of hard thorough work Th1s year the class of 1901 d1d the tuo most noteworthy acts of 1ts career It left the H1gh School to make way for 1909 and some of 1ts members the wlsest Jomed 1909 for as long a t1me as they could VVe congratulate them for then' good sense Our Semor ofiicers are Pres1dent Mr W1llard Whrtman Vrce Pres1dent MISS Harr1et Roe Treas urer Mr Arthur Burns Secretary M1ss Blanche Brownell, Orator Mr Edgar Burrlll Class Poet M1ss P xge Thlrteen 1 1 . . 1 . . 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It up llltl c 1ptur1. 0111 to 1stn1 1stc1 lhcx xx crc unsuccessful On tht propue to1 s xx ord no flll n1turc or Llllll 1 xx as IJIOIXCII 1nd no s1lx CI 01 to lsllll Lstcr t'1ls6Il In Athleucs xxexx on the Indoor Interscholast1c 'NIeet 111 Boston ind three 1909 ff1rls xx o11 the H1 h School ll 111 b tslxct b 1ll cjlll 3011101 xc 11 xxc lost txx o of o11r 1llLIIllJE,IS 111 the dc xths of NI1ss Xhce Ix1ce 1nd 'NI1 I CIOX Ihoxx 11ell 'NI1ss R1ce xx as 11ot a IIl61'I1lD6I' ot the Class tor a long tune VI h1le he1e she xx '1s 1 qu1et gnl 1nd a t0Lld.11T1 1s then OXX11 Although xcrx xounf to be '1 SLIIIOI hc xx ts 1studcnt of 1110 l.l31l1tN 'llltl hed he l1x ed he xx ould have led ft d1st1ngu1shed cftreer IH college 'lnd ifter hfe On N115 suteenth NO? tl1e Qlqss '1ch1exed '1 success xxh1ch I can t1 ulx slv xx as the ffre 1test success of 1ts lxllld ex er 1ch1ex ed bg the lVorcestc1 schools X 111 CSLIll'1UOIl of the t1 mgcdx of 'NI tcbeth 15110 11ght task for profess1onal actors Xet the Clftss of 1907 tra1ned by fan TIUITIHUS of the H1ffh School, 111 the1r presentat1on of the play, succeeded bex ond tl1e most s'1ngu1ne CX17CCI3t101'1S of the1r xx ell xx1shers We fue proud that 1 member of th1s Ll xss h 15 xx on from 1ll the 'ULHIOFS 111 VVorceste1 County the pr1zc 111 the Pdtr1ot1c Lontest, 111bt1UlfCd by tl1e D xulfhters of the Revolut1on Less than a month from to day xxe sh1ll have gmduqted from the H1Uh School most of us not to return '1s scholars M 1y xxe 1lxx ays ren1en1be1 the school that xve haxe loved and tl1e teichers xxho have tra111ed us, and our motto Persta et Praestft Page Fourteen .' , 7 . . 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C ' Y 1' 4, ' I 44. 1' 1 ' 1' 1 nr, I , ' 1' 1' . Al: ' - 1 M' 1 l 1 , ' 1 'i A 1 ez 5, ' ' si' ' C, '1 , 1' j '1' ' ' 1 d 1 . This 1s the tale that its old Covers holclg ., , , , . l . t 1 Q . . 1 E . Extremus galeaque 11121. subsecht Acestes K5 - 1 Q' A xr - I ' -' 1 , ' - 1 g 1 A 1 . '11 I 1 1 1 i r l Q . H Q z '1 1 ,, ' g S 11 ' 1 . -' if 1 2 ' 1 1 -. -, - I H 1 1 51 1 1511 j 1 g . -. 1 , - . Q . , I v I l - X v A . 1, 1113, 1, 1 1 ,1 1 1 51 . Mumblmg and grumbhng Over Words stumbhng Th1S 1S the way that some puprls reclte, Th1S 1S the t xle of the1r unhappy phght Another young gemus whose vusdom amazed hlm Rex ealed to the teacher s surpr1se And up on both tlptoe he carefully ralsed h1m And stretched out h1s arms to the skles Burnmg and turnxnof Doubtfully learnmg Greeted wlth laughter he quxckly vuthdrew Lost 1n the book vsh1ch betrayed what he knew Rehearsed w1th a fluency rare The teacher surpr1sed at the ghb explanatzons Qearched out from a pony Wlth care Endxng heartrendmg, Fa1lure 1mpend1ng Then after all lt was only a hoax One of those t1mexx orn proverbml Jokes The squeaks of the deskseat are very thstressmg At least to a teacher s keen ear P ge Fxghteen Espec1ally so vshen the lesson progressmg GIVES cause for a funt pupll s fear Darmg bewarlng, Penalty bearmg M my a lad has dlscovered too late, Fate Laught 15 the 3 outh who would meddle xx 1th Ivsarn you my readers, there s danger 1n squeak At least 111 fourth hour s br1ght class , mg For fifty long hnes of that Vergxl are seekmg To sn orry some youngster, alas' F1fty Oh fifty ' Terrlble fifty l F1ft5 hard l1nes 1n xy be g'1VCI1 to you But Oh when the final exams are appearmg When trme for the papers dravss near T 19 then that the hearts of the xusest lrc fe rrmg And hfe rs depressmg and drear Fillllflg bexxa1l1ng, Hope afar Salllllg' MOuIDfU1 1S he who has wasted hrs dax Merry the one xx ho c m boast of an A , , . Q 7 . Y ! , . . ' Y . . Z . . . . , , . ' . I H ' 'I . , gg ,' . 1 Y Y '- , v . . ' ' CC . . i . Q K ' 1 v K l 1 ' 1 - ' ' ' l - 7' ,. , .L 5 . by . S . K . , 7 1 K 1 4 . . 7. D Y 4 n , . .4 7 1 4 V '. ' Though anc1ent,I sm1le at the br1l11ant translatlons, what 9' dreaid lesson' Oh YN hat would you do ' , . K . my . - Y ' L C o 8 V , . . ' 7 ' y I 1 ' ,' . . , , , ' . , Y K 1 a 5 u - . 4 V - 1 y Y , . . . , , c 'c .' , x K Y .sl s 1 , ' . v L' -1 . L ',, . 1 , . Y . . H , y . . . . . Ouae raprdas Hamnus ambrt torrentrbus amms, Tartareus Phlegethon, torquetque sonant1s saxa I m ragged I m worn and prepared to surrender Nly shade to the dark realms of sleep All usefulness vamshed I m ready to render My ghost to sad Acheron deep Rended and mended, Lrfe s story ended, Faded forffotten and desolate lo Hack to obl1w1on f'1reu ell' I go Ard yet '1 word more ere I start for those regxons Where Cocx tus rolls vuth 1ts gloom, lVhcrc Phlesfethon Ham es past the shadowy leglons I'h'1t roam o er the world of my doom Fated belated I ouq have I Walted Qoon I shall Journey where I may behold L 'esar ind QICCTO dftrmff and bold Perhaps there are some 1n the Class who remember The hopes of the Autumn before And xxxsh that the das s of that far off September Returmufr xx ould Meet them once more I eavlng and grxevlng Lrttle ach1ev1ng Now at th1s moment are crymg rn Vam Oh 1f I only could do lt agam Yet rf there are ser1ous fa1lures that sadden In each burdened year of your l1ves There 15 st1ll the hope of success that w1ll gladden And he 1s the wmner who strxves Shrftrng or dflftlllg' Ever uphftmg Not for yourself but your ne1ghbor you l1ve And then when the years wrth the1r storm clouds shall lower, And half of your hfe work IS done, Remember your maxrm before you th1s hour Stand Hrm t1ll at last you have won Meetmg or greetmg, Shadows fast tleetmg I ook to your motto and let the years tell Persta et Preasta Stand firm and excel Page Nmeteeu ll - 1 u u - 1 ' 1 Q Q M . . 1. , , , 1 . ,, . . . . . , Y ! 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All the pr1nc1ples of these books come under one great theme The Principle of Fraternal Co operation ho one can deny that exactly the opposite principle esists to day In business, most clearly xve see the workings of that inexorable law The survival of the Httest or, 1n other words the death of t e xx eakest A company buys o11t an 1nd1v1dual store a corporation unclersells the company a trust crushes e corporation, and a monopoly kills the trust Each 1nd1v1dual and each business concern IS trying to ge trade axx ay from every other 1nd1v1dual and concern The conditions of business to day demand that these thmgs shall be But no one can deny the hideous selfishness of it lNor can any one deny that there is terrific waste by such cut throat compet1t1on wastes of material over production of 1dle capital, tility, this low ideal of self gam Bellamy xvell po1nts out the inconsistency of modern business ethics As he says A man may not so much as Jostle another while drinking a cup of water lest he should spill it but he may acquire the spring of water on which the community solely depends and make the people pay a dollar a drop for it or go without He may not by force take away a bone from a beggar s dog but he may corner the grain supply of a nation and reduce thousands to starvation The sy stem of wealth and wages IS another example of inconsistency A trust magnate, work1ng for his own selfish interests draws a salary of several million a year The President of the United States carrying on the affairs of the ent1re nat1on and xx orking for the 1nterests of the whole people gets a meagre fifty thousand Is not such a wage scale unjust and unfa1rP There is another point for us to consider That well known authority Mr John Brisben Walker states from careful computations that lf all labor were equally distrlbuted no one would have to work more than four hours a day Something IS evidently wrong wlth our political economy then, when some factories are running night and day and others only five m1les away perhaps have been idle for months , Page Twenty three - . . L h , Q. . . .Q Q Q . Q Q 1 Q C1 1 1 i ,IV , h Y C 4 If ' ' ' 5 , ' L. 5- , A. ks La . -' 1 ' ' t . Q . . , . . Q K - . . - KQ Q . Q - . Q . . of ruinous strikes and riots and periodical business crises-all resulting from this mutual business hos- CK I . f - 1 . y C 1 1 Q L Q . . . Q , ' ' 1 , . . . . ,, Y 9 ' . Q I 1 ' C C C ni ' . n il I Q . . . . Q Q . , Q . Q - . Q Q . , . l D ! I . . when many workshops are filled Wlth ch1ldren and old men and near at hand hundreds of able bod1ed youths roam the c1t1es 1n 1dleness Another effect of th1s pr1nc1ple 15 the d1V1S1OU of manl-:md 1nto two classes the r1ch and the poor The r1ch are a very small m1nor1ty 1ndeed but how tremendously powerful that m1nor1ty 1s' Our country 1S called a democracy and to be sure 1n pol1t1cs we have a pres1dent placed 1n the Whlte House by the people But 1n 1ndustry vse have coal dukes sugar barons o1lk1ngs and steel emperors And wh1ch IS really the more powerful our boasted democracy of government or th1s plutocracy backed by 1ts b1ll1ons upon wh1ch the people are dependent? Th1s 1S a day of large th1ngs of vast enterprlses and b1ll1on dollar comb1nat1ons The tendency 15 1nev1table for lt means greater economy Therefore says Bellamy form one nat1onal 1ndustr1al corpora t1on Let 1t be conducted by the people as a whole and for the people as a whole As the trust of to day 1S many t1mes more econom1c than 1nd1v1dual compet1t1on so a natlonal control and superv1s1on of 1ndustry 1S st1ll more exped1ent than the modern trust Th1s then 1n br1ef lb the xdeal that Bellamy holds before us the doctr1ne of nat1onal1sm And how s1mple how natural how very reasonable 1tSCCI1'1b' He snnply makes the nat1on the parent of 1ts human1ty Each worker 15 respons1ble to xt alone yet each depends on the co operat1on of every other As he sums lt up The epoch of trusts had ended 1n the Great Trust In a word the people of the Un1ted States concluded to assume the conduct of the1r own bus1ness Just as 1n 1776 they had assumed the conduct of the1r own government orgamzmg now for 1ndustr1al purposes on prec1sely the same grounds that they had then organ1zed for pol1t1cal purposes They transferred the d1rect1on of the1r 1ndustry from 1rrespons1b1e tyrants to the people collectlvely to be carrled on by respons1b1e agents for the common benefit As a nat1on we elect men to manage our pol1t1cal affalrs but as a bus1ness people we st1ll contmue under an old out grown system. We stand by customary methods whether those methods are rxght or Page Twenty four , - r s - Y 7 ' I ! . . V . . . 4 , , , . . v - 9 1 , . 1 x - Q ' ' 9 2 ' ' 9 . 9 9 n a ' 1 1 ' C - ' , 1 ' . . sn . r - x 1 , 1 . . . H . . . x . 1 Q ' Q xx rong But IS not the proper conduct of the people s means of l1Vel1l'1OOCl of as much lmportance as the hu1ld1ng of canals and warsh1ps? Are not measures to prex ent a great Pennsylvanla coal str1lte or to suppress the tyranny of a Beef Trust as lmportant as rec1proc1ty treat1es xx 1th forelgn countrles? Or should the formal1t1es of leg1slatures take precedence over the d1rect xx ell belng of the 1nd1v1dual at home ? Not forever w1ll a truly democratlc people suffer '1 few despot1c monopohes to dole out thelr food and drmls and comfort Busmesses are combmmg and consolldatmg more and more each day t1ll the 1nev1tab1e result vslll be that the natxon must SUDCTVISB 1ts xast 1ndustr1es We can see the 1ncl1nat1on towards thls rad1cal change already Pres1dent Roosevelt 1n h1s message to Congress, ma1nta1ned that the trusts should be subject to proper government superv1s1on and aga1n that the Natlon should l o assume pou er of superv1s1on and regulation over all corporatxons domg an lnterstate buslness That 1S the first step d1rect control should soon follow It IS argued however, that pol1t1cal corrupt1on xx ould prex ent the carrymg out of such a system as Mr Bellamy has outlmed We fall to see why POl1t1C'1l corrupt1on to day merely means the occas1onal apphcatlon to the publ1c adm1n1strat1on of the profit seekmg pr1nc1ple upon wmch all prlvate bus1ness 15 now conducted VVhen the scattered and host1le 1nterests throughout the natlon are blended 1nto one th1s purely self seek1ng mot1ve dlsappears And when men reahze that thelr very hves depend on those xx hom they place ID pow er, pOl1t1CS w1ll be cleansed and busmess Wlll be pur1iied We shall not now have t1me to cons1der all the deta1ls of thls great scheme nor can we answer here all the obgectlons of the cap1tal1st but the reader of Equahty w1ll find there all such obJect1ons fairly met and refuted There 1s, however one more po1nt 1mportant for us to cons1der We hear lt Sald that the funda mental cause of soc1al mlsery 15 human s1n and deprav1ty 'md that It IS valn to expect any great 1mprove ment 1n the soc1al cond1t1on through mere lrnprovements 1n soc1al forms and 1nst1tut1ons Unt1l there 1S a correspondmg moral lmprovement 1n men, lt 1S therefore argued, It 1S of no use to lntroduce 1mproved Page Twenty five 7 . ,N . . 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SOC131 systems That 1S to say, we must not thmk of trymg to change to a better system because we are not yet good enough to try to be better' It IS necessary that we wa1t untll we are more rxghteous, before we attempt to leave off domg 6V1l' The max1m IS worthy of the fool 1n the old story who resolved not to go mto the water t1ll he had learned to sw1m As Macaulay says If men are to walt for l1berty t1ll they become WISC and good 1n slavery, they may, 1ndeed wa1t forever Let us then honor Bellamy for what he has done Let us g1ve hrrn cred1t at least for bemg earnest and s1ncere and sens1bly cons1stent, deeply des1rous of better thmgs for h1s fellowmen HIS plea IS for real l1berty and equal1ty and Justlce He shows us what men can do, what they should be H1s plan lb prob ably lncomplete and 1mperfect, or too h1gh an rdeal perhaps, for the sweepmg mater1al1sm of to day but, at any rate, It 1S a step forward, an effort 1n the r1ght dxrectxon If any one w1ll read Lookmg Backxx ard and Equallty ' w1thout pre3ud1ce holdmg h1s m1nd open to truth w1th the same 3ust1ce and fa1rness that Bellamy uses 1n deal1ng w1th both b1dCS of all these problems, I doubt 1f he w1ll have a smgle 1mportant objectlon vs h1ch Bellamy does not ansu er But, 1f he does, let h1m not be content w1th merely tearmg down another s work let h1m cons1der lt h1s sacred duty as a patr1ot1c c1t1zen, 1n the hght of present 6V1lS, to try to find another and a better way some 1ntermed1ate step from the strmfe of to day to the brotherhood of man of to morrow For he d1pt mto the future far as human eye could see Saw a v1s1on of the world and all the wonder that would be When the war drum throbbed no longer and the battle flags were furled In the Parllarnent of man the federatlon of the world Then the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm 1n awe And the klndly earth shall slumber lapt IH umversal law Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one xncreaslng purpose runs And the thoughts of men are wldened wxth the process of the suns Page Twenty slx . u n 0 . 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I Y It has been '1 fittmg custom for the members of each graduatmg class of th1s school to leave behmd them some shght token of the1r smcere grat1tude and affect1on towards thelr first alma mater And so the Class of 1909 as It stands on the threshold of a new world, wxshes to present to the school as a memorzal of 1ts lastmg love 'md apprecmtlon a p1cture of the Longressuonal I lbrary at Washmgton In the corr1dor beloxx there lb aprcture of the L'1p1tol IH the same c1ty Just as that bu1ld1ng a symbol of our natlon s culture 'md moralxty The two are compamon p1ctures one to represent free dom 1n government the other freedom of thought, one to stand for the value of soclal 1nst1tut1ons, the other for the necessxty of 1mprov1ng the m1nds and morals of the 1nd1v1dual We regret that we shall be unable to present the p1cture 1tself th1s afternoon as word was recelved unexpectedly at the last moment that the desrred p1cture xx ould not be ready for some t1me to come But, Mr Pr1nc1pal, It gives me great pleasure m behalf of the Class of 1902, to leave w1th you the money for the purchase of th1s g1ft for the Ll'1ss1cal H1gh School Page Twenty seven CK . . . u s L s 1 x ..f, l .1 ' s 1 l. . , . s' . S L -L ' y 1 X X 1 1. 4- C Q . n should typify the grandeur of our political greatness, may this picture which we are about to give also be 1 . , 1 . . . 1- - . 1 1 1 .... , . .. 1 . . 1 . . X ! . 1 . , 1 1. . ,, CLNLS5 DIQODHECN JOHN XX KLL XLT PLAISIED R Tqft xx here lre xxe '1t present, '1CCOI'll1I1U' to yO11l e'1lcul 1t1onsP E1ght f'1tho1ns beloxx the S111 fame 'md ten m1les outs1de the Ox 'll xx 18 the reply of 1113 exec 11t1ve oiiieer, D R T 111 late promoted heutenrmt CO1UUlLII1dCI III the Lmted Qmtes Nfixy VVe Ollffhl to 111 zke P ixton N Lxv X 1111 1n h xlf 'tn l'1ou1 C, 1pt11n X ery good, Nlr I 1ft I f1nsxxe1ed, brmff the sh1p 1n to the xxharf '15 soon is poss1ble 51r The lleuten lnt saluted 'md left the C'llJ1I'l He h ld hardly been ent out for '1 s ulor, but the lJO1StCl011'1 meetmffs of h1s pre51dent1al tCII1'l 111 the burnner Llub, 1n 1909 h 1d L iused hllll to deene to get out of g uned my oxxn COIT1I'Il1SSlOI1 tln Ollffh l.CIl'1111 xx ork 111 eonneetmn xx1th sulnn 1r1ne 11 1X14f'ltlOll, C.OllSlStlll0' of the appl1cat1on of natur xl gn fO1 l1ffhten1ng, ind a peeulmr fxdjuetment of xx e1ghts for Sllllxlllg' the xessel, and was noxv 1n command of the SlllDIT1'1T1116 battlesh1p Alfiskw, Juet 1eturn1nff from tl1e n'1x '11 n11nr111x1es It the 1nf111gur'1t1on of Premdent Rlehel I oxxell xxhose pop11lu1t3 IN st1ll 1ne1e'1s1ng When I left XVlSll mgton lt xxae generally reported that she hfld I'1OI'1l1Il'1tCd 'NIr Arthtn Burns Seeretnry of the lvefteuxy and C F Daxns dnector of tl1e XI h11e Houee golf lmks I ISSK Ixxcntx Clglll - 1 1 1 X Y J I 1' '1 1' ' 1 . 1 ' , ' , 11 66 . 1 , ' 1 ' 1 . 1 B 1 z , . 41 . 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V ' If. xl ,.1 ,. -,'f,- V Jinx Na A aw f As soon as the Alaska drew mto the wharf I recelved from the hands of an ofhcer the followmg commumcatlon NAXY DEPARTINIENT May 23 1932 To C-XPTXIN J W PLAISTED C'07?Z7lZll7l!l'Z7Z.Q7 Submarzne Baillcshzp Alaska You are hereby ordered to leave your shlp 1n charge of Lleutenant Taft and proceed at once to Ph1ladelph1a there to take passage 1n the newly mvented space machme for a tr1p of exploratlon to the planet Mars Further 1nstruct1ons awart your arr1val S1gned WARREN! WILLIAMS Scfrelary of the Navy My surprrse at the novel mstructlons was great but I at once took the specxal electr1c eng1ne wh1ch was m wa1t1ng findmg the eng1neer to be James F Lowder We made Phrladelphla 1n about an hour and I went 1mmed1ately to the place from wh1ch the flymg or rather space machme was to ascend A placard on the fence around the enclosure read PASSAGE FOR PLANET MARS BY SPACE MACHINE S2 500 00 APPLY TO E vu BURRILL PRoPR1EToR He mxght as well have sald mventor for only our old class orator could have conce1ved such a lofty idea I made my appl1cat1on and was accepted as a passenger It seemed Mr Burr1l1 was wa1t1ng for Major Howard the famous d1scoverer of the North Pole to act as the army representat1ve on the Jour ney Major Howard arr1ved that mght but of my other travelling compamons I could learn nothing Ne:-lt mormng we started very early so early that one of our prospect1ve passengers Mr Warren L Harlow representmg the AI ETHEIA of Worcester had to be left behmd because lt was such hard Page Thlrty one 1 ax ,, . . . . . a . , v , . - f . . , . . . cc ,, 7 v v 1 . . . . . wi . . ac- . ,, . . , , . . , 4 s . 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' 7 . . . s 9 ' Q 1- I n ' Y , g a c . u ,, - - v 1 1 1 : x work to get up It was commonly reported that Mr Harlow had had an mterest 1n the Worcester Nor mal School but It seemed that he had returned to the old C H b aga1n at last for very personal reasons When we were fa1rly off and the electrxc hghts had been turned on I looked round at the assembled company and sau the followmg persons who had come on the tr1p for fun health or because of orders as Major Howard and myself had done Flrst I not1ced at the helm the proprletor of the strange venture Then I caught sxght of another face whose owner was talkmg busxly Though he wore a tremendous beard I at once recogmzed one known to fame as George G Shor Near h1m was a lady whom I recogn1zed as Adehne Warren Next I caught slght of W1ll1am E Qumn Chfton E Melsop was at the other end of the mach1ne wh1le Magor Howard was s1tt1ng besxde me and wondermg 1f there was room enough for a basket ball game There was another whom I could not see who was talkmg to Mr Burr1ll but when he turned I knew lt could be none other than a modest ret1r1ng and very svs eet fellow called VV1llard M Wh1tman There was some mus1c 1n the forward cab1n as we called It on sh1pboard and I saw 1n thxs cab1n Rosalme Brand Emma E Kneeland Ollver Slmard and Arthur Hackett I made bold to ask Burr1ll lf he had found any one who could make h1m behave but he was not very ready to g1ve me an answer so I d1d not press the questlon I asked h1m about our old classmates and he sald Of course you remember the gang who sat near me 1n Room 13 1n Fxfth Hour Greek I cer tamly d1d Well he sa1d they have gone 1nto the lumber busmess under the firm name of Butler Bros Ryan and Kennedy and are runn1ng several saw m1lls 1n Alaska by horse power They clfum a large experlence 1n the handhng of horses .lust then Shor broke ln there s Abbot too' but Slmard stopped h1m Oh' shut up Shor I should th1nk you must be out of vnnd after your expenence on the moon That sounds lnterestmg Page Thxrty two v 0 n - . , . 1 , 4 . . . . 1 1 Y 1 1 . ' , . Y 1 V 7. 4. . y , . . , . . . . . . - . , . . . . Y ' 1 1 . . . . u . ,, . . . , 1 1 ' 1 . 1 . ' . sc 4 , . . . ,, . . . as ,, . u . . s ' 1 1 , . . . . - ., , ' ' . L . . as , , . . ss 1 ' - 1 1 . V. . .,, as . . ,, 7 sald Melsop what s Shor been do1ng on the moon Banquo old man? Why was the reply Shor went up there w1th Burrlll the Hrst tr1p th1s mach1ne made Burr1ll left h1m there a week because Shor was so lmght he spo1led the mfluence of the ballast and when he had fixed h1s mach1ne and gone back to the moon there was a1r enough there to last twenty thousand years where there had been Just none at all before Shor landed It must have been about all hot a1r remarked Wh1tman Then Wh1tman here cont1nued S1mard IS qu1te a pol1t1cal boss He was Speaker of the House of Representatrves 1n Paxton or was 1t North Brookfield or perhaps M1l1bury a year or two ago but I guess he s res1gned srnce Let h1m tell you about It later when I get done MISS Elrzabeth Smrth, you know l1ves on Vernon Street 1n Worcester keeps a great poultry farm near Worcester Academy and feeds her hens almost altogether on Pratt s Poultry Food Ed1th D1xon has followed up her success as a Macbeth the last I knew and B111 Sargent has stepped 1nto h1s ex father s shoes and IS play1ng Ban quo I ve heard lt 1sn t up to the standard I set for h1m though sard Srmard regretfully But I can t help It the example was good enough M1ss VVa1tes came to a sad end here a l1ttle vxh1le ago She got 1nterested ln some Greek manuscr1pts and stud1ed so hard she forgot to eat and so nearly starved I knew she was fond of study1ng but d1dn t th1nk she would carry lt so far I ve heard that M1ss N ewhall was marr1ed about twenty years ago and 1S st1ll happy but then she 1S not one of the k1nd who IS often unhappy M1ss Clara Lathrop has grown wealthy as a desrgner Her fortune was well earned S1mard was goxng ahead but Wh1tman 1nterrupted Hold on Sxmard, you ve had your share and bes1des you 11 get on to your old blufling tr1ck pretty soon and then we can t tell whether to be11eve you or not Let me have a share Crowley and Melsop there, ran a company play1ng a Comedy of Errors ' but Crowley 1S runnrng Page Thlrty three Q - l at , . ,, ll ,, cc ' J 9 D ' ! 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' ! 7 . , . , . l D KC . l 1 C u 4 I ! it alone now and playing nearly the whole show too He s enough of a mistake for a whole company Shor here remarked something about Abbot Yes Itried to but Talking again said VVh1tman you really mustn t Shor because you arent used to lt you know VVell Abbot got so disgusted w 1th the existing state of affairs imperialism etc that he got a space machine of Burrill and st xrted for a place where there would n t be room for more than two Who the other IS is a secret Judge is among the departed T1s said he has old M1nos s Job on the house boat but nobody knows Miss Kneeland has the floor said Burr1ll just at th1s point You have talked so much Whit stopped VVell said Nliss Kneeland Mr Burrlll Just spoke of the Sumner Club I happened in there a few nights ago and found the great exponent of woman s suffrage Miss Fthel Willard speaking on her favorite topic It seems that she and Miss Helen Moore both fell 1n love w1th the same fellow and he married some one else M1ss Moore felt so badly about it that she disappeared and has not been seen since Too bad remarked Whitman sympathetically He probably understood the matter Don t take lt too much to heart Willie said our captain Burrill Miss Webb lb at present register of deeds continued Miss Kneeland and she is assisted by Miss Upham and Miss McEvoy They had Fred Stone there awhile and then they found he really knew how to work and as thlb was totally unexpected and it had been a part of the contract that he should not work, poor Stone was discharged Then they h1red Harold Grant and as the contract was the same and fits well with Grant s desires he still holds his position Urban Mull1n 15 a captain on a ship of the White Page Thirty four . . k Y l , .5 Y N .,, ss . I in ' 1 ! CK . . ,y . - ll y X Q y 1 . Y ! Y ! ' ! 7. , . .1 ' .1 f . , 1. ti , ., ' . ' v ' . , , 1 , 9 '- - . , .4 ' as . 1 , . Q . 1 . t, . ' 1 Y I, 14 . ,, . . . . . cc . 1 1 - ' 1 ' man, that it seems like a Sumner Club meeting when Shor and Plaisted had the floor. It's time you 37 U l ,, . . . at . . . , l . , . . . , 1 . . . 1 s l 1 1 ' l 9 ! ' i? as ,, . . 9 9 ' ' lf , 1 - Q ,, - - . 7 ! ' ll n - Q . ,, - 1 ll - n . 1 1 5 1 . Y . ' 7 . '1 , ' ! 7 ' ! .T , Star Lme H1s shlp IS called 'Nhldred Robert Bramhall had so much to say for hxmself that Forbes the modern Edlson, gave h1m work as a speaker for the records of the latest phonograph Forbes they say IS l1ke Ed1son because ECll5OI1 used to forget to sleep very often and Forbes always forgets to keep awake FthelBem1s 1SDI'1IT1'1 donna 1n C, I' Porter s great opera company M1ss Anne Sm1th and M1ss JOS16 Carleton have bought out the Nlodern NIerchand1se Co and 1ntend to erect a new bu1ld1ng on the sxte to be ent1rely dex oted to the t1me honored game of bean bag Nllss Goodw1n 15 now pr1nc1pal of Worcester C H 5 , and among the young men at least lS more popular than her father was Accord mg to the returns of the C,ongress1onal Elect1on 1n the Worcester D1str1ct another Thayer was 1n the success1on as next member of the House of Representatlves not John R but Mary A W It 15 evpected that her mfluence on the men who compose the greater part of the house u1l1 be great Blanche Brownell 15 C-lO11lg finely as pastor of a large church 1n Brooklyn She IS greatly asslsted by one They had to expel M1ss Ann 1 Nlarble for fr1vol1ty because she wrote a com1c h1story of the klngdom of Chma under the rule of Emperor W1ll1am F Qumn 1913 1993 Of NI1ss Florence Lowell lt IS supposed that the old story endmg and they l1ved happ1ly ever after, 15 all that 1S necessary M1ss Goddard IS st1ll arr1ng1ngha1r but not alu ays her own now for she has qu1te adxfhcult task to keep S1mard s 1n order M1ss Molly Bowlxer has moved to XVash1ngton because of her 1nterest ID the Navy Department, and par tlcularly 1n the newly appomted Secretary Ph1l1p Fl1nt M1ss Barker 15 very successful but I don t know what she s domfr M153 Nlary Madden has been promlnent as '1 pol1t1c1an and publ1c speaker and b1ds falr to r1val the fame of her brother John of glor1ous and lmmortal memory M1ss Harr1et Roe IS noted as a poet all over the world, as you all expected doubtless when she read the class poem But It seems to me that we have about reached our dest1nat1on We can cont1nue the story later ' She was r1ght xt was txme to leave the mach1ne for we were NVltl'11I1 half a m1le of the planet When Page Thlrty five . .Q Q . . . . , Q Q . . 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The Chmese made me Emperor 1n 1915 and I was Emperor for ten years Then I had to leave the country because they found out that I was an expert on Verg1l That s all I got for my endeavors to please Mr Abbot and get my Verg1l lessons S1nce then I have been a pr1nce among the Fsqmmaux at the North Pole vxh1ch our fr1end MaJor Howard d1scovered1n 1913 But I got t1red of rul1ng w1thout your support Macduff and so I came to Ph1ladelph1a and Burr1ll mduced me to come along u1th h1m How about our old classmates I asked do you know anyth1ng about them P Met Greenwood near the North Pole once He sa1d that they had made 1t so hot for h1m 1n Wor and they were so mad when he dxdn t he had to Hee from the country I was 1n Worcester a few days ago and wh1le stroll1ng down by the old I-I1gh School Annex I not1ced a queer srgn gomg down Ma1n Street It appeared to be a plam canvas xx 1th two pa1rs of feet and one head It read The long and the short of lt Buy your cloth1ng at W E Wardwell s When I got by and looked at the front the long and short of lt was seen to be two hopefuls called Haskell IV1ll1ams and T S Engllsh Theodore Southw1ck has done a good deal rn h1s quxet way but w1thout attractmg any not1ce Wh1tman I found s1ck at one t1me but a l1ttle careful treatment Wlth ICC cream and a certa1n popular brand of baby food soon restored h1m Mrchael Kearney and Thomas Morr1ssey are at work on the lN1caraguan Canal because people have fa1th 1n the1r ab1l1ty to break through Allan M1ller has 1nvented some sort of no1seless powder so as to save Jar on the nerves part1cularly h1s own You know how very nervous he 1S Charley Buckard has been blow1ng h1mself on a cornet for 35 years and IS st1ll fa1rly substant1al espec1ally 1n respect to h1s grm Anderson our old Seyton has acqu1red a tremendous VOICC by pract1ce on the Page Thxrty sxx , , ns ,, . 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I 7 ' l D megaphone El11nwood IS as good as ever according to report but he has never made much no1se in the world as Burrill has because he lb too good John McCarthy IS clown in some c1rcus and 15 war ranted to keep fresh like C F Davis continually Flemm1ng IS work1ng terr1bly do1ng nothing and IS always weary, as of old Edward F English as Mayor of Worcester IS noted for what he does not say contrary to the custom of certain members of our class Truly Quinn was becoming almost too personal Just then we came to the bank of a canal and discovered some of our party under a large tree not far an ay We walked toward them and found them d1scuss1ng old times Yes Miss Brand was saying Ida Graves was a fine mus1c1an but she strained a chord one day and has not been able to play since Miss Anna Pellet and Miss Catherine D1voll are running a lunch room for out of town pupils of the C H S under the patronage of Helen Warren and M1ss Clara Phil lips VValter Robbms too has a share 111 the company It IS Sald that Miss Lxlla Woodbury 1S a silent MCA amara s restaurant Vhss Blanche Hayes is an heiress and some people s ideas are hazy as to how it came about for she and Miss Al1ce Troy are always a little behind Helen Munroe Madeleine Nourse and Mabel Heslor are runninv an empor1um of fashion Al1ce and Cather1ne Sull1van Catherme Tray nor and Anna Van Allen are all guiding the wayward steps of the young along the paths of knowledge Grace M Young and AIICC M Woodward were successful the last I heard I guess we d better give Shor a chance remarked Burr1ll We all agreed The rest of you have said about all there is to say remarked Shor Not all there 1S to say when you re here repli d VR h1tman and Shor began Herbert Hanlon 1S official score keeper for the Fastern League Lincoln Potter is a famous athlete Alicc Bl tnchard Jeannette Booth and Lena Bow ker are life guardians over Catherine Darling and Loia Lincoln whose husbands left them very r1ch Joseph Garvey 1S still asleep Mary Early doubled the r 1n her first name and followed the advice Miss Carberry and LIISS Carey are 1n partnership as doctors M1ss Broderick and Brannon are veterinary sur Page Thirty seven , I . . i . y . . 1 9 . 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' Q L I L . . l .1 geons employed by a pubhshlng company to repfur broken down horses Mlss Grace Coffey IS a noted beauty 1n the PIIIIIDDIIICS Florence Day IS '1 m1ss1onary 'md so 18 Mrss Trmkson Ada Farwell is Tflllk lnspector 1n New York and Mmam Fxfield 15 a great professor of Fngllsh at a VVestern college Mrss Grace Garland 18 prn ate secret try to 'Maude Gerald the great W all Street operator Lora GOgglH and Carr1e G1 anger are her stenographers Emma C,h1mberl'1m Fsther Jackson Grace Johnson Maly ken ney and Al1ce Leautt are no longer of earth but of the stars Mabel Isenney holds Hr Burbank s pos1t1on LIIQS Rose Leland and I oduska Mann are promment IH qalx mon Army cxrcles g1rls Shor? Just hold on a l1ttle please I et M155 KI arren contmue Mrss Warren wasted no t1me Mlss O Connell and M1ss O Connor are 1n partnershlp is lawyers Helen Putnam lb stlll rlue but not much 1S heard of her Helen Taylor owns nearlx all 'Iatnuck wh1ch IS now llounshmff Ohve Tolman 19 st1ll studymg hard md has pubhshed sex eral works on Mellemc Greek Agnes X augh IU md Ethel VVebb are IlV1I1g happlly somewhere wlth a lirge fanulx to amuse them Tmme to return, Sald Burrlll and we started back to efuth 'mffun IVe landed safelv from our lofty fhght and I was soon on board my sh1p agam In truth I w lS f l'1d the Journey w 'rs over and I w ts not alone ln my Joy Page Thlrty emght x Y -si . , K ' Y Y ri il 'six' Y ,si I s ' , A ' . 4- V -51 K 1 1 2 .lf 1 . f - 1.- ' f . z I , ' . ' ' . ' .' . '. 'z .',L' . Y ,' c , 'f ' - . Y. ' , . v, , , . . I . . . . . 1 . . 7, . . X ,, . . . L , . . I . .. 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' 1 1 - - 1 av ,.,, 1 v 1 K A 1 1 f' ' 1 '1f,f 'L 1 ' . 1 1 1 . 1 , ' x 1 Ltr - CAVSZXIQ THIZ STZXTENVIPYN IIDNIL 'ND QL INCY ABBOT HF mention of Juhus Crsar s name naturally brinffs to our mind the conqueror of Gaul the terse narrator of military cnnpfufns the first absolute master of Rome Xet there 18 1 side to the eharaetei of this xe satile man ex en greater than that xxhich xx on for him his mihtary fame '1 side to xxlneh his xx 'lrlilie ability xxas entirely suboidmate Th1t side xx as his genius for construcuxe statesmanship Lfesar s poxx er of handling men and leading armies of xxinding the skein of doubt of the xx orld but his fir seeing statesmfxnship his consummate ltnoxxled fe of the political p1 oblems with xxhieh Rome must deal and the lofty patr1ot1sm xxh1ch he applied to those problems have been too generally denied and too little understood Although of noble birth C'es'1r xx as radically democratic in h1s political beliefs He studied deeply the soclal conditions of his time and fully realized how the VICC and corruption of the upper classes had under mined the Roman character and gox ernment He knew and keenly sympatlnzed xxith the grievances of those xx ho noxx formed the mainstay of the empire not the XTCIOUS xx ealth seeking nobility nor yet the idle and brutal mob at Rome but the hard xx orlnng tax: paying farmers and merchants of the proxmces C'es'1r saw clearly that the Roman const1tut1on xx 'ls 1n'1dequ'1te to the needs of the empire He Page I ortx txxo s- , . 4 . 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C 5 ' . u Edmund :my AF 1 knew well that ne1ther the Senate nor the mob could be trusted eventually to work out a better system of government But one means was left that a smgle man should be possessed of supreme power w1th wh1ch he m1ght over rule the Senate, cow the mob and brmg an orderly government out of existmg chaos Not rn a day or 1n a year d1d Caesar reach th1S conclus1on Only when he had proved the 1mposs1 b111ty of otherwlse atta1nmg a good government d1d he dec1de that extreme measures were necessary, and that one w1se man must be g1ven absolute authorrty Regectmg the Senatonal fact1on as hopelessly corrupt Caesar threw rn h1s lot w1th the popular party w1th the expectat1on of maklng them the means of h1s reform As consul and proconsul he tr1ed to make h1s party supreme that he m1ght m a second consulsh1p eas1ly effect the needed changes 1n the government But the nob1l1ty reahzed 1n h1s cand1dacy the overthrow of the1r power and prepared to oppose lt by force The fickle mob that party wh1ch Caesar had strengthened and on whose support he m1ght well have counted hesltated to espouse a losmg cause Deserted by them, Caesar could rely only on h1s army but to use that meant c1v1l war Would war be best for Rome P H1story has fortunately preserved to us a p1cture of th1s hlgh souled man ln the crucral moment of h1s career We have revealed to our eyes the m1ghty struggle of h1s m1nd as he ponders upon the WIS dom of c1v1l war That s1lent moment of debate on the passage of the Rublcon was not merely the cr1t1 cal po1nt of Caesar s hfe It was a turnmg po1nt of the utmost lmportance 1n the fortunes of mankmd Why d1d Cmsar hes1tate to plunge mto C1V11 Stflfe, to SCIZE the supreme power necessary to the accom pl1shment of h1s purpose? He d1d not feel sure that the State m1ght not be saved w1thout war and the overthrow of the government If he crossed that slugglsh stream at the head of h1s army he would be termed a rebel Fa1lure meant that he would go down 1n h1story as a greater scoundrel than Catrlme and worse st1ll the State would be left even more completely 1n the hands of the nob1l1ty But such doubts, unworthy of h1s lofty nature, Caesar flung as1de. Patr1ot1sm demanded that he SHCFIHCS per Page Forty Hve ' I ' s . . - . x . x . . . . . 9 . 0 v , . Q . . . - ' . x ' ' . - 1 , . sonal cons1derat1ons and make the attempt the Rublcon was crossed the d1e xxas cast, not for Caesar alone not for Rome alone but for the world VVel1 and xx1sely had Caesar dec1ded Ql11CklV he overthrew the CX1St1Dg government and set 1n 1tS place a strongly orgamzed poxx er of xxh1ch he xx as the head He ruled Rome so firmly and beneficently that everywhere prosper1ty vx is seen He ended the spolmtxon of the provinces and alloxx ed the pro v1nc1als to enjoy the1r hard xx on earmngs 1n peace Caesar also equahzed the pohtxcal status of the 1nhab1 tant of the emp1re To all except the more barbarous provmces he gxxe Roman C1t17CDShlp , for he was well aware that th1s mequallty of pol1t1c xl r1ghts had been the root of all the ev1ls at Rome It xx as thxs concentratlon of power 1n the hands of a smgle man combmed xx1th the elevat1on of the prov1nces to cltrzenshxp, vxhlch gave to Caesar s vxork 1ts permanency and enabled decadent Rome to surv1ve for four hundred years, a fact of tremendous lmport to c1v1l1zat1on Such was the xx ork of Caesar for Rome and for mank1nd By hxs unsxx ervmg patr1ot1sm and lofty statesmanshlp he ach1eved the almost superhuman task of regeneratlng Rome By h1s mstmctlve gemus he d1d for Rome xxhat her most able generals had fa1led to do he sax ed the State from that far reachmg corruptlon and demoral1zat1on wh1ch threatened her 1mmed1ate destruct1on It 1S th1s marvellous ach1eve ment to wh1ch we should render a tr1bute too long xx 1thheld Too long haxe the b1tter calummes of Caesar s enem1es been bel1eved Too long has one of the noblest of patr1ots been called the tyrant and oppressor of h1s country Too long has posterlty m1sconce1x ed the real slgmficance of Caesar s xxork Yet after the remembrance of hls opponents shall have per1shed xvh1le lofty st'1tesmansh1p and true patr1ot1sm are held 1n honor and reverence, shall be cher1shed 1n the memory of men the name of Jul1us Caesar. 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' . ti 1 n .7 at C , y a , f. ff .SUCCESS 'NIARG XRET COLENI KN XY AITES LL of us des1re success To most prog1ess1ve Amemcans success means materxal advancement To the xx orkmgman lt means ah1gher salary and more money 1n the savlngs bank to the C3.p1f'Il1St a steam yacht and a seat upon the stock exchange to the laxxyer the reputation of a hard xx on case We are too apt to forget that these thlngs are the mere externals of success that true success l1es 1n the development of character It lS good for us who stand to day upon the threshold of l1fe to remember that the xx orld has called 1ts heroes fallures that the noblest hves have been passed 1n poverty, obscur1ty and neglect It IS to one of these unsuccessful men that I would 1nv1te your attent1on To most of you h1s name 15 totally unfam1l1ar He l1x ed and d1ed a poor Scotch baker of the toxxn of Thurso Thurso 15 a lxttle seacoast hamlet ln the barren county of Ca1thness Rugged clxffs surround lt gulls and sea mexvs shriek over 1ts bllloxxs the xx aves roar through 1tS firths and fiords To th1S desolate v1llage one sum rner day 1n 1830 came a poor young Journeyman baker named Robert D1ck He had been born and bred 1n C,lackmannansh1re to the southward, but had wandered thus far toxvard John 0 Groat s ln search of a place sumtable for the pursult of h1s trade The country about Thurso vxas full of mterest to Robert Dmck When h1s day s xvork was done when Page Forty nme -s U v . z -. . 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R L L s s L K C L 1 L Q ni n . , ' ' '- 9 1 ' x r -' . h1s bread was sold and h1s shop closed he would walk along the seashore watchmg the endless roll of the surges These seas1de rambles awakened 1n h1m a taste for conchology He made a large col lect1on of shells and arranged them 111 a cabmet For botany a favor1te study there seemed l1ttle oppor tun1ty upon that barren shore so he turned h1s attent1on to entomology In n1ne months he had a complete collect1on of the beetlesof Ca1thness a collect1on compr1s1ng two hundred and fifty s1x specrmens The peasants of Thurso regarded D1ck Wlth eager cur1os1ty H1s loxe of nature h1s th1rst for readmg the forty m1le walks from wh1ch he returned 1n the small hours of the morn1ng footsore and weary, but Joyful 1n the possess1on of a new plant or a rare 1nsect exclted an uneasy SUSPICIOH that such an uncanny 1nd1v1dual must be but a poor baker But skept1cs were sllenced by the reilect1on that D1ck s bread and b1scu1ts were the best 1n Thurso Gradually he returned to the study of botany He d1VldCd the county 1nto sectxons and v1s1ted each unt1l1ts Hora had become h1s fam1l1ar fr1ends No lonely moor, no 1naccess1ble crag or treacherous quagmlre could daunt h1m Plants whose very ex1stence 1n Great Br1ta1n vsas unknown revealed the1r presence to hlS pat1ent search H1s name began to spread beyond the narrow l1m1ts of Ca1thness the Royal Soc1ety 1tself acknowledged the value of h1s d1scover1es In h1s wandermgs along the lonely coast he had found many rema1ns of fOSS1l fishes H1s hard earned savmgs went to purchase books upon geology he stud1ed earnestly and contmued to explore the county 1n search of spec1mens H15 success encouraged h1m to begm a correspondence wlth Hugh M1ller the most famous geOl0g1St of the tune The d1scover1es of the poor Scotch baker caused M1ller to alter h1S theor1es and revolut1on1zed prev1ous geolog1cal concept1ons A warm fr1endsh1p sprang up between the brother sc1ent1sts D1ck 1mplored M1ller to v1s1t h1m and see the foss1ls 1y1ng 1n the1r beds ' I have some famous thmgs for you he wrote ' There IS a head of Holoptychms wh1ch I have left you to p1Ck out for yourself There lb a cranxal buckler of an Asterolep1s wh1ch I want you to Page Flfty . . . 1 U ' C u ' s a , , ' 9 - 1 r - . . , 1 ' y , . . . . . . . . . . . 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' n ' 9 . see rn rts proper srte Come, come wrthout delay there rs no end of wonders here The town of Thurso rs burlt of dead fish Mrller accepted the rnvrtatron and the days that followed were days of glory to Robert D1ck All hrs fossrl treasures were sent to Mrller and they proved of the greatest value He has robbed hrmself sard Mrller to do me servrce Drck s own collectron of fossrls was the wonder of the nerghborhood He kept rt stored rn hrs upper room wrth hrs chorcest books Other screntrsts than Mrller were honored by hrs acquarntance Srr Roderrck Murchrson sought hrm out rn hrs shop rn Wrlson s Lane but Drck could not leave hrs batch of bread to recerve hrs drstrngurshed vrsrtor A second trme Srr Roderrck vrsrted Thurso and complarned to Drck of the want of a suihcrent map of the county Wrth a few handfuls of flour upon the bakrng board Drck moulded a complete model of the geologrcal structure of Carthness He showed all the prrncrple features of the county the hrlls and dales the rocks and clrffs the drslocatrons and fractures rn fact an outlrne of the entrre geography of Carthness Such was the brrghter srde of Robert Drck s exrstence It was a hard lrfe at best a lrfe of rough torl of uncongenral surroundrngs of brtter poverty but rt was brrghtened by a lrght that no rlls could darken that torl and sufferrng and poverty and death rtself could not extrngursh the love of scrence Competrtron pressed hrm hard Other and younger bakers came to Thurso and custom declrned He could scarcely earn the wages of a day laborer by workrng at hrs trade At last came the great mrsfortune of hrs lrfe He had ordered twenty three bags of flour from hrs merchants at Lerth The vessel upon whrch they sarled was wrecked and all was lost The loss was only 45,6 but Drck had spent all hrs lrttle savmgs and hrs only property consrsted rn hrs books hrs collectron of fossrl fishes hrs botanrcal specrmens hrs old fashroned clothes and hrs lrttle stores of lrnen He had never been rn debt rn hrs lrfe rather than submrt to that drsgrace he could part wrth what was nearest and dearest to hrm He sold hrs collectron of fossrls for ,646 The loss broke hrs heart I have nova no fossrls he wrote to hrs brother I have grven them all away Alas! how often has my Page Frfty one . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . ,, . . . . . gg . ,, . . an . ,, . , , . . . . 1 . s C ' . . . r. , . 1 1 . . . . ,, .- . . . . , . . . . 1 1 1 ,- 1 . . . rs - - ,, . 1 - 0 . . , n 1 o ll - n u - 1 - . s 1 1 . . . . . . . ,, , ' - 1 Q 1 I 1 . . . . . sc . . . . . . - cc - V 11 , . . . heart beat proudly when looking over the figures of Jaxxs in Buckland s books and saying O yes, these are very fine but humble as I am I have finer than they But that 18 all ox er and they are all 'may They exist only 1n remembrance and I nex er hope to find the1r like again let his courage 'md hope and char 1ty nex er faltered To his bi other he xx rote IXex er lose hefu t Alxv iys look on the briffht side of every cloud and perhaps xou mfg see the boxx of hope bey ond He still worked in the ex enings at the arrangement of his herbarium but the old Joy was gone Fever and illness increased upon him, but he suffered in silence and xvxorked on At last he xx as forced to y1eld to the disease A fexx more days of agony and calling in his delirium on the mother he in pox erty realized h1s greatness They spoke lovingly of his vast knoxvledge his thirst for reading his quaint humor, the ready kindness xx ith xxhich he assisted a neighbor They gaxe him the distinction he xx ould least have desired a public funer ml It xvas a great genius xxhich had passed axx ay from Thurso on that sad December morning A noble life had ended there in darkness and neglect It xvas '1 careei which the vxorld calls unsuccessful And yet when I think of the best xttamments of that life of the eager Joys xxhich brightened it the great love which illummed it, the sublime courage xxhich strengthened and sustained it I can ask for no higher success than that which came to Robert Dick the baker of Thurso Iago I ifty txxo . . . . . 7 c I ,. 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' X 7 1 1 K1 - . , ,, L . g is r' v, , I I 902 IN THE DEBITXTING SOCIETIES THLETICS holds the foremost place 111 the publ1c mmd and the best athlete 1S the popular hero But as the athlete grows older he turns h1S ab1l1ty to better uses and t1me burns the fame for wh1ch he has so glor1ously strwen It 1S not so w1th debat1ng Here as 1n athlet1cs trammg counts but what we have here ga1ned rema1ns w1th us forever The orator thanks h1s debatmg soc1ety for the start whlch lt has glven him wh1le the leg1slator looks back w1th grat1tude to the club meetmgs where he learned the pr1nc1ples of parl1amentary law The Class1c xl H1gh School boasts of three debatmg soc1et1es the Summer Club the Eucle1a and the Alethe1a Class of 1902 W1llard M Wh1tman our class pres1dent rece1ved hrs trammg 1n th1s SOC1Cty As a sophomore th1s young man show ed rare ablllty by defeatmg the best man the class of 1900 had and by wmmng the gold medal for the year Fdgar Burrlll Won the second prlze the srlver medal that same year It was 1n 1900 01 however that our best Work w as done The Summer Club s yearly medals proved a great mducement for Jumors and Semors and many others quos fama obscura recond1t When the year was over the Class of 1902 had a pleasant t1me CO1lI1t11'1g 1ts well earned laurels. Wlllard Wh1tman Page F1fty three y y . . . . . . . I , . . , . . , . L . . . . , , . The Summer Club must first be remembered, as it has produced most of the best speakers of the . . . J . 1 . , t. y . , . I C . I I ' cc . ,, , , c 7 ' . and Edgar Burr1ll had been members of the team wh1ch defeated the Fuclexa On the Eucle1a team there was but one 02 man Joseph Butler Perhaps th1s lack of 1902 classmen accounts for the Eucle1a s defeat' Too much praxse cannot be g1ven Messrs Wh1tman Burr1ll and Butler for the1r grand work ln that JOIHC debate Out of s1x speakers to be chosen from about one hundred members of the two soc1et1es these three O2 men won 1n compet1t1on or by ChO1C6 'walnst the1r more evpemenced fellows of 01 The Summer Club Pr1ze Debate and Declamatmn Contest hovs ex er proved the most CXCIUUQ strug gle ln the soc1et1es For the Hrst deb tte were entered Harlovs 01 09 Abbot O1 02 Pla1sted 02 Mat tuck O1 Shor 02 and many others who have been forgotten The 01 man v.on the first event But as the months went by and more contests came the struofgle for the medal settled 1nto a duel contest between Mattuck 01 and bhor O9 And when the year was over these two speakers had an equal number of pomts and each secured a gold medal John VV Plalsted who has by hxs own efforts developed mto one of the school s best speakers xx on the Summer Club s seml annual medal In 1909 To sum up the wx orla of the Summer Club we need but say lt has produced our class presldent our class orator our class prophet and best of all our graduatmon speaker Edmund Qumcy Abbot The Eucle1a also has 1ts 09 men Walter B Kennedy has shown hlmself a master of debatmg and has brought honor to h1s class by bemg alternate on the Euclela debatmg team Joseph Butler was a member of the defeated Euclem team but the defeat was not all h1s fault He d1d hxs best and should be honored for It Mr Ryan has also been promment 1n Euclexa debatmg clrcles We have not been athletrc glants but what class has produced so large a 11st of good speakers? Burrmll Wh1tman Plalsted Abbot Butler Kennedy, Ryan surely a roll of honor such as no other class has produced' And the g1rls too have the1r part 1n debatmg c1rc1es Then' soc1ety1s the Alethe1a of whxch we are very proud Page Flfty four 4 . 1 ' 4 -1 , . t . . . . A .. . , I . ., , . .. . . 1 . . , , .,sb1 . . . . . V Y .. - L 1 1 ' , - - ,Y Y V1 -1 1 -1 ' 1 - - f 1 -'1 1 1 1 1 , 1 , , , . . . f 1 5 1 1 1 ... , , . . .x 7 Q . , Y 1 1 1 - 1 1 '1 , . . v v 1 v 1 Q. . 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' . . , . . , , .., . . , Y D . . , , . , . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' ' 1 The first Alethe1a grrl from the Class of 1902 was enrolled May 19 1899 Truly Noughty Two had begun its ex1stence 1n the Class1cal Hlgh School S1nce that date the Class has had its full share of fun and frolic 1n the soc1ety as well as 1ts work and worry Of the s1xty six members whom the Aletheza now possesses twenty three belong to 1902 The 11lustr1ous class of 1901 may have had a deal of power 1n the Alethe1a 1n the semor year but 1ts sun has gone down and the more 1llustr1ous 1902 IS rapzdly surpassing even 1ts record W h1le a greater number of ofiices may have gone to the semors of one year ago 1t IS all the more credltable that the present sen1ors are w1ll1ng that pos1t1ons should go to older gurls of other classes Dur1ng the years 1n whlch the Class has labored 1n the soclety 1ts members have shown themselves steadfast earnest workers w1ll1ng and able to take any part ass1gned them and they have ever been loyal to Alethe1a While the rep1esentat1ves of Noughty Two have not been xnveterate squabblers they have never been averse to argument and 1n debate have shone w1th the best In the Sophomore year a g1rl of 1902 had a part 1n the pr1ze debate ga1n1ng t1'11S pos1t1on 1n her first yea 1n the SOC1Cty The first real honor came to the Class 1n the Alethe1a when the same lxttle Sophomore was crowned poetess laureate Wm nmg her laurels from two semors and a Jumor Our glorlous Class held 1tS first ofiice 1n the thlrd term of the Sophomore year After that there was a constant successxon of honors t1ll she had several members in each ofiice Th1s last year one semor has been pres1dent and certalnly her perlod has been as successful as any other for dur1ng her term seven new members were added declamatxon contests were held one meetmg was had at the Home for Aged Women and the receptlon grven to the honorary members was a great trlumph In a pr1ze debate of several years s1nce one member of 02 took part and 1n the declamatron contest of 1900, one of the Noughty Two s was a winner and in this year ln the same kmd of rxvalry the first and second places were won by our representatives The soc1ety has two rhymsters both of 1902 who contrlbute generously to the Alethe1a paper Page Flfty Eve . . u ,, , . . . - 1 ' ' 1 , . . . . . . , . , . 1 . 1 1 , . . l . at ,, . 1 , . , I' . 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There '1re others xvho eould do is xxell 11' they xx ould only trx One of the lmghtest of the Ll'1ss h ul 1 part 1n the SOClCfV pl IX ot th1s xeu She 18 P111 em nest xx1ll111g, C'1D'll3lC glll incl msc, to the offree ot v1ee DI'L's1ClCI1tl7LfOlC Sl1Ll1ld held 1nx1otl1e1 Lleet1xepos1t1o11 In the I nh swf C 1 mtv l too, the Ll ss wqs represented One cn' our gnls 1n'1clehe1 lCDllI'1IlOll 1nl1e1 first deb 1te, xxl1e11 she eehpsul 1ll lll her fefnlessness, incl 1n belonged fm a lonffer O1 '1 shorter tune, but xx he have alxx nxs been true 'md fmthful The stir of next ye ll s ln 1sl1etb 1ll te 1111 18 X116 ulx llDOXL, the l1OI'1ZOT1 111 the person of one of ours lhus 0111 Lliss, secure 111 xx h'1t h IS gone before 'st1ll 11 IS expectitlons for the future, for sex eral xx1ll return for the hfth xe'11, 'md IS h1the1 to xx1ll 1llx round the banner, g1rls, lx 1lly onee agam, 5 lfllllg our xv 1tc.hword, Aletheu ' Page F1fty sxx 4 , . . . v . 7 X .' X 4 Q L 1 - L 1 ' ,- 1 ' Q 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 ' 1 ' . 1 ,z Q11 ' 1'1,', 1 ' 113' knowledge of her subject, viz., Mary, Queen of Scots. Many others might be lllCl1tlOI1Cl1,gll'lS who have . 5 . L Q V ' 'I 'vs x l K q sl L AY ,,,.'. ,4, , s,, '-. -, ., -, ' ' .. .. fx . . 1 . . . ' , . V , ' , . W ' . A . , . v . .' H R1 . 1- , . .- ' X- u, ' '11 ,, ' Q 1 1 'L .' ETH LETICS HE Class of 1902 1n the Class1cal H1gh School has not been especlally act1ve 1n athletrcs durmg 1ts four year s course In 1ts freshman year the football team Wh1ch by the way was a very good one cons1sted almost ent1rely of upper classmen Th1s was ma1nly due to the fact that our Class was almost wholly made up of men of small stature Thrs same reason kept us from havmg a representatwe on the crew of that year Our mterest 1n track athlet1cs was that of the usual mddferent freshman class The class games were no spec1al 1ncent1ve 1n thxs l1ne e1ther for the whole freshman class drd not wm a polnt Th1s was The next year several men tr1ed to make the football team among them Mlchael Kearney and Edward A Ryan The track team also d1scovered several asp1rants but no one succeeded ln makmg the team The class games brought 1nto ev1dence some more mater1al and the Class of 1902 succeeded m pxlmg up elght po1nts in that year The basket ball team of the Alethexa Debatmg Socxety was then a promment branch of athlet1cs, and several of the g1r1s of the Class made very strong endeavors to make the team Among these were Mlss Anna T. Marble and Mlss Margaret W L1nco1n Thls completed our second year Page Fxfty seven ' 7 l Y ! 3 . partly due to our lack of training, but perhaps more to the superior quality of the upper classmen. Our thrrd year was an exceptlonally act1ve one 1n th1S lme and we were represented on the football team by E A Ryan M J Kearney J F Lowder and T F MOFTISSCY We were also represented on the crew by C L Morse who rowed No 7 and who entered our Class ln the fall of 1900 The Alethexa basket ball team had a very successful season wlth the help of M1ss Anna T Marble M1ss Gertrude Raftery and M1ss Margaret W L1ncoln The success of the track team at Boston the year before brought out several as members of our Class Those who developed mto notably fleet runners were Hubert Mull1n and Henry Murphy The class games were another st1mulus to athlet1c honors and our Class, largely helped by the work of Henry Murphy and Hubert Mullxn came 1n second to the wmnmg polnt An ent1rely new branch of athletxcs entered the school 1n the spr1ng of 1901 The golf team was not a very popular organ1zat1on as very llttle was known of the game But to those 1nterested and to the outs1de publ1c It Iimshed the season very credltably both for 1tS6lf and for the school The Class of Our sen1or year was 1ndeed the greatest 1n the branch of athletlcs 1n the h1story of the Class The football team conslsted of three members of our Class who were large factors ln the many hard games whlch xt played The team did not fimsh a very successful year owing to faculty dlsagreements and financlal support but 1ts playmg was of hxgh order and quahty The crew d1d not conta1n a repre sentat1ve of the Class as an oarsman but 1tf111'X1lSh6d an excellent coxswam m Warren W1ll1ams He successfully and cred1tably plloted the crew to v1ctory on Memorral Day wlnnmg from Harvard freshmen by one and one half lengths The track team was made up of two of the Class of 1902 Haskell W1ll1ams and Arthur Burns The Class was somewhat d1v1ded by the orgamzatlon of the South Hlgh School but th1s d1d not prevent our old classmate Henry Murphy, from w1nnmg five pomts for our hard fought v1ctory at Boston on the twenty second of March. Page Flfty-exght 1902 held two of i,ts members C. F. Davis and A. H. Burns. i The basketball team xxas xmrnenselv successful ID 1909 and much was due to the work of Mies Nlai f net Lincoln Ann 1 'l NI trble f ertlude Raftery md Rachel I oxx ell Phe te mm xx as x ery much el lted bx reccixin the ll from the H1 h School 1uthor1t1es md showed their tppiecmtlon by xxinning more than sex entx hxe per cent of the 1 'mines pl 13 ed The most intense rix mlrx existed at the annull class frames of our Sen1or year the Juniors having athletic superiority over them at the b tnquet in .Ianu Lrv yet they xx ere very conhdent of xx 1nn1ng the class games The dax fmallx irrix ed and the Class of 1901 shoxx ed its abilitx to defeat 1un1ors by scorlng more than txx enty five points more than the nearest competitor The games xx ere not of a first class order but th1s fact only demonstrates xvlth Whlt etse the seniors could defeat the Juniors In these games Haskell XV1ll111ns F O Abbot and A II Burns brouffht in '1 total of about twenty polnts The class ffamee xx 1th the exception of the boat races xx ere the last athletic event of note IH which the Class of 1909 had a share Page Fifty mme .1 ' ' L g lg .' l .1 1 ,' ' , f . . ..., 4 c ,i .. ti l 1,1 ' ' , 2 '. . 1 , 2 ' C 2 1 ' 1 ' . 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Y . .l b . c c l - bt ., l . , s x .4 S C n OUP .SUCCESS IN DIQAIVIZKTICS F there 1S any respect 1n wh1ch the glorlous Class of 1902 has especrally d1st1ngu1shed rtself rt IS rn 1tS devotlon to the drama In the earher part of 1ts CX1StCDCC some of 1ts members partrclpated m the Alethera plays wh1ch per1od1cal1y renew our rnterest 1n that soczety Of these plays The Ladres of Cranford was partrcularly attractrve Thrs year A Box of Monkeys recerved an added rnterest from the add1t1on of a few boys to a1d the efforts of the female Thesplans The Monkeys were hrghly successful both from an art1st1c and a financlal po1nt of vxew But the culm1nat1on of the dramatlc efforts of 1902 was the presentatlon of Macbeth at the Engllsh Hlgh School Hall on May 16 A few of us of the second hour Enghsh class remember the wmter mornmg when one of our members first broached the plan It was a bold and darmg project qu1Xot1c1n the hght of our rnex perrence but 1909 adopted lt W1th characterxstxc enthuslasm and a petrtron was swned and presented to Mr Burbank W1th the acceptance of that petltlon began the real work necessary for the accomphshment of our des1res Commrttees were formed the cast was chosen and the frrst rehearsals were held IH the Llasslcal Hlgh School Hall on Frlday afternoons I append the final arrangement of the cast CAST Duncan Kmg of Scotland XX arren L Harlow Malcom Xhlllam E Qumn Donalbam lhlg Sons Vernon G Pratt Page Slxty x o v . ,. . . . . . . . 1 sa . . , . 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Macbeth Generals rn the Kmg s Army IESESQTYVO Banquo John W Plalsted Macduff I enox Nloblemen of Scotland Verner H Nllson Rosse Fleance gon of Banquo Su ton Odicer attendxng on Nlacbeth A Doctor A Qer eant Wllllam 5 Sargent 2 A Porter Cllfton E Nfellsop AServant J B Mcbarthy lst Murderer Vernon G Pratt M d Verner H Nllson George G Shor Llmton W lylee C V Anderson George C Shor 2nd ur erer L d M b th Margaret W Lrncoln a y ac e A Jester attendmg on Lady Macbeth Adellne M Warren lst XX 1tch Ruth L Boy den 2nd W1tch Edmth M Dlxon 3rd W1tch Cllfton E Mellsop Lords Oflicers Soldlers Attendants Messengers Ghost of Bmnquo and other Apparrtrons Attendants on Lady Macbeth Ethel Wlllard Emma Kneeland Llara Lathrop WVe got a good deal of fun out of those first rehearsals Those of us who vntnessed the magmficent swagger wh1ch Banquo d1splayed on the very first occas1on that h1s ghost defied Macbeth, were not sur pr1sed at the superb arr w1th Wh1Ch he stalked across the stage on May 16 We had seen lt all before We remembered, too, that the Hrst dlamond w1th wh1ch he greeted Lady Macbeth was not a diamond at all but an orange and when Macduff aroused the castle after Duncan s murder we regretfully recalled the stentormn tones w1th whrch he first aw akened the echoes of the Class1ca1 H1gh School Hall In compar1son w1th these h1s efforts xx ere feeble 1ndeed' But 1f we had not seen the mtermedlate rehearsals we were more than surpr1sed when the curtam rose on May 16 It was hard to bel1eve that the we1rd figures whose eldrxtch shrreks resounded through the hall as they moved 1n mv st1c measure round the caldron xx ere 1ndeed the three NV1tCl'1E3S whom we had Page Sxxty one ' 3 ' ' , . 1 1 a n Q - 1 ' 7 , . , . . , . 1 - 1 , . 4 , 4 , . . . . . . - . . . . , .. , . n . 1' rw L l. , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -iq - Y . 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Y , . t , t t -'L .1 c , Y seen hoppmg about a p1ano stool upon the Hlgh School platform The earnest eloquence of Macbeth the graceful figure of Lady Nlacbeth the stately form of Duncan the dazzlmg lords and l'1d1es all these seemed to belong to the real stage world to the Shakespeare world and not to the realm of amateur theatncals As the play ran on w1thout a break to mar 1ts smoothness we felt that the actors had ach1eved a trlumph that they had dlstanced compet1tors and set a hlgher standard for H1gh School drama VVe cannot commend enough the careful vsork of the cast partlcularlv the fidehty W1th vshlch Burrxll read h1s lmes a feat wh1ch IS the more remarkable when one remembers the d1Hiculty of the part ass1gned h1m Where all was good lt 1S hard to ascrlbe espec1al pra1se to mdlvlduals Personally Ithlnk that M1ss Llncoln s actmg ln Scene VII of Act I and Burr1ll s 1n the Banquet Scene vsere the best features of the play Mellsop s Porter xx as a very real presentat1on of that Jolly and 1nebr1ate servltor The success of the play was largely due to the careful trammg of Vlr. Lyford to xx hom the Macbeth Club ow es the well earned laurels whlch futule classes w1ll find lt d1Hicult to vs rest from the grasp of 1909 Page Slxty two ' x L I , .Q , l c i . K. . . . 1 Y . v Q 4 - . Y 1 .s I . . Y . . v .. 4 . . . . Y . 1 . 1 , I f. ' 1. , c . . , . . . , . , . 1 y ll 1 Q Q - 1 , y sv Y , v l 1 , . , - . ' - , .. . ' ' ' , . Y ' . . . . ... 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