Commercial High School of Brooklyn - Annual Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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tm 3 C4 od he he at iv- 'as hy to he ile he int at 5- of 5- le ie Cl l- D. I Snap Shots Signs, one ol' the participants standing at y. . ' , - 1 A b the d1et1o.11ai',x'. Constantly refreshing his mCmni'y troin the printed pictures. e NVQ Lu-C up sooner seated than we are forciblv iinpressed with the fact that some one git the back of the room is airing his know1- edge of foreign tongues. He is spouting fragments of Russian, as Spasibo Da sivavidau tlearned no one knovvs whereflg Cl1i1JS Of Latin, from the De Caverley Papers and Ivanlhoej scraps of Greek, as Polumatis, 'picked from some long forgotten p-hrase in the Odyssey, and many other dialects of Brownsville and elsewhere. He con-N cludes with the pompous statement, that he could make himself understood in any part of the world. i Many other instances of the kind might be mentioned, so that We are coming 'to the opinion that we had all better discon- tinue the study of that dead language known as English. 4 Uh, you blankety, blankety, blanked dog, exclaimed the student vvrathfully. What under the sun is that brazen fellow using such vivid expressions for Pi' asked an observer, carefully placing his hands over his ears. '6T'hat, oh that's nothing 5 he is only quoting Shakespheref' replied his com- panion reassuringly. . You ought' to hear him quote passages from Coleridge. He saves those, however, for very special occasions. ,l. .l- We notice fromlthe numerous poemS handed in that the students are tempting the muse. They had better be careful, however, for they are likely to tempt the muse to commit suicide. When will the cradle-roll be started at COmmQfCig'l? Such an institution is. necessary for those first-termers who ex- hibit such discernment, as HPPe31'ed Ong? Humber of mid-term examinations, 111 'J I English. Y ' . fms an In ansn er to a question, asking. class laccount Oi RObi11 Hood- lthe es 1 l .- H Hvelbeen study ing Ivanhoe all the terml th' ' mol ,KR is naive statement was com- 1: ' ' . obin Hood was a lmle wifi who Went out ' . is .b basket on 11 great blg red mouthed wolf, who quit-li- ly gobbled h fants are beyond their depth, :find a kindergarten requires certain glim- into the woods with a er arm. There she met a 91' UP-H Surely these in- mers of intelligence on the part its members, a cradle roll has been siigqestt-il as more suitable for this type tif 'sir-L-pr-I-, Einey, meeny, miney, mo, Catch a nigger by his toe. If he hollers let him go, p Einey, meeny, miney, mo. 'clones passes in bookkeeping. Uh no, this is no childish game that is being played. lt is one of the members of the faculty making out the marks for the third. This method is so much simpler and less complicated than the plan that necessitates the keeping of a class book. or the reading of examination papers. - It isavvful to regard the inllnenre ex- erted by girls over all boys' schools. liven our dignified Literary Society men have caught the habit, as you might call ii. At a recent Hash Debate of the lirank- lin, one of the resolutions was as foli lows: Resolved, That the t'o111111vI'vlr1l High School' should be open in Hillt- And again, the Hamilton held a debate on the same question, two dll? lfll Perhaps a feminine invasion would l'l :Ni some of the antique Bean llrnmmels nt the faculty as well as the students. HA11 yesv sighed the artist. l H111 , 9 u 0 . v. comP6lled to Paint to keel' the NM Hum the door! ' Chl exclaimed tie Cl are o'Ol11o' to hanQ' the lllftllfc Outside' mic c 'O L 1 'itiC. then yell you PM--E417

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fha... EXChangeS yn Q . suv- 111 ills wld ol it, we felt that noth- ing' would give ns greater pleasure than to attend the ohseilnies of the editor of thc paper, lt is not the rule tor a really gonil Story' to appear in one of our ex- changes: and to have that To be Con- tinncdu sign, at the end of one that does appear, is nothing less than a crime. The 1Cvrn1'n'er for November comes to us even better than usual. The prize Story that starts the issue is, indeed, worthy of a prize, although the author has occasionally allowed the control of the plot to elude his grasp. The Gossip column, as usual, is replete with interest and humor, and the editorials and ath- letics merit attention. The only instance of faulty work is in the society column, where, in the chess notes, we note, with interest, the team of De Witt Clinton masquerading as Commercialites. The spelling of some of the names, is also inarvellously interesting. But these minor defects are lost in the sterling worth of the paper as a whole. We think the 'editors of The Camas CZanesville, Ohioj, might cater to the tastes of high school students, rather than to those of grammar school youths and maidens. The stories inthe Novem- ber issue are unsuitable for a high school paper. 'tXNinneennis is a moderately good fairy story, and might deserve a place among such, but is out ,of place in a paper like The Cofmas. We, of course, cannot tell from what book '4The Wizard of the Swimming Tankv is re- written, but it is quite safe to SHY that it came from nothing higher than Alger: Uptic, or even some dime 01' nickel Sen' sation. The stories compare very Ulf' favorably with the good literary WO1'k 111 the rest of the book. The editors of The Eastern District Daisy Seem to have plenty of space to 29 yvaste, as is evidenced by the iirtt lette in the K' ' f . 5 V cation Hlijughc Chute, This communi- . S 13 Whole P3-ge, and. altllougli it ma be. - - ' U ' Y a masterpiece or humor, after 0116 gets through it it seems to leave hiiq with 3 feeling Of Pity for the author. Such excellent ma Other departments' 1 'o-1 terial as appears in U16 'lf profitably be used here. ' ' ' -- i The December 5Pf?CfU1'0l' tPaterson, N- d1Splays no exceptionally interest- ing articles. Save the story, 'I-X Song Withotit Music, 'which is original in plot, and the poem, The Night. which is well done, the bulk of the issue bor- ders on dullness. - If the Writer of the rhyme on .2Xlgeln'zi in The Bulletin Qhllontclair ll. Sfl. snr- ceeded in keeping out of the insane asy- lum by dropping that delightful subject. let us hope that this effusion will st-nil him there, for if not, he might pt-rpetrxne another, and send us all there. Of course. a person who secures thirty-one words to rhyme with profane. repeating only once, must be 'both patient and pt-use vering, and as it is said that I':nii-nee and Perseverance conquer CYt'l'j'illlll'.1i.u We hasten to throw up our hands :ni-l beg for mercy. The December issue of The .lrnfl.'nn'r Herald CTownsend lrlarrisl fairly nn.. bles and etfervesces with wit anfl lnnn-ir. Which, however, is somewhat toner-l flown by the serious articles on the lnotlizih Season. The Cover also shows xi lllIlI'iCt ! improvement. --il...i-1 The nrst article in The Iliad' f l Y High Schooll for November. a sh-ir! V+- Say on Scholarship and Slltttbr. im Phasizing the necessity tor high tank in ' b ' ' D 1 .. studies outranks the remainder ot thc lm er and somewhat rede P 7 , . -- , -ffs dull level of mediocrity. XX ith thc lillsi ems it from the