Curtis High School - Curtis Annual Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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IN MEMORIAM On February 24, 1911, after an ill- ness of only a few days, Henry Nie- wald, a member of the june Classof '08, died while attending' the Michi- gan Agricultural College at Lansing. Sixty-one

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IN MEMORIAM Harvey Kerr, a member of the class of February, '10, dled on De- f f m the results cember 26, 1310, ru of an injury sustained while playing basket ball at the Umversxty of 1111 uois, W ' ' X Sixty here he was attendmg sehool.

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THE SENIOR'S SOLILOQUY QWith Apologies to Shakespearej To pass, or not to pass? That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The pangs and arrows of outrageous marks, Or to make excuses for a sea of failures And by pleading graduate. To pass-to graduate. And by graduation say we end The heartache and the thousand painful shocks School makes us heir to-'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To pass-to graduate. Then perchance to be a failure! aye, therels the rub, For in those unknown fields what 'ills may come When we have shuffled off our schoolday cares Must give us serious pause. There's the thought That recognizes education a necessityg For who would bear the dull unsocial hours Spent by pupils cheered by no smile, To sit like hermits at our lonely desks In silence? Who would bear the hard tasks With. which the student is daily burdened When he himself might end such heart-felt grief By graduating? Oh, who would live Yawning and staring sadly into books Till school becomes a wearv life, But that the hope of something after graduation fThat undiscovered state of whose charms we long have heardj rouses the will, V ' And makes us rather strive the harder now Than take the work again another year: ' Thus hope does make students of us all, And thus our natural taste for wasting time Is sicklied oier with the pale cast of thought That thus those longed for sixteen credits must be earned, Or we will lose the name of Curtis graduates. S ixty-two