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

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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

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CURTIS ATHLETICS The athletic life of Curtis has not been as active as it might have been,' which is largely due to the lack of school spirit on the part of the pupils. However, last fall the track team under the leadership of Harold Dick was very successful. Of the three meets held with other schools, one resulted in victory for Curtis over Bowen High Schoolg another resulted in a tie with the same school, while the third was a defeat for Curtis by Thornton Township High School. The foot ball, team was not entered in the league, but played several games in which they acquitted themselves very creditably. ' Our, basket ball team did itself great credit this year, finishing second in the league which gave them the privilege of playing in the semi-finals. They were defeated in these by Lane, as they were lack- ingin experience and were outweighted by the latter school. The track team has been reorganized this year with Harold Dick as captain, and they are building air castles on what they hope to do at the Cook County meet. Others are quite confident of securing the individual medal which is awarded the pupil scoring the highest num- ber of points at the Field Day which is held in Palmer Park late in June. Sixty-fam'