Danville High School - Medley Yearbook (Danville, IL)

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,,v.Y,.-.,.q-.- -w f'-- ---' I i ed the latter's, stayed for refreshments, tied the '04 boys to telephone posts and occasionally went home in carriages. As spring came on we elected our Medley staff, and organized a base-ball team which at the end of the season had won the inter- class championship. In connection with this, the '05 girls had gained a reputation for rooting which they never lost. We were caught up for awhile in the whirl of social life, we gave two Junior hopsg we picniced and hayracked, rain or shine, and finally, having done our best to make the '04 Commencement a success, came out full-fledged Seniors. At the beginning of the last year, our ranks had thinned down somewhat, a few preferring the simple to the strenuous life. At the fall election we made Leo Mud McCusker our President, and he has done much to build up that Senior dignity which we sorely needed, and for which we are now famous. Class spirit, which had been rather rampant in our Junior year. now took a more definite and beneficial form, for we turned our attention toward making the '05 Medley a success. Accord- ingly, the Senior play, Between the Acts, appeared April 5th, 1905. Quite a sum was netted for the Medley fund, and the editors were enabled to resume their work with freer minds. We next proceeded to win the inter-class meet, and to enter some of the best men on the track team. After the literary contest, in which Senior talent did itself full credit, barely six short weeks remained in which to round up our four happy years. Not until then did we realize we were leaving the D. H. S. forever. Other classes may have contained better scholars than 1905. We never pretended to be intellectual, but in leaving We feel that we-perhaps more than any other class-have blended together all the phases of our school life into one harmonious whole, which will awaken a precious memory in after life, bringing to our minds the beloved old class yell : . Bosco! Bosco! eats 'em alive! DZ-l.I1Vlll6 High School! 1905! HISTQRIAN. ll' ', , 4:2 Selig' 4.19 X 10

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A 441 .-,e,4.,,.,,, ,. .. 4 COLORS: OLD GOLD AND BLACK. YELL: Aligaroo! garah! garoo! Rickety-kex! hullabalool Sis! Boom! Coxy-malive! Danville High School! 1905! Bininrg nf ihv 0112155 nf IHH g E started in lay commencing, a very good way to begin. Moreover, we began all by ourselves-Hnostra sponte -in a per- ' h f discovering us. And now that fectly correct manner in September, 1901-so no one can attach to himself the onor o g ' ' ' ' ' ' h' d record of the few footprints we have made we have ended in just as c orrect a manner, it is only right that we leaxe be in us a in the sands of high school life. We spent most of the Freshman year in watching and waiting. NVe were just ordinary looking Freshmen, and did not astound the faculty by any promises of future greatness. We watched the older pupils to find how much they were getting out of life, and waited for the time when we could go them one better. Meanwhile we crawled through two terms of Algebra, and came back the next fall as Sophornores, fully prepared to take advantage of anything coming our way. V In our own Opinion we were very wise indeed, but in reality we had much to learn. Billy Berry and a few other dra- ' ' ' ' h s of 1905- Aside from this, the matic stars loomed up, and the record of the literary societies began to shine with t e name year was uneventful. The tide leading on to fortune came in our Junior year. 'We took it at the flood and organized our class according to cedent Shorty Swmrtliout was President, and served our little ship of state in a most praiseworthy manner. Can we f pre' . . 1 . . . ever forget her little spiel, Seems carried, and 'tis carried? The boys insisted that we select prominent colors, partly or f ll ' their advice we have alwavs been loyal to old gold and black. We had all the sake of the near-sighted Seniors. so, o owing 1 ' , 1 U ' ' ' l ttend- kinds of fun that fall: hayracks. picnics. class football games and parties, both our oxxn and the Seniors, for We a Ways a ln

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fl S I fl ,.l......-.,,.......- 3 Q 5 1 3 l 5 2 E PRESIDENT LEC BICCUSKER, BI,-XC. Lxrxx eounsre. Adarizm Literary Society, president, 4 xxtlllflllll-xxthtllliltlllll Contest. 3: Class Presi dent, 43 Art Editor Medley, 4: Class Play 45 lforuxn, 3-43 Interlocutor Minstrels, 4 Athletic Ashociation, 2-3-43 Foot-BullTe:1m 3-4: Class. Truck Team, 3-43 Truck Team, 3 l've seen my fondest hopes decay. ll