Denton High School - Bronco Yearbook (Denton, TX)

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Horace Witherspoon— I am proud to declare I have no predilections; And ray heart is a sieve where some scattered affections Are Just tossed about for a moment or two, And the finer they are. the more sure to run through. 'The finishing touches have all been made.

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Ernest Bate “Three-fifths of him genius and iwo-flfths sheer fudge. Margery Ballard— Her glorious fancies come from far. Beneath the silver evening star.

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Senior Class History. We deeply regret that space is so limited as not to permit our giving a detailed history of this particular tribe of High Schoolites—the most cultured, the most highly civilized and refined of them all—namely the Seniors. However, we will endeavor to give us full an account as possible of its most important features, and its most brilliant attainments, for indeed, one could hardly be well Informed in history without at least a slight knowledge of the same. To begin at the beginning, these people had to fight long and hard for the possession of their place of abode. But even when they had at length driven out the aborigines. and ruthlessly appropriated their name and territory to themselves, the ' were not allowed to enjoy their possession in peace, for soon a very fierce and barbaric tribe, called Jpniors, from a neighboring locality, broke through the barriers on the north, and poured its hordes down upon the peaceful Inhabitants. Yet, fortunately, these were not entirely incapable of civilization, and the Seniors finding it a hapeless task to rid themselves of so great a number, succeeded in effecting this to a small degree The government of the Seniors is. in its present s:ate, oUgharclal in form, having three supreme rulers However, the people have one tribune, who has served from the time of their settlement in this new territory up to the present day, and will be likely to serve until the break-up of the tribe. This tribune, by name, the Rt. Hon. Ernest Bates, has always assumed a sort of patriarchal protectorate over them, presiding at the general assembly, and adding the final word to all matters of Importance. Their laws are made arbitrarily by the oligharca, and are usually obeyed to the letter: but occasionally some unruly citizen chances to violate certain phases thereof, and consequently receives punishment according to his crime—the worst criminals being attended to personally by one of the ollgharcs in an underground cave, (name similar to ’purgatory. ) But what is particularly wonderful about this tribe is the peculiar talent displayed by almost every member. For, Indeed, If we compare numbers and length of time, this people has produced, during the brief iieriod of Its existence, enough great characters, both male and female, in the realm of art and literature, to rival even the Romans In their Augustan age. or the Athenians in their age of Pericles. One individual Is a distinguished orator and physicist; another is a critic and novelist of no small 32