Doylestown High School - Torch Yearbook (Doylestown, PA)

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THE TORCH Didnt like the fellows. How to keep from getting home-sick. It costs too much. Hatfield sported some good looking girls. Bensalem did the same. The boys swore. I didn'-t get enough sleep Guides too high-hat. Too far away from home HIGH SCHOOL FABLE NCE upon a time there was a dignified Senior who planned to be an honor student. She wrote the speech she would say at Commencement. She bought ia. lot of new clothes and got a per- manent wave and a manicure so she would look nice when she received her medial for having the highest marks in final tests. She picked out the college she would like to honor with her pres- ence and sent them a telegram announcing her appearance in September. She practiced smiling to be in practice to receive con- gratulations and medals. Her father, mother, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, cousin and grandparents convinced her that she was a won- derful young lady, and, with a little help on her own part, she was quite overcome by the fact that she was mighty good. She took a week off before exams, so as to be in good condi- tion to pass them, during which time she reserved one hundred seaits in the High School Auditorium for her friends on Commence- ment night. She came to school and took the inal English tests. She took her final test in Problems, she took her final in French, and she took her final in Physics. Well, to make a long story short, she passed her final test in English, she passed her final in Prob- lemsg she passed her final in French, but she flunked her final in Physics. She took a retest, but fiunked it. She was given another test, but she fiunked that also. So she did not receive her diploma, and felt very sad because she had to disappoint the college to which she would have gone. Moral: There is no accounting for the acts of High School Seniors.

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THE TORCH THINGS WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT WASHINGTON Why are elevators? Who invented apples? Why are fire escapes? Where was the house detective? Why were the meals and how? Who was he ? VVhere did the money go? Why isn't there privacy? Why is food? VVhy is sight-seeing? What happened to Dick Harris, harmonica? What became of the chaperons? How did the Potomac? VVhy doesn't he show up? Did he remember my address? What is his address? Did the buses have springs? VVhat was George W3S1llllgfOllyS name when he was a boy? Why did Room 440 oversleep one morning? How many embassys are there? What's it all about anyway? THINGS WE LEARNED IN WASHINGTON Fire escapes are to be used only in case of fire. One does not get sleepy at night. One is always sleepy in the morning. The ice water was all wet. 'Phone service went on the bum after 11.00 P. M. Buses are very valuable. Buses are the 'tbunkft Our guide was right. I was iiighty in the belfry. Nights are not for sleeping. The meals were rotten.

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