Elk Grove High School - Elk Yearbook (Elk Grove, CA)

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S Ly J THE ELK A FOUR DIMhNSIONAL PUPIL IN A THREE DIIVIENSIONAL SCHOOL From the moment that I 1tuus Fesseract X ers1era of I-Iyperspacevllle enrolled as a pup1l of the Sublunary H1011 School te lchers and pup1ls recog nmed the fact that no O1'Cl11I'I.I'y member had entered then' ranks Possessed of a hlgh mtelleetual forehe 1d and an eye of da7zlmg lJl'1ll12l11Cy he was smgled out as the student who xx ould make a n une for hrnasclf Obedlence to teachers and lox altx to the rules and regulatrons of the school xx ere marked LlI'1l Leter1st1cs of the puplls but Lltlllls lesseract Verslera xvas the xerx 211'1t1tlILS1S of the others 11'1 th1s respect X haughty contempt for evervthmg eonnec ted wlth the ll1Slf1tl1t1OlI showed 1tsclf 1n hrs every word and deed Ihe flrst att XVl11Ll1 sharply Cl1St1l1gL11Sl1CCl Lltuus from hrs fellow puplls octurred 111 the afternoon of the iarst day on the g1rls basketball court XS he was lY1SN1H0 he heard one of the players exclalm Thxs basket ball IS awfully d1rtv I ve trlcd to clean It but It doesn t do a IJ'l1't1LlL of good I XV1Ql1 some magxuan would turn lt 11lQ1ClC out I 1111.11.18 stepped up to the speaker and sald I m xt your serxlte She repl1ed Don t xx aste vour tl1'1'lC talkmg of the 1111lWObb1lJlC people xx ho are obsessed xx 1th suth lcleas as you express xx 1nd up 111 the 11IN'II'lC asylum Lxtuus promptly reyomed Phe 11151116 asylum was never bullt that can hold me Ile then plcked up the bxll and to the amazement of all spectators lt yan 1il'l6tl from slght and 111 a fractlon of a second reappeared transformed 111 exact accordante xx 1th the glrl s xxlshes l hose xvho d1d not see the act Hatly refused to bellexe a xx ord of xvhat those who d1d XV1t1'lCbS It related But the t1me was soon to tome The followmg day at the noon hour when the puplls were eatlng thexr lunch a bov was seen maklng a desperate but vam effort to draxx a cork from x bottle of grape yu1ce Several of hrs companxons attempted to assxst h1m but therr efforts xx ere as fruitless as hrs L1tuus saw h1m I can get your grape june out of the bottle xx 1tl1OL'lt extractmg the cork he sand Ihose xx ho beheld the basket ball feat of the precedxng day called for all the pL11W1lS on the ground to assemble and xx 1tl'1CS'i the mrracle Vxfhen all had SltlICI'CCl Lltlllls took the bottle LO1'1t211111l1g' the grape yxnce and another empty bottle and as 111 the ease of the basket ball both bottles xanlshed and then reappeared xx 1th the grape JUILC all transferred to the erstwhlle empty bottle and xv1th the cork of the OI'1g11I'1l bottle mtact A few m1nutes after the performance of the bottle feat he saw some boys trvmg to unt1e a number of comphcated knots IH a xvet rope not one of them was maklng anv headwav L1tl1L1S came ox er to where thev xx ere took hold of the rope turned lt ox er txx 1ce and exery knot Cl1S'113l eared I-Ie xvas noxx regarded by the xx hole school as a 1Tl'lgILlH1'l of the first order Ihe nexct day on the cadet drlll field the commandant sald to Lltlltlg Can you shoot a rlfle? 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THE 'T' ELK the telephone in our room buzzed for about two hours, Bob and I working systematically in relays. Probably a class has never assembled so promptly nor behaved in so orderly a fashion previous to roll-call, as the botany class did the following morning. The professor stalked to his desk, searching with his right hand absent-mindedly in his pockets for his notes, which he was holding in his left hand. He could hardly believe his eyes when he saw Bob assume the char- acteristic pose of a yell-leader. As one man the class roseg as one voice the boys shouted, 'Mammal Mamma . Betty gurgled with delight and amusement. Oh, how funny! But who was the professor and did he marry Sue ? She was consumed with curiosity. - VVhy, of course they were marriedf' responded Caxton. Oh, here comes your father. I-Iave you got it all out of your system ? asked Dargent shamefacedly, but with an air of relief. Yes, but Miss Betty wants to know who the professor is, smiled Caxton. The professor blushed and grinned. I! H Oh daddy, it was vou ! and Betty shouted with youthful and spontane- 7 1 ous merriment. -D. F. VV., '20. AN ODE TO X Thou little imposter! For ages have I pursued you, Through tangled mazes of sines and secants, Into wildernesses of figures, and thence Over intricate layers of roots and powers. Thou givest me a pain! By means geometric, By efforts analytic, I have sought to spot thee, But all in vain. Thou always elude me, Thou slippery sinner! I thought I had thee, But, methinks thou art hidden Crouched behind the Binomial Theorem, Of which I know not of, peering at me Over the head of Euler's Formula, And a desolate waste of brain twisting memonica. O! Thou wretch! My lamp at midnight burns for thee. I need thee every hour, for little X, Wfithout thee, my marks, like thee, are uncertain values, In the linear equation of school life, , Wliere values sometimes cancel and disappear. Therefore, abide with me, and elude me not. J. B., '19- Fifty-two

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LJ! is l 'Xf Sava f f THE A,-, ELK A, ji 1-HR all il- J. Q, ' ,Pm wxl' r The commandant then bethought himself of what he had been told con- cerning the late exploits of his pupil, and said, Perhaps you can by your leger-de-main tricks, but I don't propose to let you practice on mef, 'fMy parents have taught me to prove every assertion I make, Lituus re- plied, and, in the twinkling of an eye, he leveled his rifle at the drill officer, who was standing-between him and the school barn, and fired. I-Iorror-stricken, every boy expected to see the officer fall deadg but instead to the unspeakable astonishment and relief of all, he was unhurt. An examination of -the barn showed that the bullet had lodged in the side of it. The principal of the school arrived on the scene a minute later, and ordered Lituus to accompany him to the office, and show cause why he should not be expelled from school for such behavior. On the way to the office the culprit disappeared, a search was instituted for him but without success. Twenty minutes later the principal found him coolly sitting in his office. VVhen the principal entered Lituus said to him: VVhy are you detaining me so long ? I've been hunting for you, the principal said, ever since you ran away from me on the way to the office. I beg your pardon, Lituus replied, I didn't run away. Didn't run away, exclaimed the surprised head of the school, then how did it happen that you and I separated P A It is a brief story to tell, said Lituus. I simply took a short cut to your office along the fourth dimension. The fourth dimension l said the principal, what has the fourth dimen- sion to do with you or any of us P It has nothing to do with your life, Mr. Principal, or the lives of any of your teachers or pupils, but it has a lot to do with my life. I don't know enough to explain these things to you, but come down to our house tonight and my father can clear up things for you. That evening the principal paid a visit to the Versiera home. Cn entering, strange sights met his eyes. I-Ie seemed to be in a land of enchantmentsl sometimes he believed his senses, but oftener he doubted them. I-Ie was ushered into the presence of Versiera, Sr., who instantly assured him that everything he saw was natural, and that any fears he might entertain were groundless. You are merely catching a glimpse of I-Iyperspacef' he said to the prin- cipal, a world of which you have not the faintest conception in virtue of your physical limitations. To you that realm is but an intangible abstraction: to me it is a physical reality in which I 'live and move and have my being' at will. The acts which we denizens of that world perform are called by you unfortunate circumscribed beings 'magic' There is no magic about them: they are but manifestations of the fourth dimension of space. My boy, Lituus, knows practically nothing in Geometry, yet he can solve geometrical problems which the most profound mathematicians from Archimedes to Cayley declare to be impossibleg e. g. Place five points equi-distant from one another, and make two symmetrical hollow pyramids coincide. These problems are obviously insoluble when restricted to space of three dimensions, but they become simplicity themselves when manipulated in four-dimensional space. The recent performances of Lituus in your school are but simple, everyday acts of one who has four degrees of freedom in space. And, again, many of your physical and chemical forces of which you are in the darkest ignorance rela- tive to their essence, are by us explained with the vigor and certainty of mathematical demonstration. Wliat do you know about magnetism, electric- ity, gravitation, chemical affinity, and a multitude of other natural forces? Fifty-four