Emmerich Manual High School - Ivian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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doing well. I particularly speak of mathematics — the power of the Calculus — its universal application to all realms of science. However each of you, who pursues some studies beyond high school work, will learn of that. Let me give you an idea as to the external life as it exists at Rose Polytechnic Institute. Our presence is required five and one-half days per week. The schedule of recitation and office or shop work is variable as regards time, that is, some days we are at the Institute from 8 to 12 o ' clock in the morning and from 4 to 6 o ' clock in the afternoon, other days from 10 to 12 in the morning and 4 to 6 in the after- noon. During the spring term, however, the institute closes at 5 o ' clock in the afternoon, so as to give students, who wish, time to take out-door exercise. The work must therefore begin at 7 and 1 o ' clock. There is no general assembly room for the classes and the work is continuous. Recitations are one hour in length, while shop or office work runs continuously from three to five hours. The greater part of recitation work is given over to lectures by the professor in charge, on the subject-matter under con- sideration. Of course we never fail to provide ourselves with three or four note-books, and we are kept quite busy jotting down notes, as the professor talks. During each term there are fre- quent quizzes on the work pursued, the results of which to a great extent determine one ' s class mark. There are three terms per year. At the end of each, examinations are taken on the work considered. The time limit for an examination is four hours for each subject. Four or five days are usually required to complete the examinations. The general average must be 60 per cent., and the minimum allowable in any one subject 40 per cent. This prevents spe- cializing. The only rule regulating absences is that for each absence a proportional part is deducted from the recitation mark. The resulting mark is averaged with the examination mark by the registrar. HENRY LESER, M. T. H. S. Feb. ' 96, R. P. I. ' 00. Terre Haute, April, 1899.

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FIRE-LIGHT Sitting alone in the evening In a large old-fashioned room, Before a fire fast dying, With naught else to dispel the gloom. Through the trees outside, -which autumn Had stripped of their summer ' s dress, The wind was sighing and moaning, Like some one in distress; It stirred the leaves in the corners Where they ' d stowed themselves away, And shook the rattling casement Till ghosts seemed holding sway. ' Twas an ideal time for dreaming As I sat in solitude, And strange, fantastical shadows, Soon gave to my fancy, food. As the flames shot upward and vanished, I saw in their fiery glow Reflections of happy moments And faces I used to know ; As they flickered and danced on the ceiling And transformed all things old, They lit up the faded hangings Until they seemed ' broidered in gold. The coals formed fairy castles, In which I reigned supreme, But the flames soon made them ashes And left me a vanquished queen. And as blessings are always brightest Just as they take their flight, The fire mouldered into ashes And left me alone in the night. MABEL G. WALTERS, June, 1900.