English High School - Brown Owl Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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those two flights of stairs, only to find, when we reached the top, a notice telling us to return to Room 10. After waiting here for anhour or two, we were assigned to our especial rooms, most of us going to either Miss Arnold or Miss Hayward. During this half year Miss Hayward, who was an experienced and valued teacher, died, and a substitute was engaged for the rest of the year. Une morning in February we came to school very much excited, for one year of our school life was over and we no longer had that hated name 'tFresh- men attached to us, for we were Sophomores. How proud we were! Soon the business portion of the class was being initiated into the mys- teries of bookkeeping under the instruction of Mr. Turner, while in Room 3 those taking the regular course devoted themselves to their favorite French or Latin. During this half year we also studied that most delightful of -studies, Geometry, learning all about lines, angles, and circles. And so another half year rolled on and once more the summer vacation ca1ne. Vacation time always flies, and after ten weeks of enjoyable idleness we entered upon the last half of our second year. We were very busy those six months, for besides all our regular work three periods each week were spent in the laboratory. , And now that two years full of happiness have passed, we are looking forward with great eagerness to becoming juniors, believing that we shall enjoy our daily round of work and play in dear old 4'English as much in the future as we have in the past. CARoLrN13 L. WRIGHT, '13, 36

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WDM O .Q 11 llx 6 . ml fb, f5'B'k' 'rib - - ' -1 fy - '- -x Ii f-,. Q. LUN A .JI N an extremely cold morning about the first of February, 1909, fifty or sixty of us sat in the hall of the English High School awaiting the arrival of the Principal. Wfhen M. Hoyt came, it was very quiet in the room as we anxiously listened while he read off some names from a slip of paper which he held in his hand. How anxiously we listened, how dismayed we were when our names were not called, and how great our grief when our friends were separated from us, only those who have experienced these things can know. In two or three days all our affairs were straightened out, and we were working in our several rooms as busily as the proverbial bee. Our first months were profitably spent under the care of Miss Vlfallcer or Mr. Chase. , We lp- pily hunted for that mysterious X, which certainly must have had the Wings of Mercury attached to it, for we never seemed able to quite catch up with it. VVe also turned our attention to Latin or French, besides learning all about the oracles and the Grecian gods and goddesses. These first six months Went by so quickly that almost before we realized it, We were bidding our friends Good-byeu and the summer vacation had begun. One bright day in September we again entered Ulinglishf' and toiled up 35

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K-53 ffxcf N lfnr' fell 90,115 Zh 1 fk' x Qwifgdjizzf QQIQEXW as X W3 V16-Wrester X t A flflxxxw HHN flllx if N l, Sgffgglgtfl if Nh X t 15 'X Y r X119 X X at .Q tl. ,-X 1 B' lol we tg, fl 'Z - 'Q 54' ff, TRESHVI AN 'll was on a rainy, dreary Saturday, that the class of 191-t first made their appearance in Old English. They were rather noisy, to be sure, but what can one expect of thegreenest variety of a green Freshman? They had come for the purpose of registering, and on the following Monday were to begin the duties of their Freshman year in the High School. Some were placed in Room G, some in Room 15, and still others were sent to the annex on Temple street. How strange and new it all seemed to them !' 'llhe First few days. all was confusion respecting studies and periods, but later, when they became more accustomed to the usual order of things, they calmly settled down to enjoy Freshman life. 37