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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But certainly it was not always enjoyable. 'fDoesn't he look green P and Till bet sheis a Freshman, were some of the remarks they heard, and it was very mortifying. indeed to their pride, considering the important fact that they had been all through Grammar School. The Freshmen make a specialty of music, for perhaps some may recall one Xflfednesday last spring when Mr. Russell had each class sing in turn. The Freshies certainly distinguished themselves for the volume of sound which they poured forth. Many pedestrians stopped to listen to the sweet sounds. To be sure, they had to strain their ears just a little. t When vacation came, the Freshmen separated, most of them with a view of returning in September, when they might once more tread the flowery path of knowledge. Wlieii they did come back in the fall there were many greetings and inquiries of how one and the other had spent their vacations. Some were missing, they probably had had enough of the delights of Freshman year. The majority of those who came back were sent to Room 4, the rest to Room let. They now regarded themselves as full-fledged members of the English High School, and accordingly viewed with a patronizing air those who had just entered. Of course, they never were so green. About the second of the quarter they had their voices tried and it was with quaking hearts that they ascended the stairs to the hall. To their great relief, there were no dreaded Sophomores or upper classmen in view, and they only had to sing so that Mr. Russell could hear. He must have used an artificial ear device to do so. Up to date, most of the Freshies have been fairly successful as far as booklore goes, and in january hope to attain that long-coveted place, the Sopho- more grade. Then here's to the Freshmen, their joys and their trials, Their innocent manners and fresh beaming smiles, And when they have done with their greenness and fear, Admit them, I pray, to the Sophomore year. ELINE K. SORENSEN. 38