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

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Sub Seniors! Wfe hail you as our worthy successors, and as such, we would admonish you ever to keep in mind and endeavor to live up to the best traditions of our beloved school. It should be your ambition to emulate the glorious example which this illustrious class of January, 1911, has set before you. The inspiration our class has given you together with your own past experience should be the spur to further efforts. My parting words of advice will be those long ago uttered by that eminent philosopher and statesman, -Benjamin Franklin. He said, I have no light to guide my path to the future save that shed by the lamp of experience, and oftentimes it is profitable to pause in our journey, turn backward, and study the road by which we have traveled. VV e bestow upon you our blessings together with our best wishes that you will prove yourselves worthy in the highest degree of the proud 'title of Seniors. ' S Q QE ':-.K....-egg li 4 6

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ADDRESS TO UNDERGRADUATES Underclassmen-Lend me your ears and give heed to the words of wisdom which I am about to impart to you. Freshmen! You are now approaching the close of your probationary period and will soon ceaseto be looked upon as a mere incubus upon our student bodyg you will no longer be considered as a conglomerated mass of isolated particles with scarcely enough cohesion among its molecules to make it a tangible reality. VVe sincerely trust that by this time it has dawned upon your so-called intellects that you have been permitted to exist among us only as a necessary evil and that your future mental development will so progress so as to merit the approval of your teachers, thereby justifying the toleration of which you have been the unconscious recipients. just a bit of specific advice-Realize and remember that when present in the hall on Wednesday mornings you are not there as ornaments, neither are you considered the guests or the critics of the higher classes. Your presence on these occasions affords you the only opportunity allowed to freshmen of raising their voices to their full capacity. At all other times silence should be your motto. W Sophomores! By the processes of evolution you have shaken off the man- tle of many of your former crudities and have now crossed the threshold and entered fairly upon your student career. Do not for one moment, however, imagine that you have attained the heights of wisdom and that you can safely give an iron-clad guarantee that you are exempt from future errors of judg- ment. At this time fl can do no better than remind you of the saying of that famous American philosopher and humorist, josh Billings. He said,- There is hope for the person who, making a mistake, recognizes it and profits by it, but Heaven help the person who makes mistakes and stands OH and points to them with pride-his case is hopeless. May the truth of these words sink deeply into your minds. juniors! Now that you are about to make your formal entrance into the sanctum sanctorum, or Holy of Holies of this school, namely, Room l, it is to be hoped that you will appreciate to the full the exalted status of your new environment. The only admonition that we can give you is, remember that as you advance through your curriculum your responsibilities proportionally increase. You are ever to be shining examples to the under classes of what good students should be. Promptness at recitations. desire to anticipate the wishes of your teachers. and a display of assiduity in the prosecution of your studies, will bc the strongest factors in gaining the higher honors which await you. 45

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STATISTICS NAME. NICK NAME. BY-WORD. D1sPos1T1oN. Gladys Alden 4... Smiles. Honest. Charming. Hazel Alfred ..., S-horty. just Listen. Even. Ruth Berger .... Madame President Great Scott. Iolly. Cyril Broadhead ..... Cy. Order Please. Calm. Louise Brotherton. . . Lou. Niemtals-niemals Inquisitive. wieder! Samuel BL11'liG ----- Sammy. Inez. Sweet. Mabel Cox .......... Mab. Naughty! Mischievous Gladys Diefendorf. .. jim-mie. In New York. Coquettish. A111121 Flyllll -------.- A. I. Far be it from me. Angelic. VVilfred Girouard .... Frenchy. Attention! XIVIUSOYIIC. Jennie Goldberg ..... jen, H61-C. jolly, Emelia Hempel .... Little One. Goodness. Merry. Arnot Hirst ..... Cuty. Achille. Quiet. Isabell Hughes .... Inez. Heavens. Pleasant. Helen I-Iutcheon ..... Nellie. Great Scott. Quiet. In.ez Jordan ........ Baby. Up behind the clock. Lively. Marie Leach ..... Dimpl-es. Oh, say! Talkative. Herbert Lord Butsy. Ivey. Easy going. Alice Luther ....... Kid. X Hey. Merry. Jessie McDougall .... Jess. Haven't looked at it. Reserved. Achille Mangiante. . . Kille. Here- Quiet. Marco Montagano. .. Count Out. O, you kid! Lazy. Margaret McGwynn. Fluffy Ruffles. Anna. Heavenly. Ethel Mancib ........ Polly. Get down, Teddy. Amiable. Anfnie Marshall .... Nan. lfVell, I believe you. Quiet. Milton Price .... ? Kiss me. Friendly. Millicent Reed ....... Millie. My word. Sweet. Gertrude Richards... Taffy. T'hat's the limit. Ambitious. Newton Shawcross. . . Isaac. Been to Miss Mosher. Happy. Robert Sweet ........ Bob That's all right. Lazy. Cora Thornton .... Coclie. Oh say! SWCCY- Alma X1Vaterman ..... ? Good gracious. Agreeable. Martha Wfeston .... Puffs. It's cold. Unequallerl. Marie Wfilclprett ..... Maurie. Milton. Pleasing.