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

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Sept Sept Sept. Sept. Sept. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Nov Nov Nov Nov Nov Nov Nov Nov Nov Nov Yov Nov CALENDAR School opens. Many things new and fresh. Seniors are at a loss when confronted with a pitch-pipe. Voices tested. Wfhat monotony. First class meeting. Election of Brown Owl Board and committees. Angelic order! Astronomy class go on roof. So do Vifilfred and Bob. W'hat happened to Mr. Day? Wfe assemble in hall for first time this term. Eye Hath Not Seen, a new QFD piece is tried. First meeting of Boys, Debating Society. Newton does himself proud in his nrst speech in the hall. No school! Congratulations to the school committee. Fire-drill. XVh'o was the lonesome boy? Brown Owl Board meeting. Short but sweet. The team which is to debate against Classical elected. Everyone seeks the bottom-drawer in the book-case,-long compo- sition due tomorrow. Red seems to be a favorite color for neckties today. Class Meeting. B. O. board meeting in the evening. 4A go down to Hrst recess and set a fine example for younger mem- bers ot the school. Brown Owl board has picture taken, and Samuel is in disgrace. Class picture taken. Wfe congratulate the photographer on his bravery. Mr. Russell says that this morning's lesson is the best in eighteen years. Butsy Lord comes to school with his nose in a sling. Wfe are again complimented on our singing Wait 'til graduation, Mr. Russell. Pictures have begun to Hoat around. 4-A girls are beginning their second childhood by wearing their hair down their backs todav. Miss Peirce thinks it looks nicely. Achille tells us the price of coal in shorthand class. Miss Mumford wants the boys nearer Cnear herj. Inez and Sammie are mad. Mr. Russell sings a Scottish Sunday School song written in the Chinese scale. The Three Twinsl' saw Dante's Inferno Nliss Peirce says the owl may be a wise bird but not a very pleas- ant one. Ours is pleasant, alright-we don't know about the wisdom Miss P. tells us that Clifford has a brain. The 'fBrown Owl goes to press. S2

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bus.' I Marco: fafter minutes have been approvedj 'Tm going to change the nnnutesf' Pupil: :'The fires aresatisfied with large odors. b Mrs. F.: You canlt feed a furnace Hre on the odors of onions and cab- age. A , Martha has discovered taints in the leaves of a tree! Wfho was Marcols friend in declamation? Martha says her favorite pastime is f'crabbing.', Sweeney: Reciting astronomy in a low voice. .Mr. Hoyt: Can you hear her ? Montagano: Vote for all three on same paper and the one that has the most votes will be chairman. Marco, translating a Pitrnanic Shorthand sign: Such would be not. Mr. Reed: A curiosity of shorthand is, that you add by subtraction. In the Boys' Debating Society: Girouard: f'I'll move the nominations be closed. Sweet: All those in favor say, 'Ay' . Girouard: f'Ay.,' Sweet: 'fThose opposed ?', Remainder of society: Nay Sweet: The Ayes have it. A Miss Peirce: 'fXN'hat is the number of your lVooley, Ruth ? Ruth: What is my Wfooleyiy' Cora: tln class meetingj Uh, let someone lse do it, Tm always chasing your money. Mangiante: The constellations for today are Epus, Orion, and Colum- , . Xlfilfred bought the following number of tickets for the Senior Dance: WZCXXYUEFI . Miss Smith, in astronomy: The clouds are nimbus and cumbusf' Tn Latin Class: 'She changed both his eyes and feathers into a beak. Mangiante: A parapluie is something to hold the rain. Price says the albedo of the bust of Shakespeare is very low and he needs a bath. Mr. Hoyt in 'lth period Astronomy class: There'd be a full earth at new moon. Sl

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor 1-Wie offer our sympathy to 'll, for not having any memo- rials for your book. Wfe fear that it is because you were Hdead ones long ago. I U1'1de1'gi'adua-105. Ear be it from such. Wfe are just in our prime, but we don't expect you children, who have hardly begun to live yet, to realize it. However, we thank you for your thoughtfulness.-Ed. Dear Editor I-vlNlllCll eye did the Owl wink when the astronomy class went up on the roof? Ilzterestcci. The other eye.-Ed. Q Dear Editor :-l-low could llfilkinson be so sure that the ribbon on Mollies hair came off a candy box? Civics Class Probably he was the donor thereof.-Ed. Dear Editor I-XfVllO took Emelia to the Brown-Penn Game? In q1,zz's-litiifc. We canlt answer anything so personal, besides, she won't tell us.-Ed. Dear Editor :-Vlfhat made some of the senior girls so cheerful that first declamation day? The Ozflzcrs. Mabel anticipated the blue atmosphere likely to prevail at such a time and brought a heavy box of square chocolate pills with plenty of cocoanut in them.-Ed. Dear Editor I-XMB never heard of a square pill. -lust what is it? The Rest of the Board. No one else did, we presume, until now. Wfebster says a pill is a medicine shaped like a little ball. A medicine is a tonic. Now, these particular pills were a tonic strong enough to make cheerful faces on elocution day, therefore a medicine. But they are solids so they must be pills. The cube shape is original, thatls all. Do we make ourselves clear ?-Ed. Dear Editor :--W'asn't it rather unusual to put the freshmen right in front of the platform on November ninth? lf the Seniors donlt want the place we ought to have it. Jimiors. Be calm, those were the seniors, but they were trying to show the Freshies how very young they looked.-Ed. Dear Editor :--Hadn't something ought to be done when Cora declares that lf, comes before I in the alphabet? ll y0l'I'lt'd. Of course it' is a little queer, but Miss Peirce says a poet has to be queer. so we will let it pass, at least until the poem is safely printed.-Ed. Dear Editor :-lllhere did Sammy get such a lovely quotation? lt is far nicer than any of ours. 7-VIL' Other Iifiyx. Alma, limelia, and lnez had charge of- the hnishing of the personals. XVQ have to guard against personalities in this department. but will say that ncitha-r .Nhna nor Emelia gave it.-Ed. 53