Framingham High School - Philomath Yearbook (Framingham, MA)

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0 TRACK TEAM S H '31 'S Q S-. NN s 'T' 'W X. 1- N K Nl. S N- -s. F... ,199

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THE PHILOMATH whole year for fear we wouldn t be able to pay all the expenses But when the tlme came we got through all rxght and I might add had more than ten cents ln the treasury with whrch to start our Semor year Thxs was partly due to the dxlxgence of our treasurer and hrs little call Ten cents please Durlng these three years we had not been 1I1aCllVC m athletrcs On almost every school team there were some rgro boys The grrls also showed their love of athletlcs both by attendlng the games and supportrng thexr own gymnasium class And I musn t for get the glrls baseball team whlch vson ten games out of a season of twelt Don t you call that remarkably good P But please take thls statement w1th a gram of salt We started on the home stretch of wlll see that this 15 qulte a decrease from the number that started ln but what we had lost ID numbers we made up for in class splrlt Of course bemg Senlors we trled to be more sedate and dngnlfied than ever but somehow we couldn t succeed ln thls very well From the beglnnmg of the year we had one good tlme after another nntll rt seemed as though we had nothmg but good times BESldCS holdmg three Senlor dances we had tvso or three soclals w1th the Iunxors If you want to know the reason for our havlng socrals w1th the JLIUIOYS you had better ask some of the Senior g1rls and well I guess someot the boys could tell you, oo Perhaps you thlnk we spent all our tlme tn havmg a good tlme and neg lected our studies but you are mls taken for tomorrow mght we mll graduate with thlrty elght members Q Th1s 15 the second largest class to graduate from the Framingham Htgh School Os er half of thls number expect to study ln hlgher schools, and several others have already accepted posltlons as bookkeepers and stenog raphers From thls you see that we have not neglected our studles altogether and that vue have followed the teachlngs of our mstructors to whom we give many thanks for thelr kmdnesses to us durxng o r High School llfe We gne our best wrshes to you also and hope th t you wlll always remem ber the jolly cla s of rgro vshlch would llke to meet all 1ts old frlends and assoctates at Its reunlons to whlch It looks forvw. ard w1th great joy M xuomzrzrrr- ELLEN STRrPP EXCHANGES 'Ihe Phrlomath wishes to thank the Ixchange edltors for their krndly CI'ltlLlSlllH and to wrsh them the best of good luck 1n tl1e future lssues of thelr papers I HE LNIOIN SPrR1T At a publtc school not long ago the chlldren were tramlng for the annual Flag Day celebratxon One boy IU order to show good reason why he should take a promlnent part 1n the ceremonies sald that he had a real gun another hada plstol another had aflag and so on F1 ally one tow hatred lad ol svc came up to the teacher Please, ma am, I has a union sult ' was the replx V y .1 . 1 ' . v . - I P 4' rl I I ' ' ' tl . IV' ' . ! D ' s I I , Q. ' z . 1 ' w 51, A , .. . .. . . Y . 4 r , ' f ' , n ' v - ' J ' v ' f Q v ' ! 7 Q V ye. , . . ' ' r 7 . . . our run witl1 fortyrtwo members. You I Q -vs I 1 . l , . . K .. 1 , . .Q - ,A I tl ' ' , . , I . . 1 ' ' 1 '. ' I rx y Y . . , . . ' - , . Y . ' S ' 5 I . , .' . ' ' 'n - ' ' ', . . . . - . H l 1 J I I.

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1111110111 FOLKSONGS IVIINNESONGS AND IVIEISTERSONGS OF GERMANY 1 r111a11y 15 the co111tr1 of l 1110 most arnous for l1er fclle songs '1lCX da e back to tl1e earl1est tllllta as l1e first poet1c express10ns cf the people 'l l1e authors are nnlenow ll lllll. the songs are a matter of growth ha11ng been handed dow ll from gCUCI'3llOIl to gelltlcl 1011 IC ff 11 Ll 1 xnan spontaneous1y s1ng a ll1LlOelX to express 11s eellngs 0fl01e, or 1el1U1o 15 f r1or, or a11y other e1110t1o11 then others 1101 ld take It up 11111111111 ellllOll'5 and 1111 Lllltll a perfect 1l16'lOllX had Th1s1s the growtl1 of tl1e pr01e1nents been formed folk song Tl1ese songs were snnfr PX ery 11 here 111 tl1e field 111 the st1eets IU the tu GYI15 or 011 tl1e march Tl1e c0111111o11e t sub e eradle solther s l1fe and de COlll1lI'X . Although not U1l1Cl1f1YOI'Ctl by the scholars of that t1n1e, the l1lClOtlle'w 1 re always fresh, natnr 1l and true 0 IC If r 115 reason 1111 eetnse tl were the true, home bred sense of tl1e people uttered s1n1ply and unpreten t1ously they ha1ene1er been fOlg0lfHIl but haxe lasted to tl1e present day when they are tl1e l1lO5t popular of CJLYHVIII student so11gs I l1e antl1ors of the 1 hureh s011gs borrowed fro111 tl1Q1'11 tl1e1r n1et11eal f0rn1,s1rnpl1e1ty of express10n, Blltl often the 211t'S,VKl11Cl1 accounts fo tl1e1rres1s 1 charm of the German hymns sually tl1e foll1 songs were snnff as me1od1es only parts were added, but tl1e best of them are so flell that the1 need none l l1ese songs were prese11ed 1 rtly ly professlonal nnnstrels, 11 ho were held 111 COIl'i1ClC1'3lJlS lonor under Ch 1rles the Great, but were afterwards lnflllel' lol r1t ed than encouraged by tne lngher C11 l IL XX'llltlellll0' IlllllKllClS of the Age O Lh11alr1 11110 101 ed fro111 court to court were called NI llllfSlIlULl'S The Word XI1nn1e has several l116Hllll1gS but the oldest of lllelll 15 that of lxlllll re111en1 brtnce or the l01e ofa fr1e11d Host of the NI111nes1nffers 11ere of noble faxnlly all t1e 1e1e11111 w11te1s ofthe tlme wrote lyr1cal poetry and It was laborl Ol sly Cl1lllX ated also by many who cl1d not feel equal to the task of prolonged elfnrt llltfle are t11ree epochs to LIIHUC etr1, first allttle after IIDO 1 C poetr1 lJC'S.Zl1lb to free ltself f 0111 CplC, the wrne s E.XlJlL45LLl tl1en1sel1es 111 shorter poems of tl1e1r e111ot1o11s, ldeas and be lllafs no longer Hfltlllg the narratlve 1 ge o l111 1 ry tlllftl, w1th tl1e year 1 ,oo began tl1e deeune of tl1e n11nne songs and the r1se of tl1e 111e1st rqongs en t11 ated by the 1ne1ster S1IlgCI'Q It lb hnd to tell l10w n1nehtl1e 111111116 bl1lgG S were mfluenced by tl1e troubadours, who tl1r01e III tl1e Age of C,h11alr1 also, or to 11l1at extent they drew upon the tra fllllflllb and customs of the1r own land or upon gGUL'llllG e1n0t1ons, but ce1ta1nly the oldest poems tell of t111e e1cper1e1.ces 'I he greatest of tl1e NI11lll6S1IlgCI'b was Walther X on der X offelwelde, wl1o was born 111 the Ty rol betwee11 I163 and 1170 ofa fannly of the lower nob1l1ty After l1e l1ad le trned tl1e art of poetry 111 Aus tr1a, and had composed a few Mxnne songs, l1e became a Wandermg I111I1StI'6l, ffylllg l1lSfOI'tt1IlL III pOlltlC8l songs first or one Slllt. Illtl then forthe other though l1e changed partxes he neyer ceased 111 l11s pra1se of Germany H r11eled tl11 Jllwll France, Q1 rxnany an IInn11ar1, L'1I'l1lIl0'l1lbl1Xl1l5 by blllglllg 1111, ,, +11 III 9 7 V ' Ce . 1 A 1 41 all C ' pe l - 1 g ' 5 ' Q 1 f ' f ' 1 1 1 ' 1 ,1 ' '11 1 ' 1 , t' 1 ' J ' if t 1 1 . A . 1 :K ge J X' 2' 5 1 - t . 1 ' 7 .551 . ' .', x 1 Y 1 . . . 4 I A c . e x ' , X . K . '. ' . ' - ' , 1 1 , 2 , ' I . - Y 1 ' 1 . -1 - f l ' 1.1. 5 5- v ' , t' . Intl llL'hllllllllh pfhapsz . for . l ' It l' g ' - 1 .1 ., , , , , .. . 1 , ' ,. ' , . '- l f ' ' 5 1 ' 'tj 1' e 1 lf 1 5 1 1 1 ' Y ' , . ' D :111 ' ' . . ' ' f . , V., ' 1 1 V J 'Q - L ' ' - . '. 1 1 1 pol ' 1 I ' , yri - . . I 7 ' . ' S r ' . . . 1 . - ,, , v A ' , ' ,... , , . ,.., , . , , ' . . . . g e , ., . ,. . , F, . yy , 2 , .y 1 N. . .y l H r V. Q 'ry 6, , . 'ects were elI'llllilllU, travelinff, dz1nc1n11 noernsg second, the brilliant eriod the rs P3 ISV Y tl1 1 1 ,J 7 ' ', . -votion to X 1- f C Ll 'g 1 1 1. i v , C 1 K s ' - 'I K . C17 ' , ' ,J B, hs' L 1 -I , K 3 N 5 Y ve 1 1 2: 1 1 , . 1 t 1 l A 1 - .. l'f . 'O tl ' f ,L l lm-11: J ley' 1' 1 1 ' ' - . , - if 51 v ' 1 ' 1 - A ' .' C A - ' p X ' v .v, - ' J y, -1 v v A 1 - 4 V , C at 1 1 v - , . V. :Y Y ' ' . L. . ' . 1 A C ' ' S ' , , -. . . A , , . - ' . L. K- vs 0' , -' si Q A .1 1 ' 5-' - Q - o . gs Y ' s r A . L ',1:',v . v vg -1 ble 1 ' . A ' ' . U. .-i. V. ,A A L, 6 S A AL h - .- . 51 V1 vi I L 7 I - 15 5 , 1 -1 11 1:1 1 11 f 1 Q 1 2 ' a . Al- an l 1 1 s v wg A - . V . D , .' J - l t 1. - ' . e 1' t ez- tc'-J '4 ,D l A X: d 1 ' A W - ess. g Q ' O ' 1' 1 ' ' ,