Germantown Academy - Ye Primer Yearbook (Fort Washington, PA)

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XXI And teachers, now we give you thanks For care so patient with us all, For help in many a trying place That's kept our feet from hurtful fall. XXII And now to Dr. Kershaw we look, The pilot of our ways, The one who always guided us Through all our old school days. VV'e give to him a vote of thanks For all that he has done In helping us to start aright On the life we've just begun, XXIII So good-bye, old Germantown, our Alma Mater dear, The thought of your rough old gray wall will ever bring us cheer, Tho' years may come and years may go, In strength and wisdom we may grow, But we'll always look back to the clay Vlfhen we worked and played for old G. A. LINCOLN ALAN PASSMORE.

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XIII Harold Mason, so good and just, Cares the most for his auto fast, Most any day in clouds of dust You can behold him, flying past. XIV Clark Nichol is our football end, Against all comers We can send, Who catches punts and tackles right And plays the game with all his might. XV Iimmy Pletcher, the next, we see, An ever smiling face has he. Jokes without end our Jim piles up- From early morn till time to sup. XVI To Charles Spiegel we make our bow And hail our football captain now, A mighty man with brawny arm WVho lights all battles without harm. XVII Now here is Elliott Stinson dear, A Henry Vlfeston we have here, To walk and talk all over school And run from lessons is his rule. XVIII I-lere's Sterrett, crack electrician, Who is now fast winning a name, Some day we'll hear of our Willard As the man of great wireless fame XIX Guilliam VVells is here at last, A wonderful boy, hard to surpass, Academy Monthly editor grand, NVho will with all his laurels stand. XX Last on my list is Steve Whitbyg An always hungry boy is he, XrVho eats and eats, then looks about, Eats again till supplies run out.

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PR OPHECY Napoleon Bonaparte once said that the best way to study military science is to study the campaigns of the great generals of history. This is a maxim which I have endeavored to follow in preparing myself for the office of Class Prophet. Now, in choosing a prophet as a model, one would naturally search for one whose prophesies had been reasonably fulfilledg but in this case, I have found, after exhaustive research involving comparisons of innumerable forecasts with the subsequent careers of the graduates, that there have been no really great class prophets. Being unable, therefore, to follow Napoleon's little scheme, because of the deplorable ,lack of material, I have found it necessary to devise a method of my own which, after all, has the virtue of simplicity. Wfhat others have foretold of their class- mates has generally been the result of pipe dreams, visions, brain-storms, or even jour- neys in airships into the celestial regions. Now dreams and visions are often the products of drugs, strong-pipes, mesmerism or being full of supper and distempering drinks, and on the other hand, the most enthusiastic advo- cates of airship-scouting have been compelled to acknowledge that observations made from airships are utterly superficial, inaccurate and unreliable feven when the airship stays upj. I have never enjoyed the advantages which have been accorded to some of my predeces- sors of viewing the future of my class from the clouds or airships, nor have I been addicted to the use of those things which produce dreams and visions, but throughout the years