Gloucester High School - Flicker Yearbook (Gloucester, MA)

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10. And there were in that place divers kinds of ferocious beasts, ziniors and joonures and zofomores which did prey upon the class even to the Mer- chant child. 11. And there were many of the class which were compelled to project hideous noises from the throat and nostrils. And these spasms occurred the first thing Monday morning. And the noises were intended to drown the sound of the wringers throughout the city. And, verily, their purpose was fully accomplished. SECUNDUS ANNUS. Gens Scholam Attendit. THIRD YEAR. By BILL HAKEGAFF the Brother of OMNES. Bless thee ’01 , thou wast indeed translated. From the most hopeless milk- sops ever born of woman, thy sons sprang to full-grown lions, sniffing, roaring, challenging; thy daughters grew to maidens, fairest of the fair, rosy-cheeked, the fields’ chief flowers, sweet beyond comparison. And all thy children, filled with greedy lust for gold chose to hold a sale, which gained for them ninety and more ducats. To Knight, in lieu of treas- ure-house, they intrusted their moneys, and as each ducat with royal ring fell into his bag, the wily smile on the treasurer’s lips expanded to a grin. That gold, with moneys wrung each month from the class, did serve to buy a banner, and furthermore to start a good-sized bank account. And much discussion ensued over the rate of usury to be got for the ducats, but at length the money was let at the rate of three ducats on the hundred usage money. But another force was at work with you; sweet love, Cupid, the knavish lad that makes poor females sad, that year attacked the males. Many a love-sick swain did roam about in quest of his desired, and all school work forgot. Rivals for the fair ones increased and jealousy was rife. At first one room had sufficed for both the sexes, but soon the grievous separation came and love’s path was filled with thorns, — the keepers of the virgins. But soon the craze declined and though some are still enthralled, the better part woke up, came out of it and now are sane again. That selfsame year a scroll was published by the Seniors which reeked with advice for all the classes and with its sharp criticisms inbred in some The author’s attempt to write the history of the second year entirely in r,atin. 20

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ISTORY OF 190L (a medley.) By OMNES F. HAKEGAFF. GENESIS, CHAPTER ONE. 1. In the beginning was created the Class ’of 1901. And it was created in the year of our Lord 1897, at the time when the sweet cider was running from the apple trees. 2, And the Class was without form and a gang of babies. 8. And the color upon the face of the Class was green, yea, greener than the ribbon that so seduced the Hibernian snakes from their native land. 4. And the spirit of naughtiness moved upon the face of the children, and some even dared to look into the eye of the creature that lay in wait for them at the foot of the stairs ; and, verily, they were taught the way to vir- tue and the deportment board. 5. And Mr. Herrick said, “Let there be heat,” and there has been heat to this day, even to the fulness thereof. 6. And Mr. Herrick felt the heat and that it was great and he cau- tioned the teachers to open no windows that the heat might not go to w T aste. 7. And the master said, “Let there be a division of the class, and let the alphas be separated from the omegas and the Day from the Knight which is to come,” and it was so even as the master had commanded, for verily, what the master said went. 8. And many a one in the class said, “We will take the two years’ course, ’ ’ and they have taken it and passed on ; but the braver said, “We will stick it out for four years,” and they are mostly alive. 9. And others said, “We will be smart ; we will astonish our fellow- creatures even by our smartness, and will take the Classical Course that we may be known to be learned.” And six are alive of those very ones. And they shall have a place among the angels, — save one, who is even now a saint, — for they have survived the greatest of evils and have learned to fake the Hebrew language and even its teacher. T 9

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desire for revenge. Be it sufficient to say that we have tried to follow their advice and would thank them for it. We would hand it down to the class below, having extracted from it our full portion of benefit. SENIOR year. In September, 1900, when the Cffiss reassembled for the last year together, we had changed in many ways. We had matured into grave and dignified Seniors, and we found our environment as greatly altered as if we had awakened from a long sleep. From a subordinate position we had risen to the respected and honored dignity of Seniors. Imagine the transformation in our minds, the newly gained importance of seniority ! No longer was it compatible with our exalted ideas of our character to gather in the corridors as did the more unsophisticated classes, and, though some alienated them- selves from us so far as to mingle in these groups, most of us preferred the studious seclusion of Miss Wilder’s room. There we formed the noblest and grandest resolutions to acquire a reputation for scholarship like the one which we knew we enjoyed for energy and business ability. This lofty ideal we kept for over a week and then, well it seemed to elude our grasp, and if we couldn’t reach it, why, there was no more use trying for it than trying to reach the moon. However, we lost not one particle of our dignity, but some of us appeared in uniforms which added still more to our importance. During the past few years the social spirit which was once so high seems to have waned, but this year it has returned to some proportion of its for- mer size and from the unusual number of socials in the upper classes seems to give promise of maintaining itself. As athletes we have never been re- markable, but the Class of 1901 has always done its share in the support of athletics and has had some few representatives on school teams. An attempt was made to play basket-ball but fortune favored neither the boys nor girls. Whatever may be said about our strength in athletics no one can accuse us of lack of energy in school affairs. Two fairs have been held, both under the management of members of our class and these have helped the school spirit a little. But a hundred times as much interest is needed to put Gloucester on a level with other schools in all interscholastic events, except drill. In the latter, we can surely claim a high position.