Hamilton High School - Hamiltonian Yearbook (South Hamilton, MA)

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ing to a five in the last part of the second month, and all the students wish the fire had come sooner, because it ends the busi- ness. The only thing to do now is to make the closing statements. The third year class has also done good work, finishing two one month sets, and starting a Gro- cery Business. As the typewriters make quite a noise when they all are being run at once, each one has been set upon a book in order to deaden the noise. The speed tests have been started for the second year class of typewriting, and a fair showing has been made at it for the first attempt. SOPHOMORE CHARACTERISTICS Doris Brumby Evelyn Conrad Louise Day John Foster Bradley Fuller Bessie McCrea Robinson Mason Delightful Bridget Easily Caught Little Dear Joyous Fellow Bright and Funny Beautiful Minerva Regular Mallet Ruth Perley Martha Pierce Dorothy Smerage Eleanor Sculley Philip Smith Horace Smith Wesley Towle Real Pretty ■ Mighty Proud Dear and Sweet Effectual Sinister Pretty Swift Horse Seller Windy Tub EDITORIAL A new year means a new start in life. Whatever may have been the difficulties of the previous year we feel a renewed hope at this time. Did you ever stop to think how many resolutions are made by people at this season? We make New Year’s Resolutions and keep them for about a week, or maybe a month, and then comes an end to them, for in a few days our good resolutions are forgotten. Therefore this year let us resolve not to make resolutions unless we intend to keep them, for what is the use of making them if they are to be broken. Some critics are like chimney-sweepei’s : they put out fire below, or frighten the swallows from their nests above ; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it. TO ROOSEVELT Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And departing, leave behind us Footp rints on the sands of time. GLEE CLUB NOTES The Glee Club showed good spirit when so many of the girls came out the night of the twenty-third of December to take part in the singing of Christmas Carols. They sang to the sick students and friends of the schools, bringing Christmas cheer with them. 13

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Louis Dodge Walter Green Gardner Low John McGinley Mr. Archibald has been to St. John’s Prep. School at Danvers to referee their basket ball games. The Student Body of the Hamilton High envies their athletic spirit and wish they could imbibe some of the spirit. Owing to the raising of the standard of the School, the evening social activities of the School have been indefinitely sus- pended until the scholastic standing of the School is as it should be. It is hoped that a little thought and attention on the part of the students will rectify this condition of affairs in the immediate future, so that our suspended activities may again be re- sumed. ALUMNI Frederick Daley was home on a short furlough at New Years from the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla. Lester Durkee was home also on a four- teen day furlough from Pensacola, Fla. A lettei just received from Lester Feener by his parents stating that he was not wouiided but slightly gassed some time ago and is perfectly well now except for a slight cold.. He is in Luxemburg, Germany. The sad news of the death of William Taylor overseas, came as a shock to his NOTES many friends. His death was due to pneu- monia. “Hap” and “Vie” Daley, who are now with the army of occupation, have sent home a large collection of rare souvenirs. The collection comsists of five German helmets, one French helmet, a German water bottle, two German medical kits, and a large number of German buttons. In the collection there are also several shoulder straps, one of which is a German officer’s. The collection has been on ex- hibition at Daley’s Market. DOMESTIC SCIENCE The Freshmen have spent this term on quick breads and cornmeal and graham muffins which they made to use up the substitutes. They are also studying the use of left over bread by making French toast and Welsh Rarebit. The P. T. A. association are very kindly defraying the expense of serving to sixty- five pupils every day. The pupils are both grade and high school who stay to luncheon. They appreciate this very much as it makes their luncheon more palatable. THE COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT The marks have shown that there has been some ' good work done in the Com- mercial Department, and they also show that in some cases there has not. The stenography class is guilty of the last charge. They have done quite an amount of work, but not as much as should be done, and what was supposed to be learned was not learned very well. This was proved by the quizzes that were given the last week before the marks were sent in. The second year bookkeeping class have nearly completed a two months set, eom- 12

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After they were through singing, they gathered at Mr. Knowles’ drug store where refreshments consisting of hot chocolate and cookies, were very kindly served by Mr. and Mrs Archibald. The girls appreciate Mr. and Mrs. Arch- ibalds’ coming from AValtham to lead the singing and bringing other singers also. The school is now planning to give a concert before long. The concert may be followed by a dance. The Glee Club are practising on a med- ley composed by Mrs. Archibald, and are to have new selections to work on soon. They are planning to put much work into the concert. The school chorus will prob- ably sing a few selections also. We hope that the proceeds from this year’s concert vill not fall short of last year’s which were fifty dollars. CLASS NOTES 1919 Daley washes the main room floor with the contents of his thermos bottle. Miss P. “chooses her man.’’ Smith is the victim. “ ’Tis better to have loved your teacher than to have been caught by her, loving someone else.’’ In the series of chloric acids Trussell recommends thru his remarkable ability to speel (correctly?) that we substitute paregoric for perchloric — nothing like tying up chemistry with every day living Robert ! Mrs. S. — (to clerk at hat counter) “I want to see a respectful looking hat.’’ (There aint no sich) “A lb’’ Daley met with an accident. “Alb’’ thought that he was carrying too great a load on his shoulders in the form of hair, so he went into a reaping estab- lishment and made himself so comfortable that he fell asleep. When “Alb’’ woke he was a ruined man. Father — (leaning over banister) “Edna.’’ Edna (below) — “Yes, father.’’ Father — “Will you tell Mr. C. if he’s waiting for the morning paper he can get it quicker do vn town. ’ ’ Where did W. S. get the upper story of a pair of pajamas that he is wearing in chemistry laboratory? The H. H. S. hockey team has not met defeat as yet this season. (Good reason why) (?) “JUST SUPPOSIN’ ’’— That we got A’s on our next report card. That the Junior girls were allowed to talk as much and as loud as they would like to. (It would be quiet as a boiler fac- tory around school.) That the “twelve o’clock whistle’’ real- Ij blew at twelve o’clock. (The “kids’’ would have no excuse for being late then) That Gertrude Haskell was as tall as “Luke’’ and that “Luke’’ could toe dance 14