Hellgate High School - Halberd Yearbook (Missoula, MT)

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Here they show themselves as angles, Circles, squares, and such as these; Parallelograms and prisms, And as X’s, Y’s and Z’s. What surely is no joke, Is our English as she’s spoke; I should smile! If perfection you’d attain, You must work with might and main All the while. If you are on culture bent, Then don't say “He hasn't went ; Without doubt All slang is very wrong. If with the teachers you’d be strong, Cut it out. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I studied, weak and weary, Over many a History’s pages, filled with deeds and days of yore. Suddenly I thought with sorrow ; “all will be forgot to-morrow— All this great and mighty learning on which now we set such store; All this vast and noble learning on which now we set such store. Will be a nightmare, nothing more.” The flowers that bloom in the Spring, tra la. Must even be dragged into school, For we have to know all of their parts, tra la. And ruthlessly tear out their hearts, tra la. And all, in accordance with rule. So that’s what I mean when I say or I sing “O bother the flowers that bloom in the Spring— Those flowers that bloom in the Spring.’’ Speak ! speak! thou fearful theme! Physics, disturber of my dream. Why. with thy dreadful gleam Comest to daunt me? When I would’st pleasure find. Thou comest into my mind; So life becomes a grind! Why dost thou haunt me? Latin, the language of ancients, the tongue of the Gauls and the Trojans, How you’ve made joyful and gladdened the students of all of the ages! Caesar the warrior, we’ve studied. —22—

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finance such a tremendous undertaking-. After several plans had been considered, only to be thrown aside, and after several efforts had been made fruitlessly, our remarkable talent and ability for hard work finally resulted in “THE GOLDEN PRINCESS’5, which was a great success. The “Prom” which we gave that year was in every way a success; and when our third year was completed, we felt satisfied that we had done all that could be required of us. This brings us down to the last year “sojourn”, as it were, in school affairs. We felt keenly the responsibility resting upon and now we stand almost ready to graduate. Yet, during the four years that we have spent here, what great good we have derived, not only from our books, but from our associations with each other and with our teachers! There is surely no one among us who can say he has spent his time here unprofitably! And we have not been here without leaving our stamp upon the school. Among our number may be found those who have dis- tinguished themselves admirably in athletics—captains and man- agers of teams that have brought everlasting fame and glory to the Missoula High School—men who are heroes in the athletic world! Among our number may be found silver-tongued ora- tors—debaters, who will some day be statesmen, congressmen and governors of states! The records made by some of us will never be surpassed. With our high school career, we may be well satisfied, for we have done well—VERY WELL! CLASS POEM. A poem is a wondrous thing, Beloved by all, I wot! It need not history’s facts recall, It need not tell the truth at all. Nor must it have a plot. Since ’tis not mine to prophesy, I will a medley write, Of what we have in High School learned. And whether it has been well-earned. These things I will recite. So very wise I have become, In order to arrange The many thots I would express, And give to each its proper stress, The meter I must change. Tell me not, that hateful Numbers, In the grades were left behind! For in High School, too, they greet us, Tho in different forms, we find. —21—

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and Cicero the statesman mighty, Too, of the pious Aeneas, who brought the Penates to Italy, Also our locks have been whitened with care, too, our brows have been furrowed, But not in vain, for we'll need you, when our course on earth has been ended. While the boys are striving ’long practical lines, And doing their best to manipulate tools, The girl.1; are as steadfastly turning their minds, To scissors and thimbles and needles and spools ; For men must saw, and women must sew; ’Tis a rule we must follow, as thru life we go. So we may as well be learning. Wenn in Deutsch das Fraulein speak “Wie geht’s” or how are yon to-day? And then I feel like one big freak And her I answer “Nicht versteh”. Then all at once “Ach!—I you get Alretty yet:—alretty yet.” Hush! Who lies here so silent and so still? A frog, to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair Science bended all things to her will. And Zoology marked him for her own. And now!— Good-bye, everybody! good-bye, everything! Farewell dear old High School, A fond farewell we bring. We don't think thirtccn's unlucky. As we've oft been told, Here’s a toast that we’ll e’er cherish To purple and to gold, Good-bye everybody—may our friends always be Proud and glad to remember The class 1-9-1-3. Elizabeth Hershey '13 One of the most enjoyable events of the school year was the picture exhibit, given to raise money to purchase pictures for the school. It took place on the evenings of the 20th, 21st and 22d of November, and on the afternoon of the 23d. During the exhibit, the girls served chocolate and wafers and sold candy in Miss Johnson’s room, which was decorated with pine boughs and red berries. The girls not only secured more money for the purchasing of the school pictures, but also lent an air of sociability to the occasion. As a result of the whole enterprise $113 was cleared, with which “Hope,” the “Chariot Race,” “The Reading of Honor, a relief of the “Aurora” and a bust of Lincoln were purchased. —23—