High School of Commerce - Annual Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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Junior Informal to Seniors. Speakers for Commencement and Class Day chosen. Basket ball boys receive jersies. Many extemporaneous speeches. Talk on Consumers' League by Mrs. Brewer. Music by Lincoln High Girls' Glee Club. Received new piano. Dedication of new piano by Miss Haidee Hoover. Vocal solo by Miss Boltey. Accompanist, Miss Lampus. Address by Mrs. Hyre of the Board of Education. Boys' outdoor track meet. Harold Romanis makes speech. Senior Prom. O what blissf' MHP Annual goes to press. C jiiune Class Day. Orator-Fred Johnson. Pianist-Ethel Whipp. Poetess-Mabel Hummel. Historian-Edwin Krauss. Vocalist-Mildred Boltey, Prophets-Bessie Hafemis Commencement. Faculty Choice: Stella Beck Walter Madigan Pearl Maxwell Harold Nichols Leonhard Hadde Valeria Schacha Herbert Sinek Class Choice: Edmund Kirby Ora Lampus ter, ju 77 lia Creer, Nellie King, Pearl Morris

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Kormaw Society entertains the Ecremmoc Society. Debate with South High. Resolved, That cities should own and control all the public ,fran chises now conferred upon corporations. Affirmative: South, Negative: Commerce. Decision in favor of negative. Senior Class meeting. Excessive debate between Mr. DeForest and Mr. Madigan. Central 46, Commerce 7. First dancing lesson for Seniors. March Lincoln 47, Commerce 7. Lecture on Success by Mrs. Pardee. Mr, Hoover read to seventh hour Economic Class all hour. Mr. Curry tries to get a car. Mr. Hoover tells a real joke. Visit to blast furnace. Second dancing lesson. Clara Vietz wears her hair newlstyle. Irish Day. Oh! you green ties. Clyde Downing and Bessie Martin late as usual. Photo of Chemistry Class taken. No Homework. Bazaar. Great success. Debate with Technical High. Resolved, That the federal government should appropriate annually for the next ten years fifty million dollars for improving and constructing inland waterways. Affirmative, Technical. Negative, Commerce. Decision in favor of negative. Easter vacation. Zlpril Second term averages go home. Trip to steel mills. Harold Nichols loses his hat while 76 Constitutionality conceded on car.

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William Eilers, one of our Freshmen, was recently the recipient of a fine gold watch, awarded by the McWatters-Dolan Company, for the best composition on an allotment opened by that Company. William is con- gratulated for his ability along literary lines, as he had to compete with a large number of Cleveland boys and girls who were contestants for this beautiful prize. jan nicknames High School of Commerce we call our new school, And, oh, your treatment would be quite cool, If in your ignorance you should try To call this school Commercial High. CLARA PFISTER, 1911. March 4, 1910.--A near-speech was made by Carl Thumm at the meeting of the Ecremmoc Club today. Great excitement was felt on account of the unheard of event. Qigantit Qttike! Owing to labor over time and a five per cent. decrease in wages, the tongue of Richard DeForest went on a strike today. The tongues in the em- ploy of Mr. Lustig, Mr. Fred Johnson and Carl Thumm threaten to strike out of sympathy. Qttthent tu Engels! Climaxing the horror of the parliamentary drill, occurring at the Ecrem- moc Club. comes the news that Arthur Buzek has been buried alive in his meditations! Kindly omit Flowers. Stuhitb QEUBH5 -Our Compensation makes us think, Our Geography makes us wise, Our Book-keeping covers our fingers with ink. Our whole life is Hlled with sighs. T8