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

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! SEPTEMBER. Class of 1914 in school once more, also a few other people. Coach Evans' English moustache visible, the envy of all the boysg his desire to be the goat satisfied. 113 entitled to the honor of being dignified Seniors. Lucky number! Coach's moustache sacrificed. Rhetoricals our first week. Misses Myrtle and Bertha Isaac enter- tained us. 1 OCTOBER. Senior meeting. Class tantalized by the promise of an Annual-on conditions. Annual Board elected. Six Seniors went to the country for leaves to decorate the gym for the Senior party. Much mud. Hallowe'en informal. Decorations classy. Really the boys danced. NOVEMBER. First Alumni Banquet. Urgent call for Basketball. Raw recruits and two veterans answer summons. 11-12. Forced vacation. Rubber boots and snow-shovels popular. Rumor of shortened mid-year holidays. Back at work. Some still snow-bound. 129

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5 ,,x, w,.,'x , ,In,.i 121llll Q IQ! Q 'Qs :Qs I9 --4' iwp7I331,1 01, ' A In lil W lllllsif f ,bds Ziff? SLANG AS SHE IS SLUNG. S. R. HOOVER. We've got to study English, and to stick it out four years, To read the dope some guy put up a hundred years ago. The teachers think it is hot stuif and seem to have great fears That kids who don't get onto it will never make it go. But what's the use to bust your nut on nutty stuff like that? It takes some head to cop it all, believe me, candy kidg A hundred bucks of my good dough against a sinker Hat, If I'd make good with these high brows I sure would lift my lid. I'vc got to keep the average of all the blokes that play In major and in minor leagues and sixty city clubs, Where each falls down and where he shines, and that's no cinch I say, But if you don't keep wise each day you're put down with the dubs. So I should worry if in class the teacher bawls me out Because the date of Shakespeare's birth I haven't got down patg In sporting talk I get you, Steve, and I can read about The football games and it don't take no English to do that. I heard my old man chewing that old rag the other day About the stunts the high schools give the kids who take the courseg A bunch of fellows I know, if they'd let us have our way, Could beat 'em to a standstill without using any force. We'd have a school where credits would be given every termg A fellow missing classes would pull down a hundred plusg We'd say good night to English and to Math., and any firm That couldn't use our product-well, that isn't up to us. Some teachers are the limit, but some others don't have chillsg We talk in any old way, and we put it over toog They tell us to go to it if we're shy on language frills, And if we should get cold feet they take hold and pull us through. When our school gets to going and the kids all come to it We'll leave these cranky people who are dictionary blind To rust out on the scrap pile, for we'll make ours such a hit That there'll be nothin' doin' in the poor old-fashioned grind. lliillillll llllf llllllllllmmllllllu .- L - '- 1' '- . ' 11 lll..4:TmWLlw lllWfWylll 1 ,K .55 ,Q Qx I 1 ,Y ..,,...... 1 .......,.,..,.. my C - 4,73 493 - nl .,,,,,,,,. :OMS fl , 1 ,,,,.. .MQ W f fr Y v Q u X 1.,L,Mu,,.1f,f4 mv if - all W- 41 - 9 ,l,- Vlawrrwa ' gk by ' 128

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First meeting of Annual Board. Hard problems face us. D Day. Flats ain't gonna cry no more. ConHict between Debating Team and Annual Board: Ben Goldman and Emil Greenhut, chosen for both, resign from the Board. DECEMBER. The Senior Formal decided on-to be held at the Lakewood Tennis Club. Rumors afloat that the Kormaw is to entertain the Senior boys at an informal dance. Lecture on Japan by Mr. Solon Severance. Mr. Weimer presented with a counting frame. Preparing for the Senior Candy Sale. Kormaw entertained Senior boys. Booths appear-Flats' curiosity aroused. Financial difficulties confront the class. i Senior Candy Sale-all previous records broken by 1914 Seniors Many greetings exchanged on this last day of school-in 1913. JANUARY. Everybody back with many New Year Resolutions. Subscribers for Annual prominent-cause- those yellow buttons. Senior meeting. Exciting debate over financial troubles of formal. . Class assessed. Results of Athletic Association's election made known. Glee Club Dance. First game of season. East Tech scores a close victory against us. We score another Basketball victory against West. Senior Formal at Lakewood Tennis Club. Some style. Sleepy Seniors arriving at all hours of the day. Two victories in one day. East High and East Tech the victims. West Tech luck. FEBRUARY. Report cards take another trip home. New Senior oiiicers elected. I Ais begin life in Room 6. All space used and more needed. Senior meeting. More money troubles. Friday. Good luck all day. Game with South. Only four members of the Girls' Rooters' Club present. Our team defeated. Eclipse of the sun. Commerce students failed to see it as we were detained in school and could not get to the Antarctic Continent. 130