Hobart Senior High School - Memories Yearbook (Hobart, IN)

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T £ In studying the history of our own country we have reviewed the work done in the grade schools, and this review taken in connection with the study of Civics has given us a better understanding of our civilization and institutions. We appreciate more the advantages we enjoy living under a democratic government, and we realize that a knowledge of the past is the greatest factor in enabling us to think and act intelligently on the ques- tions that confront our citizens today. For two years Mr. Stoltz has led us through the changing scenes of human progress. He has helped us interpret the great events of history, and we thank him for his patience and kindness. MARY THOMPSON. JOHN MERRITTE DRIVER A. M., D. D., PH. D., LL. D. Chicago, Illinois, May 12, 1915. A few months ago I was asked to write a poem for the Golden Wedding of two very rich and otherwise prominent angels . I did so, and it was read at their palatial residence —

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Since we have passed successfully through hydrogen, oxygen, sodium, hydrogen sulphide, and various other chemicals, we are looking eagerly forward to when our fifty cents shall be returned, as nothing was broken •except test-tubes, wide-mouthed bottles, Erlenmyer flasks, thistle-tubes, etc. This lack of breakage and our success in every way is due to the kindness and careful guidance of Mr. Stoltz, through all this delicate work, and it is to him, we are sincerely grateful. AGNES LENNERTZ. PHYSICS IX pupils made up the Physics class at the beginning of the term, but only four of us are continuing the subject. The four of us mak- ing up the Physics class includes all the Junior boys. We have, to our notion, selected a very interesting and profitable subject, under the guidance of Mr. Stoltz. Physics brought us back to many of our old acquaint- ances and gave us a better knowledge of what they were and to what advantage we could be able to use them. Among the different subjects studied in the term, the most interesting one was electricity. We studied conduc- tors and non-conductors, and desiring to know whether or not we were conductors or non-conductors, we per- formed an experiment on Raymond in the “lab,” and by his actions, and the description of the results he got from the electrical machine, we concluded that we were very good conductors. We enjoyed our laboratory experiments very much but Oh, my, when we got about six or seven experiments behind in our note books, or when an unexpected test was sprung on us, we thought we were non-conductors. But as a whole we will never regret our experience in the old “lab,” or our pleasant instructor, Mr. Stoltz. PHILIP WALDECK, ’16. HISTORY AND CIVICS IH, THE records and monuments and fragments! Thoughts of these burden our minds, engage our tongues, and drive our pens and pencils over the examination paper. The mysteries of the prehistoric age are as impenetrable as the stone implements that reward the search of the anti- quarians. Thus, in our first term of history, do the worn out and extinct civilizations hold us for a time, but not so firmly as “The glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.” As Juniors, we study the rise of world-empires and the inroads of the barbarians. This is made interesting by the study of individual generals and statesmen whose lives are set forth in our historical library. Modem history is more definite, for in this we trace the development of the nations that divide the earth today. Their struggles during the later centuries seem gigantic, but not any conflict of all the past ages ap- proaches the present devastating “Great War.” However the struggles of the past enabled the peo- ple to attain more liberty. Let us hope that the present war may have the same result. £5 — a - 1 -sib

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T T7 T T THE LOVE THAT NEVER FAILED by JOHN MERRITTE DRIVER To Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Watson Los Angeles, California The Age of Augustan was the Age of Gold, When Rome hailed Caesar, and he ruled alone; War-god was he, and Potentate of all The World. Proud kings did homage at his Throne. All-conq’ring Rome! Earth’s lurid Jove! And yet That lustrous time, those larum days, all pale Before this day, Augusta’s own, and His, As fifty years of wedded love we hail. II The Rome of Caesar ' s day has fled; the throngs That lauded long and loud have crossed the Styx; World -awing statesmen, warriors, poets — some Were deified! Ah, who one pyre can fix? Empurpled dreams, musk-laden fancies— Rome! Enchanted papal city, never stale! But more idyllic still, as sun to star — The love that never failed — which now we hail. HI Such love gives hint of Immortality. A love excelling Passion’s lure, and Eyes That laugh their vict’ry in the face of Youth — A love that Time, and Life, and Death defies. These fifty years of rare fidelity Renew our weakened faith in God and Man; And pledge e’en Heav’n itself to fail us not In Life’s eternity beyond Time’s span. IV Time-Honored friends of mine. Oh may your days — God’s jewels on His Rosary of Time — Be multiplied beyond Faith’s Raptured dreams! Be every hour apocalypsed: sublime With all the splendors of your youth-time love — With all the ardor of your noon-time zest — Like wine, your love still beading year by year, Each month, each week, each day, the very best! V Lift high our beakers, then, and drink in wine Of California, or in Nature’s own Refreshing bev’rage, aqua, best of all! While hon’rmg angels of a clime flow’r-strewn. May all their years be golden! All their moons Sweet honeymoons! And when, at last, a-pace The shadows fall, and Love bereft shall weep, May they behold their Heavenly Father’s face! Mrs. Watson’s name. Citizens of Los Angeles are angels. 0 — a