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

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GERMAN HE regular inter-state course is taken up dur- ing the four years’ study in High School. The Freshman mastering grammar and composi- tion, the Sophomores translating several clas- and still more composition, the Juniors and SeniorsJ(y6 tmig plays and studying Lessing’s “Minna von Ka niihepl?. ’ ’ Therehas been a new line of work taken up along with the regular course The Freshmen last year gave 18 Q= T ..ST a “Koffee Klotch,” and invited their parents and friends and entertained them by telling “German Stories Retold and serving coffee and “ Koffee-Kuclien. ” The Sopho- mores this year also gave ' a “Klotch” and presented “Immensee” very creditably. The Juniors and Seniors are working on the play which they hope to present soon. HELEN SMITH. 1 Eigensinn ’ ’ LATIN ATIN has been a great pleasure to us through our high school career. While Freshmen we enjoyed reading the Roman fables, especially after our struggles with conjugations and declensions. In the Sophomore year we read Caesar and worked nearly as hard as Caesar’s army when they built the bridge. In the Junior year the Seniors joined us and we read the famous orations of Cicero. The Juniors joined us in our Senior year and we read Virgil Aeneid. We enjoyed the Aeneid very much after the wars of Ceasar and the speeches of Cicero against Cataline. The Virgil class felt great sadness over the fate of Dido, but Miss Gillilland made the class happy by giving each one of them a stick of candy bought with a dime which she found in the auditorium. We find that our minds have been made broader by this subject. Latin, itself will not help every one in their life work, but the training which such a subject gives to the mind will always beneficial. FRIEDA NAGEL, ’15. Cf

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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

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PUBLIC SPEAKING 1SS Oil I i 1 land ’s public speaking class meets every Thursday and Friday. In this the technical principles of expression have been taken up. Of the twelve members, Elmer Ash- ley and John Frank were the only boys of the school who gave countenance to this new department. It is to be regretted that more boys did not take the oppor- tunity offered by this course. 1 £T = Q T) However, a great deal of work was given individually among the students. November 16 the Seniors gave “Merchant of Venice Up-to-Date, ’ ’ one of the richest comedies ever given in the High School. The large cast of characters consisted of the Seniors, assisted by other members of the school. Bassanio’s use of a “pony” to pass the examination is one sometimes true to High School life, but what mat- tered it, just so he won Portia. In February the High School was divided into eight parts, each representing a High School in “County Make- Believe.” Each school sent from one to three contestants to this contest, making in all a class of sixteen, who showed excellent training in the program which contin- ued through two evenings. In Oratory, Franklin Fet- terer was awarded first, Will Wollenberg second, Wynne Thompson third. In the humorous class, Agnes Len- nertz won first, Thelma Fetterer second, Helen Smith third. In the dramatic first place was given to Bess Johnson, second to Lyda Fulton, third to Lola Barnes. The work of this contest was in preparation for the Pre- liminary to the County Contest at Gary. In this contest which took place on March 26, Myrtle Wild ranked first in dramatic reading, Florence Pio sec- ond, Agnes Lennertz and Myrtle Neff third. In the ora- tions Elmer Niksch won first, Raymond Wood second, Wynne Thompson third. The prizes were beautiful H. H. S. pins with pearl set. In both contests the following standard of grading was used: Expre8sWTj % ; car- riage and gesture, 25%; articulation, Vop fSamuncia- tion, 10%. Although our contestants did not receive place at