Hope High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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proposal of marriage was gracefully performed by Miss Fuller. To Miss Lyon belongs the highest praise, for she threw herself entirely into her part and gained great ap- plause from the spectators. If the play had occurred sooner, it would have been re- ported with greater fullness in these pages, for the excellence of the performance at- tracted the attention of everyone. The price of The Blue and W hitef' ought to be higher. There is no good reason why the Senior Class, which has all kinds of extra expenses, should have to bear the brunt of the cost for publishing a book that is edited for the whole school. There is no reason why the Business Manager of this publication should have to spend so much time in getting ads. so that the members of the school can have a book for twenty-five cents that costs the publishers thirty-five. There is no reason why the writings in The Blue and W hite should not be enclosed in a cloth binding. The book is, in a way, representative of Hope St., and the school owes it to itself to have a substantial cover of cloth, not a thin one of paper on which the best of designs loses much of its original richness. T he Blue and White ' ' should sell for no less than half a dollar. All its customs are good for a school. Athletics improve our bodies, and bring the fellows of the school together. Dances and entertaimnents'J produce that good feeling among the members of a school thatcan come only from having common sources of enjoyment. And theatricals, whether presented in the English or in some other- language, give us opportunity to show what we can do. All our customs tend to pro- duce school patriotism and unity of school life,-great things where so many persons are brought together who have so many different purposes and ideas, with the sole common tie of studying under the same roof. The few traditions that our school has are connected with graduating. Of course the custom of presenting class gifts to the school is well known, but the mysteries of the last few days evolve with graduating, and cannot be told of here. They are to be learned of only in the last few weeks of the final year at the school. Where is the debating club that we Hopeites have been recommended to form? On April twenty-eight, the boys began the boycott of the lunch-counter. No explanation needed. il B ' I 9 9 B A 72, J' ll lf i ef i ifefe l i A V ' 2 ,f i , , ll.. fe' it-1 t ,, ,, .,., . ii 'X ' - - - I SEEN rx THE Boys' I,oeKEn-Romi.

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All schools have their customs and traditions, and all its customs and traditions are good for a school. Although Hope High is yet new and yet forming, already it has fallen into some good customs. We at Hope have certain fixed habits in athletics, we have as a regular event the Senior Dance 5 the custom' of having theatricals two or three times during the year seems to have come to stay, and The Blue and W hitel' is a Hope High institution. Hope St. High is, like most other Rhode Island High Schools, a member of the Interscholastic League. This League is a very commendable organization, for it has promoted in the schools a keen interest in athletics. The definite competition which League membership has encouraged has been the sole means of raising High School athletics to their present standard in Rhode Island. But why be limited to Rhode Island? Would it not be a good scheme to arrange for the champion team of the Inter- scholastic League to play the champion teams of the High Schools around Boston? In track events the League might pick a general team consisting of the winners in the yearly track-meet. These arrangements would, of course, occasion some expense to the League, but all the schools could easily meet that. Such competitions at the end of each season would determine the relative athletic standing of our League, and, con- sidering the ability of teams to be found in our High Schools, it can be expected that Rhode Island's Interscholastic League would be very well represented. The Senior Dance is an established custom at Hope St. This is the only dance of the year, for, as Dr. Dennis expresses it, our High School is not a dancing academy. This year the dance took place on February the sixth. and, naturally, was our great sacial event of the season. Although we are not going to follow newspaper style and enter into a detailed account of beautiful gowns, charming dancers, delightful repast, enticing music, etc., it isn't because of lack of opportunity. As the name shows, this dance is a Senior Class affair. The Seniors, through the dance committee, invited their friends-undergraduates, alumni, and specials'l, went to the assembly hall, and had a good time. To the dance committee, President Dorrance Cchairmanj, Miss Freeborn, Miss Spink, and Babcock, great praise is due for its arrangement of details. It was the good work of the committee together with the geniality and good-fellow- ship on the part of everybody that made the affair such a pre-eminent success. Outside of the Senior Dance, the principal events of a social nature were the few ''entertainments,'' or parties,H given by the Juniors to themselves. Through Mlle. Saniewska's efforts, these are becoming part of the life of the Juniors. The name of these affairs is somewhat deceptive. In fact, the '04's themselves are at a loss what to call them. The Principal does not permit them to be termed Hdances, ' i but leniently allows dancing as a side feature, and in most cases, it was a side feature made special, and if the affairs were ''entertainments, then everyone present must have been the entertainer and the entertained. The last of these entertainments, one given by the Classicals to the English, was particularly successful. Congdon, being the President of the Classicals, started the fun, and there was a rollicking good time. It ended with an exciting Virginia Reel. If the .Iuniors are as good hosts as they are self-entertainers, next year's Senior Dance will certainly be a success. The only play at Hope St. that has been presented in its completeness was the long-awaited German entertainment, that took place on May 7. After a short curtain- raiser, the play, 'tOne Must Marry, began. The actors had been trained by Miss Weeden, and did excellent work. Martin was in his element as he made love. Snow furnished great amusement by his impersonation of the lover who gets left, and bore his disappointment, as is usual with him. The difficult task of listening to Martin's

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Einar Svtrrri High Svrhunl Aihlviir Aaanriatinn Emi nf Qbftirrm Prc'-sir.lc-nt, HENRY W. LITTLEFIJ-:LD. Secretary, M.ixUR1en G. CoNenoN. Yiee-President, FRANK Knxnnv. Treasurer, Mn. lfinxsrc A. Tisnnrs. The meetings of the Athletic Association have been, this past year, exceptionally marked by the large number of students who have attended and by the great interest which they have shown in the affairs ot the organization. Our success on the athletic field may, in part, be attributed to these meetings, for it is just here that the students are imbued with that school spirit without which nothing can be accomplished on the track, gridiron, or base-ball field. The aim of the Association has been to promote greater interest and participation in athletics in the school, thereby assisting in the es- tablishment of a school composed of pupils whose bodies are as sound as their minds. There have been six meetings during the year. Lack of space forbids entering into the minutes of all these meetings. The one held on May eleventh, however, was the most important. At this 1I'1GCi,il1g,tl1C Constitution, which had been wholly re-- vised and broadened by a committee, appointed by the President and consisting of Mr. Dennis, Mr. Beers, Mr. Tibbe-tts, Jones '03 and Snow AOB, was, after much discussion, adopted. By this Constitution the Athletic Association is established on a firm basis. The retiring otheers leave to their successors the maintenance and enlargement of the work of the Association, which can be accomplished only by the eo-operation of every boy in the school. One word from the Associationyelet every pupil feel that the success of our teams depends upon his efforts, and when a call for candidates comes, let him respond with vigor and with the idea that he is going to do his part in the raising of the alrearlv high athletic standard at The Hope Street High School.