Hunter College High School - Argus Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Ihr Argun Receives a Message From Mrs. Hammond Member of the Latin Department In a Famous New York High School Have classes personality ? Indeed they have. Sometimes we teachers must wait a long time before wie' discover it, but eventually it make.s itself evident. The personality of a class is, strange to say, the personality not of the class' as a whole, but that of a few leading girls, whom the rest follow, just like little sheep. fMrs. Hamm0nd's friendly smile at this point indicated a sympathe.tic understanding of the little sheep. j When we are familiar with the personality of a class, We can handle it more intelligently. Sometimes classes are very painstaking with their homework, but perhaps will not take so kindly to any discussion outside of the lesson, while others will be vwery receptive to outside information, and perhaps not so careful about homework. When, after a term or two, we teach again a class we have had before, we can detect changes in the personality of a class, and even of individuals in it. I mean not only changes of expression, wlhich are often evident, 'but also a maturer out- look, a more illumined attitude. Else what would our school be Worth? CEditor's Note: It is not often that the student body has the opportunity of getting such frank, interesting first hand infor- mation about itself. Let us look to our personalitylj , .. . ' j1'jn, -. rv F 5l'1?,QQ'. A v4V,41f.' is 'iw '- ,fx -P hd uns. iz EL' 102

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THE ARGUS This from Sam Hellman, whose short stories in the Satur- day Evening Post are-welll, read them! QChorus from the school- We do! Q Dear Miss Hochman: Unaccustomed as I am to addressing young 'high school ladies-my own pair of queens being in the very short frock and very long division stage of their education--yet it is hard to resist an appeal coming from a fellow-craftsman. You make it too difficult, though, by denominating me an Eminently Respectable and Highly Distinguished Author. To be respectable is good, to be called respectable is crushingg to be catalogued as such with a capital R as you have done is cataclysmic, but to be listed as Eminently Respectable-Well, that defies the adjectives of derogation to do their worst. As for Highly Distinguished Autfhor-that combination is to be, writ- ten only with a chisel over the grave of him, who was known in his sneered life as one of th-em writer guys that gets by with murder. So you see how impossible you have made it for me to write something for the Argus. Should I do so I would tacitly admit that I were Respectable and Distinguished-wlhich I perhaps do in private-but which I could never, never do in public from innate. modesty and from fear of getting, what the bibliophiles and lexicographers of the better class would call the Razzberryf' You can make any use of this letter you wish from having it engraved in copper and placed above the door of Hunter College to using it to wiple fudge stains off the kitchen floor. I am too Eminently Respectable to be annoyed by any treat- ment, and too wrapped in the cerements of 'highly Distin- guished to be able to make a sign of dissent. Yet cordially yours, My

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