Hyde Park High School - Aitchpe Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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28 f' Grady's Goat. ive were called by the old names relating to the predominant tints of Spring and to the absence of sodium chloride in our make-up, and by whatever new ones the inge- nuity of the Sophf' could originate. The Latin division of the Class above us informed us that, All Gaul is divided into three parts, the first of which is the German, the second the French, and the third the Latin division of the Freshman Class. ive took it all meekly and wondered what new truths would be disclosed to us during our course at the School. Vile became well versed in all Freshman tricks, and because of those tricks we did not get our lessons as well as we might. ive learned to sing S' Flowers in quite a heart-rending style, and also how to H bisect H frogs and dissect angles. Then in the early llvinter appeared the lvhite and Blue, for which we elected an editor or two, and in which we had the satisfaction of reading under Freshman Notes M paragraphs about the girls and the mice of Room 1 and notices of the change of our English books. After the base-ball season was over we began to pay a little attention to our books, and commenced to prepare for examinations z and these tests being finished, we bade good-bye to the School-for a few months as scholars, and forever as Freshmen. The next September brought us back again, and great was the change we found. Not only were there new faces amongst us, but the School and its surroundings were changed. The drawing-room was moved and the assembly-room divided. And outside, too f The streets were filled with busses and carriages, and the sidewalks were jammed with people, all moving toward the great Fair. lVe no longer imbibed ice-cream sodas and Sundays at the corner drug-store during the noon-hour, but instead feasted on tt red-hots and lVorld's Fair sandwiches. And maybe the crowds were not confusing. lvhyf we could not tell a Freshman from a youthful visitor from the country, and so the former missed much of their merited chafling and teasing.

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CLASS GF NINETY-SIX. W, fl' , QQ- 7 -f T ,iff 'J -T lf ,Wk , lk T was the first Tuesday of September in the year of if- 15 our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety-two. The day could not have been liner. The weather-man ,K is ' Q had saved the best weather of the year for that day 1 T of days. The wind was quiet and cool, gratefully 5 T fanning the sunburned countenances of those who had returned from their summer outing. The stone sidewalks were less hard that day than on others, and the foliage seemed brighter. And why all this forbearance in nature, this respectful con- trol of the elements 'f Ah Y the weather clerk knew, the wind and tl1e flowers knew, that on this day there would come into Hyde Park a company of youths and maidens, who would have untold honor and success in the High School, under the name, The f 'fuss of 4Vl.llC'f.lj-.Nf.l,'. VVe came singly and in dozens, using all the different modes of transportation. lVe came from trains and from cable-cars, on foot and behind horses, on H safeties H and on ordinariesf' qpThe saying that a few of us came in baby-carriages is a mali- cious slander, devised by the Class of '95.j We brought the diplomas we had received so proudly two months before, illlll we also brought our lunches-much to the scorn of the Sophomores 3 but how could we know that school was kept only an hour on the first day of the term 'f The day passed off quite peacefully after the confusion of finding our rooms, but on the following days we were initiated into high - school life by the Sophomores, with the help of

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Q9 .lust as we were beginning to get used to the crowds, they left us, and Fifty-seventh street was deserted as of old, so that it seemed like old times i11 the vicinity of the School. YVe then began our regular work, and were no longer bothered with such unpleasant interruptions as Chicago Day, 4' Children's lVeek, and other holidays. For quite a while we had been watching from the west windows of the School a new building in process of erection, which was termed the new High School. Of course we were interested in it and followed its progress with close attention. The smoke which issued from its chimneys was used by our teachers as an illustration of various laws of physics. As time drew on we grew more anxious to move to the new building, lflllfl Mr. French was besieged with inquiries regarding the prob- able date when we could leave the old home. S0011 we were allowed to roam over the nearly completed building, Hllil we were all greatly pleased with the class and physics rooms, and with the Gymnasium. ln lllarch we moved and were at once put under new rules. The Class invented rules for themselves under the new arrange- ments, such as: No Sophomore, no matter how pretty he thinks the Freshman girls are, must remove his hat until he has passed out of the degrading influence of their floor. '- Any Freshman caught within tl1e territory of the Sophomores, is doomed to an instant taking down to the extent of one floor. The latter rule is not so well kept as it should be, or even as Mr. French thought it would he, for in defense of the poor Freshies he gave orders that no Sophomore would be allowed off his Hoor during school-hours. lve expect that the new build- ing will be a great thing for our Class, and we are proud of it. Vve have learned many things this year in the course of our studies. We thought we knew something at the end of the Freshman Year, but our knowledge has increased wonder- fully since that time. For instance, we know now that a circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle, and that par-