The Illman School - Span Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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THE SIXTH FORM

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This is the dreamer, St. Muffin Ebert. By the poetic cast of his countenance you see his artistic soul revealed. Not even a geometry recitation is aesthetic enough to keep his thoughts from Sunny Italy. Hush ! He speaks : I'm but a stranger here, Italy's my home. Behold him weep I Now for Dew-nose Foster. See him standing there in his manly athletic beauty. Notice the worried expression on his face. No wonder, though, he is arranging the schedule of the track team, running the stage management of the Dramatic Club, balancing the accounts of the Athletic Association and the Dance Committee, and planning an intricate correspondence with three separate girls. Ah! he has solved all the problems at the same moment, and will now go out in search of some gum, so let us move on. There sirolls upon zfhe nexz' playform a fall, gffaeejhl, handsome figure, wiffz ez sz'1fz'kz'7zg'j5011z- padozw' azzdflashing black eyes. Ah I Something great, surely ! But alas I a vacant stare comes into his face, he pulls a tobacco pouch from his pocket, lights up and strolls out, to use his own words, the poetry of motion, That, my friend, is E. Fenton Gilbert, and his only accom- plishment, but you must admit that what he does, he does well. q Here in the next booth is an example of what civilization will do for a savage, for this cultured, handsome youth you see before you was once no more than Grindin Grandin, from Tidioute. He has renounced all his native customs, clothes and manners, and while the process is not quite completed, some day he may become quite cultivated. Now this next exhibit is a tank, as you see. The performer is F. H. Hardy, aquatic champion of the world. You don't see him? O, well, you know he is also a wonderful artist and like all genii, somewhat forgetful. It is no use waiting, so let us proceed. Come over with me now to where you see that crowd doubled up with laughter. The per- forming clown is Si Hildreth, from Herkimer. NVe will not ,go any nearer as his antics might overcome us with mirth also. But his life is not all gayety, for like others of 'his tribe he has his hidden sorrow, you see he played on the IQO3 baseball team, poor boy. I5