Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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Dawn By Mary Bakula The world lies hushed in whiteness, Beneath glittering stars and a silver moon ; Trees stand stately, white and bare, Waiting for dawn to come soon. Trees and branches rustle softly; Far in the east faint lights quiver, Waiting to wake the sleeping sun, A restless wind waits by the river. A brave rooster crows in the stillness Waking the meadow larks in the lea ; A soft pink light floods the leaden skies As the sun pokes a sleepy head from the sea. Slowly he climbs up flushing skies. Sending his sunbeams to every nook, Watching the world blink from the brightness And birds singing by the silvery brook. Spring By Helen Saunders The buds from their beds will soon arise, The trees will stretch and open their eyes, And the birds in the meadows will begin to sing, It’s Spring! It’s Spring! Up will shoot flowers from beds in the snow, Come to enchant us, their beauty to show, And the children’s voices will gaily ring, It’s Spring! It’s Spring! Seasons By Sylvia Ferguson An angel spilled God’s paints — An Autumn day, A little child from Paradise — Purity of Winter ' s day, The overture to Life — Our Springtime, The joy of living — A Summer season. 18

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who had risked their lives with me were waiting. As I entered, they fumbled with the chin straps of their sou’westers and, as one man, removed them from their heads. I stood gravely facing them and then stepped over and removed my head- gear too.” “What were you doing, sir?” T asked, “Praying?” I felt like a fool when Pd said it, because it savored too much of the dramatic. The Skipper sensed it too, for he laughed soft of self-consciously and said : “Naw, we had just met a guy that we had some respect for, and we were letting him know.” English By Sylvia Ferguson N OTHING is more beautiful or restful than to go to the theatre and sit back in the comfortable seats, forgetting for two or three hours the worries of the outside world. Many times we go into the thea- ter with minds in a turmoil, minds hungering for some relief. While waiting for the program to begin, we almost go to sleep. Everything is peaceful in the auditorium ; the ushers seem to glide up and down the heavily carpeted aisles on magic feet. The spirit of restfulness grips everyone. Softly, from far away the sound of beautiful music comes to our ears, and as it grows louder, we wake from our reverie to see the whole orchestra rising slowly as it plays upon an especially construct- ed platform. Now we are fully awake and thoroughly enjoy the music. Then, all too soon, it dies way, slowly and softly, as it came, while in keeping with its beautiful strains we breath- lessly watch the shimmering silk and satin curtains part and before our eyes is a fairyland of beauty, the masterpiece of some director. You may wonder what this has to do with English. Perhaps you will agree when I tell how it symbolizes the study of English to me. We study the masterpieces of Milton, Shakespeare, Burns, Words- worth, Shelley, Keats, and many others. We go to our classrooms to study and discuss them, and not one of us has the least idea of the true interpretation of the poem. After a few of the well chosen questions that the teacher asks have reached us, we wake from our rev- erie to find that the shimmering cur- tains of intelligent understanding have parted, and we have before us a masterpiece which confirms the line, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” 17

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Graduation Essays The Daily Newspaper By Theodora Burbank I N the passing of the years during the history of the world man has seen much improvement. The mod- ern age with its rapid progress has brought us wonders that we little dreamed could ever exist. Yet in the hustle and bustle of every day life we hardly ever stop to consider the work behind these great won- ders of ours. Perhaps one of the greatest in- ventions of modern machinery was the linotype. This machine auto- matically produces and assembles, ready for the newpaper pages, type metal bars, each bearing properly a di usted the type characters to print an entire line. It was the in- vention of Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German clockmaker, who came to this country in 1872 and was em- ployed by the United States Gov- ernment as a mechanic in charge of clocks, bells, signal service, etc. He became connected later with an en- gineering firm in Baltimore. While engaged with that company, he be- gan experiments which resulted in the machine bearing his name, Mer- genthaler Linotype. There have been, naturally, many improve- ments in the operating of this ma- chine, but its basic principle has re- mained the same. It easily does the work of six men working bv the old hand method and does it in a more accurate manner, and resulted in completely revolutionizing the pro- duction of newspapers, making pos- sible the production of more pages to a newspaper and cutting down the time of production of a sixteen to twenty-four page paper more than one-half. The next invention which proved of great interest to the newspaper maker was the invention of the webb-perfecting press. This was in- vented by R. M. Hoe of New York in 1866. This caused another revo- lution in the art of producing a newspaper, making possible the production at that time of thirty to fifty thousand per hour of a sixteen to twenty-four page newspaper, wheretofore it had been possible to print only eight nages at the rate of fifteen to eighteen hundred papers per hour. The webb press, the linotype, and the autoplate casting machine were the comple- tion of a triumvirate that made pos- sible the fifty to sixty page news- paper that you pick off the door step just before you sit down to breakfast every morning. The auto-plate caster automat- ically casts plates the size of a newspaper page at the rate of four per minute. They are cast in a half circle to fit on the cylinder of a per- fecting press from a matrix or flong made of blotting paper and tissue paper fastened together with a paste made for this purpose. This matrix or flong, as it is called, is placed over the form of type and rolled down on a moulding press which leaves an impression of the 19