Lansing Central High School - Oracle Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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ample time to retlect upon her misdeeds and mend her ways, and which, on account of the crowded condition of the 4' atticll has since been devoted solely to the use of succeeding Freshmen, a highly amusing and interesting result would have been obtained. Pride, in the thought that, at last. they had surmounted all diffi- culties such as passing the necessary examinations, etc.. etc., and had entered upon their lligh School course, would have been the principal thing revealed by the plate in many cases, while in others there would have been an inexpressible dread of those Sophomores who are, if an arithmetical proposition is allowable, the High School minus the Freshmen, minus the Seniors, minus the Juniors. In still other cases there would have been reproduced, upon the plate, dire misgivings concerning those inevitable examinations, for why should not innocent Freshmen suppose that such things as 'fpoizz'vs would be an utter impossibility in examinations presided over by sharp-eyed lfigh School teachers. The heart-aches caused by this last morbid fancy could. however, have been avoided had they only consulted the Sopohmores, or, better still, the Juniors who, on account of their greater amount of experi- ence, could have given them several very useful hints as to the proper care of these ponies, especially at such times as when a certain sharp-eyed teacher-he who presides over the Hattie -should be present. To have consulted the Seniors would have been worse than useless for they never used them. lVhy should they when they always had their lessons so they could recite them backwards if necessary ? After two or three weeks, however. the Freshmen found out several things, not the least of these being that their previous ideas concerning the impossibility of ponies were entirely at fault. This mistake they rectified quickly while some of the others they did not. They soon discovered that their superior t?i ability was not recog- nized, that the Sophoinores looked down upon them and called them Freshies, ncitwithstanding the fact that they themselves had under- gone the same humiliations only the year before: the Juniors simply llll ,