Lincoln High School - Lincolnian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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24 THE LINCOLNIAN Florence Roberts Blanche Bates Fannie Bates (her sister) Olga Nethersole Thelma Nunn Frances Payne Beatrice Beverly Dollie Pimples Alberta Ainsley Dorothy Vernon Mary Mannering Janice Meredith Henrietta Crossman Marion Mellin Eva Tanguay Violet Winters Clara Greer ..Marguerite Smith Hazel Miller Inez McCoy Willie Tooly Helena Washington Laura Ca Hettie Dysa ...Constance Gibbs ' .... Annie Swanson . . . . Vertella Sayers Mable Smith Delia Boaz Louise Rav Willie Parks . . . .Lillian Johnson MAKE THIS A DAY. Make this a day. There is no gain In brooding over days to come ; The message of today is plain. The future’s lips are ever dumb. The work of yesterday is gone — For good or ill, let come what may: But now we face another dawn ; Make this a day. Though yesterday we failed to see The urging hand and earnest face That men call Opportunity, We fail to know the time or place For some great deed, what need to fret? The dawn comes up a silvery gray; The golden moments must be met ; Make this a day. This day is yours ; your work is yours ; The odds are not who pays your hire ; The thing accomplished — that endures, If it be what the days require. He who takes up his daily round, As one new armored for the fray. Tomorrow steps on solid ground ; Make this a day. Louise Rav, TO.

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THE LINCOLNIAN 23 CLASS NIGHT PROGRAMME. For class night the graduating class presented a drama written by Thos. G. Perry, Claude Stirman and Anna Swan- son, entitled “College Life. The drama is in three acts. The following synopsis will give an idea of the play: Act I, Scene I, shows the campus of Lafayette on the opening day of school. Scene II, the girls’ lounging rooms. Act II, Scene I. — The night before the race, which is a contest between the best new scholars and the old scholars. Scene II. — The boys in the gymnasium. .room the morning before the race. Thanksgiving day. Act II. — The banquet in honor of Howard University. The play deals with the story of a country boy who arrives at Lafayette and is hazed by the college boys. Florence flirts with him, which causes James Brown, who is sweet on her, to hate him. Browm is a fourth year man, whose greatest ambi- tion is to win the Marathon race from Howard during his last year. It is discovered during the hazing on the first day of school that Green is an excellent runner and he is also entered in the race. When Brown, who has been living a fast life, hears this, he takes Green to a small town and gets him drunk, hoping to keep him from entering the race. Green, although becoming drunk, gets sober before time for the race, which is unknown to Brown. Brown intends entering the race and winning Florence back, to him. But Green enters, to his as- tonishment, and wins the race for the school and the girl for himself. “COLLEGE LIFE.” Cast of Characters. President, Macaulay Babbington Makepeace Shakespeare Scruggs.. Arthur Willie Green (a country boy) Thomas Janies Brown (a senior of Lafayette) Paul V. Crostli . Richard McFadden (Shorty) Claude Stirn, Hczekiah Doolittle (Janitor) Roy Smith Artie Smith Roy Smith “Kid” Burns Leslie Cheecks “Red” Williams ' ..Allen Ward Chas. Lamb Cordell White Maurice Mann (Spider) Grant Moore Athletic Director Roy Lewis ' Stuttering” John Floyd Ward Prof. A. P. life, Ph.D., B.S Claudia E Jenkins Emma Dunn Claudia E. Jenkins Miss Almira Bell Roberta Wiggins Judith Synis Edna Earle JuditluSyms ' Daisy Evans May Crosby

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THE LINCOLNIAN 26 LINCOLNIAN HUMOR Miss W. P., of our Senior class, asked : “Are the cartoons all gone?’’ (meaning croutons). ‘ It seems an established fact that Miss H. W. always se- lects the first topic in chemistry and we (the Seniors) take it for granted that she just wishes to introduce, the day’s lesson (nit). In the laboratory the different alkalies were being passed around to the members of the class. Miss W. P., wishing to take a second look at the alkali, said : “Professor, please pass the gymnasium” (meaning gypsum). Miss H. M. (after being informed that a test was to be given in chemistry on the following day) asked : “Prof. C., what is the test going to be on?” Prof C. — “On paper.” One day the Senior class of the Sumner High School was visiting our class and we were reporting on the works of Spen- cer. Miss Jones asked R. S. to name some of his most impor- tant works. He rose immediately and said: “Spencer’s Fairy Tales” (meaning “Faerie Oueene”). The other school didn’t laugh much ;no, not very. Ha ! ha ! ha ! Miss Tones called on C. W. and asked if Shakespeare h ? any children and if so to name them. He answered: “Ye sum, he had two and their names are Romeo and Juliet. (From this answer we inferred that he had had some romance in his short life.) Miss S. (the English teacher) asked her pupils to bring in some compositions to be read in class. All of the scholars had finished theirs but W. T. (Junior). He read his composition, and it was as follows : “Cows is cows, cows is a beautiful an- imal, cows give milk, but as for me, give me libertv or give me death.” Miss R. H. (who is a member of the Astronomy class) was asked what a comet was. Miss R. IT. had been watching the appearance and disappearance of Halley’s comet and there- fore she replied : “A comet is a moving body.” Prof. C. — “You are a moving body, are you a comet?” (A murmur was all that was heard.)