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

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18 ' 1 E L J N t : ( 1 . N T A N LITERARY. Gardiner Pinckney 1 J . If one should visit the Senior Class in English literature which is so ably conducted by Miss Anna 11. Jones, you would be very much interested in her classes, especially the public speaking contests. There were several debates in the class. First was, Resolved that ‘ ' The Right of Suffrage Should be Extended n o to Women ’ Cordell White had the affirmative side and Robert Uaily had the negative. .White won the debate. Although Baily began his speech with several brilliant remarks, he cut short his speech before having gained enough points to obtain the verdict. There were also several other debates. Resolved “Should the LI. S. Interfere With the Mexican Revolution.” Gardi- ner Pinckney, affirmative, (won)) and Robert Baily, negative, (lost), and be- gan their high school existance under the excellent corps of teachers. It would be impossible to go into the detail of every department of our school, but w.e will only touch upon several of them to show you how the year has been made successful. First, we have with us this year Miss Fordham, our art teacher. If one should visit her room, he would find hand painted pictures of all descriptions, burnt wood and hammered brass. Not only is she a teacher of art, but of other studies as well. After you have looked over her room you may pass down the stairs into the manual training depart- ment. We shall not see the familiar face of Mr. Clifford Evans, but, a new teacher, one who not only can hold his own in cabinet making, but he is second to none in the teaching of architecture. This teacher taught the Senior bovs the i • are of drafting, and many of the boys have drawn the plans of the Negro Y. M. C. A. and several mansions and bungalows. If one should see the blue prints of some of the drawings and the cabinet work and see the upholstering work he would agree with us by saying that we had a verv successful year under m m the careful training of Mr. Charles Westmoreland, our new manual train- ing ' teacher. n WITH APOLOGIES TO POE. Frank May, ’12. 1. It was many and many a year ago, in a town which you’ll never see, Was a haunted house which was down below In a hollow, three blocks from me. 2. It was said that a man who had lived in this town, In this town which you’ll never see, Had been killed in the house which was down below, In a hollow three blocks from me. 3. I was afraid and the rest were afraid, In this town which you’ll never see, ■» ' To live in the house which was down below In a hollow three blocks from me. 4. But by and by there came a man From the well-known place, K. C., Who said that he would stay in the house Which was only three blocks from me. 5 So on Friday night he was given a gun, With amunition ten charges, free. And he went in the house to have some fill! With the ghosts which were said to be. 6 . lie staved with the ghosts until half- » o past four, W hen with some he could not agree, For they wanted to wrestle him right on the floor, But he told them that one was not enough for three. 7. But when he could plead with the ghosts no more TTe went to the window near And called aloud “Open this d oor!” For I and the ghosts are having a ' ii hot time in here. 8. But there being no one to receive his message outside, is calling was all in vain ;