Lowell High School - Red and White Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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E121 THEREDANDXVHITE Such Is Life By MERRICIQ CRE.-XGH EDI'1'0R'S Norm: The Blau AND XXVI-IITIE is essentially a record book and the present article violates none of the rules laid down for it. ln the past we have been told of the sehoolis outside activities, clubs, athletics, etc. Now, for the first time, we read the story ol' the daily routine. Axlr PEP, student and Lowellite, usually got to school on time. That is, he generally managed to slip into his seat before the ringing of the fatal bell that marked the beginning of the first period of the school day. Maximus had always maintained that quarter-past eight was too early to begin school every morning. But as the Board of Education has not as yet taken any action on his suggestion to defer the time of the first class for an hour or so, the period will begin at 8:15 a. m. indefinitely. Max considered the first class an ordeal to be gone through with the stolid patience and long suffering endurance of the diminutive pack burro on a moun- tain trail. He always tried hard to give his attention to his work, but, gazing about the room, he was not surprised to discover that others were less attentive to busi- ness than he. Many of them seemed a bit weary, perhaps the least bit sleepy, and as a whole apparently bored with the lecture on the genus ornithorhynchus para- doxus, or the hypothesis of the Pythagorean Theorem as proved by Garfield, or the intrinsic complexities of ratiocination as practiced by Edgar Allan Poe. As a rule' the class was awakened from its reverie by a great crashing of gongs and bells that marked the close of' the first period. Those bells wrought various and sundry effects on the populace of the classroom. On some, the effect may be likened to a charge of electricity applied to a high-speed motor. The resulting speed is little short of marvelous. With a bound they are out of their seats, and, rounding curves and leaping obstacles at sixty per, they present but a fleeting glimpse as they vanish out of the doorway into the vast expanse of hall beyond. Others rise leisurely from their desks and betake themselves to their classrooms. Still others seem too fatigued to move until requested to vacate by the owner whose desk they are occupying, and then with a mighty application of yawns and stretches they rise and wend their way slowly onward. Maximus was subject to all of these' modes of' motion, according to his state of mind. At any rate the beginning of the registry period found him in his own classroom listening to announcements and important notices. lt was during this period that class business was attended to and school subjects discussed. On rare occasions Maximus was called to the fore by the faculty and asked where

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THEREDANDXVHITE l13l he was the day before when he should have been in study-hall. After a great deal of men- tal deliberation on the part of Max the matter 1 CANT SEE was promptly corrected and dismissed. 'T 'S At quarter after nine the second class of ALRWHT' the day began and continued through till ten o'cloek when another ringing of bells, the trampling of feet, the babble of voices an- nounced the end of another period. By the time Maximus entered the third period class he was fully awake and living up to the name of Pep. He was eager to enter into discussion on dis- puted points and never refused a challenge to debate no matter how diilieult the question ap- A YARD RALLY peared to be. Yet, alas, the spirit of Maximus Pep often brought disaster upon him, for his fiery speeches and restless manner did not always meet with the approval of the teacher. The fourth period began at eleven o'elock and lasted till ten minutes to twelve. Once in a while a rally would be held in the court and the entire school would troop down the stairs and stream out ol' the doorways to gather in a great host about the speakers' platform. Perhaps the rally had been called to stimulate interest in some coming game, perhaps to hear some noted speaker, yet no matter what the cause, every one enjoyed these gatherings for vaudeville stunts were regularly presented by members of the' student body. Next, but not least, came the lunch period. Max was never very long in getting outside nor was any one else for that matter. lt was during this period that enter- tainments were given in the Court by the students. Sometimes there were nmsieal numbers, acrobaties, and fencing bouts. There were plays, recitations, comics and what-nots, making as a whole a very pleasant noon hour. At twenty-live minutes to one, Maximus and the rest of the upper classmen reluctantly went back to their sixth period classes just as the lfreshmen came rushing and tumbling out for their lunch. During the noon period it was not a strange sight to see Freshmen and Seniors wandering around the yard more or less diligently gathering scattered papers and disgustedly pitching them into the proper receptacles, for that was but a mild form ot' punishment inflicted upon