Madison Central High School - Tychoberahn Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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that the “Sheeny” might be duly compensated, not only for his apples, hut for his injured feelings as well. The sum was paid, and the receipt rests in the archives of the M. H. S. The class of 1910 is not only mentally versatile, but physically strong. The soph’s pasted several poorly-spelled and would-be witty pastel’s in imitation of the Varsity, but we know not whether it was the awe-inspiring presence of G. Trainor. P. Mehlig and L. Heyl which made them fear even E. Newman, K. Healy and “Babe” Car-roll—at any rate 09 did not carry out their threats. Mr. Shephard instituted a game of crowd-ball, to be played at recess, in which the freshmen became very skillful, and through which they gained great proficiency in the art of throwing spit-balls. If the class of 1910 continues to progress hereafter in an intellectual line as rapidly as it has done in its first year, there is no doubt that it will he the most illustrous class that ever graduated from the Madison High School. (161

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Cl 00 fiifetor?, 1810 Never before has there been a freshman class of sufficient importance to have its history in the Tychoberahn; but at last a class has arrived which is so intelligent, so capable, and so progressive that the Tychoberahn cannot be complete without its history—the class of 1910. Our class was so famed for brilliancy that we did not need so many weeks of school as the others and were therefore given two weeks more vacation. Since we were altogether too exclusive to mix with the other classes we were assigned a new building to ourselves. As Principal Hutchison could not wait until Monday to see our wonderful class, we met, at the Library, Saturday morning, September 21. We filled out our enrollment blanks, and received a bit of good advice firm beth Mr. Dudgeon and Mr. Hutchison. They told us that we were now dependent upon ourselves, and that we must stay at home evenings and study. All this of course we did. In other class histories you will find. “It is sufficient to say for our first year, amoeba like, we existed.” Our first year has been by no means a mere existence. The early weeks were enlivened by an episode with a “Sheeny apple dealer,” much to the annoyance of our dear teachers. So grave was the offense that it was deemed necessary to have the guilty persons make the acquaintance of Mr. Hutchison. After due deliberation it was decided that the twenty-five or more “criminals” be heavily fined to the extent of five cents each, so M51

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