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

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 eiraaor Class History It is surely a useless task which we set ourselves here, for what underclassman is to be found, so green, so unsophistictcd, and so ignorant of the progress of the world, that he deosn't already know the story of our class by heart. If there be such a one. let him open this page with reverence in his heart and depart a wiser youth. Strangely enough, our beginnings were quite like those of other classes. No proclamation or blaring of trumpets heralded our coming; on the contrary, to the ordinary observer—we stole into the sacred portals of learning a most timid bunch of freshmen. But the practiced eye might have discerned in us even at that early time signs of future greatness. Perhaps the atmosphere of the new building made especially to receive us was conductive to our growth. We shall not. however, attempt to explain it. but rather accept it as one of those natural phenomena of which we have a somewhat hazy remembrance in our Physics book. Realizing that athletics might be made a stepping stone to greatness, we proceeded to win the class basket-ball championship in our sophomore year, a feat which no other class has yet accomplished. The next year our girls as juniors duplicated the trick. The only reason that we have not won more class championships is that all our athletes are on the regulars covering themselves and the school with glory. The climax to our honors came in this, our last year, when we won the basket-ball championship of Wisconsin. Every man on that team boasts himself a member of the class of 1912. As was to be expected, in social affairs also our star has shone, at times blazed, most brightly. What Junior Prom” has ever eclipsed ours in point of brilliancy, beauty, and attendance? None, we say, and boldly challenge denial. Our Senior Informal, too, made bright the monotony of the term and now our Commencement Ball is going to be a fitting climax to a great year. Alas, space fails us. when we have completed the merest outline of one triumphant march from one victory to another. No wonder our dear but much abused instructors in the path of knowledge are beginning to wonder what they will ever do without us. Con exami and other fatal diseases during the four years have somewhat depleted our ranks, but we now pass out into the world, the greatest class in both quantity and quality ever graduated from M. H. S.

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Origin of the name 4 ,Tyclhoberalhn, The first annual of the Madison High School was published in 1900 by a board consisting of ten members. Every year since that time, except in 1903, the students have produced an Annual. These publications have varied in the quantity and quality of material, but all are agreed that each Tychoberahn surpasses all the previous ones. After working for several months on the book, and finally completing it. the first board was at a loss for a name for the publication The following quotation from that first attempt tells of the choice: “At first we were puzzled at what to call our effort. Wc finally, however, decided on The Tychoberahn '— The board has accomplished a great work in a short time. May this be the first .but not the last. The word Tychoberahn is derived from two Indian words, tah-hah, the Winnebago word for lake, and tshopiwi, a word meaning four. One can easily see how these words were combined to form the word Taychoperah, the name which the savages gave to the four lake country about Madison. It is from this Indian word then, I a y-cho-per-ah. that the name for the yearly publication of the Madison High School was obtained. We hope that the 1912 Tychoberahn may surpass its predecessors and that it in turn may be surpassed by those that follow.

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Officers 1 : i First Term • Seconds Term Maxwell Smith, President Alois Kcsscnich, Vice-President Dorothy Hogan. Sec’y-Treasurcr George Davy, President. Alois Kcsscnich, Vicc-Pres. Otis Hoffman. Sec’y-Treas Motto HOC AGE QUAM MAXI ME POTES Colors Navy Blue and Gold