Major Edwards High School - Mesa Yearbook (West Boylston, MA)

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HISTORY 2 of Miss Lord. The Junior year is always look £ a for- ward to by oach class, as the outstanding year, both in obtaining funds to defray expenses, and in planning tho Junior Prom. Our candy sal os during tho year, proved both popular and successful. But tho most pro- fitable source of income was our Class Play, The Importance of Being Earnest. The play was also a great dramatic succo3? , for which we were much indebted to the faithful coaching Another important item of business this year was the selection of a class ring. A committee was chosen, many styles were submitted by various firms, many class meetings were held, and a decision was finally reached. During school hours, our laboratory work in Chemistry furnished us with our greatest diversion. One day, two of the boys were making acetylene torches, by mixing water and calcium carba.oe in a flask. Just as one of them had made a good mixture, the other coy held his lighted torch over the mouth of the flask, and something suddenly happened. After that, Mr Woodbury put the rest of the carbide under lock and key, out of the reach of reckless little boys. The Junior Prom, our most important social event, was held at the Wachusett Country Club, and was a great success , except in one little detail,— our treasury balance was somewhat reduced. We besan our Senior year, vdth more determination than ever, to devote our time to study, an5 make this last year a decided echo lastic success, but our efforts, though praiseworthy, have met with success only in varying degrees. One day a pupil in the class of French III, was not paying strict attention, and just ae he w- s in the midst of his conversation with the pupil seated behind him, the teacher asked him to define the word, Myopia —which, as you know, means near-sightedness. Hearing his name called, and, having only a vague remembrance of the question, to everyone amusement, he answered, ’ Your what? At another time, during a recitation in solid geometry, the instructor asked our president how go measure a lire o inf in Ge length. After an interval of thought, with a puzzled frown on his°face, he replied, With an infinity ruler, of course! Last winter, during a recitation in Senior English, the boys inaugurated a new diversion which proved to be a failure. The diversion was a pass game, with a shoe instead of a football. We met our Waterloo when the shoe landed on the newel post in the corridor at the close of the period, just os our principal happened - along. Needless to say, the shoe was returned to its owner in record ' time. In regard to our plans for the future, about a third of the class have nothing definite in view. Of the others, one wishes to become a nurse, one expects to take a secretarial course, one

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