Mansfield High School - Manhigan Yearbook (Mansfield, OH)

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THE ANNUAL PROF. H. E. HALL. How shall we attempt to describe him who is, one might say, “An axiom; a self-evident truth,“who is no mythological hero of ancient time who is to be en¬ dowed with bravery and all good graces for the benefit of worshiping students, but an everyday solid fact. Here is no opportunity for flowery description, nor anything but the truth, because, “after the deluge,” and no matter on which side we might end—whether of too fulsome praise or too real a chronicle of facts—we should surely be “called on the carpet the next day, and receive our blessing or the opposite. The subject of our sketch, being by reason of his position, an example for the future citizens of our commonwealth, must be above reproach, a tiresome attitude for mere man—made endurable by the fact that it must be maintained for only three fourths of the year. During the blessed summer months he may relax, go fishing, say a bad word if the fish don ' t bite, and his pleasure is over¬ shadowed only by the thought of the approach of September. Talk about the Ides of March! It was nothing compared with the first of September in the mind of him who must again become an example. In school we see him thus: He has a round jovial face, with his eyes hidden behind great spectacles. When those spectacled eyes turn on you, they some¬ times bring a laugh and other times a chill, but as Mr. Hall ' s weakness is laughing the chills don ' t come very often. His manner is that of one who is interested in everybody. He can listen to a joke, and enjoy it greatly, and the next minute listen attentively to a string of woes dry enough to put him to sleep. By experience pupils have found out that they should never tell Mr. Hall their woes until they have first “privately seen the teacher. Mr. Hall ' s cordial greeting whenever and wherever you see him makes you feel good. What would we do in the morning if we didn’t see him walking about the halls speaking to everybody, and in the meanwhile adjusting his spectacles and then thoughtfully rubbing the side of his head as if it ached. ’i 3

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THE ANNUAL PROF. H, E, HALL. — 1 2 —

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THE ANNUAL Miss Helen T. Simpson—English Literature and two years of French. Miss Kate S. Moore is teacher of Freshmen and Sophomore Algebra and Sophomore Geometry. Miss Lucy Stine instructs the Sophomores in Me¬ dieval and Modern History, the Juniors in English and United States History, and English Literature, and both Juniors and Seniors in Civics. Miss Anna E. Miller has charge of the Junior and Senior classes in Latin and Greek, and conducts a Senior class in Astronomy and a Sophomore class in Roman History. Miss Emily M. Abbott teaches Freshman Rhetoric and Classics and also has charge of the Freshman Rhetoricals. — 14 —