Maynard High School - Screech Owl Yearbook (Maynard, MA)

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THE COLUMBIAD 17 Near-sighted Man (picking up hair brush for a mirror) — “Whew! I need a shave badly.” A DAY AT THE WORLD’S SERIES. On a cool morning in the early fall, one of my friends, Edward, and I went to Boston to see a World’s Series game. We left home at 7.30 A. M., and arrived in Boston about nine o’clock. “Surely,” we thought, “that will be early enough,” but to our dismay, we found many people waiting for cars to the ball field. We hurried to our car and after a twenty-minute ride ar- rived at the park. It was already crowded and the boys were busy selling their tonics, cigars, banners and various other things. We went to our seats and pre- pared for what we thought would be a tiresome five-hour wait. A happv surprise came to us, hoAvever, for soon the band came out and the people in the various sections of the seats began to sing. After that, people also came on the field to amuse the spectators and help pass the time by their singing. About eleven oclock we commenced to get hungry, so when the boy came around again, we bought a sandwich ; price, ten cents. The next time he came his sandwiches were fifteen cents, but not being hungry that time we saved our money. About ten minutes later he came again with the sandwiches, now twenty cents, and as we did not wish him to go higher and “stick” us, we decided to eat them. Later a man found a straw hat in the crowd and everyone that could reach him had great fun with it until it was utterly demolished. Thus the time passed and, taking everything into consideration, it was about the quickest five hours I have ever had to sit through. Finally the players came out and began to practice. It was then that everyone sat up and watched. They cheered each player in turn and every good play. The game started at three o’clock and, after many exciting plays, was won by Boston. After the game we hurried to the car, but the very best we could do in that great throng was to get one an hour after we had left the park. C. A. L. T6.

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16 THE COLUMBIAD “Please bring that book here.’’ The lad handed the teacher the book gingerly, to the amusement of the other boys and to the horror of the girls. “What trash ! I think the one who owns it would rather dispose of it himself, said the teacher sharply. Mildred reddened but walked bravely up, took the book, tore it slowly into tiny pieces, dropped them into the wastebasket, and then took her seat. A sigh of relief passed over the classroom. That night the naughty book with its foolish rhymes curled up in merry little flames, and then was no more. M. F. T6. Why is it best to keep the hens from the woodshed? So they will not eat the grain out of the wood. THE HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA. In accordance with the annual custom, the High School is represented by an orchestra this year. There are at present two violins, a cornet, clarinet, drums, and piano. They have not played much this year owing to the lack of time for practice, but after the holidays they will again resume rehearsing The boys are all experienced and play well together, so that when they do start again the school will have fine music. What’s the difference between an auto, a lover, and a monkey? An auto is so dear, a lover is oh dear, and the monkey is yon dear. Heard in the Eng. Class. “Washington was the ‘executer’ of his brother Laurence. Miss I). — “The Avhat? Coffy — “Oh! the executor! Why didn’t our President see our Secretary the other night? Nightihus darkibus, no starorum ; Climibus fencibus — pants tororum.

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18 THE COLUMBIAD Harland — “Papa, if I was twins would you buy the other boy a banana too ?” Papa — “Certainly, my son ’ Harland — “Well, papa, you surely ain’t going to cheat me out of an- other, just ’cause Pm all in one piece.” Titles. Bachelor of Bluffing McCormack Baron de Broke Hooper Doctor of Deviltry Sullivan Count Comical McManus Duke Dignified Millington A freshman drew a picture of a hen. The teacher made him throw it in the wastebasket. The hen was so matured that it layed there. OUR FORMER SCHOOLMATES AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING 1913. Eleven pupils graduated from M. H. S. in the unlucky year of ’13, but thus far the numeral seems to have cast no shadow upon their careers. Three entered the business life : May Parkin at the office of the Reg- istry of Deeds in East Cambridge ; Emma Guillow in Boston, and Helen Coughlin with her own store in Maynard. One has married and left town : Ella Springer. Seven went to higher schools: Frank Binks to Massachusetts Agri- cultural College; Mary Hodges and Marion Sullivan to Fitchburg Normal: Carl Marsh to Tufts College; Grace Rutan to Wheaton and Simmons Col- leges, and two to Boston University, Ralph Newton and Ruth Smith, the former as a student in the Law School, the latter in the College of Liberal Arts. 1914. 1914 is to be famous in the annals of M. H. S. as the first to have grad- uates from the Commercial Course, six girls. Of these six, one, Genevieve Coughlin, has already entered the teaching profession as assistant in the