McKinley Middle School - Mirror Yearbook (Cedar Rapids, IA)

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8 MCIQINLEY MIRROR A DISSERTATION ON- ROAST PIG If Charles Lamb were to knock at our door this morning, just as we com- plete his essay about roast pig, he might fancy our thought about his com- position. He might not. We first of all wish to ask if it would not have been more appropriate of him, being a Lamb, to have referred a discussion of pork to Bacon. Possibly Mr. Lamb 's sense of humor would have asked us to decide the question. Having recently read the Cotten's Saturday Night, this would suit ns, Mr. Lamb, because Robert Burns is the,s:une as you are. This would be a very rude answer since puns are poor figures of speech. Mr. Lamb would be justified in referring us to our principal at once. ' The story about the introduction of roast pork, as told by Charles Lamb, is entertaining and leads to :i surprise ending. It becomes ridiculous when we imagine burning down our homes as payment for a good clinneig. There are Inany people wh-0, like Jiggs of the eomieslthink too mneh about their stoni- aehs. Mr. Lamb, we are very pleased to meet you this morning.. You have given us an opportunity to use a word we observed recently for the, first time. Mr, Lamb, you are very facetious. , ' -Alfred Swett, '9-A. TREES THAT SAIL ' What do we plant when we plant It tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sen, We plant the masts to carry the sails, We plant the planks to withstand the gales, The keel, the keelson, the beam, the knee- We plant the ship when we plant the tree. -John Gable, 9-A. 2455 Mt. Vernon Avenue, , Cedar Rapids, Iowa, ' March 1, 1927. - . Williani Shakespeare, St ,atford Church, England. Dear William: Students, pupils, and other birds of prey, Lend me your ears, I come to talk Sh:1kcspe:1re, not to read him. The evils that men do lives after them, So let it be with Shakespeare, A The noble teacher hath told you Slmkespenre was ambitious, If it were so, it were a grievous fault, And grievonsly has Shakespeare written it. My pen is writing like a phantasrna Or a. hideous dream, And I must pause till the ink come back to it. -Wilbur Robbie, 9-A.

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McKINLEY MIRROR 7 EXTRA 7 LAST EXPEDITION RETURNS INTREPID EXPLORERS RETURN AFTER f LONG PERIOD IN THE WILDS Those intrepid explorers who have recently returned from the wilds of the manual training 1'oom, report strange things. They have found evidences of a high civilization-tables, footstools, even model yachts. The explorers were loath to return without specimens, but the natives would allow nothing to leave the country. They made these things, and they were going to keep them, they said. What of it? -Phil Sargent, 9-A. Q A WEE BIT O' SCOTLAND The 8-A's are studying The Lady of the Lake, and we find it most inter- esting, since Miss Moorhead is of Scotch ancestry, and knows the history of Scotland and old Scotch traits. v We have a large map of Scotland, and an enlarged map of the territory our story covers, where we trace the journeys, in colored chalk. Above the black-board, we have a collection of Scotch plaids, furnished by the children. Blue prints and colored postal cards of the dilferent places spoken of in the story, a bit of real heather and two books showing the plaids with the name, war cry, and a short history of each clan and Scotch songs, help to make the story real. In 'A Scotch scene made by the children, is arranged on two shelves. Three girls in the art department-Alma Rowley, Delta Kersten and Naomi Biskup-, painted two backgrounds of heather-clad hills. The grass is saw-dust dyed green, and the trees are green sponges with sticks for trunks. Here and there are Scotch figures, and sticking up in the grass, are two white fiags with a green pinetree-Clan Alpin's flag. The boys made log cabins and our teacher made thatched roofs for them. A mirror is our lake and a lovely clear lake it is, too. These, with two fiery crosses just like Roderick Dl1u's, and little dolls dressed in Highland costumes, complete our picture of The Lady Of the Lake. -Mary Jane Martin, 8-A. T0 A ROBIN Hello, Mr. Springtime, Up in the tree, The name is deserving- It just came to mc. You always remind me That springtime is here, And that reminds me That summer is near. So, Mr. Springtime, Up in the tree, You 'll always be springtime, Especially to me. A -Dick Westerfield, 7-BZ.

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MeKINLEY MIRROR 9 HAVE YOU A PERSONALITY? Foree and originality of ch:1r:,1eter, together with that elusive, intangible something that we ull instinticely feel, yet ennnot see, we eztll personality. What one of us has not known someone, about whom he hats said, That per- son has p-ersonatlity-he's alive? Should you like to possess personality? .lf you would-be something, do something-be :llivel .Even Percy l'leuvythinker has pe1'sona,lity. No matter how much you know, no nmtter how good al lender you think you might be, no one will ever know it if you sit still and let somebody else recite, or do ull the work. Show what you can do, und be ulivel lf you dou't, no one will ever know you ns :1 person-or, in other words, your personality. You're deud and the engraver has nlrezuly written- 'fl-le's deed as dead eau be, No more will ever he lteeite in eluss or be A personality. He never spoke or wrote, Or east ax, single voteg A figureheod he died, And only Percy cried. MEN AT SOMETIMES ARE MASTERS OF THEIR FATESH 814 Seventh 'Avenue, Cedar Rapids, Iowan, Feb. 22, 1927. Dear Bill: Today we were ull dressed up in our best clothes und, having nothing to do, were wondering :lround in the hulls. We had not been there very long when two tribunes, two McKinley teachers, CLUIIC :rlong and asked us what we were doing. lVe :lre 0ClCbl'2'll1i1lg lVZLSlll11gt01l,S birtl1duy, We replied. lrxxiililil, you knnves, celebrating WzLsl1i11gto11's birtlnlz1.y! How muuy hi1'tl1d:1ys hns he haul this your? Get you to your books :md overflow them with peue-il innrks, else at llunking plague be stzlrted among you. I'll tell you Bill, it's terrible here ut McKinley. Since you knew Cuesnr well enough to write :L ploy about him, I thought you might know Mussolini, one of his great g1'ZlllClCiliifi1'01l. They say he can do the work of forty men. My iden is to get this fellow und bring him over to McKinley. It would save ax. 'i31'0ll1C11Ll.OllS lot of work und, not only thot, it would turn McKinley from druclgery to paradise. He could work four shifts :L day of six hours eneh, averaging forty pupils on zz. shift. He could take cure of two hundred and forty students. He could pick his students from the 9'A's und thus relieve us of 11 huge burden. Please consider this and let me know by return mail, beenuse I really believe that it would be for the good of McKinley School. Respectfully yours, Robert TllOl111lS, 9-A.