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

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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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If A 6 M MQKINLEY MIRROR Books have been called the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom ' TODAY Prize Editorial - Today does not mean, merely at date on at calendar, or a time between sun- rise zind sunset. It means more! It means at highly developed generation, and is the result of the labors of our forcfathersg it is a time of pence and plenty. lt is u century of inventiong it is the golden age of seienee. I Our wonderful country of today has been in the making for generations upon generations. Our prosperity of today is due to the fact that our uneestors hnve eased the path of life by braving the terrors lurking in a new and une civilized continent, clearing the land, breaking the sod, and pressing continue nlly Westward. Many of us are not thinking of the future generations. We should be building for tomorrow, not just for today. Scientists and inventors should be working with the view of bettering for the future generations the prosperity we know today, so that we may pass, undimnied to others, the light which has been given to us. This is my interpretation of the frieze culled Today, which is on the wall in the library. -Dorothy Howe, 8-BE, Meliinley. Miss Dorothy Kurtznmn of the nrt depzutxnent, painted the landscapes in the frieze of Today that is in the library over the bookeuses. The present 9-B girls did the lettering. TODAY Here hath been dawning Another blue dayg Think will thou let it Slip useless away. Out of eternity This new duy is born: Into eternity At night will return, Behold it nforetime, No eye ever didg So soon it forever From all eyes is hid. -Thomas Carlyle.

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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.