Midwood High School - Epilog Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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X T PR- ll I , ' Y, -J A Q ' 1 - , I 3 ,,pef-Q.,-elif, W 'Q' A ' . N 35' .r L-Sai ' ,542 eo 'Q qi' v X, Ya , Q6 3 'J f ' 'Emi ' Q 'v A -. 0 gf? X-1 Xi A .a ff ..., ' M F 'Q I RE E BER, MAMA! I was thinking the other day-our teachers work so hard to teach us history, English, Math, Spanish, Sten, and a host of other subjects. And what do we learn? How much do we remember? Letis take a few examples, Biology for instance. Let me see, what's Bio about? I re- member vaguely a lot of things about mutations and dendrites and ventricles and stuff, but I remember very vividly the soggy frog that was given to me to cut up one day, and the shrieks of dismay that filled the room as my squeamish classmates realized what was before them. We thought the frog was bad when we first got it! Remember it the second day, wrapped up neatly in a damp piece of paper and pinned with straight pins? Then there's S.S. Unit tests-studying for them the night before ffrom carbon notesj, and then during home-room, and waylaying people and asking them frantically, What were the questions? Did she ask you the provisions of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act? Oh, she did? Hm. By the way, what are the provisions . . .? I can also remember the Ameri- can Ubserver, and the Observer test the teacher always surprised us with on Wednesdays. The SS department, whatever else you may say about it, certainly is full of personali- ties. Did you ever have A. S. Cohn? Even if you haven't, you've heard all about her-the tests that begin before the period begins, and are over before the late bell rings, and the exclusive HW assignments handed down from generation to generation. Or did you ever have Mr. H. f Dartmouth j Hillson, or try to decipher the board-writing of Mrs. Venit or Mr. Dobren? English. Remember Silas Marner ? Not so long ago I got into conversation with a man who was graduated from Erasmus about 30 years ago. He had taken Silas Mamet in English 3, and the only thing he remembers from it is one short phrase- Eppie in the toal-hole. He isn't even sure who wrote the book. And how about English 5-a whole term of speech-making? From there you could go into Group Discussion, which Mr. Salkin insists is the most valuable course in all Midwood. Well, anyhow, it's one of the hardest-and the most fun. Do you remember your first Regents? Remember the review books, the review HW Fourteen