Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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SENIOR B. Jesse Wilson Meryl Boyd James Ryan Gertrude Nelson Hazel Thurber Mattie Stetson Florence Smith

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JUNIOR YEAR BOOK. System of Credits and “Rankings. Heretofore the unit of credit has been one-third of a year’s work. This was in accord¬ ance with the system of credits required for admission to the State University. There has been an effort among college and high school authorities to bring about some uniform sys¬ tem of credits. It has been very generally established now in the Mississippi Valley at least that the unit of credit shall be one year’s work in a single subject, the year consisting of not less than 36 weeks, and the number and length of recitation periods be not fewer than five forty minute recitation periods a week. In laboratory science there must be three forty-minute recitations and two eighty-minute laboratory periods a week. After the pres¬ ent school year one system of credits will be arranged to conform to the foregoing. Hereafter the rankings of pupils will be changed only once a year, i. e., at the close of the school year, and the pupils will be classed as Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors, the rank depending upon the number of credits earned and not upon the length of time pupils have been enrolled in the High School. Sixteen year-credits will be required for graduation, and the rankings will be as follows: Freshmen...Below 3 Credits. Sophomore.From 3 to 7 Credits. Juniors....From 7 to 11 Credits. Seniors. .From 11 to 16 Credits. Post Gradua tes . From 16-Credits. Pupils desiring to convert their Credits according to the old system into equivalents of the new, should divide the old Credits by 3. Credits offered by the Momence High School which receive College Entrance Credit:— English... 4. Mathematics.3. History. 3. Latin... . .4. German. 2. Science. .3. Commercial Geography.. Credits for which College Entrance Credit is not given: Spelling and Penmanship... Commercial Arithmetic. Eook-keeping.... 191 . 1 . i. 1 . Total 22 Fifteen year-credits are required for admission to all the leading colleges and universities of the Mississippi Valley.

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JUNIOR YEAR BOOK. History of the Senior Class. By Myrtle Crosby. Let the class prophet seek some learned sage and hear foretold the glorious future of the Class of 1907. Let the class poet linger at the shrine of the Muses until inspired to chant in sublime verse, the virtues of our illustrious class. But what source is left for the historian? To what may I turn to obtain the neces¬ sary aid in undertaking such an honorable task? Ah, there is a vault of rec¬ ords cherished in the heart of every teacher and pupil of the Momence High School, to which I may go and receive requisite information for compiling the history of so noted a class. Would that my feeble pen could portray these truths just as they are found in the fount of memory, springing up in the heart of every one of our number. Long years ago, when we were still in the grades, the High School pupils, were seen shading their eyes, and peering in wonder over the banisters, at a steady glowing light which radiated from the coming class of 1907. Fortu¬ nately the teachers realized what a treasure was in their keeping, hnd exerted all their energies to bring out the best traits of such promising pupils—to make the light glow stronger and brighter as we passed from grade to grade. Success crowned their efforts when in June, 1903, we graduated from the grammar sehool. The High School pupils now talked in awe-stricken tones of the great event, tor soon that dazzling light, at which they had peered in wonder, would be among them. Finally, after much conspiring and whisper¬ ing they gently crowded the Senior Class of 1903 off the threshold of their domain, and made room for us. Thus, that day in September, 1903, when we entered High School was an eventful one for our school. Her radiance was doubled by her admission to her ranks of so favored a class, and soon every one knew that her lamp of genius had received a lasting stimulus. Thus a class of thirty started on a brilliant career as high school pupils. To our teachers we seemed most avaricious for knowledge. We listened intently to all Algebra explanations, and became so well acquainted with the mysteries of that subject that the leading mathematicians of the world appealed to us to solve their difficult problems. Soon the whole town began to think that the Romans themselves were walking among them. The babble of the Latin lan¬ guage was wafted on every breeze. We harrangued with such true Italian accent that Cicero himself was said to have turned in his grave in fear lest his equals were coming at last. In Physiology we learned that everyone has a heart, but now as Seniors, we have to lament the sad misfortune of several of our members, who, by some grave accident, have lost that important organ. Our first year in High School passed successfully by, and we advanced an¬ other step in the ranks, when one bright September morning found us Sopho¬ mores. New instructors appeared on the scene to witness with admiration our ever increasing radiance. Our geometry teacher, especially, felt so genial