Mont Pleasant High School - Montaneer Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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YOUTH To pain? +he colour of our dreams. To compass love's fainl spheres, To glimpse elernily would seem A Jfribule +o +he years. Yer shadows of our filmy rears Are silhouelled where The vision of 'romorrows peers Along The visfas of despair. Therein +o vision muled hos+s Of old illusions slrew The pallid cenlruries wi'rh ghosls Of fading dreams fha? whisper 'rhrough The wishful Pas+'s long avenue. . . Now down fhe misfed passage fare The echoes of a paean's hue Along lhe vislas of despair. Sung no'r in gill, heraldic arms Thai' march bu+ +o deslroy- Voiced while 'rriumphanf youlh disarms To found irs own greai' Troy: An edifice, by girl and boy Hs ramparls reared. . .And There Now, fesfive Throngs disperse +heir ioy Along The visfas of despair. ENVOY You'fh's gay, ennobled armies limn The ages. and fheir banners bear The emblems now of conquesl' dim- Obscured. +he visfas of despair! Edward Tomasian

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EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARIES OF A HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR January, I933-Today me and Slim come To high school and we was sure mixed up cause I never seen such a big place in all my liTe and we was scarred and wishing we was back in junior high The place being so big and being all halls. We iusT walked around Till I Tound a bunch of kids going inTo The adiTorium. Gee, I never seen a room so big and so many oTher kids looking Toolish oT which There was abouT 500. In The TronT on The sTage There was some ladies looking like Teachers and Mr. Spain, The principle. SeTTleing down, Mr. Spain give us a speech and Then we was Talked aT by Miss Maden, one oT The ladys, and Then by Miss Chalner and Mr. Shirly which Mr. Spain said was going To be our class deans. Then They give sheaTs oT paper wiTh room numbers on Them and Teachers names. They Told us To pick are home room Teachers Trom whaT They Teach which was on The papers To. Then They leT us go and Tind our rooms and we wenT Trom door To door looking aT The numbers on The Top unTill we Tinaly Tind The righT room. I Tound a couple oT kids l knew in my room buT They was mosTly new. There was a loT oT papers on The wall and The Teacher Told us To make ouT our skedules Trom Them. I had a loT oT Trouble and I guess The oTher kids had To, buT I goT one done and The Teacher OKd iT. During The nexT week sombody called The levling comiTee changed iT a loT buT we all goT seT- Tled aTTer a while noT being where we expecTed To be. February, I933-The sTudenT counsel give us a Treshmen raly. We was excused Trom IasT period classes and wenT To The adiTorium ware The band played aT us and The choir sung and some Tellows Trom clubs Told us abouT Them buT we Tound ouT ThaT we canT ioin unTil we're bigger. ATTer The speaches They Took us Thru The Tunels under The school and iT was dark in There. Some oT us was real scared and was we surprised when we come up by The girls gym. There They had a dance Tor us. The Tunny parT oT iT all was The seniors done all The dancing while us poor Treshies iusT sTood around. January, I934-We are now in ThaT TransiTional sTage beTween The humble, undigniTied sTaTus of Treshman, almosT universally denominaTed by our peers, The upper classmen. as Treshies and The sphere where The iuniors pursue Their merry courses, which aToremenTioned sTage is de- nominaTed sophomore. IWe dare noT even coniecTure The augusT plains aTop MT. Olympus, where iT is rumored, The seniors make Their abode.l During The Time when our prominence as a class in The maelsTrom of so- cial acTiviTies was languishing To inTiniTe nonenTiTy lThis Time being imme- diaTely pursuanT To The Tiasco appeIIaTed The Freshman Rallyl, our per- sonal cogniTion was increasing in a measure proporTional To The volume-