Morrison High School - Morrisonian Yearbook (Morrison, IL)

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THAT SENIOR LIFE The Senior's life is not the joke That some may think it isg A life of work, a life of toil, A life of worry, is his. The Freshies think 'twould be a joke A Senior's path to run, And so they sit and idly wish, If I were only one. The Soph: Oh, what a joke That Senior life must be, If I were only way up there, The Sophs and Fresh I'd never see. The Junior is so near at handg He does not realize The toil and strife of the Senior's life That seems to him a prize. But we, the Senior hen-peeked bunch, Have found the story true, That when you are a Senior lad You've got a lot to do. SENIOR DEFINITION OF AN ORATOR An Orator is a person who, having nothing to say says it with orotund, circumambuloquacious, iiamboyant overflowing, superexuberant redundancy.

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BIRNEY RITCHIE, Squirt Prim and neat, short and sweet. Football, '14, '15. Basketball, '15, '16, Track, '16. BAYARD HOLLINSHEAD, Deacon He fears the wiles of women's smiles. President Freshman Class. Track, '13, '14, '15, '16. OLGA R. DOVICKE, Dutch Fond of languages. Member of Exchange and Facts Committee, Mor- risonian. WALTER A. KNOX, Knoxie Wisdom he has, and to his wisdom courage, temper to that, and, unto all success. Football, '15, '16, Basket- ball, '15. Member of Cartoon Commit- tee, Morrisonian.

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A GREAT SPEECH lBY A GIFTED SENIOR Four score and seven years ago Cit seems that longj our fathers brought us to this school, which was conceived in knowledge and dedicated to the proposition that all kids should work. We are now engaged in a great struggle, testing whether we, or any other dummies, may long endure the final examina- tions. We are met in a great assembly room for that struggle. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final Cnot examb resting place for those who here gave their best thots that knowledge might live. It is altogether in accordance with Mr. Weaver's rules that we should do this. But in a larger sense we dedicate-we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this room. The brave students, passed and not passed, who strug- gled here have consecrated it far beyond our poor power to add or subtract Carithmeticl. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but its people can never for- get that they flunked here. It is rather for us, the living, to be dedicated to the unfinished work which they who flunked here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the exams. remaining before us, that these N. Ps. shall not have failed in vain. We here highly resolve that this school, under Mr. Weaver, shall have a new birth of knowledge, that the exams. of the studies, by the teachers, and for the students shall not perish from this High. WHAT is THE WORLD? The Senior:- The world is but a ball To all- High, Foot, Basket or Base- To chaseg Billiard or golf, codiish or puff, Marked, Saltatory, smooth or rough: Foul, fair or slow, or high or low, Hot grounder, or just plain old snow- It's a ball-that's all.