Morrison High School - Morrisonian Yearbook (Morrison, IL)

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Bayard's the statliest type of man, In port and speech Olympian, Whom no one met, at first, but took A second awed and wondering look. Miss Barnes Cspeaking of old graduatel. Everything he touched seemed to prosper. W. E. W. I wish he'd touched my hair. Norman R. You're a girl after my own heart. Helen S. Not much, even if it is leap year. Miss Barnes. Isee Japan is considering a plan to bridge the Shimonoseki Straits at a cost of 810,000,000 Soph. I'm not surprised at the cost. It's an awful name to get over. Teacher. Fish is an excellent brain food. Bob Weaver. What kind of fish would you advise me to eat? Teacher. According to some of your work, l'd suggest a whale. Miss Fredeen. Is this a free translation? John F. No, ma'am. It cost me fifty cents. Teacher. Did you know that there was burning fire in the body all the time? Fresh. Yes, sir, and on a cold day you can see the smoke. AT THE FOOT BALL GAME Ted Cas new player passesb. There goes the new fellow. He will soon be our best man. Enid. Oh, Ted, this is so sudden. CAnd thus it happenedb Teacher. What three things contain starch? Junior. Two cuffs and a collar. Arthur Cleverstone. Hey, Stickie, let me take your civics. Charles B. What for? Art C. I want to look up about carbons. Instructor in Ag. What is the position of the roots of a corn plant in a wet spring? Remember, in a wet spring. Alfred H. All the springs I ever saw were wet. 4

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has Zoology Teacher. Where is the home of the swallow? Repeater Soph. In the stomach. Miss Brown. Give me a definition of intuition. Walter Knox. Intuiton is the faculty by virtue that a student of understanding what a teacher says without listening to her. First Junior. Helen S. is going to be a great politician. Second Junior. How's that? First Junior. She can say more things that sound well and mean nothing than any girl I ever met. Mr. Torrence. Why is scarlet ink so valuable for writing pur- poses? John G. Must be it is easily red. First Fresh. I'd rather be good than great. Second Fresh. Well, it's easier. There's less competition. Junior. I'd be pleased to have you go to the theatre with me. Ruth M. Have you secured the seats? Junior. Oh, come now, you're not so heavy as all that. Miss Brown. There have been a lot of problem plays written in the last decade. Gladys R. Decayed. Yes, most of 'em are rotten. Miss Fredeen. Is there any way of stopping these cyclones? Senior. No, it is best that you go right along with them. Miss Barnes. How often did the general assembly meet? Helen Olds. Once a month, three times a year. Soph. Say, can Niagara be dammed? Junior. Yes, for all of me. Soph. Is gravel the cause of cold feet? Experienced Senior. No, cold feet are due to lack of sand. G. D. R. What do you want, Bayard? B. H. I want to kiss somebody. Theo B. Our lab. period is the nicest class I've been in. Junior. Who's in it? Theo. B. Birney and I.

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Miss Barnes CAnc. Hist.J. Who was Zeus? James Jenkins. He was a Greek goddess. Fresh. What's the board of education? Mr. Mouck. It used to be a shingle. Miss Barnes Cspeaking of succession to the thronel. What would the Germans do if the Kaiser should die? Beatrice J. Bury him. John Gridley CEng. Hist.J. Oh, Charles I was fierce and cruel. Teacher. Have you any proof of your statement? John G. Why, he cut a man's ears off, and then after a while he cut them off again. Student, reading German. He was very wonderful. Teacher. Why do you think he was so wonderful? Helen Olds. Because he held her hands. Alfred Collins. I'd rather be a live coward than a dead hero. Charles Burr. Hold! You know not my passion when angry. Sherman G. If noise makes a man, my chances are unexcelled. Miss Aitken. Where does a lyric poem get its name? George K. Because the poem is always accompanied by a liar tlyrel. Miss Utley to Miss Barker, at lunch. Mother, what will you have, light or dark meat? Student in Chemistry naming members of the vegetable king- dom: Onions, potatoes, beets, etc. Torrence. Now name some of the animal kingdom. Butt-in. Egg. Helen O. No, egg aint in the animal kingdom. Miss Irwin. Clarence, explain the difference between vision and sight. Bealy Austin. Some girls are visions, others are sights. Helen O. was in need of an imitation spider for use in the class play, so she went up to a clerk in the store and inquired: Have you any spiders? Clerk: What do you mean, skillet?