Mynderse Academy - Myndersian Yearbook (Seneca Falls, NY)

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26 lemon in the garden ot love where they say naught but peaches grow. MacDonald would be a good sort of a chap if he would only let Sherman alone; but he won’t. He’s a Senior, too, you see. And Harry Allman, better known as “ Hallelujah Jones,” tried to tell the other day that the only reason that the boys of Mynderse are so narrow-minded is because they sleep on their sides and not on their backs. He says it gives the mind a tendency to elongate and no chance to broaden. Now, I’m a boy. Boys will be boys, but they don’t have to be like those Senior hoys, and since I don’t want to he like them, I’m going to let the Senior girls off this time : but it anybody thinks one reason isn't enough for Mynderse being pitied, I’ll spring those girls for the second. W. S. W., 12.

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Poor Mynderse. I'm going to begin by just saying, “Mynderse, you ought to be pitied.” “First, there’s that Senior class, and if we give them their due there won’t need to be a second reason. They’re the most conceited bunch. I remember coming to school one day, and when I reached the depot I heard the most hollow sound ever, and I kept on hearing it till I traced it to the big room, and there sat that dear Paul Crosby tapping his forehead with his forefinger. Just think of it. Another lime 1 ran across Utley on the campus. He was deep in thought, or maybe he was as far gone as meditation; but I’m not sure about that. Anyway, he claimed that anyone to be cool on summer nights should sleep with more covers on. He said that one night the heat of his body was 729 degrees Fahrenheit while the air was in the region of 999 degrees above zero in the shade. By covering up well he was able, he said, to keep 270 degrees cooler than the air. Haines came near having them all stopped though. I saw him on “the morning after” with cracked ice on his head. In a little while he put his hand up to readjust it; but the ice had all melted. “Gosh,” he said, “that stuff isn’t what it was cracked up to be.” Then, there’s Zelubner. He’s the fellow that won the Clyde— Mynderse foot ball game and succeeded in tying the Phelps-Myn-derse base ball game score—or that is, succeeded in letting Phelps tie knots all around us to the tune of 22 to 2 in their favor. I know he didn't play, but just the same, he didn’t stop them. McBaineo can go this year without a tear. We would have hated to see him go only he got brilliant once and did fairly well with an essay on the Lagerfalls-Senecaloo basket ball game. In fact, all the credit belongs to Homer for breaking Jeany’s heart. Speaking of hearts, that reminds me. Hurley was passing the cigars around with his usual generosity or, rather say, unusual generosity, when one of those tine-looking, high-stepping Waterloo girls went by, “Gee, fellows, there’s a girl after my own heart,” he said. Then he put on that blue hat, the one with the audible band, and added as he went out the door, “Or, rather, I’m after her own heart.” He came back pretty soon and said sadly enough, “I picked a

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Faculty. F. J. Madden, - Superintendent of Schools. Jane K. Weatherlow, - Principal. Geometry, German, Latin. Blanche R. Daniels, French, Advanced English, English History, Book-keeping. Alvalyn Woodward, - Science. Physics, Biology, Physical Geograph}', Chemistry. FACULTY. Top Row—Miss Wright, Miss Weatherlpw, Miss Woodward, Miss Ward, Miss Daniels. Bottom Row—Miss Vreeland, Prof. F. . Medden, Miss Vide, Miss Casey. Gertrude Wright, Algebra, Ancient History, Trigonometry, Solid Geometry. Mae Vreeland, English—First and Second Years. Mary Viele, Anna Ward, Mrs. Weigman, Miss Gould, Drawing. Sabina Casey, Singing. Elementary Subjects.