New Haven High School - Elm Tree Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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14 NEW HAVEN I-Iron Sci-rooL CLASS Book. learned to look unmoved at whatever mark WHS g1VCU- and made an image of supreme indifference to the admiring Lnder Classmen. -9' The football season started inauspiciously. There was 3 lack of experienced men. However, good coaching and hard work soon produced- a team that defeated almost everything in sight. We were not in any league but still we had a splendid lot of games. Financially the success of the team was greater than ever before in the school's history. About the same time the large debt of the Athletic Associa- tion was wiped out, largely through the efforts of Seniors. The girls were busy meanwhile in attending the teas given by the sororities. B. T.-., Alpha Alpha, Phi Sigma and Kappa Mu Sigma all gave these delightful affairs early in the year. No longer were the callers afraid to go in when they reached the house for they were Seniors and therefore above bashful- ness. Although the boys were not there still the girls seemed to have a pleasant time. In December came the final Class elections. Qur Class -kept up its record for quickness and in a few minutes all the officers' were elected. Tn every case except one, where the student had left school, the former officers were again in- stalled. Hillhouse got theoffice of President after several years Of defeat., 1 The Junior Fair was given about this time. The Seniors w-ent and had a good time, although the affair eidn't approach the one we gave the year before. Basketball was started now. The team hae. no place for practise, and few men were left from last year's team, hut they were very successful. The games were at first: Badly attended and the team went far into debt. However. time end of the season witnessed crowds at the gymnasium and the manage- ment made up the deficit. January 9, 1908, was a notable day for our Class. In the evening at the New Haven theater our companv of distin- guished actors and actresses presented 1.Jnx'v Ci-oelcetlf' an idyll of Kentucky life, to an enthusiastic audience. lt ware

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wovs ions the our nior .C. if. ll. lt. .yg y. xr 77 nr. 'e ISS. '5S. 1 - :f ls... -? 5 Senior Year NCE- upon a time when We were young and green and Scrubs We looked up to the Seniors with awe. They seemed indeed to bein as heavenly a state as .05 one could Wish. Sophomores were only impudent and juniors carefree, but the Seniors! Woiild we ever be like that? It seemed doubtful. - Nevertheless in September, 1907, we returned to school for our last year. We tried to look dignified and important as Seniors should, and although of course, being the Class of 1908, We succeeded, still, to tell the truth, we couldn't quite believe ourselves th-at we had reached that honorable position. It seemed such a short time ago that we were Freshmen trembling at the look of a Senior that to be in the opposite position seemed unbelievable. However, we didn't let the Under Classmen know that we were no-t at home in our new place, but We all determined to surpass every Class before us. And that is what we have done. It -took so-me time to get back into the' routine of work after our long vacation. Qur lessons were hard and our teachers unsympathetic when We said we hadn't done it be-- cause of that headache the evening before. However, we had

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.. and Q rider was ' a l hard vtliing lendid jreater ssocia-- Jrs. given Kappa : year. eached ashful- seemed Class all the :re the in in- several Seniors -proach ce for ut they tended of the anage- In the distin- .ttjt an It was . C NEW HAVENT Heron CLAsslB66'ki rig hsimplyt great. C i'Everybodyisaid itheiii'Clafsis T 1907 did wail lf, ,e tsD5vyfciQ5E1aeffvf yviiis the best play the High School had ever given. iivesesiipecfed, a bright, modern play was better' received than an old, good one. V I - - ' i The cast was perfect, Irving Beebe in the title role, Vera Bartholomew as Eleanor Vaughnfi Mildred Farnsworth as Dame Crockett, j and GeorgeCarr as the villain, being par- ticularly good. Henry Cowles was affine .manager and Frank D. Nelson. an excellent coach. Never will we forgetlour Class Play. - ' - T Q- ' At its next meeting the Class showeduits appreciation .of their work by voting a banquet to the cast, committee, and coach. This waslone of 1908's many original acts. At the same meeting the Class Dance Committee was elected, and again we showed that we liked to breakaway from what other Classes. had done by decidingito publish a Class Book of, for and by ourselves. This was the first time 'such aithing had been attempted. - - V 1 h It was still early in the year, but we had given our Class Play and had started our'Class Dance. Now everybody was busy. We Seniors stayed to a meeting of some kind almost every day and flunked our lessons regularly, We were in a whirl oi social affairs now. First came the Theta Sigma Entertainment and Dance on the evening of January 31. Some of us went there and some to the Theta Rho Dance on the same night at VVarner Hall, and we all en- joyed ourselves immensely. . - Weiliad hardly recovered from our dissipation when we had to be gay again and go to the Radiator Entertainment and Dance on Eebruary I4. Mr. Gilbert, the Yale Magician, and a clever farce, called The Music Plaster, furnished the entertainment. Then followed eighteen dances. VVe all had a delightful time. ' Meanwhile. the Hoc-key Team was playing whenever they found any ice, and the Track Team was working hard. The School Circle gave another Entertainment now, as at