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

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S. Sophomore Year Y DE.-XR Classmates. Return with me in memory to that year of fun and comfort, the Sophomore year. How glad we were to return to the school, which We began to speak of with endearing tones, after that first long vacation. There was another reason. It was to annoy the Scrubs. We considered it our duty as Sophomores. That duty we kept, and with interest. ' The football team that year was fairly successful, winning several difficult games. The Middletown game was exceptionally so. we Winning by the score of 6 to 5. In the other athletic de- partments, basketball and baseball, the school was also successful, winning and losing about the same number of games. But the class teams cannot be forgotten. Capt. Farrington of the Sophomore basketball team played through a very success- ful season, winning the championship. We lost the baseball championship, but can anyone deny, that if was -one of the best ,teams presented in several years. To be sure, We lost the decid- ing game to t-he Seniors, by a score of I to O. but it was a Won- derful team we played against. Teas appeared to be popular that year. The B. T.-. Phi Sigma, Alpha Alpha Sorority, and Kappa Mu Sigma each giving one. Vtiere you present at any of these, or at any of the follow- ing dances given that year? Theta Rho, Theta Sigma, Alpha Delta Sigma. during which the last named society presented a farce entitled The Music Plaster, Alpha Iota Epsilon, Senior Promenade and Dance. and the last big social affair of the year, the Crescent Entertainment and Dance. This latter society pre- sented a farce entitled The Peacemaker. Most of us saw the

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K 1 cr , nw , ,.,,,,...,,,,, .,,:. , 6 NEW HAVEN HIGH SCHOOL CL.xss Book But the connecting link for the Scrub felllows was undoubted- ly the Athletic Association. This bond not only furthered school spirit, of which we had .heard so much, but strengthened class spirit as well and also helped to gain honor for the school. Then came the Red Letter Day when we read with palpitat- ing hearts our First Report-to see how our hard efforts h-ad been rewarded. Happy were we if we had done well, but if our hopes had met with poor results, we still were brave and pushed on toward a next time with stronger hopes and harder work. All through the tirstyear we learned of customs and events, new and full of interest, the system of recitations, the marking and home study were so new that, although we soon settled down and the First glamor eventually wore off, we were some' time in becoming adjustedg and each succeeding day brought with it some revelation aside from the text of our books. In fact, from beginning to end of our school work and play this year was one of continual unfolding. But we were happy, and at the end of the year, even though we were elated at being Sophomores and could hold our heads high over the incoming Freshie, not a few felt regret that never again would we be Freshmen at Highg but instead must take our place with the older, experienced ones from whom so much was expected in the way of scholarship and dignity. So We tried to remember all that we h-ad learned in books and out of books, dur- ing our first year, and we must have succeeded in it-else this tale would never have been told. D. J. Tinkey. 4

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Q ,,,. ,f 3 sr 1- IE gud --aa, 8 NEW HAVEN HIGH SCHOOL CLASS BOOK Senior class present their play, Davy Crockettf, Enthusiastic over the huge success, we firmly resolved, if vve ever became as this great country. Here thepoorest may reach the top if he Seniors, to make the play presented by the Class of 1910 as great a success. HOW sadfly, indeed, our hopes were shattered. The junior Fair, presented early in December, cannot be forgotten, nor can the Charity Concert presented by the Senior Class. The four years of High School 'life may be pointed to as proving the theory of The Survival of the Fittestf, XYe made friends and comrades that first year. XVhen we returned we looked them up. Some -of the old faces could not be found. They had fallen by the wayside, either voluntarily or from necessity. Some started 'again at the first mile-stone. How glad, we then were, to have reached the second. To be more explicit, the weeding'! was in progress. This annual and monthly house- oleaning had already become familiar to us, as We had Watched it with interest during our Freshman year. It has continued. as you know, through our High School life, leaving the class of 1910 with less than four hundred members. the f'fit. Many of us, that year. wished that Caesar had never been born, but we trotted through it. fthe yeari, however. and reached the goal sought, the junior year. And now my memory fails me. Irecall no more. I leave you to retrace next, that hardest of years, the Junior year. EdTE'I.1Z T'Vz7lI'1'a11z Purdy. NIV 7-Q 1 Wx ? IIIK5