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

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unior Class HO of the Class of 1910 does not remember how proud he felt to be an upper classman, a junior, when he came back to old Xew Haven High on that September morning in 1908? And who did not look forward to the pleasure which comes to an upper classman? This junior class was the largest that had ever entered New llaven High School, and what hopes of its prominence and success did its members not entertain? The first excitement among us was felt chieldy by the tuition pupilsg for had not the Board of Education. in a rash moment. passed a vote putting all tuition people out of school? tThat Freshman class of 1912 was altogether too large for our com- fort ll But the main excitement died away when word came that out-of-town people would be allowed to finish the year IQOQ, but could not come back in the fall. Still the suhurbanites dreaded having to leave just when they were becoming Seniors: but there was hope that the vote might be rescinded, which happenezl later in the year. Soon invitations for the B. T.- tea appeared. That affair was a novelty in that the hostesses wore Colonial costumes. The Alpha Alpha, Phi Sigma. and Kappa Mu Sigma teas which fol- lowed were all well attended and greatly enjoyed. The Hrst affair in which the class took part was the junior Fair. Cf course, we were going to have the best fair that any junior Class in New Haven High School had ever held. And it certainly was a success, for didn't that Dutch Fair net us over two hundred and fifty dollars! That surely was going far ahead of our predecessors. Z

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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

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' 5 Wm. ,.V ,. ,T,.,.,.,,,,,a to NEW ll.wEN Hiott ScHooL CL.xss Boon ln january, as usual, the Radiator gave its annual play and dance. Theta Sigma followed with its usual good time. Next, the Focus League -made a new departure by giving their first annual entertainment and dance. 1 Then came the entertainment given by the Athletic Associa- tion to strengthen its treasury, because tthough we write it with shamej, there were not enough of the loyal anzl school-spirited to join it and pay their small dues, or to go to the games. The entertainment consisted of music by an octette from the Yale Glee Club. and a one-act farce entitled My Lord in Livery,7' by members of the Association. The affair was a great success. One Monday morning early in the spring, Dr. Cushing re- quested the Juniors to remain in the Auditorium for a few mo- ments, and we then found out that it was about time for the Junior class to organize itself. Not long after that we assembled in the Science Lecture Hall one noon, and when we came out we were au. organized body. Perhaps we didn't feel a little bigger than when we went in! In May the Crescent gave its entertainment and dance. There were musical numbers, and the Crescent Dramatic Club presented a farce entitled An Affair of the Heart, which was very well given. All through the year the boys had been active in athletics, and as usual had been successful and had made a good showing for old New Haven. June of IQOQ saw over three hundred of us loath to close a happy year, yet eager to assume the dignities of the honored Senior class of New Haven High. G. df. B. NY. W 4 YL-