North Shore Country Day School - Mirror Yearbook (Winnetka, IL)

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fi M-K«!!sa.li1lllliraillllllllllllllllllSISa SSV.5 i I I R R R CURRICULUM EN VERSE Every day at half-past eight, Though sometimes we are rather late, Carrying books that we all hate, We come to school. In English class we are so witty We ' ve ordered to attend conditty, Which really seems like quite a pity. But it ' s the rule. In History we learn the dates Of Adams, Jackson, Grant, and Gates, And talk about their different fates And wars they won. Then down to the gymnasium The glad Eleventh Graders come. And here we feel no longer dumb — But have some fun. In Morning Ex we sing awhile And then we try in vain to smile While we are told about the Nile That ' s bread and gray. In a session with our Frau We ' re learning to speak German now; Buch and Mutter, griin and grau, And ich versteh! Then comes Latin, and, though you know The tense of irant and parts of do, You ' re plunged in most unpleasant woe — Meministi non. At one o ' clock it ' s time for lunch — So apples and ice-cream we munch And play around in merry bunch Till the time is gone. Dans cette classe on s ' amuse beaucoup. (C ' est le francais — savez-vous?) Et, quoique nous ayons trop work to do, Enfin it ends. The last class of the day, you see, Turns out to be Geometree. It really is too deep for me And all mv friends. Seventeen

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uxxmlSfi M I R R R r..t Mfe wOg JUNIOR CLASS Class Motto — Virtus Via Vitae Class Colors — Green and Gray Class President. Larned Blatchford Vice-President .. . .... Helen Bell Secretary-Treasurer Betty Parker Now we in this class so magnanimous Agree altogether, unanimous, That this is a group to be boastful of. Since it has all us to be most-full of. A GUIDE TO CURREN By Mai H. Bell — Headlines L. Conway — Volcano L. Fentress — The Home Maker A. Lackner — My Lady of Whims K. Leslie — Bobbed Hair B. Parker — The Last Laugh M. Ruffner — Dangerous Innocence J. Sutherland — The Dark Angel L. Truesdale — We Moderns E. Watkins — The Scarlet Saint N. Wilder — The Girl Who Wouldn ' t Work T. Boal — The Beloved Brute P. Moore — The American Venus T MOTION PICTURES l TlNEE L. Blatchford — Womanhandled W. Burr — Lazybones S. Burr — A Regular Fellow T. Coyne — The Woman Hater W. McEwen— The Live Wire W.Greenlee— The Prince of Broadway K. Booth — The Best Bad Man P. Bouscaren — The Scrappin ' Kid J. Ott — Go West Junior Boys ' Room — The Palace of Pleasure Junior Girls ' Room — The Other Wo- man ' s Story Lunch Line — The Calgary Stampede Sixte

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rX ii:i: i ' ;i;iiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiafcwgsg J M I K K O K MAGISTER LOQUITUR Take your seats, please. Remember, no talking after you sit down. There are a few things that I would like to take up before the lesson. I don ' t seem to have your prose for any day this week, Walter; I would like very much to see some of your daily work as well as that which you do on Saturday. Tommy, paragraph .543, No. 13 and No. 19, and paragraph 576, 19, 21, and 24 I haven ' t gotten from you or Antoinette. — Thank you. I don ' t mind correcting a paper it it ' s with a number of others, but to get my book out and do everything spe- cially for one paper is a great deal of trouble. Let me see, for today the lesson was to translate chapter seven and nine lines of chapter eight and to go over six very carefully. Well, Lois, can you give us a resume of chap ter six, trans- lating the last five lines which we didn ' t finish yesterday? — (she does it) — Yes, that ' s clearer than usual, you seem to be able to translate all right but you have a hard time grasping the general meaning. That will do. Now. Billy, will you start today ' s assignment. — (it is started) — That was very well done. However, in line three, what case do you think ' Accusationibus ' is? I think you made it dative. — Yes, that ' s right, it is ablative, do you see that? How do you decline ' Familiaris ' in line four, Louise, — No. I mean Louise Fentress. — ' e ' in the ablative singular? — Yes, that ' s better, why? — Now, Walter, we ' ll try you out. — (this signifies the passing of three minutes of dead silence) — What seems to lie the trouble? Did you think that I wasn ' t going to call on you today? Well, I make it a custom to call on people like you who think that just because they are called on one day they won ' t be called on the next, as Mr. Boal, here, knows. I see your eyes roving around the room more than anyone else ' s. Your inattention is greater than the combined inattention of the whole class. You need the benefit of the others ' work, especially as you find Cicero a little difficult. All right now, Stiles, will you straighten him out? — Yes, 1 think that ' s clear now. If there are no questions we will go on to the next as the time is a little short. And, before the bell rings, your tomorrow ' s assignment is all of chapter eight, it ' s a little short but we must catch up some- how, I guess you have your prose, and, Knox, will you wait a minute after class? I have something to see you about. Now, Betty, will you go on — oh! that ' s right, you explained it to me before class. Well, Pete, suppose you try it. — That ' s very good, you have come to yourself again and you show a great im- provement over your work before Christmas. Nancy, will you continue — wait until we settle this little discussion at the front table; no, Larney, you ' re wrong, Billy ' s right, it is a ' chiasmus. ' Now, Nancy, go on. — You didn ' t get this part very well? I didn ' t hear you asking me about it before class the way the rest of them do, when they are troubled. Now this is really quite easy, see if you can ' t do it. Try our old Freshman way, pick out the subject, then the verb, then the object, and then work down to where you left off, and so on. Well, there goes the bell — don ' t forget your prose as you go out. Eighteen iixssiimx lfc