North View High School - Southside Echoes Yearbook (North View, VA)

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SOUTH SIDE ECHOES 51 February 25. — Oh! that hateful old Arithmetic and horrid Geometry ! Whew ! If I live till to-morrow night ! February 26. — Exams, finished. We are still alive. May get over them but we will never look the same. March 4. — The Editorial Board of “Southside Echoes” held a meeting. March 5. — Ninth grade girls were busy and whispering about our plans. Seemed to be getting angry with us. March 6. — The ninth grade girls “boiled” over to-day. They vented their wrath upon us in sour looks and stony silence. March 30. — Nothing doing — even among the ninth grade girls. April 1. — Presented the professor with a “spider” dumpling. Heard the Indian chief Loof Lirpa was dying. April 19. — School picnic on the lawn. Long may it live in our memory. April 28. — Missed our Trigonometry lesson. Will our troubles never end ? May 3. — Getting real busy for final exams. ; will have to give up my diary work. By One of the Girls.

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extracts from a ikfjool ©atrp 1907. October 5th. — We stretched our necks to-day to see the new professor. He did not come. How sorry we were ! October 18. — The professor came. October 19. — He saw. October 20. — He went away. October 25. — Was unusually “blue to-day because of think- ing about having no teacher. . . . November 5. — Another professor came. November 6. — He saw. November 7. — He conquered. November 28. — Thanksgiving Day. December 2. — Have forgotten what was done to-day. December 10. — Had a visitor to-day who made us all laugh. We missed our lesson. December 20. — School closed to-day for Christmas Holidays. December 21. — Professor went home to see his “intended.” Wish him success ! 1908. January 6. — Christmas holidays are over! Ah, me! We feel like caged birds again. January 14. — Never will forget this day; had thirty lines of Virgil to translate. January 24. — Virginia’s birthday. February 2. — Chemical experiments equal holes in professor’s coat and trousers (acid exploded). February 14. — Valentine’s Day. Took a prominent part in the play, “Old Dairy Homestead.” Was warmly praised. February 24. — Mid year’s exams, begin to-day. Ah me !

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theatricals Among the school events of this session none afforded more pleasure to the pupils of the principal’s room than the entertainment given on Valentine’s Day in the North View Debating Hall. The caste was home talent, girls of the prin- cipal’s room, and young men of the neighborhood. Though a stormy evening, there was a large audience present. The following programme was rendered : Recitation by Lucye M. Andrews. Tableaux : Hiawatha’s Childhood — Hiawatha’s Wooing. Four Centuries of the American Girl. Play — A Rural Comedy: “The Old Dairy Homestead.” Tableau: Leap Year Valentine. Instrumental music was furnished between acts : I. R. Boswell, first violin. S. B. Johnson, second violin. Robt. Andrews, autoharp. S. L. Keeton, guitar. Wm. Andrews, banjo. W. L. Tucker, violin. Caste of “Old Dairy Homestead.” Mike Donnavin, traveling tinker .... Wm. Russell Malcolm Gray, ex-convict .... Wm. P. Andrews Willie Work, gentleman born tired . . . Robt. Ogburn Jason Wilkins, a farmer Jas. Gordon Josh Arrowroot, town constable .... Ernest Cole Ruby, a little waif Susie Petty Mrs. Glimmer, dashing widow . . . Virginia Ogburn Maude, the farmer’s niece Sue P. Gordon Becky Wilkins, old maid Lizzie W. Petty