Northern Arizona State Teachers College - La Cuesta Yearbook (Flagstaff, AZ)

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Mr. Rogers (in Chemistry) : Lionel, hold this test tube but don ' t inhale the sulphur fumes. Lionel: Why? Mr. Rogers : Because they kill microbes. Willow: Where do they keep the extra bases? Fred U. : What do you mean? Willow: Well, that man just stole the third base. Mr. Helm: Mr. Hanley, name a collective noun. Dizz : A vacuum cleaner. Virginia: Do vou know what Mr. Ridgelv told me the other day? Helen fl. : No, what did he say? Virginia: He said my voice was better still. Hattie: Silence is golden, you know. H.: Well, I don ' t know about silence being golden, but I ' ve heard of people making money out of a still. Rogers: Miss Wheeler, what is work? Frances (stretching and opening one eye) : Everything works. Rogers: Do you mean to tell me that this table works? Frances: (closing eye and resuming former attitude) : Sure, wood-work. Isabel Perry: Why did you give up pipe organ lessons? Juanita : I felt so blooming childish, playing with my feet. Amy G. : You ' re a coward — you ' re even afraid of your own shadow. Mary L. : Well, why shouldn ' t I be? It looks like a crowd following me. Why do people cry at weddings? They ' re mostly married and haven ' t the nerve to laugh. MacRay: When you grow up are you going to advertise for a husband ? Catherine Jones : No, I am going to be a widow, they don ' t have to. Little cuts from classes, Little work at gym, Makes your graduation seem, Very, very, dim. Now, Frank, said Mrs. Whitehouse, I want you to be good while I ' m gone. I ' ll be good for a nickel, said Frank. Frank, she said, I want you to remember that you cannot be a son of mine unless you are good for nothing.

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Dorothy F. : Mr. Ridgely, where is the home of the swallow? Mr. Ridgely: In the stomach. Cleona H. : Say, you know Chet said I was his latest love. Irma M. : He did ? Say, how did you feel when he said that ? Cleona H. : Like an old maid having her last chance. That man is very peculiar. How so? He says he writes best on an empty stomach. Most people write best on paper. Bud: When can I hope to receive the money you owe me? Dick: Always. Joe, stopping his Ford at a service station, said to the attend- ant: Put a quart of gas in her. SuiiDrised Attendant: Only a quart? Joe: Yes, I am trying to wean it. Brick: Sty, she is the dumbest girl I ever met. George R.: How come? Brick: Why, she wanted to know how many quarters in a football game? George: That ' s nothing, mine wanted to know if a football coach had wheels. Cathryn J.: Why don ' t you bob your hair? Eva G. : I can ' t decide on the style. I don ' t know whether to have it look like a whisk broom or a feather duster. Miss Lintz: What is a pulley, Myrtle? Myrtle: A chicken. Prof.: Kenneth, are you a blond or a brunette? Pinkie: I ain ' t either one; I ' m a full-blooded American. American: Is it really true that the Chinese eat rats? Chinaman : No, but it is really true that the Americans eat hot dogs. It was because of her past that I didn ' t marry Bessie. What ' s the matter with her past. Too long. Odom: Is the course in architecture very extensive? Vickers: Well, I should say so. The other day Mr. Osbom asked us to bring in a drawing of a chicken coop and all the boys turned in pictures of Campbell Hall.

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Mr. Helm to Nancy Lee, apropos her last poem. Nothing but goo. Nancy Lee: Oh, I see, something wrong with the meter. I understand you began life as a newsboy, said a friend to Dr. Cotton. No, replied Dr. Cotton, somebody has misinformed you. I began life as an infant. Annis M. : I heard you were sick last week. Deaver: I was, I had a new disease called clothing sickness. Annis M.: What is that? Deaver: I had a coat on my tongue and breath came in short pants. Senior: One of the Juniors was going dowTi the street trying to sell vacuum cleaners. He asked me if I would like to buy one. Teacher: And what did you say? Senior: I said ' No, thank you. I get my shampoo at the barbers. ' Lionel McCray had been to his first basketball game and what impressed him most became evident in his prayei ' s. He ended with true basketball snap: God bless papa, God bless mamma, God bless Lionel, Rah, Rah, Rah ! Cuca: What makes the leaves turn red in the fall? Mr. Rogers: Why, they ' re blushing to t hink how green they have been all summer. Mr. Helm : McCray can you give me a sentence with defense in it? McCray: Yes ' r. De cat is on de fence. Rex (bragging on the picture his folks have) : Honestly, Bud, we ' ve got a picture of the ocean that is so natural that you can hear the roar of the waves whenever you look at it. Bud : That ' s nothing, we ' ve got a picture of my uncle that ' s so natural we have to shave it once a week. On moles we find Two legs behind. Two more we find before. We stand behind Before we find What those behind be for. n e H u ml r c .1 T h i r t y - K o u r