Our Lady of Lourdes High School - Knight Yearbook (Marinette, WI)

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fd? -. - , xi'eWK .s'. 9sB- 1 N if they had been mutilated in divers ways and had to be repaired by attaching wires as bracesg they are being cruelly treated by Allen. . judge: Serious, indeed. A. Diamond shall perform acrobatic stunts ten hours daily for the next two years. Limber up his rheumatic tendencies. The clock was next in line. He accused Francis Reinhart of trying to bribe him to gain or lose time, at the same time stating that Francis hourly hurled threatening glances at him for not hurrying away the hours. judge: A deplorable situation. F. Reinhart shall be condemned to the alarm clock factory-to test alarm clocks from 6 A. M. to 6 P. M. The waste-paper basket showed its crippled condition, due to the overflow and overstufling of paper by Lawrence Camps. Judge: Penalty for L. Camps to manufacture paper from rags as a means of livingg that he may learn to value even waste paper. Two starved-looking shorthand manuals appeared next. They accused the VVeiler twins of camouiiage, that their makeup was terribly distorted by these two. Judge: Sentence: T he Weiler twins shall be obliged to report all the court proceedings in so rapid a manner that sparks will issue from their pens or pencils. F risky Miss Gregg Writer comes next with her tale of woe. She accuses Ethel Butler and Doris Allard of scratching up her whole face and hands and neck by their scribbled transcription notes. An inexcusable crime in the classroom. judge: They are sentenced to a pilgrimage to the land of ancient hiero- glyphics to learn from the savages how to appreciate the wonderful art of short- hand. Patsy Speller and Reddie English now bring their suit against Cecile Camps, Eva Desjarlais and Marion Liptack for various attacks on their good name. Judge: Solitary confinement for them for a period of one month, during which time they must spell one thousand words without error and write a 1,000- word theme every day. Bookkeeping Text men had their case against Margaret O'Connell and Gene- vieve Hearty in readiness. Stuffing Trial Balances, making no distinction be- tween debits and credits called for a severe penalty. judge: Condemned to the bookkeeping job for life. Dame Arithmetic accused Helen Redman and Carroll Russell of slighting their duties in regard to taxes, interest and notes. judge: Grave case. They shall give all their money to the poor and beg their living henceforth. Judge: And now for my complaintsg I have a bill to settle myself with Ber- nice Plante and Lucille VVeiler. Ignorance of the law excuses no man g they've failed to consider this and therefore shall be obliged to spend most of their life in court, as reporters or lawyers, or judges until they've heeded the above advice. Church History: To show the Graduates that shall leave from these halls that we bear them no ill will, in spite of their transgressions for which they will pay heavily enough, we shall celebrate their leave-taking by a little party. T here- upon followed such a whirl-wind kind of dance, that my senses seemed to leave me and I grew dizzy and fell asleep, not waking till six the next moming. I rose and looked about me in a dazed manner-everything seemed to be in its place, but I know better-it was no dream. I don't dream with open eyes. As soon as the doors were opened I hastened home for my breakfast, eager to get back to relate my night's experience. MARION LIPTACK, CATHERINE CROWLEY, MARGARET O,CONNELL, ETHEL BUTLER, DORIS ALLARD. L KD Page 450'

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BCG? t 4 s 1 . .wg 229151 V Ub !'bB'i the wall gesticulating and running after the various charts that seemed to have flown down from the walls-the victrola started up the liveliest record on hand- and wonder of wonders-the table drawers opened and out walked the various textbooks, solemnly declaring a strike-but the library books and the magazines tluttered about in a very ecstasy of joy. How grateful I was that the bank did not enter into the general hubbub and uproar, but remained stationary, thus affording me security! VVhen I had become somewhat accustomed to the wild clamor, I observed that these various objects, having acquired a human form, were making com- plaints about the pupils that used or abused them. Eagerly listening in, I heard, with a blush now and then, what, 1 believe, were well-deserved accusations The Commercial Law Text was unanimously chosen to act as judge, since, they all al- lowed, it was better acquainted with the law and its penalties, the Church History Text was asked to take the place of the defendant and thus a most wonderful trial scene was enacted. First, the typewriters appeared as plaintiffs, the whole Rem- ington family making such a hullabaloo that I shook with fear, then followed prim Miss L. C. Smith and dapper Mr. Underwood. The youngest Miss Rem- ington sobbingly related how Margaret Hopper had ruthlessly torn away one of its keys, named V, and that it was consequently shunned by every student. judge: A criminal act, indeed. The penalty for M. Hopper shall be that in the future years she shall be obliged to pound type keys from morning till night and from night till morning to earn her bread. The other Remington ladies had similar stories. One claimed that George Clumb had twisted and dishevelled its beautiful new ribbon in a disgraceful man- ner, thus making it unfit for service. judge: The penalty for such an outrage is that George Clumb, for ten years, shall be obliged to wind and unwind typewriter ribbons on spools in Type- writer Ribbon F actoryf' The elder Miss Remington claims that she is minus a rib since Beatrice La- Fleur put the back-spacer out of commission. judge: For that B. LaFleur is convicted to a two-mile hiking trip daily for the next five years. Miss L. C. Smith brings suit against john Doran and Arthur Plante for dis- regarding all rules of propriety by continually staring at her keys, instead of using the shield. Judge: Such a breech of good manners calls for the daily fifteen-minute use of the Blind Test Cap-without intermission-one month. Haughtily Mr. Underwood now steps up and accuses Joseph Lauerman for neglecting to cover him with the garb intended to protect him from the dust and damp Weather. judge: His sentence is: Two years' exposure to the inclemency of the weather while cruising around the North Pole. Then there was a loud screech from the victrola. She sobbingly declares that Catherine Crowley is the cause of her run-down condition. She neglects her duty, and that Florence McCrory has taken away her good reputation. Judge: Her sentence is to earn her living by the needle. No pity for such culprits. As regards F. McCrory, she will be obliged to use her voice in singing the praises of the victrola-three years-as a traveling saleslady. Several chairs that brought evidence of crime towards Allen Diamond, saying - ,KD Nye

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WEQ aww. a ssi' JB. DANTE-Tl-IE POET OF CATHOLIC IDEALS King that hast reigned six hundred years and grown In power and ever growestf' Dante is truly the ideal of poets. Only a Dante could have written that im- mortal poem based on Catholic philosophy and theology. Reared at the Fountains of Holy Scriptures and the Fathers, fairly saturated with the teachings of the angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dante produced that wonderful diary, that pilgrimage of the human soul from the wood so wild and rude to the Love that moves the sun and every star, the loftiest and loveliest literary expression ever molded by the lips of man, the Divine Commedia. Even in our unheroic times, Dante has become the most heroic figure of the last six hundred years and his supremacy in literature is solidly securedg never was his inliuence so deeply and widely felt in the world at large. His voice was that of the Middle Ages, and yet it is heard to the uttermost bounds of the earth, whilst his poem, the Divina Connnedia, stands matchless and unapproachable in literature today. Today, more than ever before, the world lacks faith in the Supernatural. Dante took that faith, set it to the music of his lyre, and sent its sweet strains breathing through the world, and, in consequence, he has become the greatest poet of Catholic ideals. With most realistic descriptions, well depicted characteriza- tions, and in the most beautiful and choicest language, he describes for us heaven, hell, and purgatory. The beauty of the language now singing as the stormy sea, now soft as the evening breeze is unsurpassed for its pictorial power, intensity of feeling, infinite pathos, a haunting personality and the onward march of right- eousness to its hnal triumph-truly a great poem, a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight. In order to understand Dante, however, and the reason why he is placed on the highest pinnacle of literary genius, why he is called the Poet of Catholic Ideals, one must study the age in which he lived. Little of this man's life is knowng yet we know that he learned the art of writing poetry from French poets and devoted much time to profound study. He also saw military service and joined in the recreations of that time. At the age of thirty-two he married, then on account of political difficulties was exiled from Florence and went on his lone- ly way, a penniless wanderer. Yet this very sad and weary exile gave us the im- mortal epic. He lived in the thirteenth century, a period usually designated as the Dark Ages, but it was really one of the most illustrious centuries both in the men it produced and the deeds it accomplished. Among the most brilliant of men during this period can be noted a St. Francis of Assisi, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Louis, Pope Innocent III, and countless others that have made this age illustrious. The most striking thing of this age was the mental attitude, the religious glow, the real Christian ideals, Time was the vestibule of eternity. Besides this fervent faith, chivalry was the outstanding feature, a watchword of the age. Under the influence of the Church, culture was instilled and woman was receiving the reverence due to her, since the Blessed Virgin was ever an in- spiration to the man of that age. Thus arose knighthood a glorious tribute to chivalry. YN ... . - , '- ' --QP'-f 5 --,, -A ., 0 461 .5-MiI ' f'fL', es-Sift, 39 as ses 5. - - Page 46 1 Q 'xg