Philadelphia Manual Training School - US Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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significance on this night, for all saloons were closed, all cops dozed and all Democrats soldj, After recovering our senses we went to seek the other part of the crowd, which we soon found, giving the good, old, steady- Wiff! Whack ! Red and Black ! I yell Man-u-al! Hiss! Boom! Rah! We now marched again to Ninth and Chestnut, thence to the Public Buildings. As the small, wee hours of the morning were approaching, some of the boys, under the supervision of papa's rod, decided to engage themselves in peaceful slumber, instead of longer pressing bricks and chewing airl So we dismissed. YULE-TIDE. THE old English custom of making the Christmas-tide a season of feasting and jubilation has been taken up in the same strain in this country. - But one of the most marked attributes of American character is love of novelty and change, and the Manual Training School, thoroughly American in all its senti- ments, was no exception to the rule, when in place of the tradi- tional school exercises it substituted a little entertainment arranged by the scholars, which they held at Carpenter's Hall on Chestnut Street, Wednesday evening, December 19th, 1888. Those who attended will not accuse us of egotism if we insert a programme for the benefit of those who were unable to be present. A very pleasing display of skill in legerdemain opened the entertainment, leaving all in pleasant expectation for the next act. After a pleasant interlude of recitations and singing, highly Havored with jokes, came a little take off upon the care- less boys of our school, whose scarcity renders them particularly noticeable. We would not inflict upon the reader a list of the d77'lZ77Z!ZfZlY pevfsofzfe and the parts which.they represented. Suffice it to say that the spirit of the whole play was fun, pun and mummery. Any former ideas we may have had upon the subject of spir- itualism were quickly shattered by Mr. Dickerson's display of skill in the performance of those tricks usually ascribed to the instrumentality of spirits. ' '45

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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION NIGI-IT. REPORT at the Broad Street Station at 7.30 was the cry all during election day. At the time appointed four members of the M. T. S. had lodged themselves under the Station to wait and talk of the election. But some changed the subject, and began to discuss those never-failing subjects: Is mar- riage a failure? and Do we know we exist? The most distinguished debaters were Messrs. Simpson and Wl1eeler. Wliile these Well, look y' here and Yes, that's so, but-U are going on, more members of the institution arrived. But these newly-arrived fellows had never had the experience of marriage, or they didn't care whether they existed or not, so long as they got the fun out of the evening's excitement. But why was the cry Oh made P when the pretty damsel Qof how many summers - - - P ? Pj betook herself with stately tread toward the Union League, and which would have resulted in one less of our number if we had allowed him to depart. 'But at last the old chestnuts- Attention I Mark time, left! were given, and we proceeded southward to see the fun. But where were the High School? Echo answers, Wl1ereP For nary a scalp could we find. And Normal School maids-the history we could unfold. But to come to our original story. We fought our way to Ninth and Chestnut. Along our way we would find obstructions, hard to overcome, but by hard squeezing and tight hugging Qand I believe this was the first time. Kavanagh ever hugged a girl in his life we proceeded thence to the Union League. Here it was that we did the Red Bandana up, that is, we tossed it up. Then some of the party proceeded to the Dime Museum. How Hughy Gates and Ol Dick did look at that girl and hats off! The rest of the crowd kept on marching about town under the directory of Lieutenant-General W. Bauroritif These fellows met the University, and after giving the yell received a return salute. This wasn't anything new, for the college fellows were yelling at every old friendly lamp-post they met. After a bit the familiar cry, Do not push Qbut push l' had no 'X' Don't take this for Billie Barrett. 44

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WVe think all joined in the spirit of humor which pervaded the whole performance, having their opinion of our school in no wise lowered by the little buffoonery which interrupted our usual dignified course, and thinking none the less of the boys for en- gaging in this frolic at the end of a term of hard study. An appropriate, though rather boisterous, finale took form in our School Yell, after which we separated for the holidays. ARBGR DAY, APRIL 26TH, 1889. TREE PLANTING, MAY 213, 1889. ALTHOUGH the full programme, as arranged' by Prof Sayre and other interested ones, was not carried out on Arbor Day, owing to the bad weather, we must still look upon it as being carried out, and that in a most magnificent style, for it took three days and a number of trains of cars to do it, besides the two bicycles and the fine team that one ofthe gentlemen took on the expedition, the equine portion of which seemed to take great pleasure in endeavoring to chew its owner's hat, while he fthe ownerj stood contemplating the tree-planting and thinking such touching thoughts of the present and future that we shall not attempt to express them. But this tree planting, though the most important event ofthe whole Arbor Day, because it decidedly represented the interests of the Class of'89, belongs to the last of the three days, we must mention the preceding occasions before going further with this. Our Arbor Day season opened with a very entertaining and instructive paper on Forestry by Mr. Spangler. X1Ve all felt on, quitting the school that we had received avery good lesson. He spoke of the active interests taken by the German, government in the protection of forests by establishing schools for the study of forestry by the masses. Prof Rothrock emphasized the same fact on the Tuesday following, and also that Arbor Day and the study of forestry are yet newqthings and that the people must be first educated up to them, that while the German schools are so numerous, there is, to his knowledge, but one school in the United States that teaches forestry, and that is our Manual 46