Plymouth High School - Mayflower Yearbook (Plymouth, IN)

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THE SENIOR ANNUAL SCHOOL l ll. S. li. S. Number Number Number Enrollment Enrollment nl ol ol Rooms YEAR 1 3 Yenrs 4 Years Graduates Teachers Used 1873-71 39 no data 0 2 2 1878-79 3-1 7414 8 2 2 1883-8-1 28 631' 6 2 1888-89 41 701' 13 2 2 1893-9-1 52 6115 9 3 3 1898-99 -16 6915 18 3 3 1902-03 53 8014 11 3 3 1903-04 118 16 4 5 1901-05 130 12 4 5 1905-06 155 21 5 G 1906-07 173 38 6 7 1907-08 183 23 8 ! 8 1908-09 193 32 8! 8 I . it Includes enrollment in what was then the First Grade ! Music teacher included. 1 It mlm 1 JUNIOR CATASTROPHE. Tfhe night was 'dark and dreary, quite fitting for the daring en terprises of the bold, had juniors, as, armed with their trusty soft soap -tulb, they scoured the country in search of said article, not to 'soft sioalp Uhie Seniors, far be it 'from them to do that. The bold Mc- Crory, the worse Tommy, the au-dacious Bolb, all ready for aniy deed of daring, after gioing many weary miles to procure their im- plemenfts of wair, assemebled at the coal shed, not k'I10lVV'lI1!g that their dastandlly imaginatzionsl were known to the ever vrigilants, Art, Mac, and Alex. Hist quoted Tomrmy, I am afraid my Palpa will say something ,when I get home? , just think what -the -girls will say, assured Bob. Then they paid down Uheir good 853.50 to a. certain telepfhonie linemaln, who ascended the pole on the sichrool-house, taclcefd the he-arultiful Junior pennant thereon, and soaped down said pole. Then, while M'c'Crory was. faflling into th-e soft so-ap tub, our trusty deteetiv-es hvied them in great haste for Professor Alexaznider, :w1ho'with- his truslty spurs, regardless of soft soap, lb-navelly climlbed the dizzy heights till he tore 'down the offendilng rag, anfd placed the royal purple amid cream in its placle. W'hen the juniors cam-e to school t-he n-ext morning they won- dered fwhy the Seniors were so kinwd as to wveair th-e-ir colors, even if on their so-cks. They -thoughlt 'tlhe Seniors were acknowleidiging themsrelvies beaten. and this 'was the sign of sluirrender, but when Bob looked at the ltop of the school hlouse he rememlbered that his- toric day wlhen Miss Griffin asked hlim for the past tlense of siting.

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I2 THE SENIOR ANNUAL teachers shall be high school graduates, the regular High School course is recommended. If the commercial work is desired, it may be taken in the Third and Fourth years after a good foundation in 'tl'1Cif1lH'Cl'21'l'I16l'1t3.l branch-es has been established. Special work should be taken only by those pupils who find it impossible to take a High School course. From the lteigfilnin-ing of its calreer 'the Plymouth High School has occupied ai prominent place among the 'secondary schools of the state. In 1873 the Board of Trustees of Indiana University adopted the following resolutions: In order to bring the University into closer connection with th-e High Schools of the State, we recommend the ffollowing plan. A certificate from certain- High Schools fto be named hereafter by the State Board of Elducationfj of ai satisfactory examinfa-tion sus- tained in the preparatory course will entitle the bearer to admis- sion to the Freshfm-an 'cla'ss.', Alt a mleetling of the State Board, in the following August, a circular letter wars sent out to High Schools to ascertain what 'schools were qualilidd to do preparatory work. High School commissions 'were printed and in the spring of 1874, '21 schools wiere 'CO'IT1lITlllS'S1lOI1CCl, among them Plymouth. In April 1875, the Board of Education placed Purdue University in affilia- tion with comrmissionied High Schools. Since 'thalt time all State ln- stitutioins hiave been placed on the same basis as Indiana and Pur- due Universiity, and from time to time denominational and private schools have been aidided to the l'ist, until now alll 'schools of Higher Education in the Staitie receive graduates from coinmi-ssioinied Higih Schools vvithout examiiniati-on. Recently the Plymouith High School has received 'additional privileges from Higher Infsititutlions, and now has the 'same advafn- tages as the best High Schools ot the State. In May, 1908, Plymouth High School was admitted for the first 'time to the accredited list of IIniversit'ie's of the west. The Hligh School was again adimi-tted in April, 1909. The graduates may enter such ins-titutions as thie University of Michigan anld the University of Wiscoiiisiii Without exam-iniat'ion. Further r1e'coigni'ttioi11 was given in April 1909, when Plymouth was placed on the a-Hiliiated list of the University of Chi- cago. This gave Qin adldiition to the privileges of being a member of the accredited listj graduates off the High School, scholarship ad- vantages and an o-pportuinity for High School teachers 'to pursue post graduate courses at lliittle expense. S-chool interest has been much stimulated throughout the Coun- ty. due to competition in atihletics and oratorv. Plymouftlh High Slchool has 'bel-ongeidl to the Indiatna High School Association since the time of its organlizaitlio-n. lt is also a member of the Northern In- fdliana High School Association. In the fall of 1906 the County Ora- torieafl Association was organized. and in the three contests -which have been held since that time, Plymouth High School has won first place. The follorvving are statistics showing 'in a 'brief way the develop- ment of the High S-dh001-

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14 THE SENIOR ANNUAL i f , L 1 1. . Q . , I 1 The trigonofmetry class were trying Uo- finld the 'bealrinrg of a line by means of a transit, bu-t something seemed to- be wron, with t'he comlpass. The needle 'would frequently 'point in first one direction and then lin another in a 'most astonishing fashion. The class belgian, to think that the north' ip-olle was talking at walk for its hlealth, 'but aifter a greait amlo-unt of troublle they found that the needl-e persisted in .pointing toward Leathe Carman. Therelforle, tzhe trig class lean prove by Geometry that at least one mem- ber of '09 is alttractive. P Mr. Thompson asked one of our most brilliant -study.:-nts to describe I3 Buniseni Pl1OltO11liCtCI'. The aiforesaiiid srtudent bluslhed brill- iantly, seemed very embarrassed and stammerecl, VV hy, it is one of thorse thwinrgs you use in a dark room with very subdued candle l:i-gh.t.'f The class wa-nfted a more minute iles-eription, but the vic- tim refused to go into details. M-r. 'llhiomipison would like to 'know how to form the perfect participle of an iinltirainsitive verb when it is transitive, so that he will 'know iwihiait sto say the next -time he flies a kite. On the evening of May 7, about eight o'c+lock, Reuben Rlio-des nec-eived a ciall over the telephone, saying that the 'stove pipe hald fallen down, and that lhe should come home as soon aes- possible to help put iit up. R'e1u'b then ran home ini double quick time, to find the Class of '09 assemibled to remind him tlhalt it -was his nine- teenth birth-day. Games and refreshments caused the evening to pass very pleasantly, and the lcla-ss delparlted at a laute hofur, wish- inug him many more happy biirtllindays. At last the 'secret is out, fthrough a wonlderful discovery mafde by that great scientist, H. Alexander, 'all the world may now know wthat 'makes the Senior girls so .sweet and the Senior 'boys so slow. It all happened in Physics dlass, where M-r. Thompson was trying to 'Uhrow light upon the subject of light, for tthe 'benefit of saiiid Slenfiors. Our text book said that the 'earth was snrrorindecl 'by ether, la universal jelly. But no, our great Alexander, on dis- c-overy benft, would n-ot 'have it so. N-ay qnoth he, The earth is Covered with a universal lllO'f'3SS'C'S,i' Whfieli explains. the afoires-aifd pecuiliaritliels of the Seniors. , .iT Mr. 'Ilhlomson Un Physics classj- 'Mis's Freece, hoiw l-omg is a steelyand, an imehi or a 1nille? Miss Freece Qthoughtfullyj- Just a little between, I guess.