Plymouth High School - Pilgrim Yearbook (Plymouth, MA)

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TABLE of CQHTEUTS LITERATURE Page Ether-Wave Music - - 3 Crowcls - - - - 3 It May Be Called Trite - 4 Trials of a Sticclent - - 5 POEMS A Forgotten Tune - 6 Ode to Departure - 6 A Sonnet - - - 6 ESSAY The Oregon Trial - 7 POEIVI Iinprints On The Western Plain - 8 POEM Beneoliction - - 10 COMMENCEMENT-1930 Class Poem - - - 12 Class History - - 13 Class Will - - - 15 Class Prophecy - - 17 Class Pictures - - 20 TRACK PICTURES - - - 35 UNDER THE WHITE CUPOLA - 36 EL ESPANOL - - - - 37 LE FRANCES - 39 EXCHANGES - 41 ATHLETICS - - - 42 TO OTHER LANDS - - 45

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T ' PILGRL Volume IX Plymouth, Mass., june, 1930 No. IV Published four times during the school year 25 Cents Single Copy 75 Cents a Year 1929 THE PILGRIM STAFF 1930 Editor-in-Chief - Literary Editor - - Assistant Literary Editor- Business Manager - - Assistant Business Manager Athletics CBoysJ - - - Athletics CGir1sJ - Art Editor - Exchange Editor - - - Assistant Exchange Editor Alumni Editor - - - Jokes Editor - '- - Assistant Jokes Editor - School News Editor - Assistant School News - HARRIETT DONLEVY KENNETH CAMERON - - MARY RYAN - HOWARD DAVEE GILDA CARPANNARI DELMO ENAGONIO KATHERINE DAVIS lVlURIEL ANDERSON LAURA CAPPANNARI EMMA WIRZBURQER - - NANCY SEARS THELMA BIRNSTEIN - ELMFR COLLIER - RUTH PERRIER - LUIS DAVEE

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THE PILGRIM 3 4 ' -F' x C - ,,, 'X' In L..S.L,..nL ETHER-WAVE MUSIC Professor Leon Theremin gave a recital of his ether-wave music in Carnegie Hall on March second. He has given several public demon- strations heretofore, and now plans a recital tour. He played Tschaikowsky, Schumann, Bach, Handel, Schubert, Raphael, and others, utilizing four instruments and instrumentalists in combina- tion and separately. Facing an instrument which resembles a radio receiving set, Professor Theremin makes passes with his hands and evokes music on his higher-pitched instrument corresponding in tone to that pro- duced by the violin. Here for the first time we have an instrument for the making of music without the usual accessories of strings, horsehair, reeds, and the like. Professor Theremin states that it is comparatively easy to play. One wonders what influence on the musical world these instru- ments would have if they were manufactured a la Ford at reason- able prices. Would they tend to displace such instruments as the violin? In order to play upon the average instrument, particularly upon the violin, the player must expend hours and hours upon technic. This has been the Water- loo of thousands who have essayed to explore the musical seas. If this obstacle could be removed, if the reformer could express his crav- ing for music at once, what would be the result? It would seem that such an in- strument would find a ready sale. The modern trend is to make the acquisition of knowledge and skill as painless as possible. We have always felt that, for music to have a real meaning to people, they should participate in making it, thereby exercising the ego. One of the reasons for the wide-spread use of the automobile is the fact that anyone can learn to drive one. And that much of the pleasure of riding is in driving cannot be de- nied. Therefore an instrument that anyone can play upon might prove a boon to music. H. BEAUREGARD '30 CROWDS At the fashionable resorts, one sees them, eager, restless people in search of that intangible thing, Pleasure. With their faultless speech, impeccable dress, and lux- urious environment, they aptly typify the often-scorned yet in- fluential wealthy class. Crowds of them, ineffective and selfish. They throng to the famous watering- places of Europe, to the vast stretches of sandy beaches lined with lounging, sun-tanned idlers, to the cool, green mountains, and to the white-capped Alps. Crowds of them, slovenly women, indolent men, and unkempt chil- dreng they are found in the stuffy tenements overflowing with hu- manity. They exist in the slums of every city, with barely room to move, slouching along the squalid pavements. The average individ- ual recoils from them,-yet they are happy. Here French rubs shoulders with Russian, Italian laughs with the jocular Irish. There are no barriers such as nationality and creed to these people. They mingle with perfect equanimity in their crowds. Crowds of little children, ra- diant and laughing, smelling fresh- ly of clean soap and water, playing in a broad. shady park. Their high- pitched, clear voices ring out as they jostle one another, or tumble on the soft grass. Fond mothers gather on benches to keep guard a.nd chat with neighbors. These cherubic youngsters form as pleas-