Prattsburgh Central High School - Franklinite Yearbook (Prattsburgh, NY)

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K FRANKLIN ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL I7 Alton writing a geometry proposition: The two triangles are respect- fully equal to each other. Mrs. Lovelace--- Define supernatural. Wheeler--- It's something that does something that doesn't do it. Mrs. Lovelace to Hildreth in English class--- If you don't behave the rest of the period, I'll go and see your father after school. Hildreth--- Gosh, but ma'll get sore at you. In American History class: Miss R.--- What man does all the causes of the war date back to? Catherine, fthe shining lightj--- Militarismf' Wanted---by the Campfire Girls, more to say about US. CA Boy Scout.j Mrs. Lovelace, Cin Englishl--- What are some of the different kinds of verbs? D Kenneth---' 'Adverbs. A ' Mr. W.--- How do you judge the standing of a hen? Gamaliel--- By its sitting. . Catharine has a fast tongue but when occasion demands she can let 'it loose. , Bob W.--- Dad can you sign your name with your eyes shut? His Dad--- Certainly. Bob--- VVel1 then shut your eyes and sign my report cards. Mrs. Lovelace--- Your translation reminds me of Quebec. Hildreth--- Why? Mrs. Lovelace---Because it's founded on such a big bluff. Mr. Watkins, Cin Ag.j---What kind of oats do they use around here? l' Merlin--- Quaker, usually. Here's to the faculty, long may they live, Even as long as the lessons they give. ,gm 3,

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I6 FRANKLIN ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL A Trip to Mars SEVERAL years ago I was in the sixth grade. It was late in the spring and not liking to go to school I had much trouble, especially in geog- raphy which I disliked very much. It was my luck that night to have to stay and get my lesson, which was on the earth and the planets. I did not feel like studying so I thought I would make the teacher stay late. I might have spited my teacher but I spited myself the most. It was dark when I went home. Having many chores to do I'was very late going to bed. I was no sooner in bed than I began dreaming. I dreamed that I and john Hamilton were going on a trip to Mars. John was also a student in the same geography class. We were to it out a flying machine to suit ourselves. When once on our trip the time did not seem long, but there were many changes in winds and climate. When we reached Mars, it must have been in winter for the ground, if there was any, was covered with snow and ice, and the'air was very cold. We saw in the forest strange animals' tracks, but no people. We saw several strange birds. This planet is not inhabited, or else we were not in the inhabited region. We landed in a very hilly place and there was a small lake which by the thickness of the ice showed there had been very cold weather. We spent two nights here and I thought we would perish on account of the cold, but we were molested by neither man nor animal. It being so cold we had much trouble starting the motor' in our machine fcr the return trip. We had just left that cold region when we came into a warm climate, then I thought I heard some one call my name. Opening my eyes, I saw the sun shining into my face, and it was father that was calling me. I hurried to school that morning so that I could tell John my dream before the bell rang. ---Henry Walker, '24. Jokes 'Twas the night before regents When all through the town Not a student was stirring, Not even a clown, Q For all were home studying Their regents review And learning their phonics A, e, i, o, and u. From a Biology test paper describing the experiment of osmosis with the egg: Miss R. took an egg and made a hole in each end, then she took a hair pen and went through the egg. Vrooman, Ctranslating in the French classj---Il en avait mis quelque- sunes sur le trottoir a ses piedo. He put some of them at the foot of his feet.

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18 FRANKLIN ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL Im F. LTHOUGH the Prattsburgh High basket-ball team made a rather unauspicious beginning of the basket-bail season-, they had reached the high spots and were still growing strong when the season ended. At the beginning of the season two or three games were played before much practice was obtained, consequently in several of' the first ones our opponents squelched us with but little effort. Another reason for our first defeats is that the hardest nut of the season was cracked in the first two games, namely---Penn Yan Academy. With their eihcient and heavy guards, they held our forwards down without much trouble, but I will say more of those games later. Basket-ball practice was started October seventeenth, and' about twenty- five boys turned out to try for the first and second teams. Some were dropped almost immediately, as being too inexperienced for use. If more time for practice had been available, some of the meh who were dropped would have stayed and had a longer try-out, however as it was, the best were picked in the first two practices, and the others wereidropped. The first game of the season was with Penn Yan Academy, and, as I have said before, their team was a fine bunch. They outweighed our boys considerably, and so our men were unable to do much except by pass work, which indeed was fine. In the end the score was 28 to I2 in favor of Penn Yan. ,. The second game was also with Penn Yan Academy, but was played at Prattsburgh. This game was held on November the eleventh, a week after the first game with the P. Y. A. The game was even worse than before, as our boys were defeated by a score of 29 to 6. The predomi- nating feature was the pass-work utilized by Prattsburgh. The third game was considerably better. It was at Prattsburgh on November 24th with Rushville. At the end of the first half the score was a 9 to 9 tie, which was unchanged until the last thirty seconds, when a Rushville forward threw afield basket, clinching the score at IO to 12. The fourth game was at Rushville on December 2nd with Rushville. At the end of the first half Prattsburgh led by two points, but they were swallowed up in the avalanche of field baskets piled on them by Rushville in the last half. At the end of the game the score was 2I to 13, in favor of Rushville. U