Princeton High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Princeton, IN)

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Qlflaim 1 Minturg '11 H1 3 -e0lm1ii111fPfl Again in the spring, we came out 't1'iLll11IJl1t1l1lQQ 1911-1912 brought J uniorship and Solid Geometry. Oh! that Solid Geome- try. We groan at the memory of it. If anyone wants to know why, just let him try that subject for a term. For many days our class held regular sessions after four o,clock, 'while Carrick vainly endeavored to instill some 11HdC1'St2LI1d1f1g'1T1t0 heads as solid as the subject he taught. It was just as painful for us, Mr. Carrick, as for you. 5 Many Juniors were wise, and took Commercial Arithmetic, hut what they missed' in quality, they made up in quantity. NlClll0l'lCS ol' the Junior year bring back to us Halleckis English Literafture. Some day in the bright future, t some learned professor, remembering his high school days, will do away with such a system of teaching English, and will substi- tute for a catalogue of authors, lives, characteristics, how many books, when published, etc., some of the writings of the different authors, that by their fruits we shall know them. WVhen- ever we had to 'tell the life of an author, on a' test, the-only 'thing we felt safe in saying was that 4'He was a precocious child. Halleck says that of every single writer. We wrote the usual themes on Table, A Day in the House of Johns songv traced the diamonds through 4'Henry Esmondf' and to this day the Seniors, to show their superior scholarship, boast to the Juniors of a test in which one question had thirty-five parts! V D As we mentioned before, the Sophomore year was that in which we learned to ride ponies. Well, at the end of the Junior year we were unhorsed! It was a nine days' terror. What, would the faculty do! I Our class took it rather cheerfully, flellvelsngvpp 'the,1rupg111es, leading them with strings, and call- 0- . Q . Ei-Zdiiiiaim iiigii If fticiipii uim- hive were not Woined about O D - C ing ad happened this year, we would probably all have died of nervous prostration. to P Tae glliiiopiyear was? the one in which Miss Lowry first Came A. . ., ant some o us weie mveigled into taking drawing by thinking ittwas free2hand. The word mechanical had never been mentioned but once in the class, we had to stay. hliss Warnock taught music and German that year, too. About the most interesting' subject for the Juniors was Ancient History-not the history, but the teacher. Mr. Hines was very' popular among the members of .class '13. qDo you remember those forty minute to-be-continued talks he used to give on the Soul, Love, the Conscience? One of the most pleasing features of thatclass was that we never knew until we came upstairs what the recitation room would be like. One day all the chairs would be facing the window, where there was a .map for a blind: the next the map would be gone and we would' all be seated' in a semi-circle around a raised platform, upon which our teacher sat at his desk. In that room, house- cleaning time came about twice a week. . 1911-1912 was the year we made such a great success in athletics, and the year we took up the triangular debate idea. It was also the year of beans.' Do you remember the bean- throwing? So many witty poems and parodies have been written on that subject that no more, is necessary tobe said. If you remember the beans, .you also remember the exams Above all, do not let us forget the banquet we gave to the Seniors. We obeyed the Golden Rule, and did as we would be done Ciluniors please take the hint.D And we had a gran ' goo time, too. , . 'L All through our Junior year, Arthur Twineham used to sign his name A. P. Twineham, Junior. We half expected, this year, for him to sign it A. P. Twineham, Senior. For at last we are Seniors-and we do not feel so great and dignified after all. The Freshmen don't respect us as they should, Cwe suppose that is becausecwe are scattered out over the whole assembly. United we stand, divided we fallj and we live in daily terror, for fear that by some chance slip we may miss a credit, and fail t0 graduate., VVe do not dare to have any fun in school hours, so we have been driven to class parties and time to count them up, but we certainly h and good eats,' too. Speaking of eats, reminds us of the thing this year-a Science Club, Domesti Club, Qthey like to call it the Classic Ch have never understood whichj the Germ: lish Club. The Seniors take a good part . Among the triumphs of our Senior triangular debate. Of course the victorj 'to the Seniors, for Miss O,Hair's teacl' enabled them to win. Even those who di they have a fair smattering of the princip whole of Burke's Conciliation.,' Speaking of triumphs, those who credits this year, will count that quite a class always was a great trial for hir. Ca One shameful thing our class has dor Latin Seniors threw over Virgil for Fres certainly missed the best part of their hi

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flt'Nl term. And -:od by a discourse -:img exercises they 3-rt-graiiis, with the 'zinntes before time. the week we had 'art- and Queen - kind of an address, -tnrer who came to s long as he pleased, -ties gave programs. ,id and the Tabard. period was onlitted, t-lt'-possessed Senior, you r Freshman year, -gramme-to read a g of that sort? They the platform, where mhled so that you hat nerve-racking? -her would favor us lx-ery Senior remem- C'ouldn't he make us work those equa- irdi But didn,t we at perfectly dread- work? HA woman ,ld half an egg more old half an egg IIIOFC t store she repeated v many had she all 4 those eggs to set Gilman Qintnrg 1513--Glnntinurh that extra half, and we couldn't figure out where the other half went. And the answer was thirty-one! Our Principal taught the Elementary Civics class Qin the first term, Mr. Unnewehr, the second, Mr. VVebbjg and Mr. McDill taught Botany. Do you recall that leaf herbarium we made in the fall, and how we traded flowers for our flower her- barium in the spring? Mr. McDill offered A-4 recitation grade for the day to the one who should bring him the first flower of any certain kind. Hugh Harris brought one every morning! And those trips to the woods when spring came, when we all piled up on hay wagons, with the whole afternoon to ourselves! Those afternoons we got out of Latin recitation too! Miss Young was our Latin 'teacher and we studied Hale's First Latin Book. Have you forgotten Coqua bona est. Cena bona est,,' and all such interesting and entertaining information? There was a large class which took German, too, first under Miss Keeran, and then under Miss Stork. Look at the Senior German class now. It wouldn't take long to count the mem- bers. VVe had only one English teacher, ltliss Robinson. Our first test was over Tappanis English Literature, and the grades ranged from 2996 to 60927. The second term, Miss Simmons was assistant English teacher. The first day here she spent the whole period telling us what would happen if we didn't mind out. But barking dogs never bite. She was one of the jolliest teachers we ever had. Then the exams! Everyone who got X on his card Cyou remember what X stood forj was sent down to ltlr. Barnes for a lecture. If you flunked you couldn't hide the fact, as you can now. lVhen your turn came, you marched right down stairs, and everybody knew why. For two days after the exams there was a continual stream of students going to and from the office downstairs. But at last it was all over. Wfe came for our cards o11e bright ltlay morning, and rejoiced that we were no longer Freshies.,' Sophomores! How we gloried in our advance- ment, and how we looked down upon the 11ew Freshman class. But we were not the same big class. ltlany were not with us that year who had filled up the Freshman ranks. Our present Principal, lilr. MeReynolds, taught us Morey's Greek and Roman History. lfVe kept note books over all our work, and ltlr. Mclteynolds was so particular and exacting about them that we couldn't even use a new bottle of ink without getting our grades cut down. ltliss Tichenor, too, first met us in our Sophomore year. She gave us our first lessons in Plane Geometry. It certainly puzzled us for the first month or so. It all seemed so ridicu- lous and unnecessary. Anybody with good sense could see that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points. It simply is-nobody denies it. Then why prove a self-evident fact? However, we soon found that it wasn't so silly, after all. Miss Stork relieved Miss Young of the Sophomore Latin class, and that was the year we first learned to ride ponies. Those were the days that tried men's souls. We studied Shakespeare that year, too, and we fully sympathized with the conspirators in Julius Caesarf' We wished they had killed him before he wrote his Commentaries.,' Miss Johnson taught one section of our English class, Cdo you remember the Vicar?j and Miss Traylor the other section. This was the year of Shakespeare and oral compositions. Now, too, we began to take an interest in football, base- ball, the Big Four and the Princetonian., We felt that we were beginning to have some rights in the school: This was the year when the deportment examination sys- tem was introduced. Mr. Hinshaw was Principal and Mr. VVebb Superintendent. Our exemption depended entirely on our deportment grades, no matter how low our grades might be.

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-P-.pil llaul ll0Yx'l' lsfgix. lluil .Yl'lll'. loo. nc -luuiors was .cat Nlr. lliucs ws ilii. Do you Lillvs he used to Une of the most T lxllCXY until we be like. One ri. where there was M: bs gone and we 1 .1 iuused platform, lfu :Fiat room. house- E .1 great success in alztiqilai' debate idea. zvzuifiiiber the bean- : jniroilies have been uecessziry to be said. is-iizlwei' the eXams.', iii-inet we gave to the ml .lid as we would be -Xud we had a ru' Twiueliain used to We half expected, this Senior. For at last we and dignified after all. -hould, lywe suppose er the whole assembly. we live in dailv terror, miss a credit, and fail uf: fun in school hours, Glluaz Thiainrg 1513--Qlnntinurh so we have been driven to class parties and picnics. We haven't time to count them up, but we certainly had some good times- and good eats too. Speaking of eats, reminds us of the clubs-that's a new thing this year-a Science Club, Domestic Science Club, Latin Club, Qthey like to call it the Classic Club or Classy Club, we have never understood whichj the German Club and the Eng- lish Club. The Seniors take a good part in these. Among the triumphs of our Senior year, first comes the triangular debate. Of course the victory was not wholly due to the Seniors, for Miss O'Hair's teaching really was what enabled them to win. Even those who did not debate felt that they have a fair smattering of the principles after outlining the whole of Burke's Conciliation A Speaking of triumphs, those who make their Physics credits this year, will count that quite an achievement. This class always was a great trial for Mr. Carrick. One shameful thing our class has done. Allbut nine of the Latin Seniors threw over Virgil for Freshman German. They certainly missed the best part of their high school course when they did that, too. If you don't believe this, ask lVIiss Harsha. Still, it wasnit their love for German that caused it, Miss Hoffman. If you'll carefully review the history of the Senior class you'll find that There's a reason. Mr. McReynolds, our steadfast friend, teacher and princi- pal for three years has led us through the toils of U. S. History and Civics. We always liked to complain to Mr. McReynolds about our hard work and long lessons, but they have not killed us yet, have they, Mr. VMae? VVe surmise you knew they wouldn't, all the time. A few of the Seniors are even taking Grammar this yea1', for they are going to be school-1na'ams. Some have already made license. The longer they teach, probably the better they will appreciate the justice of the teachers who seemed so strict, the rules that seemed so hard, and will enjoy the good times we have had during these four years in dear old P. H. S. VVe are the last Senior class to attend the old P. H. S. building and the first to be graduated from the new. May we all be famous by the time our class roll is removed from the corner stone of the new.P. H. S. ff- sri- ' , a