Princeton High School - Tiger Yearbook (Princeton, IL)

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The Class History of l9l l On September, 1906 about seventy bright, wide awake youngsters entered the high school. Un account of the remarkable way in which we adapted ourselves to circumstances, our class was noted even in the Prep. year for the dignified and unassuming' way in which we conducted ourselves. As a result, not one slur is to he found in ll'lC.lQO7 Annual about Those Preps! As we advanced through the year plain arithmetic was too simple for us and so Mr. Young began to add from time to time minute and intricate explanations of the experiments for his physics classes. As we became more and more interested our instructor told us that if one of the boys would bring him an egg' he would demonstrate how it could he put in boiling water and not cook. True to their word the boys brought two eggs, one fresh, but the other hard boiled, and they put the fresh one on Mr. Young s desk. He tested it and of course found it all riglit, but as soon as his back was turned, that was exchanged for the hard boiled one. lt was put in the vacuum and after three minutes our instructor said impressively: Now l will break this taking out his pen knife, and show you that it is as raw as before it was put into the vacuum. XYith this he cracked the egg. holding it carefully over a saucer and. of course, the egg was so hard that the yolk was ahnost green. XVQ were the first class to petition for class organization in the l'reparatory year. but this was such an amazing and audacious request that we were refused: but it had this effect. that the next class asking for this same privilege was granted it. ln addition to physics experiments the class easily finished grammar the first semester and continued its scientific research, this time in physiography, a study never taken by a Preparatory class before. So intensely interested were we in the subject that we prevail- ed on Miss Cole to take us to Starred Rock to study the formation of stone there C?!!j ' Pa ge 'Fwen fy Three

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SENIORS MOTTO: Not only to be good, but to be good for something FLOWER: Shasta Rose. COLORS: Black and Gold.

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Our Freshman class was even larger than our Preparatory one, owing to the large number of tuition pupils. Imagine our feeling of import- ance at our first class meeting, when we chose Charles Borop as president. Toward the end of the year we engaged in numerous debates with the Preps and though we grant that they acquitted themselves creditably in being able to make the score tie with their powerful opponents, nevertheless no request for a renewal of the contest has ever come from their lips. The Sophomore year was an uneventful one, full of drudgery and grind which even the dauntless spirit of 1911 could not entirely surmount. That year we were serious rivals with the Seniors for the Silver Cup at the Inter Class Track Meet. Our first great event was the Sophomore Sight Reading Contest in which Amanda Kaar a11d Raymond Thulean won first places and Eula Linnard and Holmes Ferris second. VVe began our junior year emphasizing good times. A masquerade Hallowe'en party at Ruth S21lll101'1'S,SfE11'l1Ctl the fun. The Junior girls raised enough money by a candy sale to equip the magazine table with reading material which had been provided in other years, from a fund given by the whole school. Our junior Declamatory Contest was a great success, the best ever given at the P. H. S. On the morning of Junior Day, just as the roll was bein taken. two doves with long black and gold streamers were released from the pockets of two Junior boys, amid the thundering applause of the school. In the evening contest, Ina Bradley and Holmes Ferris won first honors, Amanda Kaar and Rodger Greene, second. The eventful day of the Inter-Class Track llfleet came again. This year the Seniors and Juniors were equally confident of winning. lllhen the Seniors gave their yells at noon, the Juniors, not to be outdone. answered them with a shower of lemons. But it seems destined by the Fates that every Senior Class shall win the cup, and so, of course, they did that year. In the Spring the Juniors gave the Seniors a masquerade party and the Seniors returned it with a banquet and dance at the K. of P. Hall. The trip to Lake Senachwine was the last event of the year. Our Senior year has come at last in fulfillment of all the hopes and aspirations of our high school course. NVe resolved to make the class of 1911 stand out clearly as a spirited, upright, fun-loving, yet a responsible class. Page Twenty Four