Proctor High School - Proctorian Yearbook (Proctor, VT)

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THE SUTHERLANIJ 7 OBSERV ATIONS 0N WA GNE R'S nTHE CHARIOT RAGE UK picture hanging in 0111' Study Halli. The two wheel- ed chariots. studded with gnltl and polished b11135. drawn by four harms wearing shiny black leather hell'nesFes decorated with brass fix- tures 11ml buckles, came thundering around the cut'vv. The gmuml shakes under the mighty foot falls.- of the heavy iron-shml horses. One of the chariots hm: tipped over. It breaks inln pieces nml tht- driver is hurled into the air. On the horse? films irl a look, half terror and half pain. One of the two leading chariots is drawn by four pun: white r-teEIln. All thvir mus- cies are doing their utmost: rune can see them bulging underneath the skin. seemingly ready to burst. On the driver's face in: u 1001: of mingled anxiety, exhaustion 21ml hope: for his chief rival in the race has the inside track. tho place he has strivv mm for all during the l'ilt't'. But now he feels the race is Inst. Sud- denly a little hope comes into his mindhsupposing that mun'Hmrses should fall, exhausted 01' his chariot break. The race is on! Then he himself could easily win. A feeling of hatred sweils up in his. breast me he hears the- people cheering his rival on. He glances over hi: .w-houldcr 11an sues the four coal black horses working evenly and Steatiily and the driver with a smile of victory on his face. He sees boynmi him the multitude of Romans rheering for the driver of the black team. But all this: does not altogether Ilisht-nl'ten him. He lashes his horses without mercy and speaks to them. urging them to do their hPHt to win the race whirh will mean honor, praise, and wealth for him. R. H. 28 Ag ADV ANTAG ES OF SMILING .11 smilv mi! gr: I: Fang, Emu; 'N'fl'U. This j.r1'0VOI'h We know is true. Did you ever feel gloomy, and by chance meet some one that gave you a good smile? Straightway you felt as if theme was some rea- son for your being on earth. So why not pack up your troubles

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B THE SUTHERLAND The Council wishes to express, by this means. its sincere thanks for the loyal support and co-operation of the Student Body and Faculty and gives its best regards for an ever grow- ing importance in the life of Proctor High School. JAMES E. HORAN, President. + We Juniors who have been elected editors for the school year of 1926-1927 sincerely hope that we shall be able to keep the Sutherland up to the standard that has been set by the retiring editors. We also hope that the student body will support us heartily in pursuing this work. We have at the present a magazine of very high standing and we will try and keep it at this high mark. F. T. '27.

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B THE SUTHERLAND and smile! If there is someone in your crowd that is trying to pick a fight with you, forget this and just smile. The smile will rid you of the evil that might have been uttered from your mouth, had you not smiled in time. When you are wandering in a strange city. you feel pretty lonesome. Then, when you meet someone who smiles at you and perhaps says a few words to you. you instantly feel as if the city was not such a dreary place after all. Of course there are many different kinds of smiles. There is a right smile and a wrong- smile. The right smile is the one we all like to see. It welcomes us. cheers us, gives us courage and helps us during our work. The wrong smile is the one that is unwelcome or rather put on. You can always tell a person when he is putting on a smile just to he sociable. When you smile do it the right way and do it willingly. A. G. '26. + THE DISADVANTAGES 0F LYI . One clear winter foronoon. three fEIIOWS, among whom I was one, started on our journey out of sight. By this I clonit mean in a balloon or an airplane up in the clouds or even six feet under sad but I do mean out of sight of our homes. There being ice on Beaver Pond thick enough to trespass, we stroll- ed to the farther side, built 3 fire. and made ourselves comfortable on a plank which we found near the dam-house. We each searched around our inside coat pockets and pulled out a. fiye-cent cigar. Cigarettes weren't strong enough and so we purchased these that we might have a good smoke. I have heard about how one feels when he is intoxi- cated. also when one is seasick; but I promise you now that I felt. worse than any of these. I went home immediately after I started to see things rotate, and lay on the sofa. To help the situation, my gmndfather showed the occult powers of Blackstone. the magician, end he called mother upon the scene and toid her to ask me if I had been smoking. With the thought of the punishment which I might receive uppermost in my mind, I told a lie. I won't trouble myself to tell you anymore but will leave you to imagine what happened when father returned from work. C. Y. l26 + IIGONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN'i It's going to he a story of my Saturday night baths about six or seven years ago. 01' course I de- tested Saturday night at best, and no matter how beautiful the day t was. or how much fun I had had. Saturday always ended unhappily for me. I couldnt stay out any later than seven o'clock, nor drift ' away from the house for I had to stick around and take my bath, or take the stick and bath too. When I came into the house. the reser- I voir was filled With hot water and II was filled with hot-hesdedness. I immediately wished the water would flow away. or else 1 might disappear. I was driven into the bedroom and as I was very angry by that time I threw my clothes inv lto all corners of the room. Then