Providence Technical High School - Review Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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74 T EC H REVIEW K of interest. lack of funds, id lack of numbers caused the rmise of the Debating Society January of this year. The atmosphere at Tech is not the kind in which this particular sort of organization thrives. Neither Latin nor Greek are studied in this school, and there- fore the master orators of Rome and of Greece arc unknown quantities to the ordi- nary Tech student. Hence this hypothetical ordinary student has not the incentive to learn to debate that have the pupils of other high schools in whose courses is included the study of the “immortal languages. So the society' came to an end, after a year of futile struggle against the inevitable. Hut credit and honor are due the half-dozen members who have stuck to the society through thick and thin to the last, for they have shown that they can fight even against great odds. There is another reason for the disbanding of the Debating Society. Of the twelve mem- bers (twelve out of fourteen hundred is what ratio?) of the society, nine are seniors whose time is completely filled with outside work, school work, “Review” work, class work, athletics, etc. 1’hese seniors to a man firmly believe that a debating society should be main- tained in the Technical High School, but they have not the time for the proper conduct of the society, and the proper discharge of the duties attendant upon the various offices which they hold. The 'Technical High School Debating Society came to an honorable death; may its memory long linger in the minds of those who have been so fortunate as to have had th . ir names upon its roll. W. H. G.

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76 T E C H Ii E V I E W F all the organizations in the school none is more deserving of credit than the orchestra. Thru its untiring efforts the musical exercises on Monday mornings are made more enjoyable from the time school opens in September to graduation night in June. Whatever is accomplished by it is brought about thru one inadequate rehearsal a week and the efficient instruction of Mr. Russell. At times it is called upon to perform outside the school, and in this way brings further credit to Tech. Every term finds a change in its membership as a little of the older talent goes out and the increasing new talent enters. Its popularity is shown by its constant growth in numbers. The great benefit to the players themselves can easily lv seen by comparing the violinists, the raw re- cruits of the last row with the veterans of the first row. If we may judge by progress in the past, even greater success must come in the future to our orchestra. Membership: Violin Howard A. Macrae, leader Henry E. Thayer Thomas N. Red fern Robert E. Hay Ernest E. Walsh Sumner E. Pender Kenneth Rouslin William F. White Herbert G. Olson W. (iladding Price James A. Reilly Herbert L. Swan. Jr. George H. Rhodes Francis L. Briggs Xormand C. Clcaveland Sarkis K. Hoyajian I-amis (Jodat John Silverman George McDonald Anthony Eerranty Benjamin H. Brow Raymond E. Earnham Thomas M. Donnell v Wallace N. Saaty Rudolph Hofstra Walter Roney Piano Edmund P. D’Alfonso Gertrude A. Joseffv Cornet Charles M. Fort Ixonard E. Smith A. Carle ton Earnham Raymond H. Anderson Herbert G. Andrews Edward P. Clark Saxophone Ellis L. Wilder Lloyd W. Davis Elute Herbert Allen ’Cello Paul A. Crcoker Drums Howard J. McDonald