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

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90 THE TECH REVIEW 1928 TECH THIS SPACE. IS RESERVED FOR YOUR HR.TEACHEffS AUTOG-R.flPH. IT ALSO REPRESENTS AN EX-RAY OF PRESHIE’S HEAD. A COLLEG-E MAN A NO MIS HAlR ARE SOON PARTED — I N THE MIDDLE • TOO BAD NAPOLEON WAS NOT e ORN IN PARIS. HOW SO? X SAID HE WAS, ON THE EXAM. L. Hoffman.

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1928 THE TECH REVIEW 89 rapid rate, was among the first to leave the room. Tom found it more difficult. He an- swered the first question fairly satisfac- torily. The second one had him guessing —at one time, tossing up a coin to decide whether Pindur was a Roman god or a painter, lie finally wrote the latter. As it happened Pindur was a Greek j)oct. hut Tom did not learn that until later. There were ten questions on the “exam.” Tom toiled through the first nine. Finally, he was confronted with the tenth one. This had two parts to it. He scrib- bled a short paragraph of long words, which, he hoped would serve as an answer to the first part of the question. Now, he read the second part: “Who did more for the world, Alexander the Great or Hannibal?” For fully fifteen minutes, he argued with himself. First he thought Alexander, then he thought Hannibal; and finally, lie came to no conclusion. Tom glanced at the paper of the hoy at his left. This hoy apparently thought Alex- ander was the greater. He discovered that the hoys at his right, in hack, and in front of him gave Hannibal the credit. Toni had never cheated before, not be- cause he was a naturally good hoy, hut cheating had never appealed to him. More- over. he had never considered the exams” important enough to cheat for. While he was looking at the “exams” about him, HEARD IN DOMESTIC ART Sigrid Carlson (looking through her box, in her hooks, and in various bags) : “Say. can anyone tell me where Agnes Mulholland went?” Wilma: What’s worse than raining cats and dogs?” Martha: “Pll bite.” Wilma: “Hailing taxi cabs.” he had not realized that he was cheating. While, however, looking at the paper of the boy at his right, he met his icy stare. Blushing, realizing what he was doing. Tom turned toward his own j)aper. Now, he could not write “Hannibal,” yet it would he foolish to write “Alexander,” when ]X pular opinion was against that answer. Finally, he came to a conclusion. Smiling, he wrote, “I don’t know the an- swer, hut the general opinion of those k about me is that Hannibal gave more to the world.” After looking with satisfaction over the “exam”, especially the last question, Tom left the room. The rest of the week was taken up in other “exams.” At the end of the week, Tom, owing to Bill’s continual urgings, felt that he had passed fairly well al- though he had not learned how well. One week from the history “exam,” the papers were passed hack. Tom sol- emnly looked his over. Suddenly he smiled—a nice broad smile. It was not the seventy-three per cent at the top of his paper that made him smile; nor was it the large cross through the whole last question that made him smile. It was what was written under the cross: The general opinion of those about you was wrong—Alexander gave more to the world.” Flossy Ward: “Betty, can you tell me why Dot Stockwell’s chemistry recita- tions are like Quebec?” Betty: “Sure, they’re built on a bluff.” Conductor on train: “Change for Marinetta! Change for Marinetta.” Country Passenger: “Don’t know who the girl is, hut I’ll chip in a dime.”—Ex.

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