Reading Memorial High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Reading, MA)

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THE PIONEER. 11 —Friday, Jan. 22, the young men held their preliminary contest in declamation, resulting in the choice of Eaton, Cook, Jas. Killam, Ilawes and Samuel Killam, as participants in the com¬ ing Prize Declamation Contest. —Members of the Freshman class in Latin are still wading through verbs of the third conjuga¬ tion, but ai’e coming bravely out, and the good marks are beginning to outnumber the bad ones. Need it be said that the girls lead? —The drill of this year promises to be very good, so far as the manual is concerned. The marching will have to be improved greatly in order to be passable. The superiority of the manual over the marching is occasioned by con¬ stant practice, marching being beyond our sphere. A drill hall for the use of the company would be greatly appreciated ; it would ensure better re¬ sults on “Field Day.” “ Every man, unless he believes that he fell from the chouds, or that the beginning of the world dates from the day of his own birth, should take pains to become acquainted with what has taken place at other times and in other countries.” FEBRUARY FOSSILS. O spirit, say, what will it be When faith becomes reality, Anti virtue’s cause is won? A firmer faith in higher laws, A strength renewed, a nobler cause, A grander strife begun. — Ex. L’ENVOY To sermonize was not my first intent, A8 into measured lines my thought I traced. But if, indeed, my words afford a theme “ To point a moral or adorn a tale,” This is the sermon 1 would have them preach : Strive for thyself the nobler truths to reach, Courage be thine to advocate the right, Strength be thy plume, and faith thine armor bright. Peace be thine aim, but in the need fear not To bear strong hand and heart to right the hurt. And over all be guided by a true ideal. Fred E. Kimball. UNDER THE STARS. High from the window her soft voice is floating, Like some faint perfume pervading the air, While all the zephyrs their gauze wings devoting Hasten exultant the sweet tones to bear. Hither they bring them to me who am waiting, — Waiting unseen in the black of the night; Here witli my face to the gate’s iron grating, Watching her there mid her halo of light. Oh, if she knew with what thirst I am drinking Each wafted strain, would she bid me depart? Oh, if she dreamt how each soft note is sinking Into my soul, could she still shut her heart? — Brunonian. After-dinner speeches are sometimes treacher¬ ous. Things get mixed, and ideas flow faster than words. The following is an instance : In comparing the literary merits of Dickens and Thackeray, an after-dinner orator in London said: “Its the wonderful insight into human nature that Dickens gets the pull over Thackeray ; but on t’other hand, it’s in the brilliant shafts of satire, t’gether with a keen sense of humor, that Dickey gets the pull over Thackens. It’s just this : Shickery is the humorist and Dackens the satirist. But, after all, its absurd to instoot any comparison between Dackery and Thickens.” — Highlander. UNREASONABLE. She wore a long ulster and new style crush hat, A turnover collar and bright red cravat, And then was offended and sent my ring back Because, in the dusk, I mistook her for Jack. — Brunonian. “ Sweet maid,” said he, “ I ask of thee To fly, to fly, to fly with me.” “ Young fellow,” said she, “ Now don’t you be Too fly, too flv, too fly with me.” —Ex. Prison Warden—“The dinner order from Del- monico’s has come. Take it to the prisoner who killed a man.” Assistant — “All right. Who is this bread and water for?” Warden—“That’s for the man who stole a ham.”

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. . . 54. ' | - - ‘ 0 f ■€-— €?• READING PUBLIC LIBRARY READING, MASSACHUSETTS ♦ ' . J ft %• V V vv t s ■ L . ' . • Reading. Mkss. Hpril, 1892. T 14 C i n £1 PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY PUPILS OF 4 THG HIGH SCHOOL. yOLUME 1. -— --——— » a ■• ' v v - - -— • NUMBER 3. ■ «TB, r ' € Sunrise (Poetr ) Editorial .... CONTENTS. • v ' r ' !£ : “ The Alhambra ” .... ... V jf • ' The Piece (Poetry). • f % t A Monday Visitor . . . .1 .“ . • ♦ • A Word of Ad vice (Poetry) J. A Visit to a Roman Camp . . . .• a .5 ..... 25 L ' ». . ■;. . . . 26 • • • • • 2.8 • ..... jS ■£; ■ ». . . . . . 30 I A Visit to the Seashore.32 V ’ « Mathematical Conner .33 Maxims in French. .... ' . . 34 Timely (Questions . . 34 Personals . . T ... . 34 . , v r oc«ii§ • • • • • • ■ » • • • • • • •