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

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READING PUBLIC LIBRARY READING, MASSACHUSETTS

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v i s r v-i V o ' ‘ PIONEER ADVERTISEMENTS. W E are prepared to show the largest and best line of TRUNKS we have ever shown, and at lowest Bos¬ ton prices, also BAGS and SUIT CASES. Call and examine our HAMMOCKS before buying elsewhere. MAIN AND HAVEN ” STREETS. Copeland Bowser WHY Carry your work to Boston when it can be done as cheap, as well and far quicker at the READING • CHRONICLE • OFFICE. All kinds of Job Printing promptly attended to-- CALVIN MARTIN. JUSTIN FARKER. MARTIN PARKER, Proprietors Reading Ice Co. - DEALERS IN- Coal, Wood and Ice, W. H. TWOMBLY SONS , office. t OT ten-s block. Room 6, Maso nic Block. HAVEN STREET, READING. C. D. WBLLS, Practical = Horseshoer, Cor. Ash Washington Sts., Reading. Particular attention paid to Lameness, Interfering, Over-reaching and Stumbling Horses. At E. C. METCALF’S YOU WILL FIND A FULL LINE OF Stationery and Writing . . . Materials . . . NATHAN BANCROFT, Fine Boots, Shoes and Rubbers, SCHOOL SHOES A SPECIALTY. BUY YOUR WHEEL OF THE OLD RELIABLE FIRM H. K. AUSTIN, REAR OF DEPOT, READING. BICYCLE REPAIRING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. Heating, Plumbing, Ventilating. MAIN STREET, READING. S. W. BOWKER, Contractor, Livery and Teaming, Hacks and Barges, Buildings Moved, Excavating, Grading and Stone Masonry. LINDEN STREET, READING, MASS.

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The Pioneer. Vol. V. No. i. Reading, Mass., June, 1896 . Price 10 Cents. THE PIONEER. COMMENCEMENT NUMBER, EDITORS: Richard B. Hussey, ’96. Arthur H. Chandler, ‘97. Gertrude C. Brown, ’98. Mailing Clerk. Linnie J. Bancroft. Ten cents a copy. For sale at the various news stands. Entered at the Post-office at Heading as second class matter. Printed by C. M. Barrows Co., Boston. CONTENTS. Editorial.5 Prophecy . 7 Homeric Types of Character ... 8 R. H. S. Alphabet ...... 9 X-Rays ..10 My Nocturnal Adventure . . . . 11 Wants of the Sophomores .... 13 A Junior Girl’s Adventure on a Bicycle 14 Musical Talent in the R. H. S. . . . 14 R. H. S. Lunch Counter.15 Physical Training.15 A Trip Fishing.16 School Statistics.17 Graduation Program.17 Locals. iS Gifts to the R. H. S.19 Two Methods of Study .... 19 Webster’s First Bunker Hill Oration . 20 Courses of Study ...... 21 Answers to Correspondents ... 22 School Committee.22 List of Instructors and Pupils . . . 22 Alumni.27 EDITORIAL. Although it has been some time since we have had the pleasure of greeting you through these columns—and, indeed, the time has seemed long to us, even though it may not have to you—we fondly hope that you will welcome us back, and indulgently smile on our efforts. It was not a lack of desire to please you by editing this sheet which caused our temporary retirement from the literary world, nor yet was it an undue reticence to display our talents to the public—we are none of us afflicted in that way ; but it was that pain¬ ful and all too common ailment, lack of funds. An unappreciative world has deliberately refused to bestow banknotes upon 11 s, so we have punished it by turning our backs. But once more begging your kind indulgence, we bow before you. In presenting the commencement number of the Pioneer to the public, it is our desire to please and interest everyone. The purpose of the paper is not only to awaken an increased interest on the part of the pupils in composition, and to afford them practice in high school jour¬ nalism, but to serve as a medium of communica¬ tion between the school and the public. The large circulation of this issue of the paper, and the generous assistance of our advertisers, will enable us, also, to cancel the indebtedness of last year. The importance of the study of English in our high schools is more widely recognized than ever before. It is necessary in the teaching of English to adopt some definite system of in¬ struction, in order that the pupils may attain a reasonable degree of accuracy and fluency in the use of their native tongue. During the