Roanoke High School - Acorns Yearbook (Roanoke, VA)

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ALL SENSE AND SOME NONSENSE 000 It seems just not exactly fair That he gave to her that present rare For no one else was favored so, And she was neither friend nor foe. We cannot understand it allg .That gift was very small and roundg For he was harsh and wise and tall, It clicln't even make a sound- While she was just a Freshman girl, Yet it woulcl last a long, long time, With her rosy cheek and hair in curl. That ZERO-worth not e'en a dime! T. HAMERSLY,

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1917 9112811115 nf IRIJHIIIJIQB 143 Journey of Studious to the Delectable Heights of Success TUDIOUS graduated from the Roanoke High School and forthwith decided to continue his journey on the path toward knowledge and thence to the Delectable Heights of Success. There were devious routes to this lofty pinnacle and so Studious was grievously put to it at the very beginning of his journey to decide on which road he would travel. At last he decided on a route that lay through the demesne of Hampden-Sidney College and the post-graduate labyrinths of the University of Virginia. Studious started on the first part of his College Career with a joyous heart. At first his buoyant hope kept his eyes above the trees and he did not see the many rocks that lay in his path. Many a time he stumped his toe but laugh- ingly passed it by as an inevitable consequence of haste. He received his first jolt when he came to the end of that year. Inattentive he traveled o'er the last few rough rods marked Exams and did not see the sheer drop at the end called Partial Failui'e.,' He precipitated himself o'er it. He arose and saw a Cross-road that led back to the World from whence he had come. It was short and pleasant. So he was meditating on following it when a Benevolent Student and an interested Member of the Faculty took him by the hand and told him to assay the rest of the journey a little more cautiously than the first. Again Studious set forth on the upward path of Knowledge., Here he found it rough going for he must surmount barriers of stone such as Etymology of Homeric Greek and Analytic Philosophy. Here he found many sleeping by the wayside. Studious was strong of body and intellect so he soon found to his great delight that he was Head of his Class. He now adorned a brass plate with the words President ' I 8 inscribed thereon. At last he approached the College Domain and the Keeper of the Grounds placed a mark on his head thus: A. B. ' Studious looked back over the road he had traveled and up at the new one through the University. He thought that it was a day's work, so he decided to take a Vacation. He wentvout and lay on a luxurious bed called Society. When he awoke in the morning he started to get out on the Wrong