Rome Free Academy - De O Wain Sta Yearbook (Rome, NY)

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6 THE SENIOR ANNUAL. edict forbidding so great a calamity be- falling the school as to have the ‘ fresh- ies’’ appear with caps bearing 1905 con- spicuously on the fore. No use, they would wear the caps. On one of the balmy (?) days of March, just before the bell rung for the after- noon session, a great cloud of dust, verily like that described by Scott in his was seen approaching from ‘ Marmion,’ the vicinity of the police station. A passing hurricane wafted the cloud aside and behold, there were the freshies with set faces and 1905 caps, bearing down upon the stupefied crowd that blocked the sidewalk infront of the school. The sight of the caps to the upperclass was as a red rag to a bull and the seniors, those tried men and true, shouting at the top of their voices their rallying slogan, ‘‘Heyrube’’ formed in battle array. Words can not describe the shock that was experienced as the two masses came together. Some aver to this day that plaster was shaken from the walls of our school building but the general belief is that this happened before and was due mortar in construction. the Board has had steel ceilings placed in all of the rooms. Speaking of the shock caused by the combatants coming together, it was as to defective Since the row nothing compared to the shock which was felt by the d sturbers stalwart, brawny, bluecoated men, other- when those wise known as the Rome police, appeared upon the scene. There was a scattering and when the schoul was assembled, all was as quiet as the proverbial spring lamb, except now and then a suppressed ‘‘Ouch,’’ or the covering up ot the place which a coat button bad once occupied Occasionally a little snuffing might be heard and jesently a thing that appeared like an anarchist flag would come from the pocket of some one of the verdant Freshmen. Thus passed the class row. Notes and Comments. Those students who attended the reading classes regularly, found them to be of great interest and profit. Those who have been fortunate enough to hear the lectures on Califor- nia by Rev.J.H.Egar, D.D., have found them te be very pleasing and instruct- ive. The new urns add very much to the If the students would exercise more care and appearance of the front lawns. would keep on the sidewalks the grass would have an opportunity to grow. Each year the D. A.R. offer a prize for the best oration and for the best certain This year more stu- essay written upon assigned historical subjects. dents competed than ever before. This increasing interest must be very grati- fying to the ladies. We stage will be erected in the assembly hall. The large enough for one to stand upon, all hope that next year a new one we now have is not without being in danger of falling off. We ought to have one three times as large as the present one. The one thing necessary to make the assembly room perfect, is a new refer- Those who have to use the that it is both crowded books ence table. old one, find Reference and inconvenient. need care. Students look upon them as common property, to use as they see fit. If large, well ordered tables were provided, and the books were replaced in position after being used, the real value of the reference table would be more apparent to the students.

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THE SENIOR Dr. .Angennette Parry is working among the people of the East Side, New York City, under the direction of Dr. Parkhurst’s Church. Miss Emily Halsted has returned from two years of travel and study abroad, and will spend the summer at at 109 W. Thomas street. —Miss Olive Scudder who holds a the pany of Philadelphia, will spend the position with Corbin Lock Com- month of August in Rome. —Mrs. Hattie Hunt Watt is living at 510 N. Washington street. Miss Ethel Watt teachers’ training school of Rome this month. graduated from the Miss Anne Comstock has charge of the vocal department in. Miss Ben- nett’s school, Irvington-on-the-Hudson. She also sings in the Reformed Church on 33d street, New York city. ANNUAL, 5 Miss Lillian Kilbourne of St. Louis, Miss Alida Mitchell of New York, and Miss Belle Williams of spend a part of the summer in Rome. Denver will During the year sons have arrived at the homes of Messrs. James Barnard, Allen H. Wright, Marshall Morris and Dr. Sumner Kingsley; and daughters at the homes of Messrs. Will McAdam, William White and Dr. Fred Honsinger. —Among the alumni of R.F.A. grad- uating from colleges this month are Miss Giehl from Vassar, Miss Garlick from Neff College of Oratory, Philadelphia, Miss Huff, Miss Ellis and Miss Ada Frink from Syracuse, Miss Mary Kent from Albany Normal College, Mr. Park- er Scripture, Mr. Arthur Armstrong and Mr. Harold Stevens from Cornell, Mr. Robert Nisbet and Mr. Wayne Nis- bet from Yale. The Class Row. One day last winter the freshman class, they of the nursing bottle, held a meeting, elected a president and the other figureheads of organization and in utter disregard of the time honored customs of alma mater, voted to buy class caps. On account of their extreme youth they had been treated with great leniency by the upper classes until this time, although they had become notorious for their flagrant violations of the ordinances of | this peaceful community, but this last was too much. They must be curbed. Accordingly the great upperclassmen | arose in all their majesty and issued an

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THE SENIOR ANNUAL. f This last year has been notable be- cause of its many suspensions. We conclude that the good work of the last term is owing to this fact. Freshmen, when you have been here for a year or two, you will begin to see the value of a little study now and then. At a meeting of the class of Igo1, held at the home of Miss Clarabelle Lawton,the chairman, William B.Eames, appointed various committees. Miss Anna Briggs was then elected gamnol- ogist and Stuart Smith necrologist. It was decided to hold the alumni ban. quet June 27. The new pictures in the study hall have been much admired and greatly appreciated. Three of them are the gift of the Wednesday Morning Club. They are “The Courier,” “Moon Beams,” “Over Pathways, Waste and Wild.” The picture of the lion is the gift-of Mr. W. R. Huntington. For the last two years the usual sing- ing on Friday afternoons has been omitted. Let the faculty remember that we can sing, and that we wish to do so. What the school needs is new singing books. A change would be acceptable, and a greater interest would then be taken in that part of the exercises. The beautiful flag which now adorns the study hall is a gift of the late Arthur W. Soper of New York. While at the Paris exposition, Mr. Soper purchased six of them. One was given to Hamil- ton College, one to the Rome High School and the others were given to his friends. The flag is made of the finest silk, It hung on the American build- ing at the exposition. | School building. 6 We have now been in our new quar- ters for three years, but as yet we have seen nothing of a flag-staff. The little flag in the attic window does not mate- rially add to the beauty of the High A new flag pole is more than a luxury, it is a necessity, if the dignity of our fine building is to be | preserved. The Open Door and the Self-Made Man. In recent newspaper discussion the phrase, “an open door”—a Bible | simile—has come greatly into use. The | word door finds its synonym in oppor- tunity. The carpenter left the door in the old school house to pass through, in an out. Opportunity is a door in an | otherwise closed wall of fate opening to the fields beyond. It is a door, an open door. Sometimes we think of this oppor- tunity not as opened for us, but as a | door we incidentally open for ourselves. | most fundamental In the relation between himself and the power that undergirds him, man con- ceives himself as a solitary toiler, un- toiled with, with this hidden power But in the Bible use the is simply passive. of the phrase, “an open door,” fact mentioned that the highest power in the history of | man is constantly opening a door to | ingly and really lessen. him and pointing the way in. This power is spoken of as aggressive. One thing, however, life does not do, which is to drive us through the door. By every open doorway a statue of Pa- tience rises to tell us that the power that opened it can wait. The oppor- tunities will multiply and the entice- ments also, but the compulsions seem- He who will