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

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lucination of $5.50. class spirit has al and all is well. with the market rising Our class contains gre its number are found the Slinger] Miss Flanagan. winners of ing e contest, Riley and Mr. 1 represented R. A. at thei t1¢ speal contest at Syr ing king spring, where he himsel acquitted very creditably. From our number has risen one Owens, who gives great line. He leaves us this spring to expound the the Flanagan bids fair to become a great theological promise in the Gospel to heathen of the north. his Cor- pri- orator and tollow the model, W. nish and Riley by rootsteps of illustrious J. Bryan, virtue of their training think of VLoose nished an excellent example for the vate elo.utional going on the has fur- aire 2 Stage. class by religiously following his great Maxham throughout the year. Stook been a source of their with the and Savage have great worry to us by wildness and desperate flirtations teachers. Our girls are something to be proud of. Five of the honors went to them, and only our mighty Parry, whose tread shakes the earth, saved the boys from honorary oblivion by capturing the valedictory. So close the finish that the honors decided on tenths of per was were one cent. Deserving of special mention is Stella who graduates at the age Coolihan, of 15. Our class is also prominent in athletics. It furnished the regulars on the football team last sea- son, besides the manager, and has given hearty support to both the foot five of 1% govames. » endeavored this year to with credit, and we ives ur conduct and achieve- have been such as to furnish a 7 rious example for classes who when M. E. The geometry class smiled someone compared the triangle B. to triangle P. D. O. ‘‘No one was hurt except one man, who was Anabasis: left wing.” We Ab Orton will be privi eged to set his wheel in the por- wonder if tico of the golden gates. We wonder why Curtis walked to school through the mud this spring while Miss Knapp was driving. It is with narrow-minded people as bottles, with narrow-necked the less they have in them the more noise they 1910. make in pouring out.—Class of When Prof. Harris says ‘ Position,” several freshman have a habit-of feel- ing up and down their backs to ascer- tain the perpendicularity of the spine. that necessary to Tom seeing some Bright form of exercise was restore him to normal dimensions, has purchased a number of tame rabbits on At dusk he may with a a farm near the city. near the rabbit double barrel shot gun firing at them be seen coop as they are liberated by a friend. Of course the cannonade and the lessen- ing number of rabbits (for they never come back after escaping the gun) has frightened those remaining til they are ready to run. Tom is much pleased with this for he holds that it is unsportsmanlike to shoot a tame rabbit which is still at twenty yards. standing

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THE SENIOR HISTORY OF 1906-7. Realizing that this year was our final opportunity for impressing pos- terity with wur importance, and being also conscious of the terrific strain to which the walls of the Academy were subjected because of our presence, our class began the school year of 1906-7 with a sense of great responsibility. that no other class ever did and some things that thought of doing. We have done everything no other class ever For example, no other class ever held six class meetings in five days. Such a high standard of intelli- gence and ability has existed in this class, that individual leadership has All questions have been considered and been a matter of great difficulty. ‘‘ re-considered with great care. The impossibility of deciding a question twenty-seven different ways at once ma- hrough the has at times slightly clogged the chinerv of business; but, wise mediation of our beloved presi- settled Our politics have some- South have but this, like the Republic of Athens, merely dent all issues have been har- moniously. what resembled those of a American they republic, so subject been to vicissitudes; illustrates the great ability of the rank file. So intricate business matters that it found necessary to adopt a constitution as a and did become Was basis for further procedure. The production of this elaborate article, consisting of four large vol- umes, bound in ‘‘ calf,” is said to have nights of We actually know cost Owens seventeen thoughtful labor. that Kelley grew grey-headed trying to interpret its technicalities to the class. However, he expounded some great principles from it, such as these, SENIOR ANNUAL ‘ No question shall be re-considered ‘ Not the class shall over eight times.” less than three members of con- stitute a quorum.” ‘' The president shall have power to employ the use of the the class in their seats for the discus- glue to retain female members of sion of business.” But we could do business in a hurry when we So desired, for Cornish has a record of putting through a mo- tion to adjourn and emptying the room 1-5 se onds. We have had functions, in |] our full quota of First, came our Hal- the who were to demolish our pleasure socia lowe’en party, where heroes (?) failed to appear, and, where ‘‘second class passengers got out and worked.” Next came the senior dance, where all so enjoyed themselves that there was universal regret that our class had but After Cor- nish’s favorite song was, ‘‘ We’d Like to Know What to do With the Dough.” In January came the senior one senior year. which sleigh ride, thought to have been the time with the known, which later involved our class best least snow ever in a somewhat spirited conflict with the ‘‘Cannon’s” mouth, Last, but not least, came the jun- ior reception, where we were so well used that there will always be a tender hearts toward that well- meaning, but erring class, even when spot in our our laurels of 07 have long been with- ered. Our finances have, at times, been a problem. Their complicity would Wall street shark to Our treasurer is said to have lost ten pounds of flesh from the men- tal strain succeeding the senior dance, while for a long time after the sleigh ride Bronson was haunted with a hal- have driven a suicide.

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