Saginaw High School - Aurora Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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oughly appreciated by both girls and boys. The room is large and light. Some of the equipment is as follows: parallel and horizontal bars, flying and traveling rings, horse, punching bag. Indian clubs, dumbbells, etc. It is also arranged for games of basket ball. The swimming pool, which was also given by Mr. Burt, is a building set apart from the Training School. There is a passage way from the gymnasium to the balcony of the swimming pool. Below the balcony, on the side toward the gymnasium, there are sixty dressing rooms. On the opposite side there are tub and shower bath rooms. In the center of the building is the large tank for water. The water, which will be obtained from salt wells, will be from three to eight feet deep. On the second floor is a long hall for lockers. Since the Manual Training building is larger than necessary for the manual training work, it is also used for part of the academic work, such as Latin, some of the English, Stenography, and Bookkeeping. This makes a connecting link between the old High School and the new. Now that these magnificent structures are completed, and the work in them commenced, the students and citizens of Saginaw can more fully realize the kind thought that prompted such a noble gift. Mary DeLand. 19

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THE GYMNASIUM.

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CLASS POEM. I XTR )I)l'CTl( N. I've tried to rhyme in eou])lels. and I've tried to write blank verse. The difference was that one was had. the other one was worse. I called the Muse unto me to help me with an ode The uselessness of that attempt the very first line showed. 1 tried a nature poem next, and though I'm no criterion I realized it was pretty bad. and tried the scheme Spenserian. You'd have thought I might be weary, but I stake my word upon it, I produced a new concoction, which I have called a s nnet. O ye thoughtless ones! who really think to rhyme is any fun. Let me tell you that the poet's lot is not a happy one! S X XET. () coming Years! It is to thee we frame Our prayer for friendly omens on that day ( )n which our playtime we must put away To enter life with higher, nobler aim. The past is gone. We cannot now reclaim I'he years that have flown o'er us. We but pray Thy yoke upon us thou wilt lightly lay. Our follies are of youth, and have but youth to blame. Then, kind+v“Future, give us of thy store -Such- n: .1 as seems best in thy good sight; But c-fit none off untimely, e'er he find The jrlaiV and task that is to him assigned. —‘ Grant. jf. ix seem in thy fair judgment right. Wbat ye strive after, that to gain, no more. Dorothea Prall. 2t) •»