Salem High School - Clarion Annual Yearbook (Salem, OR)

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THE CLARION 23 every student enterprise. A majority of the foot ball, basket ball and base ball teams being from the class of i07. We are also represented on the debating team and among the student body officers. ' The Travonian Literary Society was organized last fall, composed wholly 0f Sophomores. Rex Turner makes an efficient President. Several debates have been held with the Juniors. The Freshies HE PRIMITIVE home of the Freshmen is Greenland, a peninsula projecting from the lower part of the Continent of Education. The climate is equable. Its mildness is due to the genial winds of self-conceit warmed by the waters of the High School tide of Indulgence. In area, it is larger than Soph. America. The natives consist chiefly of mixed races, yet certain characteristics of manner, dress and dialect reveal their nationality wherever they appear. They are naturally very timid and shy, although some attempt to conceal this under an assumed bravado. As a nation they are intensely patriotic. This patriotism is manifest in the loyalty with which they continue to wear their native green. A line from the old-folk will show this: iiI am so fresh that new green blades of grass turn pale with envy as I pass? Migration.-During the reign of Queen Winona rumors came to the Freshmen of a region whose inhabitants enjoyed the highest blessings of ease and culture. Because of this, they began a long and weary journey to the land of promise. SettlementeOn a memorable day in September, a shout of j 0y went up from the caravans as they caught their first glimpse of their future home. The tirst few days were spent in registering their claims and making preparations for permanent residences. Many advances were made by the neighboring tribes to welcome the new arrivals and to accustom them to their new surroundings. WarseAt hrst they lived at peace with their neighbors and assumed the manners and dress of the natives. At length, hostilities sprang up between the Freshmen and the Soph. Americans. However, peace was finally established. ' LifeeThere are a few .who have devoted themselves to literary pursuits, of which the rest are very proud. As a tribe, they are extremely gregarious and are always willing to share their tasks with one another.

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