Salem State University - Clipper Yearbook

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Are you Frances or May 2 Quoth the teacher each day To the twins as alike as two peas. If you're Frances recite 3 Then would twin May arise, And win for her sister some B's. Abbie W. plays volley-ball In one long convolution: To throw the ball tie yourself in a knot- That's Abbie's own solution. Mary, with the blue-black hair And the melancholy air,- You might think her very sad, But her tragic air's a fad She adopts when she is bad. The girl with the brilliant smile, -Grace Grant. She's narrow-or slender let's call it-and tall, Her hair is bright yaller 5 she talks with a drawl. She's in Senior IV, and her learning's immense, Her hand-writing looks like a sharp picket fence. What would happen,- If Abbie Reynolds should fail in a lesson? If Helen Parsons should throw her ear out of joint? If Ethel Hunter should recite briefly? If Alice Reeve were a blonde? Where the dignified Latin class got frivolous--translation of popular ballad Everybody works, etc. Omnes laborant sed Pater. Toto die jacet: Pedes ante ignem Tubam terrae fumat. Mater lavendas prendit, Soror Anne atque. In nostro laborant omnes, Sed senex mens. 15

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Mr. Vinal: If the rivers are continually bringing in water, why doesn't the ocean overfiow? Where does the water go? Miss Magraw, after serious thought: The fishes swallow it. Teacher: Give a word in which ou says o, for instance, an upper part of the body. Miss Smith: Dough. Practice School pupil, after a solo by Miss Roche: Is Miss Roche a chorus girl? Mr. Doner, in penmanship: You may not like this C, but make it anyway. From the rear: I'm making it anyway. Sybil, in gym : How do you barn dance? May F: Kick with both feet. I Sadie, looking at the clock after lunch: Twenty-five minutes! Twelve for geography and thirteen for history! In hygiene class: For a person leading a sedimentary life, frequent bathing is advisable. Miss lloylc, reading: The helpless little faxvn ran about looking for its dam- I suppose that's a misprint for dame. Miss McSwiney: I can't find any Howers. I can't see any birds: I live in Chelsea. Our sliffragctte-Bertha Danncr. Mr. Whitney, in drawing: Where is the door-knob of this floor? Miss Jnlinsun: Un the other sirlc nf the floor. You can't see it from here. Airroomunis. Her vnivf- was r-vcr soft., gf-ntlv and low. An r-xc:-llc-nt thing in woman. -l,r-ar. Maude Nelson. 14

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SENIOR COMMERCIALS. Kathleen Brophy: The brain is made up of convulsions. Alice Millea: Does Texas raise much grain? Dora Pedersen, acting as teacher: Miss Millea, you may look that ques- tion up and report on it tomorrow. Dora understands teaching. Miss Townsend: If you tried several times to write a good outline and failed, what would you say was the matter? Mr. Sullivan: The matter is with the chalk. On seeing a student standing on a chair to reach the board: An example of balanced structure. Subscribers to this book will please send in their orders in the following form, adopted after many trials in the English and penmanship classes: Name, date, and division in upper right-hand corner. Margin of four inches at the right and left. Paragraph indeution regular. Skip a line between the sections. Do not waste space. Call me early, Mother darling, call me early, Mother dear, For tomorrow is the hardest day of all the whole school year, With six lessons hard I've labored while the midnight oil burned low And tmnorrow I must wake at five and pleasant dreams forego. M. C. M. ,fx fk .1' Y - f-1 I- 5 r X, Y 1 wt f- ' - 4 -T. v.. -- il r. i: L .lr-rr:---P W El i '31-E, 3, f KQTQCCQ l' ?i' ' gash - 'Il . '--..zl:2 16