Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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16 the film of the play was here recently, and that any 7 — 8 lines, taken at random, should provide all that is required by the lean and hungry- ones. Hannibal, Elgar, and Darwin, With Olfenbach, Huxley, and Bede, Are all very anxious to help you; Elizabeth hopes you ' ll succeed. Sheridan joins Ellen Terry — A really acceptable pair — And Ruskin, along with D ' israeli, Has certainly got to be there. Eiffel (All Paris must know him) Accompanies Hobhouse of fame; Euripides enters with Nansen To greet Arthur Rackham by name. Rachmaninoff ranges the keyboard. But some of his playing is Wilde; (Osier and Robert of Leicester Entered with Dante, and Smiled). Lang, the successful historian, Was chatting with Irving and Krupp, And Eden ' s young protege Arnold Said Heavens! I can ' t keep it up! •Carroll, so famous for Alice, Was sitting with Oliver Lodge, Leander was swimming the Channel, So Off a said, Mercia! Let ' s dodge! Shakespeare and Sullivan were lunching, While Ursula waited for Scott; Alexander was Nobel to Dumas, But Wordsworth found curry too hot. Elgar was quite an enigma. And Peary was right up the pole; Thorpe seemed to like Madame Tussard, While Yeats fed on beans, as a whole. Masefield extended his frontier When Emerson came from the States; A Nightingale sang in Scutari, And Whistler and Aesop had dates. Lenin was sharing a bottle With pirate notorious Kidd, And Ursula, useful old woman. Suggested Napoleon hid. Doyle (you will know him as Conan)

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:15 This was sung with the last verse in unison, with an unrehearsed con- tralto solo from Buttercup. Just as the choir was about to begin its usual selection of solos and glees, the Headmaster interrupted the programme to welcome the Director of Education, who apologised for being nearly two hours late, but explained that he had had an accident to his tricycle. When a seat had been found for him, Caroline McGuffy sang ' Cherry Ripe , a sure winner since she firs t rendered it seventeen years before. Appropriately enough, just as the Parnassus Male Voice Quartet was delivering itself of Mary, Call the Cattle Home! a fiery face with red whiskers appeared in the doorway, and requested the assem- bly to get out of here, as the milk-truck collected at 6.30. The Gradu- ation then dispersed into groups for gossip and refreshment, and two fights broke out; one between Eleanor Rafferty and Lucinda Bates, for a reason which was not clear to either of them, and one between Duke Mangold and Preston Winterseed as to whether they were tenors or contraltos. The Headmaster then remembered that the Graduation Ceremony had been accidentally forgotten, but, as the Cowshed was now fully occupied by the herd and the hired hands, and only two pupils had, in any case, qualified, it was decided to leave the presentation until the following year. As the moon rose over the Coca-Cola factory, and the bullfrogs in Stinking Swamp began their nightly chorus, another great day in the history of Education drew slowly to its close. Gub. Solve this Shakespearean Quotation For some time past, the senior forms of the school have been asked to pool their brains to solve a number of tests; one, for example, con- tained the names of 24 members of the Upper School, given in the form of Crossword Clues. A week was all that was necessary, in most cases, but one defeated all efforts for a fortnight, and then a very broad hint had to be given. It is repeated below in the hope that the younger members of the family, who by this time know the answer, will allow their seniors to writhe in their anguish. So as not to be too unkind, it must be made clear that there is no code employed, that

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17 Was ready, unlike Ethelred, But the rascally ruffian Rasputin Was glad Henry Irving was dead. Hocking was mending his stocking, But Viscount Ullswater was mute; But a lady whose name was not Eliot Taught Lincoln to play on the flute. The Gaskell (The author of Cranford ' ) Thought Socrates up to the times; Tosti and Ohm played for conkers, But Franklin played Newton for dimes. Daniel was asking for judgment, (I interviewed him in his den); He said he had changed his opinions, And much preferred lions to men! O ' Connell was weeping for Ireland, While Ullswater dreamed of the Lakes; Raleigh played cricket with Eliot, While Lenin watched out for mistakes. Amerigo Vespucci, Of South American fame, Told Professor Saintsbury That he was only a name! Dicken ' s watch wasn ' t working, Holland gave up all his preaching, But IngersoU soon put it right; And Oersted provided the light. Nelson talked painting with Orpen, While Ursula knitted a vest; She made some enquiries of Arkwright Becawse she had Burns on her chest. A Lodge in the forest seemed lovely. But Gibbon was sure it would fall; Amundsen said Van Eyck was finished , And Stanley said, No good at all! . P. L. H. The Wedding I am now fourteen, and I am as yet too young to be married. But I will tell you about another wedding. At first my brother went to church with his future wife to see the priest. The priest told him to come back on Tuesday at seven o ' clock to have a rehearsal.