Sedgwick High School - Comet Yearbook (Sedgwick, ME)

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THE coME'r 13 ATHLETICS There is little in athletics to offer this year. Only nine games of basket- ball were played by the two teams. Girls' Games On November 15, the girls played the Stonington girls at Stonington, losing by a score of 15 to 37. The re- turn game was played at Sedgwick, our girls losing by a score of 7 to 67. On January 11, in a game with the Brooklin girls at Sedgwick, our team lost, 3 to 42. The return game played at Brooklin was lost by a score of 4 to 27. Boys' Game. On November 15, the boys lost to Stonington by a score of 3 to 56. In the return game played at Sedgwick, Stonington won again, 36 to 15. On December 14, we played the Brooklin boys at Brooklin, winning, 18 to 14. In the return game at Sedgwick, we also wo11, 34 to 29. The last game of the season was lost to Bluehill Acad- emy by a score of 26 to 10. -R. A. H., '30. JCDKES Mr. Flye Cin English IIJ : Black, what is the difference between madam and madame? Black: One is masculine and the other feminine. Mr. Flyez Well, what is a mascu- line madam? i 8 O Miss E. Hooper fin Math. III and IVJ : An angle inscribed in a semi- circle is a square. 0 'll' 1' Heard in chemistry: Aluminum is used in manufacturing tinware. Sk SS PK: Miss Robinson fin Physical Geog- raphyj : From what country did the stone come for this building? Black: Up back. 0 ll 8 English III and IV: VVhat is an anonymous book? Heath: It is a book that annoys people who read it. In Freshman Algebra: Hlvllili. would you get if you were to subtract a cow from a horse? Miss V. Carter: A cow a11d a horse. VVell, you didn't. You got a mule. SF if Ili I11 Ancient History: Wl1o were compelled to take military training? Miss Ford: All the male boys! fl? PX! SF In European History: Hxvllilt sort of a man was Louis XVI? Loud whisper from back of room: 4'He was pretty. PK4 SF 3? England has 110 need for an arm D because foreign navies cannot march into her possessions. 39 Sk IX: ln Physical Geography: Water covers seven-fifths of the CZlI'tl1,S sur- face.

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12 THE coM.E'r today. Don l1id in the library, but Mr. Flye found him. Feb. 26-Miss Alice Plunkett vis- ited school. Heath was excused from economics to watch the alcohol lamps in the laboratory. March 3-Seniors and Juniors were excused to attend town meeting. Miss Robinson chaperoned. They gave a full report of the meeting. March 4-Pearl Sukeforth and Marian Hall visited us. New regula- tions regarding whispering. March 5-Everybody went out at recess. Good work! Christian En- deavor social at Sedgwick last night. The high school was well represented. March 10-Senior class parts as- signed. March 10-16-Spring vacation. March 19-State health nurse vis- ited us. fFor details see Roscoe's account of the day.J March 24-For the first time in thirteen years, no one had to stay after school to rewrite his spelling words. Mr. Flye informed Heath that he CHeathj was no addition to the Vergil class in the library. March 25-Hilda Allen visited us. March 26-Much to their delight, the economics class finished the prob- lem of Normal Value . March 27-Saunders, Bridges and Heath were requested to remain at- ter school for economics. Miss Dun- phey fnurseb returned with a list of six-point students. There were eleven of them. March 28-Leo Bridges visited us. Heath was sent back into the main room from economics. March 31-Members of the basket- ball teams received their letters. April 1-All the boys were excused from Miss Eccles' music period. April 2-Mark Clapp visited us. April 3-Weston Varnum visited us. Homer Bridges absent. April 3-4-Exams! Some of us were excused. April 5-Seniors went to Bar Har- bor to have their pictures taken for The Comet. April 7-Rain storm. Small school. April 9-The Freshmen stayed af- ter school for algebra. April 10-The Seniors' pictures came today. April 11-Miss Robinson didn't hear the bell this morning, so the Vil- gil class had no recitation, but the poor Freshmen in Latin I recited through two periods. April 14-Roscoe's unlucky day! A window was broken in the recita- tion room at noon. April 15-Miss Eccles here today. The boys were entertained during the period by Miss Robinson. April 16-The boys cleaned up the basement at noon under the direction of Mr. Flye. April 17-Most of us stayed in at recess for whispering. Miss Robin- son coached the rehearsal of the play, as Mr. Flye went to Brooklin. April 24-Practiced the play in the hall for the first time. April 25-The school presented Mr. Flye with a birthday cake. It was quite a surprise. April 29-The boys were called to the village this afternoon to iight fire. Later they went to Sargentville to another fire. Proctor had an accident. April 30-Ball game at North Sedgwick. Rehearsal postponed.

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14 THE ooivim' In Am. Lit.: Tell something of Emerson. ' ' McCarthy: He was one of five who lived with their widower mother. if 'XG if Miss M. Simmons tspeaking of Hawthornel : His father was a sea- captain who died when he was four years oldf' SF ,Ks 9? Miss C. Hooper treading from The Ancient Marineruj : And every soul it passed me by Like the whizz of my crow-bar Ccross-bowj ' as as as Miss Johnson Qin Geometryj: Draw an imaginary lineln ll if 'IF English II tto be punctuatedj: This canary said the salesman is a beautiful singer. The result: This canary said, The salesman is a beautiful singer. ' Q l I From Freshman themes: HI must of fell into a sort of dream, drinking in the beauty of the surrounding landscape. H 1 'I' W From an account of a turkey hunt: HI heard a scratching and I crept up around a bush and I saw a big fat gobblin setting rite on the ground not more than twenty yards away and I pulled the trigger a11d the gun nocked me over backwards and when I got up to find my turkey he had flewn and I felt like throwing my gun away and- 'Ki it SF From Physical Geography: Gin- chona is a tree that bears quinine or aspirin tablets and grows in tropical regions. English I paper: Stevenson was buried on the summit of a mountain 1,300 feet from the ground. Sli PX: Pl? From Economics: t'Elastic demand is demand that stretches. Miss Robinson fin Connnercial Geographyl : From what is flour made, Gray? Gray: Corn, Quotation from Portia's speech: The quality of mercy is not straned, It dopeth like the jentel rain from Heaven Upon the place beneath. :lk SS 96 We skun him ta bearl by the light of a log tire. SF al? :Ks From Am. Lit: The Bay Psalm Book was a book i11 which some parts of the Bible were written in rhyme. PX' 'lt Pl? Mr. Flye: 'tVVhat about John Trum- bull's education? Hagerthy: He graduated from Yale at the age of seven.f' SF :KS Pl? Miss Robinson: What happened to Louis XVI? V Heath: They chopped his head off. ' . SF 3? SF Bridges Cfilling blankl : My moth- er is a11 imaginary person. SF Pl? its Mr. Flye Cin Freshman Algebraj: f'Byard, is this by any chance the rig'ht answer? Byard: It is the one in the book. fl? Pl? Pl? Reading from The Tale of Two Cities : '4The wigglcd gentleman wrote a Word or two 011 a piece of paper. tWigged gentlemanj