Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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4 Till-: SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR. began to write lie made it a rule to send an editorial each day to one of the many “Greatest London Dailies.” He did this for a year before one of them was accepted. “If at first you don’t succeed------------ LIFE has, for the last seven or eight weeks, contained caricatures of the noted men of the day. The artist en- deavors to bring out the features that have the most resemblance to an animal or bird. This makes a large number of the faces very startling and all of them amusing. Take, for instance, Lord Sal- isbury, Prime Minister of Great Britain, who was drawn to resemble a pig. The lower part of his naturally large face was made still larger, so that the like- ness to the aforesaid animal was striking. Other caricatures were Rich- ard Croker, as a bull dog; Hall Caine, the author of “The Christian;” Henry Austin, Poet Laureateof England; James Gordon Bennett, Thomas C. Platt, as an elephant, and Joseph Pulitzer, the much abused and talked about editor of the X. Y. World, the great “Yellow Kid newspaper, as a parrot; also the picture of Robert Van Wyck, mayor-elect of Greater New York, who, as the Boston I lerald said, was enough to frighten even “Dick” Croker. These pictures are wor- thy of careful study if you are inter- ested in the prominent men of the day. CO PI ICS of the Souvenir School Di- rectory of the Somerville High Schools may still be obtained from Mr. Sellon at the lunch counter in the base- ment of the English High School build- ing. Your name and address, the for- mer and present teachers, are among the contents of this book. I bis publi- cation may not be of much interest to you now, but in later years you will see the advisability of having purchased one—that is, if you wish to remember your class mates and Aimer Mater. TIIE attractive posters which were placed upon the bulletin boards in the corridors of both the schools during the past football season were done by Fitts, Reynolds and Giles These draw- ings advertised the game much better than the regular printed placards. The last one executed by Fitts for the Dor- chester game was especially good. DOOR “Arvard!” Although the I coaches decided to remove the IPs on the players’ sweaters for the sake of spurring them on to victory, it did not make them succeed any better. The annual saying, “wait until next year,” is receiving an awful strain. SOMERVILLE, or rather more cor- rectly speaking, the Heptorean Club, was especially favored in being able to hear Marion Crawford, one of the most noted novelists of the day. The large audience that greeted him shows that Somerville knows how to appreciate a good thing. HOTOGRAPIIS of the Somerville High School second eleven are now on sale. They may be procured from Gilbert, Latin, ’98, for the small sum of fifteen cents. TI IE flags on some of our grammar school buildings are in a very dilap- idated condition. Wouldn't it be well to “tear the tattered ensigns down,” and raise new ones in their places ? OOMERVILLE’S winning the foot- er ball championship every year is such a sure thing that its getting to be monot- onous. pvOC” HOLMES did not have to re- i-J move the S’s from the sweaters of the Somerville boys. HANTHONY OPE AWKINS is the lion of the our with 'is “Dolly Dialogues.” RED and Blue seem to be the win- ning colors. Somerville and Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. NOW is the time for the seniors to be thinking of their class photographs. W ERE are your contributions?

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T H E Somerville UAT1N SCHOOL». High School Radiator. o ENGLISH SCHOOL. Vol. VII. Somerville, Massachusetts, December, 1897. No. 2. TIIK Kadiatok Is published by the Somerville Latin and English High Schools on the third Wednesday of every month during the school year, and only important news matter can be received after the K th of the month. Matter for insertion may be left with any of the editorial stalf or be mailed to the editor at the Latin High School. In contributing, write on one side of the paper only, an«l sign the full name and address (this is for refer- cnee only). Communications should be addressed to the editor or the business manager, according to their nature. Manuscript must be accompanied by the necessary postage to insure its return. TERMS, 75 CENTS PER YEAR. SINGLE COPIES, IO CENTS. Entered at Boston Post Office as second class matter. SOMERVILLE CITIZEN PRESS. OFFICERS OF THE RADIATOR. EDITOR IN CHIEF. DONALD (L THAI). L. II. S., ’9$. ASSOCIATE EDITOR. MISS GERTRUDE C. L. VASQUE. K. II. S., '98. SPORTING EDITOR. MOSES Gl'N SE N HIS E R, L. II. S., '9S. FOR three consecutive years the Som- erville High and Latin Football team has won the championship of the Junior Interscholastic League. The work of the eleven has been of the gilt- edged order and the players well deserve the praise that is now being bestowed upon them. To Captain Charles Cuddy and Coach Holmes a great deal of credit is due. Both of these men worked very hard to turn out a team that would re- flect honor on the schools and we all BUSINESS MANAGER. WILLIAM F. CUTTER. K. II. S., ’98. ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER BRADFORD H. PIERCE. L. II. S., ’OS. CLASS EDITORS. LATIN SCHOOL. MAE BROCK. ’9s. SAMUEL ARMSTRONG, ’99. GILBERT H ETHER I NOTON. '00. RALPH N. SMITH. 01. ENOLISH SCHOOL. ALBERT J. MESERVE. JR.. S. ‘ LOTTIE E. WILLIAMS. 99. ETHEL C. WHEELER. 00. FRED E. MOORE. 01. TREASURER. RALPH O. BROOKS. K. II. '98. know how well they succeeded. With- out exception the boys played clean games and carried themselves as gentle- men. All success to the football team of next season and again may they be able to bring the championship to Somerville. DO NOT be discouraged though your articles contributed to this paper are not accepted the first time. When John Morley, the great Knglish editor,

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THK SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR. 5 H XErip XEbrougb tbe British llsles. m HELEN if. TBELE. A chorus of best wishes and a flutter of waving handkerchiefs followed our departure from the East Boston pier. The voyage, so auspiciously begun, was as delightful as happy conditions could make it when one had fair skies, pleas- ant companionship and the serene con- sciousness of being obliged to do noth- ing because there was nothing to do. Later in the afternoon of the tenth day the first dim outline of distant land ap- peared and we realized that we were approaching the “Emerald Isle. Then came the news that we should arrive at Queenstown about midnight. Imagine our excitement! We were soon to realize the dream of months, to actually tread upon and see the land we had read about and thought about so much. The good friends who were to go on to Liv- erpool shared our joyful anticipations and loyally stayed on deck till the “America had carried us far away from the ship’s side. Queenstown, under the glory of the full moon, was like a vision of a me- diaeval city, with high, gray battlemented walls and lofty turrets. The morning light, however, dispelled the illusion ; the lofty turrets became ordinary chim- ney pots, and though the antiquity of the town is interesting, we were not sorry to leave its unattractive streets and hasten on to Blarney Castle, which we deemed to be the fitting object of our first reverent attention. We ap- proached this shrine of the “stone of eloquence in the perilous vehicle known as a jaunting car. Our youthful driver, with quick appreciation of our greenness upon Irish soil, whipped his horse to a fast trot, and for the first half mile we devoted ourselves exclusively to the duty of keeping on the seat. The car is a two-wheeled affair, with two seats for passengers, at right angles to and back of the driver. We were told that fami- lies of eight people had been seen riding upon a car no larger than ours, but some- how the seats seemed none too large for us and the gymnastics we were forced to perform. After an effort like this we did not feel equal to the feat of swing- ing off from a wall 120 feet high and reaching down to a distance of five or six feet to kiss the famous stone. No wonder eloquence is such a rare gift if it must be obtained at such a risk as this. There is an ordinary, second-hand stone which visitors are advised to kiss, but we scorned anything but the orig- inal. Blarney Castle is a picturesque, ivy-covered ruin, consisting of a massive donjon tower belonging to the 15th cen- tury. It has no particular historic in- terest, its chief attraction lying in the stone, which endows whoever kisses it with the “sweet, persuasive, wheedling eloquence,” said to be perceptible in the language of the Cork people. Our chief object in coming to Ireland was to see the Lakes of Killarney. The most delightful method of reaching Kil- larney is by coaching for a part of the way over what is called the ‘Trince of Wales’ ” route. For miles the road winds among mountains, with occasional glimpses of the distant ocean and en- chanting visions of mountain lakes. Close to the roadside grew tall bushes of the glossy-leaved holly and the wild fuchsia, with its drooping clusters of brilliant blossoms, like so many rubies. Ireland truly deserves its name of the “Emerald Isle. Every where its ver- dure was of the most vivid green, and its flora surprised us with its almost rank exuberance. Our enthusiasm reached its pitch when at last we saw the lakes like jewels mountain-set, which poetry and legend have made so famous. Many a wild tale of fairy and giant lore did our Irish boatman regale us with during the morning we spent upon Lough Leane. Perhaps because this was our first experience of lake scenery we felt that nothing afterwards could compare with it in either England and Scotland. All too soon we had to has- ten on to Dublin to keep pace with the inexorable itinerary which we had mapped out for ourselves. Both here and all along the way across Ireland we saw the ruined abbeys and castles which