Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR. 3 LATIN NOTES vs» ,0 4 t 9 - - 'I 'P ±iA’ ■ U or J SR 9V — ’99. Seniors at last! Pourquoi ce pork-war. Muldoon is undoubtedly our crack bass. The question still is, “What shall our class motto be ?” Pupil: It is “sed est tante.” Teacher: Had you said “est tante?” How tastily and daintily the witches of Shakespeare express themselves ! Miss K. (translating): “I see who has gall (Gaul) Catiline feared and Head (fled).” We all rcgict the absence of Harris and extend our best wishes to him for success. Our football seng seems to come true as well in the Senior as in the Junior League. French pronunciations: La soeur (la sewer) Un deux trois Carter s ink (quatre cinq). Story in French: “Frank is an atten- tive boy.” Wiggin: “Charles is the head of his class.” Miss Blood must have been thinking of “Gabriel Grub” when she said “gob- lin” for “gobbler.” Lost ! ! ! A tear dropped by Thetis. Who are the dealers in Greek and Latin horses? We wonder ! ’99 has a slight (?) representation in football—Story, Fitts, Wiggin, Sanborn, Ayres, Armstrong and Pierce. The eyesight of the ancients must have been keener than ouis in that they could see an extinguished flame. A member of our class carries written on his brow the score of the English High game. One touchdown. Our officers are: President, Story; Vice-President, Miss Poole ; Secretary, Miss Kingsley ; Treasurer, P'itts. Agamemnon must have been an odd sight. The face of a dog, heart of a deer, body soaked in wine and clothed in shamelessness. How did Pallas in ancient times carry on that long conversation with Aeneas from a distant hilltop? Did he use a megaphone ? ’00 Sturtevant is “bracing up.” Phillips is our Physics oracle. Poor Miss Densmorc ! If the teacher would only let her whisper. Mr. Baxter says that our girls are the sickliest girls he ever saw. Purcell complains that our new elec- tric bell sounds like an ice-cream wagon. Why can’t the boys, too, enjoy the banquet in the laboratory Friday after- noons ? Teacher: “What was the end of Themistocles?” Doubtful Scholar: “I think he died.” Moore’s only consolation in his recent trouble with his knee was being univer- sally mistaken for a Santiago hero. At the second meeting of the class Miss Clarke was elected president;

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12 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR. MISS AIARY F. GARRICK. Miss Carrick’s early life was passed at her birthplace, Nashville, Tenn. Later, coming to Boston, her High School education was received at the Roxbury High School. After completing the course in the Massachusetts Normal Art School, Miss Carrick was for some time supervisor of drawing in the High Schools of Natick and Chelsea. In June, ’98, she was elected to fill the vacancy in the department of Free Hand Drawing in the English High School, caused by Miss Davenport’s resignation. With increased facilities for excellent work, with its much-im- proved and enlarged studio, this ever- popular department, under Miss Car- rick’s charge, has before it a bright and most promising future. Mother (solemnly): “ Did you tell God that you were sorry for being a naughty girl?” Little Elsie: “Yes, I did, and he said, ‘ Dreat Stott, Elsie, zat’s nussin’. They’s lots far worser than you is.’ ”—Ex. It is interesting to note that school papers from all over the country give athletics an important place in their issues. MISS ETTA A. SEAVER. Miss Seaver was born in Davenport, Iowa, but early removed with her parents to New England, where her life has since been passed. She was pre- pared for college by Mr. Charles T. Murray of the Latin School, entered Smith College in ’88, receiving the de- gree ot B. A. in ’92. After teaching for four years in the Annis High School at North Easton, Miss Seaver was elected assistant in the English High School in the departments of English and History. Nothing but sickness should prevent every member of the two schools from attending Somerville’s game with the Training School on Thanksgiving Day. It is the final effort of the boys, and we owe it to the clean, sportsmanlike game they have put up, to support them with a large attendance. Come then, if you never came before. Systematic and well-timed cheering will be in order, so get into practice, and come prepared to see Somerville finish the league series successfully. The oldest iron vessel in the world is the Michigan, built in 1S44.

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M SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR. Miss Stearns, secretary; Moore, vice- president ; Harts, treasurer; and Snow- man, editor. We ought to put Macdonald, Sturte- vant and Kimball on the Peace Com- mission. When the building shook with such a terrific crash the other day, we all thought Cushman had fallen down. Mr. Baxter thinks it verv strange that every boy who asks him for a pen- cil or block of paper has had only one. Doyle received a pretty compliment sometime ago. One of the teachers said that Smith was the shortest boy in the room. We learn from the “Anabasis that the Greeks sang while engaging in bat- tle. We extend consolations to their adversaries. And let the girls remember that al- though the schoolhouse may sometimes be used as a restaurant, it must never become a dance-hall. Our invincible class team has dis- banded. The captain was unable to get a Thanksgiving game, so the boys have gone out of training for the season. We know now that that notorious man in the “Anabasis” was really shot in the left wing. One of the class said, “And they do not receive the attack but fly.” Manager Doyle has been assigning parts for the class theatricals, reproduc- ing a portion of de Quincey’s “Flight of the Kalmucks.” The characters of Cushman and Sturtevant for skeletons and Brine for Zebec-Dorchi arc partic- ularly appropriate. 01 Where is our class artist this year ? Keep it up, boys, and you will admin- ister a dose to the “boys upstairs.” We are all very sorry to learn of the illness of Miss McClellan and Master Doyle. Master Brown as class president and Miss Thompson as class secretary were again elected this year. The influence of the supernatural in Coleridge’s “Ancient Mariner” is strongly felt by the Latin studeat, who had the dead bodies gather themselves together in a heap. One of our 1st Div. boys at 1.30 o’clock, “What comes next hour ? ” Dream on. The class of 1901 is well represented in the executive committee by Miss True and Master Smith. Somerville Latin High, 1901, in their first game defeated Cambridge High, 1902 and 1903, by the score of 12-0. Moth balls were known to the Romans, as one scholar says, they pre- served their feathered helmets by using them. ’02 “It is too bad he is so, Good.” Oh what could the football team do, Without the luck of naughty two ? “French is so much like a rubber ball ! ” What has become of the class pin committee ? Teacher: “Miss Dearborn, N. G. ? Miss D : “Yes, sir. Teacher, asking for a simile, “He is as strong as ? Miss Lion ?” “Uncle Pete.” An old negro named Pete was very much troubled about his sins. Perceiv- ing him one day with a downcast look, his master asked him the cause. “Oh, massa, I’m such a great sinner.” “But, Pete,” said his master, “you are foolish to take it so much to heart. You never see me troubled about my sins.” “I know de reasons, massa,” said Pete, “when you go out duck shooting, and kill one duck and wound anoder, don’t you run after the wounded duck ? ” “Yes, Pete,” and the master wondered what was coming next. “Well, massa, dat is de way wid me and you. De dcbil's got you shore ; but as he am not sure ob me, he jess chase dis chile all de time.” S. Edith Moses, S. L. S., ’02.