Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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SOMKRVILLK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR. 15 ENGLISH NOTES , w,e M ft A 4.- S jfX ’99 Room the Radiator ! Make this the best volume ever issued. Poor Clay was a pacifactory (pacifica- tor). Wonder how such “factories” were run. Strange how weak some of our foot- ball boys are when it comes to standing in recitation. A young lady of the Senior class re- cently informed her classmates that she thought a shell was not so hard as a cannon ball. S Heard in History A: Governor Houston of Texas wrote to Washington asking if he could be annexed to the United States.” Socrates must have needed the sym- pathy of his friends for we are told that he had a tyrant of a wife who frequently dampened his feelings with a pitcher of water. It is hard to realize that we have reached the fourth year of our High School course. Let us make this the most pleasant and most profitable year of the course. A certain young gentleman gave the following quotation recently: “Man for the field and women for the hearth, Man for the sword, for the needle she; Man with the head and woman with the heart; Man to command and woman to obey ; All else confusion.” We wonder if these are sentiments of that young man. Upon being asked the date of the next algebra recitation, the instructor re- plied, “That is a question involving arithmetic and therefore should not be brought up in an algebra recitation.” The girls of English C are growing uneasy owing to the frequency with which the boys give the quotations: “How weak a thing the heart of woman is,” or, “How hard it is for women to keep counsel.” The Seniors should congratulate themselves upon securing Channing’s new histories. It looks odd to see ac- counts of the late Spanish War between the covers of a regular history, waiting to be studied. ’00 How III Eng. B. do seem to enjoy the “Weird Seizures.” Sometimes the “y” in “bicycle” is too long. Ask Smith about this. Isn't it discouraging when a Senior pupil in typewriting writes, “The seats were piled ‘tear’ on ‘tear?’ ” Some turkeys are more vain than others, but on Thankgiving Day they are all dressed all dressed alike. Why wouldn’t it be a good plan to es- tablish a school fund to supply our low- voiced girls with megaphones ? Latest observations of a red corpuscle magnified 560 times declare it to be “just like a cross section or a foot-ball ” Our had recitals arc quite successful. Some of the participants are like the five foot boiler, with a seven foot whistle—

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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.

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i6 SOM HR VILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR. every time the whistle blows the engine stops. So when they open their mouths their mental faculties cease to work. II, reciting : “Again we lost her, and again she rose, four of the two men were gone. Teacher: “How many were there left ?” Wanted : The name of the ingenious boy who wrote the history lesson on his cuff in shorthand and pasted the cuff in his note-book to save copying. It would be a good idea to have our class meetings bulletined a day before, to avoid the need of hurrying away for dinner, by making some previous ar- rangement. 01 White is the coming doctor. Next year we shall be juniors. The class-pins, although it took them a year to come into sight, are all right. The boys of 1901 are (n) aughty ones, but the boys of 1902 are (n) aughty two. The third eleven is rapidly progress- ing under the captaincy of W. Goode of 02. It is hoped that Sidney Cole will re- peat last year’s success in the lecture hall. Mr. Hadley: “Hark! Is it possible that I could have heard number two hundred ?” Russell Pipe, the assistant manager of the second football eleven, is our class president. Kinnigan: “What did Pat die of?” O'Brady : “Sure an’ his heart was un- aisy.” “His heart unaisy ? ” “Yis, the doctor sid it was heart-disaise.” One of the boys of the first year be- came so enthusiastic over the game with English High that he took for the subject of his daily theme, “Pipe’s Run.” Will somebody in Room 28 please look up Bradford’s pedigree ? He ap- pears strangely familiar with the Latin language, as several of the scholars will testify. White of Room 28 is an honor to our class. In Ethics he proved himself fully capable of twisting his mouth to the most difficult words which the Phil- ippine Islands could produce. It is to be proposed at our next class meeting that we send him to those remote islands as a missionary from the S. E. H. S. to make the natives familiar with the qualities of rubber and elastic. m I low intcrcsting“unknown” quantities are! Class organizations and class pins are next in order. What a pity it would be if “Collars and Cuffs’’ lost his curly wig. Advice from Cumming of Room 11 : “Put not your money in trust, but put your money in trust.” Oh yes, we know, dear upper classes, we are young, but we lead all entering classes thus far in numbers. The faculty and pupils of the English High School received with pleasure the visit, some three weeks ago, of Mr. Joshua 11. Davis, for many years superintendent of the Somerville Schools. Mr. Davis’ interest in the welfare of our schools is keen as ever, and his cordial and appro- priate remarks were full of inspiration and good-will. We would have him know that he is a very welcome visitor, and hope that he wiil honor us more frequently in the future. Prof. Percy E. Parsons who took his A. B. with a magnum cum laude at Har- vard last June has been chosen to take Prof. Wheeler’s place. He comes highly recommended by the faculty at Harvard and he is already proving that Harvard is right in its estimate of his ability.— (High School stegis, Bloomington, III.) Although Mr. Parsons was with us but a short time we heartily wish him suc- cess in his new position. •‘His Lordship and his Ladyship” Win courtesy and praise, But His Warship” is the title Most respected nowadays. —Ex.