Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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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.

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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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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR. 17 Latin High Gleanings. Mr. Baxter gave us a holiday on Fri- day, Oct. 28. Let us extend our hearty thanks to him. The Latin High wishes to thank Fitts, Gooding and Harmer for their attrac- tive posters advertising the games. We have a new gong, so there is no reason why we should be late from re- cess. That ought to please Muldoon. No more football songs can be sung during singing hour until we learn the words. What a disappointment to the boys! Some young ladies of the Junior class are following the custom of last year by giving weekly lunches in the laboratory every Friday after school. The Latin High girls turn out in goodly numbers at the foootball games. They all ought to come. After coming once ii is safe to say they wouldn’t miss a single game. Can’t we have more interest taken in the ’99 class meetings ? Sometimes not more than a third of the class attend them. We surely ought to be able to get more than half the class together without much trouble. The remarks given by Mr. Baxter on La Fayette Day were very much en- joyed, as will be remembered. Mr. Chas. Reach, '99, favored 11s with a vio- lin solo and Miss Minnie Kimpton, also of ’99, sang the Marseillaise in French, the school joining in on the chorus. S. E. H. S. Gleanings. Of the many branches of study in the school, one of the most enjoyable is Ge- ology. The class has taken numerous trips abroad and combined pleasure and profit with great success. Richard Wiley, one of our athletic young men who was with the 8th Regi- ment, Co. M., during the late war, re- cently paid the school a visit and passed a pleasant time with his friends. He returns from the campaign in rugged health and well able to take up any studies his wishes may dictate. It is pleasing to know that the system of instruction in our schools is so good that Miss Jennie S. Wood, who took a post graduate course last year, is now teaching at the high school in Pecaton- ica, 111. Fourth Elocution A has nearly fin- ished its part of the rhetorical work in the lecture hall. The class has done ex- ceedingly good work and amply repaid Miss Nichols for her efforts and lor the time taken in preparation. The English School unites with the Latin in earnestly wishing our boys suc- cess Thanksgiving morning. May they close a successful season with a glorious and decisive victory. They are to meet opponents worthy of their best efforts. Resolutions. Whereas, By death, our dear com- panion, Blanche Harmon, has been be- reaved of her beloved father ; and Whereas, The members of the S. and II. Club, have learned with great sorrow of her affliction, be it therefore Resolved, That they hereby tender their heartfelt sympathies to her in her trouble; and be it further Resolved, That a copy of these Resolutions be sent to Miss Harmon, and printed in the Hioh School Ra- diator. Per committee, E. C. Wheeler. E. W. Carter. II. K. Thomas. Somerville, Mass., Nov. 9, 1898. R. Pipe appears to be an able suc- cessor to “Metoxcn” Stone in respect to making goals from the field. It looks now as if it would be neces- sary to publish a championship number next month. If the eleven keeps up in its good work we are sure to land on top.