Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 19 1902. Miss Black tells us that Aeneas’ sailors rolled round on their heads.” They probably were out for the team.” Russ lacks the chief requisite of a football player — hair. Mr. Abbott says “Thank you” to every person who gives a good recitation. Give us .Vs. Mr. Ab- bott. and we'll do the same for you. A red ribbon badge marked S. C. 1 . S., ’02, is the symbol of a new full-fledged mysterious so- ciety. composed of Seniors. The society is organ- ized for a good cause, and the frequent heated dis- cussions show that they have more in them than ordinary knowledge. At last 1902 has downed 1903 in basket ball. 15 to Keep it up, girls. Mason thinks that brevity is the soul of an English quotation. 11 is teacher has another think. however. Phillips will become a student teacher in chem- i. try next year. Look out for Phillips' and Earle’s Manual.” Shcdd surely has ragtime on the brain. YY henever he studies very hard, his feet move in- voluntarily. Notes for the Radiator will always be in order. The editor will be found somewhere between the lunch counter and Room 29 at any time in the da . 1903. Class officers: President, Brooks Crosby: vice- president. Edwin Philbrick; secretary and treas- urer, Herbert Currier; editor. Scott Neely. He has been very low,” said the doctor, but he will pull through. Pull' Pull!” echoed the Junior. It seems my very existence depends upon a pull. The first class in chemistry have found various ways of spelling oxide.” Some of them are: Ox-hide. Ox-eyed,” and “Ox-id. L.ittle lines of Latin. Little lines to scan. Make a mighty Virgil, And a crazy man. We are the largest Junior class that ever entered this school. Let us keep this good record to the end. Master Me.— Mav I go to mv room and get my block?” Teacher.— You won’t need your block (?) this period. Senior (ten vears hence).— Yes, sir, our school has turned out some great men.” Junior.— I suppose you are one of them? Senior.—“Well, the school didn’t turn me out ex- actly. but I was turned out of school. We are sorrv to hear that our classmate and edi- tor. Scott Xeelv. has left school. 1904. Now that the most of our class sits on the third floor, the school ought to have an elevator. Blackwell. Allen, and Russell are making a good showing this vear at football. Teacher.— We are now on the road to knowl- edge.” Pupil.—“Will you please tell me where Easy street is?” 1905. High School at last! Only Freshmen, to be sure. but. remember, upper classmen, you were there once. No one can deny that we have the most pleasant rooms in the building, for the first floor seems to be the favorite resort of the other classes. As usual, the Freshmen class is the finest yet en- tered. surpassing all previous records in numbers. A recent High School graduate had been ini- tiated into the same college fraternity of which his father was a member, and replied thus to a frater- nal letter urging him to refrain from college pranks: Dear Brother: Don't worry.

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18 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 1902. In accordance with the time-honored and ancient custom of Seniors, we feel in duty hound to open our notes with “Seniors at last!” “He came to the swift sheeps of the Greeks.” Have you ever heard the bellowing of the wolves? He was killed by his father, grandfather, and ancestors.” Apollo, et Diana.” Was he hungry? We all enjoyed Graham’s dissertation on the mind. Notice! All large-sized bugs are hereby re- quested not to enter the Latin School. Graham has objections. Do you believe in concentration? A new verb: Scan, scane, scun. Class organization: President, Edward S. French : vice-president, G. Waldo Proctor; secre- tary, Mildred Lincoln: treasurer, Everett G. Went- worth : editor. Herbert E. Flcischner. 1903. Well, mates! I don't see but we arc back to the mines again! LTp to the same old game of study- ing. I find. Let the good work go on. We may be Juniors this year, but next year------. We agree with Renting that Cicero was a skalawag.” Me brother has a fine deep mind,” Savs Fitz, the funny bloke. “For in the ocean he was drowned. Haw! Haw! You see the joke?” Baldwin gets mixed up in the succession of Spar- tan kings. Can’t some one inform him to whom the throne descends if a king dies leaving no an- cestors”? Quality, not quantity, is required in physics. It was terrible to think of the hardships we were to undergo in studying it. but---- Oh. such fun I’ve had since I begun.”—Physics. The class election resulted as follows: President. Jennings: vice-president. Miss Garton; secretary. Miss Jones: treasurer, Nichols; editor. Marshall; three Radiator representatives, Niles, Dickinson, Fitzgerald. The Freshmen arc a modest lot, So modest that, forsooth, They always say some other thing To shun the naked truth. The Phi Delta election: President, Fitzgerald; treasurer. Dickinson: secretary. Marshall; man- ager of basket ball team, Nichols; captain. Jen- nings. 1904. Hereafter we will have to address Philips as your mightiness.” According to Sheare, Caesar constructed one ditch eighteen feet high. Mr. Hawes wants Garrick to be prepared for ac- cidents—at least, he asked him to fix his grave (accent). Denvir thinks a hippodrome is a lazy horse. Evidently he doesn’t go to the circus. Greek is a fierce language—every noun has a duel (dual). All the boys should contribute to the basket ball fund. It's such a relief not to have to climb three flights of stairs. Of course we are all glad to get back to school. 1905. Come, fellow classmen, let's surpass all previous classes in school spirit by early electing our officers and contributing as many notes as possible to the Radiator. !t must have been a long time ago when Egypt had that great “crop of granite. At a class meeting held Thursday, October 3, Robert Burns was elected class president, and Miss Gertrude Baxter was elected secretary. People can sometimes sec stars in the daytime. Many of the history pupils think mummies a dry subject. Don't complain about the stairs. “We take such sudden flights.”

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20 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR l£ C 11 ATHLETICS On September 10, at the call of Captain Graham, the football team began a campaign under condi- tions which look fairly encouraging. With some of 1900’s veterans and an abundance of new mate- rial. our outlook is bright. Rut whether the cup rests on Central hill for 1901 or not. the reputation of S. H. S. teams for fast, clean football will be sus- tained. Schedule of League Games. October 22, Cambridge High, Tufts oval. October 30, Dorchester High. Charles River park. November 5, Malden High. Tufts oval. November 10, English High. Charles River park. November 28, C. M. T. S., Charles River park. Somerville High, 6; Malden High, 0. 'Flic first game of the season was played with Malden Saturday, September 28. on Tufts oval. Somerville won the game, 0 to 0. Gctchcll won the toss for Malden and took advantage of the wind. Somerville kicked off, and Getchell caught the ball, making a thirty-yard run. Malden then lost the ball and Somerville carried it to Malden’s one-yard line. Here Malden gained the ball on downs, the referee not being able to see the goal line, and after two attempts at the line, Stout kicked to the middle of the field. During the remainder of the half the ball was kept away from both goals. The half ended with the ball in Malden’s posses- sion. No score for the first half. In the second half Somerville took a brace and played a steadier game. Two long runs by Graham and Story brought the ball well into Malden’s territory, and ten minutes after the half started t'nderhill. on an end’s back play, carried the ball over for a touch- down. 'Fhe goal was kicked by Story. Story. Graham, and Blackwell excelled for Somerville, while Getchell and Stout were the stars for Malden. The line-up:— SOMERVILLE. MALDEN Blackwell. 1. e.........................l.c.. Gage Graham (Capt.J, I t......................Ft.. Black Richardson. (Stone), Fg.................Fg., Weeks Allen. (Russell), r.g Philbrick. (McLaughlin), r.t. ... r.t.. Hill IIafford. (Burton), r.e Dickinson. (Currier), (Nolan), q.b q.b., Toomey McCoy, l.h.............................Fh.. Cox Story, r.h..................r.h., Getchell (Capt.) Underhill, (Bean), f.b...............f.b., Stout Umpire—Frank Story. Referee—McCarthy. Linesmen—Frank Fitts and Weeks. Timekeeper —Mullikcn. Touchdown—Underhill. Goal— Story. Total score—Somerville, 5. Length of halves—twenty minutes. Andover, 5; Somerville, 0. ()n Wednesday, ()ctobcr 2, Somerville met its first defeat of the season, at the hands of Phillips Andover. Graham won the toss and took the ad- vantage of the wind. On the kick-off Somerville gained five vards, and then on the first play Jones gained ten vards through tackle. Andover held for downs, and Jones punted out of bounds at Som- erville's twenty-five yard line. By a series of hard rushes Taylor, of Andover, was pulled over for their first touchdown of the year. Kenney missed an easy goal. )n an end run by Jones, and some con- sistent line bucking. Somerville advanced the ball to Andover’s onc-vard line. Here an Andover man punched the ball from Graham’s grasp. 'Fhe ref- eree had no eves for such things, and it was An- dover’s ball on their five-yard line. They punted out of danger. For the rest of the half the ball was kept in the middle of the field. Score for first half: Andover. 5 : Somerville. 0. In the second half both sides kicked frequently. On every exchange of punts Jones gained yards on his opponent. With one minute to play. Jones made a fair catch, and Story attempted a goal from