Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

Text from Pages 1 - 316 of the 1903 volume:

CONTENTS OF OGTOBER RADIATOR The Cup (frontispiece),............................................................4 Radiator Staff,....................................................................5 Editorials,......................................................................6-7 The Great Stone Face, by Eleanor Cummings, L., ’04,........................7 Dikes, Ditches and Dutchmen, by Mae D. Frazar,.........................8 Nature’s Carnival, by Bertha Phillips Marvel,......................................n A Daughter of Apollo, by Harold S. Libby, L., ’04....................12 Barbara’s Kindness,...............................................................14 The Duke of Thorwalden, by C. Sherwood Ricker, L., ’04, - - - - 16 In the Eye of the Law, by Margaret E. Wingcrsky, E., ’04, 18 The New Teachers,.................................................................19 Exchange Notes,...................................................................20 The Football Captain,.............................................................21 Public Occurrences,...............................................................22 Latin Notes, 23 English Notes,....................................................................24 Football Notes,.................................................................. 25 Athletics,........................................................................26 Metropolitan Coal Company GENERAL OFFICES 30 Congress Street, Boston FALLING LEAVES Remind us that winter is approaching. .Are you prepared for it? Are your coal bins full? If not, communicate with us If you use an OPFN FIRE we can furnish all grades of coal, also selected hard wood cut any desired length, SOMERVILLE OFFICE 31 UNION SQUARE Pholo by Purdy. f ntersebolaatlc Btblctic league jBase JSall Championship Cup (To Ik- permanently held by the Somerville High Schools.) Note:—The Interscholastic Athletic League was organized at Kindgc Manual Training School, Cambridge. May 22,1! W, with the following olllcers, each representing a member of the organization. President, James W. Mack. Jit., Boston Knglish High School. 1st Vice-President, F. K. Walter, 2nd Vice-President, Arthur J. Cox, Dorchester High School. Kindge Manual Training School. Secretary, Herbert K. Stone, Treasurer, Thornton Jenkins, Somerville High School. Malden High School. •S31 186581 SOMERVILLE mr� ' LATIN AND ENGLISH SCHOOLS Vol. XIII. Somerville, Massachusetts, October, 1903. No. 1. The Radiator i� published by the Somerville Latin and English High School� on the third Thursday of every month during the school year, and only imivortant news matter can In? received after the 10th of the month. Matter for insertion may be left with any of the editorial stafT or mailed to the editor at the Latin High School. In contributing, write on one side of the pajwr only and sign full name (this is for reference only). Communicat ions should Is addressed to the editor, business manager, or exchange oditor, according to their nature. Manuscript must be accompanied by necessary jmstage to insure its return. Terms, 75 Cents per Year Single Copies, JO Cents SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT EMtorial Staff SOitorsinsCbtcf C. SH HR WOOD associate EMtor KATHRYNE L. NOLAN, E. 04. Ercbaitflc Ebitor HELEN M. MARDEN, L. '04. Sporting fibttor GEORGE 15. COHEN, L. ’04. RICKER, L. '04. JGusiness dbanaflcr LAWRENCE MITCHELL. E. 04 assistant Business dbanaflcr THOMAS P. DURELL, L. 05. treasurer GERARD C. 15EAN, E. ’04. Staff artist EDWIN G. WEAVER, E. '05. Class lEbitors Xatin School WILLIAM L. PHILLIPS, ’04. ARTHUR T. SOULE, ’05. HERBERT S. SANBORN, ’06. RALPH B. DURELL, ’07. Enfllisb School WARREN B. FARNUM, 04 LEONARD W. LIBBEY, ’05. RICHARD KEYES, ’06. LUTHER I. SMITH, ’07. E3 . .19 6 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR the Radiator turns the mark and heels over on her first tack of another year’s work, those at the tiller feel with a mingled sense of trepiditv and responsibility that no small task is before them. The efficiency and originality of last year’s staff forces this conclusion upon them with great poig- nancy. Our congratulations are heartily given to the re- tiring staff. The June Radiator was an unparall- eled success. Was the standard raised too high for us to uphold? Not if we receive the co-operation of the student body and faculty. They are the pri- mary factors, and we earnestly solicit their aid. Remember that the Radiator is the organ of two large schools, which have turned out men and women prominent in intellectual, literary, and ath- letic affairs, and we may hazard the opinion that there arc still a few in embryo remaining. It is our earnest endeavor to publish a magazine of a high moral, literary, and artistic quality, worthy of the two large institutions it represents. In carrying out this resolution, we should have the earnest, loyal support of every fellow and girl from the class of 1904 to the class of 1907—for it is for them we work. k � � r THE NEW FOUNTAIN. 'I' II ROUGH the kindness of one of Somerville’s aesthetic citizens. Central Hill has at last taken a step back to the primeval state from which it has been so long estranged. There where the virgin forest swayed to the gentle and unsullied summer airs, where later a grim redoubt, with a new-born banner floating above it, repelled the invader, where finally Nature fled shrieking from an arc light on a pole—fled, in spite of the attempt at conciliation when the tulips they had planted in geometrical design stood out against the long green of the lawns.—in this spot there has now been reared a mass of Roxburv pudding stone, heaped in artistic, though rustic profusion, from the crevices of which countless jets of water burst forth into the sunlight. But a word from another point of view. We see a queer smile light the face of the Sophomore, as he wanders down to the fountain with the rest of us at recess to hark to the voice of Nature in the splashing waters. For a moment we are non- plussed. Then we realize he is a Sophomore, and a Sophomore’s idea of Nature is perverted. Some- how he sees an element of beauty lost to many of us in the presence of a—no. we won’t say it. for we may have mistaken that smile—still, we wonder— but we wouldn’t advise it. ¥• ¥■ ATHLETICS. J T is the intention of the staff to amplify the ath- letic department of the paper. Though we do not mean to criticise past staffs in their hand- ling of this department, we will say that, from ob- servation. we feel sure this department is one of the most prominent in the eyes of the Radiator readers, and it is to them we cater. It is the season of football—all other sports are relegated to the rear. Somerville, as usual, is at it with a will. Her hopes for honors in the game arc brighter than ever this year, but bear in mind, every one. that though Somerville has the finest inter- scholastic crowd of scrappers on the gridiron, they are practically useless without support. Time and time again have you seen the effect of a great ringing cheer. It is like a tonic to those staggering, dizzy, and breathless fellows, and it puts new fire and dash into the next onslaught, possibly for a touchdown. Every one takes pride in the athletic prowess of the schools, and this pride—for let us turn that little proverb, Pride gocth before destruction,” to our own use—stimulated and increased by a large at- tendance at the games, will stay the hand of de- struction for decades. K K K THE YACHT RACES. J7YERYONE, whether at the seashore, the moun- tains. or in the city, watched with patriotic in- terest the international yacht races off Sandy Hook last August. The English craftsman and seaman was matched against the American. We were all disappointed at SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR the one-sided aspect of the contest, and after the first race the intense excitement subsided. Yet these races proved some things that made the American heart swell with pride. We had a man. totally blind, who could design a boat so marvelously that in all kinds of weather it literally ran away from the best constructed boat in the United Kingdom. We also had a chance to see a man badly beaten take his defeat in the most graceful manner—an ob- ject lesson for all. We have believed that the pupils of our school would appreciate a picture of Herrcshoff's won- derful racing machine, which the Photo Era people have courteously made possible for us to do. r r ADVERTJSER vs. READER. OME of our advertisers have complained in the past of the fact that the pupils of the High Schools do not patronize them, when they could do so easily. It is the duty of the Radiator supporters to grasp this opportunity and return the kindness to the business men who, by their loyal financial sup- port. enable the paper to be what it is. No matter how good the material we have to publish, if we haven’t the money to work with, we arc helpless— and bear in mind that two-thirds of the money which supports the paper comes from these busi- ness men. who use the Radiator as an advertising medium. THE NEW TEACHER . IIE Latin School records the advent of two new teachers, Miss Mabel Gair Curtis and Miss Edith M. Walker. The English School has added but one to its large corps of instructors, Miss Nina Adclc Cum - mings. The Radiator bids them welcome and wishes them all success. . . r MRS. MAE D. FRAZAW. E have the pleasure of presenting to the Radiator readers this month a very intcrest- ing paper on Holland, entitled Dikes, Ditches and Dutchmen.” Mrs. Frazar is well qualified to write an arti- cle on this queer country, and the magazine is ex- tremely fortunate in securing an article from her pen. THE ENTERING CLA5S. 1'HE English School this year records an entering class of two hundred and thirty-one, while the Latin School has one hundred and twenty-two. Both schools arc overcrowded, and it is with difficulty that the programmes are arranged. We need new schoolhouses! v, r. I� � THE cup. a reproduction of which we present to A the Radiator readers as a frontispiece, was the reward the baseball team received for capturing the interscholastic pennant. THE GREAT STONE FACE. By Eleanor Cummings, L., f04. HE sun was setting soft and low p Behind the western sky, And with a troubled breast I sought The peace I could not buy. I wandered in the meadows fair. And through the woodlands dim, And read strange tales of years far gone On rocks by age made grim. So here, so there, I sought in vain A face untouched by tears; A face so full of God’s great love, ’Twould calm my doubts and fears. But look! far towards the western sun, Where night’s soft shadows fall, I gazed upon a face so grand, It seemed to silence all. ’Twas cut in stone with features stern, And yet so calm, so kind, It touched one heart most sadly wrought, And soothed one weary mind. And now. when life’s sad billows roll, And clasp me in their hold, There comes a mem’ry ever fresh: That Great Stone Face of old. 8 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR DIKES, DITCHES AND DUTCHMEN. By Mae D. Frazar. T WAS early on a summer morning that the ship entered the river Maas and took on board the pilot for the last of the voyage to Rotterdam. As the river began to broaden, the sun came up in a blaze of splendor, and the masses of clouds that had been a soft, rose- colored pink turned to brilliant orange and gold, and then to light, fleecy white, as they were ab- sorbed by the sun’s glowing rays. vidual labor of the Hollander, and recall the humor- ous story of the enemy once in attack upon the country, when the Hollander, having no more am- munition, loaded the big guns with round, red. cheeses; and when the enemy received the first volley, he retired from the scene, for he said that if the Dutch had begun to throw cheese, there was no limit to the time he could hold his own; heaps of neat, white boxes of every size and shape tell the story of busy life in our own United States, and the IN THE HARBOR OF MARKEN. HOLLAND. Like an enchanted city. Rotterdam lay in the pink and golden distance, amid a forest of masts on ships belonging in every quarter of the world, with picturesque buildings and graceful bridges touched into lines of vivid color, and with long lines of trees along the shore and in clustering groups, marking the cool, fresh parks, which drew the fancy ami held a rare spell after ten days on the broad ocean. It is not often that commerce, pure and simple, has elements of poetry, for it usually suggests the solid comfort of prosaic homes. Hut in Holland there is poetic suggestion amid the homeliest scenes, and this is one of the charms that makes the country so attractive to strangers and so dear to its own people. Along the quais and the banks of the canals strange cargoes are being discharged: one gets a faint, sweet odor of dyewoods and spices that bring up pictures of hot. tropical lands; bales of cotton lead the fancy to picturesque groups who have sent the fruit of their industry to the great wide world; piles upon piles of cheese tell of the patient indi- thought that we are necessary to the Old World, in our keen energy and ambition, gives us a glow of honest pride. While it is a sad fact that nearly all great cities are alike, there are. happily, a few unique excep tions here and there. Rome can never be other than the city of pagan splendor and Christian triumph ; Venice is for all time the Queen of the Adriatic, even if she is. perhaps, in these modern days, dethroned; and Rotterdam and Amsterdam enjoy a distinct and picturesque charm of commer- cial activity and sturdy independence of life. On this clear, cool morning the canals were full of boats and the streets with a busy people. At nearly every little bridge one had to wait while a boat was slowly poled by and the bridge lowered; milk carts drawn by dogs and assisted by women were met at every turn, shops were being opened for the day, and the streets cars were full of pas- sengers going to business. The market for fruit and flowers was beyond words delightful, with its masses of fragrant bios- SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 9 soms and heaps of fresh fruit temptingly spread under the trees in the market square, and the women and girls, with their wooden shoes, quaint head-dresses, and broad, good faces, were an inter- esting study. Near here was the great Kirk, or church of St. Lawrence, and close at hand was a statue of the noted philosopher and scholar. Erasmus, who was born in Rotterdam. He is represented as holding an open book, and one of the jokes of the city, told to strangers, is that when Erasmus hears the sound of the great bell from the church tower, he turns over a leaf of his book. It is a pleasant thing to find a people holding in pride and reverence for four hundred and thirty- eight years the memory of a man born in their city, and keeping alive an intimate memory of him. They still tell the story that while in Paris occupied in study, and so poor he was almost in rags, he wrote home to a friend: When I get some money I will buy some Greek books, and after that, some clothes. Rotterdam has all the modern attractions of other large cities—a museum of real merit, excel- lent shops of every sort, beautiful villas and gardens along tree-shaded canals, an extensive and hand- some park, and a zoo” that is particularly well supplied with rare animals and birds, and where a band gives daily concerts and hundreds of persons come to enjoy all its advantages. Only a distance of fifteen minutes away is The Hague, called the Court City of Holland, a clean, cheerful place that somehow reminds one of a pro- gressive American city—there is so much of pros- perity to be noted and such an air of brisk activity. There is a royal palace in the city where the Queen sometimes pays a visit, and in the vast park that gives the name to it— the Count’s Hedge” (or wood), a contraction in the Dutch name giving The I Iaguc”—there is a gem of a palace, called the House in the Wood,” where the famous Peace Congress met a few years ago. The Queen rarely visits this palace, which is ricli in frescoes, paintings, hangings of splendid tapestry, velvet, and satin, and rare bric-a-brac from all parts of the world. The Wood is magnificent, with its grand trees, roads, rustic bridges across brooks and canals, restful little cafes here and there, tennis courts, fields for children to enjoy, and a great open space for the review of troops. The parliament sits at The Hague, in buildings, on a stone-paved court, that were once the resi- dence of the Count,” and in the court is the oldest building at The Hague, the Gothic Hall, now being thoroughly restored. Directly in front of this Barneveldt. the Grand Pensionary, after the form- ing of the “United Provinces” (which he offered to the sovereignty of Queen Elizabeth), was beheaded. He was called a traitor, but all the charges against him were false. It would seem that bright little Holland might have escaped some of the horrors of history, but she has had her share of these. Not far from the par- liament buildings is the old prison where brave John De Witt and his brother Cornelius were killed and torn in pieces by a mob that believed them traitors, while in truth John De Witt was one ot the greatest and most loyal of the Dutch leaders, a Republican of broad views, and bitterly opposed to the claims of the House of Orange. It was while l)c Witt had command of the naval forces that De Ruyter actually entered the river Thames and burnt some of the English war vessels. The story of John and Cornelius De Witt is more dra- matic than any novel extant. Just out of the parliament square is the Museum, this building having been the home of William « • ()range—a fine old house, with much rich carving and with high square rooms, the walls of which ar . now covered with valuable pictures of the famous Dutch “Schools of Art. Some of the pictures are the greatest in the art world, and travelers must go to The Hague to sec them, these being the Young Bull” of Paul Potter, the Anatomical Lecture,” by Rembrandt, and the Young Mother. by Gerard Dow. It is in this gallery that one realizes how little real change there has been in Holland in the last three hundred years, for here upon the walls are bits of life, quaint interiors, and spirited group- ings. that can be found to-day by stepping aside from any busy centre in city or town. The Hague is close to the North Sea. and only about two miles away is the fishing village of Scheveningcn (Schcv-cn-ing-en). with its beach twenty miles long, upon which the broad boats of the hardy fishermen are rolled, after the great side boards—that keep them in the wind—have been pulled up. Rollers are slipped under the boats, and men and women pull them far up the beach, where the fish are sold directly from the boats. I'lie women of Scheveningcn are as tough and hardy as their husbands and sons, who go down to the sea in ships.” and the children have all the qualities of the parents,—sober, stolid, faithful, and brave. They never seem to have hours for plav like our children, for they are always busy—the girls knitting and mending fish-nets, and the boys with the boats or the drying fish. Aside from its odd little houses and shops, its frames for drying fish, and its fish-nets everywhere, there is a modern Scheveningcn, with great hotels, concert halls, restaurants, a splendid pier far out in the sea. some roller coasters, hundreds of small tents pitched upon the beach for shade and rest, big wicker chairs with a sort of wicker hood to keep off the sun and wind, and odd little bathing houses on wheels, to which horses are attached to draw them into the water, so that the bathers step di- rectly into the sea. and later are again drawn far up on tiic beach after the toilet is made. Some sixty thousand visitors come each season to the fashionable North Sea watering place, and at the Kurhaus. for twenty-seven years in succession, the celebrated Philharmonic orchestra, of Berlin, has given two concerts a day in the concert hall and upon the terrace. Two hundred persons dine each evening in the dining saloon, while another orchestra, hidden among palms, plays popular airs; there is a finely appointed library and reading room, with papers from all [tarts of the world; there is a 10 SOM HR VILIJC HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR magnificent reception salon, rooms for various games, and a good and attractive theatre, together with a dozen shops where pretty souvenirs are sold —all this comprised in the Kurhaus and under its direction. A ride by train of a few minutes brings one to the old University town of Leyden. Nearly four hundred years ago the town sustained a remarkable siege from the Spaniards, and, as a last resort, the Prince of Orange broke the dikes and let in the water so quickly that over a thousand of the enemy were drowned, while it happened that the wind took a fleet of two hundred boats from Rotterdam to the very gates of the city, and so gave them the help they needed to save the town. Of course they suffered during this period, the people of Leyden, and the Prince of Orange offered with its acres upon acres of fields where tulips and other flowers arc raised to send broadcast through the world. At one time tulip bulbs were so valu- able the Dutch used them as money. The city has a grand old kirk, bare of ornament, as all these arc, except for the models of some of the war ships that led the Dutchmen to victory in the old days, these being suspended from the roof by long iron rods, and to this day the sight of these ships causes the hearts of all true Hollanders to thrill with joy and pride. A superb organ, one of the best in Europe, stands in this old kirk, and its music rolls through the vast space as waves from a sea of melody. The fish market crowds up to the walls of the kirk, and in Rotterdam and The Hague little shops and houses are built on all around the kirks, ex TYPICAL TYPES OF HOLLANDERS. them either a release from certain taxes or a uni- versity, and it proves the standing of its people to know that they chose the university, which has al- ways occupied a high place among the educational institutions of Europe. The buildings are simple, and entirely lacking in the perfect appointments that mark our own uni- versity buildings, the white walls here and there bearing sketches of crayon that are clever indeed, and that are very old. On either side of the door of the room where the examination papers are looked over, there are these sketches—on one side a young man triumphant, wildly waving a paper that says he has passed, and on the other side a poor, forlorn fellow, who had dropped into a chair to mop his streaming eyes, and limply holding the paper that says he has failed. 'I'he house of John Robinson is not far away, close to the fine old kirk, and this house is a Mecca for the feet of all good Americans. The way to Amsterdam lies through Haarlem. actly as barnacles fasten and grow on the sides of a ship. Amsterdam is a fine city, its chief activity center- ing at The Dam. where is the Royal Palace, the Old Kirk, and the Bourse. The old man who is chief guardian of the palace has quite an idea ttf wit. and as he shows visitors from our country the throne room, he points to the throne, and says, Here sits our queen. In Holland we have only one queen, while in America every woman (with a sweeping bow) is a queen.” Queen Wilhclmina spends little time at this palace, and it is small cause for wonder, as it is a bare, grim place, set directly on the public square. Opposite is the old Bourse, or Stock Exchange, and upon one day in the year the boys of the city hold high carnival within it, for it is wholly given up to them. Several hundred years ago, some boys playing at its doors heard plans for a secret attack by the Spanish upon the city, and their speedy report SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR saved its people. Since then, upon each anniver- sary of that day. the boys are given full liberty to call the Bourse their own. A new Stock Exchange is being built, and doubtless the same liberty will be given upon that date. Amsterdam has most beautiful parks, fine streets bordering picturesque canals, and yet others with gardens and great modern houses; an attractive glass-covered arcade, filled with pretty shops: a Zoo far beyond that of Rotterdam : a museum filled with rare art treasures, public institutions of every sort, streets full of quaint old houses and odd little shops, and a Jew's quarter, where wonderful bar- gains in old silver and copper may be picked up. The city is built upon ninety small islands, and nearly all the structures rest upon spiles, the palace, it is said, having fourteen thousand beneath it. The dam upon the Amstcl river, built seven hun- dred years ago. gives its name to the city. The one way to get a true idea of Holland is to make a trip through some of its side canals, to its small towns, and to the unique island of Marken out in the Zuider Zee. Small pleasure steamers make the journey in a day, and lock upon lock lifts the boat higher and higher, till the great Zuider Zee is reached, with Marken three miles away lying low and flat upon the water. Through the lower canals, protected by low dikes, are odd little towns, one of them called Brock, the cleanest town in the world. During the summer all the cows are out on the broad, level pastures, and the stables are clean as wax. with lace curtains at the windows, and here are stored the various kinds of cheese that make the town famous —a sort of cheese exhibit going on all summer. Marken is being ruined as a place for pleasant visiting, as its people—who are entirely fisher folk —have become so fond of money they will even sell their household gods for a price. Once the chil- dren were shy, quiet, old-fashioned, little people, NATURE'S CARNIVAL. By Birtha Phillips Marvel. UEEN NATURE held a carnival— Farewell to Summer’s reign; And bade as guests the merry months, Attendants in her train. Fair June, with crown of roses. Came first to shed her tears. That all her charms were faded. Forgotten with the years. She spoke of birds and twilights, And laughed about her fields, But truly sighed when leaving— ’Tis then real sorrow yields. And golden glowed the July guest. And warmly gave her greeting. Her ardent smiles no chill allowed, But ah! her smiles were fleeting! For soon she knelt at Nature’s throne, And laid her treasures there To be bequeathed to other months In other years, more fair. 11 but now they are greedy for silver, and rush to pose before every camera they see. while a babe in arms will howl with rage if he docs not get a share of the Dutch small coin. The women go to Amsterdam among the old shops, and buy up odd pieces of china, which they will chip a little and rub in the sand, later selling as old family bits that they pari with almost in teats. Up to ten years of age, the boys and girls dress exactly alike, except that upon the back of the hood of the boy—or the girl—there is a sort of rosette. Which is which only a Dutchman can remember. The houses at Marken arc full of really fine old china and carved wood settees and dressers. The beds are built into the house like the bunks on a ship, and each is piled high with home-made lace spreads and ornamental pillows. There are two settlements, one near the landing, the breakwater and the shelter for the fishing boats, and the other over in the middle of the island. In the last there is a school, and it is quite an interest- ing experience to visit this, and to hear the fresh young voices sing with force and sweetness the Boer National Hymn, for they sing tins as often as their own hymn. Nearly always a fresh breeze awaits the small boat just outside the breakwater, and it is an excit- ing sail back to the locks that drop us down to Am- sterdam lying on a great open basin. This last is to be entirely filled, and hundreds of acres of good land will be added to the city. The Dutch say. God made the sea; we made the land. and truly they have. The windmills are used to move the water into and out of the canals, so that they are always fresh and safe, so far as health is concerned. Holland is a great and rich country, although so small. Great in the strength and honesty and wis- dom of her people, and rich in her foreign posses- sions. where she rules with prudence and wise care. Next o’er the scene a hushed sound Reminds one of the sea, The quiet winds, the leaping wave, And August bends her knee To kiss the hand of Summer-time, And wish her oft return. When Augusts of the coming moons May sweeter lessons learn. September lingers, and regrets To loose the arms that hold Sweet Summer in the Year’s embrace— The Year that’s growing old. And then all three do whisper o’er The joys that they have known, And breathe a prayer for memories To be their very own. They whisper yet more silently, ’Till Summer sleeps profound. And then steal out into the past, While their good-bys resound. And Nature’s guests have taken flight; The feast that she has spread Lies waiting for another gaze— Her Summer maids are dead. 12 SOMKRVILLF HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR A DAUGHTER OF APOLLO. By Harold S. Libby, L., '04. T TTT was a «lark night. The moon was r fy ifr1 struggling with the clouds, now bath- iwl W ! ing the mountains in a silver light. and now sinking in darkness. 1 ' ■ urged my horse on, hoping that the light which flashed faintly before me might herald a shelter for myself and my steed until the elements should permit me to resume my jour- ney toward Rome. My hope was fulfilled. The light proved to he in a small hut which the moun- tains hedged in dismallv. I dismounted, and. knocking at the door, shivered in the cold, as I waited for some response from the occupant. The door was at last opened by an old man. clad in the habitual raiment « f the Italian peasant. I craved shelter, which he at first refused, but finally granted, and I entered the hut. which was built of logs, loughly hewn, and bound together with a pliant and tough reed. Inside, the walls were bare, and there were many chinks between the logs, which, were it not for the bright fire that gleamed in an open clav stove, would have made the hut a decidedly cold habitation. The peasant made haste to prepare me a frugal supper. As he did so. the door opposite the corner in which I was sitting in the shadow opened, and a young girl entered the room. She was dressed in a white mantle, which hung to her feet and trailed in wavy folds about her. She sat down on a low bench near the fire, not noticing that a stranger was in the room. and. resting her face upon her hands, apparently sank into a reverie. I studied her face as the taciturn peasant busied himself near the fire. It was an attractive face, shaded bv black hair, which hung about her shoulders and gave her a wild, fantastic appearance. Her eyes were brown, large, and expressive, with a mournful expression in their depths. In one hand she held a lyre. and. suddenly breaking from her lethargy, she struck its strings, and in a sweet voice began to sing. As I listened, a thrill as of an electric shock shot through mv brain. Deeply susceptible to music as I was, I had never been moved thus before. The wild tones rang out in the small room, and each one cut my heart like a knife, thrilling me with a strange sensa- tion. but whether of joy or woe I knew not. Had my mind felt the influence of a soul stronger and purer than my own? As quickly as she had begun to sing, she changed the theme. In mournful ac- cents. a dirge rang out. the sad. restless cry of a broken heart. I could bear it no more, and in agony I bade her stop. The harp almost fell from her hand, as she quickly arose. I saw the fright- ened look upon her face, and the fluttering of her breast as she gazed at me. The old peasant made haste to reassure her. and. finally composed, she sat down once more upon the bench. “Fair maid.” I said, thy singing is surely the gift of Apollo, but its mournful strains awoke un- pleasant and sorrowful memories of days which I would fain forget. Hast thou no more joy- ous songs which bring happiness to the heart and gladness to the soul, songs such as our emperor the blessed Nero loves to hear?” At the mention of Nero's name she turned pale, but after a moment replied. “The emperor hast truly the blessed taste of Apollo. Indeed, I have such songs. They are not suited to my melancholy nature, perhaps, yet 1 could sing them even unto Nero, did he so command me.” ‘ 1 am journeying to Rome to-morrow,” I said. Wilt thou come with me and sing before the em- peror? Thou shalt be rewarded as none have been before. Nero himself shall place a diadem of myrtle upon thy brow.” She sat thoughtful for a moment, and then re- plied. I have a friend at the imperial city who will bid me welcome if I may thither journey with you. I trust you to lead me before the emperor, and I will sing to him of the noise of battle, and he will exult, of the dance of the nymphs, and he will laugh, of the funeral, and he will weep. I will draw tears from his eves,’ tears }f jov and sorrow.” She arose, and, drawing her mantle about her. prepared to leave the room. Hast thou a name as sweet as thy voice?” I asked. She answered simply. Tis Fulvia.” Fulvia.” I murmured, as she left the room, “may the gods keep thee.” It was night in the palace of Nero. On low couches around an immense table in the room of state reclined many men and women: the men in white togas, the women in ornamented gowns of white, with their hair garlanded with flowers. Nero reclined on a separate couch at the head of the table. Unlike the others, he was dressed in a blue toga, and on his large head was placed a crown of flowers. He sipped his wine occasionally, while he conversed now and then with Seneca, who sat on his right, and with the other members of the com- pany. To this room I led Fulvia with her lyre, having previously requested permission of the emperor, and waited with her until the emperor, tired of talk- ing. should call for music. I filled a wine bowl for Fulvia, but she would not drink. In silence she sat. her eves fixed upon the face of Nero, while one hand shaded her face from the unaccustomed light. Suddenly the emperor set his half-emptied wine bowl aside, and said. Where is the maid who was to sing to me? Twas thou, Laeca, who brought ;o my ears the tale of a mountain nymph with the music of Apollo. Where is she?” “She is here. Caesar. I said. and. taking the girl's hand, I led her into full view of the company. The emperor did not look up. “Sing.” he said. And the girl sang. Again I felt the benumbing in- fluence stealing over me. I felt that I was being SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR drawn deeper and deeper into an unfathomable abyss. I longed to strike the lyre from her hands, and. seizing her. bear her far away. In gay strains the song rang out. and in my vision I saw nymphs dancing on the tops of high mountains, while harps resounded from the clouds above. I looked at the emperor when she had finished. Were there tears of jov in his eyes? I could not see, as they were fixed upon the table. lie had not looked at the singer, but with a smile of approbation lie bade her sing again. And with tears she sang the song of sorrow that had so disturbed me before. Did this awaken memories in Nero's heart? He gazed at the girl, and I saw a faint fiush of remembrance upon his face, as he again sipped the wine at his elbow. 1 drew Fulvia aside, as Seneca and 1 lero once more entered into conversation with Nero. Pale and trembling, she followed me into one of the inner apartments of the palace. Fulvia.” I said, as she reclined on a purple divan, “something in you appeals to my heart. Hast thou confidence enough in me to tell me the storv of thy life?” A rosy hue overspread her pallid features. “Listen,” she said. “When I was a girl of fourteen, my father jjossessed a fine mansion here at Rome. He had married a beautiful woman of Capua, and I was their only child. My father was one of Nero’s most prized counsellors, and for a time one of the emperor’s best friends. But then, ah, evil time! my father invited Nero to our house to attend a ban- quet in his honor. He came, and there he saw my mother. Deeply enamored of her charms, he formed a plan for killing my father. Pretending that he was against a deep political scheme, which was then in operation, he sent two slaves to our house with deadly instructions. Immediately after- ward. the emperor, disguised, as he thought, rode in his chariot to the scene of the murder. The deed had been done. My father lay dead in the garden, and my mother, heart-broken, had thrown herself upon his body. Nero seized her to bear her to his chariot, but lie had no sooner reached the door than she fell from his arms,—dead. For this murder 1. while living in the mountains, swore re- «3 vcngc. Thou canst aid me. On the river below I have moored a boat. Kill the emperor, and leap to the bank from this window. Thou canst escape, and no life but mine shall answer for the deed.” She struck a chord upon the lyre, and again I felt the strange infiuencc upon me. I scizecl my dagger. Promise.” I said, that thou wilt escape with me. and not stay here to suffer for my crime.” M v life is yours.” she whispered, go.” I stole back of the couches until, unnoticed. 1 stood by Nero’s side. 1 raised the dagger in un- hand and made ready to strike. I saw the light ning movement of Seneca’s arm as he struck the dagger from my hand. Immediately the room was filled with armed soldiers, and I was a pris- oner. But suddenly a Hash of light lit up the entire city, and the flames rose high over the roofs of the houses. In great excitement, all rushed to the windows, and I was for the moment free. I turned into the room where I had left the girl, and seized her in my arms. She had seen the attempt to kill the emperor and its failure. I bore her to the win- dow and dropped lightly to the soft ground below. On all sides, as far as the eye could reach. Rome was in flames. ’Tis the justice of heaven.” mur- mured Fulvia, and together we walked unmolested to the river bank, where the boat was moored. Placing her in the bow, I took the paddle and headed for the centre of the river, where the swift current would soon take us out to sea. The river was full of boats, yet no one molested us. Thus we sailed toward the open sea. while the burning city lit our course like a torch. “Canst thou forgive me?” said Fulvia, as we landed, after a perilous voyage, upon the shores of Sicily. “Yes,” I answered, for I love you. Fulvia, let us together seek some far distant corner of the world, where the rage of Nero canst not reach, and there, as mv wife, thou may’st know happiness, even as in the old days so long past.” She smiled sadly, then the light of joy passed over her face, and she raised her eyes timidly to mine. Resolutions. Whereas, by the Divine will of God. our class mate. Arthur Kcach, has been bereaved of his father; Whereas, we, the members of the class of 190(5. have learned with deep sorrow of his loss; there- fore be it Resolved, that the class of 190(5 hereby express their great sorrow and heartfelt sympathy to him in his bereavement: and be it further Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to him, and published in the High School Radiator. ALFRED L. DcNOYER. President. Whereas by the will of Divine Providence, our former classmate. Chester Cuddy, has been be- reaved of his father; and Whereas, we. the class of 190(5. have learned with sorrow of his affliction: be it therefore Resolved, that we tender him our heartfelt sym- pathy in his sorrow, and be it further Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to Chester Cuddy, and also published in the Radiator. ARTHUR R. CORWIN. President. IRMA CHRISTOPHER. Secretary. '4 SOMKRYILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR BARBARA’S KINDNESS. HE long, golden day was drawing to a close. It was getting too dark to read any longer, and the girl on the vine-covered porch of the little white house closed her book with a sigh of contentment, and lay hack in the hammock. Evening drew on so quickly that soon the little gate at the end of the path to the street was lost amid the enveloping darkness. Suddenly a man stealthily pushed open the wicket gate and slipped into the yard, running with noiseless step to the little copse of wood, about ten yards from the piazza, where he sank down amid the shadows, and waited. The girl on the piazza, like a startled deer, lifted her head and listened, ap- prehensively. but all was silent. It was now en- tirely dark, and again the girl leaned back and closed her eyes. A few moments passed thus in silence, when suddenly a low whistle startled her. Again she started to her feet and strained her eyes into the darkness. Then, from the shadow of the wood, the tall form of a man arose and came quickly to the frightened girl. For a second neither spoke, but in that second, which seemed hours to both, the girl noticed that the man was young, tall, and well formed, and that his hair was shaved closely to his head. Then, in a gleam of moonlight, she saw his earnest, deter- mined eyes fixed on hers. The man broke the silence. Don't be fright- ened. he said in a deep, not unmusical voice. 1 won’t hurt you.” Then lie went on hurriedly. You see. I had heard of you—knew how good you were, and I've watched my chance.—I know you won’t turn me away when 1 tell you all.” The girl shrank back, her hands clasped to her breast. The young fellow, with a quick motion, thing off the long coat he wore and stood before her—his head bowed on his chest—clad in the suit of a convict. Then he raised his head with a quick motion. Don’t be frightened.” he said again. I am an escaped convict, but I am innocent of the crime charged against me. I know they all say that, but I am honest. I got away last night, and have lain in hiding all day. Just as soon as night came on, I came here. I had heard that good people lived here, and that you had a kind heart. I am famished and can’t go on. I throw myself on your mercy: it is in your power to give me up. If you do. I'll have to go back and serve double my time, and when I come out a free man, my ambi- tions. my life will be blasted. If you save me— I’ll go away, ’way out West somewhere, and make a new man of myself.” While lie had been speaking, the girl had stood, her hands clasped before her. her eyes fixed on the convict. When he finished, she was silent a mo- ment. and the man hung eagerly on her every ex- pression. which was a combination of contempt for his appeal for protection and admiration for his straightforwardness. Then her eyes flashed, and she quickly held out one hand to the young man. Come ’ she said. The convict followed her without a word, as she led the way through the door, into the hall, and up the stairs. Just as she reached the second floor, she stopped. Remove your shoes,” she whis- pered. He did so, and none too soon, for as they passed a half-open door, a querulous voice de- manded. Barbara. where arc you going? Bar- bara stood still a moment, and then said clearly, Nothing, granny. Just going to my room for something.” They passed on in silence, until they came to a large room. Barbara pushed open the door, lit the candle on the dresser, and. turning, faced the man squarely. You have been frank with me, she said. I will be so with you. I live here alone with my grandparents and one servant. To-night grand- father will not be at home, and I am alone with grandmother, who is a helpless cripple. Something tells me you arc honest, and so I trust you. Re- main in this room, and I will bring you food.” She slipped out. and returned in a few moment with some cold meat, bread, and wine. Now.” she said, stay here, if any one comes, go into that closet. At the farther end of it is a low door. That door leads into a small space between the walls. If anything happens, go into that closet. There you will be perfectly safe, and I will come in the morning.” So she left him. All through the night the young fellow sat near the window, straining to catch every sound, while in his anxiety he imag- ined the tramp of many feet in every cricket-chirp. Slowly the long night wore away, and just as morn- ing dawned, chill and gray, he fell into a tired and troubled sleep. After leaving her prisoner. Barbara went to her grandfather’s room, and hunted around until she found an old suit of clothes. Then, in a box. she found some old mementoes of her grandfather’s youth, including a false wig and mustache, probably some addition to an old masquerade costume. These she folded into a bundle and retired to her room, only to spend a sleepless night. Early next morning Barbara awoke the young man and hastened down to the kitchen, where she prepared a hasty meal. Then, calling him. she bade him eat. When he had finished, she gave him the bundle and told him to disguise himself as best he could. The man retired, and came back in a few mo- ments. looking more like a respectable young man from the country, and less like a desperate, escaped convict. Barbara laughed merrily. “Now,” she said, you must go. Don’t go by the road, but out SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR '5 through the woods, till you strike the railroad track. A ten minutes’ walk will bring you to the station. Here—take this,” and she pressed a small purse into his hand,—“good-by.” 'I'he man stood still a moment. Then he came close to her and took her hands in his so tightly that he hurt her. lie spoke huskily. Words can- not thank you.” he said. “You don’t—you can’t know how much you’ve done for me. I cannot thank you. You haven’t asked my name, but I’ll tell you. I am Sam Holt—I was charged with em- bezzlement. but I am innocent. Some day, when I’ve proven it. I’ll come back.” He held her hands a moment longer. “Good-by,” he said, good-by, and disappeared out through the little door and into the woods. The girl stood still a while, then, bending down, she picked up the little purse which he had re- fused. A year had passed, and the same 1’arbara sat on the same little white piazza as when her strange. unbidden guest of a summer previous had ac- costed her. She was thinking now of that guest, as she had thought so often since lie left her that early summer morning. The blood surged into her cheek at the remembrance of how he had taken her hands, he—a stranger. Suddenly the little wicket gate clicked. She lifted her head. A tall form came quickly up the walk to the very place where that other figure had come that summer evening before. He came up the steps, and as the girl arose, he said. You see. I have kept my promise. I have come back a free man. A few months ago. the man for whose crime I was imprisoned died, leaving a statement of his deed, thus freeing me from all blame. And so I have come back to you. Barbara. he said, will you renew that acquaintance made on that summer evening a year ago? Has it seemed such a long, lonely year to you as to me? For answer, the girl smiled into those same earnest, determined eves. Yes, she said, just as long. Baseball Reception. On June 26 the Alumni gave a reception to the members of the victorious baseball team. There were numerous speeches made, and all pertained more or less to athletics. Among those who spoke were Mr. Baxter, Mr. Whitcomb, Mr. Jones, Rep- resentative Luce, Eddie Dc Almeida, and a few other men. The Oajaca batting trophy was awarded to Leo llafford, for having attained the highest batting average of any member of the team. Lawrence Mitchell and Edwin Philbrick had charge of the stereopticon views of former football and baseball teams. Singing under the direction of Mr. Had- ley was enjoyed, and the evening completed by cheering. ------------------------- Resolutions. Whereas, by the Divine will of God, our friend and classmate, Ina G. Harding, has been taken from us; and Whereas, we. the class of 1906. have learned of her death with grief, we hereby offer resolutions of sympathy with her parents, who mourn her loss. ARTHUR R. CORWIN, President. IRMA CHRISTOPHER. Secretary. Presence cf Mir.d. He— I understand that you arc to be congratu- lated.” She— No. The engagement is broken off.” He— That is what 1 heard.”—Somerville Journal. Visitor— You haven’t got half as nice a ceme- tery here as we have in Elmville.” Prominent Citizen (of Hawville)— No; I’ve always heard that the cemetery is the only part of your town that holds out any inducements for per- manent residents.”—Chicago Tribune. When you want advice, always ask it of your enemy, and then go and do the opposite.—Somet - ville Journal. An Infant Prodigy. Has Hairovitch always shown a talent for music?” Yes; even as a child he cried every time his hair was cut. —Life. D’ye know. Hooligan, you look like the divil wid a mustache. Yis; I’m goin’ to shave it off. Lave it on: yez’ll look worse widout it. —Life. Perhaps You Know H:m. Lawson— Hicks is absent-minded, isn’t he? Dawson— Yes; I lent him ten dollars two years ago. and he hasn't thought of it once since.”— Somerville Journal. i6 SOMi-:rvilli-: high school radiator THE DUKE OF THORWALDEN. By C. Sherwood Ricker, L., '04. ADV DUXMORDEN sat meditatively j j gazing into the depths of the fitfully- XI lighted fireplace in the library of Dun- 'r’ElS T)| morden Castle, as the varying Ec shadows of twilight chased away the final rays of a late fall afternoon. An ejaculation of the Lady brought her wander- ing thoughts to her present surroundings. She took off her glasses and rubbed the lenses with sup- pressed excitement. Her eyes snapped, and her ill-shaped mouth twitched itself into a cynical smile. “A fine idea! He has the bearing of a noble- man. she ventured aloud, as she rose and pulled the bell rope. The folding doors opened. Madame, you called, said the butler. Yes. John, come in and close the door. I would have a word with you. Is there any one without? No. madame. all the servants are below.” Very good, be seated. I am about to take you into my confidence.” Thank you. Will you promise absolute secrecy? she asked, warming to her topic. Most assuredly, madame.” Are you willing to take the principal part in a practical joke I am about to play? she questioned, beginning in this interrogative manner. Your will is my pleasure, and a practical joke is always amusing.” the butler answered, a suave smile parting his thin lips. Good—now listen. For mv own reasons, which will in time evolve and make themselves clear to you, I am going to introduce you to the nobility hereabout as the Duke of Thorwaldcn. I will fur- nish you with money, clothes, and a valet. You must betake yourself to London this night with money I shall give you. and prepare yourself to re- turn within a fortnight, a guest, my nephew, the Duke of Thorwaldcn. Put on your best manners: I credit you with these, and from appearances now, I am sure you will be exceptionally good-looking when you have on some respectable clothes. Re- member. send me word now and then by post as to your progress, and, believe me, if you make this a success. I will handsomely reward you.” Madame, the privilege is sufficient unto itself. Shall I go and prepare immediately?” Yes, John, immediately, then return to me. Enter without knocking.” “So far. so good.” she soliloquized. “Lady Evelyn Ashmead shall now feel the potency of my will. She has trodden on and snubbed me for the last time. Xo longer shall that young girl scarcely out of her teens steal away my friends.” The old lady was working herself up into a fine wrath, all on account of the above-named young lady, who had personal injury to Lady Dunmorden far from her thought. Unconsciously, it is true. the social circle of Lady Dunmorden had dwindled away upon the ascendance of this new social star, till now Lady Ashmead had eclipsed the former so- ciety queen. Sorely to heart had the elder lady taken this deal of fate, and though openly they passed as friends, still Lady Dunmorden secretly coveted the first chance to herald the downfall of her social enemy. The other, on the contrary, not well versed in the intrigues of jealousy, failed to comprehend the elder lady's manner, and. in an endeavor to conciliate the half-latent dislike, never once forgot to request her presence at every function. Tims the social feud stood. The butler returned, received her final instruc- tions. and started for London. In the meantime, cards came out announcing a very select ball at Gainsborough Hall, the summer residence of Lady Evelyn Ashmead. Lady Dunmorden answered that most sincerely she thanked Lady Ashmead for such honored rec- ognition. but regretted to add that, owing to the ar- rival of a nephew whom she had not seen since he was a mere boy. she felt that her attention and time would be entirely absorbed in his pleasure. The letter of the elder lady worked beautifully. The following morning she tore open a second communication, which read: I should consider it in the nature of an honor could Lady Dunmorden’? nephew accompany his aunt. The latter lady hurriedly scratched off an accept- ance. That’s done. she murmured. The fortnight came to a close, and the Duke of Thorwaldcn was regally installed in Dunmorden Castle. The advent of a duke, and especiallv a near rela- tive of Ladv Dunmorden, was an event extraordi- nary upon the social planet. So when the austere Lady entered the ballroom of Gainsborough Hall upon the arm of the new invader,” for such was he in the social vocabulary, all eyes were riveted upon the door. A tall, spare man. of decidedly soldierly appeal - ance. accompanied the mistress of Dunmorden Castle. In an evening dress uniform, with gold- hilted sword at his side, he carried himself with dig- nity. The Lady at his side beamed upon all. and intro- duced her nephew. 'Hie spacious ballroom scintil- lated in the flickering light of a thousand candles. Society arrayed in its most seductive and superb trappings was present; everything was in one splendid glow. The hostess stood at one end of the hall attired in black. Her white throat sparkled with jewels. The black gown exhibited to advan- tage the soft lines of an exquisite form. Lady Evelyn certainly looked beautiful. One could easily sec why the followers of Lady Dunmorden had deserted to the standard of this beautiful SOMERYTLLL HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR '7 woman. She had the tactful speech, the grace, and the courteous attention of an experienced hostess. At the close of the reception, the Duke stepped to the side of Ladv Ashmead. It was extremely kind of you. Lady Ashmead, to arrange for my presence in this delightful company.” “We considered it an honor. Your Highness, to be so fortunate in obtaining your company this evening. Believe me. it was a pleasure most as- suredly ours,” she replied. Lady Dunmorden watched her alleged nephew with a critical eye. He was carrying himself above all her expectations. He danced gracefully; his compliments were charming. To her surprise, she overheard him speaking comprehensively upon the vital topics of the day. and noted with a keen sense of delight that the Duke and Lady Ashmead had taken a mutual fancy to each other. Upon all sides Lady Dunmorden s nephew had created the desired effect. The morning after the ball at Lady Ashmead's, the elderly I ady called her nephew to her apart- ments, and remarked upon his clever bearing of the night previous, lie asked no questions relative to the practical joke, and she ventured no light upon the climax. The stop of the Duke was indefinitely prolonged at Dunmorden Castle. Every one averred that a great friendship had sprung up between Lady Evelyn and the titled visitor. They were together almost all the time. Lady Dunmorden was all beams and smiles. Nevertheless, for some reason or other, a state of impatience soon developed. She would play her final card. Announcements were forthcoming that Ladv Dunmorden would give a ball in honor of her nephew, who would soon make his departure. The Duke, universally liked, was honored by a large gathering. He scarcely left the side of Lady Evelyn that evening. Lady Dunmorden deftly contrived so that Lady Evelyn and the Duke were in the conservatory among the fragrant flowers al- most all the evening. Shortly before the company entered the banquet hall, the Duke sought the side of Lady Dunmorden There was a happy, yet malicious, twinkle in his eye. “Lady Evelyn has promised to become mv wife.” he whispered. The elder Lady started noticeably. Really.” she ventured, “very good 1” He did not wait for further congratulations, but again sought the woman in the conservatory. It was an hour before they both returned. All were in the banquet hall, and the hostess called for wine. The Countess of Warwick offered a toast to the departing Duke. The Duke gracefully re- plied. “My distinguished friends, you have been most flattering in your attentions toward me during my visit with my dear aunt. I shall treasure the memory of the kindnesses I have received, and now it may not be out of place to ask you to toast the fairest of women. Lady Evelyn Ashmead—the one who,” he paused, the color deepened in his face, the one who has promised to become my wife. Unanimous was the acclamation of approval. Lady Dunmorden’s chance had come. She must now recognize her butler. As the ripple of pleasant excitement subsided, she arose, flushed and agitated. That man is my servant—my butler. You have been tricked— duped—deceived: and he has proposed to Lady Evelyn. Ha-ha! —she laughed hysterically— and she could not see it. She fall in love with a butler, ha. ha. a pitiable farce! “Stop!” cried the Duke, his face paie with anger. Enough! Say not another word!” Every one drew back. Lady Evelyn alone re- mained at his side. Swords were drawn. Several gentlemen rushed upon him. Lady Evelyn stepped between them and the Duke, with a proud look of defiance on her radiantly beautiful face. The Duke became calm. “Gentlemen, give me your attention and restrain yourselves. Not long ago I. my Lady’s butler, was called into the pres- ence of this honored Lady.” he said, pointing toward Lady Dunmorden. late one afternoon. She said. 'I have a practical joke I should like to play: you are to take the principal part.' Just what the principal part was. I did not then know. I. however, was to appear as you have seen me. Not long after I saw the extent of that cruel joke, which was a mixture of malice and revenge against Lady Evelyn—but I had a part to play apart from that of my mistress. Here are legal papers, which I obtained when in London preparing for this fine joke. These prove I am the son of the late Duke of York, whose infant son was lost in a shipwreck off the coast of Scotland. I was picked up and reared by a peasant. It is unnecessary to go into details. I have arranged within a month to take up my position in the dukedom. T should never have followed up the suit of this fair lady, after I had learned the cruelty of the plan, had I not deemed myself in a position to do so. Lady Evelyn has been aware of my position for some time. Gentlemen. I leave you to pass judgment upon this hypocritical woman—and I pardon vour hastiness in drawing swords.” Hard Luck. Did you have a good time at Raspberry Park, dear?” Guest— I should say not. Every man there was either leading a new life, or pushing it in its go-cart.”—Life. Thomas Dixon. Jr., is the author of “The Only Woman.” a book from which the following quota- tion is taken: Across the huge oak mantel he had carved the sentence: T am an old man now: I've had lots of trouble, and most of it never hap- pened.’”—Saturday Evening Herald. IN SOM HR VILLE IIIGII SCHOOL RADIATOR 18 THE EYE OF THE LAW. By Martha E. Wingersky, E., '04. OR God's sake, let me die! For God's sake! I can't live! You won't take me, not if I can help it! Let me be! It would kill her! Don't touch me! Let me alone! I can’t go, I tell you, I can’t! It was for her sake I did it; don’t let me disgrace her. Oh. let me die!” As Henry Badger uttered these words, he was vainly attempting to free himself from the grasp of two burly policemen, and trying to empty the bottle of laudanum he held in his hand. But lie was overpowered by the officers, and in a few moments was in the hospital and under the doctor's care. He was a young fellow, at most twenty-five, and looking not over twenty. Xot cxactlv handsome, there was something attractive in the dark-com- plexioned man, with his large eyes and curly hair. He did not seem intended for the part he was playing. It was the old. old story of Temptation placing herself in the way, and beguilingly leading her vic- tim on. It really wasn't very serious, just a matter of forty or fifty dollars, but it had seemed a great deal to him. He was a teamster, and had been married about a year and a half. At first his salary, nine dollars a week, had sufficed, but now. since the babv had come and everything was so expensive, it was hard to manage on so small a sum. Just that day the doctor had said the little wife must have medicine or----and out of nine dollars there wasn’t much to spend for medicine. So, when he delivered the case of goods, it really did not seem so bad to keep the money. He would pay it some time pretty soon, but just now he must have it. God knows. Minnie was looking miserably now, and the doctor had said----. He could not think of it. He must have money, he must! There was no way out of it. And then the blow had come, about a week later, and he had been arrested. What would she say. Minnie? And at the thought he decided not to disgrace her. Poor man! he did not think that adding suicide to robbery would make it worse. So he had tried to take his life; but the officers had come just in time to interrupt and prevent him, and now, a few hours later, he was pronounced out of danger. When lie heard the words, his heart sank. Poor Minnie! how would she take it? And his child; would people point at them, and say, That is the robber’s wife and his little boy”? And would the child grow up to hate his father; and how would the little woman stand the blow? And would she come to comfort him and tell him she loved him still? Or would she despise him and hate him as the cause of her misery? These thoughts, rushing to his mind, enfeebled as it was from the laudanum, completely overcame Badger, and he fell into a troubled sleep, fn which he saw himself hanged and his wife dying in the streets. '♦ He was to be tried the next day at ten o'clock, and when he was led into the courtroom, he had not received any word from Minnie. She had for- saken him ; and lie felt the utter despair of one who is cast off from all love. It was not much of a trial; all Henry could do was plead guilty. The jury was out but five min- utes. and then the judge read the sentence:— Three months in the House of Correction,” and on the death-like stillness of the room there rose one heart-rending scream, and then a dull thud as a woman fell to the floor. Before, the prisoner had stood like a statue, but now he dropped on his knees, and. burying his face in his hands, he cried aloud, Oh, forgive me, Minnie, forgive me! I knew not what I did.” While Henry Badger was serving his term, his wife died. His repeated inquiries as to his child brought no answer, and when he was released, he searched for the boy everywhere, but in vain. He never found him or learned anything of him. Then he sought work, but who, indeed, will em- ploy a man with the prison taint fresh upon him? So he sank lower and lower. Two years later, a man identified by his comrades as Henry Badger was killed while, with two others, he was attempting to hold up a train. B. C S. Club. 1 he B. C. S. has entered upon a very prosperous season and if all plans are carried out, it will rank among the foremost clubs of the school. L. E. D. Club. The first meeting of the L. E. D. Club was held at the home of Miss Mary E. Dolbear, 198 Profes- sors Row1, September 22. Plans for an enjoyable winter were made. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 19 THE NEW TEACHERS. MISS MABEL G. CURTIS. M'SS NINA A. CUMMINGS. MISS EDITH M. WALKER. M iss Mabel Gair Curtis was born in East Boston. Her early life was spent in Newton. She graduated from the Girls’ Latin School. Boston, in June. IS81� . The following fall she entered Wellesley College, and graduated in 1890 with honors and degree of Bachelor of Arts. Since then her time has been spent in teaching. At the close of her college education, she taught in the West boro High School, and later at Dedham. Miss Curtis enters the Latin School as an instruc- tor in Latin, geometry. English, and history. Nina Adele Cummings was graduated from the English High School in 1890. The following four years were devoted to the study of modern languages, courses being pursued in Tours and Paris. France, at the University of Munich, Germany, and at the University of Lau- sanne, Switzerland, where special attention was given to Professor Andre’s method of teaching the French language. Since September, 1900, Miss Cummings has been teaching in the Robinson Female Seminary. Exeter. N. IT., and in the Haverhill High School, where she was engaged when elected to teach in Somerville. Miss Edith M. Walker is a native of Somerville, and was educated in our schools. She graduated from the Luther V. Bell Grammar School in 188(5, and was the valedictorian in the class of 1890 of the Somerville High School, going to Radcliffe in Sep- tember of that year. Miss Walker studied at Cam- bridge three years, meanwhile doing her first teach- ing as a substitute in Mrs. Robert Bickford's private school in Boston and in the High School in Somer- ville. In 1895 she accepted a position in the Concord (X. H.) High School, where she taught six years in classical, English, and mathematical courses, but especially in the history department. This depart- ment Miss Walker managed entirely last year, to the exclusion of other work. During the past few years she has done special work in history and in philology for two successive summers at Dartmouth, and in French history dur- ing a short trip to Europe in the summer of 1900. Miss Walker has taken the jiosition of Miss Frances Kaan as head of the history department. She also instructs in English and algebra. In Memoriam. We, the members of the U. S. Club, deeply mourn the loss of our beloved member and class- mate, Ina Gertrude Harding. She was ill but a short time, and her death, in the early part of the summer, came as a shock to her many friends. We wish to express our heartfelt sorrow in our loss, and to extend our sincere sympathy to her bereaved parents. FREDA M. HASKELL, President. RUTH W. HILLS, Secretary. Resolutions, L., '04. Whereas, by the divine will of God. our class- mate, Helen A. Reach, has been bereaved of her father; and Whereas, we, the class of 1904, have learned with great grief of her affliction; be it therefore Resolved, that we tender her our heartfelt sym- pathies in her great sorrow: and be it further Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to Helen Reach, and also published in the Radiator. PERCY A. HARRISON, President. HELEN BRADSHAW, Secretary. 20 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR A Friendly Word to Our Exchanges. During the coining year we trust that our ex- changes will prove as beneficial as in former years. It will he the earnest endeavor, of this department to criticise fairly, and. at the same time, effectively all school magazines submitted to it. and we sin- cerely hope that this method will be adopted bv our contemporaries. Owing to the extremely large number of our exchanges, it will be impossible to make adequate comment upon all. but those which contain an Ex- change column will receive our first attention. We are glad to acknowledge exchanges coming from thousands of miles distant. The Madrono of Palo Alto, and the Skirmisher from San Mateo. Cal. The former contains one interesting, though rather bloodthirsty, tale, the latter a sad little storv of Chinese life. We should advise the Exchange editor of the Skirmisher to conform to the edito- rial we,” thereby making his position less con- spicuous. Our contemporary, the Radiator from the New Haven High School, has given us a fine note in its September number. We will take this opportunity to thank the Radiator for its congratulations. The Bulletin from Lawrence has issued a very neat little paper with a fetching cover. The Pennant front Meriden. X. II., contains some excellent editorials. If an S and an I and an O. With a U and an X. spell Su, And an E and a Y and an E spell I, Then what is the speller to do? And an S and an I and a G and an H, With an E and a D. spell cide. Then all we poor pupils can do Is to go and commit Siouxcyesighed. —Exchange. An original and clever story, “A Backward Flight.” in the Phonograph, a New York ex- change. quite offsets another in the same paper, which is without plot or character. A paper which has some good long editorials is the Critic from Port Huron. Mich. Will you please decline 'kiss’?” said a teacher one day To a maid of sixteen, who was pretty and neat. Why, I hardly know how. but I’ll try. anyway,” She replied, with a smile most bewitchingly sweet. It's a noun that’s quite common, but when it’s desired. It may be most proper. I’m happy to say. Its gender is common, second person required, And it’s plural in form in a singular way; Its case is objective, you plainly can sec. Because it’s an object so ardently sought. It agrees, in most cases, with you and me. But according to no rules by schoolmasters taught. I have made a mistake, very likely, somewhere, If I have. I assure you, it's no fault of mine, For I think that to ask me was not at all fair. When you know that a kiss is so hard to de- cline.” —Exchange.. The Great Erie Train Robbery,” in the Ra- diator from New Haven. Conn., shows good de- scription and originality of style, as also does A Novel Use of Cobblestones” in the same paper. A young minister about to preach on the dove’s descending wished to impress his congregation by having a real dove let down from the ventilator. Pat was hired for the undertaking, but when the time came no dove appeared. And the dove descended,” began the minister Still no dove. And the dove —in more sonorous tones. Pat stuck his head down through the ventilator. Shore, the cat has ate up the dove—will I trow down the cat?” II is Sister—‘Tooli! that’s no way to kiss a girl. If you ever get married, what will your wife think of such a kiss?” He— I don’t expect to marry a connoisseur of kisses!”—Life. Employer— Yes, I advertised for a strong bov. Think you’ll fill the bill?” Applicant—“Well, I just finished lickin’ nineteen other applicants out in de hall!”—Philadelphia In- quirer. SC) MICK VILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 21 The Doctor—“Mv poor boy! I'll tell you the worst. You’ll be well just at the time when school opens again. —Chester Advocate. “My dear, said the caller, with a winning smile, to the little girl who occupied the study while her father, an eminent literary man. was at his dinner, ‘T suppose you assist your father by entertaining the bores? Yes. sir, replied the little girl gravely. “Please be seated. —Chester Advocate. “Yes, remarked the egg, my theatrical venture was a success. I was cast for the villain, and made a great hit. —Exchange. The cuckoo-clock proclaims the knell of parting day. And Mother” goes, astute and thoughtful she. Then Father” upstairs plods his weary way, And leaves the girl to darkness and to me. —Exchange. Dr. Pellet— I hate to twit on facts. Mr. Pharmer, but how many persons do you suppose you have killed by putting up the wrong medi- cine?” Mr. Pharmer— Can't say; but think of the lives I have saved by failing to follow your prescrip- tions !”—Boston Transcript. He (very stout)— I—I—cannot express myself! She (looking at the clock)—“Oh, hum—well, go by freight, then! —Philadelphia Bulletin. Professor (to pupil who hitherto has been com- ing late)— Good morning, Willie! I’m glad to sec you are early of late. You used to be behind before, but now you are first at last.”—Denver News. You say his wife's a brunette? I thought he married a blonde!” He did, but she dyed. —Michigan Wrinkle. You can't be sure that a girl is engaged just be- cause she wears a ring on the third finger of her left hand.—Somerville Journal. He considers himself different from others.” Well, he needn’t boast of it; the dime museums are full of things like that.”—Life. Invitation is the sincerest llattery.—Life. The disorderly man’s motto is: A place for everything and everything in it.”—Somerville Journal. Canvasser—“I’ve a book here I’d like to show you.” Busy Man—“I’ve a bull dog in the next room I’d like to show you.”—Boston Transcript. She— Oh! what a lovely monkey that organ- grinder has! I wish I had one like that! He— Say that you will accept me, dearest, and the monkey is yours!”—Exchange. THE FOOTBALL CAPTAIN. The election of G. Sylvester McLaughlin as cap- tain of this year’s football team met with unanimous approval from both schools. Xo man of last year's team is better suited for this position. His work at fullback for the last two years has been inimitable, and has also given him a strong gra p on football tactics, while his line plunging placed him as one of the best fullbacks in the Interscholastic League. McLaughlin’s athletic career is not limited to football, however. Last year he acquitted himself G. SYLVESTER M'l.AUOHI.tN. in an admirable manner as a member of the track team. He was captain of the team, and has been re-elected to the same position this year. He is also well known in basket ball as a fast and clean player. Judging from the material of last year, in addi- tion to which has been added a goodly number of raw candidates. Captain McLaughlin thinks this year’s outlook for the championship brighter than ever. 22 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Sigma Delta Fraternity. This Senior fraternity in the Latin School has been in existence three years, and is the only boys’ club in the class. The Sigma Delta Fraternity held its first meet- ing of the season at the home of Walter L. Stevens. Jr. The detailed plans for the year are as yet uncom- pleted. At the meeting, however, the following officers for the year were elected: President. War- ren G. Lawson: vice-president, Oliver A. Wyman; secretary, Ernest R. Moore: and treasurer, Walter L. Stevens, Jr. 'I'he basket ball team will be re-formed late this month, and the schedule of games is nearly com- plete. Besides playing in the interclass champion- ship games, the Sigma Delta boys are negotiating to meet Dedham, Winthrop, North Adams, and Chelsea High Schools in basket ball. The ladies’ night and banquet will come as usual some time in March. The following are the members of the fraternity: W. G. Lawson, O. A. Wyman, H. A. Cole, W. L. Stevens. E. R. Moore. C. S. Ricker. G. Cohen. R. D. Bell. B. P. Jaynes, C. II. Gctchell. W. H. Pear- son, W. L. Phillips, A. Trueman, W. G. Hender- son. and E. A. Osgood. -------—-------------------- S. T. D. The S. T. I). Club began its third season Septem- ber 14. at the home of Gerard C. Bean, by giving to Harold N. Allen, who was about to leave for Exe- ter, a dinner party. The occasion was a great suc- cess. and Mr. Allen left with the good wishes of all his fellow-members. The club will hold its first business meeting at the home of Rowland Dunham, where plans for the coming winter will be arranged. Besides the many social functions to be held, the club will also be largely represented in athletics: it already has a large representation on the football eleven, includ- ing Frost. Bean. Duhig, and Stacy. The officers for the coming year are: President, Harry S. Chandler; vice-president, William E. Barton: secretary-treasurer, Ralph A. Plight. A. F. Fraternity. The A. F. Fraternity will hold its first meeting at the home of Edward Beard, when an election of officers for the ensuing year will take place. The Frat” is well represented on the gridiron this year, and will probably have a basket ball team under the club name. 'I he club spent a very enjoyable time as guests of Mr. Burroughs at his camp in Reading lately. D. T. V. The last meeting of the year was held at Miss Edith Marshall’s home, 22 Francesca avenue, June 2, '03. 'I'he following officers were elected: Presi- dent. Miss Marion Bunker: vice-president, Miss Avis C. Hall: secretary, Miss Alice G. Merrill; treasurer, Miss Mary B. Connor. At the close of the meeting light refreshments were served. All had a very enjoyable time. ---------------------------- “ The Bachelor Girls.” A club has been formed by six young ladies of the classes of '03 and ‘01. The first meeting was held at the home of Miss Hatch Thursday after- noon. October 8. Many social functions arc al- ready planned for the coming winter. Members: Misses Gladys Libby. Ethel Ray. Louise Pipe. Ethel Reeves. Florence Hatch, and Louise Stickney. The D. T. Club. The D. T. club, organized last year by eight Junior girls of the Latin School, met at the home of Miss Grace Jouett October 2, to make plans for the coming season. The Misses Helen Nichols and Grace Harding, though they have left school, will continue to be members of the club. -------------------------- The first meeting of a lively season for the S. O. M. Club was held September 18. George Trenholm will be admitted the last of this month. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 23 V I AI IN v NOTE.S '04. The result of the class election was: President. Percy A. Harrison; vice-president. Warren G. Lawson: class editor. W. L. Phillips; secretary, Miss Bradshaw; treasurer. Miss Drouet. We welcome back Miss Bradshaw to the class of '04. Wyman lias been asked to join the girls’ basket ball team. He learned all his fussing” in Winthrop. To deal summarily.” That ought to bring a full house. We all (fern.) wish to express our sincere sym- pathy with Miss D------in the severe loss which the opening of Dartmouth has caused her. Parataxcs cures indigestion. Soon the Sophomore class will have looked up the Greek equivalents for The Thirteen Thugs,” Aren’t We Rascals?” etc.; and there will be a fresh crop of Greek societies—the fruit of eru- dition. Cole says he can't get to sleep without a lullaby. Pipe up, everybody! Homer couldn’t get a poetical license in Boston —not if he used the plural for the singular. Our public men are Ricker, Lawson. Mc- Laughlin, Cohen, and Hovcy. Quite a bunch! The unspeakable translator gets in his dreadful work again: The children have the feathers. The camels have the humps.” It was quite evident who was the most popular boy in the class. Too bad, Walter! Cutler sing bass! That would be funny. Long trousers don’t affect the voice, Homer. Any one who would slam a book after singing a hymn is beyond criticism. When that knife dropped, the Boston papers got out extra editions on the rumors that severe earth- quake shocks had been felt from the direction of Somerville. Chairs wanted for the advanced French class may be procured in the laboratory by kittens, mag- pies, tragic actresses, electric cars, and steam en- gines ; thus a teacher terms two harmless maidens. “The wounded deer, moaning like a supple- ment.” Teacher— And who is Teele?” Teele (placing his hand in his coat a la Bryan, taking on the grin and sidewise squint of Sunny Jim, lifting high his head to show the red-hot neck- tie around his charred collar, and assuming the aesthetic pose of Happy Hooligan), said, “I AM TEELE!” 05. As the result of the class election, the following officers were chosen: President, Robert Burns: secretary, Miss Ruth Whitman: Radiatok repre- sentatives. Scwall. Durell. and Miss Whitman; editor. Arthur Soule. Six feet in a line and ten lines equals sixty feet of Virgil. Whew! Practical illustrations in Physics keep up the in- terest. The class wishes to congratulate Leo Ilafford on receiving the well-earned position of captain of the baseball team. Robert Burns, of this class, was elected vice- president of the Athletic Association. Welcome, Freshmen! The class is well represented on the gridiron by I lafford, Burns. Elliot, Sewall, and Colman. We arc glad to see that Cameron, our forme classmate, is out for the team. Sixty-seven stairs three times a day! We are glad to say that the subscription list from our class exceeds fifty. The first seven vears were spent in growing.”— Elliot. ’06. Will the seven tenors please get into these eight scats?” Who said Carr was a Sleeping Car(r)”? A small edition of Lowell’s poem. “The Fresh- man. will be published for supplementary reading in Freshman classes. Our president has appointed a committee to as- sist busy mothers in bringing the Freshmen to school in baby carriages. Double amount of green trading stamps with every note this year, so come early,—come often. D-----(in Latin)—“After they had thrown a few men around the walls.” [Continued on page 25.] 24 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR '04. The first Senior meeting of the class of 1904 was held September 24. The election of officers re- sulted as follows: President. J. Edward Frost; vice-president. ArthurTI. Duhig; secretary, Ed- ward J. Fallen; treasurer. Harry S. Chandler: class editor. Warren Brooks Farnum. Everybody support the High School Athletic As- sociation by joining. Membership can be obtained from Mr. Jones. Frost. Bean. Cotter, and Blair represented the High School in a relay race at the Brockton Fair, and captured second place. Our former classmate. Harold M. Allen, is play- ing on the Exeter football team. The Six Club will continue to hold meetings this winter. Teacher—“What class of people show their fond- ness for nursery rhymes?” I upil— Freshmen.” Cheer up. Fallen. Our class is full of young ladies who can make fudge. Dunham and Miss Greenwood have written a new song, entitled Wilson Must Have Been a-Drecming.” Miss Brown (in Astronomy)— Jupiter does not stay out late at night.” H—g—t— Well. I have come home many a morning and seen him out.” Frost. Bean. Duhig. Trueman, and Crosby repre- sent the class on the gridiron. Miss McRae got the full benefit of a pan of water in Chemistry. Stacy has returned to school. He now belongs to the Sons of Rest.” Hall: We know you have tried hard to get your name in the first issue of the Radiator. A glass jar fell from the shelf and injured the spine of one of our Juniors. He is now seen wear- ing rubber heels,thinking they will keep the jar off his spine. Soon will come that change in the weather When Frost and Snow will be seen together. How true, and yet so pleasing! The Freshmen have resolved to lay their tops aside and make this a successful marble season. '05. Samuel Dolbcar has the remarkable record of entering Clark University by passing its examina- tion after but two years of High School work. We hope now people will begin to appreciate the suDcricr quality of the class of ’05. The class loses a valuable member in Clyde Scott, who leaves us to devote himself to journal- ism. During the last year Mr. Scott was staff art- ist for the Radiator, and rendered valuable ser- vice, especially on the June number. He will be greatly missed. Our Junior class election resulted in the election of Maurice Blair, president ; Molly Edmands, vice- president; Edwin Weaver, secretary; Harold Cur- rier. treasurer: and Leonard Libbcy, class editor. Among the candidates out for the football team from our class arc Murphy, Blair, Curran, Currier, Scottron, Maynard. Tope, Commins, O’Gara, Hines. Driscoll, and Lamont. Murphy. Commins. and Lamont arc showing up especially well. An English teacher in this school thinks that Miss B-----e recites on the installment plan. B—k—r (in English)— Scott was born along the last of the eighteenth and first of the nineteenth century.” We arc glad to see that we have several new classmates from the Latin School. Again the staff artist is chosen from our class, Edwin Weaver being elected. This is the second vear that the position has been filled by a member of the S. O. M. Club. '06. At a recent meeting, the following class officers were elected: President, Alfred DeNoycr; vice- president. Miss Harvey; treasurer, Miss Young; secretary. Russell Freeman; editor, Richard Keyes. Heard in German:— Teacher— Das Haus Jaccob baute.” Pupil— The house that Jack built.” We hope that the Juniors will not attempt to tease L—k—n. He is no longer a Freshman. Hall. Lakin, and Rice represent our class on the football squad. Every one should join the Pligh School Athletic Association, and go to the games. We are longing to see our first report card! SOM ER VI LI.Ii HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 25 Our class president is on exhibition in Room 30-A. Everybody have a look. Teacher— Who was Moses?” R—ce (II. Eng. H)— I don't know. I never saw him.” The Seniors look back over the wide expanse of —three years. The class extends its sympathies to the Tech boys.” The school is to be congratulated as the proud possessor of two large Halls of Fame.” Notes being scarce, green trading stamps are now offered in exchange. Work hard, boys, and get your book filled. '07. A class meeting was held on September 28, at which meeting the following officers were elected: President, Mr. Henderson; vice-president, Mr. Cox; secretary, Mr. Whitney; treasurer. Mr. Lane. Mr. Frost, of the Senior class, was elected president pro tern. A large number of the class were present, but the president requests a stiil larger number. Let us help the school football team by attending every game possible. Ba-----. in German A., when asked to answer. “Was weinen das Madchen?” ( What wept the maiden?”), said, Das Madchen weinen die Kuh.” (“The maiden wept the cow.”) Don’t forget to pass in class notes. Teacher—“Name five animals of the frigid zone.” Student—“Two seals and three bears.” Masters Reardon and Mahony have left school. Why is Master E-----’s face so red of late? Many of the girls of the class showed a very poor spirit by not attending the first class meeting. Nous sommes les Francais! Yes, we are the Freshmen and of large quantity, but we have resolved that, at the end of four years, our quantity and quality shall not be changed. '------------------------ LATIN NOTES. [Continued from pap 23.] '06. Harrison’s orations—Like a cooling zephyr on a hot summer day. Some boy said that he felt lost without a girl sit- ting behind him. Don’t use a pony. An automobile is much more up to date. Latin translation—“Over this bridge was a river.” Probably an aqueduct. It looks as though ’00 girls would have a pretty good showing in the basket ball team. We are sorry to learn of the death of Cuddy's father during the vacation. The death of Miss Harding, which occurred dur- ing the summer vacation, cast a gloom over the class at the beginning of the term. With Graves at centre and Bishop substitute end, we are very well represented on the gridiron. Friends. Romans, countrymen.” Extract from Harrison’s latest speech. Class organization for 1903-’04 : President, Ar- thur R. Corwin; secretary. Irma R. Christopher; Radiatoh representatives. Bergen Reynolds and Carl Burns; class editor, Herbert S. Sanborn. '07. We have been treated very gently so far. 1 lang together, Freshmen, if the Sophs don’t behave. If Miss J----ns would like to know any of the Seniors, she should go right down and be intro- duced. It is useless to complain—our friends, the Juniors, have to climb three flights, too. We do not approve of Miss St---------’s lack of attention toward her lessons whenever an upper- classman crosses the floor. Come. Freshmen, let’s shake grammar school ways. Those arc the things that queer us in the eyes of the upper-classmen. We need class notes—but we want either good hits on pupils or witty sayings. Football Notes. The first call for candidates on September 1 I was responded to in a hearty manner. If numbers make a good outlook for the championship, our chances are bright, as over forty men answered the call. Charley Cuddy has been elected coach of the foot- ball team. May he lead them to victory in the same way in which he has already done with the baseball team. Those of last year’s team who have reported for work are Hafford. Bean, Burns, Burton, Doughty, Frost, Stacy, and Cameron. Everett beat us, but she beat C. M. T. S.. too. Consolation in that. Cuddy has decided not to play football this year, whereby Somerville loses a good quarterback. Allen Elliot, a new man on the field, is filling that position in a creditable manner. The appearance of the football field reminds one no longer of a gridiron, but rather of a chess board. A Boston paper says that chess fiends would make good quarterbacks. Wallace McCoy, captain of last year’s football team, has gone to Dartmouth. With him are also Wyman. Nickerson, Prichard, and Goode. Allen has gone to Exeter to prepare for Harvard. There he is playing guard on the football team. Dix, Countway. and Woodworth have positions in the city. Buster” Merrificld is at Tufts Medical School, but he does not intend to enter the athletic field. 26 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Everett, 6; Somerville, 0. On Wednesday, September 30, Somerville lost the first game of the season. The cause for defeat may be attributed to fumbling and loose playing, but over-confidence also played an important part. Everett has a team this year who makes a for- midable opponent, and our defeat is no disgrace, as another one of the league teams also has suffered defeat from the hands of this eleven. Somerville won the toss, and Everett kicked off to Burns, who caught the ball outside. Here the ball was brought inside, and on the first attempt to rush it was fumbled, and an Everett man fell on the ball. They were held for downs and forced to punt. Elliot misjudged the punt, and the ball rolled to the one-foot line, when Fern, of Everett, fell on it. Here Everett scored the only touchdown of the game. An easy goal was kicked. Somerville kicked off to Everett, who started down the field with a rush. After making twenty-five yards by repeated attacks on the line. Somerville held her for downs, but before they had progressed very far. time was called. Score—Somerville. 0; Everett, 6. In the second half, neither side scored, but a number of brilliant plays took place. For Somer- ville. McLaughlin and Haflford played a fine game in the back field, while on the line Burns easily was the star. For Everett. Fern and MacDonald played the best game. There was some cheering in this half, but it came too late to save the game. The line-up:— Evekkit Somerville Landregan, l.e............................r.e., Burns Renkcrt. l.t........................r.t., Tope, Sewall Harris, l.g..........................r.g., Hall Fitzgibbon, c...............................c., Graves Whitney, r.g.......................l.g., Stacy, Duhig Case, r.t................l.t., Frost, Cotnmins Hilton, r.e..............l.e., Cameron, Bishop Goddard, q.b....................q.b.. Elliot MacDonald, Ih.b.............. r.b.b., Haflford Russell, r.h.b.............l.h.b., Bean, Lakin Fern, f.b................................f.b., McLaughlin Score—Everett, 0; Somerville, 0. Touchdown —Fern. Goal from touchdown—MacDonald. Umpire—Deering. Time—20-min. halves. Somerville, 27; Boston “Prep.”, 0. Somerville retrieved herself in Saturday’s game for her defeat by Everett High by trimming Bos- ton Prep,” 27-0. At no time in the game did Boston I’rep threaten their goal, as they held the ball but once for a scanty length of time. The game Somerville played was a splendid exhibition of football. There was not a fumble in the entire game, which speaks well of Elliot, the new quarter, who has taken Cuddy’s place. Good interference and team work was apparent throughout the game. Prep” was lacking in enthusiasm, and played a listless game. They could not seem to handle mints, and every time the Somerville ends fell on the misjudged ball. Boston kicked off to Somerville, and by repeated attacks on Boston’s line soon had a touchdown. Somerville continued these tactics, and before the half had closed, had added two more touchdowns to her tally. Haflford made two of these, and Hall the other. Haflford kicked lfcft one goal, and the half closed with Somerville, 10, Boston “Prep,” 0. The second half was replete with rough house,” but there was no bloodshed. In this half Frost made a forty-yard run. after breaking through the line, which rivalled the eightv-yard run made by Haflford in the earlier part of the game. Two touchdowns were made in this half, and but one goal kicked. The half ended with the score, Som- erville, 27, Boston Prep,” 0. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 2 7 Hartford and McLaughlin showed up well as ground-gainers, and Hobby Burns at end played the game he always plays. The line-up follows:— Somerville High. Boston College ‘Tree. Cameron, Davis, l.c..................r.c., Tobin Commins. Frost, l.t........................r.t., Molloy Stacy, Duhig, l.g..................r.g., Baldwin Graves, Sewall, c............................c.. Pastorelli Hall, Burroughs, r.g.................l.g.. Lang Tope, Driscoll, r.t........................l.t.. Lennox Burns, r.e.................................l.c., Marron Elliot, Blair, q.b...................q.b., Mali Bowlby, Bean, l.h.b.....................r.li.b.. Monks Hartford, r.li.b.........................l.h.b.. Murphy McLaughlin, f.b............................f.b.. Lawlor Score—Somerville High, 27: Boston College Preparatory, 0. Touchdowns—Hartford (3), Hall. Frost. Goals from touchdowns—Hartford (2). Umpire—Ilallihan. Referee—Story, of Harvard. Linesmen—Burton and Lcmny. Timer—Moran. Time—15 and 10 min. halves. Groton, 6; Somerville, 0. On Wednesday morning, October 7, Somerville went to Groton in high spirits, well pleased with the showing they had made against the Tufts Freshmen. Twenty men were taken on the trip, but there was no call for substitutes. Somerville played a fine game, and lost only through Groton's superior weight. Groton scored but one touchdown, and that was made by steady line plunging. Somerville’s gains were not made around the ends, as Harding and Bacon were stone walls. McLaughlin and Bean played well, and. with Hartford, were instrumental in stopping many plays. Starr, of Groton, played a fine game for his team. The line-up:— Groton School, o6 Somerville H. S Bacon, l.c...........................r.e., Burns Ogilby, l.t..........................r.t., Tope Boyer, l.g...........................r.g.. Hall Hone, c..............................c.. Graves Fish, r.g............................l.g., Stacy Auchincloss. r.t.................l.t., Commins Harding, r.c.........................l.e., Davis Starr, q.b...........................q.b.. Elliot Cutling, l.h.b..........................r.h.b., Hartford Rose, r.h.b..........................l.h.b., Bean Derby, f.b...................f.b., McLaughlin Score—Groton School. G. Touchdown—Rose. Goal from touchdown—Derby. Umpire—Kelley. Referee—Peabody. Time—15-min. and 10-min. periods. Another Victory. )n a slippery gridiron Friday, October 9, Som- erville vanquished Cambridge Latin School in a close and interesting game. The Cambridge boys had a light, but snappy, team, and proved a big surprise to Somerville’s rooters. The winners scored on their superior weight and excellent line bucking. Somerville scored her only touchdown when Conlin’s punt was blocked by Bean, who broke through Cambridge’s line, and McLaughlin fell on it behind the goal. Hartford did not kick the goal. The stars for Somerville were Hartford, Mc- Laughlin. Bean, Elliot, and Tope. Those excel- ling on the Cambridge team were Crowley, Taft. Conlin. Fcclcy, and Gring. The summary:— Somerville II. S. Cambridge L S Davis, l.c............. Frost. Commins, l.t.. .. Sewall. l.g............ Graves, c.............. Hall, r.g.............. Tope, r.t.............. Burns, r.e............. Elliot, q.b............ Bean, Bowlby, l.h.b.... Hartford, r.h.b........ McLaughlin, f.b........ .. r.c., Crowley ... .r.t.. Harris .....r.g.. Ellis ......c.. Boyer ... .l.g.. Church .. .l.t.. Williams ......l.c.. Taft q.b.. O'Connor . .r.h.b.. Conlin .. .l.h.b.. Feeley .....f.b., Gring Score—Somerville High, 5. Touchdown—Mc- Laughlin. Umpire—Hill. Referees—Burton and Story. Linesmen—Saunders and Warren. Time —15-min. halves. Football Schedule. Manager Lawson announces the following schedule:— October 13, Watertown High at Broadway field. October IT, Medford High at Broadway field. October 21, Andover at Andover. October 24, Malden High at Broadway field. October 27, Cambridge Latin at Broadway field. October 31, Salem High at Salem. November 3, Cambridge High at Broadway field. November 7. ’Dorchester at Broadway field. November 11. Lowell Textile at Broadway field. November 14, ’Boston English High at Broad- way field. November 2G. Rindge Manual Training School, Charlcs-river park. ’League games. Track Notes. Cotter. Blair, Bean, and Frost represented the High School in the track events at the Brockton Fair. Frost was to compete in the 100-yard dash, and Blair in the 440-novice, but, owing to a change in the programme of events, they arrived too late to run. Frost qualified for the 220 by winning his heat, but did not enter into the finals, as he wished to save himself for the next race, which was a relay. In this latter event Somerville took second place after a hard-fought race. Each member of the team received a silver loving cup. PEMBERTON SCHOOL OF SHORTHAND SHORTHAND TYPEWRITING MIMEOGRAPHING Newest fornix of Actual Ituxlncxx Practice. General Office Work. Free Trial U'lM'k, Day ami Evening Session� , Imllvlduni InxlructIon, no cliarKi' for Stationery. Stiidnitx received at any time. Open all Hummer. PBMBERTON BUILDING, opp. Scollay Square, Subway Station, PEMBERTON SQUARE, BOSTON Telephono. Haymarkot 645 9 2 lprincess ant) ©cubic IDiolets o Mars ton B. Bunker § o PLORIST ot 2, r: o o Cilv Hall Avenue, Boston 5 A large assortment of all seasonable Flowers •— always on hand. o Al! orders delivered free of charge. W Telephone. 3779-4 Main. 6 O 3 pansies, Enchantress Carnations High Class Ulillinery --AT THE- ELITE PARLORS. 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Men’s Furnishings and Dry Goods UNION SQUARE, SOMERVILLE Dry cind Dancy Goods SCHOOL SUPPLIES NOVELTIES CONFECTIONERY KM Glove Cleaning 86 II lj lll 111(1 A.VC� , SoilMiTVlllC Open Tuesday, Thursday, anil Agent for Cuxtom Laundry | Opposite High School | Saturday Evening Somerville Selwol K.-tiliitinr. prospect Ibill Zowky riiolo liv City Knjrineer's Department CONTENTS OF NOVEMBER RADIATOR Page Twilight (frontispiece),............................................................32 Radiator Staff,.....................................................................33 Editorials.......................................................................34 35 The Rangeley Lakes, by Roden Yargrave. L., ’04,.....................................36 A11 Idle Day (poem), l� v Katherine Poster. L., ’04,.................................37 Prom an Usher Up. by Frank R. Bradford, E., '05, 38 His Thanksgiving, by Helen Marden, L.. ’04..........................................39 An Incident. 40 Happy Jack, by Leonard W. Libbey, E., ’05, - • 41 A Hallowe’en Memory, by Florence M. Merrill, E-, ’05,...............................42 Exchange Notes,.....................................................................43 Radiations from the Radiator's “ Wise ” Man,........................................44 Autumn Days, by Alphonse Nemo, L., ’04, 44 Public Occurrences,..............................................................45-46 Latin Notes, 47 English Notes,......................................................................48 The Off-Shore Wind, by O. T. Alan. L., ’04..........................................49 Athletics,..........................................................................50 Constitution of Athletic Association,...............................................53 BEST IN THE WORLDS This may seem a bold assertion, but it may be truly made concerning Ince Hall Cannel Coal For Open Fires This celebrated coal is mined on the Ince Hall Estate in England and the demand greatly exceeds the supp'y. We are the agents for Messrs. J. P. Higginson Company of Liverpool, the sole shippers of Ince Hall Cannel to the United States, and have just landed a con- signment ex-S.S. “ Mayflower. Metropolitan Coal Company GENERAL OFFICES 30 Congress Street, Boston Somerville Office: 31 Union Square. Courlrty rhoto Kn TWILIGHT 40IHLRV 1LLL LATIN ENGLISH SCHOOLS Vol. XIII. Somerville, Massachusetts, November, 1903. No. 2. The Kadiatok is published by tlie Somerville Lit in ami English High Schools on the third Thursday of every month during the school year, and only important news matter can lie received after the 10th of the month. Matter for insertion may be left with any of the editorial staiT or mailed to the editor at the Latin High School. In contributing, write on one side of the paper only and sign full name ( this is for reference only). Communications should be addressed to the editor, business manager, or exchange editor, according to their nature. Manuscript must be accompanied by necessary postage to insure its return. Terms, 75 Cents per Year Single Copies, JO Cents SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT Editorial Staff EditorsinsCbicf C. SHERWOOD RICKER, L. ’04. associate Editor KATHRYNE L. NOLAN, E. 04. Ercbattflc Editor HELEN MARDEN, L. '04. Sporting Editor GEORGE COHEN, L. ’04. .lousiness Ibanaflcr LAURENCE MITCHELL, E. 04. assistant .iGusincss fcanaocr THOMAS P. DURELL, L. ’05. {Treasurer GERARD C. BEAN, E. ’04. Staff artist EDWIN II. WEAVER, E. ’05. Class Editors Xatin School WILLIAM L. PHILLIPS, 04. ARTHUR T. SOULE, ’05. HERBERT S. SANBORN, o6. RALPH B. DURELL, ’07. Enfllisb School WARREN B. FARNUM, 04 LEONARD W. LIBBEY, ’05. RICHARD KEYES, ’06. LUTHER I. SMITH, ’07 34 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR EDITORIAL'S THE SHORT STORY POME of the stories that the Radiator receives are very good: many show a lack of effort; all could be improved. If we state what, in our opinion, constitutes the readable short story, and reiterate some well-worn rules, the Radiator may be the recipient of better material. Every short story must lead up to something— that is. an incident prominent enough to become a climax. It may have its start from a hazy and in- definite source, but it must constantly progress, and finally arrive somewhere—so that the reader may carry away a definite impression after reading the story. The first requisite of the short story is that the writer have something to tell—a plot. He may present realistic descriptions, pretty scenes, and artistic word pictures, but before they can enter the province of the short story, they must be vivified and humanized by characters of real life who do something. Never sit down to write a story by beginning to put down clever sentences and ideas, and trusting to the favor of the gods for an inspiration. Only I octs have such things, and the majority of them have to arrange and systematize before they get anywhere. The most minute details of the plot should be at a focus in the writer's mind from the start. The title of the story is another important part of the work. Many times a story is read, merely on the merits of its title: hence it behooves the author to have an attractive and appropriate name. Now as to the kind of story. The short story does not thrive well in the atmosphere of love. It is difficult to treat it properly within the confines of the short story, as, for its normal development, it needs varying scenes and moods. The short story is seldom in dead earnest, and the tragic element should be only an incident—not the plot. It should aim more at cleverness and comedy than toward profundity and tragedy. The sadness in life is too prominent to need stereotyping in the short story. Avoid the tale of wonder. It needs but little plot, yet necessitates a prodigious imagination, and very few writers have made a success of it. The tale of horror, if well done, has a terrible and fascinating charm, but a mere slip will make it com- monplace or barbaric. The fantastic story is a near neighbor to this, though it treats the supernatural in a lighter vein. The dramatic story is considered the highest type of the modern short story. There is little outside padding to be done to a story of this sort. It must stand on the merits of its conversations and charac- ters. The plot always centres about the important figure, and the climax affecting the chief actor should be the mainspring and dramatic fount from which the rest of the story and characters gain their strength. It is impossible here to speak of all the branches of the short story. One of the most modern is the story of ingenuity. There is a boundless field to work in, and the gigantic strides of science make the impossible a possibility. One may assume any- thing if he can only back it up with probability. He may ingeniously weave a plot around some of the possible effects of physical phenomena. He may construct a story around a chemical change, the discovery of a new element, astronomical dis- turbances. or the revolution of travel some me- chanical contrivance might bring about. And so we might go on and name many more possible sub- jects for the short story, but space forbids. r. THE ETHICS OF THANKSGIVING. P E V stop to think when the cycle of the year’s events brings to us Thanksgiving, that beneath the pleasure of the gathered family at the board, mingling with the football game and kindred festiv- ities. there lies a powerful influence which, though SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 35 it cannot be abstractly named, is the forger of a link in the great chain that binds the hearts of all in common loyalty to this glorious republic. It is the presence of this element, peculiar to the Ameri- can people, which influences a noted French writer, in speaking of the possibility of future inimical rela- tions between Germany and the United States to say: Whoever now would consult the various peoples of the world regarding their inward dis- position [concerning war] would find none more peacefully disposed than the Americans. Their whole energy is absorbed in the production of wealth, in the betterment of social, intellectual, and moral life, and they regard war as a useless waste of time and money, llut it would be a great mistake to infer that this sentiment is inspired by fear. . . . It is wonderful to note how a people so little mili- tary arc gifted with a patriotism so intense. What a contrast between the towns of Germany, where at every step we come across troops on the march, where the very populace seems divided into regi- ments, and those immense cities beyond the sea, in which the sight of a military uniform, the sound of a trumpet are practically unknown. At the first alarm of war they would rouse themselves as one man, and at the end of a few weeks would be cap- able of withstanding the onslaught of the best- trained troops of Europe.” This is something to contemplate, coming from the pen of a foreign writer, and it shows that even those not associated with us are able to perceive the enormous force of that quality which makes the United States the most peaceful, vet one of the most formidable of the world's powers. Let us think about this element that is so forcibly brought to our notice at Thanksgiving, which, though the harbinger of Peace, is yet one of the fiercest wielders of the sword. � � PERSONALITY IN CLASS NOTES. 'I' HERE has always been more or less agitation over the personality in class notes. Very few notes are interesting without this element. The question is, to what extent may one go? Pupils are constantly making amusing blunders in recitations, over which we smile again when we sec them in print. Should or should not the pupil’s name or initials accompany his laughable error? By all means, in some cases; by no means, in others. Here is a case for somewhat delicate discrimination, and the undertaking of a decision falls to the class editor. He should know or find out before sending in a note, if personal, whether it is a serious knock,” or merely an amusing allusion to a blunder—further- more, how this person alluded to will take it. Some arc extremely sensitive, and shrink from the slightest remark concerning their short- comings ; the majority, we arc happy to say, laugh themselves when they read of their blunders. Here, then, is the duty of the class editor. He should carefully consider the nature of the joke sub- mitted to him, and should know or acquaint him- self with the temperament of the person mentioned. If this is done faithfully by each class editor, both the class and their Radiator representative will find their class notes of a better character and greatly increased. r � � •� PROSPECT HILL. 'J'lIE Prospect Hill celebration, so admirably car- ried out, casts great credit upon the city. Somerville, we may justly say, with a thrill oi pride, has not been slow in commemorating with sightly structures her s| ots of patriotic interest. At one end of the city we see the old Powder House, flanked by a reservation of trees and shrubbery, a beautiful spot from every point of approach. In an opposite corner of the city we may now see a stately tower, which commemorates the spot where George Washington first unfurled the flag, the emblem of this now great republic. It was indeed a pleasure to notice the wide- spread interest manifested in the dedication: for this interest did not confine itself to the city, nor to the state alone. Strictly speaking, it had a national significance, in that it marked an important incident in the scries of events that went to make up the Revolution and the emancipation of the American colonies. Any and every incident, no matter how insignificant, that deals with the Revo- lution and the freedom of this country should be held sacred in the heart of every true American. The action Somerville has taken in perpetuating the interest in her historic spots is a shining ex- ample for other municipalities fortunate enough to hold within their boundaries places associated with patriotic action when the existence of the nation was wavering in the balance. � COR the pleasing story in last month’s issue, cn- titled Barbara’s Kindness,” we arc indebted to Miss Edna Gordon, English, ’05. 36 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR THE RANGELEY LAKES. By Roden Vargrave, L., '04. AR within the wilds of western Maine, nestled among chains of towering mountains, clothed in spruce and fir. with here and there a touch of white, where the birches dot the shore, lies a group of lakes well known to the lover of nature and of game. From the choked and heated city a man may wend his way to this earth-grown paradise, and offer up a prayer of thankfulness for nature’s greatness. The Rangeley lakes, six in number, form the its monotonous miles by the occasional sight of a stray deer or moose. In winter—in fact, from the middle of November to April—the complete chain of lakes is frozen solid, making passage available only by sledge. Ordinarily the mercury sinks far below the zero mark, and often reaches thirty, but the air is much dryer, and the real cold is less intense. It is dur- ing the winter that the logs which feed the mills below on the Androscoggin arc cut and dragged to the water’s edge. At the first sign of spring they are chained in booms, and towed down A PORTION OP THE LAKES FROM THE SUMMIT OF BALD MOUNTAIN. largest inland body of water, in New England, and present fifty-seven miles of waterway in this north- erly group of states. In order, starting from the north, they are, Cupsuptic, Moosclookmeguntic, Oquossoc, Molechunkemunk, Wclokenncbacook, and Umbagog. It is quite an assertion, but never- theless true, that from no other body of water in the world are taken such large spotted square-tailed trout as from these lakes. This in itself is enough to draw thousands of fishermen, even though na- ture had left the region otherwise barren. Instead, coupled with the abundance of game and fishing, there is a glorious vision of nature. It is with a thrill of delight that we find ourselves on an im- mense expanse of mountain-locked water, the dis- tant bank on cither side dipping its dense forest of green and brown to the water’s edge, eased from the lakes by large, ungainly, steam-propelled craft, which are relegated from sight before summer ap- proaches. Upwards of two hundred million feet of timber are annually sent down stream to the great mills that mar the beauty of the Androscoggin river. The loggers are a sturdy set of men. large of limb, many with a slight stoop, wearing the broad- brimmed hat. the blue-jean shirt, and high cow-hide boots. The Guide, in like attire, wears a most stolid countenance and very seldom deigns to speak, except to ridicule a break of the uninitiated. However, when they are known, it is recognized that there is a no more genuine class of men living. They can cook, fix up a camp, handle a canoe under the most forbidding conditions, and are the most unerring “shots” in the whole wilderness. The most noted of these is “Billy” Soule, a corpulent SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 37 chap, red-faced, good-natured, and ever ready with his practical joke. lie came to the lakes as a child in a logging camp, and through his many years’ association, the region has become greatly en- deared to him. Fresh water fishing is one of the most exciting of sports, 'fhe salmon arc the wildest, lint the trout the most unrelenting in their endeavors to unhook themselves from your hold. The salmon, just as soon as he is hooked, makes a frantic dive for the surface, and sometimes leaps from the water to the height of two feet in his endeavors toward freedom. If the one fishing has several “still’ lines out beside the rod. the salmon on the rod will invariably be ever, when the rod bends still further, and there is a quiver clear to the handle. Yes, it is a trout, and one of no mean size. The guide volunteers a bit of advice at this juncture: Keep the line taut, but give the fish all he wants should he start to run away. The fish seems to have overheard the guide’s remarks, and straightway takes his depart- ure. 'The reel buzzes. The angler then commences to reel in. The fish is being played.” This is the final method before inducing him to the surface. Languid and almost lifeless he at last appears, his gills move rapidly—the poor fellow is winded—he has fought his fight and bravely. He is netted and weighed—eight and a half pounds: twenty-six THE MOST SPACIOUS PRIVATE CAMP Otf THE LAKES. unkind enough to encircle them several times, thereby blasting fishing prospects sometimes for an hour while the unfortunate untangles his lines. The salmon never says die. Even after he is netted he is by no means caught—his final struggle comes here, and it is always the worst. To hit the elusive fish on the head there must be an accurate, quick eye The trout, on the contrary, does not follow the tactics of his gamy brother, 'fhe trout is hooked, the rod bends to a dangerous curve, and the angler thinks he has appropriated a portion of the lake bottom unaware. He is soon disillusionized, how- inches long and eight wide. A murmur passes among the boats—congratulations come from across the water, and the episode is closed. One more thing connected with these wonderful lakes we must mention. The evening upon the lake is the most inspiring time of all. Imagine a large mountain-flanked lake bathed in the soft silver rays of a full moon. The high, dark mountains loom up in stately grandeur, and cast their broad shadows far out on the placid surface. The ripple and drip of a paddle is heard, and the graceful canoe slips noiselessly bv. and the picture is completed. AN IDLE DAY. By Katherine Foster, L., '04. I wandered in a forest brown: I saw the warbler’s golden crown, Which bobbed among the leaves so green, And caught the sunbeam’s twinkling sheen. The shadows fell, yet still I stayed, And wandered far within a glade, Where brier-rose and columbine Their odors mixed with that of thyme. The honeysuckle circling ’bout, The busy bee with buzzing shout, With well-filled pouch and sweet content. Did take his way with merriment. The stars did soon begin to peer Upon this world’s great rounded sphere. And homeward I did take my way, With pleasure from a lazy day. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 38 FROM AN USHER, UP. By Frank R. Bradford, E., '05. UR hero was just old enough to be a Freshman, in fact, he did serve two months in that honorable body, leav- ing only when he became afraid his hat would disappear. Gussic might have gone through high school if he had not given it up, and gone into the theatrical business. For four years, an unusually long time for one of his class, he worked hard and conscien- tiously as an usher. From the very first Gus had a desire to shine as a star on the stage. As a first step towards this, he began to cultivate his memory. To do this many people would go to a school of memory, thinking that the best wav. but Gus was not that kind. He listened carefully to the words of the leading man. committed them to memory, and then recited them, with great stress of feeling, to the busts of Daniel Webster and Edmund Burke, which criticised him from their marble pedestals in the promenade gal- lery. At the end of two years, the lad felt it his duty to try to advance himself a little. He joined the Door-tenders' Union, and was given charge of the third gallery. This was just what he wanted, though of course lie didn't say so. Here he could practice his talents without interruption. At first. Gus missed the friendly faces of Webster and Burke, but soon the usher in the gallery took their places. He was a silent, but very observant boy. who had a great deal of common sense. He advised Gus to stand at one end of the hundred-foot corridor, and recite to him at the other end, “so as to get used to your own voice.” He was invaluable to Gus as a critic. Our hero progressed rapidly. He could remem- ber the whole play after hearing it three or four nights, and the movements came to him almost by instinct. One day after a show had been playing at his theatre about a week, he heard that the under- study to the leading man had been struck by an electric car. and was badly injured. That very day Gus had gone through the part in such a manner as to excite the applause of his audience, the usher, which had never before given him anything but the sternest of criticisms. Though Gus was very kind- hearted. he almost wished the star would be taken sick, so that he might have a chance to ap- pear. Yet when the hero, while trying to scale the prison walls, lost his footing and fell to the floor, spraining his ankle very badly. Gus trembled like a leaf, and almost groaned, “It's up to me now.” as if he was forced to take the part. But this feeling, common to all beginners, soon passed, and in its place was the determination to apply for the now vacant position. Gus found the manager running around the stage as if he were crazy. And. indeed, he had a right to be. With both the leading man and his substitute in the hospital, the house would have to close, and thousands of dollars would be lost. Gus stopped him. and in a firm voice, though lie was in- wardly quaking, told his errand. The manager looked at him. and then, as a drowning man grabs a straw to save his life, so did he grab at this chance of saving money, lie questioned poor Gus, eagerly, almost fiercely. • To make a long story short, (ins was engaged. He rehearsed all the morning, and a large part of the afternoon, with stage hands to laugh at, argue with, fight with, and make love to. That evening the house was crowded. People who had seen the hero fall the night before came again to see if he would act on crutches, for it was known that the understudy was in the hospital. There was a subdued murmur of surprise and al- most disappointment when the manager came be- fore the curtain and announced that Gus had kindly consented to aid the management by reading the part. (I understand this is the way they always introduce a substitute whose name does not appear on the posters.) At first tis was excited, and his movements were stiff and awkward, but soon he seemed to hear the voice of his coach, the usher, saying, Now don’t be excited. Just think you're talking to me.” Then he calmed down and went to work. At the end of the act. the applause rang full and free, and he went be- fore the curtain feeling as if he ought to apologize for inflicting himself on the crowd. The real actor's injuries proved to be more seri- ous than had at first appeared. “Nevertheless,” the play, billed for two months, stayed twelve weeks, and Gus was the star. The house was packed every night by people who wanted to see this boy. for he was only twenty years old. who. without any train- ing could beat an old actor on his own grounds. Now Gus does not have to look for a position. It comes to him. lie has reached that height from which very few people ever look down. Ilis name is known by the theatre-loving people of both worlds. Nor did Gus forget in his prosperity his friends of earlier times. lie has instructed his ser- vant to be extremely careful when she dusts the busts of Daniel Webster and Edmund Burke, which are now in his library. There is another friend who has not been forgotten. The bill-boards in front of the theatres read: Reginald Smith presents the greatest actor of modern times.—Gus. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 39 HIS THANKSGIVING By Helen Marden, L., '04. TI TLE BOY gazed blankly out of the nursery window on smoky, snowless streets—gazed with sad blue eyes, his wistful little face pressed close to the pane. Little Boy did not sec the dis- agreeable November streets of London, wet with dismal rains. He saw a cheery, bustling road of an old New England town, covered with the pure white snow that only a little New England boy can worship, and he saw people laden with. oh. such fascinating bundles, of all shapes and sizes, but above all the unmistakable legs of what? Two thoughts were prominent in his little brain. —last year he had had a mamma and a Thanks- giving! Tor what little boy of eight could not re- member two such important facts as these? Now he had a mother and no Thanksgiving—she had forgotten,—she would never, never have a Thanks- giving any more. She was mother now whom he only saw once in a great, great while, beautiful, re- splendent in diamonds, no longer the same mamma. Little Boy detested English papas! Of course there was Little Girl, but he only saw her on beau- tiful days in the park. And that was another tiling—a great lonely park, not a place for children to play in, but for them to walk sedately through with a nurse, who would look neither to the right nor left. Little Boy almost wondered how lie ever became acquainted with Little Girl. He only knew that for a long while he had been admiring her little pink face and brown eyes. When he found out that she had never lived in America, his pity and magnanimity knew no bounds—it was then that he vowed tiiat some day he would take her across the great ocean and she should have all she ever wanted, and more than that, a Thanks- giving, which was something she had never known, and therefore never missed. If it had not been for Little Boy’s nurse he would not have remembered just what day '1 lianksgiving was. Nurse was another great disappointment. She had become thoroughly English, and adopted all the London ways, but once in a great while, a hint, just a tiny hint of Little Boy’s homesickness came over her. and it was then that she would take him oti her lap and tell him some of the things they used to do. Master Eric” he was now. with no one to call him “Erie dear.” as in the olden days. My. now old he felt, and such a past! Then muddy shoes might be tracked all over the roomy old homestead, but now—where was the mud? If there was any. none ever touched Little Boy’s patent leathers and tan gaiters, and oh. worse yet. the memory of rubber boots had not faded from his mind! Therefore it was that, once in a while, a drop brinier than the others, and on the opposite side of the pane, might be seen slowly trickling down the window. To-morrow would be Thanksgiving. If only he and Little Girl might celebrate it together, lie thought, though lie was not quite sure, that it would be about as good as to celebrate it alone in America. I cn minutes later, the soft patter of unaccus- tomed feet was heard in my lady's boudoir. Ft startled her into the use of a name long unfamiliar. Why, Erie, what brings you here? As she spoke she let her satisfied eve rest on his blue velvet suit, sturdy little silk-clad legs, and close cropped fair head, and at last on the appealing blue eyes that looked at her. oh. so wistfully. Surely she was mamma again, for she had called him Erie —but no. the old something was not in her eyes, the something that he had seen in them when she had bent over the horrid little monkey in the other nursery, the baby that Little Boy had seen but once, and did not wish to see again. That was Little Boy's first jealousy. M-mother. he managed to say. his little face very red. may She and I have a Thanksgiving in the nursery? It is so long since----- Thanksgiving, oh. yes. Thanksgiving—what do you want a Thanksgiving for. child? I never hear I of such an idea; come, I can't be bothered. Marie, take Master Eric back. No. wait! did you think Maude was old enough to have a Thanksgiving with you?” Oh. 1 meant She.” his face grown redder yet with desire of explanation, still surprised that She was unknown. ‘T can’t stop now. Marie, do hurry, I must plan, plan, plan for to-morrow night. Let me sec—” al- ready she had forgotten Little Boy's existence. Marie’s hand was rather rudely shaken from Little Boy's, and a forlorn little figure, a sadder and wiser boy. walked across the polished floors, down the wide staircase, and stopped, hesitating, a: the door of the library, —then turned and slowly retraced his steps. No. he could not swallow his pride sufficiently to ask that man. that awful man whom lm mother had been foolish enough to leave America for! Yet he knew that the man would have listened to him: nay. more, would have granted his request, but the proud little American spirit would take no favors from an Englishman. Little Boy walked to the massive entrance and looked from the heavily-curtained windows at the side. It was not raining now, but— what was that? Surely not a pure white snowflake? An- other. and yet another! Why. it could snow in England, after all, and in London, too! Little Bov was almost happy. His little legs fairly flew back 40 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR to the nursery and there, in the window of the next house, stood Little Girl, dapping her hands in glee. He stood looking at her with a proud sense of possession, ownership of both the snow and her- self—ownership of all the world! Then he thought of the turkey, lie left the window, for of course Little Girl must not see a great big boy. eight whole years old. giving way to an unmanly feeling. Tliat night, in a little brass bed, one little brain was doing more planning than all that was done for the great dinner my lady was to give the next day. And the next morning the steady increase of the snow was far more pleasing to one little heart than to the heart of my lady. ' ' All the guests had arrived, and quiet reigned in the other parts of the house. A little figure clad in blue velvet was not noticed when it slid the heavy bolts and slipped into the street, the quiet white street. It was useless making the plea for Little Girl: she should make it for herself. For who could resist her? When Little Boy was admitted to her house, he stood shivering for a moment in the lighted hall. The butler forgot his position and laughed at the quaint little blue velvet figure. The maids drew round him and petted him. falling on their knees to get a better view. Where is She? I want Her!” “Why. lie is the little American boy next door! You little dear! What docs he want?” I want Her. lemme go!”—alas, some American- isms still fell from his lips, however perfect the lips might look— please, please!” Little Girl's mamma was at my lady’s dinner if Little Boy had only known it, but he did not. and only repeated his demands. When the maids understood his wish, they formed a whispering con- clave to decide the momentous question of asking the nurse. If one of us went with ‘im. Miss Dorothy would be hall right. Poor little dear. I 'ates to disappoint 'im—but. oh. that woman.—I dare not hask 'er.” Oh. you'd be just the one!” After much persuasion, a maid started off to ask the dread nurse, using little boy as the best plea she could offer. T- wants ’cr to go hover hand 'ave a feast with 'im. poor little dear, hand I don’t see as ow hit would be hany 'arm. Walker.” What a terrible vision the nurse appeared to Little Boy. clinging fast to the kind maid’s hand.— all terrifying bine spectacles and hard metallic voice. Ye'll be thankful. Mary Ann. if I don't tell on ye. to say nothin' of your making such a fool of yourself. No. go along with the young un. and don’t----- At this critical point Little Girl came flying out past the indignant nurse, for she had not yet gone to bed. as Little Boy had feared, and holding fast to his other hand, faced her nurse in angry defiance. The formidable array did not affect Walker, and somewhat rudely she separated the loyal pair, and bore off Miss Dorotln. though that young lady screamed at the top of her voice, and kicked with the might of her youth. Little Boy bore his grief stolidly, and stalked down the stairs patiently and tcarlessly, refused all proffered assistance of escort home, and made his way. a solitary blue figure, down the white steps. His little breast was far too small to hold his big aching heart. The butler held the door open to give some light in the blinding snow, but somehow Little Boy missed his footing when the stinging wind struck his unprotected little body. « . o They brought him home and laid him on the little brass bed. The mother knelt by his side, bitter tears coursing their way down her white, white checks. ''Eric. Erie dear! Look at me. dear, dear boy. Mamma is here. Oh. Eric, my darling!” Little Boy’s heart was full of its own Thanks- giving. and he was happy. An Incident. The Boston Evening News has furnished us with a most amusing incident. As every one knows, the central eminence of Somerville has been ransacked and scoured in quest of a mysterious Maltese Cross. The other day a well-dressed woman, very dig- nified. though somewhat excited, was shown to the office and asked Mr. Whitcomb for permission to investigate part of the building, declaring that she had seen what might be the much desired cross over one of the arches of a third story window. Mr. Whitcomb refused, but gave her permission to come at the close of school. Promptly at 1.30 the woman appeared. The place where she had seen the cross proved to be over otte of the chemical laboratory windows. An ambitious climber reaching forth from the top of an open window secured the oblong white object” designated, which proved to be—no, not the Maltese Cross, but a cake of Bon Ami soap, which had been carelessly left there during the cleaning operations of the janitor. ----------------------------- The Bachelor Girls. The meetings of the Bachelor Girls take place every other week at the homes of its different mem- bers. A dancing party is to be held on New Year’s eve. Plans will be completed at the next meeting, to be held at the home of the president, Miss Gladys Libby. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 4i HAPPY JACK. By Leonard W. Libbey, E., '05. EM EMBER Happy Jack? Well. I should smile. Happy Jack, king of tlicr hoboes, we used ter call him, and a better man never trod this earth. -LJy He wuz loved—yes, loved, by every one—but lie would smoke an' drink, an' kill hisself generally. He wuz brung up among the aristucrats, too. His father wuz a broker, an' he tried to get the boy into the biz. also, but 'Nixie says Jack, ‘there's too much cheatin' an robbin' in it for yours truly and so out of house an’ home he goes an' starts out on the road. Happy-go-lucky, honest! Dat guy never stole or begged a ting in his life. Say, I've seen dat feller take a freight a flyin’, and before he could get his breath back, he would get a rush call from the 'boose and be begged to fill up on grub an’ sing a song. An’ I’ve seen dat feller go up on top 0’ de freights on a tough ole night and help them train fellers brake. ”1 remember the first time I ever bummed wit Happy. He alwuz took a shine ter me. and used ter like to have me wit him. We jumped a ‘fiver mail at the ‘pork city, an' got on the front end of thcr blind baggage.—dat’s a car dat ain't got no front door, you know. We wuz right behind the coal car. an’ bv standin’ up we could see right into the engine. Well, we’d gone about fifty miles, when we come to a place where de engine takes in water widout stoppin'. How? Oh. dere's a long trough 0' water, an’ the fireman drops out a ting that looks like a stovepipe with the end bent in the way that the train is a-goin’. Well, he drops it out. and the train is goin’ so fast that the water rushes right up the pipe into the tank in the back of the coal car. Well, as I wuz saying, we—a cigar?— thank you—we come to 011c 0’ dese places, and de fireman lets his old pipe down, an’ de water come a-rushin’ into the tank. Now. we didn’t mind dat a bit. but when the tank got full and turned tidal wave, soakin' us both. I had a kick coinin’. All we cud do wuz to crack a grin an’ bear it. an' so we sat dcrc. playin’ dat we were hung out on the line to dry. Well, we wuz just gettin’ good an' dry. when we struck another place dat worked along the same line of idea, an’ we had to play dat we were Noah widout de ark agin, but I never did like these make believe games. Dat water certainly did pom- over us. and we come pretty nigh bein’ washed out 0’ commission right derc on de spot. Pretty soon we stopped, an’ Hap an’ I got off. Hap walked up to de engine—Surly Sam wuz drivin’—and a tough old turkey he was. never laughin’ or smilin’, and ugly as sin. Jack walked up. tipped his summer Panama, and says. 'Say. boss, wot wuz de name of them two rivers we went through back there?’ Sam looked at us a minute, drippin’ wet as we wuz, and then he opened his mouth, and say. but didn’t the breezes blow! I never saw a man laugh the way that old buzzard did. After a while he stopped, but every few minutes he'd break out into a cackle. Speakin’ of summer Panamas, it makes me think of what Jack used ter say about ’em: ‘Summer panamas an' some er not.' lie would s- Bcggin’ your pardon, sir. I did not notice that you had one on. “How did Happy die? Didn’t you know dat? Didn't you read it in the papers? Well, you're a corker, wit a capital K, I must say. Would I tell yer? Sure! You sec. it wuz dis way. Jack took the flier at the city dat beer made famous, and went in de cab wid his latest friend. Surly Sam. Now. Hap knew how to run an engine, ’cause he had rid in so many, an’ anyway, he took to machinery just like a luck to water. Tim Dolan was tendin' to the steam heat, and when they come to crossin's, Jack would fire for him. You know the big Xew- burg trestle just after you sail through Omaha for 'Frisco? It’s over the I'latte river. Sam put down the brakes when we neared it. but down went the ‘red’ to safety, and Sam opens up the throttle wide again, for he wuz a mite late. when, all of an instant, he notices that the draw is as wide open as the mouth of a ten-day robin. lie slams down the throttle, throws on the brakes, and jumps quicker’n a cross-eyed Ilea, an' Tim goes out the udder side: but Hap, our Jack, stuck by the engine. He saw that, in spite 0' the brakes, the whole train wuz bound to go over. Quick as a wink he throws over the reverse, opens the sand box. throws the brakes off the engine, and opens the throttle. Slow, but sure, them big drivin’ wheels turn backwards, gain- ing speed all the time, and fightin' agin all. the weight 0’ dem heavy parlors and sleepers. Seeing that the cylinder heads were holdin’. Jack threw on full steam, just as dev reached the trestle. Old 1)0’ hung on the edge, her front wheels in air. an' the big drivers fightin' backwards all the time, but does not quite stop. She quivers, rocks, and then dives down head first, with our Jack. A tremendous his?, an’ crash, then a turriblc ‘boom and Jack.—our Jack.—was gone. “They afterwards found that the coupling be- tween the engine and baggage had snapped, and those hundreds of people were saved at the cost of— our Jack. Us hoboes and the folks on the train and the railroad raised a thousand dollars, and bought him a monster old monument of marble, with this on it, over his grave:— “John Clifton DeCourcev. ‘‘HE WAS OUR HAPPY' IX LIFE, “HE IS HAPPY XOW. Greater love knows no man than this, for he gave his life for his friends.” 42 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR A HALLOWE’EN MEMORY. By Florence M. Merrill, E., '05. EFORE a smouldering fire sits a daughter of the South. In her youth she had been the belle of Kentucky. Father Time has remembered, and has been gentle. In her hand is a small mirror, into which she gazes occasionally, as though looking for something other than her own reflection. It is Hallowe'en Eve. and she is thinking of a night long since gone by. and of the last Hallowe’en frolic she attended before her “coming out.” It had been a beautiful night, with the soft light of the stars, and the gleaming of the full moon. The ceremony of the ghost walk had been ac- companied with the customary shrieks of well- feigned terror, when the spectres seized their vic- tims and bore them off to a dark corner of the house, where a frightful old witch told their for- tunes. The young people huddled together round a single faintly-burning candle, and some one on the edge of the circle began to tell a story in a hoarse whisper. As the others listened, chills crept over them, and their hands grew cold and clammy. The flame of the little candle flickered and wavered to and fro. casting weird shadows. Each one watched the story-teller with wide-open, startled eyes, and when she finished, all in that dimly-lighted room caught their breath with a gasp. After this, each girl took a mirror, and as she walked backward down the terrace steps, gazed earnestly into it. The girl who saw any one beside herself in the mirror would be married within the year. The belle of Kentucky.” Lucy, had been the last, and when she looked into hers, she was startled to see another face. Dropping the mirror, she started to run toward the house, but hearing some one call to her, stopped to look back. Near the foot of the steps stood her old friend, the colonel’s son, who had been away to college for several months. He hurried forward to greet her, and said that he had seen her trying that old Hal- rowe’en trick, and thought that he would help her with it. They talked for a few moments, and then, since he could not stay longer, he bade her good night, saying, as he left. Remember, Lucy, what you saw in your mirror, and what the consequences will be.” As Lucy went back through the grove, she met the others coming to meet her. “Why, where have you been so long?” Did you see some one?” We were afraid that you had been carried off by ghostly visitants.” These were the exclamations that she heard as she joined them. She laughed, and told them that she had been frightened, and that she thought it must have been a ghost. Where is your mirror. Lucy? Did your ghost take it? asked her sister. I really think the ghost must have kept it as a token. Miss Lucy. drawled one of the young men. A very sensible ghost he was, too.” Then Lucy remembered that she had dropped it in her fright. On her way home she searched everywhere among the shrubbery for the little glis- tening thing, but it was nowhere to be found. • A year later, after Lucy and the colonel’s son were married, he returned the lost mirror to his bride. Now. as she sits alone before the dying fire, shr looks again and again into the mirror, wishing, haF expecting to see her loved one’s face. As the clock in a distant steeple strikes twelve, the flames, leap- ing up for the last time, shine on her peaceful, smil- ing face: for she has gone to join her husband, the colonel’s son. AUTUMN. By Frances Frost, L., '04. The summer months have left us, The flowers have gone again. We miss their cheering presence In garden and in lane. The birds’ song has grown fainter. They’ve taken their Southern trail. For their last sweet note has sounded In the distant hill and vale. So autumn closes ’round us, She rages here and there; The ground is heaped with golden leaves, Tho’ all the trees are bare. And in a shady bower, Upon a shining pile, Summer, wearied with her toil, Lies down to rest a while. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 43 Exchange Notes. We feel that there is crying need for exchange columns in many of the papers we receive, and it is to this end that we are trying to offer an exchange column for exchange notes and criticisms only, leaving the jokes, both original and borrowed, for another column. Do you not realize. Exchanges, that what we need most of all. perhaps, is just an Exchange column? We wish to be in a friendly league with our exchanges, and we are ready for fair criticisms, at any time, be they ever so severe. There are many delightful magazines which it would be a pleasure to comment upon, were it not for the fact that it is hardly fair to exchanges: for without that column you cannot retaliate. We may weary you with constant repetition, but we shall keep at you! Wake up. Exchanges! Though the Latin and High School Review of Cambridge has no exchange column, wc feel that we must make favorable comment on its Fun page. It is a good plan to have this column separate, and we urge it on our own schools as well as others. This paper contains an excellent story, very similar, however, to one printed in a recent issue of Harper's. We notice an improvement in the texture of the paper used by The Oracle, Malden. Keep it up, Oracle! Though the heading for exchanges in the last number is not particularly inspiring, let us be thankful that it is a change from the October number. Might we suggest, Oracle, that your criticisms, instead of being helpful, are a little too pert and sarcastic? Both the editorials and the exchange column of 'Phe Beacon, from Chelsea, are fine. 'I lie cover is far more fetching than many of brighter hue. There is a deplorable lack of stories in an Am- herst exchange, The College Signal. Is it pressure for time, or are we too proud to write when we arc older? An article by W. L. Parkhurst in the Winches- ter Recorder, on Dartmouth’s Welcome to Her Freshmen,” is especially to be commended. We agree with the Recorder, when it says that a few jokes to relieve the seriousness will not lower the tone of a paper. We also agree with the Drury Academe, when it says We detest the idea of ‘picking on a paper be- cause it has severely criticised us, or praising it be- cause we are praised.” Let every exchange be as independent as the Drury Academe! The Bouncer from Madison, Me., remarks that spelling has been added as part of the required work. Surely this is needed in a great many schools. The Bouncer published a neat June num- ber. Good for you, Johnstown Spectator! You cer- tainly have the courage to state your convictions. All such silly allusions to beaus and belles should be cut out from any sensible magazine. Let us congratulate you on your neat cover, fine stories, and the excellent quality of your paper. Wc cannot but believe that the last has a great deal to do with the success of any magazine. Mirror, it’s a case of a comely exterior with not much of a heart. Do increase your small amount of reading matter. We beg to disagree with The Phonograph of Ballston Spa, New York, when it praises The Senior, a Rhode Island exchange. We fear that The Phonograph docs not have many papers to judge from. The Columbiad, an Oregon college paper, con- tains the best editorials we have yet read, and one very interesting serious article, but the rest of its stories are short, too short even for storiettes. What promised to be a rather good serial in a New Hampshire exchange, the K. H. S. Enterprise, has turned out rather the reverse. The advice the writer needs is just this,—never start anything that cannot be finished in as good style or better than that in which it was begun. And oh. Enterprise,— do change your cover! We hope to see a fine ending to the interesting story begun in the Student from Bridgeport, Conn.. —the whole paper is very neat. 44 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Secret Societies. There was a time when High Schools existed without secret societies. This was before Marco Polo invented the steam laundry, and made pos- sible Chinese immigration. I shudder when I think that now secret societies are the fundamenta of the leading High Schools in the country, and that it would only take a Trust of these cliques to corner education and possibly withdraw it from the market. I have spent years 4 study in the endeavor to definitely lime-light this terrible state of affairs. The Radiator has been urging me to take up my pen and exploit a few of mv foremost discoveries. Let me first assure you that this state of things was no breakfast food triumph nor the outcome of political graft investigations. One Darius I). Drinkwater, of Dedham, was its founder. Darius gathered his contemporaries about him one day in the hen-coop, and suggested they form a secret society. Xo one but Darius knew what a secret society was, so he explained. A secret society is a mixture of hieroglyphics and delicatessen.” he said. A Greek lexicon furnishes the former, and a caterer the latter. Thus I have set forth the birth of that social octopus that now threatens to jam the remaining juice of intellcctualism from our educational insti- tutions upon the stony pavements of unappreciation, As soon as I can acquaint myself with its ab- normal growth, to date. I shall set it down for the R mu tok readers and for the interests of humanity. I will gladly answer any communications through the columns of the Radi tor. Just address your question or grievance to the Radiator’s ise Man. and give it to the editor, or associate editor, and they will give it to me. The Way Things Go. A little boy from the primary school came up to me once and said. Say. Wisey, my teacher writes dog’ on the board once, and we have ter write it twenty times. Don't she have a cinch? I told him I guessed she did. but that he would under- stand those things better when he struck the High School. A Few Don’ts. Don't eat anything. Your stomach may get out of order. Don’t drink. You'll get thirsty again. Don’t remember anything—especially your debts. Don’t worry—let the other fellow do it. Don't work. It is very bad for the health to tire yourself. Don't lend—borrow. Don’t want anything. If you should want any- thing. don’t buy it: beg or steal it. Don’t try to say anything when you talk. It consumes brain power. Don't marry young. Don’t marry old. Don’t marry at all. If you are tempted to marry, attend court on a divorce day. Don’t go to law. Choose the lunatic asylum. Don't read: it may affect your eyesight. Don't tell the truth. You'll get the reputation of being poor—or silly. Don't grumble. Take what you can get. If you can’t get it. take it. Don’t ever be displeased. If your favorite corn is stepped on. say Thank you.” Don’t be dissatisfied with anything. If your bank breaks, be thankful you didn’t have more in it. Don't lose your temper. Nobody will pick it up and bring it home, even if they stumble over it. Don’t take advice—give it. You’ll be loved.— Life. Commit these to memory.—“Wise” Man. ------------------------------------- Autumn Days. By Alphonse Nemo, L., ’04. Dreary and lonely and dark Arc these days in the wane of the year, Leaving behind them their mark I� the dead falling leaves dry and sear. P.efore purchasing elsewhere, see what Somer- ville’s leading tailor. James C. Taylor, has got in the way of school suits and overcoats. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 45 The last meeting of the S. T. D. was held at the home of Lawrence Mitchell. 30 Preston road. The most important business was the election of a new member. Maurice Blair was finally chosen. He has been Well known in track athletics and baseball: this fall he has made a new record as the 'varsity quarterback. Arrangements for a Ladies’ night were com- pleted. to take place early in December. After the business meeting the members adjourned to the dining-room, where an excellent lunch was served. The rest of the evening was spent in singing the music for the coming operetta, and listening to an original sketch presented by Messrs. Dunham and Duhig, which caused considerable fun. Manager Duhig expects a successful basket ball season, and Captain Rcmick is developing a fast team. The club was glad to hear of the victory of Exeter over Andover, as one of the club members. Harold M. Allen, a crack guard of last year’s school eleven, won himself great credit on the winning team. 'I'he next meeting of the club will be held at the home of J. Albert Wilson, 52 Brastow avenue. -------------------------------------- B. C. S. The Hallowe’en party held at the home of Martha Russell, the opening social event of the B. C. S.. was an overwhelming success. The house was beautifully decorated with ferns, mistletoe, and flowers, and in the mystery of dark- ness, flecked here and there with candles, the for- tunes of the guests were told by a weird ghost, amid shouts of laughter and merry jest. 'I he even- ing. so pleasantly passed with other seasonable gayctics. ended with music in which the High School football song figured prominently. --------------------------- The Operetta. Not satisfied with resting on his laurels gained in last year’s oratorio. The Creation.” Mr. Hadley, in consideration of the work done by some of last namely, I he Pirates of Penzance. —would not be too difficult for a school of our calibre. The chorus has been already selected, and several successful re- hearsals have occurred. The operetta is not under the auspices of the school, although the singers are all English high school pupils. The leading char- acters will probably be as follows:— Pirate King.....................J. Albert Wilson Major-General Stanley...........Warren B. Farnum Frederick, apprentice to the pirates, Rowland W. Dunham Sergeant of Police..................J. A. Wilson Mabelle. youngest daughter of General Stanley. Miss El canore Bragdon Ruth, maid-of-all-work for pirates, Miss Gertrude Benjamin Kate, daughter of General Stanley, Miss Bertha Pilsburv Judging by the success so far at rehearsals, the operetta promises to eclipse anything ever at- tempted by the high school pupils in a musical line. ------------------------------------- Sigma Delta Fraternity. The last meeting of the Fraternity was held at the home of William L. Phillips. 107 Holland street. There was considerable disagreement over a pro- spective banquet, but no decision could be readied. The basket ball team will organize with the class this year, and, with the following candidates. Gctchell. Wyman. McLaughlin. Hayes. Lawson. Stevens, and Cohen, there is a bright outlook. ------------------------------------- Phi Alpha. The Phi Alpha senior girls of the Latin school held their first meeting October 28. The following were elected officers: President, May Davis; secre- tary. Blanche Preston; treasurer, Frances Frost. 'File club is making preparations for a few social functions. Flic ’04 members are the Misses Helen Nichols, Grace Jouett. May Davis, Lura Elliott, Frances Frost, and Blanche Preston. Miss Nichols will continue to be a member of the club, though she is not attending school. 46 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR The Annual Reception. On Wednesday, October 18, occurred the annual reception given by the instructors of the English school to the parents of the Freshman class, and of the new pupils in other classes. The rooms and corridors were decorated in the school colors by a committee from the class of ’06. .Mr. Whitcomb and his corps of instructors received. The work of the science and manual training de- partments was illustrated by pupils at work during the evening. A select musical entertainment in the lecture hall closed the affair. W. L. M. Club. Several young ladies from the four classes of the English high school have formed a club to be known as W. L. M. At the first meeting the fol- lowing officers were elected: President. Miss Eva Clement: vice-president. Miss Ruth Bidwell; secrc tarv and treasurer. Miss Ethel Thompson. Other members are the Misses Grace Kendall. Mildred Harvey. Marguerite Eldridge. Dorothea Smith. Beatrice Ryder, and Marion Van Wart. Meetings are held the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. The club colors arc red and white; and club pins will soon be ordered. A very enjoyable winter is being planned by the members. A meet- ing was held November 9 at the home of Miss Bid- well. Many pleasant evenings are planned for the coming year. Light refreshments were served after the business meeting. The next meeting will be at the home of the president. Miss Divic Clement. 22 Carlton street. Tuesdav. November 24. ------------------------------ S. A. F. Fraternity. Twelve members of the class of 1906 have organ- ized a fraternity to be known as the S. A. F. The club meets at the homes of its members even- other week. The officers arc: President. Raymond V. Lillie; vice-president, Henry Monroe; secre- tary and treasurer, John R. Lakin. The following are the charter members: Masters Coan, Lillie, Monroe. Holland, Lakin. Newell. Henderson. Weston. McNeal. C. S. Rice. Flaherty. Austin, and Waterhouse. The club will be represented by a basket-ball team, and arrangements can be made with Master Flaherty of room 23, or Master Hol- land of room 30 C. -------♦♦■♦♦♦• ----------- Dear Readers: I herewith call your attention to the fact that I have on hand some stationery which was made especially for the Somerville High School. It stands in a distinct class by itself, and is sure to win the admiration of all interested in fine stationery. For particulars apply to the manager of the Radiator; also for all kinds of printing at the lowest prices apply to John J. Quigley, Room 9. Connor building. 5 Bow street. The English Chorus. A chorus of 200 pupils from the English School responded to an invitation to sing before the Mid- dlesex County Teachers’ Association in Tremont Temple Friday, October 30. Mr. Hadley con- ducted in his own inimitable manner, and the fol- lowing programme was presented:— PART I. AUTHOR. COMPOSER. Robert Browning. “ Rabbi Ben Ezra.” II. K. Iladley Whittier. “ The Barefoot Boy.” Clayton Johns l oe. “ The Bells. Arthur Foote Walt Whitman. ‘‘ O Captain : My Captain. Edgar S. Kelley Burns. “Oh, my luve’s like a red, red rose. Garrett Frederick Manley. “ Easter.” II. K. Iladley Heine. “ The Two Grenadiers. Schumann William Lewis. “ The Lake (bass solo and chorus). Franz Abt From “ Tannhauser,” “ Pilgrims’ Chorus.” Wagner PART II. Williams. “ Largo” (soprano solo). Handel Chamisso. “ The Pigtail (translated from the German) F. F. Bullard From “ Patient Grisel.” “A Lullaby.” Arthur Foote Horace, Ode XXII. “ Integer Vitae.” Flemming (Unaccompanied.) Ford. ‘‘Massa Dear.” Johnson “ O sing to God ” (soprano solo and chorus). Gounod ----------------------------------- Scptopian Fraternity. The Scptopian Fraternity, organized by eight Latin school boys, held its first meeting at the home of Carl II. Burns, October 2, 1903. The following officers were elected: President, Carl H. Burns: vice-president. Chester E. Cuddy; secretary and treasurer. William B. Moses. The other membe-s are Earl A. Bishop. Arthur R. Corwin, William M. Elliott. Edmund J. Twohig. and James E. Doughty. The Fraternity hopes to have a successful season of basket ball. ----------------------------- Entre Nous. The Entre Nous Club’held its first meeting at the home of Harry Fallis. Officers for the coming year arc: President, Harry Fallis; secretary and treasurer. C. W. Nanglc; basket ball captain. Nanglc: manager, Manning. The team would like games with club or class teams of both schools. Address Manning. Room 33. or Nanglc. Room 30 C. in the English school. After the business meeting, a bountiful collation was served. ----------------------------- D. T. Club. At a recent meeting of the D. T. Club at Miss Preston’s home, the Misses Margaret Lowell and Susie Ritchie were initiated into membership. The following were elected officers for the coming year: President. Blanche Preston; secretary, Marion Couscns: treasurer. Carrie Jarvis. After the busi- ness meeting, refreshments were served and a social hour was enjoyed. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 47 The first Senior Social comes on November 17. The proper height for a derby is now two cen- timeters. Alcibiades wears one. At dancing school: “Tessic. you make me feel so badly, why won’t you turn around?” It is now understood that a stable laugh” does not mean one that will endure. Among those from the Somerville Latin School who have succeeded, is Bill Pierson. Bill is now in Porto Rico, farming apricots. Aside from the absence of rhyme, the following poem is considered a gem:— Monsieur-----------a de verts bas, Lc malheureux garcon. Si j'avais un grand baton II aurait quelcjue chose. The photograph committee, having worked hard lately, is now getting its breath. ft is unwise, Edwards, to admit even in French that one is related to the genus sus. One of our chauffeurs says that the auto doesn't have equal rights with the horse. Tough on the perfume wagon, for we have observed that the horse hasn't a single right which a teacher is bound to respect. From his chirography Ricker is either a genius or a-----. but how could vou even suggest it. Mrs. Gilbert? Stevens is about to change his residence from Somerville to Winthrop. We rather doubt whether “Alphonse Nemo.” L.. '01. has a license to sling poetry. We are making a thorough investigation, and if he hasn’t, we will have him prosecuted. He ought to be. anyway, and how about O. T. Alan, L., '04? Bell translates: “Our neighbor has three horses. St cad v. my boy. don’t get personal. Yes, we still have report cards, even though Seniors—and they look alike for all four years. '05. Hair-cuts arc in order. 1 he season is almost over. We congratulate the Freshman class on organiz- ing so early. “He was up against the day of his death, —as translated by one of our wisest. Either you know, or you don’t know, or you don’t know whether you know or not. We noticed how anxious the Freshmen were to receive their cards. We weren't quite as anxious. History again, and those same old jaw-breakers. Room C gossip:— B2 about it. Weather report on the front board. “Snow. A new Latin clause. A consumption clause.” Did you go to the “fire ? Such a disappointment—the report! Definition of paraphrases: a pair of phrases. Two things won’t weigh less than one when one is the one we speak of.” And yet Physics is so simple. “The bottle was full of atmosphere.” A divorce was decreed—ablative of separation. Thirty days on the Island—Latin translation. B------s made a good interpreter when the teacher had a cold. The editor cannot possibly get notes from the class when they string out over all three floors, so Maltese Cross envelopes will be issued for all notes next month. Come early to avoid the rush. Those who have not subscribed for the class pic- ture are requested to do so as soon as possible, so that we may get it before we are graduated. '06. Our friend—“Babe.” A geometry statement: If two oblique lines be drawn from a [joint to a straight line, the farthest is more remote from the foot of the perpendicular.” What noble classmates Chester has. According to Miss W------. angels arc strangers in this part of the world. Teacher— How do you know that these lines are parallel?” Pupil—“Because I drew them so.” G—s in Greek : Seven parasangs (a Persian measure) were pursued into the plain.” We have lost our Locke and Keyes; but still we have a King, Bishop, Knight, and—Denting. Lost! Gleason's block. Finder will please re- turn to owner and receive reward. [Continued on page 49.] 48 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR '04. Heard in IV.. History A.: Fulton concocted a steam-boat. When Tcfferson came to the throne '—History E. He pawed the earth with his great front teeth.” —IV. Stem (5 ) B. The picture committee consists of the following: Miss McRae, Miss Butterfield, Messrs. Frost, Bean, and Barton. At the last class meeting, Miss Butterfield. Miss Libbev, Miss Pipe, Gerard C. Bean, and A. Henry Duhig were elected to serve on the social commit- tee. In Elocution C: H-g-t showed his fondness for reciting Forever and Forever. Teacher— What is visible at night?” Hillery— Darkness.” Harold Allen, formerly of our class, holds the honor of being the strongest man in Exeter. Miss L-b. in English C: The boat glided down the shore. We will accept this information provid- ing the boat was a fairy-boat, or that it had wheels. Heard in Chemistry at time of slight explosion: “My kingdom for a pair of rubber boots.” Miss N-l-n even wanted a parasol. B-igh-m in History: “The people were ready to (cm) bark. First Freshman— What’s the use of staying in all the recess? Second Freshman—“That’s right, come on out and hunt for the Scarlet Letter.” Wilson has a first-class recipe for making bread. He will give knowledge of same if you will furnish the “dough.” And now in school, as well as on the Elevated, we hear: Pass out the side doors during rush hours only.” Yes. Crosby talks to hear himself talk, as we fre- quently sec him talking to himself. The Six Club held its first meeting at the home of J. Albert Wilson. During the debate in Elocution C Dusty Rhoads was the main topic of discussion. A subject for a theme: “The Treasurer’s Smile.” After he has successfully collected your class dues. Many of the young men are wearing their class pins again. What has happened? '05 The Freshman class indignantly refutes the offer of baby carriages by the Sophomores. They claim they learned to walk alone last June. Murphy thinks that ll20 means around right end. That’s right. Murphy, think of your game be- fore your toilet—in a game. W------n. in History: “Nearly all the Persians had skins. I Ieard of C—g— c: Oh. yes, he’s a very interest- ing little boy.” Heard of W-g—n: “He’s little and fat. but—oh my!’’ Thanks to Scott’s “Ivanhoe,” we see that often the fool is “wise.” Cook, in History—“The Saxons fought and talked like women.” Did they win or lose the ma- jority of their battles? How many of us bumped our heads bobbing apples on Hallowe’en ? One of our History teachers is responsible for this: What is the difference between a gesith and a thane?” Come again. Miss S—y in English—“The dictionary states that we are infants until we are twenty-one.” We refer Miss S----to the Sophomore committee on baby carriages. Someone was asked why the Junior report cards were late. “Oh. the red ink ran out.” Who was it that dipped his finger in a bottle of sulphuric acid in the chemistry room to see what it would do? “What shall we write our next theme on?” Sotto voce from rear: Paper.” 'flic class editor does not give trading stamps. We give 5 per cent, off on everything but sugar and flour by the barrel. We hear that there has been war in camp in re- gard to the Sophomore politics. Our school has received some very nice compli- ments for its singing last month in Tremont Temple. '06 Teacher—“You are always making excuses.” Pupil—“I never made that one before.” Strange! The reception committee were treated to rare strains of popular music by Miss M-l-igen. The decorating committee are to be congratulated on their extraordinary success. 49 SOMERVILLE HIGH Seniors’ advice to Sophomores. Don't try to do too much. In the social our class anticipates for November M. let all give their hearty support and it cannot be other than successful. Teacher— What finally became of Theoderic?” Pupil— I guess he died.” Mr. Hadley says we make too much noise for the ''Barefoot Boy. II. History A, M-n-ro—“The Huns were of a Turkish race.” Teacher— No. they were Ta-tas.’ ” W-t-rhouse says that lie can recite Maxioms. A girl in history says that Addacer kept the machinery of the Roman empire going.” What does she mean? Where were D-n-y—’s thoughts when he called Fr-e-man “Alice”? Please send all your funny thoughts toward Room 19. and see them in this column. The History “make up” division held its first meeting in the period, October 27, Room 23. The campaign for the presidency in the Sopho- more class is really amusing. '07 At a meeting of the boys, October 2, in Room 15, to select officers for a foot-ball team. Henderson was elected captain, and Loftis, manager. There are 263 Freshmen in the school. If any scholar changes his seat, please notify the editor. A good subject for debate: “Do the Sopho- mores feel like Seniors or Post-Graduates?” Another good subject for debate: “Will Baker ever play football again?” Ric— has entered his second infancy. He is in long clothes. We offer congratulations to the Juniors and Seniors for their great success at Tremont Temple, but we had better not mention the singing at the Prospect-hill Dedication exercises. The Freshmen can. at least, teach the Sopho- mores how to elect class officers and what is more, to be satisfied. Our best wishes are with the Sophomores, that their reception may be successful. The joy of Thanksgiving to all1 Hcckcy. At a recent meeting of last year’s hockey team. E. Leslie Babbitt. E., ’04. was unanimously elected captain. Mr. Babbitt is well qualified to captain the team, as he has been a fast and clean player during his four years in the school. He reports a goodly number of candidates, and earnestly solicits school support for the team. The manager will issue a schedule next month. SCHOOL RADIATOR LATIN NOTES. [Continued from page 47.] Teacher— Whv were the Ancient Greeks so strong?” Pupil (who is studying Greek)— Because they didn't have to study Greek: they knew it.” We hope that “quality” which E., ’06, has re- solved not to wear off is not its proverbial green- ness. C-----is just convalescing from his injuries re- ceived at the Battle of Prospect Hill.” M----- evidently thought that the defenders of Bibrax were going in bathing. GJad to see you back again. T—n: but now wake up and do something worth putting in the Radiator. '07. At last we have a class president. Lawrence H. Bowlby. Bowl by is our only candidate for the football team: but he is a good one. Teacher (in English)— Did Holgrave most dis- like the past, the present, or the future?” T-ck-r— Judge Pyncheon. Freshmen! Did you notice how the upper class- men enjoyed the sight of the fire engines? Division 1 has a valuable ruby stone for sale. Is there any bidder? The Sophomores have been very good so far. We wonder why! We arc very much honored by having a Junior sit in our room. lie is editor of his class, too. Notice the third division going around with the good books under their arms. --------- The Off-Shore Wind. I By O. T. Alan, L., '04. The off-shore wind is often the most boisterous that blows on our New England coast. See the litttle sailing craft, When I strike her,—Now! Clicking block and wringing sheet, Straining gear and hcadsail’s beat. Spray off the plunging bow. Ho! the east-bound fisherman Shows his coppered sheath, Tugging helm and booming sail. When i smite him with my gale. How the lean bows seethe! On and out to sea I sweep, Wild the maddened whitecaps leap. Spume and spendrift flying free, I have kissed the languid sea— I. the Off-Shore Wind! So SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Somerville. 21; Medford, 6. Medford High came to Somerville on October 21 with the idea that Somerville would be an easy victim. Such was not the case, however, as Somer- ville showed her colors, and by fierce rushes at Medford's line, and in turn by her stone-wall resist- ance, soon showed Medford that she was doomed to defeat. Hafford’s 40-yard run for a touchdown about a minute after the kick-off infused the neces- sary spirit for a victory to Somerville. Medford kicked off to Somerville, and Hafford rushed the ball back ten yards. On the first line plunge Somerville gained fifteen yards, and on her next trial around the end. Hafford carried the ball over for a touchdown. He failed to kick a difficult goal. Somerville now kicked off to Medford, who, despite her efforts to rush the ball, did not advance a yard through Somerville's line, which held like a stone wall. Medford was held for downs, and the ball went to Somerville. Somerville punted, and one of Medford's men fumbled the punt, which bounded off into the arms of Davis, who walked across the goal line for another touchdown. Haf- ford again failed to kick a difficult goal. Somer- ville kicked off to Medford, but the ball, going off- side twice, was given to Medford to kick off. -Som- erville. by fierce attacks on the line, soon reached the 25-yard line, where Blair, on a trick play, scored the third touchdown of the game. McLaughlin kicked the goal. This half was filled with slugging matches, which were entered into with great zest by certain Medford men. Hafford being the brunt of their attack. The half closed with the ball in Med- ford’s possession in the centre of the field. Score: Somerville, 16; Medford, 0. The second half was not as good an exhibition of football as the first half, as rough-house was prevalent. Somerville kicked off to Medford, who ran the ball back fifteen yards. Her next rush netted her ten more, but here Somerville took a brace and held them for downs. The ball was now given to Somerville, who by splendid line plunging soon pushed Hafford over for the fourth and last touchdown of the game. Medford also scored in this half on a fake kick, which worked beautifully, completely fooling Somerville, as the ball changed hands three times. Mather kicked a difficult goal. A number of substitutes were now put into the game, and scoring ceased. This half ended with the ball in Somerville’s possession. There were so many of the men who played well, it would be hard to select those who excelled. Score: Somerville, 21; Medford, 6. The lineup:— Somerville. Medford. Burns, l.c.........................l.e.. Crockwell Tope, Driscoll, l.t.................l.t.. Pearson Hall. Sewall. l.g.......................l.g., Neil Graves, c....................c.. Boynton. Coleman Stacy, r.g..........................r.g., Brackett Frost. Cummings, r.t........r.t.. Gillette. Sullivan Davis, r.e...........................r.e.. Puffer Blair, q.b...........................q.b.. Perrin Hafford, Lakin. r.h.b......l.h.b., Mather. Bunton Bean. Bowlbv. l.h.b................r.h.b.. Tryon McLaughlin. Bean, f.b..............f.b., Walkling Linesmen—Waters and Praikc. Timers—Volpc and Butman. Referee—Papkec. Umpire—Burton. Time—20-min. halves. Somerville, 23; Malden, 0. Malden's aspirations for football honors were dashed to the ground on Saturday. October 24, when she met defeat at the hands of the lighter Somerville team, who played a remarkably snappy game. Every man on the team played admirably. The game was void of slugging, and no cleaner one has ever been witnessed on Broadway field. In the second half the crowd was greatly amused SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 5« by the actions of the supporters of two local high schools, who endeavored to give vent to their school loyalty in a small riot, which, however, was quickly quelled. Malden kicked off to Somerville. Blair caught the ball, but was downed in his tracks. Malden held Somerville, and the ball was given to Malden. On their first attempt to rush, they were penalized ten yards, and a moment after were thrown back for a loss of fifteen yards more. Malden punted, and Frost brought the crowd to their feet by a 40-yard run. immediately followed by a run of fifteen yards by llafford for a touchdown. Hafford kicked the goal. Score: Somerville. (� ; Malden, 0. On the next kick-off Somerville advanced the ball twenty yards. By steady gains through Mal- den’s line. Bean was pushed over for the second touchdown. Hafford kicked the goal. Somerville. 12; Malden. 0. On the third kick-off Malden fumbled the ball and Burns fell on it. Hafford was used here with great effect, and also Hall. Mc- Laughlin carried the ball over for the third touch- down. Hafford failed to kick a difficult goal, and the half ended with the score. Somerville. 17. Mal- den. 0. In the second half Malden took a brace, and Somerville could do no better than score a single touchdown. This was made in the beginning of the half by Bean. The goal was kicked by Hafford. On the following kick-off Malden advanced the ball twenty yards, but a fake kick lost her fif- teen yards. She punted, and Hafford on the return made a run of fifty yards through a broken field, but was tackled before reaching the goal post. On the 25-yard line Malden held for downs. After this neither side gained much, and the ball at the close was in the middle of the field, in Malden's possession. Hafford and McLaughlin played a fine game. Score: Somerville, 23; Malden. 0. Somerville, 12; Cambridge Latin, 0. In a very uninteresting and poorly played game. Somerville defeated Cambridge Latin school for the second time this year. At but one stage in the game was the attention of the on-lookers at- tracted. when Hafford made a sixtv-vard run through the entire Latin school team before lie was stopped, and immediately followed it with a run of forty yards through tackle for a touchdown. Mc- Laughlin made the other touchdown by magnifi- cent line bucking. Hafford and McLaughlin played well for Somerville, and Taft for Cambridge Latin. Summary:— SOMBRVILLB. Davis, l.e............. Driscoll, l.t....... Frost, l.t............. Stacy. Duhig. l.g...... Graves, Lamont. c...... Scwall. r.g............ Cummings, Driscoll, r.t Burns, r.e............. Camrkidgk L, ... .r.e.. Crowley .....r.t.. Rogers .....r.t., Harris .......r.g.. Ellis .......c., Boyer ... .l.g.. Church ......l.t.. Harris ........l.e.. Taft Blair. Elliot, q.b..................q.b., Taylor Bowlby. l.h.b..................r.li.b., Coleman Hafford, r.h.b...........l.h.b., Feelcy, Rogers McLaughlin, f.b.......................f.b., Ging Umpire—Williams. Referee—Burton. Lines- men—Cuddy. Perkins. Touchdowns—McLaugh- lin. Hafford. Goals—Hafford. McLaughlin. Time—20-ntin. halves. Salem, 11; Somerville, 5. There is a saying in Salem to the effect that. If Salem High plays on home grounds, and has her own choice of officials, victory is sure to perch on her shoulders.” Saturday. October 31. was no ex- ception to the rule, for Somerville went down to de- feat to the tune of 11 to 5 at the hands of a heavier team. Salem played a fast game, but Somerville more than made up for her opponent’s swiftness in her stone-wall defense at critical times. Salem kicked off to Somerville, who by splendid line bucking soon reached the ten-yard line, but her, iost the ball on a fumble. Salem took the ball, and by short but steady gains, after a tedious fifteen-minutes’ work, took the ball over for a touchdown. Here Hurley of Salem, trying to exe- cute a swift play by kicking the ball for a goal while Somerville was off-side, missed the goal, and to his dismay, found out that he had forfeited his free try. No more scoring was done in the last part of the half, and at the close the ball was in Somerville’s hands. In the second half. Somerville went to work with a determination for a goal. She bv the same har- rowing work Salem had gone through in the first half, also made a touchdown by pushing McLaugh- lin over the line. Hafford missed the goal. The few loyal supporters of Somerville now let loose, and for a while nothing but the shouts of these few could be heard. Salem now received the ball on the kick-off. and by a play around the end. with Hurley carrying the ball, swept down the field for a run of ninety yards before she was stopped. Somerville here put up a fierce resistance and held Salem for three downs, and would have held her for a fourth down when the umpire allowed a goal for Salem. Hurley kicked an easy goal. The half soon clo-e 1 with tite ball in the middle of the field. For Somerville, McLaughlin and Hafford played well, and for Salem. K. Wilson and Hurlev. The line-up:— • Salem High. Somerville High. Poor, l.e.............................r.e.. Burns (’handler, l.t.............................r.t.. Cummings Conklin, l.g..........................r.g.. Hall J. Wilson, c...........................c.. (’.raves Vaughn, r.g............................l.g.. Stacy Tierney, r.t..........................l.t.. Frost Clarke. Welch, r.e....................l.e.. Davis F. Wilson, q.b........................q.b.. Blair Hurley, r.h.b.......................l.h.b.. Bean Casey, l.h.b.......................r.h.b.. Hafford James. Crane, f.b...............f.b.. McLaugh’in 5 SOMKRVILLK IIIGII SCHOOL RADIATOR Score —Salem, 11 ; Somerville, 5. Touch- downs—Chandler (2), McLaughlin. Goal from touchdown-- • I Iurley. Referee—Lewis. Amherst. Umpire-—Prince, Tufts. Linesmen—C. Cuddy, Phillips. Timers—G. Cuddy, Sullivan. Time— two la-min. halves. Somerville, J 7; Dorchester, 5. Somerville took one step more on Saturday. November 7, towards the championship, when she downed the strong Dorchester team, who out- weighed her in every part of the line. The game was of the sensational order, teeming with long runs, sensational plays, and beautiful tackling. Roth sides played with determination until the last part of the second half, when Dorchester's spirits fell, and before she could recover herself. Somer- ville had scored two touchdowns, giving her a safe lead of twelve points. Despite the fact that Dorchester made the first touchdown, and seemingly had the game well in hand, Somerville took a brace, and by the brilliant runs of 11 afford, and the line bucking of McLaugh- lin. tied the score. Three times during the game Somerville broke through the line of Dorchester, and was stopped from scoring by the clever work of Kelley and Clapp. Dorchester kicked olT to Hafford, who ran the ball back fifteen yards. After a series of line plunges, which netted but little ground, the ball went to Dorchester on a bad fumble. Dorchester now took the ball, and by short gains, slowly pushed it down the field, and at last succeeded in pushing Lewis over for the first touchdown of the game. Clapp missed a very easy goal, the ball going far too low. The ball was again kicked off to Somerville, which was returned six yards. Som- erville now proceeded to hammer the left side of Dorchester's line, putting play after play through Seeley and Fisher for substantial gains, which, aided by a splendid run of Harford, soon placed the ball far into Dorchester’s territory. Here they were thrown for a bad loss, and rather than give up the ball, forfeited twenty yards to Dorchester, thus re- taining possession of the ball. Somerville again proceeded to rip up Dorchester’s line, and soon placed the ball on Dorchester’s 4-yard line. Here Dorchester held for downs in grand style, and se- curing the ball, had Clapp kick it out of danger. Hafford caught the punt, and ran with it a distance of forty yards, planting the ball on the 12-yard line. Dorchester could not hold Somerville, and a touch- down was soon made by Hafford. Hafford made a bad punt-out for position, which prevented further scoring in the first half. Time was called soon afterwards. In the second half Somerville kicked to Dorches- ter. who did not advance a yard, the runner being nailed in his tracks by Graves. Somerville held for downs and was given the ball. McLaughlin was used with good effect, going through the line for three and four-yard gains. Hafford made a splen- did run around the end for forty yards, and would have made a touchdown but for the great speed of Kelley, who nailed him on the 15-vard line. On the next play McLaughlin took the ball over on a guard back formation. Somerville again kicked to Dorchester, who ran the ball back seven yards. On a play meant for a delayed pass, Dorchester fumbled. Davis recovering the bail for Somerville. In but three plunges at Dorchester’s already ex- hausted line. Frost took the ball over for the third touchdown. Later in the game Blair made a run of fifty yards on a quarterback rush, but Somerville was penalized twenty yards for holding, and the play went for naught. This finished scoring for the last half. At the end of game, one of Dorchester’s men at- tempted to carry the ball off the field, but was stopped by Hafford. who claimed the ball for Som- erville. A little rough house” resulted, but was quickly put down by a strenuous policeman. The line-up:— So.'!KK VILLE HlGH. DORCHESTER HIGH. Burns, r.c.................................l.e., Delano Cummings, r.t.......................l.t., Fisher Hall, r.g..................................l.g., Seeley Graves, c....................................c., Chisholm Stacy, l.g.................................r.g.. Callanan Frost, l.t.................................r.t., Lewis Davis, l.e.................................r.e.. Clapp Blair, q.b.................................q.b., Kelley Hafford. r.h.b ...................l.h.b.. Walden Bean, l.h.b..............................r.h.b.. Wolff McLaughlin, f.b..........................f.b., Colton Score—Somerville High, 17; Dorchester High, Touchdowns—Lewis. Hafford. McLaughlin, Frost. Goals from touchdowns—Hafford, 2. Um- pire—Burns. Referee—Hapgood. Linesmen— McDonald and Hart. Timer—Stinchficld. Time— 20-min. halves. -------------------------- Griddles from the Gridiron. Onward to the championship. To Charley Cuddy we owe our thanks for having produced a team as worthy as Somerville’s from such green” material. The field on which Salem plays her football games is a disgrace to a high school of her standing. The field has practically no fence, is very uneven, and has a very rickety grandstand, capable of holding fifty persons. Chickens are allowed to roam over the field, and arc used for a second team against which Salem practices (?). The Athletic Association requests that posters be left alone until after games have been played, as the disappearance of these causes considerable annoy- ance. Captain McLaughlin’s work at fullback is great. Just watch him. A line—a smash—man in the air —over for three yards—first down. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 53 evised Constitution of the Somerville High Athletic Association. Article I.—Name. 'Hie name of this Association shall be the Somerville High Athletic Association. Article II.—Object. The object of this Associa- tion shall be to encourage manly sports and to pro- mote a close relationship between the athletic teams and the schools. Article III.—Membership. 1. All pupils and teachers of the Somerville High Schools shall be eligible to active membership in this Association. 2. Graduates, past members, and friends of the schools shall be eligible to honorary membership in this Association. 3. Persons as enumerated in Section 2 of this article shall be eligible to life membership in this Association. 4. Persons as enumerated in Sections 1 and 2 of this article shall be eligible to life membership in this Association. 5. Honorary and life members cannot hold, office or vote at meetings, except as stated in Article III.. Section 1. and Article VI.. Section 2, of tins constitution. Article IV.—Meetings. 1. The annual meeting of this Association for the election of officers (with the exception of the football Manager and Assistant Manager) and reports of officers shall be held on the third Wednesday of September. The football Manager shall be elected on the second Wednesday of January. 2. Special meetings shall be held at the call of the President. Executive Committee, or upon tin: written request of ten members. Article V.—Quorum. A quorum shall consist of twenty-bne active members. Article VL—Officers. 1. The officers of this Association shall be a President, Vice-President. Secretary. Treasurer (a teacher), a Manager, and Assistant Manager of each athletic team, and an Executive Committee. 2. The Executive Committee shall consist of the President. Vice-President. Secretary. Treasurer. Managers of the various teams, and the Captain in season of the football, polo, track, and baseball teams (a teacher and a graduate representing each school). Article VII.—Duties of Officers. 1. The Presi- dent shall preside at all meetings of the Association and Executive Committee. He shall appoint all sub-committees not otherwise provided for. and call meetings of the Association and Executive Commit- tee whenever so requested, or when, in his judg- ment. he may deem it necessary. 2. The Vice-President shall, during the absence of the President, perform all the duties of the Presi- dent as specified in Section 1. 3. The Secretary shall keep the minutes of everv meeting of the Association and Executive Commit- tee. He shall conduct all correspondence, except as may be in the hands of the Managers, and shall have charge of and be responsible for all the books and papers of the Association, except those belong- ing to the Treasurer and his assistants. 4. The Treasurer shall have charge of all money belonging to the Association, shall pay all bills, and shall submit a written report of his transactions at the annual meeting of the Association, or when- ever called upon to do so by the President or the Executive Committee. 5. It shall be the duty of the Managers and the Assistant Managers to collect all moneys, and, with the approval of the Executive Committee, to pur- chase all supplies and prepare a schedule of games. By virtue of their office they shall he Assistant Treasurers. (J. All schedules of games, awards of contracts, and expenditures of money shall he submitted to the Executive Committee for ratification. They shall also have general supervision of all other mat- ters relating to the Association, not otherwise pro- vided for in the constitution, and shall have power to remove Captains and Managers by a three- fourths vote. 7. The Executive Committee shall hold at least one meeting each month during the school year. 8. The Executive Committee shall hold a special meeting at the request of three of its members. 0. A quorum of the Executive Committee shall consist of five voting members, one of whom shall be a teacher. Article VIII—Elections. 1. The President, Vice-President. Secretary. Treasurer, graduate members of the Executive Committee, and the Managers and Assistant Managers of the baseball, track, and polo teams shall be elected by ballot at the annual September meeting from signed nomina- tions posted at least four days previous to the meet ing. The Manager and Assistant Manager of the football team shall be elected by ballot at the Janu- ary meeting from signed nominations, similarly posted. The faculty members shall be chosen at the annual meeting by a committee of six. consist- ing of two Seniors and one Junior from each school. 2. Captains shall be elected bv ballot within one week of the last game of the season by their respec- tive teams. 3. The elections of Captains shall be confirmed by the Executive Committee. 4. All vacancies occurring among the officers o: the S. II. A. A., except Captains, shall be filled by the Executive Committee. Article IX.—Fees. 1. The membership dues of this Association shall be twenty-five cents, payable on or before the first of September. 2. The dues for honorary members shall be the same as for active members. Life members shall pay an admission fee of five dollars ($3.00). and shall be exempt from all dues thereafter. 3. Any member failing to pay his dues shall cease to be a member of the organization. Article X.—Resignations. All resignations shall be made in writing to the secretary of the Executive Committee, and shall be acted upon at the next meeting. 54 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Article XI.—Suspension and Expulsion. 1 This Association shall have power to punish any member by suspension or expulsion for any failure to comply with the articles of this constitution or by-laws or for any conduct that shall bring dis- credit upon the Association. 2. The vote for suspension or expulsion shall be by ballot. A two-thirds vote of the members pres- ent at a meeting shall be necessary to suspend or expel. Article XII.—Reinstatement. Members, after expulsion, may be reinstated by a two-thirds vote of the members present at a meeting. Article XIII.—Amendments. This constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the mem- bers of the Association present and voting, provided notice of the amendment shall have been posted on the bulletins four days before the meeting at which said amendment is considered. ------------------------ Hallowe'en Party. Der Treue Vcrcin tendered a I lallowe’en party to the members of the club at Miss May Sargent’s home. -10 Mead street. October 31. 1903. The rooms were tastefully decorated with jack-o’- lanterns and candles. Many appropriate games and ghost stories afforded much amusement. An old- A faithful pen’s the noblest Rift of all. The ■ poo a feed so regulates the flow of ink in Watermans (Ideal that it is faithful to the last drop. Wc have a beautiful gift certificate for thotc whowiih to m.ike a preicntof the pen in a novel way. V rite tout about it. For sale at all dealers, but be- ware of imitations. L. E. Waterman Co. Main Office, 173 Broadway, N. Y. 8 School St., Bolton. 158 Montgomery St.,San Kranciico. fashioned repast was served. Those present were dressed as children. These were: Miss Marion Hunker. Miss Emma Davis, Miss Florence Gard- ner. Miss May Sargent, Miss Fidcla Holm, Miss Alice Cullin. Miss Alice Elliott. Miss Edith Mar- shall. Miss Jennie Dunham, Miss Avis Hall, Miss Alice G. Merrill. THE NESMITH SHOE STANDS AT THE HEAD OF ITS CLASS CUSTOM MAKE $5.00 STORES: MEN and WOMEN WHOLESALE and MEN'S RETAIL 36 West Street 112 Summer Street BOSTON Grcty niectriccil 5cf)ool Applied Electrical Course and Telegraphy taught by experts 63 Court Street, Corner Cornhill SCOLLAY SQUARE, BOSTON EDW. A. BINNEY FRED. A H'COIN 5 BINNEY HIGGINS Real Estate Brokers AICTIONEERS MAKE «inn INSURANCE of Every Description. Mortgages and Bonds Renting and Care of Property 5 Bow St., Union Sq. SOMERVILLE PEMBERTON SCHOOL OF SHORTHAND SHORTHAND TYREWRITING MIMEOGRARHING XmMiI form of Actual ItnidiieKH Practice, (veneral Ottlcc Work. Free Trial Week, Day and Kvcnlng Se lont, Individual Instruction, no charge for Stationery. Student' received at any time. 0| en all summer. PEMBERTON BUILDING, opp. Scollay Square, Subway Station, PEMBERTON SQUARE, BOSTON Telephone. Haymarket 645-0. HAFFORD ROUNDING THE END FOR A 35-YARD RUN IN THE SOMERVILLE R. M. T. S. GAME. NOVEMBER 26. 1903. Court ? of i!ot(o« Herald. Kadla'or Supplement SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 53 .enroll icftoolop Zs£) STENOGRAPH1 DEACON ST ____ -Boston,. I J. M. PRESCOTT A. M. GILLIS, Principals Telephone. 2135-9 Haymarket W K TKACH t In I'll in.ni Syntoni of Short- hand. which i recognized by the most prominent educators of the world as being the Itest, and more generally used than any other. Til K TOl'Cll SYSTKM OK TYI'KIV ICITIXO by which the student is taught to Um- all the Anger� . thus saving time formerly wasted bv constant moving of the hands, as is the custom of old style operators. Day and evening clastes. MlMROOKAPIIlXfi. We are the lirsl and only school in Itoston teaching the new Kdlson Oscillating Mimeograph, an art very important in the oilice work of many business concerns. Ot ic KOI I I’M KNT is all entirely new, and of the l e t. The machine, arc the latest Smith Premiers and Remingtons.. Students admitted at any time. Our last year's students are all employed. For prospectus and other information, address BEACON SCHOOL OF STENOGRAPHY, 6 Beacon Street, - - Boston. Mass. SHORTHAND. • • • • £ bMUK 1 MAIN U. Where to Learn It THE ST. CLAIR SHORTHAND REPORTING AND TYPEWRITING SCHOOL 718-730 Trent out Temple, Boston, Mass. Qualifies stenographers lor the highest grade of verbatim reporting and amanuensis work, either personally or by mail. Beginners uught by individual instruction the lienn Pitman ' r 1 '' ' ' ❖ ______ i system of Phonography ami Touch Typewriting. vm ted to lucrative paying position� when competent, and are not inlhienced to remain in this school when able to Isold such positions. Under our superior instruction they attain a high rate of speed m shorthand by the aid of our short-cuts, phrases and expedients, surpassing all other systems. in a high rate of speed in shorthand by the aid ol our short-cuts, phrases and expedients, surparsmg all other systems. Our Special livening Dictation Course, applicable to any .system, of the greau-d assistance to slow wnt.-iv, I'.y ...u method we pie : them lor Civil Service Kxaminations and iffictal Court positions and all other work requiring a high rate of speed. Kntircfy different from any ........... Absolutely thorough and complete. I-C.ss ns by Correspondence in any part of the United States and Canaria. Call or send for prospectus, day. and Friday evenings. Call or semi for circular. Court reporting a specialty. any Instruction daily. Monday. Wcdnes- CHARLES PARSONS, General Manager. Is the best equipped Training School in the East. Prospeclus will tell you why. ADDPCSS: 100 Boyiston Sireer BOSTON Snappy Styles AT Til K Federal Hat Co. Manufacturing ami Retailing Hatters. 166 FEDERAL STREET. BOSTON UP-TO-DA TE--------- — Circulating library New and I’opular Cloth-Bound Books The Latest Issues to select from. PHOTO. ARTISTS' ANI SCHOOL SUPPLIES H. H. SMITH West Somerville DhvIk S |iiare . . PERNIN SCHOOL, 100 Boylston Street, Boston, teach cs Shorthand. T ypewriting Bookkeeping, Telegraphy, practically. Un- educated not taken. The school occupies this unique position : It has no waiting list of graduates out of employment. DAY AND EVENING TRIAL FREE. DAY and EVENING instruction in bookkeeping, shorthand, penmanship, and all business studies; best of modern methods and teachers ; positions for students; day tuition, $15. and evening tuition $5 per month ; refer to 35,000 past students; send for prospectus. C. E. COMER, Principal, 666 Washington St., Cor. Beach, Boston 56 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR WRIGHT DITSON’S HIGH GRADE .Athletic Supplies EVERYTMINfl THAT’S REQUIRED � :OR SPORTS and PASTIMES Ice Skates, Hockey Skates, and Special Shoes, Racing Skates, Skates for Young and Old. Hockey Sticks, Toboggans, Basket Ball, Sweaters, Gymnasium Supplies, Base Ball, Tennis, Golf. Handsome Sports Catalogue, fully Illustrated, will Ik sent free to any address. WRIGHT DITSON 344 WASHINGTON ST., BOSTON, MASS. C I CORWIN CO. Winter Hill Business College WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Game Basement, 2 Quincy Market, South Side TELEPHONE CONNECTION BOSTON, MASS. Business Shorthand Penmanship Cameras for Christmas It is a well known fact That no other School in THE BROWNIES FOR BEGINNERS AND KODAKS IN;ALL SIZES FOR OLD HANDS CIk Kodak Developing machine Will make a splendid present for any KODAKER. A'fine line of Calendar Mounts at W. E Plumer Co s 52 UNION SQUARE or around Boston ever gained in the same length of time the reputation and standing this School has gained Do you know why ? Se. 27-5° per term OILMAN SQUARE, Somerville, Matts. WE HAVE Students from 34 different towns : in attendance CONTENTS OF DECEMBER RADIATOR Page- Gloria in Excelsis (frontispiece), ------- 58 Radiator Staff. . 59 Editorials, .... 60-61 First Christinas in a Southern Town, by Ruby Stone, L., ’07, 62 His First Christinas (poem), by Florence M. Carleton, Iv., ’04. - - - 62 The Ultimate Attainment, by Frederick C. Bradford, L.. ‘04, - - - - 63 The Other Girl, by Edna F. Gordon. E., ’05. ------- 64 Old Christmas, by Katherine Foster. I... '04......................................... 65 Christmas (poem), by Frances Frost, E. ’04. ..........................................66 Exchange Notes........................................................................67 Public Occurrences....................................................- - - 69 Radiations from the Radiator's “Wise” Man,............................................70 Latin Notes, 71 Ivnglish Notes,.......................................................................72 Athletics........................................................................... 74 BEST IN THE WORLDS This may seem a bold assertion, but it may be truly made concerning Ince Hall Cannel Coal For Open Fires This celebrated coal is mined on the Ince Hall Estate in England and the demand greatly exceeds the supply. Wc arc the agents for Messrs. J. P. Higginson Company of Liverpool, the sole shippers of Ince Hall Cannel to the United States, and have Just landed a con- signment ex-S.S. Mayflower ' Metropolitan Coal Company GENERAL OFFICES 30 Congress Street, Boston Somerville Office: 31 Union Square. Cooitny of Photo Kt� - GLORiA IN EXCELSIS. aUI� lLKV ILLI, LATIN ENGLISH SCHOOLS Vol. XIII. Somerville, Massachusetts, December, 1903. Xo. 3. The Radiatok is published by the Somerville I--� tin and English High Schools on the third Thursday of every month during the school year, and only important news matter can Ite received after the 10th of the month. Matter for insertion may be left with any of the editorial statT or mailed to the editor at the Latin High School. In contributing, write on one side of the paper only and sign full name (this Is for reference only). Communications should lie addressed to tin- editor, business manager, or exchange editor, according to their nature. Manuscript must lie accompanied by necessary postage to insure its return. Terms, 75 Cents per Year Single Copies, JO Cents SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT EMtorial Staff Ebitor in Cbicf C. SHERWOOD RICKER. L.. 04. associate Ebitor KATHRYNE L. NOLAN. E.. 04. .Business fcauacjcr LAURENCE MITCHELL. E.. '04. Ercbanflc Ebitor HELEN MARDEN, L.. '04. assistant . «Justness Bana er THOMAS P. DURELL. L.. 05. Sporfimt Ebitor GEORGE COHEN. L.. '04. treasurer GERARD C. BEAN. E.. '04. Statt artist. EDWIN H. WEAVER. E.. '05. Class ENtois Xatm School WILLIAM L. PHILLIPS. '04. ARTHUR T. SOULE. '05. HERBERT S. SANBORN. '06. RALPH E. DURELL. '07. English School WARREN B. FARNUM. 04. LEONARD W. LIBBEY. 05. RICHARD KEYES. '06. LUTHER I. SMITH. '07. 6o SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR EDITORIAL'S Christmas W 11 AT widespread joy throughout the world docs any festival of the year give equal to that of Christmas? Though it conics every year, yet it can never be- come stale and meaningless. We can never fail to feel its sweet, subtle power compelling us. Christmas, with its swelling tide of peace and joy, sweeps aside the barriers of thought erected bv man, and lays open each soul to the flood of new- found light. It is the season of rejoicing and giv- ing. It marks the most beautiful of the annals in religion. It is the season of the year when we throw off our cold coat of conventionality, and listen to the promptings of our hearts. The stores are piled high with Christmas gifts— in many instances useless—yet they will gladden some heart, and draw closer and firmer the tics of friendship and love. So if this season has such magical effect upon man s nature, it can never become a stereotyped fes- tival. nor cease to bring joy and to cast a gleam of light on the abodes of poverty, and even of crime! So. with the well-worn phrase, but with hearts full of the season’s spirit, ever new. we wish you all a Merry Christmas!” � r Cbe Championship we prophesied early in the fall, so has it come to pass,—the championship is ours, and the team has covered itself with glory by capturing the pen- nant without a single defeat. We heard much comment on our editorial note in the October num- ber, where we said that Somerville's hopes for honors in football this year were brighter than ever. But now our critics have joined us in applauding the winners. Much of the credit of this season’s notable work falls upon Coach Cuddy, and we must not forget him when we wonder how that material which played so raggedly against Everett early in the fall should so nobly retrieve itself. Charlie” was the life and hope of the team in its darkest mo- ments. hence all praise to the man who has turned out two championship teams in succession for us— the baseball team of last spring and the football team this fall. Warren G. Lawson has in every way ably man- aged the team this year. The members have been well cared for. and the league games have always been close and interesting. McLaughlin has proved himself a worthy cap- tain. and should take pride in the pleasure of being a leader among winners. In individual playing. Leo Hafford has covered himself with glory as the fastest halfback in the Intcrscholastic League. Indeed, we cannot pick a flaw with the conduct of a man on the team. They have all fought nobly and fearlessly for the Red and Blue. All Hail the Championship Football Team of 1903! It � � K Che present Era •'LD()M do we pause to contemplate the history- making epoch we live in. The present generation in the High Schools has witnessed strides of civilization, the magnitude of which would have astounded the people of a cen- tury ago. 'Fhe wonderful development of science, especially electrical science, it is useless to dwell upon; it is self-evident. However, the movements among the nations of the world have been even more astound- ing. In our short lives we have seen two important wars. The Spanish-American opened the eyes of the world to the relative position and power of the United States, and furthermore, in the face of Ger- many’s threatened intervention, showed the nations that Uncle Sam would tolerate no nonsense. The Boer war, though not concerning us so di- SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 61 rectly, opened the eyes of the world regarding the condition of the British Empire. In the world of diplomacy, as one of the foremost leaders of the age. stands an American, John Hay, Secretary of State. During his short career in the state department, he has drawn up fifty-seven treaties, and won diplomatic victories foreign powers chafed under and envied. The Open Door in China, the Venezuela Boundary, the breaking up of the Peaceful Blockade, the Alaskan Boundary, and the Panama Canal Treaty, now pending ratifi- cation in the United States senate, are among the most important. The near focus of affairs which we have at pres- ent somewhat blinds us to their relative importance. So when we pause and review the past ten years, we marvel at the history-making epoch we live in, and wonder what will follow. Hu Exhibition of School Spirit. y BOUT a week before the Thanksgiving game, we heard words here and there concerning the chances of obtaining a band for the game on Thanksgiving day. Nothing definite materialized till Monday, when, in response to an appeal, the Radiator agreed to head a movement to raise money for a brass band. The chances looked dark. The personal man- agement was left in the hands of Mr. Mitchell. Mr. Ricker, and Football Manager Lawson. Class meetings were called, requests made, and from all appearances favorably received. The result was that Wednesday the managers had in their possession $19.90 from the Latin. $30.73 from the English, a check for $10 from the Athletic Association, and a check for $f from the Radiator, making a total of $05.03. The expense sustained was $00.10, making only a slight deficit, footed by the Radiator. Certainly congratulations are due the school for its quick and generous response to the exhortations of the manager. Songs were printed by the Radiator. New verses were written by Mitchell for the old football song, and a new song was written especially for the day by Ricker. Though the cheering leaders were disappointed at the lack of energy in the cheering at critical stages of the game, nevertheless we won, and that was all that was necessary. The spirit shown throughout was excellent, and certainly reflects credit on both schools. Kasfeet Kail y ITU the football season so successfully closed, we turn our attention to basket ball, the fore- most of winter sports. All the classes and clubs have good material to select from this winter, and there is no reason why the season's games should not be spirited and close. The managers of the respective class and club teams are requested to have complete schedules sent to the sporting editor by January 'i. 1904. The only untoward feature of this game in Som- erville is the floor in Bacon Hall. It brings once again forcibly to our minds the great need of a High School Gymnasium. Somerville has two large high schools—an athletic reputation of which we may be proud—but no gymnasium. Here is an idea “on the quiet. If the teams would invite the honored members of our school board, one by one, to attend the games, and have some one remark art- fully. though casually, of the “treacherousness of the floor,” etc., the final effect might not be lost. It surely could do no harm! Girls' basket ball has of late been raked over the coals, but with no definite results. A Wellesley in- structor says it is a menace to women. But Dr. Gulick. of New York, declares it woman’s salva- tion. So there you have it. While the doctors disagree, go ahead and play, girls. We approve, and we wish you all success, w Vi y. Zbc Hlumiti Humber E should like to speak a word here concerning our February issue, which will be an Alumni number. Former editors will be the chief con- tributors. while the cover will be designed by Wil- liam D. Eaton. E.. '01. Every pupil can help the Radiator with this issue if lie will write on a slip of paper and present to his class editor any knowl- edge he may have of the whereabouts or doings of graduates. We must have a large number of Alumni notes, and the co-operation of the students will materially aid us. The January Radiator will be the annual Staff number. r r r Zo Subscribers JF any subscriber fails to receive the Radiator each month, he should immediately notify the business manager, who will see to it that the sub- scriber receives his paper. It will save the sub- scriber and manager much trouble if this is strictly observed. 62 SOMLRVILLI-; HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR jptret Christmas in a Southern Cowtt m Ixiibv? Stone, X., '07 111' incident which I have been i as c‘d t° relate mav seem verv strange to •N‘ort ,ern people. It seemed a!- most impossible that in one of our Wc - . . states there should be a class of people who had no idea of what Christmas meant, more than the day on which they had a big dinner and. in a few homes, exchanged presents. Several years ago it was my fortune to visit mv grandfather at his winter home in Florida. He is one of the few Northern people who have built up the little town of Huntington, or. as the South- erners call it. city. for the houses in that region are very far apart, and when they do get two or three together, they call it a city. Huntington, this miniature city. is about forty miles south of Ralatka. in the heart of the orange section. The railroad runs through the centre of tlie town, with a train going north and a train go- ing south, stopping on being signalled. The sta- tion. a small wooden affair, the general store, the casino, the chapel, and schoolhousc form the centre of the city. For miles around stretch the beauti- ful orange groves, at this time of year in two stages of growth, half in a heavy white bloom, and half laden with the delicious, yellow fruit. The place has about 150 white inhabitants, fifty or so of them being Northern people who spend their winters here. The Christmas of which I speak, the ladies from the North decided to have a Christmas tree from the North for the native Southerners, who had no idea what a Christmas tree was. Accordingly, the tree was sent for. together with tinsel, baubles, and popcorn, and the day before Christmas the ladies spent decorating it. Christmas night came, clear and comfortably cool, as most Southern nights are. The white sand glistened like snow, and as the moonlight glanced on the sand, making it glisten, it seemed not, unlike a Northern Christmas night. Long before seven o’clock, the hall was packed with an anxious crowd, men. women, and children, all as anxious and expectant as our own children are at their Christmas trees. At seven the curtains which hid the tree from sight were drawn, and lo— such a sight! ()nc grand blaze of light from top to bottom—a beautiful tree, resplendent with decora- tions. Silence—and then one unanimous laugh from all. (i row n men looked at each other and laughed like children, so pleased and surprised were they. When the presents were distributed, their jov knew no bounds, and they were more surprised than ever to find that there was something on the tree for each one. After tree had been stripped of its treasures, danc- ing soon began, but even this ever popular amuse- ment did not come up to the Christmas tree. It is almost needless to say that a year never goes by now without a Northern Christmas for the peo- ple of Huntington. It is pleasant to think that, while we are in our warm, cosy homes, with real Christmas cheer around us. while winds arc howl- ing and blowing, and snow is falling, that in this lit- tle Southern town, ’neath their honey-suckle- covercd porches, with the white sand sparkling in the moonlight, and every faint wind laden with the perfume of jasmine and orange blossoms, these people try to get the Christmas good will feeling by the use of one little evergreen tree. Ibis jfivst Christmas Jflorcncc IS. Carlctcn. £.. ‘04. Tired and hungry was little Joe. As he turned toward his cheerless home. Where nothing spoke of Christmas time.— All was sadness and gloom. The little fellow had never heard The Christmas story so sweet. His young life had all been spent. Uncared for. alone, in the street. His morning papers were still unsold. For luck was hard that day. Hundreds of people passed him by, So happy, and cheerful, and gay; Rut never a glance at tiny Joe. Whose heart knew never a joy. No loving father and mother had he, For him not a Christmas toy. One there was in that happy throng Whose heart was heavy and sad. And as she looked at little Joe, She thought of her own dear lad : For the white-winged angel stopped one day At the home so rich and grand. And bore her only son away To his home in that other land. The mother's heart was touched to see His pinched and hungry face. Could not this little homeless waif Fill up the vacant place? Then, taking him gently by the hand. Her story sad she told. And asked him to gladden her lonely heart. Ne'er again to know hunger and cold. Together they went to her beautiful home. Where want and sorrow lied. It seemed like a dream to little Joe.— The food, the clothes, the bed: And she told him the Christmas story old. Of the poor and lowly birth. ’Twas her son's first Christmas up in Heaven. And Joe’s first upon the earth. SOMFRVILLK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR £bc Ultimate Bttatnment J5t? Frederick 1. 36rai forfc , %., ’04 B11 ' turned from the door, and stood at ) the gate, hesitating. It was the same old story. When a man’s down, everybody jumps on him. 'This man J had been down all his life, and he had been jumped on more or less. The millstone of circumstances was tied around his neck. From his infancy he had knocked around here and there, and he found life’s corners rather rough. As a child he had no home. It is true that there was a place where he occasionally slept, but more often he would huddle among the cargoes on the wharves. He had had no one to teach him the difference between right and wrong, and had followed his own inclinations, with the result that he had a fair police-court record. After each ex- perience of this kind, he had. in his way. set about the attainment of something better, of which he had a hazy notion: but each time he was rudely re- pulsed. As he stood there in the twilight, his hands in his pockets, his thin coat buttoned tightly to keep out the wintry air. he was the picture of dejection. It was the close of the day before Christmas, and lights were appearing one by one in the windows, showing neat little parlors and kitchens, many of which were decorated, and in several of them there were Christmas trees. He had noticed the attrac- tive appearance of one house, and had gone up to ask for a chance to earn his supper, but when the door was opened, and the housewife looked at his unshaven face, she had closed the door before his story was told. Yes. it was the same old story. However, he was used to it. and it did not hurt. I le stood there, kicking his feet against the hitching post: he looked up the street and down. Then he slouched down toward the wharves. The streets of the little seaport town were almost deserted, and he soon came to a coal shed. Here was shelter, and he crawled in. lay down, and went to sleep. o When he awoke it was dark. The wind was howling about the old shed, and it was very cold. It was too cold to remain there: he must keep moving. As he left the shelter of the shed, he found that it was snowing. The wind beat the snow and sleet against his face: he bent his head and started to walk. It must have been late, for the lights in the village were extinguished. He took no notice of where he was going, only he knew that he must keep moving. After a long journey, he found himself bv the seashore. Wearied and exhausted, he paused a moment. The breakers rolled in with a might that was grand to see: they broke with a thunderous roar: they receded in a seething Hood. 1 he wind howled mournfully, boding ill for any luckless wan- derer of the sea. Soon a numbness stole over his body, and he had turned to go. when he heard the boom of a signal gun. and then a steamer’s whistle. It sounded near the breakwater. In the absence of a better destination, he headed that way. Again the signal gun: again the doleful blast of the whistle. He hastened his steps, bending lower be- fore the driving snow, but before he had gone fai- lle stumbled over something and fell. Was it a log? He put his hand on it and turned it over. It was the patrol from the life-saving station, frozen as rigid as stone. Quickly he took the Coston light from the dead man’s clothing: he found the lantern, but no matches, so that was useless. Then he made his way toward the breakwater. As he went, he strained his eves, trying to discern the light at the end of it. but the driving snow shut from his sight all objects more than ten feet away. When he reached the beginning of the break- water. he stopped. The tide would soon be at its Hood, and the storm would drive the waves over the breakwater, making it impossible for any living thing to stay there. Life was of some value, even to this vagabond, and he hesitated before he threw it away. Then the siren of the steamer sounded again—nearer. With his benumbed hands he tightened his belt. and. setting his battered hat more firmly on his head, he set out for the end of the breakwater. Some time later a hatless, half-dead man crawled up to the post at the breakwater’s end. Almost carried away by the waves, bruised, frozen, and bleeding, he had fought, his way to the end. He had fallen several times onto the tagged rocks, but had pushed blindly on. and now he threw one arm about the post and sank down in a heap. Sure enough, the light was out. and the fog horn had been carried away by the heavy sea. The spray dashed upon him. and froze as it struck. 11 is head sank upon his breast, and he felt the cold n longer. It seemed for a moment he was under water as a wave swept over him. almost tearing hint from his support. Through the chaos of his wearied brain one thought found its way. The steamer must be near at hand! His luck had heid so far: would it avail him now? Yes. it did, for. as, with a mighty effort, he rose to his feet, struck the Coston light, and as its red glow spread about, there was an instant’s lull in the storm, and he saw. 200 yards away, a large steamer, headed dead on. The crew saw his signal, for the whistles blew twice. As the great mass of iron, covered with ice. veered majestically away from the rocks, the storm set in again, and the snow shut out from the view of the watchmen a solitary figure on the breakwater, hold- ing aloft a Coston light. When the steamer had faded from his sight, the man’s grip loosened, lie sank down again, and a receding wave took him with it.—a childish, almost foolish, smile on his 64 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR face, lie felt that he had done something great, and it seemed funny. ' The next morning the rising sun shone upon a steamer anchored in the harbor, and the houses of the village, one by one. showed signs of. life. Smoke poured from the chimneys of the cottages. Christmas greetings were exchanged. Christmas trees were despoiled, and a little later the good vil- lagers wended their way to the little church on the hill-top. Hut down on the beach the waves tossed to and fro a ghastly plaything. They rolled it over and over upon the sand, receded a little as if to leave it. then a great wave swept over it. reclaimed it. and bore it off again, as the offshore breeze brought the faint sounds of the Christmas chimes. ZLbe ©tber ($trl jeima jf. (Borfcon, i£., 05 T was lightly and gently snowing. Every now and then a soft flake brushed the window pane, and then lost itself in a tiny stream down the glass. It was twilight, and strangely quiet. Suddenly from the couch in the corner came a deep sigh. At the sound, the figure of a woman rose quickly from the opposite side of the room, and a low voice answered. ‘1 am here. What is it? The answer came quickly and gruffly. Oh, nothing much, only for Heaven's sake get a light, and don't let me lie here in this state of semi- darkness. It's enough to give a well man the blues, let alone a duffer who's been lying here doing nothing for the last month. The girl addressed said nothing, but. with a faint smile on her face, lighted the gas. She was used to the man—used to his blunt speech, and knew and understood how hard it was for the young man suffused with vitality to lie there day after day. Then she came over and smoothed his pillow. The fellow grew quiet under her touch, but said, peremptorily. Read to me. please. Anything something from Tennyson; he wasn’t a bad sort of chap. So the girl took the book, and. seating herself near him, read slowly and evenly. The man turned till he could look at her. and then, apparently, gave himself up to the charm of her voice. She read on and on. till at length, as his eyes closed, she laid aside the book, darkened the room, and went silently away. Mary Alden had been for the past year a com- panion to the mother of the young man whom she had just left. She was an orphan, but. fortunately, had a fine education and a sweet disposition, and for that reason easily obtained the position she now- held. Mrs. Dana had no children, except one son. who was away most of the time at college, and so she regarded her companion more in the light of a daughter than that of a dependent. A few weeks ago, this only son had been brought home in a raging fever, the result of some careless exposure at college, and since then Marv Alden had been everything to the anxious mother, and of infinite value to the now convalescent young man. As every one knows, a lively young fellow, who is just getting over an illness, is alxnit the most difficult person on earth to keep quiet, and Tom Dana was no exception. His demands for Miss Alden were unceasing, until his mother begged that he spare her a little. Hut Mary's goodness to him was untiring, for. although no one knew but she and the picture of her mother, to which she con- fessed her woes at the end of the day. she loved him. yet she would rather have died than own it. ()nc afternoon, when she was reading to Tom. he interrupted her in the middle of a sentence with the astounding remark. Miss Alden. I wish you'd cut out that bosh you're reading and talk to me. Do you know. I’ve been puzzling over a little mat- ter for weeks, but I’m afraid I shall have to ask you to advise, after all. Will you?—and straight?” Miss Alden's face grew just one shade pinker, but she said very simply. Why, yes. of course, if I can.” Well, you see. explained Tom, when my father died, when 1 was only a little chap, his last wish was that I should marry the daughter of an old friend of his. if the daughter were willing. I had never seen the girl then, and didn’t see her until I was about sixteen years old. I met her then. She was rather a nice little girl—blue eyes and yel- low curls. I fell in love with her. as boys of sixteen do. promised all sorts of everlasting affection, bade her a tearful good-by when she went abroad, and speedily forgot all about her. I've just got a letter from her. She's iust come back from six years in Europe, and she'll be here to-morrow. Don't you see what I'm driving at? I don't love her, al- though she’s an awfully nice girl, and all that. You see—er—the fact is. I love some one else. who. by the way. doesn’t love me. You sec, if she has forgotten all that sixteen-vear-old trash, and doesn’t love me.—why, all right—I’m free. Hut if she should happen not to forget all that, and—well, do you know—what am I to do? Do you see what I'm asking you? Can you tell me?” He had grown very earnest, and was slowly pull- ing to pieces the tassel of one of the cushions. For a moment she wavered, for something in his search- ing gaze troubled her. Then, though she could hardly steady her voice, she said slowly. I should wait till the girl comes. Don’t show her the state of vour feelings till you have learned hers. If she SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR has forgotten—all right. If she remembers anti holds you to your promises.—then, fulfill your father’s last wish, and be faithful.” She turned and left the room. leaving Tom in a rather perplexed condition of mind, but with a clear idea of duty. From that time on, Mary could not keep her mind from the girl who was to come from abroad. She pictured her as cold and haughty. When the carriage was sent to the station. Mary could no longer contain herself, and so went out to walk about the grounds. About fifteen minutes after, a carriage drove up to the door of the Dana mansion. A young girl alighted. A strange, happy light shone in her eyes as she entered the house, for she hadn't for- gotten. A servant met her in the hall. Mrs. Dana's seized with sudden headache,” he said. Mr. Tom’s in the library. Would she go right in?” So the tall girl entered the room quietly, and saw the figure on the couch. She walked to the head of the couch and saw that lie was asleep. She re- membered that sixteen-year-old trash.” and. lean- ing over him. the violets at her belt touched his hair, and he stirred. It was almost dark, and a faint odor of violets was in the air. Mary!” said the man. Mary. dear, if she’ll only forget!” The tall giri started back with a little quiver. She understood. She walked unsteadily to the door, saying, with a little catch in her voice. I think that I’ll forget right now, before I remember it all over again. ©Ifc Christmas H Character Sketch ® lkatberine jfoster, ’04 HE first time 1 ever saw him was in the crowded shopping district, but even there he was a striking figure. Tall and gaunt, he was as yet un- conquered by the many years that must have passed over his head. His long, white beard lay like a fan on his chest, and rose and fell with clock-like regularity. His keen, blue eyes were searching here, there, and everywhere with a wist- ful, eager look. His mouth was parted iti a smile that was as sweet and winsome as a child’s. Every ragamuffin or newsboy whom he met grinned a cheerful Hello, Christmas. which he as cheer- fully returned. It was almost twenty years since Christmas had come to Napoleon Terrace, and he was just the same in every way as when I first saw him. His mind was from the first a perfect blank on the past but in the present he was everybody’s help and mainstay,—the playfellow of the children, and the errand-runner of their mothers and fathers. He was a favorite with every one. but especially with the small fry around the court, who jealously re- garded him as their very own. and eyed suspiciously any one who seemed about to encroach on their rights. Then there were his stories, those lovely fairy tales that he told to the younger ones, and— shame be it said—to some of the older ones, and those tales of thrilling adventures in unheard-of lands, that made their blood curdle and their little hearts fairly leap with excitement. Napoleon Terrace was one of those dirty little side streets which abound in the slums of every large city. The inhabitants were the usual class of poor Irish. Americans, and Italians, many with a strong leaning to drink, and some with even darker crimes laid against them. But deep down in the darkest heart was a feeling of kindness for Christmas. Mrs. Flynn was Christmas’ landlady, a good-hearted old soul, who took good care of him. but wondered unceasingly as to where he got the money to pay her as regularly as lie did. for Christmas was never known to work. It was a memorable day for the Terrace when Christmas brought Dicky home with him to share his humble board and lodgings. To all inquiry, tin. former only replied that he had found him crying on the street, and had brought him home. Soon it was a common sight to see Dicky trudging along, with his hand thrust confidingly into the big palm of Christmas, listening wonderingly to his marvel oils stories, or watching his skilled fingers whittling some strange figure. Dicky was taught bv his adopted father everything which the obi man knew himself, which was not inconsiderable, and. best oi all. his character was molded by the beautiful ex- ample of his grandfather, as he learned to call him. As he became older, he went into the newspaper business, and had great ambitions for the future. Hut one day Dicky didn’t return home, and on the next day word was brought that he had been knocked down, and was lying in the hospital breathing his life out. The little funeral was soon over, and Christmas returned alone to his attic. 1 le had shed no tears, but there was a pathetic look- in his blue eyes that made the warm-hearted neigh- bors particularly kind to him. After Dicky’s death. Christmas relapsed again into his old habit of long absences, which troubled the good Mrs. Flynn from the bottom of her heart. Before Dicky’s coming lie had been given to ab- sences of a week or two at a time, that were the subject of many whisperings and strange stories. 56 SOM ICR VILLI'; HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR There were many ideas about them, blit perhaps the most prevalent was that it was during these times that lie procured his money in some mysterious way. When Christmas had first come to the city, he had wandered on to M------avenue. A handsome carriage drove hv and stopped at a beautiful house, and. as Christmas gazed absently at it. a little giri came out of the house and approached the carriage. She was a beautiful child, with long, curly, golden hair and big blue eyes, and was dressed in a be- witchingly dainty white gown and large Leghorn hat. Who can say what memory stirred in the heart of the old man as he gazed on the lovely vision? With a yearning cry of Edith!” he held out his hands, but. without hearing, she was driven off. After this, at irregular intervals, Christmas would start out in search of this child, and although twenty years had passed, he still continued his search for the same child in the same white dress and Leghorn hat. Not once while Dicky was with him did Christmas go off on these long searches, but after his death they were resumed at much shorter intervals than before. Once or twice some of his neighbors tried to follow him. but. with a shrewdness that one wouldn’t have expected in him. he invariably eluded them, sometimes even in such a way as to encourage them in believing something supernatural was connected with Christmas. The only difference perhaps in him after his searches was that he would often tell sadder stories to the children for the next few days, but otherwise he was the same. Perhaps this is not a story, but I can at least sat- isfy my conscience by knowing that I have tried to faithfully portray the character of Christmas, the story-teller of Napoleon Terrace, as far as I can from my somewhat limited knowledge. A better and kinder man has never lived, nor any one more useful to his fellow men. About a week ago I went to call on him, and found him sitting in the Terrace in a little patch of sunshine, whittling, as usual. I knew by the eager listeners around him that he was in the midst of some unusually interesting story. Nothing would have hurt his feelings more than to have interrupted him. so I quietly joined the group around him and heard the greater part of a story which, if written as he told it. would. I feel sure, make more of a sen- sation than any of our up-to-date novels. While you are listening, you seem to live in the words that come from his lips. You hold your breath. Not a word must be lost. Rut when afterwards you try to recall it. it seems to slip farther and farther away from vour outstretched memory, and then you know that another is added to the list of unwritten tales. Christinas Jfrances Jfrost. X.. ’04. A quiet peace pervades the land, The hearts of all in concord beat, As Christmastide draws near at hand. And changes bitter into sweet. And when the hallowed eve arrives, And starlit is the firmament. Our minds turn back to holier lives, That to the day all joy have lent. We see the wise men drawing nigh, We see the trusting shepherds then, And angels hovering on high. Above a King, the King of men. Thus peace, the sweetest ever known. Came to the world that Christmas night. And may we claim it for our own, Through all the endless paths of light. SOM ICR VI LUC HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 67 Wc arc glad to welcome so many new exchanges. They cannot be too numerous, though lack of space will not permit us to comment on all. Indeed, it would require several pages to do that fully. Wc shall try to pick out the most interesting among the number for criticism, whether small or large, strug- gling or successful, but. above all. we shall always look for the exchange column, which may or may not be there, but which always ought to be there, and which will be there if the paper is enterprising! There are. of course, a great many very interesting and helpful magazines which must bv necessity be neglected. For the first time this year, we are printing a list of the exchanges received during the month of No- vember which are not mentioned on this page, and hope it will prove beneficial to papers with a less awe-inspiring number than that which we daily re- ceive. Hoping that this will aid. we add the ad- dresses. We have some of our exchanges to thank for this idea. The Kimball Union, of Meriden. X. II.. wishes to know whether it would be an acceptable plan to publish facts of interest about the different schools. W e think that it would perhaps be a good idea, but rather difficult to carry out. especially in a school where there is a large number of papers. Will the Blue and Brown. Lancaster. Pa.. kindly favor us with the address of the Bryn Mawster? A very finely arranged paper from New York- city is the Red and Blue. The arrangement of the different departments is exceptionally good. We welcome a young and. to us. new paper, com- ing from Wakefield You have started out well. Debater, with a determined intention to keep an ex- change column. May other schools help you as you deserve! Another new little paper, tin- Lariat. Cheyenne. Wyoming, breathes of the far W est. Do not be- come discouraged. Lariat, you can lassoo your short stories, while we have not that advantage. How the Spectator (Johnstown. Pa.) and the ( racle (Malden) are quarrelling! We fear there is anything but a friendly spirit in their criticisms. The Oracle has a good exchange column, while the Spectator is. as last month, a high-class paper. Another charming little cover on the Center of Vision! We regret that our favorable comments on this attractive little paper could not be published for lack of space. The Racquet. Portland. Me., is a bright and breezy paper, as of old. What fortune .Portland 11 igh has in possessing so many talented young writers! Three papers which contain good exchange columns are the Mirror. Hazleton. Pa., the Madrono. Palo Alto. Cal., and the High School Student. Bridgeport. Conn. The Student is a fine paper, and the ending to the serial storv was very delightful. As usual, the Radiator. New Haven. Conn., is a fine magazine. The cover is the best we have seen this year, and is remarkable if drawn by a student. Another good exchange is the Argus. Harris- burg. Pa., which contains the most excellent story we have read this year. Bitcksap. The Skirmisher. San Mateo. Cal., continues to improve. We wish to speak particularly of the excellent cover on the Crimson. Louisville. Ky.. which was designed by an alumnus. The other exchanges received in November, and thus far in December, are as follows:— Massachusetts—The Jabbcrwock. Boston: the Imp. Brighton: R. M. T. S. Register. Cambridge: Latin and High School Review. Cambridge: High School Recorder. Winchester: Lasell Leaves. Auburndalc: the Review. Lowell: Classical High School Gazette. Lynn: High School Breeze. Hop kinton: Dean Megaphone. Franklin: the Crimson and White. Gloucester: the College Signal. Am- herst: the Dunnncr News. South Byfield: the Murdock. Winchcndon: the Drury Academe. North Adams. Maine—High School, Corona. Bridgton : the Tripod. Saco: B. H. S. Oracle. Bangor. New Hampshire—The Argus. Plymouth: K. II. S. F.nterprise. Keene. SOM ER VIL I. K HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 6S Connecticut—Epsilon, Bridgeport; the Pennant. Meriden. Rhode Island—The Observer. Central Falls; High School Gleaner. Pawtucket. New York -The Apokeepsian. Poughkeepsie; High School Recorder. Saratoga Springs; the Phonograph, Rallston Spa. Iowa—'Hie Echo, Dubuque. Indiana-—The Owl. Knox; the Mirror, Indian- apolis. I tali—The Classicum. Ogden. Wisconsin—The Ryan Clarion. Appleton. Kansas—High School Oracle. Burlingame. California—The Oak. Visalia; the Debater. The Normal Art School, in its school paper, the Center of Vision, of which, by the way. Frank M. Gracey, English. ’02, is editor-in-chief, publishes a list of Don’ts for Freshmen and others. As the college Freshman is not widely removed from the High School Senior, these same Don’ts” may prove interesting reading to our Seniors and others among the under classmen:— Don’t think that any previous training you may have had will necessarily make your progress through this year’s work one rapid triumphal pro- cession. You may have to spend time forgetting the wrong things you have learned. Don’t behave here as you would not think of do- ing elsewhere, just because our instructors hesitate to add police duty to their already heavy tasks. For the honor of our school, don’t! And don’t emulate the few students who make a practice of doing everything but earnestly working. Don’t, if you fail to understand your work, hesi- tate to seek aid from your instructors. They are not ogres, but desire to be your friends. Don’t, however, be continually bothering them with questions which, with a little thinking, you coidd answer for yourself. You are not the only one with demands on their time. Don’t loaf a minute, but work. work. work, work! Recess is time enough for recreation, and the road to Success is paved with Improved Op- portunities. Don’t give up trying when you find your work poorer than you had hoped. The probabilities arc that you will only begin to succeed after becoming thoroughly discouraged. Don’t think that we are.giving this advice merely to fill up space, or because we wish to scare you, but believe us that we wish you to learn from our mistakes, instead of waiting to learn from your own. --------------------■♦♦♦■♦ ---------- jfirst Senior Social The first Senior social was a complete success, and reflects credit on the managing committees. The entertainment was well carried out, and Mr. Nolan and Mr. Cohen were especially applauded. The next social will be held December 22 at Guild hall. Every one come! Uonflino 36 ? Blpbonse ’Memo, 04 [Translation from Heine's “Schnsucht. ] A fir tree stands alone On a barren northern height. It sleeps. With snow and ice 'Tis clothed in robes of white. It is'dreaming of a palm tree In a distant eastern land, Alone in silence mourning. On a burning bank of sand. ----------------------------- 5oU en Opportunities .16'? va. 16. n.. ’04 Who will our class orator be? Is the question often asked; Who will our witty prophets be, That cannot be surpassed? Who’ll undertake to write an Ode, And rouse our deep emotion, Who’ll be the poet to man the pen, And help us sail Life’s ocean? These golden opportunities Will soon be near at hand. Get wise and grasp but one of these, In our hall of fame you'll stand. annual Baseball Concert Preparations arc being made for the annual baseball concert to be given early in the spring. The success of former years is known to nearly all, as a fine programme has always been given. Clubs and fraternities wishing to participate in this year’s concert will please notify Manager Bean on or be- fore December 24. 1903. --------♦� --------------- Xatin 1001 TRcunion The first reunion of the class of 1901, Latin School, is to be held on the evening of December :n . at the Latin School building. A very pleasant programme has been arranged by the committee in charge, and, from the answers to invitations re- ceived thus far, it seems that practically all the members will be present. ------------------------ Cbc Operetta The members of the English High who arc go- ing to take part in the operetta practice twice each week, under direction of Mr. Iladley. Many new members have been added, thereby greatly strength- ening the chorus. The date has not been definitely settled yet, but it is expected to take place in Janu- ary or February. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 69 Cbe Sigma 5)dta fraternity The last meeting of the Fraternity was held at the home of Oliver A. Wyman. A very pleasant evening was enjoyed. Charles Gctchell was re-elected captain of the Fraternity team, and O. A. Wyman, manager. The first game was played with Hvde Park last Fri- day. The Sigma Delta boys have united with the S. T. D. boys in the English School to give a Fra- ternity dance at Anthoine’s early in 1904. Com- mittees from both fraternities are now completing plans. -------------------------- 36. (t. S. The B. C. S. Club last met at the home of Miss Lizzie Downs. Miss Sara Emerson resigned as secretary, and Miss Esther Stevenson was elected. During the business part of the evening, plans were made for a theatre party to be held soon. After the business was transacted, a bountiful collation was served by the hostess. The next meeting will be held at the home of Miss Ida Hegan. ------------------ %. E. ID. Club ()n November G the club held a progressive sup- per. after which a pleasant evening was spent at the home of Miss Gladys Loring. 7G Highland avenue. At the last meeting of the club, plans for a dance to be given later in the winter were made. The mem- bers met December 1? at the home of Miss Nellie A. Brown. “Cbe Bachelor Girls” The club met Friday at the home of Miss Ethel Reeves. A social time was enjoyed, and the hostess served a dainty buffet luncheon. The next meet- ing will be at the home of Miss Florence Hatch. 5. C. ID. Club Two social events mark the progress of the S. 'I'. D. Club. The third annual ladies’ night was held in Flem- ming hall Wednesday night. December 9. The hall was tastefully decorated in the club colors, gar- net and gray, and the cobweb party added greatly to the amusement of the evening. Miss Loring. Miss Preston, and Mr. Frost received the prizes. Mrs. Fallen and Mrs. Stacy acted as matrons. Previous to the ladies’ night, the club also had another delightful time at the Medford Boat Club House, where they were entertained by Guy B. Garland. The event was one that will long be re- membered as representing an old-fashioned party, the members being treated to an old-fashioned lunch, served bv the fireplace, with its glaring log fire. ■■ ♦«♦ ■ • • ■■ ■ m. %. n . ciub The last two meetings of the club have been held at the homes of Miss Eldridge and Miss Harvey. Plans for the club dance were made and completed. It is to be held January 11. 1904, in Guild hall. At both meetings dainty luncheons have been served by the hostesses, after which singing and general social evenings were enjoyed. The next meeting will be at the home of Miss Grace Kendall. ■ - ——------ Hnotber Club I he Gabaneetcrs. composed of eleven '05 girls, primarily for social reasons, held their first meeting at the home of Miss M. Edmonds Friday afternoon. December 11. A very pleasant afternoon was passed. -------------------------- If you want to be dressy and up-to-date, wear one of Talbot’s Bostonette Rain Coats, like all the rest of the fellows do. 70 SOMKRVILLK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Miminww1 Ube Mtsc flban’s Criticism of the IKlovember IRabiator The Radiator was better than the October num- ber. except in reading matter. The editorials in this number were brain-stretchers. I suppose we wanted to make up for the sogginess further on. The supplement was good this number, and ap- propriate. The frontispiece, phew ! What it is! I spent fifteen minutes before deciding which way to hold it and get a sober” effect that would re- mind me of a picture. Then I exclaimed, Ah. Pelee in eruption! but I missed the mountain. Several other twisted ideas came to me concerning the probable good intentions of the picture, when I piped” Twilight down below it. Hut, say, that looks more like Scollay square at high tide than it does twilight. However, we’ll let that pass. The cover was a vast improvement on that bunch of blots last month, that looked like a picture if you walked away from it a yard and turned around. The border was really the whole show. The In- dian maiden looked more like a dago, and as for ap- propriateness. she might as well have held a can- opener in one hand and a bunch of bananas in the other, as grapes, pears, and apples, etc., this time of year. The clouds, too. looked a trifle home-made. I should personally like to talk with that Al- phonse Nemo, L.. ’of.” some muddy Monday after dark. Some one ought to put him “wise.” I could tell a little story about a would-be poet that would send my dear Alphonse home to lynch his Muse so quick that he’d say. My. but isn’t this a tolerating plane of scrio-cynic thought!’’ or How narrowly I escaped being planted in a ‘bone orchard.' with an overgrown cobblestone to keep down the lid. and on one polished side saying:— ‘He lies here now. He lied” there then. Don’t ask us how! They saved his pen.’ ” The Radiator, outside the covers, was slick. You have my private idea on the inside. Note.— Did you see that bunch of club notes? Watch out. XX. 5. Club The I'. S. Club held the first meeting of the sea1 son October 9 at the home of Miss Hunnewell. ()fficers were elected for the coming year as fol- lows: President. Ruth W. Hills: secretary, Alice Hunnewell: treasurer. Helen L. Hopkins. Re- freshments were served after the business had been transacted. Two weeks later the members spent a jolly Hallow’en afternoon at Miss Crane’s home. Since then Miss French. Miss Hills, and Miss Hop- kins have entertained the club. --------------------------- s. 0. m. ciub The S. (). M. Club held its last meeting at the home of Frank Bradford. 2?'« Summer street, and the following officers were elected: President. F. Rumwcll Bradford: vice-president. Leonard Lib- bey : secretary. Albert Snow: treasurer, Lauren W aldron. Plans were made for the coming sea- son. which promises to be very enjoyable. After the business part of the meeting was over. George Trcnholm was initiated. Cbc football Banquet In honor of the championship team, a banquet will be given by the alumni, under the management of Herbert Stone, in Anthoine hall December 29. Many prominent Somerville men will speak, in- cluding Mayor (dines. Mr. Baxter, principal of the Latin School, and Mr. Whitcomb, principal of the Fnglish School. There are but a limited number of tickets, which may be obtained from the football boys for $1.50 per ticket. ---------- f. B. f. Club The F. B. F. Club held their last meeting at the home of George H. Wilson. The members spent a very enjoyable evening. Musical selections were given by Currier and Curran, and vocal numbers were contributed by Messrs. Barker and Whitaker. The following officers were elected: President. Charles A. Parks: vice-president, Sam S. Barker; secretary-treasurer, Thomas C. Commins. SOMERVILLE NIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 7i i i cS '04. The Editorial Bureau of this class has had one contributor this month. To the one contributor the heartfelt thanks of the E. B. go out. What can the E. B. say to the other eighty-three members of this egregious Senior class? Nothing nice. Some egotist once said: If you want a thing well (lone, do it yourself. People are wiser now, and we humbly apologize for the attached offenses which duty compelled us to make. Harrison is doing a great work. Continue, Percy. Ilomer never made any hit with us. Reminiscences: “Two revolutions.” It's going out. It might be well at critical stages of the game. H-y-s, to fill one’s mouth full of aces, but kings— never! Ample precedents in the use of slang: Vergil— “profundens ora —shooting off his face. Milton: She was pinched and pulled.” Alphonse Nemo has been apprehended. As a punishment, he will be forced to attend three suc- cessive recitations. Rhoden Yargrave has our sympathy—he will never get our money again. O. T. Alan is still at large, but it seems unlikely that he will give further trouble. Cicero, the original joker, has at the end of his interminably long spasm over Archias. Quae . pro mea consuetudine breviter simplicitcrque dixi ! The rains descended and the floods came. But the High School was open just the same. Reshrew the maligner who said that people who go over to the lunch counter have to bolt their din- ners—to keep them down. Such things should not be made public. The Juniors ought to do well in Physics; they have the “Theory. Why does Steve go up stairs so often? '05. He was a Mede (Meade). Heard in German:— He gave her his arm. She threw her head around. He will keep sober for a year.” If you are cold, run up the windows. Why not help the editor out and pass in notes? We admire the class spirit of the Freshman class. There will be a social of the class of '05, both English and Latin, in Guild Hall January 4. This is the first social gathering of the class, and all members and friends are requested to be present. Tickets, which are twenty-five cents, may be ob- tained from any of the committee, which consists of the Misses Mullikcn and Baxter, and Burns, Elliot, and Soule from this school. We find operating on eyes (not human) very in- structive. We are glad to welcome Miss Butters back, after a tedious illness. Among those who earned their football “S” are Hafford. Burns, Elliot, and Sewall from this class, a good delegation. At a basket ball meeting held recently. Leo Haf- ford was again elected captain, and Burroughs man- ager of the team, to represent this class. Don't forget the social January 4. A good time is assured. Harry Burroughs has been made a member of the A. F. Fraternity. The Macedonian Phalanx consisted of ends, guards, and centre. Heard in History: “Are you good at keeping dates?” Ancient castles were built on the installment plan. No, the people of Sardis were not called Sardines. '06. Teacher— What side lies opposite angle 7?” C------“Angle 4.” B------ Magister meum equum habet.” Poor boy! Speaking of the aesthetic pose of Happy Hooli- gan. is that the one F--------1 assumes when he writes on the lx ard? S------y, Clearchus was not having a wrestling match. Twohig was so interested. [Continue� ! on pa e 73.] 2 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR NOTES '04 The picture committee is now ready to give a few hints on facing the camera. Although the cheering at the R. M. T. S. game was not very loud, many claimed they were cheer- ing to beat the band. The first Senior social was held Tuesday. No- vember 17. The Pirates of Penzance do not look very pirati- cal during school hours. Don’t be original in chemistry. It's dangerous. Heard in Elocution : “He clutched his teeth.” Freshmen should be seen, but not heard, in Room 29. F-l-c- (in English C)— King Louis was a wil(l)y man.” While coming home in the barge from the game Thanksgiving day. Crosby delivered an oration on “Breaking Training.” All noticed that he was very practical. Teacher— What was the fate of William dc la Marck? Miss W-s-e-1—“He married Lady Hameline.” I)-h-g will tell you what time the Post watch will stop, as he was late a short while ago. The social committee have arranged to have the next Senior social December 28. All come. From the many candidates who have reported for hockey. Captain Babbitt expects a winning team. The Six Club held its last meeting at the home of R. Warren Dunham. The S. T. I). Club gave its ladies’ night Decem- ber 9. On returning the next day, we noticed that many of its members were invisible. An interesting programme was given by the pupils of the Junior and Senior classes in the lec- ture hall at the singing hour Wednesday. Decem- ber 9. Solos were rendered by Messrs. Dunham and Wilson. The closing selection was given by a double quartette, chosen from the classes. The members of the football team are anticipat- ing a lively time at the banquet to be given in An- thoine Academy December 29. '05 Congratulations, Sophomores, on your finely- managed social last month. C---------“Becket returned to England, where he was again murdered.” Though the price of coal has gone down, they arc still using charcoal up in the drawing room. We are at a period in history now where nervous- ness seems a common trait among the common people, many of them dying because they lost their heads. Miss F------- translates aesthetics” as “ath- letics”! If it only could be so! What is the first important thing in the reign of Edward I.? Answer: His birth.” English Teacher— What is the principal trait of King Gama:” C----c— His smile” (that won’t come off). We arc having manual labor up in the drawing room. Several young ladies were seen drawing water. King Edward was busy most of the time fight- ing the Scots and Whales.” Mr. Earle (in Chemistry, holding out his empty hand)— There is a weight of fifty pounds on that hand.” Some doubted his veracity, and some thought that he was joking, until he explained atmospheric pressure. Our class social January 4, 1904. Tickets, twenty-five cents. May it be a success. '06 Don’t let the Freshmen know, but Sophomore” comes from the Greek word meaning foolish. ()ur first class social was a great success. Another new club, the L. S. S. Why not vary a little? Thirteen letters would be the only unlucky number. The S. A. E. defeated the Entrc Nous of the Senior class in a close game of- basket ball. They will meet the Septopian Fraternity. Latin. 06, De- cember 1(5. 'readier—“Their capitol was at Bagdad. Munro (in an undertone)—“Chewing Candy.” Libbev. of ’05, regrets very much that he is class editor, otherwise he might get his name in this column. Cheer up. Libbev. Class notes would be a most acceptable Christmas present. Send by express to Room 19. L------’s soliloquy in rhyme:— When another flood shall come to earth. To the geometry notebook will I flv, SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 73 Atul while trees, and hills, and rocks are wet, Geometry will still be dry. The Freshmen are growing; when they reach their second year, they will be nearly as big as we are. The agony expressed as the Stenography class goes through the alphabet is really pitiable. '07. We hope Santa Claus will remember the Sopho- mores well. F. Holmes is the class mascot. Heard in 1. English A.: They were a week as cats. Two new officers have been appointed in Room 13; Duncan, draft clerk, and Willard, janitor. We will also appoint two Freshmen to keep the doors out of Harmon’s way. A committee has been appointed to draw up a constitution for the class. They arc: Whitney, IS; Grieves. 15; West, 12; Leavitt. 10; .Miss Harrison, 17 : Miss Gould, 11. A pin committee has also been appointed. It consists of Miss Smith. 15; Miss Ritchie. 10; Grieves. 15; Whitney, IS. Where did Henderson get his watch? Heard in English I Still over the door hung the horseshoe. That to guard them ever from evil. Acted as disinfectant.” Merry Christmas to all! -------------------------- m. %. s. ciub The W. L. S. held on Hallowe’en a gentle- men’s night at the Hotel Ideal. At a recent meet- ing the election of officers took place, resulting as follows: President. Eclnah A. Whitney: secretary, Eleanor Richardson; and treasurer. Marion A. Youngjohn. ------------------------- Raymond G. Tift, prepared at the Somerville English High School, has taken the president’s prize at Brown University for best preparation in French. The other entrance prizes offered were taken by pupils from the Providence High Schools. —Providence Journal. Mr. Tift was a member of the class of 1903, and prepared in French under Miss Marvel, head in- structor of the French department. English High School. -------------------------- We wish to call the attention of the readers of the Radiator to our new studio, which is open and ready for business. To any pupil of the Somerville High Schools we will give ten per cent, in cash for orders sent in by them before the end of June, 1901. To the three sending in the largest amount, three cash prizes of $15, $U . and $5 each will be given. Call at the store for blanks. Bruneau Fletcher. 324 Broadway. See our “ad,” page 78. L ? LATIN NOTES. [Continued from page 71.] BY ALL MEAN'S. Why not follow the custom of the ancient Romans and have a fifteen days’ Thanksgiving at the finishing of the second book of Caesar? AN EPIGRAM. E------, there are none as deaf as those who won’t hear. Teacher— Which was which? Miss C------n— This was that. He’s wise, boys. Too bad! Did you notice the tired look on Division I.? C’----- likes Greek so well that he even signs his name in it on the board. E-------1 had a gun. and the gun was loaded, E-------1 pulled the trigger, and the gun exploded. Heard in Latin : Caesar seized a shield from the rear of a soldier.” Remember, it is synecdoche, not Schenectady. S. G------is a member of the infant class, is he? The class wishes to congratulate the football team on its success this season. 'I'eacher— Is this demonstration correct? Bright Pupil— No. that right triangle is wrong.” Isn’t it a relief, we have only four books or less” of Caesar to translate this year? If we only had four books less! '07. Slow, but sure is our motto. At last we have another class officer, the secretary, Miss Mabel Conover. We hope to get our class officers elected before it is time for another election. Those on the pin committee are: Miss Burt (chairman). Misses Washburn. O’Connor, and Merrill. Let us have more class notes passed in. although we don’t give trading stamps, as the Sophomore class does. T-ck-r has the very bad habit of falling asleep. We hope he will get over it. The following officers were elected for the basket ball team: Captain. Lawrence Bowlby: manager, Earle Atkinson. P—le should take more care when he greases his shoes, and not grease them on the sole and heel. We ought to have good coasting in our class, for we have plenty of Snow and a Hill. Division IV. has a Fox that is not Wild. Coming musicians, T-ck-r and Miss S----s. ------------------------- The second annual Alumni banquet was held De- cember 3 at Anthoine’s. The speakers were Mr. Avery, toastmaster. Superintendent South worth. I)r. Whiting. Miss Ingram. Miss Cummings, Mr. Jones, and Mr. Burgess. 74 SOMERVI LL E HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Somerville, It; E. 1b. 5., 0 On an ideal football day. before an immense football crowd. E. II. S. went down to defeat be- fore the sturdy Somerville eleven. The game was hard fought throughout, and both teams put up an excellent exhibition of football. E. II. S. was by no means crippled, as the papers had said, and the best team she could put on the field was there. For Somerville. Hafford was the star. He made several beautiful runs, and on the defense was a stone wall. McLaughlin at fullback was irre- sistible. Graves at centre played an excellent game. Gilligan played well for E. 11. S.. and also Hamburghcr. E. 11. S. kicked off to Somerville, who slowly pushed the ball along until it was on the 5-yard line. Here E. II. S. made a stand, and Somerville was held for downs. The ball went to E. II. S.. and they attempted to rush it. but were held for two downs, so punted out of danger. Again Somer- ville worked the ball down to the 5-yard line, but was met with the same sturdy defense, and the ball was once more given to High School, who punted out of danger. This time Somerville was deter- mined to score, and McLaughlin was pushed over for a touchdown. Hafford kicked a difficult goal. The half soon ended, with the ball on High School's 30-yard line. Somerville kicked off to E. 11. S. to start the second half. High School started down the field with a rush, gaining three to four yards at each play. When, however, they reached the middle of the field, they came up short, and were forced to punt. Hafford caught the punt on the 15-yard line, and was downed in his tracks. From here Somerville rushed the ball the whole length of the field by short, steady plunges, and succeeded in sending Hafford over for a touchdown, although held on the 1-vard for three downs. Hafford fumbled as he went over the line, but quickly re- covered the ball. A goal was missed. E. H. S. received the kick-off. and was well on the way for a touchdown, when time was called. Score: Somerville, 11 : E. H. S.. 0. The summary:— Somerville. E. H. S. Doughty, l.e......................r.e.. Dineen Frost, l.t.........................r.t., Ayer Stacy. Lamont. l.g... .r.g.. Coppelhauer. O'Connell Graves, c............................c.. Graham Hall, r.g.................l.g., McCombs. Cook Commins. r.t........................l.t., Scanlon I Sums, r.e.................l.e.. Sprague. Hunt lllair. Elliot, q.b...q.b.. Hamburghcr, Powers Hafford. l.h.b.....................r.h.b.. Moran Fean. Fowl by. r.h.b.........l.h.b.. Hunt. Cole McLaughlin, f.b.....................f.b.. Gilligan Score—Somerville High. 11: English High. 0. Touchdowns—McLaughlin. Hafford. Goal from touchdown—Hafford. Umpire—Byrnes. Tufts. Referee—Hapgood. Brown. Linesmen—Parks, Hatton. Timer—Gray. Time—20-min. periods. -------------------♦■� ♦- ♦-------- basket ©all The first game was played in Bacon hall Mon- day. November 30, between English. '0(5. and the Entre Nous Club. The former won. after an ex- citing game, the score being 27-2G. Henderson and Newell played best for the winners, while Wangle played a star game for the losers. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 75 Zhc Gbamptonsbip ©ure Thanksgiving morning 10.000 followers of the Red and Bine and the Brown and White saw Som- erville win from her ancient rival. R. M. T. S.. in a closely-played game, by a score of -5. Somer- ville by no means played her best game, as too many of her men were in a crippled condition. Somerville was continually penalized for holding, and during the game was forced to give over 125 yards. Somerville gained ground in good shape, and R. M. 1. S.. in the second half, used a tandem play with great effect. Beckett's goal from the field on a placement kick was the prettiest ever seen at Charles River Bark. The ball went straight for its mark, and Beckett deserved all the cheering he got. Burns played a star game at end. and Hafford and McLaughlin played well in the backfield. made twenty more, and a touchdown seemed in- evitable. But when Somerville reached the 20- yard line, a fumble took place, and the ball went to R. M. T. S. Rindgc on a line play made two yards, but on a delayed pass lost five. She punted, and Somerville ran the ball back ten yards. Somerville now commenced to tear up Rindge's line, and was well on her way up the field, when she was penal- ized twenty yards. Once more she worked her way ahead, and was on the d-vard line when time was called for the first half. Score: Somerville. (� : R. M. T. S.. o. R. M. T. S. kicked off to Somerville, and Som- erville ran the ball back ten yards. After a few rushes, in which little ground was gained. Hafford punted out of danger, and R. M. T. S. started down THE FOOTBALL SQUAD Hall played an excellent game, until he was forced to retire because of a bruised muscle. Somerville kicked off to R. M. I. S.. who ran the ball back ten yards. On the next two plays she was held for downs, and forced to punt. Hafford received the punt, and ran the ball back three yards. Somerville now gained steadily until she reached the 8-yard line, when she lost the ball on downs. R. M. T. S. was given the ball to rush, but again could gain not a foot, and was forced to punt. The kick was blocked by Doughty and rolled over the line. Immediately where the ball was last seen a mass of legs and arms was apparent, and when the pile had been separated, the ball was found in the arms of Stacy : thus a touchdown was scored. 11 afford kicked an exceedingly difficult goal. R. M. T. S. now kicked off to Somerville, who rushed the ball back ten yards. Ott an end play. Hafford the field. She worked her way to the 10-yard line, but was held for downs. Somerville took the ball and tried a play through tackle, but was held. ()n the next play there was a fumble, but before the ball was recovered, the whistle had blown because, as the referee claimed. Somerville was holding. An R. M. T. S. man fell on the ball after the whistle had blown, but the referee penalized Somerville twenty yards, and returned the ball to her. claiming it was Somerville's ball, because it was still in her possession when the whistle had signalled to stop playing. The 20-vard penalty placed Somer- ville behind the goal, and when Hafford punted out. Captain Parks made a fair catch, and Beckett kicked his wonderful goal from the field. R. M. T. S. kicked off to Somerville, who ran the ball back twenty yards. On the next play Hafford made twenty-five more, and the hearts of the Som- 76 SOM HR VILLI-; HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR crville supporters rose again. The joy was short- lived, however, as Rindge held for downs. The ball went to Rindge, and slowly, but surely, with her tandem play she forced Somerville back, and reached the 20-yard line. Here Stacy and Frost shook hands, and resolved to do or die. The prog- ress of R. M. T. S. was stopped, and Somerville was given the ball. At this juncture Somerville was forced to put in five substitutes, and her team was materially weakened. However, she rushed the ball with determination, and when time was called had the ball on R. M. T. S.’s 30-yard line. The score at the end was: Somerville, 6; R. M. T. S., 5. The summary Somerville High. -R. M. T. S. Doughty, l.e.........................r.e., Buenkc Frost, l.t..............................r.t.. Gaw Stacy, l.g..........................r.g.. Bryant Graves, c....................................c., Woodside Hall. Sewall. r.g....................l.g., Skelton Commins. Driscoll, r.t..............l.t.. Townc Burns, r.e...........................l.e.. Beckett Blair, Elliot, q.b...................q.b., Adams Bean, l.h.b..........................r.h.b.. Parks Hafford, r.h.b...........................l.h.b.. O'Connell McLaughlin, f.b......................f.b.. Karnon Score—Somerville High. G; Cambridge Manual Training School. 5. Touchdown—Stacy. Goal from touchdowns—Hafford. Goal from fair catch —Beckett. Referee—Burns, Tufts. Umpire— Herbert Holton. B. A. A. Linesmen—Harts. Somerville: Watkins, Rindge Manual Training School. Time—25-min. halves. Attendance— 10.000. tl Defeat The Sigma Delta basket ball team played their first game this season against Hyde Park, and were defeated. The game was close and exciting throughout. In the first half the Somerville boys played all around their opponents, and the score stood 0 to 1 in their favor at its close. In the second half Hyde Park braced, and won the game by a single goal. ()i the Sigma Delta boys. Gctchcll. Wyman, and Smith played well, and for Hyde Park. White, Evans, and Ambrose excelled. Score, 15-13. The line-up:— Hyde Park. Sigma Delta. Jones, r.f.........................r.g., Stevens Ambrose, l.f...............................l.g.. Lawson Evans, c.....................................c., Gctchcll Harlow, r.g..........................r.f.. Smith White, l.g.................................l.f., Wyman Score—Hyde Park. 15; Sigma Delta. 13. Goals — Fvans (3). Smith (3), Jones (2), Lawson. Wyman. Getchell. Evans, White. Goals from fouls— Gctchcll. Evans. Umpire—Cole. Referee—Good- win. Attendance—250. football IRceorh The Radiator wishes to extend its congratula- tions to Captain McLaughlin, Captain-elect Haf- ford. and the rest of the boys who made up the team for their splendid work in the past season. To Coach Charlie Cuddy we also extend congratula- tions and thanks, in which we think we are sup- ported bv tlje entire student body. For he, despite the fact that there was a great lack of veteran mate- rial. and hopes for any sort of place in the league were low, brought out a team which won the cham- pionship in four straight victories. Under the guidance of Captain-elect Hafford. may we do the same next year! 'Hie record :— September 30—Somerville. 0; Everett, (i. October 3—Somerville. 2? ; Boston “Prep,” 0. October 7—Somerville. 0 : Groton. 6. October 9—Somerville. G; Cambridge Latin. 0. October 13—Somerville (cancelled) Watertown. October 20—Somerville. 23; Medford, 6. •October 24—Somerville, 23; Malden, 0. ()ctober 27—Somerville, 12 : Cambridge Latin, 0. October 31—Somerville. 5; Salem, II. November 3—Somerville (cancelled) Cambridge High. •November 7—Somerville. 17: Dorchester, 5. November 11—Somerville. 0: Lowell Textile, G. •November 14—Somerville, It; B. E. H. S.. 0. •November 26—Somerville, G; R. M. T. S., 5. •League games. Points scored by Somerville, 130; points scored by opponents, 45. Points scored by Somerville in league season, 57 ; points scored by opponents, 10. - ----------------------- athletic notes We win the championship! The R. M. T. S. protest was a farce, caused by a Globe reporter. To Russell Wood and H. H. Cooper, of the Bos- ton Herald, we owe great thanks for the splendid support they have given us in our athletic troubles. They stood out in direct opposition to the other newspapers, who did and said all they could to the detriment of Somerville. Basket ball is on once more, and already inter- class games have begun. Captain McLaughlin will soon call out the track team. Freshmen, if you can run. don't be back- ward in coming forward. CL he Ibocfecp CTemn The hockey team is out. and practicing under the direction of Captain Babbitt and Martin Cassidy, an old player of '99 and '00. Several old players are back, and with the new material, the outlook is very bright for the championship if the team is properly supported by the school. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 77 ♦January 11, Melrose High, Ell pond, Melrose. January 13, open. January 1C, open. ♦January 20, English High, Franklin field. January 22, open. ♦January 20, Manual Training School, Spy Pond. January 29, open. Other dates for games in February will be an- nounced later. ♦League games. -------------------------- ■Resolutions, u., '04 hereas. by the Divine will of God. our class- mate, Fred S. Hammett, has been bereaved of his father: and Whereas, we, the class of 1901, have learned with sorrow of his great atlliction; be it therefore Resolved, that we tender him our heartfelt sym- pathy in his great loss; and be it further Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be. sent to Fred Hammett, and also published in the Radiator. PERCY A. HARRISON, President. HELEN BRADSHAW, Secretary. -------------------------- Cbe Ittovembcr Cover We neglected to make mention of our excellent cover in the November issue, owing to lack of space. For the design we are indebted to Mr. Clyde Winfield Scott, Ex-'05, last year’s staff artist. Mr. Scott acquitted himself last year as one of the best staff artists the Radiator has ever had.—Ed The Bouve-Sterling Shoe, $2.50 THE NEWEST DESIGNS FOR YOUNG MEN 86 Summer Street D YCTT ANT 15 Water Street 78 Hanover Street 1 V I n 14 Spring Lane IMoh.hc mention Tint Radiator when patronizing our advertiser ATSHORTHAND I Time, 2 to 4 Months EDUCATION Cost, $25 to $40 THE EASIEST SYSTEM TAUGHT THE BENEDICT SCHOOL, 14 Beacon St., Boston 7th Year SUMMER STREET FISH MARKET Q. A. SOUTHWARD O. A. SOUTHWARD. Prop. Finnan Haddics, Clams and Lobsters � ELECTRIC CONTRACTORS FRESH FISH OF ALL KINDS IN THEIR SEASON Klectric and Gas Lighting. Bell and Speaking Tubes. OYSTERS IN THE SHEI.I. OR OPENED Repair work a specialty. 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Your negative goes on file with those of the leading statesmen, clergy, artists and literati of this country and abroad. 146 TREMONT STREET Between Temple Place and West Street BOSTON Discount cards may be had from committee. So SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR THE HAPPY TIME. WMeinrfians (Idea.!! THE HAPPY GIFT because it insures a happy new year for everyone who receives it. If no fitted tniNo hand, iionif v.-)ianj: l .it Hiyofowodkct. vf Imitati .iiv. Inint on W.ittonan’, Meal. I eal � � c r, � li«ro. L, E. Waterman Company. 173 Broadway. N. Y. City, School St., IIoMon. jjSMoatfi.mcrySt .San l-iintllco. MRS. A. M. YOUNG flIMUmer 3 Medina Building:. W. Somerville THE NESMITH SHOE 3.50 STANDS AT THE HEAD OF ITS CLASS SPECIAL -w CUSTOM MAKE $4.00 STORES: MEN and WOMEN WHOLESALE and MEN'S RETAIL 36 West Street 112 Summer Street BOSTON MAKE $5.00 Gray Electrical Reboot Applied Electrical Course and Telegraphy taught by experts 63 Court Street, Corner Cornhill SCOLLAY SQUARE, BOSTON EDW. 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Tin: TOUCH SY8TKM OF TYPKWKITINO by which the student is taught to use all the lingers, thus saving time formerly wasted by constant moving of the hands, as is the custom of old style operators. Day and evening classes. MlMKOOlt A1MI INC! We are the lirst and only school in Itoston teaching the new Kdlson Oscillating Mimeograph, an art very important in the office work of many business concerns. OUR Kyi I PMKNT is all entirely new. and of the lust. The machines are the latest Smith Premiers and Remingtons. Students admitted at any time. Our Inst year's students are all employed. For prospectus and other information, address BEACON SCHOOL OF STENOGRAPHY, 6 Beacon Street, - - Boston, Mass. | X % SHORTHAND. Where to Learn It £ THE ST. CLAIR SHORTHAND REPORTING AND TYPEWRITING SCHOOL 718-730 Tremont Temple Boston, Mass. (.•u.iliiu vttiiographcrx for the highest grade of verbatim reporting and amanuensis work, cither personally or hv mail. Beginners taught by indi ruction tin I term Pitman it Phonography aivl Touch Typewriting. Assisted to lucrative paying jxisitions when competent, and arc not inlluenccd to remain in this school when able to hold such positions- (.'rider our Mijierior instruction they attain a high rate of speed in shorthand by the aid of our short-cuts, phrases and expedients, surpassing all other systems. Our Special livening Dictation Course, applicable- to uny system, i-. .if the greatest a-.-.ist.incc mow writers, l!v .m metliod wc ] rc- jKirc tlicm for Civil Service Examinations ami Official Court positions and all other work requiring a high rate of speed. Entirely different from any other school. Absolutely thorough and complete. Lessons by Correspondence in any part of the I'nited States and Canada. Call or semi for prospectus. Instruction daily, Monday, Wednes- day, and Friday evenings. Call or send for circular. Court rc|K rting a specialty. CHARLES PARSONS, Principal WE g J? flL. Is the IXLsr equipixxl Training School in the ItCLst. Prospex tus will tell you why. ADDRESS: 1 (X) Boylston Street BOSTON Snappy Styles AT TIIK Federal Hat Co. Manufacturing and Retailing Hatters. 166 FEOERAl STREET. BOSTON UP-TO-DA TE--------- Circulating Xibrar New and Popular Cloth-Bound Itook The Latest Issues to select from. PHOTO. ARTISTS' ANI) SCHOOL SUPPLIES H. H. I. SMITH West Somerville Davis Square . . PERNIN SCHOOL, 100 Boylston Street, Boston, teach- es Shorthand, T ypewriting Bookkeeping, Telegraphy, practically. Un- educated not taken. The school occupies this unique position : It has no waiting list of graduates out of employment. DAY AND EVENING TRIAL FREE DAY and EVENING instruction in bookkeeping, shorthand, penmanship, and all business studies; best of modern methods and teachers : positions for students; day tuition, $15, and evening tuition $5 per month ; refer to 35,000 past students; send for prospectus. C. E. COMER, Principal, 666 Washington St., Cor. Beach, Boston 82 SOM HR VILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR WRIGHT DITSON’S HIGH GRADE .Athletic Supplies EVERYTHING THAT’S REQUIRED FOR SPORTS and PASTIMES Ice Skates, Hockey Skates, and Special Shoes, Racing Skate?, Skates for Young and Old. Hockey Sticks, Toboggans, Basket Ball, Sweaters, Gymnasium Supplies, Base Ball, Tennis, Golf. Handsome Sport Catalogue, fully illustrated, will be sent free to any address. WRIGHT DITSON 344 WASHINGTON ST., BOSTON, MASS. EDW, A. 8INNEY FRED. A. HIGGINS BINNEY HIGGINS Peal Estate Brokers AUCTIONEERS INSURANCE of Every Description. Mortgages and Bonds Renting and Care of Property 5 Bow SI., Union 5q. SOMERVILLE ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ NEW STUDIO : i BRUNEAU FLETCHER : ♦ -Artistic I Photographers ▼ Announce the opening of their Studio in the ♦ X New Howard Building. J x 324 Broadway, M.££u st.. Somerville $ KfOKN� : Bri.nkai- Telephone 008-2 G. S. Ft,ETCHK.it ♦ DRESS SUITS TUXEDOS AND PRINCE ALBERTS TO LET From $2.00 to $3.50 an Evening And also for sale. WATSON’, - Park Square, Boston fisher f lUimer hill Business College 12 years Does not Burdett College belong- to the 8 years Boston Trust Y. M. C. A. Institute and lias broken make the School Trust Prices + The Proprietors in Business are Teachers Education Individual Instruction The Positions only HIGH Furnished Graduates grade school Students in Greater 36 Boston Towns offering K. H. M. C. FISHER Tuition at tlie Principals remarkably Tel. G2o low rate $: i 27.50 'er Term Gilman Square, Somerville, Mass. CONTENTS OF JANUARY RADIATOR Page The Old Concord Bridge. ( Supplement A Rift in the Clouds. ( Frontispiece 84 Radiator Staff......................................... Editorials......................................................86-87 How the Radiator is Managed, by Laurence Mitchell, K., ’04, ... 88 The Pathway to Peace, by Helen Mardcn, L.. '04,....................89 A Sentimental Episode, by Kathryne Nolan, K., ’04,.................90 A Trip by Canoe and Sail, by G. C. Bean, E., ’04,..................91 Forty-Nine, by George Cohen. L.. ’04...............................9- Without Destiny’s Consent, by C. Sherwood Ricker, L., '04. - - - 94 A Question, by Bertha Phillips Marvel, E. Faculty,.................96 “The New Year,” by Frances Frost, L., ’04,.........................96 On the Social Planet,..............................................97 Our Contemporaries, - 98 Latin Notes, - - 100 English Notes, ............. 101 Athletics, .......................................................IO Did If Ever Occur to. You WHEN CONSIDERING THE FUEL QUESTION THAT THERE IS COAL and COAL? Have you used that discrimination in buying that has brought the best results and smallest coal bills? We buy directly from the producers, and in such large quantities that we are enabled to select those dealing only in first quality coal. With our perfect organization for handling our business, we can deliver all orders promptly. If you do not trade with 11s now, why not give 11s a trial ? Metropolitan Coal GENERAL OFFICES: 30 Congress Street, SOMERVILLE OFFICE, 31 Union Square BOSTON A RIFT IN THE CLOUDS SOMERVILLE LATIN ENGLISH SCHOOLS Vol. XIII. Somerville, Massachusetts, January, 1904. No. 4. The Radiator i published l v the Somerville l-itln ami Kngllsh IIi|cl Schools on the third Thursday of every month «luring the school year, ami only iui] ortaiit news matter can In; received after the 10th of the month. Matter for insertion may l e left with any of the editorial stalf or mailed to the editor at the I.atiu High School. In contributing, write on one side of the paper only ami sign full name this Is for reference only). Communication� should lie addressed to the editor, luisinesa manager, or exchange editor, according to their nature. Manuscript must lx accompanied by necessary postage to insure it return. Terms, 75 Cents per Year Single Copies, 10 Cents SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT Ecutorial Staff £bitor in Cbief C. SHERWOOD RICKER. L.. 04. associate ECntor KATHRYNE L. NOLAN. E.. ’04. Ercbanflc EOitor HELEN MARDEN, L.. '04. Sporting Ebitor GEORGE COHEN. L.. '04. business flbanager LAURENCE MITCHELL. E.. '04. assistant Business Manager THOMAS P. DURELL. L.. '05. Crcasurcr CERARD C. BEAN. E.. '04. Staff artist. EDWIN H. WEAVER. E.. '05. Class unitors Xatin School WILLIAM L. PHILLIPS. 04. ARTHUR T. SOULE. 05. HERBERT S. SANBORN. '06. RALPH E. DURELL. 07. English School WARREN B. FARNUM. '04. LEONARD W. LIBBEY. '05. RICHARD KEYES. '06. LUTHER I. SMITH. '07. 86 SOM ERVI LLK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR EDITORIAL'S H iRcvicw of tbe past Uear JMK year just ended lias been fraught with in- cidents and events, dramatic in action and pro- found in importance In ouj own country, by far the most important of our interests has been our action regarding Panama. Colombia, and the canal. The Bogota government, after the Hay-Herran treaty had passed the Senate in the United States, endeavored to blackmail the latter government into giving a larger sum of money before its ratification by theirs. The result was, it met the “stonewall” diplomacy of Secretary Hay, and Colombia irretrievably lost. Here now was a chance for the Panamanians to make their stand. The bloodless revolution took place. A government was set up. The I nited States recognized it—there is no need to go into details in vindicating this move, though it has been a torch for some patriotic citizens with hair- spring” consciences to wave at a government stripped of honor ' as they called it. The wisdom and Yankee cleverness is now plainly seen, and it was the only sensible move this government could make under the circumstances. Thus the birth of a new republic, protected by a great power, be- comes a matter of history. The Eastern crisis, which during the past few months has been becoming more tense and strained, may break out into a war which the world dreads, or may find peaceful solution before this paper goes to press. P� v far the most theatrical event of the year was the change of dynasty in Servia. The cold-blooded assassination of the king and queen by the fore- most generals of their army captured for that event the unenviable wreath of dramatic effect on the world stage. The Alaskan Boundary decision ended the last and only contention between England and the United States. Nothing but commercial competi- tion now makes them rivals. Continuing with the scenes in the world arena, we have the peaceful blockade of Venezuela by England. Germany, and Italy, finally broken by the peaceful intervention of the United States. Early in March the Czar of Russia decreed religious freedom in his realm, and then scarcely a month later, promptly enough to seem ironic, fol- lowed the massacre at Kishineff. Turkey again entered world politics and worried the Powers, but finally wriggled out of massacres, assaults and threatened war with her smooth- tongued diplomacy. The ravages of death among the world's great men this past year have been marked. Foremost in the eyes of the world was the death of the late Pope Leo XIII. The decease of Lord Salisbury in England marked another of these catastrophes. Later came the demise of the world’s greatest living historian Theodor Mommsen and the great- est philosophic thinker, Herbert Spencer, while in the realm of art. we may chronicle the death of James McNeil Whistler. Saddest of all. just as the old year was drawing to its end. came the frightful disaster in a Chicago theatre, a tragedy so terrible, entailing as it did the suffering of innocent women and children, and the desolation of many homes, as to excite horror and pity throughout the civ'liz world. The Emerson Centennial and the Poe revival in the South were among the most important events in the literary world of the past year. In con- temporary fiction. Mrs. Ward’s “Lady Rose’s Daughter.” stands foremost, and in biography, John Morley's Life of Gladstone” holds the posi- tion of eminence. ()nc can see by this incomplete enumeration the great events the vear 1003 gave birth to. It was indeed a momentous year. SOMERVILLH HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR � 7 At the beginning of 1904 vc sec the cloud of trouble lowering in the East. and uncertain but hopeful relations hovering about Panama and Colombia. Otherwise, the year promises Prosperity and Peace, though we must allow for the all- important unexpected. ?. r Xtnotber ITdorb about XlOvcrtisers 'J'HIS is a little personal talk to each and every one of you. Listen—then act. You like to get and read the Radiator each month. You like to see good cuts, frontispieces, ■supplements, and headings. These cost real United States money. You like to see a good fat number —full twenty-eight pages; you like to have all your club, basket ball, dance, banquet, and concert no- tices in the paper: you are always ready to protest when you have less than a column of class notes; you like to see a goodly number of stories each month, don't you? Well, our printers demand good money in payment for printing the things we have mentioned. You say I pay for it. and look offended that we should mention such matters to you. But listen. If every pupil in the two high schools should come to the Radiator office, and deliver seventy-five cents, the whole amount Avouldn’t more than pay for the paper we use during the year. Now let us introduce our friend—your friend. Mr. Advertiser. This honored gentleman furnishes us with about twelve hundred dollars: so now you see how you look along side of him. from a mer- cenary and mundane point of view. It's the long and short of it. with a vengeance, isn't it? We don't want you to think we know it all: but here’s a pointer: You have to wear clothes here in Somerville, and you have to buy them. ou don t go barefoot in the winter time; shoes arc necessary. You don’t go bareheaded in the winter time—some girls do. we know, but they’ll be cared for later on. You futhermore need school supplies, fountain pens, artist’s materials, etc. You are always need- ing something in the athletic line, and you never can get along without a soda and some candy— even though you work your friend. Now we have onlv half aid it. But here’s what you should do. and start to-morrow. You need something, lake up the last Radiator. Ah, here it is—yes. I'll go. When vou reach the store say in an off-hand way, Yes. I go to the High School.” The dealer is Avise. and we are saved. Hbc itteeb of a Gymnasium JT was with great pleasure and gratification that we heard Mr. Jones speak so forcibly for a gymnasium annex to the High Schools, at the Football banquet, December 29. Members of the school board were present and upheld Mr. Jones in his views concerning a gym. In out- last issue we mentioned the crying need of a building where in-door athletics could be fostered in the High Schools. Now that the matter is before the public, why not push it? A petition properly prepared and signed by the representative citizens of Somerville might work marvelous results. If a new High School is not forthcoming for two or three years, why couldn’t a wooden gymnasium annex be erected at comparatively little expense? . H School pin ANY of tlie neighboring high schools, and col- leges as well, have adopted a uniform design of school pin, for use in all classes. A committee has been appointed in the English School to con- sider the adoption of such a pin. This idea is a vast improvement upon the plan of each class select- ing its own design with no regard to previous classes. Not only will it eliminate the annual search in the Freshman classes for a pin. but will unite in a greater bond of friendship the classes in general. Few recognize the pins of other classes, they are of such variety. Under the proposed plan, if a mem- ber of the class of '01 should meet a member of the class of '09, in Venice, by means of the pin they wear they would know that each had the same Alma Mater. . Core Hbout tbc alumni Humber ’’J'HE February issue, as was announced, will be an Alumni number, and promises success. The following graduates have promised to contribute: I. an wood Snowman, L., '00; McMiliin, E.. ’03; Laurence Cain, L., ’02; Miss Edna Jones, L., ’03, and Austin M. Works, L.. ’01. We shall be glad to hear from any one who has something to tell of the whereabouts of a graduate. K � , K COR the cover of last month’s Radiator we are indebted to Edwin Hall, English, ’04. The design for this month was made by Miss Eva Hardy. 88 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 1bo v tbe IRafciator is flfoanacjeb 36 ? Xaurencc HMtcbell, ’o4 Of the many readers of the Radiator, and in fact, all High School papers, very few realize or ap- preciate the labor entailed in turning out every issue. W e don’t wish to convey the idea that our paper is the only one, yet we will say this; previous staffs have raised it to a very high standard among its contemporaries, and the incentive desire to uphold this standard increases with each new staff, so that the development has been almost phenomenal in the past five years. We arc especially fortunate in having appreciative and enthusiastic readers who are always willing to aid when opportunity offers. By far the most important factor in the manage- ment of the paper is the money. Few realize that it costs between one hundred and one hun- dred and twenty-five dollars to publish a single issue. The June issue, being extra large, costs nearly five hundred dollars. The expense is. and will be. continually raised as the paper improves. Further- more. in this improvement we do not have a pro- portionate increase of sales, hence the necessity of more ads. These really are what run the paper, and it is to the advertising that we look for funda- mental support. fhe present management have introduced sev- eral new features, one of which is a supplement, printed on heavy coated paper, and selected with care in an effort to please all. The Radiations” column, though not as complete as we hope to make it later, is also a new departure. Lastly we have amplified the athletic and exchange columns. The page opposite the frontispiece has been changed, and Editorials given two pages instead of one. Editorials have been in the past, as they are now. among some of our contemporaries, poorly worked up. The editorials should speak for the paper and give it its tone, hence the enlarged space we have given them. Each month the editor and associate must have material sufficient to fill from twenty-four to twenty- eight pages, after the “ads are inserted. This would not be difficult if the editor was less particu- lar concerning his material, but to find enough of the best is sometimes difficult. It often happens at the last moment that a whole page remains empty: the editor is then obliged to write in one night what would ordinarily be given several days for comple- tion. The manager has perhaps the greatest respon- sibility and the largest amount of work, for the finances are all in his hands: the editor has but little to trouble himself with in this direction. It costs a large amount to carry on the paper and the man- ager must see that the money is raised and all the bills paid by the treasurer. After all the ads” are collected each month they must first be ‘ set up.” and a proof taken. If this is found to agree with the copy given, the manager then proceeds to “paste up : by this it is meant to paste in an old copy the position of each ad.” This is called the ad” dummy, and from it the pages are made complete. Four of these are printed at a time, making seven different forms to run through the press. The last process is the binding; this takes but little time, as a large number are employed in the work. The responsibility will readily be seen to fall upon the editor and manager, but the other members of the staff also have important duties, as also have the class editors. 'I'he associate, the exchange, and sporting editors all have a certain amount of space to fill under direction of the editor : all of their work must pass through his hands before going to press. The assistant business manager and treasurer arc under direction of the manager. It is their duty to keep him in touch with their work in order to have the financial ends meet. The staff artist is com- paratively a new office and more independent than the others. He prepares everything necessary in that line for the editor and manager, except the supplement and frontispiece. This is a very ex- pensive department, and he therefore must keep within the financial limit specified by the manager. To our own opinion we add those of some of our exchanges as to results. 'Phe Center of Vision of the Boston Normal Art School says:— 'Phe Somerville Radiator is by far the best of our exchanges in every way. We should call special attention to the beautiful reproductions.” We wish to acknowledge helpful suggestions and material gained from established school papers, especially the Somerville Radiator. The handsomest exchange of all is The Somer- ville Radiator. The October number contains a fine photographic supplement of the Reliance, be- sides many good cuts.”—Keene High School. Keene. N. H. “The Radiator. Somerville. Mass., is. as last year, a most excellent paper, which speaks well for the new management.”—Latin and High School Review. Cambridge. Mass. It was with great pleasure that we received our old friend, ‘that king of school papers, the Somer- ville Radiator.’ This magazine has so many and so good cuts that it is almost a marvel. We com- pliment you most sincerely. Radiator. —High School Student. Bridgeport. Conn. SOMKRYTLLK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Sc TLhc flbatbwa to flbeace 3S Ibclcn flDarbcn., X., ’04 i. T was still, still, so still. The low branches of the willow tapped the pool, and little circles rippled away to the edge. White clouds, chipped into a thousand little lleeces, floated across its blue surface and disap- peared. broken reflections of the vast above. Deli- cate ferns bent and admired themselves in the wavering mirror, and the laughing face of a fairy beckoned them to its depths. From above, the lace-work of a thousand emerald needles admitted golden spots of glory to a surface as green. A fearless ray lighted lovingly on a little head of shining gold, and two wide, gray eyes gazed dreamily out through the never-ending vista of slender. cool branches. The small. short- stockinged legs did not quite reach the ground from the stump on which she was seated: her dress was white, and soft as the shadows about her. An ever so slight appearance of spirituality hovered about her, perhaps the faintest trace of the Fairy in the pool. !t was spring and morning. Leaning against the slender trunk of a pure-white birch stood the Roy. II is eyes were blue, and they were not looking at the forest, nor the pool, nor yet at the clouds above. He was straight and brave, but his voice quivered slightly as he spoke:— ■''1‘he gardens—there, can never be half as nice as-—this.’' She cast a half-startled glance at him. and he immediately turned a pair of unseeing eyes on the beauties of the pool. She allowed her glance to follow his. and some moments passed before they spoke. Is it a great large place?” With her hand she described a vague idea of distance in the air. It might be large, and it might be great, but I don’t want to go.” There was none of the glowing pride of coming travels in his voice as he dug his shoe into the turf, and moodily kicked the pieces of earth away. But you will come back—you promised, you know—.” she looked at him and laughed. Yes. said the Boy. and walked away with a curious feeling in his throat. A few rods off he turned and called “Good-by.” “Good-bv—tell me all about it when you come back.” And she waved a hand at him as he dis- appeared through the trees. Stiil. still, so still. A white figure slipped to the ground, a golden head drooped on a pink arm. The quiet branches cast their pattern over the happy earth, and the Fairy in the jw ol looked out and laughed. II. Still, still, so still. Xot even did the green and gold wings of the tiny humming birds whir, as, making tiny circles, they poised above some opened welcoming flower, then dipped into its sweet fra- grance to cool their little bills. A bright butterfly hovered above the flecked pool, making daring descents, now and then in vain touching the surface, whence it fluttered to a twig, barely moving it as it shook- the wee drops from its velvet wing, then re- turned. always returned, to its deceptive mirror. It was summer, and the sun from on high stole its way through the intricate meshes of the pine needles and slept on the velvet moss beneath. N'aturc was sleepy, and nothing disturbed the girl by the ]M ol, into which she gazed eagerly, not for the image of her own wide, troubled eyes, but for some glimpse of the old Fairy. But the Fairy was changed and elusive. Against the trunk of the snow-white birch, grown tall and strong, he leaned, grown tall and strong, also, but with pained eyes that sought not the forest nor vet the boughs of the pine above. But when I come back again, even if it is—years from now —then you will perhaps—” She looked at him with eyes that could but admire. “They must be years of hard, hard work—” “They will be. they will!—And then—then—” Then—come back and see.” She turned and fled like a timid deer through the woods. He. making a movement as though to fol- low. checked his steps, and throwing himself down by the edge of the pool he closed his eyes. Now and then his lips moved, and the Fairy looked and sighed. III. The soft sighing of the wind through the trees and the faint murmur of birds half-asleep; beneath, a carpet of pine needles fallen from trees through whose bare twigs the white light struggled: an un- certain black j ool with gleaming white circles; a sturdy white birch with mournful dying leaves, faintly outlined. A woman, alone, leaned on the slender trunk of the white tree, and traced slender fingers up and down its spotless surface. Up into the darkened heavens she looked, out at the great yellow moon, down at the black pool. To-night he will come.” she said. And even as she spoke a slight crackling betokened another presence, and the woman did not fear. He was big and strong and brave, and even in the white moonlight his face showed brown. In her eves was a new light, in his the joy of a victory won. The Fairy looked from the j ooi and smiled. And the Fairy was the Fairy of Peace. 90 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR H Sentimental EEpieobe Tkatbrgne IRolan, B£., ’04 ROM the broad window seat of my room in the academy. I looked out over the expanse of hills and plains, covered with snow, and dotted here and there with leafless trees, and my thoughts were far away. A penny for your thoughts, interrupted one of the six girls scattered about the room. I turned and smilingly surveyed the group. On the bed. with one foot dangling, sat the girl who had ad- dressed me; we called her Jo. a girl of the hap- piest disposition, always ready for fun. shirking every semblance of work, but always ready with a reply. Reside her was her chum, a neat little girl with’ refined features but an incessant giggler. The girl seated on the only chair in the room was Mary, she to whom we told all our troubles, she whom we sought in our schoolgirl melancholy. Though the same age as the rest of us. Mary, with her sweet, winning manner, took the place of our mother «lur- ing the school term. The other three girls, crowded about the register, were like the majority of schoolgirls, full of life and fun, at times spirited and gay: then again, when all did not go well, cross and peevish. This group was accustomed to spend this hour between daylight and dark of the short winter days with me, waiting for the welcome supper bell. Evidently Margaret’s thoughts are treasures,” remarked one of the girls by the register. How did he look this time, was he tall or short, fat or slight, did he have one eye or two, short hair or long, big nose, or —”? IIow silly you are. said I. Mv thoughts were very lofty, 1 was wondering what we should have for supper.” For shame! greedy girl.” said Jo, I know, for I had the same vague wondering myself. We are going to have salt fish and cream and toast and the rest of the fixin’s.” Cream cod! It's a pretty cold night for that dish. It makes me laugh the way the girls haunt the water pitcher during the night when we have salt cod.” That makes me think, girls.” exclaimed another of the girls about the register, have you ever heard the superstition regarding codfish?” No, what is it? '1'cll us,” and we all settled cosily for a winter twilight story. Fully aware of her own importance, the girl be- gan. It isn’t much, only—” Never mind, tel! us.” said Jo, I’m ready.” “Mv mother told me.—she lived in the country, you know, where fresh fish is rare and salt fish a luxury. One day when she had two girls visiting at her home, her grandmother had salt cod for supper. The girls nibbled at it, but showed no signs of relish. The old lady then told them that if they ate twenty-seven pieces, and did not drink water from that time until they slept, they should have a dream. In this dream, a vision of a young man would come who had some claim upon their affections; he would offer them water; if they ac- cepted the proffered drink, they would marry him, if they refused they would not; if none came at all, they would not marry. You may rest assured the salt fish disappeared and three young ladies went to bed that night, thirsty but determined.” The narrative stopped. Why don’t you finish?” asked Jo. Well. I don’t know any more.” admitted the girl. When I asked mother for the rest, she said she just couldn’t stand the thirst and drank some water, so did one of her friends; the other girl wouldn’t tell. I guess she was disappointed, for the last mother heard of her, she was yet a maiden !adv.” Let’s us try it. suggested cver-ready Jo. I'm willing,” Yes. do,” and It’s a go,” were the ready responses. Rut, said Jo. you must all agree to tell the result, no matter what it is.” All gave eager assent, and as the bell rang for supper we made our final plans. Seven girls did bravely at eating salt cod that night. An undertone of sixteen, seventeen, twenty- one. etc., could be heard every now and then. The hour for evening study passed: at nine the girls prepared to retire. I had often regretted that I did not sleep in the dormitory with the rest of mv friends, but never before had I felt it so much as this evening. Our thirst was just beginning to be troublesome. Before I left the knot of girls. I gave them warning not to forget, and to be pre- pared to relate the outcome. I had been lying in bed a little over an hour; my throat was parched and dry. Visions of sparkling water danced before my eyes. No. no.” I replied to my common sense trying in vain to assert itself, I will not take a drink of water.” Another agon- izing half hour passed. I thought of the Ancient Mariner,” and felt that T could now give him the sympathy of one experienced. Still another half hour dragged itself away. Sleep had fled from me. the roof of my mouth was aching; the song in my schoolbook repeated itself tantalizingly in my brain. All for a cup of cold water.” I closed my eyes and imagined myself in the desert, where cour- age and bravery alone coidd keep up life and strength. Will that clock ever strike?” and T looked savagely at the innocent cuckoo clock, that when properly wound, has faithfully announced the flight « f each thirty minutes since my uncle sent it. Oh. there it goes, just half-past eleven. In an SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 9' hour, at the latest. I will know my destiny; but, oh, 1 am so thirsty!” Y hat a goose I am, I suddenly concluded, but I won’t be one any longer.” With this wise decision. 1 jumped from my bed , seized a glass, poured water into it. and swallowed the water in gulps. Another glassful and then another. I drank until satisfied. I returned to bed and to sleep. “To sleep, perchance to dream. but I did not care, mv agony was relieved. The next morning at breakfast. I looked at my companions. Jo's lids were a bright red; Mary’s eyes were dark circled. They all looked peculiar. “Oh, for a lore of thrilling romances. thought I. Will five o’clock ever come? for our regular twi- light chat was the time set for the narration of our midnight peep into the future. Some of the girls were in my class, and we all studied together. As a result of the night's dis- sipation. none knew their lessons. s is often the case, it was no unusual occurrence for some of the girls to mumble, fumble, and stumble through their lessons, but even Mary was sharply reprimanded, and told to keep her mind on what she was doing. Jo did not attempt to recite: her red eyelids aroused the sympathy of one instructor, the suspicions of another. At last the hour arrived. I sat in my room as on the previous evening, waiting for my guests to arrive. Never were they more anxiously awaited, never more sincerely welcome. The girls came with a hesitancy of step hardly in keeping with the excitement of the night before. No one volunteering, I began: Girls, I know I am weak, and lacking in purpose, and everything else yen have a mind to call me, but really, before mid- night. my thirst was so great I simply could not stand it and drank some water.” A moment's pause and, So did 1.” said Mary slowly. I was now really impatient to hear the experi- ences of the others. I declare. I never saw such a crowd of girls in all my life!” I cried at last. I believe you all waited in vain.” That’s what I did. spoke up Jo. I never slept a wink I was so thirsty.” The girls looked at one another and burst into a hearty laugh. All told the same story. H XLrtp b£ Canoe anfc Sail 6. c. Bean, ’04 E’RK off!” shouted “Ge,” as a group of boys started in two canoes for a trip down the Concord and Merrimac rivers, thence down the north shore to Boston. It is kind of a bad morning to start.” said Doc.” as the mist closed in around the canoes, making it impossible to distinguish “Ted,” “Hippo,” and “Wood,” who were several yards ahead of us in the other boat. We paddled along for several hours, picking our course down the river the best we coidd. until about noontime the sun burst out in all its splendor and glory. After lunch we continued our course down the river to Billerica, where wc had a small carry around the falls. From here wc paddled down the river to Lowell, which place we reached about 2.30. Here it was necessary to have the canoes carried across the city, as a large dam prevented us from paddling down the Merrimac. Starting from this point, wc glided down the smooth waters until we came to a sharp bend, when we heard a voice on shore saying, “Look out for the rapids, boys.” “Gc.” being fully confident of passing through safely, said. “Come on. boys.” and away wc went. The speed with which both boats went through the rapids was faster than an express train. Both boats came through safely except for the shipping of a little water, which we easily bailed out. About dusk wc landed on Prince Isle, about a mile above Lawrence, pitched our tents, and made preparations for the night. “Speaking of foreign countries,” said Ted.” who was watching the sun disappear over the hills, “people don't half appre- ciate the beauty which is right at home, if they only looked for it.” At 4.30 wc arose, broke camp, and continued our way until wc reached the great dam at Lawrence. Here we were received at the Lawrence Canoe Club, and after being entertained by a few of the members, we bade our kind friends good-by, and struck out for Newburyport. On our way to Newburyport, wc passed Haver- hill and Newbury, and struck camp at South New- bury. which is about three miles this side of New- buryport. late in the afternoon. The next morning, being tired of paddling steadily for two days, wc took a short ramble in the woods. Climbing a high hill, wc enjoyed a magnificent view of the sur- rounding country, noticing as wc gazed that it was beautifully dotted here and there with farms and patches of woodland. Returning, we again started down the river, and arrived at the American Yacht Club. Newburyport, where our yacht was anchored. Here wc trans- ferred our traps to the yacht, and made prepara- 92 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR tions for starting for the rest of our cruise, which was to be continued by salt water, when Doc” said. Let’s go down and get something to eat. This suggestion meeting the approval of the party, they proceeded up town, and found a restaurant, where they did good justice to a boiled dinner. Returning to the clubhouse, we boarded the yacht, hoisted sail, and started for Ipswich. After sailing several hours, it became dark and foggy, and wc could not continue on our way, so we dropped both anchors and made preparations to spend the night. The wind commenced to blow, and the GETTING THE POTATOES. boat rolled and tossed on a heavy sea. Now and then we could hear W ood sing out, “O. ‘Gc isn’t there any way we can get ashore? I feel so sick!” Rut “Gc.” knowing it was impossible to take any one ashore that night, said. Keep up your courage, old man. it will soon be daylight, and then wc can sec where we arc.” In the morning we had a light breakfast, nothing but crackers, as everything was wet, and we had no chance to build a fire, after which wc proceeded to beat our way to the mouth of the Ipswich river, and here anchored the boat for a week’s stop. It was raining hard, and wc had no place to pitch our tents, so took possession of a piazza of an old cottage on a hill, where we spent three days, as the storm continued. Every morning we canoed up to the town of Ipswich, which was about two miles above camp, and got the mail. 'I’lie town being very small, wc soon made the ac- quaintancc of a number of its inhabitants, who were very kind in showing us all the places of interest. Otic thing that was noticeable to us in the village was the way in which gossip spread through the settlement. An old man, who owned a boat, had it stolen from him. This loss affected one man so much that he went about town hollering to every- body that was within earshot, Did you hear about it? Ole man Loois has loss his but an’ dory!” His words were soon picked up by others, and be- fore we had returned to camp, everybody was talk- ing of Ole man Loois losing his but an’ dory.” At the end of the week our party was reinforced by the appearance of “Pip” and “Guard,” who had come to take the rest of the cruise with us. Find- ing conditions rather crowded in camp with two extra fellows, wc decided to continue on our trip. Wc packed the canoes, tied them to the yacht, and then hoisted sail, and were away heading for Gloucester. In the middle of the afternoon the weather began to look threatening, and so we put in at Annisquam, reaching shore just as the storm burst. Everything was wet through except the blankets that were in the yacht. We pitched the tents, and dried them the best we could with a plumber’s fur- nace. Then, eating a light supper, we managed to get in a night’s rest, and the next morning when we awoke the sun was out in all its splendor. Liking this sjx t we had chosen so hastily, we de- cided to remain on it. and spent the rest of our vacation in that vicinity. We spent our time in ex- ploring the neighboring streams and visiting the old fisheries of Gloucester, which lay about four miles south of us. One morning we were having a fine breakfast of fried ham. when “Gc” said. “By George, fellows, this would go great with fried potatoes! I wonder where we can get some.” “Hippo” was seen a few minutes later to disappear, and about fifteen minutes afterward we heard him hollering for somebody to help him. “Guard” ran over to where he was. and found him tugging at something. They came struggling into camp with a bushel-bag of ]x tatocs. Nobody knew where he had got them, but later on he said that he had found a lovely little patch about a quarter of a mile back of the tents.” Wc stayed at Annisquam until Labor Day. and then started for home. On our trip homeward we rounded Cape Ann, stopped off at Thatcher’s Lights for luncheon, and arrived at Marblehead late in the afternoon. Spending the night on an island just outside of Marblehead Light, we took an early start, and reached our moorings at Beachmont about six o’clock at night. We unpacked our outfits from the boat, and then took the train home, a battered, travel-stained, sun- burned. but highly satisfied party of boys. SOMKKVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 93 jfort lKtme 3S ? Gcoroc Cohen, X., '04 ELL. Jack, old man. how do you think life in the hills here agrees with you? You don't look very happy. You seem worried to death over some- thing or other. I bet it is because of those Greasers you saw down at the city gates when we left San Pueblos this morning. You want to forget them and think of the jolly good time in store for you at the mines. VYe will be there by to-morrow noon, sure. “Oh. bother the good old time at the mines! Hang it all. 1 wish 1 was back in New York again. Your flowery pictures of Mexican scenery and of the fresh outdoor style of living were enough to make any man leave his home. I'll admit. Sctton. that you get all the above-mentioned, but the dread feeling of having a Greaser following you, and all ready to stick you just because you have a few thousand dollars of good American money, makes those pictures of yours look like mere daubs.” “Come now. Jack, what makes you talk so? Has any one tried to ‘stick you.' as you say, or has any one followed you to-day? No, Setton. to be frank, there hasn't, but the glances that those Greasers cast at the money chests had some peculiar meaning in them. To me they said very plainly. ‘We want that money, and we are going to get it.’ ” Well. Jack. I think the heat of the day must have addled your brain some. Let's turn in. old man; you’ll get over it before morning. Pedro! look to the horses and see that all is right. Mr. Rivers and I are going to turn in.” It all came about this way: Sctton Brown was paymaster of the I'. R. S. Mine, and had on a trip to New York picked up an old acquaintance. Jack Rivers, and had brought him back to Mexico with him as assistant paymaster. Their trip from New York to San Pueblos was uneventful. After a week’s stop at San Pueblos, they were dispatched bv the company to the mines with the monthly pay- roll. Three horses were purchased, and a pack mule, whose load consisted of two small chests con- taining money. A Mexican. Pedro by name, made the third man of the party, being hired as a guide and man of work. As for his services as guide, lie was useless, as Sctton had traveled the way more than once. To Pedro was left the getting together of a tent, some cooking utensils, and the food, while Sctton obtained guns and a small amount of am- munition for himself and Jack. Bright and early one morning, the journey to the mines, a distance of fifty miles, was commenced. Their departure from the city was witnessed by a few loungers at the city gates. It was upon these men that Jack had his fears concentrated. As they passed through the gate. Jack gave voice to his sus- picion to Sctton. who put it off with a shrug of his shoulders and a Pooh. All day they rode in silence, stopping only for their noonday meal, and camping for the night when the sun had set. Forty miles of their journey had been accomplished, and after supper and the foregoing conversation, they had turned in. Sctton was soon sound asleep, and Jack, after as- suring himself that the money chests had been really brought in. tried to fall asleep. He did drop off for a short time, but awoke with a start, having heard a sound of hoofbeats. He arose, and. going to the flap of the tent. saw. instead of three horses and a mule, but two horses and the mule. In a moment he scented danger. Setton was aroused out of his slumbers, and together they went out of the tent. Pedro’s horse was gone, and calls for Pedro himself were unanswered. Something is up. Jack: count those cartridges while I see to the horses,” and. thus speaking, Set- ton started for the horses and brought them up to the tent. How many. Jack?” he inquired. “Forty-nine,” said Jack, and then added hur- riedly. Look here, Setton, those Greasers at the gate must have been friends of Pedro, and it is cer- tain he has gone to meet them. Wc two can never stand them off very long, so now, Setton, get on that horse and ride to the mines and bring help. Don't argue. You know the way. I don’t.” No argument could move Jack, and in a moment the sound of retreating hoofbeats in the distance told of the course of Sctton. Jack now awaited re- sults. Sctton had not been gone a half-hour, when Jack heard the approach of horses. It was a muffled sound, as if the horse’s hoofs had been wrapped with cloth. He pulled out his watch, and, holding it in the moonlight, saw it to be 12.30. As he re- placed the watch in his pocket, he saw a number of dim figures far down the plain. Without a word he pulled his gun and shot both the horse and mule dead, thus making their carcasses a barricade be- fore him. The cartridges were laid out before him. and, taking a reclining position behind his barricade, he awaited a nearer approach of his foes. He had not to wait long, for soon a voice from the darkness informed him that if the senor would be so kind as to hand over the money, his life would be spared. To this Jack sent back a reply that if they wished the money they must come and take it. A parley among the Mexicans took place, and then two started to approach the tent. Their figures were only black outlines to Tack, but lie could see. arid he could shoot at what he saw. The figures approached. When they had come 94 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR to within a hundred yards of Jack, lie thundered out: Stop where you are, or I shoot!” With a low laugh the men came on. Jack's gun spoke, and with a shriek one of the men dropped in his tracks, while the other turned and ran. The Mexicans, cowardly by nature, lay quiet for a while, but soon tried a rush. They met, however, a fusil- lade of bullets from Jack's gun. and retreated once more. Time wore on. and attack after attack was made on Jack's little fortress, with no success. Jack's supply of cartridges had run short, and but nine were left. Jack tried to get the time, but when he struck a match, a shower of bullets came pelting at him. and he dropped it in a hurry. As the match dropped. Jack felt a sting in his shoulder, but. thinking it rheumatism or a growing pain, paid no attention to it. For what seemed a year to Jack, the Mexicans were quiet, and no sound was heard. Suddenly, at a distance of fifty yards, he perceived a black mass. Placing his gun to his shoulder, he fired. The mass, springing into the air, dropped to earth. With a veil the Mexicans rushed towards him. Jack fired as fast as he could and repulsed them once more. When he looked at his stock of car- tridges. he saw a solitary one. Number forty-nine,” he murmured, on you my life depends.” As he said this, the day commenced to break, and the Mexicans retired to a safer distance. Jack counted five lying inert on the ground, while he saw a number of others in the group of those yet alive. Where can Sctton be? It's four hours since lie went. He ought to be here now.” As he was thinking this, the Mexicans gathered for a rush. He put his gun to his shoulder, which was aching dreadfully, and as he did so. noticed for the first time that he was wounded. He closed his eyes and whispered: “Forty-nine, on you my life depends.” He heard the oncoming rush of hoofbeats; he pulled the trigger, and things grew dim. The hoof- beats came nearer and nearer. He heard shouts. They were shooting. Why didn't they kill him? They were on him now, and then he fainted. Where am I ?” Jack rose on his elbow, and found himself in bed. His shoulder was done up, and aching in a most uncomfortable manner. As he spoke, a man crossed the room to his bed. Jack looked. “Sctton ’ he cried, what's happened ? Hush, Jack, you are at the mines. We came just in time to save you. The Mexicans had gath- ered for their last rush, when we came into sight. It was our shouts ard horses that you heard about you. for when they saw us they turned and fled, and. say. Jack. Pedro was true to us. He was found dead in the bushes, with his throat cut. and his horse had not been taken, but had broken its halter and got loose. Well. 1 don’t care. Sctton, please go 'wav and let me sleep.” Mttbout IDestm 's Consent 36? C. Sbenvoob TRicfcer, '04 UT why change our abode, Marie? Are you not satisfied with the hills, the river, and your conditions here? Docs not the mignonette carried on the morning breezes across the piazza make you adore this paradise? Marie, I fear you grow wooden and prosaic, the older you grow. I brought you here because I loved the land—at first only through books; now through, acquaintance. And it was not all selfish— I thought of you. and that this warm, fragrant climate would obliterate age in the joy of living, and now you complain. The man raised the glass of wine to his lips—his eyes on Marie. There had been a strong undertone of reproach in his remarks, and the effect was not lost. The old woman kept her gaze toward the garden. Her face carried a blank expression, and it seemed that the words just spoken must have been in- audible to her ear. l ie grew discontented at the quiet—at the stolid manner with which she listened. He drained the glass, and placed it on the small table with unnecessary force. The thoughts in the old nurse's head were fast taking shape. She dis- liked to say what she was about to. but his last re- marks swept aside her veiled defenses. There was a tremor in her voice as she said, 'Tis not that. sir. which has caused my fault finding. I love this country as well as you. I love it for your sake— you whom I have reared from childhood, brought up in the ways your mother would have wished. Now. for the first time. I request—yes. demand— my rights. You. a professed philosopher, you who have libeled woman as well as I. you now have fallen ensnared in the smiles of Mademoiselle F.laine. Yes, I have seen it.—you at the sensible age of thirty-five. She paused, exhausted. The man picked up his smouldering cigarette. It was his turn to seek inspiration in gazing toward the garden. So it is for some of my previously- conceived ideas and my work that you speak so. This outbreak is uncommon—yes, extraordinary, and from it I plaster another rock to the foundation of mv theory vou would rail at and bid me prop tip. I he blow had been severe, but Marie had in- tuitively expected it. and had prepared a counter. Neither understood the other; the man would be- SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 95 licve the woman was scheming; the woman that the man was heartless. So the last remarks had come—though expected—with uncommon sting, and changed her remarks to a still plainer issue. For over thirty years I have been to you a mother; my life has been to shield and watch your progress, and now I am heartlessly thrown aside with sarcastic remarks. Mademoiselle Elaine has entered, and now in my old age threatens to deprive me of both a home and what has been mv happiness. I have noticed the efifect from the first.—that element en- tered your being and permeated it. but she keeps aloof. Xow that you have gained the cliff with my help, and can walk alone, you now wander from me towards that shining tinsel on your new horizon, and 1 am pushed back over the cliff Welled-up tears found their way down the old nurse's cheek as she spoke these last words. There was righteous anger and appeal in the tone of the whole, and the man was partially brought to bis senses. He certainly owed her a good deal—lie most assuredly realized that Mademoiselle Elaine had created in him something more than interest, but he couldn’t see why the poor woman should take such a view of the matter. Mademoiselle had not given him a single straw of hope to grasp at. and he himself had half a dozen times resolved to subdue the one-sided passion, but in vain. So he changed his manner, and sought to quiet her by describing fully all his previous meet- ings with Mademoiselle, and how devoid of any- thing but formality they had been. It must be ad- mitted that the exhibition of fact in proportion t that of fancy in his statements was greatly inade- quate : but the effect was produced, and again the philosopher continued his quiet existence, which had been so darkly threatened but a few minutes before. Beneath the shade of a large oak. with Hume be- fore him. he passed the morning hours. He had been trying to unravel a knotty passage in the great philosopher's works, and when Marie brought his noon lunch to where he reclined on the piazza, he had failed in his attempts. This afternoon I shall ride to the hills. Please tell Kcndell to saddle un- horse. I may not return till sunset.” Beneath the warm rays of a Spanish sun. the philosopher made his way. When he started, the difficult passage that had constituted his morning labors was still fresh in his mind, and gave him cause for mental argument. However, as the after- noon progressed, lie realized that his philosophy occupied one-third of his thoughts, and Mademoiselle the other two-thirds. How she had thus encroached, his diligent search failed to dis- cover. The fact remained. He had talked with her considerably, and had always felt himself drawn by some intangible power toward this woman, whose mental powers were extraordinary, and who could talk on matters of moment and phil- osophy as well as he. Once she had made a very pretty statement that always was rising in his mind. Destiny, she said, “gets all her weapons from the past. He wondered if she knew, and if that were entirely s.o. The horse suddenly shied at some paper by the wayside, and commenced to climb the first series of hills at a canter. This put an end to the subject of Mademoiselle. He viewed the lowlands from his height, saw the waving orchards and vineyards dot- ting the landscape here and there, feeling a thrill of new joy as a cool breeze blew back the brim of his broad hat. Again he started ascending the moun- tain range in front, passing now up. now down, a hot. hard clay road. Tethering his horse, he wan- dered up the steep crags of the mountain side, paus- ing now and then to gaze back over his path. Standing on the top of the Pyrenees, he could see on one hand the plains of southwestern France, and on the other the lowlands of Spain. Wearied after his long ride and climb, he lay down on the soft green leaves, and was soon asleep. 11 is sleep was troubled, and wove itself into a dream. He seemed to see a woman on horseback coming up the French side of the mountain at a terrific rate -the horse was running away. By the rigid form of the woman., he saw that with frantic effort she was endeavoring to pull the horse in. but to no avail. The horse seemed maddened, and continued his speed uphill with as much agility as he wou'd have done. He clambered down to his horse, hop- ing to head off the runaway. Just at that time he awoke with a start. The dream had been so realistic that he looked for his horse, but only to find the shimmer- ing beauty of Spanish scenery below and about him. lie arose and stretched gazed again over the French side: lie rubbed his eyes. Was he still dreaming? Surely there was a woman dressed in a gray riding suit, hatless, her hair flying dis- hevelled in the wind, riding a large black horse, running madly up the road. Soon in reality he was racing down the mountain. In a flash he was in his saddle and hurrying toward the road. Even then he could hear the fast triple click of horses' hoofs drawing near. As he passed the last thicket, the horse and its rider shot by. A swinging branch striking his face at the moment prevented him from obtaining a near view of the rider, lie pushed on. nevertheless, in close pursuit down the mountain side at a terrific rate. He lost all consciousness of things about him. The trees on either side were a blur: he saw only the horse and its rider in front of him. and heard only the sharp click of hoofheits and the buzzing sound of the wind in his ears. They were now descending the final hill before they reached the stretch of level road that led toward the village. But horror! In front he saw that the little bridge that spanned a small canal had been lifted, and a barge was passing through. The peasants in charge seemed awestruck. The boat passed— still, if they hurried, the bridge could be replaced. But no. not a man moved: their gazes were riveted on the two approaching riders. The woman neared the open moat, as it were. Instinctively he 96 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR closed his eyes—it was too horrible—he saw the horse lurch forward, and that was all. Suddenly he felt a severe shock. All grew black before him. When next he awoke, near him he saw the two peasants and the woman in gray. llis sight was still blurred, and he closed his eyes again. 11 is mind was becoming cleared fast. How was it. he inquired, that we both are still alive? My horse cleared the canal. said a soft, clear voice in his ear. You must have forgotten to spur yours, for the horse failed and struck the stone abutment with his chest, hurling you high but safely on shore. Your foot caught in the stirrup, and your ankle is severely twisted, if not broken— please do not move it—your left one. At the sound of the voice, instinctively he said. Elaine, and without even opening his eyes, reached up both hands to her. My God, and it was you, Elaine, who so madly tore over the hill!” and he told her his dream. Rut I don’t under- stand yet. he said: you cleared the canal, but why aren’t you still on that demon of a horse?” She soon explained. In leaping the canal, a shoe on one of the front feet of the horse came off, and. striking forcibly the hind leg as it flew, tore a deep gash just above the joint, and opened an artery. He quickly perceived then. And now, dear, how can I get home, and what will Marie say? he said, feeling like a naughty boy. However, the arguments of the morning had come too late, and I .ove had welded together two souls without the consent of Destiny. H Question .169 JGcrtba Phillips Marvel What makes men great, and worshipped of the world? What brings approval, laurels, aye! e'en crowns? I ponder, wonder, fathom, cannot tell. It lietli not in mere Ambition’s birth. Do then such heights grow tall from measures low Implanted there by Heaven in mortal souls? Or is this glory, gift from man to man, And kept a living trust from son to son? Perchance the stars of God’s blue arch above Conspire when souls arc christened here on earth, And Fate bids Fortune, sponsor to her child If skies are fair, and Fortune in the mood. The brow that wears the wreath of sweet content. The soul that acts in harmony divine, The heart that beats in unison with love, The mind that makes its place in cv’ry sphere. Are these what foster mundane praise and hail? ------------------------------------- Hn Event of tbe J|?car Tuesday evening, February 9, a private reception and dance will be given by the Sigma Delta Fraternity of the Latin School and the S. T. D. Club of tlie English School at Anthoine Academy. This dance promises to be an event of the year. Committees from both societies are now com- pleting extensive arrangements. Mr. Mitchell is chairman, and the rest of the committee arc as fol- lows: Lawson, Duhig, Cohen. Chandler, and Wvman. Invitations may be obtained from the members of the two societies, and only from them. “Trbe-Rewffiear .16 v Frances Jfrost, 04 The curtain of the old, old year Has dosed upon our eyes, We gladly herald in the new, From out the radiant skies. So as we look the old year o’er, And take each day apart. Perhaps some brought a blessing sweet. That’s endeared it to our heart. In others, then, a cross we see. A thorny path we find. Where fragrant roses were not strewn, To cheer a weary mind. But now the trials all have passed, We’ve shared tlie pleasures, too, And only hope new power to gain In this, the coming new. Graduates XCUn Donors Among the winners of Academic distinction at Harvard this year were Ralph Hayward Kensing- ton and Eugene Robinson Vinal. These two boys captured the highest second year honors in the classics. Eugene Robinson Vinal also received a “detur. and Ralph Hayward Ken- sington had been previously admitted to the Phi Beta Kappa among the first eight. The others in the honor list who received large scholarships were: Louis Carr Doyle, Limvood Ervin Snowman. Cyrus Ashton Rollins Sanborn, and Frank Charles Wheeler. Miss Gussanda Countway took the prize scholar- ship in Latin at Tufts this year. SOMKRVILLK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 97 ON THE SOCIAL PLANET 5. Z. E . The last meeting of the S. T. D. was at the home of Louis II. Remick, Jo Hancock street. Allen was home from Exeter and was given a royal re- ception. A sketch for the baseball concert was decided upon, and a committee chosen to make arrange- ments. The members were treated to a delicious supper after the business meeting. The next meeting will be at the home of Gerard C. Mean. 138 Lowell street. -------------------------- Z k JBacbelor Girls The Bachelor Girls held their first gentlemen’s night in Flemming hall, on December 31. 190:1. The hall was artistically decorated with the club colors of red and green, and cosy corners in every available place. I’rappc was served during the evening. A pleasing novelty of the affair was the extin- guishing of the lights and the striking of a large gong to proclaim the midnight hour. The year was started with rousing cheers for the Bachelor Girls. Dancing was resumed until 12.30. the ladies having the leap year privilege of their choice of partners. Music was furnished by J. Albert Wilson. 1 he matrons were Mrs. William P. Libbcv and Mrs. Edwin M. Ray. Those present were the Misses Libbcv. Stickney. Reeves. Hatch. Ray. Pipe. Whipple. Landers. Sinclair. Russell. Knowlton. and Messrs. Puck. Dods, Dickinson, Connor. Phil- brick. Lewis. Dix, Ottcrson. Pyrites. Hall, Martin, anil Lawson. -------------------------- Enolisb IReunion, 1000 On Saturday evening, December 26, the class of 1900 met at the home of Miss Florence G. King. At the close of the business meeting the forty mem- bers present played Pit. A sing, in which everyone took part, closed the evening's festivities. The next reunion takes place in June. -------------------------- Xatin IReumon 1001 On Wednesday. December 30. the class of 1901 held a reunion in the Latin school building. Thirty-eight members were present. Alexander Graham was elected president, and Miss Ina Thompson secretary of the class organization. Mr. Baxter spoke briefly, welcoming the class back. A dmt was given by Miss Mary Piper and Harrv Wilkins. An original poem by Austin M. Works was read by Charles Stackpolc. Dancing and refreshments closed the evening's pleasure. Cbe Siflina s clta jfvatcrmtx? fhe last meeting of the Sigma Delta Fraternity was held at the home of George Cohen, on Syca- more street. January 6. A very pleasant evening was passed amid busi- ness. music, and refreshments. Plans were completed for the Sigma Delta- S. T. D. club reception and dance on February 9. 1901. The committee on arrangements are: Cohen. Law- son. and Wyman. Invitations may be obtained from any member of the Fraternity. Cbc Jfirst Heap Jpcar ID a nee That the girls arc not going to miss the mani- fold opportunities of leap year was very well proved on Wednesday evening. January 6. when a R.vm tok representative chanced upon the L. 1C. I). Club’s leap year dance. It was the second anniversary of the club’s ex- istence, it was two years old. and it did exception- ally well for two years. Flemming hall was tastily decorated with tin- club colors, and held a merry throng of dancers, amused by reversed conditions. The boys sat still and smiled. The girls bustled about—some with a worried look, others with a broad grin. They were filling the dance orders. The girls had an opportunity of tasting the trials of the hoys, and many showed the effect. How- ever. instead of marring the evening it added to the jollity in seeing the confused maidens looking up and down the hall for a hiding partner. The matrons were Mrs. G. F. Loring and Mrs. I). A. Butterfield. The aids were the Misses Marv Elizabeth Dolbear. Amy Louise Butterfield. G’adys Loring. and Ethel Mildred Snow. The last meeting of the club was held January !. 1901. at the home of Miss Butterfield. Officers for the coming year were chosen as fol- lows: President. Amy L. Butterfield: vice- president. Bertha M. Hennings: secretary. Ethel M. Snow: treasurer. Gladys Loring. ---------------------------- H. jf. jfratcrnitv? At the last regular meeting of the Fraternity, held at the home of Mr. Beard, the officers for the new vear were elected as follows: President. 1C. F. Scwall. secretary and treasurer. J. 1C. Beard. The club voted to be represented in the baseball con- cert. Harrv Burroughs was elected a member. The fiat” spent a very pleasant vacation at the camp of Harry Burroughs on Martin's pond. Read- ing. The time spent there will be long remem- bered. 98 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR OUR CONTEMPORARIES H plagiarist Wo regret to note in these columns a plagiarist, though we would forbear were we not the victim. In the December number of The Argus from the 1 Ioldcrness school, we notice that our editorial on the Short Story printed in the November issue is copied word for word. Several othci papers have already done this, and we have felt duly honored, but thev have of course mentioned the paper from which it was copied. Our contemporary. The Argus, not only forgets that, but furthermore changes the word Radiator to Argus, thus com- pleting the plagiarism. It is almost impossible to consider this an acci- dent. yet we hope it is. for papers should be inde- pendent-—especially as regards editorials. We mention this primarily as a warning note. All papers enjoy the pleasure of seeing bits of their magazine reprinted in others, but they by an in- violable right must demand a mention from whence it came. --------------------------- Exchange iRotes Who can answer these questions? 1. What famous person became a queen when only one week old? % Who opposed a queen’s marriage, and con- tested it with an army? 3. In what country is the cultivation and use of tobacco forbidden by its ruler? !. bout how many lives were lost in the C ivil War? ■ . What is the origin of the name “Europe”? What kingdom has an army of ten thousand soldiers, mostly women? The Gleaner, Pawtucket. R. I., has asked the above questions of its students. IIow little we all know! A weird but most attractive story. “The Cat.” has been completed in the December issue of The Radiator. New Haven. ‘ The Land of Day, a very promising serial, has been begun in The Phonograph of Ballston Spa. May we wish it as good an ending! It is a very interesting fact to us and perhaps will be to The Skirmisher, that one of our teachers. Mrs. Gilbert, then Miss Dieffenbach. taught in St. Matthew’s school thirty-six years ago. One of her pupils at that time is the present principal of the school. Mrs. Gilbert wishes them to know that she is always interested in what is going on at San Mateo. The Apokeepsian, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. is quite right in criticising the paper which omits the name of its city on the cover. We wish that they would have also the date on the outside, as it makes it so much easier to class them. The Echo of Dubuque, la., is extremely personal all the way through. But of course if it is what the students prefer----! The R. M. T. S. Register has a Current Events column, a thing which adds much to the tone of the paper. We thank The Student. Bridgeport, Conn., for its compliments. We feel we are not quite deserving of all it credits us with, but at any rate it is some- thing to live up to! Good cover. Distaff! And an interior as good! Particularly worthy of note are “Morning. Noon, and Night, and The Sea.” This Boston paper finds the same trouble in discovering where some of its exchanges come from that the New York one does. Your cover is bad. Messenger (Portland. Me.), but wc are glad that you arc going to have an ex- change column. Indeed, merit does not depend on size only, Center of Vision! One of your attractive points is your size. Wc have received a very bright little paper. The Twentieth Century Chat, from Seneca Falls, N. V. Its cover is particularly unique. Couldn't you arrange the printed matter on your cover a little better. Debater (Wakefield. Mass.)? The heaviest part should not be below the centre. The Classicum. Ogden. Utah, has a stunning C hristmas cover. -------------------------- Our Other Exchanges Massachusetts: The Oracle, Malden: High School Advocate. Saugus: Latin and High School Review. Cambridge: The Jabberwock. Boston: The College Signal. Amherst: Drury Academe. North Adams: Lascll Leaves, Auburndale: Watch ( i� v Bulletin. Waltham : High School Breeze, Hop- kinton. New York : The Red and Blue, New York: High School Recorder, Saratoga Springs. Con- necticut: The Pennant. Meriden. Rhode Island: The Observer, Central Falls. New Hampshire: K. H. S. Enterprise. Keene. Michigan: The Critic. Port Huron. Kansas: H. S. Oracle. Burlingame. Pennsylvania: The Mirror. Hazleton. Kentucky: The Crimson. Louisville. Wisconsin: Ripan Clarion. Appleton. -------------------------- Club motes The S. O. M. Club held its bi-monthly meet- ing Wednesday evening. January 13, this being the installation of the newly-elected officers. A boun- tiful collation was served after conclusive plans for the winter were made. George Trenholm was formally installed and responded with a witty speech. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 99 Mina jfinc Government H 03ition Harrv A. Stacy has secured a position as archi- tectural draughtsman for the United States govern- ment. There were over a score of applicants for this berth, and the examinations which took place a month ago were very difficult. Mr. Stacy was the youngest applicant, being only twenty-two years of age. He is not a college man. but has obtained his education since leaving high school through his own efforts and personal ap- plication to study and hard work. His many friends in York will hear of his success with much pleasure. He will reside with his parents, who live in Winthrop, Mass.—York, Me., Transcript. Mr. Stacy was a member of the English school. 1896-1898, where he did excellent work in archi- tectural design in the mechanical drawing classes. Up to the present time his work has been chiefly architectural drawing, designing many of the costly summer cottages at York Harbor, Me., and vicin- ity. We wish him continued success. -------------------------- Xambba S elta Guama Canoe Club The Lambda Delta Guama. the enterprising Canoe club, held its monthly meeting January s, at Brad’s attic. The most important items were the collection of dues and arrangements for a skate. The peace pipe was passed around, and plans for cornering the canoe market were indulged in. After much discussion it was voted to allow the high school girls to make pillows. All hands were piped to mess, after which Ad- miral Currier, Purser Gray. Governor Brad, Com- modore Perry, and Chaplain Scott picked their way homeward through the icebergs. -------------------------- 3D. IU. Jf., '05 There has been a new club formed : 1). . F.. '05. The members are: President, P. S. Highlcy; vice- president. G. F. Blount; treasurer, G. Kilcy; W. M Smith, A. H. George. F. A. Kindlund. J. M. Weadick, C. 1). Maynard, R. F. Hines. The next meeting will be held at 184 Summer street. ---------------------♦---------------- IReuttfon of Class of '02 The class of 1902 of the Prescott Grammar School held a reunion at the home of Bergen Rey- nolds. Friday evening, January 1. 1901. After the business meeting, games were played and a colla- tion was served. Miss Ruth Littlefield rendered a solo, accompanied by Royal Roberts. The following were elected officers for the coming •year: President. Bergen Reynolds; vice-president, Martha Mackenzie: secretary and treasurer. Lin- coln Sibley; executive committee, Edna Austin, Bertha Hutchins, and James Flaherty. ID. Z. Club The last meeting of the D. T. club was held at the home of Miss Doc. Preparations were com- pleted for a gentlemen’s night to be held January fifteenth. After the business was concluded, re- freshments were served and a social hour enjoyed. XTCl. X. ID. Club I he club has held three meetings this month, at the homes of the Misses Kendall, Ryder, and 1 hompson. After business discussions, light re- freshments were served, and a musical programme followed. The next meeting will be held at the home of AI iss Dorothea Smythe, Holland street. West Somerville. -------- --------------- 38. c. s. motes Thursday evening. December 17. 1903. the I� . C. S. club met at the home of Miss Ida Megan. Much of the evening was taken up with plans for the baseball concert, in which they are to take part. After the business the hostess tested the club in history with a set of questions to be puzzled out. 'Phc next meeting will be held at the home of Miss Sara Emerson. ------------------------- Cbe junior Social The first social of the two Junior classes was held at Guild Hall. January 5. The affair, which was the first social event of either class, was highly success- ful, and the large party present enjoyed a very pleasant evening. The first part of the evening was taken up in an entertainment composed of class talent. The par- ticipants were greatly applauded. Following the entertainment, dancing was enjoyed until a late hour. 'Flic affair was so successful that another social will soon be planned. ------------------------- QuiuOcuiau Club Among the new members of the Quindonian club are R. A. Burns, G. C. Bean. David Count- wav, and J. E. Beard. The club basket ball team is rounding into shape under the leadership of R. A. Burns, and a good contest is expected in its first game against S. L. S.. 05. The club now has a total membership of nearly thirty, nearly all of whom are graduates of the high schools. Of these eight are at Dartmouth, two at Amherst, one at Brown, twelve in business, and the remainder at school. 100 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR MsnA 'G4 The Sigma Delta-S. T. 1). Club dance February 9. The event of the year—Don’t miss it. The Sigma Delta basket ball team (ha! ha!) will play Annisquam February 30. Attendance will be one thousand seven. Smith will throw thirty- seven goals. Special trains: excursion rates. Mow ravishing it is to listen to Steve’s largo tranquillo geometry recitations! Almost all of Dick I Jell is again with us. Con- gratulations! What! Alphonse Nemo again? The nuisance grows. Fine old Latin name, Nemo. When the police come he can change it to Gaston Aliquis. A few more like Alphonse, and the paper will have to be backed by a steel king. Harrison, the Swedish bard, having ended his researches in Nihilism as it is, is about to pre- pare two new works, entitled Pcdagogism as It Ought to Re.” and How French Would Be Pro- nounced If 1 Had the Say of It. A phonograph record of certain portions recited by the author will be given with each volume in order that all may enjoy his melodious voice. Ain’t it funny. Warren, what a difference just a few hours make? Let’s take up a collection to buy a two-cent paper for the common use. Christmas, 1903:— Just one or two there might have been Who did not receive a fountain pen. The portrait of Mr. Babcock, former head master of the Latin school, which has been presented to the school by the class, has at last arrived. Let’s sing the Bells” next time. Mr. Hadley. Somewhere in us it strikes a responsive chord. Correct, Wyman. The basket ball rules, as lit crature. rank far above the “Aeneid.’ Here’s a Happy New Year to you, and to you. It concerns the very respectability of the learned Adamson, to decide whether lie was bathing for the first time in his life, or merely bathing in the Nile for the first time. The best way to account for report cards not re- turned. is to say that the owners liked them so well that they had them framed. '05 Let the old Frost King get in his good work. Who cares? Two extra days are encouraging, but we want some more. The basket ball team, which has so creditably represented the class for three years, is again gain- ing its regular championship form. Much interest is centred on the coming game be- tween our class and the Quindonian Club team, which is captained by one of our classmates. Hard luck, A1—-. The barbarians gave way and flew. We now have four members of this class at the lunch counter. The class is cutting ice in hockey with Doe, Cole- man. and FTIiot placing a fast game. The social was such a success and so encouraging that we understand another will soon be in progress. There is quite a difference between immortality and immorality of the soul,” S-----ell. The class basket ball team opened the season very creditably bv defeating the English Juniors by a large score. We are glad to welcome Elliot back again after a serious accident. 'Hie social was a success, thanks to those who worked. The class wishes to thank Miss Pillsbury for her assistance at the social. '06. Funny some were sick the day before Christ- mas. wasn’t it? We sometimes wonder if Caesar hadn’t taken a little too much vinum when he wrote some parts of his Commentaries.” Teacher— What is a polygon?” Smart Pupil—“A dead parrot.” We observe that many of the Freshmen are ob- liged to stand on settees in order to reach the blackboard. Why not start a fund to buy some high chairs for them? I Continued on page 102. J SOM I : K VILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 101 '04 Doughty’s New Year resolution: I will not smile anv more. Mr. Hadley asks the girls to pay more attention to the men. We are sorry to learn of Might's misfortune. We heartily congratulate him on his escape from more serious injury, and hope he will soon be able to return to school. Barton says he is going to have four hundred photos finished. Be not surprised if you hear of a rummage sale taking place. We feel that the cold weather is bitter against us because it has robbed us of two days of our Senior year. Will the members of the class please hold back sonic of the jokes on the Bachelor Girls as it is hard for the editor to select among so many. Many chemistry pupils enjoyed their Christmas dinner by using the table-salt which they manu- factured in chemistry. If you wish to retain your reputation as being quiet, refrain from playing Pit.” The game of hockey with the Boston Latin school will long be remembered. By invitation of the Heptorean Club a chorus from the English school gave a few selections at the Monday lecture of the club. January 4. The pupils greatly enjoyed listening to the history of Somerville given by Mr. Sargent. The police in the Pirates of Penzance'’ ought to apply for positions on the Somerville police force. We hope the pin committee will be successful in settling all disputes on class pins. D-h-g claims he has not broken one of his Xcw Year resolutions. Good work. Duhig, keep it up. 'Hie S. T. D. Club and Sigma Delta Fraternity will hold a dance in Anthoine Academy. February 1). All come. The championship banquet was a great success, and all who were present enjoyed immensely the speaking from some good old has bcens.” We began to think the banquet was too much for Crosby, as he had visions of not returning to school. The Six Club held its last meeting at the home of G. Clifford Bean. It is interesting to note that everv member of the club holds office. '05 ()ur class social on the fifth proved to be a grand success, although it is probable that there would have been a much larger attendance if there had been school the two days before. S----in bookkeeping found his accounts just a thousand short the other day. Upon investigation he found a one thousand dollar bill lying on the floor by his seat, lie said that if he had lost it he would not mind it so much, for there is lots more where that came from. Question: In the battle of Waterloo who was the leading man in the French troops?” B-k-r: The man on the first horse. Have you heard the chimes playing in the type- writing room? Because we have snow in our class we should not fear a frost in '04. Several young men have aroused suspicion against themselves by getting up in chemistry and saying something about Laura Boyle (Law of Boyle). Question: What is the problem that is being seriously discussed at the present day? Impromptu Answers: How old is Ann? Who is the Radiator’s wise man? '06 Hands up. clean or dirty,” says Mr. Hadley. Hard luck for the S. A. F. Perhaps the S. T. I), will not beat them quite so badly. Heard in a Freshman Class: Pupil— 1 don’t know how to write my name.” Miss Lcbcrt and Miss Chickering of II. Elocu- tion C give the following advice to girls in general: Forget vour elocution books. The boys will gladly share them with you.” The latest thing in shoes: Feet. Philbrick. do favor us with a new quotation! Day after day we hear. Darkness is cheap.” But cheer up. Philbrick. Perhaps you’ll come across another just as short some day. We regret that we could not attend school Mon- da v and Tuesday. How much we might have ac- complished had we been here. Pupil— We did not have the whole subject, we had to his death.” Teacher— Well, that’s about all there is to it.” 102 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Have you heard the W. L. M. dialect? It is rather unique, but decidedly foolish. We have one member of the hockey team, M unroe, a fast player. It takes two Junior classes to run a social. It’s the Freshmen's turn to have one now. Woodman, spare that tree. (The axe is dull.) Friends, locate the fire escapes when you go to the theatre. Some are already beginning to count the days be- tween now and the first of March. Vacation comes, but so do the report cards. '07 1 la-m-n is soon expected to put out a sign read- ing thus:— PUNGS MADE TO ORDER We long to have our class pins. Stc-en- of Room 17 thinks garrulous a kind of animal. I la-m-n had two chickens, They followed him to school, One jumped upon the teacher’s desk. Was that against the rule? It is strange that the boys of I. English C mis- take the German Reader for their Algebra. Heard in Elocution I : Let the carrots rot. II-11-rd and liop-ns: The long and short of it. A meeting was held the week before Christmas to discuss basket ball. About twenty-five were present. Carl Gorman was elected captain, and Charles Hilliard manager. There arc prospects of a good team. : B. Henderson is the Historian of I. English F. L. Connelly has a new watch. --------------------------- Resolutions Whereas, bv the will of God. our beloved class- mate. Margaret Woodman, has been bereaved of her father, and whereas we, the class of 1906, have learned with sorrow of her great affliction, be it therefore Resolved, that we tender her our heartfelt sym- pathy in her sorrow, and be it further Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to Margaret Woodman, and also published in the Radiator. Arthur R. Corwin. President, Irma Christopher, Secretary. Hatm IRotes [Continued from page 1W .J In the centre of the alleged circle.” Whew! So T-------thinks that the sun rises in the west! Bright boy. Ask------what he got in Latin last time. Heard in Latin: Teacher— Did you translate the rest of the lesson?” T—— No, I have only translated as far as the end. Two days of no-school in succession. Let the good work go on ! Don't mix them up. Gow, even though they do both begin with C. Baker! How is the other fellow? The grandfather of my father-in-law.” T — says that the Jura mountains extend be- tween the Susquehanna river and the country of the Helvetians. Poor Gleason! Nevermore! HELP! HELP the editor by handing in notes. We are proud to say that the greater part” of our class made the position of centre on the All- Interscholastic football team. Come, girls. Assist the girls’ basket ball team by attending the games. '07. Teacher— Do you see through it. girls?” Ranson— Yes. sir. We congratulate Miss Stone on her article in the Christmas Radiator. We arc glad to welcome a new member to our class. Miss Felicia Lang, of Glens Falls, N. Y. Reading matter on Panama has been in demand in the Third Division. The Fourth Division is well-armed. It has a keen Spear. How we love to hear the chiming of those fire bells! 'I'eacher— What kind of sports did they have at the Olympic games?” Pupil— Football, baseball, footraces, and ping- pong.” Little Rufus Tucker Sat in the gutter Studying history one day. When along came a Fox That stood by some rocks And frightened little Rufus away. Let us support the basket ball team and help them on to success. Don’t forget the class notes. We congratulate the pin committee on getting such a good array of pins. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 103 Gbc Champions 36anquctefc About one hundred and fifty loyal supporters of giving tlu- highest praise to the teams for their the two victorious teams of the High schools gath- clean and notable work this year, crcd in Anthoine hall, Tuesday, December 29, at a Edward J. Klvnn, ’JSi), officiated as toastmaster, banquet. and “Herb Stone gave proof of his excellent judg- A11 informal reception to Mayor Glines, Head ment when he chose him. Master Baxter, Mayor-elect Chandler, and the Phc banquet itself was fit for the gods, but people captains of the teams was the first feature of the in the gallery drew a more material conclusion evening. about its fitness for some human beings as they EX-MAYOR CLINES. This celebration of our victories was, indeed, a grand success, and glowed with school spirit and kindly feeling. The old graduates reviewed ath- letics in their day. and aroused much mirth with amusing reminiscences, while one and all united in HEAD MASTER BAXTER. When it had been fully appreciated. Eddie rose and said: “It is hardly necessary to say we won. The next thing to do is to celebrate. During the last fifty-one years, Somerville High has also done something intellectually, but we are not here 104 SOMIiRVILLI : HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR to talk about that. Our intellectual record is better than any other in the community. For some reason or other public manifestation lias been lack- ing towards athletics, but it starts from to-night. Let us have a willing team every year, and support it socially, financially, and in every way. Some people, when they read of this banquet, will say. ‘What a lot of nonsense!’ That is a wrong view, for these men are cultivating the qualities needed in after life, endurance, generous spirit, temperance, cheerfulness, and a clean, honest, life.' James YV. Mace. Jr., president of the Interschol- astic Athletic League, was then introduced as the first speaker of the evening. In his address he said : I believe in school athletics. I believe they do good. There is no one in the squad who does not feel better for having associated with it. There is something in it that you cannot get anywhere else. I know of nothing like athletics to fit a boy or man for good citizenship and the hard knocks of the world.” In behalf of the Interscholastic Athletic League. Mr. Mace awarded the handsome cham- pionship football cup for 1903 to the Somerville High School. TOASTMASTER FLYNN. Tn accepting the prized trophy. Captain G. Syl- vester McLaughlin said: “To us. the members of the football team, this cup represents the goal towards which we have been striving all the season. At first our prospects were rather dark, but with the never-say-die spirit, characteristic of the Som- erville High School, we won flic cup is emblem- atic of success. Somerville teams are known far and near for their clean athletics. Tn adding this championship cup to the collection. I wish to sin- cerely thank the Interscholastic Athletic Associa- tion ’ Tt lias often been stated,” said Toastmaster Flynn, “that you can’t have a good city without good men. The next speaker fully realizes that the most vital element in Somerville is S. H. S.” Amid hearty applause. Hon. Leonard IT. Chandler, the mayor-elect, was presented. He said:— ‘ ! have no long story about football to tell you. !t was not my good fortune to be brought up in Somerville. Hut 1 have always taken great interest in your games, and have attended them for the last ten years. And I have been pleased to see the Somerville colors not trailed in the dust. When you young men come to take charge of govern- ment affairs, which you soon will, if you take the same interest you have in athletics, Somerville will continue to be the good city it has been in the past.” Mr. Baxter. Head Master of the Latin School, spoke of his ideas relative to athletics. Though he did not attend the games regularly, lie said lie did attend the Thanksgiving day game, and always found pleasure in welcoming a winning team. He closed bis speech with these words: “A lesson which can be learned in athletics, one that should by learned by every young man. is that it is not strenuous effort alone that accomplishes what is of value in the world, but strenuous effort well di- rected by mind and heart.” HERBERT STONE. Mr. Kaan. upon being introduced, spoke brietly upon the status of athletics in his day—the field and the tricks of the game. At the close of this speech, Mayor Glines, ’69, entered the hall amid applause. Municipal duties had deprived him of the banquet itself. When he became seated Toastmaster Flynn rose and said: It has been remarked by our esteemed friend, the Somerville Journal, after one of our winning games, that Mayor Glines would have been a quarterback of the Somerville High if they had played football in his day. I might add that he would have been captain, and have beaten Harvard. He is the first Somerville High man to sit in the mayor’s chair. Xo one ever before has expressed the virtues of Somerville so well as he. He bubbles over with en- thusiasm whenever the name of Somerville is men- SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 105 tioned. He convinces the people it is their duty to know Somerville better. Amid cheers the popular mayor made a short and spirited address:— 'T come here to-night,” he said, “because I want to come. I come here to-night to meet young America and young Somerville. It is true that I would say something about Somerville. She is worth saying something about. Here is an ex- ample of what she can produce. It is the best city to be found in the commonwealth. It has two of the best high schools that can be found anywhere. 1 came here with a prepared speech, but I am not going to deliver it. Instead I will congratulate you on what you have done. It is a pleasure to me to watch the students as they come and go. “Where I formerly saw a bare field I now see two beautiful schools. Soon there will be another one. a new one; I sincerely hope the time will scon come. I am glad I had a part in securing the splendid athletic field in West Somerville. 1 go to all the games, and am pleased to see the clean plays and acts of gentlemen. As gentlemen you will al- ways win. and our High School boys are all gentle- men. It has been a pleasure to administer to all the people, not a few. As magistrate of the city, i bring the greetings of 70.000 citizens.” Herbert E. Stone, ‘08. secretary of the Inter- scholastic League, and chairman of the banquet committee, spoke on the manner in which the busi- ness of the league was conducted. A beautiful silver cup was then presented by the team to Harry L. Jones, who responded briefly. Later in another speech lie urged the need and de- sirability of a gymnasium which would put Somer- ville on an equal footing with other schools. Charlie Cuddy, Somerville’s greatest coach, amid cheers and applause, said: “It is the man behind the gun that does the work. So this year it has been the members of the team that have done the work. It has been a season of surprises. Espe- cially has it been a surprise to the Boston news- papers. It took them nearly three months to find out about Somerville. It did not take us two weeks to find out who won the championship, as it did them. The secret of our success was the spirit dis- plaved by the men. They recognized the hard work that must be done, and buckled down and did it. Captain McLaughlin then presented the beau- tiful cup given by the team to Cuddy, who briefly acknowledged the token of esteem. Leo Ilafford, the crack half-back, and captain � f next year's team, was called on and said: “I shoit'd feel more at home with a football under my arm. and eleven husky fellows chasing me down the field than I would making a speech. I hope under mv leadership next year we shall have another cham- pionship team.” Those in charge of the banquet were the follow- ing: Herbert E. Stone. ’08. chairman; Albert G. Crowley. ’08: Edward I. Flynn. '89; Chester L. Harts. ’00; Charles A. Lamont, '08; Philip F. Moran. ’Ofi; Hobart S. Palmer. ’07; George E. Perkins, ’07, and J. Edward Frost, ’04. 5. Z. ID., 10; Company fll ., 12. The most interesting game of basket ball played thus far this season was when the S. T. D. Club de- feated the strong Company M, Eighth regiment, by a score of 10 to 12. For the first few minutes of play it looked as though the soldiers had everything their own way. as six points were made in the first five minutes by them The club boys soon came to, and at the close of the first half the score was 12 to � in their favor. Company M went in to win in the second half, but were unsuccessful, and the S. T. D. boys were able to run their score up to nineteen points. The game was clean from fouls on the part of the school boys, only one foul being called, but the soldiers tried several times to rough it up. The line-up:— S. T. D. Co M. Remick (Capt.), f...................g.. Lyman Fallen, f........................... g., Norris Bean, c.............................c.. Collupy Frost, g............................ f.. Scanlan Duhig. g......................(.. (Capt.) Thorpe Referee— Charlie Cuddy. Umpire—Doughty. Time-keeper—Mitchell. Time—20-min. halves. Attendance. 200. Somerville IfoUjb, 2; Boston Uatin, 0 The Somerville hockey team easily defeated the Boston Latin team on Franklin field. January 0. by the score of 2 to 0. The Latin school played a fast game, but could not penetrate the Somerville defense, or stop the well-directed shots from our forwards. Captain Babbitt, Barton, and Hovey played well for Somerville, and the work of Parker and Daly of the Latin school was of the highest order. ntoplan vs. £3. H. Jf. In Bacon hall. December 16, the Septopian Club of the Latin school defeated the S. A. F. Club o: the English school by a score of 51 to 13. The playing on both sides was very ragged, ex- cept at times when Doughty and Cuddy would do phenomenal team work. Both teams “roughed it up too much to make it a clean game. H ‘iTlocliev JDcfeat Somerville played their'first game of the season with the crack Arlington team, and met defeat by a score of 7 to 0. Captain Babbitt, Doc, and Munroe played well for Somerville, while the team work of Arlington was exceptional. Captain Hillard, of Arlington, deserves great credit for his sportsmanlike conduct and competent leadership. io6 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR C. W. THOMPSON CO. MUSIC PUBLISHERS 13 WEST STREET, - - BOSTON, MASS. ASK TO SEE THE TWO NEW SONOS: ••If I Were:� Violet, by G. II. Cox, Jr.; “More than Words Can Tell, S. Gibson Cooke. The Popular Hlls of the Season. ’05, X., 4S; 05, H3, 20. The two Junior classes played a game of basket ball in Bacon ball. Thursday evening. January 7, Latin, ’05, easily winning by a score of 18 to 20. HafTord and Burns excelled for Latin, while Curran and Blair played well for English. We wish to call the attention of the readers of the Radiator to our new studio, which is open and ready for business. 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CONTENTS OF FEBRUARY RADIATOR Page George Washington, ( Supplement)............................................. One of the First Numbers of the Radiator,.......................................... Radiator Staff,.............................................................. Editorials, ................................................................., The Radiator Past and Present, by Wesley A. Maynard, E., ’96, - - - 116 A Puritan Maid, by Jaques Chauvry Husson, I,., ’01, 117 At Home in Tours, by Nina A. Cummings, E., ’96,.................................11S Antonio Corsi, by C. Sherwood Ricker, ..........................................120 Journalism, by Ruth Tufts, E., ’oo,..........................................121 The Little Conqueror, by Edna Pollard Jones, I,., '03, 122 At the Settlement, by Jeannette Agnes Dawson, E., 'oi,..........................124 Gossip, by John M. McMillin, E., ’03, 126 Darkness and Dawn, by Charles F. Shepard, L., ’02,.............................127 Alumni Notes,...................................................................129 Latin Notes, ..... . . 130 English Notes, - - -................................................131 Athletics,......................................................................132 Did Ever Occur to You WHEN CONSIDERING THE FUEL QUESTION THAT THERE IS Have you used that discrimination in buying that has brought the best results and smallest coal bills? We buy directly from the producers, and in such large quantities that we are enabled to select those dealing only in first quality coal. With our perfect organization for handling our business, we can deliver all orders promptly. If you do not trade with us now, why not give us a trial ? Metropolitan Coal Company GENERAL OFFICES: 30 Congress Street, SOMERVILLE OFFICE, 31 Union Square BOSTON The Radiator. Vol. III. SOMERVILLE, SEPTEMBER 24, 1884. No. 1. THE HOOK OF LIFE. Our life is as a book. Hound by ages; The years are chapters And tlie months arc pages. The weeks are columns. Verse arc the days. And all arc tilled with deeds To hate or praise. Hut one can read our book. And that is lie. For God the secrets Of our life-can see. He knows the ending And beginning, too. What we have done And what we are to do. Let's till our books Wit h deeds of.Christian work. Evade the wrong, Hut not a duty shirk. And when upon that Day The contents God shall tell. 'Twill then be our reward to know That with its all is well. Maiuk. A LETTER. The following letter was received from one of the boys who went away on his vacation and left behind him, as he thought, the mem- ory of his man)' unlearned lessons:— Somerville, Sept. 15th, 18S4. JDear Mr. Editor:— I was greatly pleased to receive your letter of the 10th inst., asking me concerning my vacation So, after thinking the matter over, I decided to take you into my confidence and frankly admit all. When school closed my old desire for travel seized me, and after a due •course of deliberation I found myself aboard the brig ‘’Forgetfulness,” bound for Patagonia. But alas! it was a treacherous ship, for ere we had left Boston Harbor behind us we shipped the first sea, an unlearned history lesson. That ghost haunted us long after we had bidden good-bye to the sandy shores of old Cape Cod. But I thought that if we should keep our ves- sel well trimmed and our spirits well up we should finally throw him off and enjoy a pleas- ant passage, and so I did my best, and for a .short season was at rest. But it was of no use. In a few days another powerful wave washed over us. doing terrible damage. This time it was that neglected Virgil, and the sea took my ambition with it. For a few moments I re- mained on deck clinging to the rigging, and several frantic resolves entered my mind to end all this misery and to plunge into the seething, angry mass around me. But I could not real- ly find courage to do this, and so 1 clung on. In the meantime literature waves, geometry waves and algebra floods were pouring over us in rapid succession, until at last the water- logged and leaky old Drig could stand it no longer, and she sank to rise no more. I, of course, was launched into the boiling sea, and then I gave up all for lost. But by some mir- aculous power I found myself on land, and upon looking about me, concluded that I had reached my destination, and that the plains of Patagonia stretched out before me. Now I breathed more freely, and thought that here, surely, I had left my tormenters behind. But I was mistaken, and sorely so, for every peb- ble in those pebbly plains was an unsolved problem. For one long week I suffered ago- nies which defy my pen’s description, and at last, weary and sick at heart, I embarked on the good ship “Good Resolutions” for the S. H. S. The return voyage was full of satis- faction and pleasure, and I reached my native shores once more, a changed person. And now, Mr. Editor, just a word of advice. When- ever you take a sea trip engage passage in the vessel which I came home in. It is much easier than the barque ‘'Experience” and far safer than the brig “Forgetfulness.” Yours sincerely, Al. A wonderful farm is that known as Baldwin’s Santa Anita Ranche, in Los Angeles County, Cal. It comprises 1,200 acres in grapes, 16,■ 000 orange and lemon trees, 2,000 pomegran- ates, 3,000 English walnut trees, 2,000 almond, 2,500 peach, 4,000 pear, 2,000 apricot and 1,000 fig trees. It furnishes subsistence for 25,000 head of sheep, 2,000 cows and pigs, and several hundred horses and mules. Besides all of this, 17,000 acres of golden grain could be seen be- fore harvesting. One of the first numbers of the Radiator. [See “Radiator Past and Present,” Page 110.] Vol. XIII. Somerville, Massachusetts, February, 1904. No. 5. The Radiator is published by the Somerville Latin and English High Schools on the third Thursday of every month during the school year, and only important news matter can be received after the 10th of the month. Matter for insertion may he left with any of the editorial staff or mailed to the editor at the Latin High School. In contributing, write on one side of the paper only and sign full name (this is for reference only). Communications should l o addressed to the editor, business manager, or exchange editor, according to their nature. Manuscript must l e accompanied by necessary postage to insure its return. Terms, 75 Cents per Year Single Copies, 10 Cents SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT tutorial Staff E itorsinsCbicf C. SHERWOOD RICKER. L.. '04. Hssociatc Ebitor KATHRYNE L. NOLAN. E.. ‘04. Ercbaitflc EMtor HELEN MARDEN. L.. ‘04. .iGuoIitcso isanaticr LAURENCE MITCHELL. E.. '04. Bsjsiatant Business kaiiatier THOMAS P. DURELL. L.. ’05. Sporting Ebitor GEORGE COHEN. L.. '04. Treasurer GERARD C. BEAN. E., -04. Xatin School WILLIAM L. PHILLIPS. '04. ARTHUR T. SOULE. ‘05. HERBERT S. SANBORN. ’06. RALPH E. DURELL. -Q7. Staff Hrttst. EDWIN H. WEAVER. E.. ‘05. Class JEMtors Enfllisb School WARREN B. FARNUM. '04. LEONARD V . LIBBEY. '05. RICHARD KEYES. '06. LUTHER I. SMITH. '07. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 114 EDITORIAL'S Zbe alumni J E fear that the Alumni mean little or nothing to the average student in the High School. He knows them only as individuals who once went to school as he does, but arc now in a larger world, with interests apart from the school. In our opinion this should not be so. The Alum- nus is but an older brother of the student. He takes pleasure in reciting reminiscences of his school days, and more pleasure in hearing of pres- ent-day events that are taking place. A desire to draw the bonds closer between the Alumni and undergraduates was the thought which gave birth to this issue. It is one way of making a promising start in lessening the breach between the two bodies. Its continuation is a matter that lies in the hands of students and Alumni, and it is to them we now appeal to continue the movement. We have given this number to the Alumni; Club notes and Exchange notes have been cut out. Class and Athletic notes have been cut down. Thus we have made it as much as possible an Alumni number, and yet a school issue. w XIwo Great Den |T is an interesting fact to note that the month of February gave birth to some of the world’s greatest men, and among them we find the names of Washington and Lincoln. We would not for a moment compare them as regards first place in the annals of our country. Neither will we ask whether they could have ex- changed places and executed one another’s work. It would be a case of mere conjecture. It must suffice that they were two great men given to the country when such men were most needed; first, when a people, as yet weak, was about to throw off the yoke of oppression and be- gin a national life; secondly, when after the “Ship of State” had been proudly launched internal dis- sension threatened its disintegration. Both men were peculiarly fitted for their work, and though it is possible that either man could have carried the nation safely over the crisis the other met. it would have been with a widely different policy, whose after effects might have profoundly affected our national progress. We should look at the two men side by side oc- cupying the honor of first place, and dependent on one another for mutual support for this reason: Lincoln would never have saved his country with- out a Washington to start it on its way. and Wash- ington’s fame would have faded into insignificance without a Lincoln to save a people who would revere his name. So let us forget the men as first and second, and place them on the pinnacle of the nation’s history as the welders of one of the great nations of the world. � Z be 1Russo 3apanesc Mar I'lIE present generation has lived so far in a de- cidedly eventful era. and future prospects do not tend to diminish this condition. A great war is on in the East. The ultimate out- come is doubtful, though it is fraught with possi- bilities propitious to a speedy end, and threatened with pitfalls that may embroil the world. So it be- comes a most serious matter. It is not merely two powers fighting for the right of certain territory. It is aggrandizement on one side, and self-preservation on the other. But be- neath all this lies a question that has agitated the world for the past two decades: What is to be the ultimate fate of China? Its partition by the Powers would inevitably mean disagreement and conflict, and it seems a sin to allow unlimited possibilities in production to go to waste in the hands of opium- drugged Mongolians. The Powers nevertheless had left China unharmed till after the march on Pekin. Russia then made a bold move and left a SOMKRVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 5 large army in Manchuria under pretext of protec- tion. solemnly promising to withdraw it on October eighth last. There is no need to retell here the events that brought on this struggle, for they arc fresh in every mind. But in looking forward what do we see? An overt act by one of the belligerents might draw in another power, say, for instance, the United States. The cause of Japan is ours. They arc fighting for what we demanded. Then upon our entrance into the arena. Russia by alliance would have France with her, for a clause says that when cither party to the alliance is attacked by more than one power the other party shall fight also in her behalf. Continuing, then, we have Japan fighting two powers, and a similar clause in the Anglo- Japanese Treaty would thus draw England into the conflict. So we see that a misstep bv one of the warring powers would force no less than five nations into war, and who for a moment would care to dwell on the possibilities or probabilities of such a catastrophe? It would be a cruel mockery to civilization and its advanced methods. But we have another view more hopeful. The man now before the eyes of the world, possibly the greatest living diplomat. John Hay, has drawn up a note which if accepted and adhered to will not only lay aside the idea of world conflict, but furthermore make the war but a tragic farce, if the paradox may stand, for he will have decided that for which the war was started,—the integrity of China. However, till this is assured, or till either St. Petersburg or Tokio cries enough.” there is bound to be just cause for grave fear as to the possible outcome. As to our sympathies, not one worthy reason can be mustered to support Russia's action,—so here's to courageous Japan, may she hit hard and often! ! H moxt of Gbanfts A PERSONAL word of thanks must be made through these columns to contributors of this issue. The editor, after deciding upon issuing this num- ber, was beset by very doleful prophecies, and among them wise words from former editors show- ing the impractibility of such a move. So it was in a somewhat perturbed frame of mind that the editor mailed some half-dozen letters to Alumni, and wrote a little editorial publicly an- nouncing his intentions. Great, indeed, was his joy upon receiving “with pleasure answers to his requests, and furthermore much unsolicited manuscript. The Editorial bureau was swamped with Alumni notes, and space limitations have forced us to cut out many. Yet we have saved what seemed the most important. Hence the editor reiterates his heartfelt thanks to all the Alumni who so kindly came to his sup- port and ensured the success of this issue. � ■Hew pictures C OMETHING like fifty or sixty small pictures purchased primarily for laboratory use in the Art department are now being hung in the various corridors in the English School -------------------------- She truest of the Xocal Color 0 bear me away on the wings of the night And put me in touch with the stars: For it’s new local color of which I would write And I think that I’ll seek it in Mars. Pve scoured all the earth to its farthest demesne For some as-vet-undescribed spot. And long have ! fared, but yet none have I seen Not used long ago in a plot. Did I try South America? Davis has that. The Isthmus? O. Henry’s been there. The Klondyke? Jack London, a fierce autocrat, Has gobbled the North as his share. Kentucky belongs to the mountaineer, Fox, Wyoming was Wister’s on sight. And Parker has Canada's rivers and rocks Fenced in by his own copyright. 1 ride through the mesas and ranges in vain In search of some spot in the West Which might have escaped “The Virginian's” train— Red Saunders” has gobbled the rest. Lo, Duncan iias left not a comma to write On ‘.lie sad little Newfoundland isle, And how can I dream of New England in sight Of Mary E. Wilkins’s style? I fly to the East, and ’midst races of men, With names unpronounceable, probe Till bang against Kipling I come with my pen; For he claims the rest of the globe. Then bear me away on ethereal swells And put me in touch with the stars— But hold up a minute! There’s Herbert G. Wells Alreadv located in Mars. ___Wallace Irwin in the Bookman for December. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 116 TLhc IRabiator flbast anfc (Present J5y tucslcv? B. ADavnarft, IE., '96 [Note.—Mr. Maynard, who kindly volunteered to write this article was the first English editor of the paper. He has figured quite prominently in journalism since lie left school, and is at present the proprietor of one of Somerville's leading weeklies, The West Somerville Reporter.—Editor. | In these days of the assured and continued pros- perity of the Radiator it is rare, indeed, if ever, a passing thought is given to the struggles and trials of those who in the earlier days labored hard to place the paper upon a firm foundation. Compared with the paper of to-day, with its twenty-four or more profusely illustrated pages and separate frontispiece, all in a cover printed in two or more colors, the first modest numbers of the paper, of only eight pages, without either cover or illustrations, are as the great St. Louis Exposition and a holiday sideshow. William E. Brigham, to whom the paper and those who worked on it previous to the last six years owe a great deal, started the Radiator and brought out the first number just a few days before Christmas, 1882. He continued the paper for the three years that he remained in school. Walter L. Farnum was associated with him as business man- ager the first year, and was succeeded by C. Frank Smith, now of Brockway Smith, of Lvnn, who was in turn followed by Sewali M. Rich. The paper ceased, and was not seen or heard of again till February, 1895. when William F. Eaton and M. Clinton Bacon resumed the publication of it. During that year and as long afterwards as the paper was printed at the Citizen office, Mr. Brig- barn gave freely of his time and advice to the sev- eral editors and business managers. At that time the English high school was in process of construc- tion, and the cover design, which ran at first regu- larly and then occasionally, embodied pictures of both the old and new schools. Of the paper after it was revived, I am in a bet- ter position to speak than during the first days, for I was a member of the third class, English division, at the time, and well remember the interest that there was when the first number appeared. Every- one thought that it was a great thing, and some- thing more than 400 copies were sold. Herman T. VanDusen and Lyman C. Hurd car- ried on the paper the next year. They made the first departures from a regular publication, and brought out the New Year’s number in a special cover, and had a colored frontispiece in the June number. Those were great achievements, and at times the sales rose to 600 copies. That year the English high school was opened and was repre- sented. on the staff of the paper, by Herbert S. Richardson as associate editor. 1 he next year found me a post graduate scholar in the English school, and the honor of editor of the Radiator was conferred upon me. At that time I was working on the staff of the Citizen, and the duties were not as strange to me as they would otherwise have been. I found, however, that they were not exactly like the general run of newspaper work. W illiam H. Burgess was the business man- ager that year, and William C. Armstrong his as- sistant. Like Bacon, he did not live long after, but the manner of his death was more tragic. In the editorial of the first issue of the paper in '95 was a statement that the paper was going to take up the apparently hopeless task of booming school athletics, but within two years things had taken a turn, and the football team of ’96 won the championship, and consequently the first special issue of the paper, a championship number, was brought out. Fortune smiled also on the baseball team, and when the pennant came to Somerville high, another championship number was issued. Acting on a suggestion we had already planned to make the June number a souvenir edition, and into it were incorporated the appropriate features in recognition of what the nine had done. That number contained the first directory of the teachers and pupils of the schools. That souvenir number was the first one, but year after year the idea has been followed, more elabor- ate! v each June, so that now a standard of excel- lence has been reached which eclipses anything else that I have seen in the line of amateur journalism. Hard as it may appear to do so, I feel that the staff of this year will make the last number even bigger and better than the splendid souvenir number of last year. Valuable lessons are to be learned in filling any position of the Radiator staff, but I would caution anyone to consider long and well before they de- cide to follow journalism as a means of livelihood. It means unremitting and oftentimes unsatisfying exertion during which the many sides and phases of life come uppermost each in turn. To be success- ful one must possess a fund of information upon every subject that can be imagined, and an adapta- bility that but few possess. One comes in contact with much that is degrading, and but little that is uplifting, and constant care must be exercised and often not a little tact, to prevent being caught in the stream that carries one swiftly and surely to ruin or destruction. There are many good men in the journalistic profession, and in other walks of life arc to be found numbers of those who have had more or less experi- ence in it. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 117 EX for the first fancy-dress party of the season at the Fontaines' the 71'VrV’N rooms are unusually crowded. Here a,u there a knight promenades ' among the palms, with his lady, while a merry jester flits from group to group, leaving jollity and laughter in the wake of his ready wit. At the foot of the balcony stairs, sits a sorceress, nonchalantly grinding forth doleful strains from a music-box, and giving slips of her advice to all-comers. The orchestra, hidden in the balcony, behind a bower of crimson ramblers, fills the great hall with sweet melody. Here, in the cosy retreat of an ante-room, screened bv palms, lounge His Eminence, the Car- dinal Richelieu, and His Grace, the Duke of Nemours, in secret conference. His Eminence, now that he is safe from curious eyes, has discarded his mask and the scanty locks of his calling. An active young fellow he is. with an easy grace of car- riage that would put him at his ease anywhere and under any circumstances. That he is always fond of a good time, you would decide at first glance. Then you would look again, for he is the type of a man any woman wouid fancy and any man es- teem. Yet. enshrouded within his cowl, he is as sober and as pious of mien as ever his predeces- sors were. His Grace, the duke, is in some respects in com- plete contrast to His Eminence. He is self-reliant, tall and fair, sometimes in the mood for a good time, sometimes not. lie is in the former state to- night, and gallant and courteous he is when he draws on his sunny locks and adjusts his mustachio and goatee. Such are our two conspirators as they leisurely lay their plots. Ell tell you a scheme. Your Eminence; I’ll lay you a wager that------” Hut Your Grace knows that I lay no wagers; 'tis not becoming to my cloth. A fig for your cloth, when Her Ladyship’s con- cerned. 1 make no doubt you would doff your cloth if it were the means of gaining a gracious glance from her dancing blue eyes.” Ah. Your Highness, know you not that such earthly things are not for a churchman? But what is Your Highness’ meaning in regard to this wager?” It is this: I’ve beheld her but once, and then 'twas at His Majesty’s birthday party nigh three months since. Your Eminence told me that you had her dainty hand, only three nights since, in sev- eral dances.” Tut, tut. how knows Your Highness this? Your Eminence is forgetful: you told me this vester-night. Hut let us to our plan ere it be too late. You with your fresh memory of her charms have the advantage of me. yet if you can seek her out ere we doff our masks, I’ll pay the fiddler for this night, while if the fortune be mine, then Your Eminence’s lot will be to furnish the music.” I think I understand Your Highness, though I bethink me of another condition we may add: If Her Ladyship should recognize either of us while she is dancing with him. then let him present her with a nosegay of violets, when masks fall. Aye, and a very pleasant forfeit ’twill be to pay. Let us meet in the same set for the fifth dance. Your Eminence knows the usual one—until then let jollity reign supreme. Au re voir. Your Em-------- What seeks this poor Fool with his jingling bells and jabbering tongue?” A thousand pardons, my Lords. I crave forgive- ness. by your leave-----’’ Here knave, not so quickly.” cried His High- ness seizing him. what seek you? That which none but a fool may find.” “Think you to appease my curiosity with your gibberish? Speak. If your worship will but unhand me. my mind will be as a book to him. ’Tis the Lady Beautiful, fairest of the fair, whom I seek.” Zounds, the fairest of the fair. Mark me. Your Eminence, this will bear our attention. Holt, de- scribe this lady to us.’’ That, my lord, am I far too wise a fool to at- tempt. since her grace and beauty beggar all de- scription. I’faith. my lord, if my memory plays me not false, you need no description.” “And pray. Master Fool, what fable is this you are prating?” Methinks. noble sir. you seek this same fair lady.” What, you don’t mean to say you seek Her Ladyship of FI----- “Ha. Ha! Your lordship proves imprudent. I thank vou.” Thrice simpleton that I am.” muttered the duke under his breath. But why do you think to find her here?” 118 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Because a fool’s intuition tells me she is here since niv eves saw her enter.” Aha, so you can tell us of her costume?” My lord. I were an artless fool an I did that. No, my lord, she wore a long cloak, hiding all from view. If you would find her, take a fool’s advice and seek for her. I sec stately ladies of fair Eng- land. there are gracious dames of your own court; i’faith well nigh every court seems represented. Then. too. there is one who is none of these; there is a Puritan maid. The first strains of the march are sounding, my lords, I’m off.” Tis the fifth dance and His Eminence, the Duke, and the merry Jester have saluted once more. Many eyes rest on His Highness, clad in delicate pale-blue satin, his sunny hair falling about his shoulders and every line of his graceful figure vibrating in harmony with the music, as he trips daintily around the set. Silvery melody caresses the ear. and a delicate perfume permeates the air. Gaiety is paramount. He is wise, my lord, who heeds the advice of a fool.” Aye, and wiser still to know it for advice.” answered His Eminence, as he passed by the Jester. “Egad. Monsieur lc Due. you are fortunate to- night.” Oui. it is almost too good to be true. Your Eminence. Your music is so very sweet. laughed His Highness, with a twinkle of raillery in his voice, and I have a violet, on-ly a blue violet of Old Englan’. but pardonez moi. Your Highness. I al- most forget, ‘such earthly things arc not for a churchman Ha! Ha!” As the Duke glided round the hall with the Puritan maid, to a dreamy waltz that sang of love and flowers, he whispered softly, Mademoiselle, I dream of a land so fair, ’tis a dreamland, a land of violets, blue vio-lcts of a maiden’s eyes.” A beautiful land it must be. but. sir. I thought the maidens of France had dark eyes.” “Don’t be onriz’nablc. Do onderstand. ’Tis a land more fair than France, ’tis the land where mademoiselle lives.” A fine speech, sir. she said, her cheek flushing, but does not delicate flattery speak of the adept?” Cruel, to think so! It but proves the reflected radiance of being with you. But violets, the violet T have begged and received from you, has it no message?” lie asked as they entered the shade of the palms. “No, none whatever,” she answered, averting her head. “Ah, I know well I don’t deserve it, but------” “No.” and the head bent lower. “Not one little word just for me?” She did not answer. “Look at me,” he said. Still she did not move. He took the little gloved hand gently in his. Tt was trembling. She did not withdraw it. Soon, how soon he did not know, he felt her warm fingers clasp his own. and then she looked up and met his eyes. “You knew the message long, long ago.” she said. And I shall dream for al-wavs in a fair land, a land of blue violets, on-ly blue vi-o-lets. ma bellissima,” he murmured. Bt Ibome ITn TLoxxre 56 v Hina B. Cumminas, je., ’96 IEX! vous etes les demoiselles ameri- caines?” After replying in the affirmative, we learned that the per- son from whence this interrogation came was Madame S—, who had come to the station with her carriage in order to take us to her country scat, a few miles out of Tours. Passing through the quiet old city, we were at once impressed by the busy serenity of that staid provincial town. Then, after crossing the long bridge which spans the Loire, we soon found our- selves ascending narrow roads with high walls on both sides. These walls excited my curiosity. What could be behind those forbidding barriers? Suddenly we stopped before immense iron gates, and upon their being thrown open—what a revelation was disclosed to us! Here was my first glimpse of a true French garden—garden! it would be more properly called a park! With vines, shrubbery, trees, walks, rustic scats, arbors, fountains, statuary, rivulets, and groups of white iron tables and chairs here and there under the trees, all forming an artistic whole, I could not wonder at the French- man’s secret pleasure in enclosing all this by high walls, seeming as it were, to bar out all the discord of the outer world. Surrounded by this ideal beauty, how can one help being at peace with him- self? Alas! that one cannot live in a garden! The house, which seemed more like an old castle, was situated with the back part toward the highway. It was constructed of stone, and must have been standing for centuries, although it was well preserved. The present proprietors were Monsieur and Madame S-------. Monsieur was a retired professor, within whom the spring of life had long since dried up. and his wife was a good-natured person (with the exception of occasional outbursts), whose chief pleasure, I believe, was to sit down to a nine-course dinner and to lead the conversation at full speed into the wily paths of gossip. We have been told that they are not dependent upon boarders, that they have a good income from their vineyards SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 119 alone, but I fancy that they would find it monoto- nous to sit opposite each other during their long re- pasts with no one else present to prevent their dis- puting to a hot degree. Certainly two such tem- pers were never made for each other. Perhaps that is why the Professor, when not out driving or in his garden training some rare vine, was always in his library. How I shuddered when I entered his library for my first French lesson! The whole room seemed to assume that cold, forbidding na- ture of its owner. Even the books, row after row. did not appear inviting. The furniture was of beautiful old carved wood, high back chairs, uphol- stered in leather, a handsome librarv table, a desk, and a couch. All these things certainly ought to be conducive to study, but everything was so im- pregnated with the personality of its master, that no inspiration was to be had. How quickly I would run into the garden after mv lessons, and it was there that I could receive the inspiration necessary for work. In fact, during those few weeks in the country. I almost lived in the garden, only glad to go within at the sound of the great bell in the belfry, which announced the dinner hour. When inside the house. I felt uneasy and out of temper. It seemed to me that the large pieces of carved wood furniture in the parlor had not been moved for centuries, and that I was breathing in the dust of several generations. In the dining-room the floor was of tiles, and no matter how great a fire in the fireplace, these tiles always maintained a certain degree of coldness. There was a satisfaction in being able to step from any room on the ground floor directly into the gar- den. My own room was very comfortable: tliere was a large fireplace, and the furniture was of the rich old-fashioned style. What a beautiful sensa- tion it was to step on to my balcony in the very early morning and listen to the singing of the birds in the fig trees below! Alas! amid all these beauti- ful surroundings harmony did not exist in that household, and after a few weeks’ stay there, we were only too gia'1 , hen Madame I� ---.the woman who was to take charge of us that winter, was ready to receive us. Madame B------lived in a pretty little apartment in a central locality of Tours, not far from Balzac's house. She was a refined, cultured woman, and her daughter of about twenty years was quite a remarkable pianist. Since her husband's death, Madame had been in the habit of taking one or two English girls in her charge, parents placing their daughters entirely in her care for one or two years at a time. This year she was to take two inexperienced American girls, my sister and myself. She became almost like a mother to us in thought and care. and. what was at times trying to our independent American spirit. emphasized the necessity and importance of that most important personage, the chaperon. Will you spend a day with me in Tours? From nine until eleven a French lesson. Then we rested half an hour, somtimes walking in the garden at the back of the house. It was not a park here, only a space about forty-five feet square, enclosed in high walls. This little space, however, was so attractive, the walls were covered with vines, there were a number of trees, pretty little paths among the flower beds and shrubbery, and in one corner was a picturesque arbor, under which the family often drank tea. In the month of February we enjoyed picking violets in this little garden. At this season all Touraine seemed to be smiling with new life. After lunch we started out with Madame to make calls, do errands, or perhaps to take a stroll. Our walks in and about 'Fours were always full of interest, for at every turn some quaint picture presented itself, then. too. something of historic in- terest. since the many centuries past have left deep impressions on that old city. Although it is now a prosperous town, still it as- sumes that tranquil, resigned air. as if all its energy had been spent in the past ages. It was always a pleasure to go to the flower market on the boule- vard or down “rue Xationale. where all the prin- cipal shops were, and where we enjoyed watching the people. Upon returning home about three o'clock, we studied until five, then joined the family in taking afternoon tea. What cosy times we had at this hour! The rest of the time until dinner was spent in study. We were generally through with this last meal at half after eight, and the evening was passed together in the small parlor, before an open fire, either reading aloud or talking. A quiet life? Yes. but in perfect keeping with the calm, peaceful atmosphere of that ancient town. Once a week we enjoyed a musical evening at the home of friends of Madame I� ---. What a mus- ical family there! They formed an orchestra among themselves. While the musicians played, the others were seated about a large library table, the women doing fancy work, and the men now and then cheering certain passages in the music. At times the serene countenance of the parish priest smiled from some corner, as he was wont to drop in once in a while upon these occasions. After two hours of music, we all adjourned to the dining-room, where we sat about a long table to enjoy tea with fancy cakes and amusing stories. How they did chatter! Never can an embarrassing silence occur in a company of French people! Too soon we heard the carriage at the door! Too soon we were home and dreaming of the clever, merry people whom we had left. And our day in Tours is ended. 120 SOMKRVIIJ.K HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Bntonio (Lord 36v? G. Sbenvoofc IRiclier Ifllustratcd I)Cl C c AUmficU' Scott K doubt pre-em- ncnce of gure a n 1 o r t r a i t a i n t i n g v c r every eh of art; h rough the C man that ;t ideals of best find enters a or views a asteqiiece, ►m that he d the mere n front of may follow the in trica- bat he sel- from which It seems rather unjust that the model-; of the average well-known art. production should lx- deprived from their share of the apprecia- tion bestowed. If a man or woman is worthy to represent the conception f a high ideal in life or art. their due should not be swallowed up in the ap- preciation of the finished work. Hut for the merete example of this abstraction. Antonio Corsi, universally acknowledged as the most illustrious model in the world, was practically un- known to all hut those more or less closely connected with art, till the Boston papers discovered he was re- siding in Boston. When people entered the Library and saw the famous paintings of Abbey and Sargent, how many ever stopped and asked themselves, I wonder who ]K sed for this subject or that? We would hazard, not. one in a thousand. And why? Simply because the masters of the past two centuries and their con- temporaries never considered their models of any more consequence than the canvas or pigment they might he using—thev are neeessarv. and that was alb Fortunately. Corsi is living in an age when people go back of mere productions for their origin. lie is fast becoming known, and his name is bound to live after him. and he associated with the notable works for which he has posed. Corsi has a very interesting personality. He is a man of medium height, with broad shoulders, and features lxmnd to attract attention. Most precious is his wealth of coal-black hair, which flows to his shoulders. It makes a striking setting to a dark Italian face, the prominent Roman nose, a pair of blazing, penetrating eyes, and an expressive mouth above a sharp, heavy jaw. lie is very artistic in temperament, and is wholly wrapped up in his life-work. In several conversa- tions which the writer has had with Corsi, much of his life and work were gleaned. The father of the model was one Fortunato Corsi, a musician in a small town south of Home. In his early ANTONIO CORSI. youth Antonio accompanied his father and other musicians on their tours. During one trip he went to Paris, where the trained eye of a passing artist. Mr. Moscheles. fell upon him. After some persua- sion he was induced to become the page and model SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR I 21 of the artist. Thus commenced his life as a model. IIis fame spread fast and by the time he reached manhood he was acknowledged without a peer in his special work. He 1ms posed for some of the most famous living artists.—among them, II. R. II. Princess Louise. Sir I'M ward Burne-Jones, Lord I’rederiek Leighton, P. R. A., Countess Feodora Glciehen, Edwin A. Abbey, R. A.. John S. Sargent, R. A.. Le Baron Ariaid Rosenkrant' , and the late Empress Frederick of Ger- many. To the sympathetic listener he has many anec- dote's and stories to tell concerning each. He tells one story about James McNeill Whistler and Ladv Eden, which he heard the former relate in Sargent's studio, where he was at that time posing. It seems that Whistler was to paint Ladv Eden’s portrait for the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, with a deposit- of fifty pounds, and there were to be three sittings. The portrait was finished. Lady Eden expressed her dislike and refused 10 rake it. Furthermore, she demanded the return of the fifty pounds deposited. 'Phis Whistler emphatically refused to do. The result was a law suit, which Whistler lost. He appealed, but in vain. With the sting of defeat, rankling he conceived the idea of painting a caricature of his original painting of l.ady Eden, and exhibiting it at a coming Salon exhibition. He finished the caricature, but rumors came to Lady Eden of Whistler’s mean revenge, and she came to him. The result was that beside receiving one hun- dred and fifty founds for the destruction of the cari- cature, she purchased the original for the same price. Similar stories of petty feuds of artists he tells by the hour, pleased with a listener. Corsi’s studio is not the least interesting of his environments. Upon first entrance it greatly re- sembles the abode of an actor, with its myriad pic- tures and costumes about on the walls. A close ex- amination undeceives one. In irregular, yet artis- tic order are seen oils, water colors, charcoals, and etchings on the walls and ceiling. Almost encir- cling the room are his fifty odd costumes, which he proudly displays, and at times dons for the benefit of his admirers. Among his most prized belongings in this studio are two costumes given him by Abbey, one. the armor and sword used in the paintings of the Holy Grail, and a valuable guitar presented to him by Sargent. Corsi has become greatly attached to America, and especially to Boston, so much so, that he is now con- templating bringing the contents of his London studio, valued in the neighborhood of ten thousand dollars, to America. It may furthermore be gratifying to note that the school board have procured Mr. Corsi’s services for the Life Class in the evening schools in Somer- ville. Corsi is new but in the prime of life, and we may well expect to hear of him in the future as the sub- ject of art treasures as famous as those in the Boston Public Library. Journalism J6 ? IRutb GuftS, IE.. '00 ULIAN RALPH in his recently pub- lished work, The Making of a Jour- nalist ' gives a graphic picture of the real life of a reporter on one of the great daily newspapers. But the undergraduate looking longingly to- wards an editor’s chair may find interesting a brief sketch of my four years’ experience in the routine work, the drudgery, one may almost say. of the office of a great religious weekly, for by this same humble portal must enter even the great man whom we hail as editor-in-chief, as a first requisite for the editorial position is perfect acquaintance with the ways of the paper. Horace Greeley said no man could be a success- ful editor who had not first eaten ink” for a time,— the modern idea requires the novitiate to give bis time and such services as he can offer for three months, in return for the general journalistic knowl- edge which the editor, the entire force of the office, the atmosphere of the place, the very fact of being there, imparts. The apprentice is not set to writing stories. All hi specimens in the line of fiction carry less weight than a well-written report which he may have chanced to send his high school or local paper. What is wanted is point, brevity, and clearness. All thoughts of style must go. I understand now what a former teacher used to puzzle us by saying, If you think any part is particularly good, cut it out. Don’t try to be original, don’t try to be bright and entertaining, say what you have to say simply and concisely. The applicant must accept any hack-work, mak- ing the index, recording manuscripts, verifying statements. He reads and passes judgment on manuscripts,—though his opinion seldom settles their fate! He arranges and writes up departments, and this hardly seems original work, for it usually consists of wading through exchanges, and writing over the cuttings which are suited for the especial column on which he is working. He sometimes edits” a manuscript. What joy is the first experience of 122 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR letting the blue pencil run riot over the pages, es- pecially if the author is a learned minister or a special contributor” of twice one's own age and experience. Book reviewing is one of the departments of work which may fall to the apprentice later. It is so much easier to read a book than to criticize, and easier to criticize than to put your own opinions into the shape of a fair review. What the l ook undertakes to be or do. Points of special interest. Literary value.” are three rules given me by an edi- tor whose criticisms of the current books are gen- erally accepted among librarians and the class of readers who know better than to believe all the puffs which are written with one eye on the pub- lisher. But how you struggle over them some- times! It seems as though your idea of a really good review is not at all appreciated by the editors, and when you try to suit them with rather poor re- sults. according to your thinking, you are some- times greatly surprised at the commendation that follows. An all-day annual meeting seems difficult to re- port in readable form, unless you catch a quotable phrase from an address, or light up the statistics with the glow of the golden chrysanthemums on the president’s desk. And you feel quite like a re- porter when you look over the treasurer’s report afterwards with the Transcript man. onl you wonder if you are taking down the same points. You really have an original idea for a paragraph in the Home department, and if it chances to arouse comment and contradiction, you feel cor- rcs]M ndingly important. But the interview is the height of apprentice am- bition. With notebook and pencil you start off bravely to find out all that some person in the pub- lic eye knows on a certain subject.—and he gener- ally is much kinder and more willing to talk than you have been led to believe he would prove. Or there is a fresh-air farm or a settlement scheme to be visited. How you labor over the article that must result from the notebook’s gleanings, whether it be a paragraph or a two-page illustrated article: you do your very best, and think more of the one interviewed or the supervisor of the farm, to whom you have promised a copy, than you do of all the thousands who will read it. The three months are a very short time in which to learn so much, and you begin to look about early for a position. There is not a great demand, espec- ially for girls. But one of our girls from the English high school has a good position on a Philadelphia journal, another has served on two Boston maga- zines. worked as an author's private secretary, and is now with one of the big publishers. Another found how much she needed to know, and is study- ing at college. If this all-round work doesn't bring out decided talent in the journalistic line, be slow about choos- ing it for your career. There are too many medi- ocre literary aspirants in the field, and. at best, an editor’s salary is not large. A woman has about as much as a good teacher’s salary. Special articles are more lucrative.—when they are accepted. You realize what the chances for acceptance are when you hear that out of 1,292 manuscripts received by a weekly in an average year, only sixty-two were not returned to their au- thor. But a regular income may be counted on, and the writing of special contributions to other papers is more safely used as an auxiliary method of sup- port. Unavailable” is an overworked word in the polite printed note which accompanies the rejected manuscripts, but there is a good deal of truth in the excuse. Every journal has its special styles of articles which it requires, and a contribution quite impossible for one will be gladly accepted for an- other. Originality takes a high place in the requi- sites for an acceptable article: a clear, good style of presentation is next. Of course the subject matter is all important. It must be timely and readable. Unless the editor finds it a contribution he can’t afford to let go. lie usually decides that it is one that he can’t afford to keep. Cbe Xtttle Conqueror JSb fi na pollard 3oncs, '03 LIOTT Hastings drew on his fur coat, and taking his hat and gloves went out of the hotel. As he made his way down the crowded avenue he was wondering about the new case which had come into the office that morn- ing. when suddenly he felt something clasping his hand. Looking down he saw two great brown eyes looking up at him from under a big hat, and a .tinv gloved hand in his own. Oh, I say. what’s the trouble?” he asked, as he bent over a small lad of four. Dad. I’m Geof. was his only reply, but as he saw an old Gypsy woman crossing the street, he frantically clutched the hand of his new-found friend. The Gypsy came nearer, and bade the child come with her, trying to take him by the hand, but the child huddled closer to his protector. Eliott Hastings saw the fear in the child’s eyes, and lifting him in his strong arms, asked the woman to SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR conic with him. She became frightened, and slipped away in the crowd. I’m awfully sorry, old chap, but I am on my way to a dinner at the club, and I honestly don’t see but that you will have to come along. You won’t mind, will you?” The little fellow smiled and wound his arms about Hasting’s neck. Bully for you. Are you hungry?” An affirmative nod of the head knocking dad’s” hat into the gutter was the young man’s reply, to- gether with a merry chuckle as the hat fell to the ground. You needn't laugh.” Hastings remarked, as he reached down for it When they reached the club. Hastings imme- diately telephoned the police. Then they went down to dinner, the little lad riding on Hastings’ shoulder. A burst of laughter broke forth when they entered. “Oh. I say, who’s yoiir protege?” asked Sears, in the midst of the uproar. He’s a friend of mine. I happened to meet him as I was on my way: and he accepted my invita- tion to dine here. Isn’t that so, Gcof?” asked 1 bastings, as he lifted the little fellow to the ground. Of course, I knew he was not a Harvard man. but 1 thought that the rules could be broken for once.” “Geof” shook hands with all the men. and at dinner sat in state at the right of the president, amidst great merriment. What would you like to eat? asked “dad.” “Bread and milk. the little fellow replied as he looked up into Hastings’ face. The perfect confi- dence that the boy had placed in him from the be- ginning had won his heart. Bread and milk for one.” ordered Hastings. When “Geof” had eaten to his heart's content, the president remembered that he used to like to draw pictures when he was a boy. and immediately furnished him with a pencil. Before paper could be found, he had made very elaborate designs on the tablecloth, explaining each object to the presi- dent as he drew it. When he had covered the cloth as far as he could reach. Hastings took him in his lap. and thus he was passed to the left until he had covered the entire cloth. Then, worn out. the little conqueror slept with his head on dad’s” shoulder. And when at twelve o’clock no clue had been found by the police, dad” and Geof” went home to- gether to the hotel. The next morning, on the lining of Geof’s” coat. Hastings found this writing. Mr. Clarence Barker, St. Louis. Missouri.” And he immediately telegraphed to St. Louis. Then they went down town together. The men in the office smiled as Geof” perched himself in Hastings’ great chair. They tried to amuse the child: one made a Jacob’s ladder out of paper; another cut a dog out of rubber; and a third produced a box of colored crayons and drew most brilliant pictures. “Geof” spent the rest of the morning before a mirror, cov- ering his face with the crayons until he looked, in truth, like an Indian chief ready for war. At noon “dad and Geof lunched at the club, then spent an hour in a toy shop, from which they appeared laden with electric trains and automo- biles. Within a few days a letter came from St. Louis, saying that Mr. Clarence Barker, with his son. had left for New York ; that the forward car had been wrecked, and that Mr. Barker’s body hail been found among the dead and had been sent back. They had feared that the child had been kidnapped. The letter said that the child had no known rela- tives except a Samuel Barker in Colorado Springs, and the only thing was to communicate with him. Meanwhile society began to complain at Hast- ings’ absence; but for sonic reason he had no com- plaint to offer. In the afternoons they often drove. How “Geof ’ loved the high cart and the dashing horses. In the evenings they frequently played horse, train, and all manner of games. Finally, one evening. Hastings interrupted the game. “How would you like to go with me to see a very nice young lady who has a very nice little kitten ?” “I’d like it. dad. May I play with the kitten?” As they came into the drawing-room they pre- sented a pleasant picture.—the handsome athlete in evening dress and at his side the little child, with his yellow hair cut in the English fashion, in a white, kilted suit. 'Hie very nice young lady did her best to entertain the littic fellow, but his atten- tion wandered. “What is he looking for. Eliott ?” she asked. I’m looking for the kitten, dad.” Hastings explained; and the “very nice young lady” brought the coveted kitten. “Geof. en- tirely unconscious of anybody’s presence, played with it in the middle of the floor, to the delight of the entire company, until boy and kitten curled up in a heap and slept. “Geof” had been introduced into society. From this time on he was in great demand. Hastings' girl friends vied with one another in doing for his protege. When the letter came from Colorado Springs. Hastings did not open it at once. But after the littic boy was fast asleep, he opened it. smiling faintly as he thought of the little fellow in the next room. The letter was from Mrs. Samuel Barker, saying that her husband had recently died, leaving them with scarcely any income, and that it would be impossible for them to take the child. But she begged him to find a home for him. Eliott Hastings jumped to his feet, and going to the door looked at the vellow head on the pillow. “By Jove, I’ll do it!” ' Then, tiptoeing softly across to the bed. he looked for a long time at the sleeping figure. You poor little homeless boy. thrust into the world by a hard- hearted aunt. You’re the finest thing I have ever seen, and I’m going to do the very best I can for you. We’ll go to St. Louis, to get your poor dead father’s will, and to see his friends. Then, ii they can’t do anything better for you than I can, 124 SOM ICR VILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR we'll conic back together. Jove, little boy, I hope they can't. And his voice caught as he put his head against the yellow hair on the pillow. ‘Geof,’ we arc going back to dear old New York.” dad” whispered, as the train started. You aren’t sorry, are you?” and putting his arms about his little boy, he kissed him on the forehead. During the summer months “dad” and Geof” spent most of their time visiting at different sum- mer homes. All the attentions were showered upon Geof : young and old alike strove to please him. but through it all he remained the same un- spoiled child. Roth dad and (ieof had been looking forward especially to their visit to the “very nice young lady ’ The fact that she still possessed the kitten interested Geof.” What are you thinking, dad?” asked “Geof” on the train. 1 was wondering,” answered dad,” as he lifted Geof” to his knee, how you would like it for you and ‘dad’ to have the ‘very nice young lady’ for a mamma. Now, you think hard for a whole minute, then tell me.” Geof knitted his brows and puckered up his tinv mouth for a second, then he smiled. I would, dad : will she bring the kitten?” That evening the very nice young lady,” “dad.” and Geof were walking on the beach, when sud- denly Geof looked up into her face. You’re going to be dad’s and my mamma, please kiss me.” Eliott Hasting smiled as he looked down into her face. Will you be ‘Gcof’s’ and ‘dad's’ mamma?” And then, as lie saw the answer in her eyes, he could only repeat Geof's request. iAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Bt tbe Settlement J6v? 3eannette Bones £ awson, '01 R. MEREDITH was sitting at his desk in the office, gazing into space, and making hieroglyphics on the blotter with his fountain pen. His preoccu- pation might have been explained by the fact that, on the other side of the wall, a certain girl was opening to infant minds the wondcrfnl realms of art. The doctor remembered the first time she had come to the Settlement house. She had stood in the doorway with the director, smiling hopefully at the fifteen small boys and girls who stared a mo- ment speculatively, and then smiled back as hope- fully at her. The littlest boy had lifted to her large dark eyes, full of admiration, that wandered, beauty-loving, over the new teacher's soft brown hair, her shin- ing eyes, and a mouth with a suspicion of dawning smiles in the corners. Then he slipped his hand in hers. The children closed around her, the older girls appropriating her muff, while the smaller ones smiled shyly and appealingly from a distance. The littlest boy laid a caressing hand upon the teacher’s arm. You a princess?” he queried softly. She smiled, and shook her head. One of the older girls laughed indulgently at the child’s re- mark. She’s a loidy. ain’ cher? A lady princess?” the little boy persisted. “I’ll try to be both. Then one of the circle ventured. “Teacher, arc vou a swell? Mv father’s a swell.” Is he? “Sure! He’s cook at the Somerset, and he cooked Prince Henry’s dinner.” Then every one began to volunteer family his- tory, so loudly and rapidly that Teacher” and the two gentlemen made inaudible protest. One at a time, please.” said the director, in a lull. Teacher looked down at the littlest boy. She had mentally remarked upon the blackness of his hair and eves, and said :— “Is your father a Cuban?” The child looked puzzled for a moment; then re- plied naively: Xo’tn. He's a iceman.” That was too much for the dignity of the three worthies. The girl laughed, and Meredith discovered that she possessed the most fascinating dimples imag- inable. Then and there they all mentally followed the action of the littlest bov and surrendered. Some days had passed since then. The Princess.” as all the children called her now. had just dismissed the class, and told them not to wait for her (for they usually escorted her to her car). As she turned to the table, to sort the afternoon’s work, her eye fell upon the doctor’s note pad, hang- ing upon the wall. Her checks flushed at the memory of what one of the children had said dur- ing class. The doctor had been in to ask how things were getting on. and when he went out one of the girls had asked, tcasingly.— “Teacher, is he.loving mit you?” Was he?” she asked herself. She turned to her work. When she iiad finished she prepared to go home. But as she did so. she caught sight of a folded paper which had fallen on the floor beside the table. She picked it up. On the outside was written “Miss Marv.” SOM HR VILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 125 She smiled, thinking fondly of the children who had become so dear to her. •She read a line, then glanced at the end of the writing. I isn’t signed!” she exclaimed, and who on earth”----but she hurried on with the reading. Then she indulged in a localism of her youth, and said. Well. I never!” The paper was soiled and crumpled, and the note.” she reflected amusedly, “is better a melo- drama.” My darling,” (it began) ever since I first be- held with dazzled eyes the effulgence and glory of your ravishing eyes, and heard the music, sweeter than angel anthem, of your voice, my heart has been joyfully, unreservedly, unconditionally yours. I know your duty to your children must be con- sidered. I realize how far beneath you I am. and yet. with the humility of a slave to his queen. I offer you my whole life’s devotion, and ask you to be my wife.” Miss Mary gasped in amazement. Then she had an idea, which made little danger signals of her eyes and checks. 1 should think that a man of his age and educa- tion would know better. It’s an insult. Yes. Pm sure of it. She dropped her head in her hands, and thought hard. Now the littlest boy. remembering something he had left at the Settlement house, had come back, and at this point, as he had been watching Teacher” with childish sympathy, decided, quite correctly, that something ought to be done, and with the determination expressed in every baby curve of his face, entered the doctor’s office. “Hullo, youngster! What’s the matter?” ■‘Sh!” hushed the boy. Tt's Miss Mary, the Princess. She’s a-putting her head on hands, and when peoples docs that, they’re having sick feel- ings.” Meredith rose, and installed the boy on the desk. Don’t tip over the ink. and if you wait till I come back. I’ll give you anything you want.” The next moment Miss Mary looked up and saw him standing beside her. She began immediately, with a bravery that sur- prised her. Did you write this?” placing the open sheet upon the table. He didn’t speak. Pardon me, but will you tell me if you wrote this?” she reiterated. He laughed, and thrust his hands in his pockets. Yes, I did.” Did you do it for a joke?” A joke? Well, decidedly not. It wasn’t in- tended for you.” “But my name.” and she pointed an accusing finger at the words Miss Mary.” “Bv Jingo! I didn’t know—I don’t see how,” but a fiery, incriminating flush spread over his face. Can you explain?” It’s this way. I’ve been roped into taking a part in the play out home, and that’s a part of my lines.” But mv name!” “Well, here goes.” and he moved closer. “Truth is. 1 was sitting in there and trying to study it. and I kept hearing you, talking to the children, and—well—” Yes?” she queried, expectantly, aiming a hat pin with a cupid’s head on it, at a hole in her hat. T just wrote it.” Yes? she missed her aim, and pulled the hat pin out with a jerk. Miss Mary,” he said suddenly, “I wish I had written it. If I had-----” But you didn’t.” she cried softly. If I had. I wonder if Cupid would have given me a valentine?” They both looked at the hat-pin. then at each other. And Cupid had his innings, for it was St. Valentine’s day. When they came into the office, the littlest boy raised his head sleepily from the desk, and seeing their faces, cried suddenly and conclusively, Oh. he is loving mit you!” And Miss Mary’s dimples discovered themselves as she put her arms around the child, and said. How do you like playing Cupid?” $ That night, just before the littlest boy fell asleep, his mother heard him murmur drowsily. Motter, is married princesses queens?” jfebruars JGy Buetfn to. Ulorlt . ’01 The winter woods are bleak and bare. The brook is silent still, The snowbanks lie unlovely there Upon the dun-clad hill. But all the air a message keeps As of thy coming, dear, And all the restless wood that sleeps Stirs, dreaming thou art near. 126 SOMERVILLK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR (3066ip 3obn jflDcflDUUn, IE., ’03 HILE waiting for her to come down, I tried to recall my last visit. Surely, said I, to myself, the girl must think me careless, not to have come sooner. But business is business, so they say, and school is business. This thought comforted me. Why, how do you do?” she said, bubbling with hospitality. I'm so glad to see you; you arc quite a stranger.” “Well, you see. I'm pretty busy. You are look- ing well.” Always busy,” she said, ignoring my compli- ment. which was very womanly, of course, “always busy, you're just slow—that's all.” “Oh, I protest, you never had a calculus exam, ahead of you.” “Of course, you got through with credit,” she said, smiling. Her confidence was very flattering. If she had seen me plugging the week before, with a towel around my skull, she might have been less confident of my success. I suppose,” said I. “that you got through yours with flying colors. “Don’t speak of it—it makes me quake to think of that condition in Greek—I haven’t heard yet how I came out. “Well, just keep cool,’ ” I answered reassur- ingly. “Oh. by the way,” she said, rather abruptly changing the subject, “what has become of Mr. Pierce?” Now, what on earth, thought I, does she care about that old Mr. Pierce? This was a shock I wasn't expecting. But I saw my opportunity, and seized it. “Piercer said I, “Oh. lie hasn’t made himself very conspicuous lately. He had an accident.” Why. is that so? What was it? She was so interested that I decided to prolong the discomfort. It was a kind of bombshell.” I explained. Yes. but what happened?” Quite a catastrophe.” How?” she insisted. Suddenly.” “Was he hurt badly?” “Badly,” I answered. “Will he recover soon?” Probably not.” He won't be deformed, will he?” Her whole expression was begging me to say no. I thought of how Pierce would enjoy it. Not permanently. I replied. Oh! Is he now? “Well, somewhat,” I drawled, “his face—” “His face—!” “Yes, his face is long enough to eat oats out of a churn.” quoth I. “Now, I think you are just horrid to torment—” Forgive it. I honestly didn’t think you were being tormented.” (1 am getting to be such a cheerful liar!) No, I didn’t mean that exactly,” she said un- easily. Now, did anything happen to him?” “It seems so.” “Seems so? Why, don’t you know so?” she asked. Not exactly—just so-so.” Well, whenever you get around to it, tell me about it.” she said, looking out of the window with feigned indifference. Well, that’s just what I’m doing as fast as I can.” That’s pretty slowly,” she said, dryly. Only.” I continued, you keep interrupting, ami-----’’ “Why, you old humbug!” There you go—it’s all your fault. Here I've been trying my best to tell you what happened to poor Pierce, and you------” Well, for pity’s sake, what did happen?” Now why, thought I. should she be so deucedly worried about that bow-legged old Pierce? The blockhead wasn’t worth it at all. Well, you know.” said I. as though I had a long story to tell, taking a deep breath, and all that sort of tiling, “you know he had a friend in Wellesley.” Oh. lie’s actually going to tell it! Yes. I know. “And he used to make periodic visits up there, presumably to attend chapel. And. although he never knew what the speaker had talked about, he could always tell how pretty the choir looked com- ing down the aisle, and about that soprano on the right hand side, and------’’ “Well, don’t digress.” she protested. “Go on with vour story. I guess Pierce didn’t get hurt at chapel-----” “There you go. I told you it wouldn’t be of any use for me to try-----” Oh, please go on. I wont breathe.” Well.” I continued, old-man-fashion, and cross- ing my legs, lie had a friend, you grant, in Welles- ley, and he used to go up there to chapel, some- times. granted also----” “And plenty of time granted.” she added. “And the last time he went up there he must have been out of his head.” “Why!” she exclaimed. “Slightly,” said I. reassuringly. “Oh-h. slightly.” “Yes. slightly, don’t interrupt. You see the fool went up there right in the midst of examination time.” “But they don’t study on Sunday up there,” she said, critically. “That’s just the point,” I replied, “and for that reason they retire at eight and get up at four Mon- SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 127 day morning. Now, you know when a fellow goes up to Wellesley he can stay until nine-thirty--” Do they have a curfew?” she asked, sarcas- tically. Of course not, you goose. Don’t interrupt. Well, after Pierce and his friend left the chapel at eight, they took a walk, and they made such a com- plete summary of the town, that Pierce got his feet wet. and----- Pneumonia! she exclaimed. No, no—you’re a regular phonograph. He got his feet wet and wanted to go into the house.” “Oh-h, is that all? ’ she said, evidently much re- lieved. No. it isn't; but I’m doing the best I can. He ought to have known better than that. Half the girls were in bed. Well, Pierce and his friends were a little hilarious, and made more or less noise.” Naturally,” she blurted. “Very naturally,” I assented, ‘“and so somebody up stairs who wanted to rest began to sing, 'Please go ’way and let me sleep’---” “Well, what happened?” she insisted. “Why, he went home, of course. He has been laid up with nervous prostration ever since.” She was silent. I enjoyed it. I sat and watched her expression change. She looked at me criti- cally over her glasses the while. A twinkle stole into her dark eyes, but she refused to laugh. I wondered if she cared a cent about him, but I couldn’t decide. A long, sleek cat stalked into the room, brushed against my trousers, and blinked at her, and then at me. “Kitty, allow me to introduce a perfidious heathen, Mr. Stanley.” “So glad to meet you, kitty,” said I. By the way,” 1 added, glad to get rid of Pierce, “how is Blair getting along?” “Oh,” she replied, lie broke his ankle trying to do some athletic stunt. He jumped out of a second- story window. He says he was showing a police- man the way out.” “Hard luck—got out of his exams, by it, though, I suppose. Have you heard of Billly’s little time over in Lynn?” “No,” she answered, what was it?” He tried to come home on a cow-catcher. Said he wanted to study up on railroad curves and earth- work. Some official saw him. Billy couldn’t get through the iron fence on the other side of the track, so they got him. The judge let him go the next day for five dollars.” Busy world, isn’t it?” Yes, I agreed, “and that just reminds me that I have only five minutes to catch my train.” “I’m sorry you must hurry. When can you be up this way again?” I shall try to come soon.” “Do come,” she said, very sweetly, and then added, and bring Pierce.” “All right, 1 will. Good-bye.” “Good-bye,” she said, chuckling over her victory. But suppose I can't find him,” I pleaded. “Then come, anyway,” she said, relenting, and I went out. IDarkncss anfc IDawn H £alc from Dartmouth .16v Charles Jfrancis Sbeparb, X., '02 OM Harvie slowly made his way across I the moonlit campus with its mantle of the first snow. When he arrived in front of Reed, he took his pipe out of Ins mouth and called out, “Oh, Cush!” A head stuck out of an upper window long enough to cry “Come up,” and then was quickly withdrawn. Toni then leisurely tramped up the worn stairs, and giving the door of number two an impetus with his foot, walked in and proceeded to curl up on the couch in the comer. Ah, going fussing, I perceive,” he said. “Well. Fill going to make an attempt at it if I ever find that, blamed collar button. Hang it. I bet it went down inside my shirt. Stuff some things into that dress-suit case, will you? I'm bound for Bos- ton, and want to catch the excursion train which goes about ten.” “Thought you were dead broke, and here you go, •‘pcerading’ down to Boston all dressed up.” “I thought so myself,” replied Cush, “until the 8.30 mail to-night, when I got a cheek from my brother out West. I had forgotten all about it, but it is my birthday to-day. I had an invitation about two weeks ago to a swell dance given by Flora Ames on her twenty-first birthday; you know 1 met her Prom Week” last year, when her brother had her up here. I guess I'm in for a good time, for in her letter last week she mentioned a theatre party for the day before. Tom lazily began to sing,— “Sweetheart, sweetheart, so tender and so true, “My very life and hap-----” but he got. no farther, for a well-aimed pillow stopped up his mouth, so he kindly refrained. Well. I’m ofT,” said Cush, grabbing his ease in one hand, and slipping his coat on the other. “Lock the door when you come out,” lie called back. “Lucky dog.” muttered Tom. as he slowly got up. knocked his pipe on the heel of his shoe, and set off for his room. Cush was now hurrying down to the station on 128 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR shanks' mare as the stage was not going to meet the special, lie lengthened his strides as he came to the bridge, ami was just in time to catch on to the last car as it drew out of the station. He slouched down in an empty seat and started to enjoy a nap, but the noisy crowd of excursionists would not permit this. On sirs mind wandered back to his work of the previous summer, when from morn till night all had l ccn one continuous din. Oush. or Trevor Cushman, as lie was catalogued, had been forced by circumstances to pay his own college expenses, and his last summer had been spent in running an exhibit at one of the beach re- sorts, on what was known as the Midway. ’ lie had had charge of Darkness and Dawn,” as it. was called, and as it was pretty well patroni .ed. Trevor had been kept decidedly busy. 11 is work kept him mostly in the ticket office. i the entrance stood a devil, dressed in red, who now and then thrust his trident into tin crowd, attracting much attention. On Libor day. when Trevor came to open his ex- hibit. he found himself in rather a bad fix. His devil had received a telegram during the night, de- manding his presence in Boston immediately, so leav- ing a note for Cush, he had departed. But. Cush was not to lie phased long. Calling one of t he attend- ants. he placed him in charge of the ticket office, and he himself donned the red robes of his satanic majesty. lie took his post and played his part well, and lie rejoiced to see the steady stream of humanity pouring into his exhibit. During one of the lulls he called to a little gnome, crouching in one of the grottoes, and asked him to bring him a glass of water. As Cush lifted his mask and was about to drink, lie paused to look at a team, which drove through the crowded thoroughfare, with a queer-looking machine liehind. Thebiograph ' he heard several people ex- claim. It disappeared ns quickly as it had ap- proached. “I‘d like to see that picture, ’ said Cush, to himself. I wonder if they got me.” The day finally ended, and Trevor was only too glad to east aside his infernal rolies and resume a comfortable outing suit. One week more finished up his season, and, after a brief stay at bis aunt’s in Manchester, he had re- turned to college. He was now aroused from bis reveries bv a slap on the back, and Ed Jones, his ‘ hum at prep school, slipped down beside him. They talked over old times, and all the news, and Cush found his ride much shorter than he had feared. Arriving at Boston in the early morning. Jones took Trevor up to his apartments and kept him until the next afternoon, when Cush felt it necessary to be moving on toward Beacon street. He liado his friend good-live and set out. He found Miss Ami's waiting for him, for a tallv- ho partv had been planned among her friends for that afternoon, and Flora had just liegun to get anxious aliout him. So, fifteen minutes later. Cush found himself behind four high-bred horses, riding down the boulevard, and enjoying himself im- mensely. They returned about six o’clock in good spirits, and after a short rest after dinner they all set out for a theatre-party at Keith’s. They just filled the lower 1kix s, and all were interested in the perform- ance, which consisted of the usual acrobatic feats, sketches, singing, etc. The performance ended with the biograph, and the first scene, Coasting Among the Alps,” amused the audience very much. Next came. How Our Working People Spend their Holidays.” Cush was not particularly interested until lie happened to glance up and see in tin- flash- ing picture a sign. “The Johnstown Flood.” A cold sweat began to form on his forehead. This was taken by that infernal machine on Labor day last, lie held his breath as the picture approached his ex- hibit. Yes. there be was, standing right out in re- lief with the little gnome standing at his side, all plain as day. Cush, to himself, cursed the man who had ever invented the biograph, and would have given all his old shoes to lie back in Hanover. What was worse still the people encored it until it had passed across the sheet three times. Trevor knew that Flora had discovered him. for he had seen her li|� s tighten every time his picture came in sight. The partv was soon over and Cush, as soon as he could politely leave, offered some excuse and escaped to his hotel. He cast himself on the bed, and lay a while thinking. Then he arose, rang for some writing paper, and calmly sat down and penned the following note:— The Touraine, December 7. 190—. Mv dear Miss Ames: After what has happened to-night. I cannot liear to accept vour hospitality longer. I wish to lieg vour pardon for any annoy- ance I may have caused you. 1 leave for Hanover on the nine o’clock. Sincerely yours, Trevor Cushman. H« had this mailed and then proceeded to retire for the night. In tbe morning just as he was coming out of the dining-room, a messenger boy thrust a dainty envelope into his hands. He nervously opened it and read:— Beacon street, Boston. Mass. Dear Trevor: I expect you at nine-thirty this morning so that we can finish our set of ping-pong. Sincerely vours. Flora. December the eighth. Trevor went. That evening came the swell dance.” at which Trevor had tbe honor of leading the «mind march with tbe hostess. They also sat out” the last dance, for Trevor felt obliged to return to college on the morrow. “It is ‘dawn’ now,” said Trevor, as lie bade bis hostess good-bye. And those guests who overheard him wondered what lie meant. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 129 bv IRatbmtc iRclan Karl Burroughs, E., '96, M. I. T., 1900, super- intendent Fort Hill Chemical Company. Rumford Falls, Me. Henry D. Jouett, English, '90, M. I. T., 1900, with George B. Swift Co..gencral contractors. Security Building, Chicago. W. Leonard Stevens, English, ’90, M. I. T., 1900, blast furnace foreman, Tennessee Copper Company. Coppcrhill, Tcnn. Robert S. Littlefield, English, '97, M. I. T.. 1901, with William M. Cramp Sons, 1020 Poplar street, Philadelphia. Ralph S. Loring, English, ’97, M. I. T., ’02, draughtsman, Roebling Construction Company, 101 Tremont street, Boston. Wesley A. Maynard, E.. '90, is at present prietor of the West Somerville Reporter. Charles M. Butters, E., ’97, is with the Metro- politan Sewerage Commission at Clinton, Mass. Miss Agatha Commins, E., '9S, is teaching at the George Baxter grammar school. Miss Mary G. Backwell, E., ’98, teaches at the Perry school. Samuel E. Armstrong, L.. ’99, holds a respon- sible position in Buffalo, X. Y. Miss Florence E. Sanborn, L., ’99, is pursuing a course of study at the Emerson College of Oratory. Leo S. Greenwood, E.. ’99, is with the Union Switch Signal Company, St. Louis, Mo. 'Phe following Latin. 1900, boys graduate this year from Harvard University: Louis Carr Doyle, Ralph Hayward Keniston, Franklin Folsom Phil- lips, Jr., Lin wood Erwin Snowman, Eugene R. Vinal. Ward I. Pierce, E.. '00. will take his doctor’s de- gree from the B. U. Medical School, June 1. Miss Helen Hodgkins, L., ‘00, has been taking a special course in English at Boston University. Miss Jessie P. Marshall, L., ’00, who studied one year at Boston University, is now studying music abroad. Mary Winship Kingsley, Latin, ’99, Tufts Col- lege, A. B., and A. M., 1903. Graduate student in History, Bryn Mawr College, Byrn Mawr, Penn. Miss Mary F. Osborne and Miss Grace A. Small, L., ’00, graduate from B. U. in June. Maud Russell Touscy, Latin, '99, is now doing illustrating for the leading magazines. The following members of the class of 1901, Latin, are now Juniors in Harvard: Lester Man- ning Baker, Chester Holbrook Brown, John Hop- kins Densmorc, Robert Nichols, Cyrus Ashton Rollins Sanborn. Harry C. Hatch, L., '01, is at present engaged in engineering in Fall River. Josephine Lacy, E., ’01, has a fine position as stenographer and typewriter, 208 Devonshire street, Boston. Miss Rccardia F. Carty, L., ‘01, is holding a re- sponsible position as stenographer with Howes Bros., Purchase street, Boston, Mass., wholesale commission merchants. Mary Cosgrove, L., ’01, will finish her four-year course at Radcliffe in three years. Iva H. Grant, E., ’02, has removed to Seattle, Washington, and is devoting her time to music. Berkeley Mossman, E., '02, since graduation has been employed in a wholesale leather house in Boston. Miss Florence Burt, L.. ’02, entered Boston University in the fall as a Sophomore, coming their from Radcliffe. The following Somerville boys are at Dart- mouth: English. ’02. and '03, Walter B. Sanborn, Charles A. Russ. Percy J. Holmes, Chester South- worth. Ruben Prichard, Edward French; Latin, '03, A. B. Nickerson. Wallace McCoy, R. H. Goode, Harold Baldwin, William Jennings. Harold Niles. William Wyman, John A. Tarbcll, Robert Cochrane. Charles Nangle, E., ’03, assistant bookkeeper Boston Journal office. Miss Alice Collupy, 1903, is stenographer in the office of Henry P. Nuss, broker, Devonshire street, Boston. Miss Ethel Cook, 1903, stenographer, lawyer’s office. Court street. [Continued on page 183.] 130 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR '04 Ask Lawson about those coasting parties. Did he? I think he did! La comete jetait des eclairs. The comet threw down some eclaires. Speaking of French transla- tion. here is the best ever. Mon Dieu—oh, good- ness ! How well the Twin Sisters” were remembered n the anniversary of their nativity! Miss D— and Miss G—wish to thank their friends. Ilot StutY George, the distinguished author of Forty-Nine.” has resumed his old job on the swan-boat. His retirement from literature will be a severe blow to the world of letters. Mr. Purdy has been chosen for the class photog- rapher. The janitor from now on will be busy sweeping up the dust from those old saws like Don't break the camera.” Look pleasant,” etc. '05 Algebra recitation—The illuminating of terms. It is understood that E—ott while recently visit- ing Groton had a great chance at a deer (?). German translations—He called down the moun- tains—quite a call-down.” Watch your Hans,” not wash your hands. History wit: Greece comes from Turkey. The air is very light. That’s rare. Rain or shine, never shirk, You'll get your physics, if you work. (Hard enough.) '06 Our advice seems to have been taken, and the good work” has gone on. Ask Sharry about the Persian’s “partly” colored trousers. What a religious man Divitiacus must have been. He couldn’t be compelled to “swear.” Notice! Carpenter has started the dramatization of “Tvanhoe,” which will be seen in the near future in one of our Boston theatres. Remember this is a leap year. Doc! Dolan’s definition for Ash Wednesday: “The day—the day the ash man comes around.” So Elliott has eight fingers and two thumbs, has he? Funny, isn’t it? What is the matter with the floor, Cummings? Baker’s German translation: “The old, sad dog.” Rice, translating Greek: “I was born with my- self.” ------- You must be feeling fine this morning.” M-----(after a basket ball game)—“Yes, I feel all right except my body.” What a dainty little pointer in Room 4! We arc sorry to chronicle that Bishop’s desk has had a severe attack of the palsy. Ask Foss how he likes his new name. '07 We arc having a hard time to get a pin to suit us. Division four has at last sold its valuable ruby stone to Division one at a very low price. Division three has a King(man), a Noble, and a Sargent. Teacher—“Where were the Persian warships?” Nolan—“In the water.” There arc some promising poets in our class. Division three held a debate January 15. The question was, Resolved, that United States took a right course of action in recognizing the Repub- lic of Panama.” O'Brian was president; Miss Mulle, secretary. Those who spoke were as fol- lows: Affirmative, Miss Hood. Miss Higgins, Merrill. O’Connor, and Lewis. Negative, Miss Kingman. Miss McCarthy. Ransom. Nolan, and Durell. The deciding committee decided in favor of the negative. In the algebra class we often hear plenty of hail (Hale). We congratulate the girls of Division four on having a club. Division three has a placid pool (Poole) in the middle of the room. Teacher in algebra— How old are you?” Pupil—“Fourteen.” Teacher—“How old will you be in five years?” Pupil—“Five x.” Mr. Hadley must be worth five or six million by the way he lays wagers. Division four is very much interested in Wedg- wood ware. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 1 31 ’04 We arc glad lo sec that the president of our class is figuring in the Somerville Journal’s voting con- test for the St. Louis Exposition. Doughty was sitting quietly in a chair, when sud- denly the hack broke and fell upon the floor. In- stantly he arose and viewed the remains and in a pathetic tone lie said, “Poor glue.” If there were as many bases in baseball as there arc in chemistry, a baseball player would not be apt to get off his base. Duhig, Frost, and Bean, not being able to wait for summer, took a trip down to Revere Beach. How is the water, fellows? Broad-shouldered overcoats are all the rage now. For further information about the style apply to Dunham, Room 27. B-ll— What book arc you studying now in Eng- lish? D-h-g—“Shakespeare’s Don't You Like It.” Wanted: A revolving chair or some device to save Crosby from wrenching his neck during school hours. The news committee of History C and D have developed a fondness for the Stealthy Steve column of the Post. Too bad they cannot get an oppor- tunity to report on it Chance to Win a Hundred (yard dash). All out for the track team! The baseball concert this month is expected to excel all that have been held in the past, as there arc many aspiring comedians awaiting their turn to appear before the footlights. Duhig has recently got a hair cut. We wonder what barber received and earned his fifteen cents. B---- called similes, smiles.” We wish ali figures of speech were nothing but smiles. 'flic police have agreed not to arrest the “Pirates of Penzance” as long as they keep away from Boston. ’05 Two clubs will represent our class in the baseball concert,—the S. O. M., and the F. B. F. C----had a box at the theatre. Box of candy? C----has had a hair cut, two or three of them, in fact. We arc sorry to hear that Frank Murphy has left school. He has taken a position with a well- known Boston firm. Inscription found written across the back of an old report card: Ignorance is bliss, isn’t it folly to be otherwise?” Explanation wanted. Chicken pox is a pretty serious ailment for a Junior. F---r. IV.-III. Physics: 0 from 1G is G. What became of Sir Walter Raleigh after he returned to England?” “He eventually died.” It does look peculiar to see a burly Senior crack- ing pebbles with a tack hammer in geology. They have such a delicate touch, too. L----, perched on wavering stool trying to reach his chemical scales, said he was trying to get his balance.” Question in Astronomy—“How can I find out where the milky way is?” Tune from rear of room— You’ll have to read your answer in the stars.” “Now is the time to get those danger signals off our cards.” Although we need class notes, remember that personality is not always wit. In response to Miss Nichols’ call for a boy with a knife, Miss W----proffered her services. ’06 If it takes two Junior classes to run a social, and one Sophomore, oh, what will the Freshmen do? Geometrical problem: If L C and K T R equal to A B and R T, where will you place ED? '07 Heard in Room 11—“Where is Ken—rd?” In the paper basket.” No class pins yet! ! More class notes, please. Heard in English C—“What kind of poems did John Alden read?” Car—ter—“Longfellow’s poems.” Only one class, the ’04, leads the Freshmen in attendance. Keep the good work up. A half-year has gone by, and still we are repre- sented by about two hundred and fifty! 132 SOMKRVILLK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Xatiu 05, 28; Quinfconfan, 26 In a most interesting game the Quindonian team went down to defeat at the hands of Latin, ’05. '05 led throughout the game, but in the last phases of the game Quindonians took a brace and tied the score. This it was decided to play off, and “Cy” Perkins, of '05, threw the winning goal after a sharp, short struggle. Cameron played an excellent game, throwing a goal at almost every chance he got to shoot. Hafford and Smith played well, and Burns, al- though sick, put up a creditable exhibition. Line-up:— Latin, ’05 Quindonian Thumith, l.f.............r.g., Collins, Christie Cameron, r.f....................l.g., Countway Hafford, c ...................c., Bean, Smith Perkins, l.g................r.f., Smith, Keyes Meade, r.g..................l.f., Burns, Soule Score—Latin, '05, 28; Quindonian, 26. Goals from field—Cameron (6). Smith (5), Burns (3), Hafford (3), Perkins (3), Bean (2), Countway (2), Christie, Keyes, Thumith. Goals from foul— Cameron (2). Time—20-min. halves. Referee— C. Cuddy. Timer—Jim Doughty. X., ’05, 27; Septopian, 25 The championship of the Latin School was set- tled Wednesday, February 17, when the '05 team defeated the Septopian Fraternity by a score of 27 to 25. The game had been looked forward to with great interest, and therefore attracted a large crowd. As both teams were determined upon winning, a great deal of roughness resulted on both sides. 'Hie line-up:— Latin, ’05 Septopian Thumith, l.f........................r.g., Moses Cameron, r.f......................l.g.. Doughty Hafford. c..................................c.. Cuddy II. Burns, l.g......................r.f., Twohig Elliot, r.g...............................l.f., Bishop Goals—By Hafford (3). Bob Burns (4), Elliot. Cameron, Thumith (2), Cuddy, Bishop (3), Carl Burns, Twohig (2). Moses (3), Doughty (2). Free goals—Hafford (5), Doughty. Referee—Fitz- gerald. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 133 alumni 'Motes [Continued from page 120] Misses Grace Fraser and Jeannette Dawson, E., ’01, are juniors in the Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston. Chester Whitaker, Howard Allen, and Albert Noble, E., '01. arc at “Amherst Aggie.” Helen E. Frye, E.. '02, with Richard Nichols Company, stationers, Bromficld street. Boston. T. Stewart Rankin, E., '03. draughtsman with French Hubbard, consulting engineers, at pres- ent stationed near Concord, X. H. George Liscomb, E., '01. freshman at Dart- mouth. Ruben Prichard, E., '02, freshman at Dart- mouth. Ray E. Shcdd, E., ’02. sophomore at M. I. T. John A. Backus. E., '02, sophomore at Tufts. Florence Backus, L., ’02, freshman at Tufts. Eliot Wingerskv, E., '02. First National bank, of Boston. Percy P. McGann, E., ’02, Boston Journal. Walter Sanborn, E., ’02, freshman at Dart- mouth. George Smith, E.. '02. draughtsman. General Electric Company, Lynn. Mass. Miss Maude E. Butters. L.. '00, is commercial teacher in the high school at Orange. Mass. Ethelyn Jones. L., '02, sophomore at the Mass- achusetts Normal Art school. Mabel White. E.. ’01, sophomore at the Massa- chusetts Normal Art school. Edward R. Hyde, E., '03. sophomore at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. H. Delano Loring. E., ’02, sophomore at Mass- achusetts Institute of Technology. Mason. E.. ’02, with Hammett it Co., school supplies. 116 Summer street. Boston. Clyde Scott. E.. ’05. with Dobinson Engraving Company. Boston. William D. Eaton. E., ’01, with Norfolk En- graving Company, Boston. Harvey L. Ames, E., '01.. sophomore at Tufts. Roy Lamphcar, E.. ’02, sophomore at Worcester Polytechnic school. Chester G. Ames, E.. '03.. night manager of the Roxbury telephone exchange. Joseph F. Wilber, E.. ’02, draughtsman with French Hubbard, consulting engineers. Boston. Frank M. Gracey, E., ’02. sophomore at Massa- chusetts Normal Art school, editor of the school paper, the Center of Vision. Laura M. Marccau, E., '00, junior at the Massa- chusetts Normal Art school, art editor of the school paper, the Center of Vision. Royal B. Farnum, E., '02, sophomore at Massa- chusetts Normal Art school. Jeannette A. Dawson, E.. ’0], junior at the Mass- achusetts Normal Art school, assistant business manager of school paper. Helen Lyon. E., ‘03, freshman at the Massachu- setts Normal Art school, class editor of the school paper. Marie Read. E., ex- 01, freshman at the Massa- chusetts Normal Art school, class editor of school paper. Albert Wing, E., '02. sophomore at Massachu- setts Normal Art school. ------------------------- W. X. id. Club Sauce The first social event of the popular W. L. M. club took place in the form of a reception and dance, given January 19, in Guild hall. The club colors, red and white, were used very artistically in the decoration of the hall. The club also gave to its gentlemen friends a “Pit party February 11. Both events were very successfully carried out. and sev- eral more are planned for the remaining months of the winter. Somerville iRaOclift'c Club The Alumni of the Somerville High Schools who arc now students in Radcliflfe have formed a Som- erville Radcliflfe club. The club was organized in November and the following officers elected: Hazel Bennett. ‘01. president; Stella A. Wilson, ’01. secretary; Ruth Richards. '02, treasurer. The first social meeting was held New Year’s Day at the home of the president. It is the inten- tion of the club to hold two social meetings a year. There is every indication that the club will be a success. fl bi Blpba S ance The only girls’ “frat of the Latin High gave a Leap Year dance in Flemming hall. Wednesday, January 27. A reception was given from 8 to 8.30, and then the girls were kept busy for another fif- teen minutes in selecting partners. This was the first attempt of the kind made by the ’04 club girls, but as it was such a universal success, doubtless other plans will soon be arranged. Those present were the club members. May Davis, president, Blanche Preston, secretary, Fran- ces Frost, treasurer, Lura Elliot and Grace Jouett. The invited guests were: Misses Freeman, Snow- man, Jarvis, Ritchie, Lowell, Bell. Green, Ed- munds, Kimball, Loring, and Bragdon; Messrs. Soule, Elliot, Ware. Chickering. Proctor. Beard. Fallon, Jarvis, Wyman, Hall. Mercer, Currier, Ilodgdon, Thayer, Barton, and Rice. The matrons were Mrs. H. C. Brine and Mrs. W. G. Hayward. Mr. Wilson furnished the music. Three cheers for the ice-man! 134 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR XT be Operetta The operetta, “The Pirates of Penzance,” has been rehearsing steadily under the musical direc- tion of S. Henry Hadley and stage management of Leon Dadmun. The present intention of those in charge is to give the operetta about the middle of March, in the Bijou theatre, Boston. Members of both schools arc represented in both the soloists and chorus, and the success is assured. 'Hie soloists are Miss Bragdon, Miss Benjamin, Miss Bertha Pilsburv, Miss Alice Pilsbury, Miss Russell. Mr. Dunham, Mr. Farnum, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Wilson. The chorus consists of the following: Sopranos— Miss Bidwcll, Miss Bowlby, Miss Brown, Miss Dadmun, Miss DcAvala, Miss Gooding, Miss Gor- don. Miss Hammond. Miss Harvey, Miss Pilsbury, Miss Russell, Miss Welch; altos—Miss Baxter, Miss Brown. Miss Caldwell, Miss Carlton, Miss Clement, Miss Edmonds, Miss Gale, Miss Ilunne- well, Miss Loring, Miss Marden, Miss Ryder, Miss Shackford, Miss Snow, Miss Trueman, Miss Turner; tenors—Messrs. Ball, Barton, Chandler, Doughty, Despeaux, Fallen, Hall, Soule, E. Ver Wicbc. M. Ver Wiebe; basses-—Messrs. Barker, Bean. Blair, Bradford. Curran. Duhig, Gorman, Henderson. Lakin, Mitchell, Moore, Perry, Phil- lips, Stacy, Stevens, Weir, Woodworth. lResolutions, ’05 Whereas, by the will of God, our classmate, Marion A. Starkey, has been bereaved of her be- loved mother: and whereas, we, the class of 1905, have learned with sorrow of her great affliction; be it, therefore Resolved, that we tender her our heartfelt sym- pathy in her great trouble, and be it further Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to Marion A. Starkey, and also published in the Radiator. RUTH L. WHITMAN, Secretary, ROBERT A. BURNS, President, Xatin, ’04 Whereas, by the will of God. our classmate, Merle Tcclc, has been bereaved of his dear mother, and Whereas, we, the class of 1904, have learned with sorrow of his great affliction, be it Resolved, that we tender him our heartfelt sym- pathy in his great sorrow, and be it further Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to Merle Teclc. and also published in the Radiator. PERCY A. HARRISON, President. HELEN BRADSHAW, Secretary. TEbc Senior Gbooscs A Genic stood before a Senior, In the stilly hours of night. Saying. “Son. whatever thou likest. Thou shalt have it by thy right.” And the Senior, thinking deeply, Weighed and balanced that and this,— Latin he would like abolished. Course in dancing would be bliss. Then he said with features bright’ning “Honor joined with graft for me, He who tends the door is happy, From his irksome school work free— Give me his fine job. I pray thee.” But the Genie, rising, swore, “Anything but that, by Allah! That goes to the Sophomore.” ---------► ---------------- Bella’s j£y cs J6 ? Eric Hastings, X., 04 Do you look into the ocean When its depths are deepest blue, Do you look into the heavens When its vault is azure hue. Do you look into the violet That in the woodland lies, You can no color find there, That equals Della’s eyes. Do you look into the brooklet, As it slowly winds its way Through the flowers in the lowlands Which the breezes gently sway. No. no color can you find there, In earth, or sea. or skies. That equals the perfect lustre Of charming Della’s eyes. The Bouve-Sterling Shoe, $2.50 THE NEWEST DESIGNS FOR YOUNG MEN 86 Summer Street D ACTA XT 13 Water Street 78 Hanover Street DUD 1 V l l 14 Spring: Lane BOSTON TYPEWRITING AND REPORTING SCHOOL 120 Bovlston Street, Room 411 Stenography, Touch Typewriting, Civil Service. Practical individual instruction. Civil Service work a specialty. Stenographers’ speed dictation, $2 monthly. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR «35 S. XI. XD.sSitima 2Delta IDance The Sigma Delta-S. T. D. dance and reception took place on February 1) at Anthoine’s academy. The dance was a complete success, and reflected great credit upon the committee of preparations. The patrons were Mayor and Mrs. Chandler and the Hon. Franklin F. Phillips and wife. ------------------------- S. Z. ID. SlCtOb 1Rit C On Monday evening, February 15. the well- known S. T. D. club of the English school gave a sleigh-ride party to their friends. A most pleas- ant evening was passed. The club went as far as Lexington, and upon re- turning were entertained at the home of E. I. Fallen. Among those present were Miss Loring. Miss Davis. Miss Benjamin, Miss Clement, Miss Jarvis, Miss Preston. Miss Cambridge. Miss Ryder. Miss Baron. Miss Pilsburv, Miss Stacey, Miss Bodwell, Miss Dawson. Mr. Barton, Mr. Frost. Mr. Wilson, Mr. Mitchell. Mr. Fallen. Mr. Chandler, Mr. Bean. Mr. Woodworth. Mr. Duhig. Mr. Blair, Mr. Farnum. Edwin Hall, and John Hall. 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All the “ News ” of the day. Weekly and Monthly Magazines. Circulating Library of the Latest Books. rCT”Call and cc what wc have to r«ad.'St Tisbcr UJinter hill Business College 12 years Rurdett College Friends of ' the school will be pleased to know — that we have 8 years Boston Y. M. C. A. Instituto The Teachers make the Schoo The Proprietors are Teachers added to our faculty Mrs. Alice Dexter . Wilder- several years instructor with us at the head of department Individual Instruction Positions Furnished Students 40 Towns Business Shorthand Penmanship work in Burdett College $27.50 Per Term Gilman Square, Somerville, Mass. E. H. 1 1. C. FISHER —Principals CONTENTS OF MARCH RADIATOR The Championship Football Team of 1903, (Supplement) Hon. Leonard B. Chandler. Mayor of Somerville, Radiator Staff, -......................... Editorials,............................... Ill and Out of Three London Clubs, by Lucy Ingram. Making Maple Sugar, by Irving F. Carpenter. L.. ’06, Love vs. the Secret Service, by Helen Hatch, K., ’04. A11 Indian Idyl, by F. Stuart Dean, L., ’04, Public Occurrences. ....... Radiations from the Radiator’s Wise Man, Exchange Notes, ........ Latin Notes, ----- English Notes, ........ Athletics,................................ Page 140 141 •42-3 •44 146 148 •49 •51 •52 •53 •54 •55 •57 BOSTON TYPEWRITING and REPORTING SCHOOL 120 ffioplston Street IRoom 4U ) STENOGRAPHY, TOUCH TYPEWRITING, CIVIL SERVICE Practical, individual instruction. Civil Service work a .specialty. Three successful pupils of last examination have received appointments; two in Philippines, one in Washington. Stenographers’ speed dictation. Day and Evening. TERMS MODIvRATK. Open all Summer. March Winds are Chilly March is a coal burning month, and you will probably have to place an additional order for coal to “ Piece out with.” We want that order, for we know that if we get it, you will be so pleased with our coal that you will give us an order to fill your bins at spring prices. If you do not trade with us, we both lose money. Why not give us a trial ? ------------- Metropolitan Coal Company GENERAL OFFICES: 30 Congress Street, - BOSTON SOMERVILLE OFFICE, 31 Union Square Tel., Som. 73-3 HON. LEONARD B. CHANDLER Mayor of Somerville Vol. XIII. Somerville, Massachusetts, March, 1904. No. 6. The Radiator Is published bv the Somerville tatin and English High Schools on the third Thursday of every month during the school year, and only important news matter can be received after the 10th of the month. Matter for insertion may l e left with any of the editorial staff or mailed to the editor at the Latin High School. In contributing, write on one side of the paper only and sign full name (this is for reference only). Communications should lie addressed to the editor, business manager, or exchange editor, according to their nature. Manuscript must lie accompanied by necessary postage to insure it return. Terms, 75 Cents per Year Single Copies, JO Cents SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT EMtorial Staff Editorsin Cbicf C. SHERWOOD RICKER. L.. 04. associate Editor KATHRYNE L. NOLAN. E., '04. Exchange Editor HELEN WARDEN, L.. '04. Sporting Editor GEORGE COHEN. L.. ’04. business Manager LAURENCE MITCHELL. E.. '04 assistant .business Manager THOMAS P. DURELL. L.. '05. {Treasurer GERARD C. BEAN. E.. ’04. Staff artist. EDWIN H. WEAVER. E.. ’05. Class Editors Xatin School WILLIAM L. PHILLIPS. ’04. ARTHUR T. SOULE. 05. HERBERT S. SANBORN. '06. RALPH E. DURELL. ’07. English School WARREN B. FARNUM. 04. LEONARD W. LIBBEY, '05. RICHARD KEYES. '06. LUTHER I. SMITH, 07. 142 SOMKRVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR EDITORIALS Our Hew IDauor E have the pleasure of offering for our frontis- piece a picture of Leonard B. Chandler, the new mayor of Somerville. baseball AIX the season approaches when baseball is the game. The football season has passed; the hockey season is over: and basket ball is nearing its close. W e all turn cur eyes to the king of spring sports —baseball. Crowned with the championship laurels in both football and baseball, we must not scan the present prospects through rose-tinted glasses. The candidates out are plentiful, and as we scrutinize the ranks, we sec many familiar faces. The new material has had so little chance to show its qualities that it is im- possible to venture an opinion. Everything has started in a promising manner, and we have two notable omens of success. Charlie Cuddy and the inimitable Leo.” The team is out, and out for only one purpose, and there are four other teams out for the same purpose. They know what Somerville did last year, and they know what it intends and is liable to do this year; but they intend to go one better. There is no need here for a paragraph on enthusiasm after last fall’s exhibitions. W hat man has done man can do. ‘A A A A St. Xouls Exposition N extensive collection comprising work from everv department has just been sent from the English High School to St. Louis for exhibition. The Somerville exhibit will occupy two cab- inets called Units of Installation. In the lower part are two book shelves each containing fifteen vol- umes of written work bound handsomely in book form. This will illustrate work in literature, his- tory. modern languages, mathematics, and the com- mercial courses. Above these shelves will be a drawer containing four portfolios of mechanical and freehand drawing, one of science, one exem- plifying methods of administration in the school, and one of photographs of rooms and corridors of the building, groups in tableaux, classes at work, etc. Above is a showcase displaying specimens of the work in the manual training department, and in the upper compartment is a wall folio, a clear, simple, and comprehensive method of illustration, in which will be presented works of art. charts of manual training work, and other photographs en- larged. Above each Unit of Installation will be wall space, five by ten feet, in which will be demon- strated more fully art samples, such as pyrographv, clay modeling, freehand and mechanical drawing, etc. This exhibition means months of labor on the part of teachers and pupils, and it was entered into with interest and carried out with enthusiasm. A ‘A A TLbc Japanese Renaissance p 1ETY years ago Japan was a feudal nation— feudal in the sense we understand when speak- ing of Europe in the Middle Ages. To-day she stands in a position of waging war against one of the greatest world powers—a power that has a standing army of over a million men. It behooves us to glance at the history of this island prodigy. Only a little over a hundred years ago our own country entered the world of nations, and has so far had a phenomenal existence; but she has had no such transformation as has Japan. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR M3 A little over fifty years ago Japan was divided into miniature kingdoms, governed by feudal lords, each with his retinue. They beat their tom-toms and fought with swords and lances. They had their folk lore and song, that formed a setting for their religion. The class line among the clans was strictly drawn. The common laborer never had the privilege of fighting for his lord or governor. The nobles alone were thought worthy to enter into mortal combat with the enemy. These East- tern people lived in straw huts without windows. They sat with their knees folded under them, and recited legends of their ancestors. They were forbidden to leave their native land, and for- eigners were debarred from the island realm. So we get an insight into what Occidental cus- toms and manners have done for this people. To- day they are embarked on a great war. equipped with a modern navy, a modern army, and small bore rifles instead of the sword, the lance, and the tom-tom. K TI be iRussia of TTo 0at IN the present conflict, though we may be inclined to place our sympathies and hopes with Japan, yet we should not be blinded by this spirit. Don't judge all the Russians by the doings in St. Petersburg. The well-informed, open-minded Rus- sian deplores the war as much as the rest of the civilized world. He is ready to sec Siberia and the provinces in Asia slip from Russia’s hands, rather than see his nation plunged in a terrific conflict that will do more harm than good. Many of the people of Russia, on the other hand, are without any decided opinions—they are eclipsed by a coalition of minds at St. Petersburg. When any one springs up irom the soil with an independent mind and with a tendency to use it, that sleepless eye in St. Peterburg promptly spies it and deports it to Siberia—Russia’s cold storage for people who cherish a dislike for the autocratic form of government that now holds sway. A German author, intimate with diplomatic St. Petersburg, makes the statement that the Czar is but a puppet governed by the stronger minds of his ministers. He enters a meeting of the ministers well aware of his weakness, and soon finds himself swayed hither and thither by the pressure of the minds about him. One man may be said to have been one of the chief causes of precipitating this war. That man, M. Rezobrasoff. is at present an exile in Siberia. Several years ago he returned from Manchuria fabulously wealthy. He won favor with the Czar, and the latter appointed him his chief adviser. P.ez- obrasotT had in forests in Manchuria amounting to millions, and of course it was his interest to call the attention and resources of the Czar to Man- churia. Japan would not stand this pressure, and the Czar, oscillating between a peace party and Ilezobrasoff, has been by the progress of events drawn into the vortex of actual war. Our tCUsc flDan 1 PER two months of silence the Wise Man again appears in these columns. There have been many inquiries about him. and our answers, we must admit, have been vague. We now sally forth with the truth. Of course, foresee- ing the war. he went to the East, and we have now completed arrangements for making him the Rapiatok’s war correspondent a� the seat of war. 'Phe paper thus obtains the unique position of being the only high school organ to have a war corre- spondent. 'Phe readers are acquainted with the thorough- ness of the Wise Man and know his ability to get news on subjects no one else can. His methods may seem obscure, but his results should vindicate the former. He has interviewed several of the lead- ing figures in the strife, and the results of these in- to views may go to make history We have just received his first dispatch, which will be found in another part of this issue. . .� . . Conccrnimi tbe Xast ‘Humber ,’R large issue last month went much faster than we expected. Wc sold out before recess closed, and had we had them we could have dis- posed of two hundred more copies. It is impossible to gauge the sale of the paper. For example, our sale in January was extremely light, as wc disposed of only about eight hundred copies. Wc can only say that wc are sorry for the unfor- tunates who lost their papers last month. It wasn't our fault. As we feared, there were errors among the Alumni Notes. There were, however, few serious mistakes, and wc may here say that though our in- formation was not in all cases obtained directly, we sought the most reliable sources jjossiblc. 144 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Tin anfc ®ut of TLhvcc Xonbon Clubs 36y Xuc ? IInoram OT of the modern clubhouses are we thinking, with their luxury that en- tices, nor yet of those of long ago, with their simplicity that fasci- nates, but rather do we like to dwell ujx n the famous ones, who in other years assembled in the plain bare rooms, and by their brilliancy made the most cheerless inn a fit meeting-place for royal wits. All the world loves a club. At least this is true of cur own English world, and even to-day across the centuries, somewhat faint and softened maybe by the lapse of time, still ever fresh and ever new. comes the laughter that used to float from the Mer- maid. when Sir Walter Raleigh, Ben Jonson, and the immortal Will Shakespeare used to haunt its doors. About this same Mermaid Tavern many a combats between jonson and Shakespeare, the one a Spanish galleon, the other an English man-of- war. Master Jonson, says Fuller, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his per- formances: Shakespeare, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides and take advan- tage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and his invention. A pretty story, we say again. We like it well, and what is more, believe it. too, even though stern-faced critics flout and remind us that Fuller was only eight years old when Shakespeare died. But our reasoning is clear. The Mermaid Tavern was standing in the latter part of the six- teenth century, on Broad street just off Cheapside, London. The wits gathered there. Jonson and Shakespeare were wits: therefore Jonson and Shakespeare frequented the Mermaid. What A ROOM IN THE CHESHIRE CHEESE legend has gathered. Some say Sir Walter founded the club which took its name from the old hostelry. Some say one thing, some another, but all unite in paying homage to the men of mighty genius who gathered in the little low rooms of the dark old inn. Listen to Beaumont in his cele- brated epistle to Jonson:— What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtile flame As if that everyone from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.” Another pretty talc is told by Fuller, of the wit could be more simple, plain, or convincing? But tossing the jest aside, can we not almost see Shakes] eare there ourselves? One phase of his greatness, perhaps one cause of it. is the human nature in his genius. He knew and loved people, this many-sided Shakespeare. Now at the Mermaid, with its choice spirits; now at court, the friend of nobles and lords: or perhaps in Stratford, chatting over the garden hedge with sturdy yeomen con- cerning the weather, the crops, tracing with that marvelously alert intellect of his the curious mental processes of those—“which never labored in their minds.” Truly he had the power, as no other has ever had. of transforming himself into everything. Of later date than the Mermaid, and perhaps SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR '45 more real to us prosy moderns, :s the famous Kit- Kat Club of Queen Anne's reign. There at the sign of the Cat and Fiddle—the famous shop of Christopher Kat—the Kit-Kat Whigs assembled. Wiseacres of many a day and year have had many a dispute as to whether this most attractive of titles originated from a clever punning on the name of the owner of the shop, or whether from some fa- mous pies christened by Christopher Kat, and when the wise ones differ we will refrain from venturing an opinion. What is of more importance to us. however, is to remember that in Christopher Kat's little shop the great Marlborough, he whom Addi- son so bravely compared to an angel, touched el- bows with Sir Godfrey Kneller, the court painter. There Addison, when sufficiently encouraged, dis- cussed in faultless English the unfortunate situa- tion of his unhappy contemporary. Swift, and there Steele, the erring, the impulsive, the likable Dick Steele, in all probability penned many a letter to his “adored 1’rue. Handed down from year to year arc one or two entertaining anecdotes con- nected with these same Kit-Kats that the world will not let die. Garth, the poetical physician, “the well-natured Garth. as 1'ope called him. lingered too long one night in his favorite seat by the club- fire. though patients were needing his skill. Steele reproved him. Way, nay. Dick. said Garth, pull- ing out a list oi fifteen, it's no great matter after all. Nine of them have such bad constitutions that not all the physicians in the world could save them, and the other six. such good constitutions that all the physicians in the world could not kill them.” The other is a charming story of the brilliant Lady Mary Wortlev Montagu. It seems it was the custom of the gallants of the club to elect some reigning beauty as toast, and then write verses in her honor. One evening the Duke of Kingston. Lady Mary’s father, took it into his head to nomi- nate his little daughter of eight years as the reign- ing beauty. You shall sec her. She is prettier far than any beauty on the list, he declared. Where- upon Lady Mary was sent for and soon came dressed in her best. The members received her with acclamation, feasted her with sweetmeats, and at once proclaimed her their queen. Pleasure. she writes long afterward, “was too poor a word to express my sensations on that evening. They amounted to ecstasy. Never again throughout my whole life did I experience such happiness. Third and last in our affection is the Literary Club.— The Club of the eighteenth century, than which none have been so often written of. so much talked about. We know its members well.—that is, the original meml ers. Lei us look in upon them at one of their weekly gatherings at the Turk’s Head. There is the stately Reynolds, with his trumpet at his ear.—for long the president of the club: dapper David Garrick, and the aristo- cratic Beauclerk: the scholarly Langton: the spec- tacled Burke, with, his keen intellectual face: the ugly, kindly face of “Goldy.” who wrote like an angel, and last, the mighty doctor, with his ungain- ly figure clad in that famous suit cf brown—the un- tidy hands—this winking and blinking and twitch- ing—as in stentorian tones he annihilates some un- wary antagonist with his— What! sir, you don't see your way through the question, sir! A loyal club it was, encouraging and applauding the works oi its members. As an illustration, note their support of Goldsmith on that memorable night when She Stoops to Conquer was to be pre- sented for the first time. Goldsmith, as usual, was in despair, and Dr. Johnson said that Goldy must be supported. The doctor said it. and the doctor was obeyed. How the club rallied round him! What a dinner they gave him at a nearby tavern! How the laugh rang out. rang out so cherrilv and so spontaneously that even Goldsmith was roused from his depression and sang in sweet, if rather tremulous, tones his favorite “Johny Armstrong’s Last Good-Night, and the Cruelty of Barbara Allen. Then at the play, how the pit watched I)i. Johnson. When feeling sure of his approval how they filled the house with shouts of laughter and appiause' “Goldy was indeed supported. Success was assured. 11 is comedy was saved. An independent club it was. too. Many a noble lord knocked in vain at its door for admittance. Founded in seventeen hundred and sixty-four, its original membership was nine. In the course of ten years it reached twenty and it never exceeded fortv members $ So filled with such memories of the past were the minds of four tourists one summer morning in Lon- don that they started out to find ancient land- marks. '1 hey wondered through the Temple, and did not fail to pay their tribute o! reverent silence to Goldsmith, as they stood by his grave in the Temple churchyard. They loitered in the vicinity of Drury lane. They penetrated the dingy, “smelly. little building, which boldly masquer- ades under the title of The Old Curiosity Shop, but they lingered longest in the old inn of the Cheshire Cheese. The literary club never met there, at least as a club, but Johnson and Goldsmith spent many an evening in its comfortable quarters. They remembered this and recalled, too. the fact that the Johnson club of the twentieth century, founded In- die famous Johnsonian scholar. Dr. Birkbeck Mill, held its meetings there. So to Wine Office court they turned ’heir steps and soon stood before a lit- tle building, so low and brown and old that at once on entering they seemed transported to an age far removed from trolley car and telephone. White sand covered the lloor. wooden tables and benches adorned the sides of the room, while a big hospit- able fireplace gave promise of jolly open fires oti cheerless winter evenings. The old-fashioned at- mosphere of the chop-room filled the hearts of the two antiquarians wth rapture, flic artist admired critically the portrait of the wise doctor hanging on the wall, while the lover of literature was speech- less—a most unusual experience—from sheer con- tent. when she was told she was sitting in Dr. John- son's favorite seat. “You are interested in the old inn. are vou. ladies? You will care to look at our 146 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR register,” smiled the deferential waiter. All Amer- icans—you arc Americans? Quite so. I thought so. AH your countrymen love the inn well. And as for the English—why. no less a person that the Honorable Joseph Chamberlain often visits us. Here let me show you his autograph ’ They looked, they saw, they admired, privately giving the major share of their enthusiasm to their own clever countrymen, whose names they found regis- tered in rhyme or sketch. Who were these four wanderers? Some day when you are in Boston, take the boat for Liver- pool. leisurely make your way to London, for 110 one hurries in England, and some sunny morning, when on sight-seeing bent, drop in at The Cheese. Perhaps the same waiter will be smiling at the door. Perhaps the same register will be brought you for your signature. If still interested turn to the twenty-ninth day oi August, nineteen hundred and one. Then you wiil know. DR. JOHNSON’S DESK flfoalung flfoaple Su$ar ®v ilmiLi jf. Carpenter, X., ’0(3 T is very interesting and decidedly in- structive to take a trip to the country in the sugaring season. Then Nature awakes from her long winter nap, and her pulses begin to throb in anticipation of the beauti- ful summer. Usually at this time there is as much snow in the country as there is in the city in the middle of December. The snow comes in No- vember, and remains until April, so the tinkle of slcighbells is heard for almost half the year. On the rocky hills as well as in the valleys, the snow accumulates to a great depth, and stout vehicles are needed for traveling over it. Our fashionable city sleighs would be too frail for the sturdy coun- try horse to pull through huge snowdrifts. Hence the sleighs arc strong, comfortable structures with the shafts fastened to the body at the left side, thus causing the left runner to slide in the footsteps of the horse. This leaves only ‘wo tracks behind, and makes traveling much easier. In these coun- try sleighs the driver sits at the left instead of the right. The sugaring season is always looked forward to with great delight by every country boy. Then comes a relief to the tedious monotony of winter. Although it means hard work, still there is plenty of time for fun. Early in the morning the start is made for the sugar orchard, usually about a mile from the farm- house. The sugarhousc is a small log-cabin-like structure situated in the midst of tall saplings and many large maples, which, if examined closely. will be found to be perforated with perhaps ten or twelve holes, denoting tappings of almost as many years. After the key has been made to fit the rusty padlock, the door is Hung open, and one steps within a small room with many tin pails around, and large tanks against the walls. In the right- hand corner is a pile of wood, while saws, ham- mers. and various other tools occupy the other corners. But the thing that draws immediate attention is a large brick arch occupying halt the room. This structure is about twelve feet long, four feet wide, and three feet high. At one end is the chimney, while in the centre is a large space, with a door at the end opposite the chimney where the fire is built. The arch is covered by two iron pans, one large and one small, in which the sap is boiled. Around the room are wooden holders for the stor- age of sap. Equipped with pails and a small auger, the farmer and his helpers start forth. They select a certain tree. It has been tapped many times, so that some skill is required to find the spot from which the sap will flow freely. First, a hole about one-half inch in diameter must be bored. For doing this, the bitstock is held obliquely and the hole bored about three inches deep. Then the small iron spout is inserted. On this is a small hook for the bucket. After all this, the sap will soon steadily drip, drip into the pail. It takes a skillful farmer not more than three minutes to tap a tree, so that four men can tap fully one hundred trees in a morning. The aver- SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 147 age farmer has a sugar orchard of two hundred and fifty to three hundred and fifty trees, although there are sugar orchards containing four thousand trees. The amount of sap taken varies, as the weather is a great factor in sugaring. The best days are warm and sunny following a frost, with plenty of snow on the ground. In the spring, the sap flows step that woidd send sap, bucket, and boy into a snowbank. When the tank is filled it is taken to the sugar house, and placed in one of the wooden holders until the time for boiling. This is one of the most interesting parts of the whole process. A good fire is kindled beneath the great arch. Then the iron pans are filled about two- thirds full and the boiling begins. The sap must A MAPLE GROVE from the roots of the trees to their branches. The effect of the frost is to send the sap back to the roots, and the warm weather draws it from them. The season lasts from about the twentieth of March to the middle of April. If the days follow- ing the first run prove favorable, the horses arc hitched to the sled and a start made to gather sap. On this sled is a tank, with a tight cover, holding from twenty to fifty pailfuls. A path is taken which will include the tapped trees. Of course there are many places where it is impossible for a sled to go, and then the primi- tive sap-yoke is used. With a wooden bar across his shoulders and a bucket of sap dangling from each end, a country lad may well beware of a mis- be constantly watched, and a brisk fire maintained. As fast as it boils down the pans are replenished with fresh sap, and so on until the end of the day. Then they syrup off ' as the sap is boiled down to the consistency of syrup. A day's work us- ually means.the boiling of forty or fifty pails of sap, while at times this number is exceeded In olden times the sap was boiled in huge iron kettles hung on forked sticks over an open fire. Then pans were adopted which are more or less in use at the present time, while the most modern way is by the evaporator. Thus science is creeping into sugar making as into everything else. Let us hope it may not take away the charm from the time-honored country industry. 148 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR %ovc vs. tbe Secret Service 36s Delen Datcb, IE., '04 LL night long Baron Ivan Vassilitch paced his room, up and down, back and forth. “What can I do? How can 1 save his life without forfeiting hers?” he ejaculated at irregular in- tervals. In all his secret work for the Russian govern- ment. never had Ivan Vassilitch undertaken so dif- ficult a task as the one upon which he was now en- gaged. Many a conspirator had he brought to judgment, but never before had his own interests been a factor. The Russian secret service—what a terror the very name is! not only to wrongdoers, but to every man. woman, and child in that country. 'o one can be sure that he is not suspected, watched, for the agents of the service are everywhere, in one’s very home. A month before a rumor had come to the head- quarters of the Russian secret service of a plot against the Czar’s life, in which many of the most Radical Nihilists were believed to be implicated. So important was the case that Vassilitch. the chief of many clvefs, conducted the inquiry personally. His investigation had not proceeded far. when to his horror, he found that the woman he loved, the woman whom he hoped to make his wife, was prom- inent among the Nihilists: the deeper he investi- gated. the more he was convinced, though against his will, that this was the very band whose plot he had undertaken to frustrate. After much difficulty, for the details of the plot were guarded with the utmost vigilance. Ivan dis- covered. only too conclusively, that Gabrielle Ste- fanovitoh was the chief of the band. At this point, when Vassilitch. “ twixt love and duty. is divided between his duly towards his Czar and his love for Gabrielle, we are introduced to him. He had feared her connection with these conspirators for other reasons than for their Nihil- istic work. To his infinite relief he found that the majority of the men and women were otherwise noble characters, who fully believed in the justice of their cause, but whose ideas were warped. The day set for the assassination was not until the month after Tvan’s evidence was complete. For two weeks he debated with himself and then de- cided to make known to Gabrielle his discovery and to beg her to sever all connection with the Nihilists. He realized that this would be a difficult task, for Gabrielle would never have pledged her- self to this cause, if she had not thoroughly be- lieved in it. Oiio evening, three days later, Ivan went to Gabrielle’s home. “What has happened? Gabrielle asked quickly as she entered the room. “That which has the power to change the whole course of our lives, answered Ivan gravely. I will tell you what that is. but only on condition that you take your oath upon this Bible never to reveal or to make use of whatever information I may give you.” A weaker woman would have been seriously frightened, but Gabrielle said calmly, Very well.’’ and placing her hand upon the Bible repeated after Ivan, I swear upon this sacred book, that never under any circumstances will I make known to anyone, cither bv speech or in writing, the information which ! am about to re- ceive. Ivan, satisfied, for he knew that this oath would never be violated, in a few words told her of his knowledge of the plot. Then, indeed. Gabrielle lost heart, but remained standing as if changed to stone. Gabrielle,” pleaded Ivan, give it all up. It isn’t worthy of you. the daughter of so faithful a follower of the Czar as was your father, to be plotting his murder. That is an awful word, and you shrink at the sound of it. but the unlawful taking of a man’s life is murder. Gabrielle. it is not too late. T he bishop will marry us, and we can leave the country at once. Then there will still be time enough to let the Czar know of the plot. Gabrielle, you must choose for all time ’ Gabrielle hesitated, but the thought of a life with- out Ivan, a life of horrible plotting was too much for her woman's heart. “Oh. Ivan. I am ashamed to go. but T cannot help it.” she sobbed. Vassilitch felt that with Gabrielle once his wife, everything would be possible. A hasty secret marriage ceremony was performed by the bishop. Gabriclie’s uncle. From a college friend. Boris Rupinsky, Ivan secured a passport which would take his wife and himself beyond the Russian border. From the nearest town in Prussia, Ivan sent full information regarding his plot, in time to prevent its consummation. He made no mention of his wife’s name and thus no mention of the leader’s name Knowing that he would be compelled to account for the omission if he returned to Russia, and fearing the ultimate discovery of his wife’s connection with the plot. Ivan and his wife quickly embarked for America from The Hague. The associates of Gabrielle had so many proofs of her devotion to their cause that they never unfavorably connected her disappearance with the betrayal of their plot, but rather regarded it as the natural out- come of the discovery, not the cause of it. Outside of official circles, having dropped their title. Gabrielle and Ivan Vassilitch are living hap- pily to-day in one of the aristocratic suburbs of Boston. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 149 Bn Ihttoan ITb l 36 ? jf. Stuart 5 ean, X., ’04 HERE ihe town of Swanton now stands there was once a little Indian village. It was a peaceful settle- ment. whose quietude no war-cry had disturbed for a long time. The young men hunted in summer and trapped in winter, while the women cultivated the fertile fields, raising maize tor their sustenance. Close at hand was the Mississquoi river, running between placid banks with broad, rolling meadows on either side. Many seasons before, the Great Spirit had sent a mighty arrow down front on high, which, pierc- ing deep into the ground, had caused a tiny stream to spring up. This was the source of the river sent as an especial gift of the Great Spirit to his chosen people, the Iroquois. There were many villages along its banks, but their great nation was supposed to have sprung from this one. Living among this tribe was a man whose pale face had long since ceased to attract attention, as he had been accepted as a part of the life which the Great Spirit had given them. This man was called Victor St. Croix, the sole survivor of one of Jacques Cartiers exploring parties, and it is through him that we may fancy that this hitherto untold legend is known. The oldest sachem could remember a talc told to him when a child, which had been passed down from generation to genera- tion as the true story of the founding of their race. Ix ng, long ago there lived on the shores of Lake Huron an aged chief and his squaw. Their only child was a daughter called Xowceno. a great de- light to her parents, and the pet of her father’s tribe. She was nearing her twentieth summer, and there was great rejoicing among the people; for when a child she had been betrothed to the son of a friendly chief, and the marriage was to take place on the morrow. But about nightfall great confusion arose in the camn. Xowceno had disappeared. She had gone to the spring for water, and had not returned. Her mother wandered about, inconsolable, crying: “Oh, Xowceno! Oh. mv daughter! Come back to me. The next morning came her lover, Mcshinauwa. On hearing the sad news, he cried: “I know who is to blame for this. Tt is Kencu. the Great War- Eagle. Last summer we were rivals in the games, and he was beaten. He threatened to revenge himself. This has he done. But I shall over- take him and kill him for his treachery. Come! Bring the young men to me that T may choose from them a companion ’ Xowceno had started out to bring some water from the spring, but. charmed bv the forest and its verdancy, had wandered further along the bank of the river. The birds were singing merrily in the trees, and all nature seemed to be starting up anew, glad that winter had departed. Xowceno was deeply absorbed in her thoughts. 'To-mor- row she was to be married. Ah, well! That was woman’s lot. To-morrow she was leave her father’s wigwam forever, to follow a young man whom she scarcely knew. She did not notice a canoe being paddled stealthily up behind her. Xothing mattered to her now except that she was to be married. Per- haps even—all! but something did matter; for a strong hand was placed suddenly over her mouth, and she was lifted and borne swiftly to the canoe. Here a soft piece of bark took the place of the hand, and the canoe was propelled hurriedly up the river. After a while the other occupant, a young man. began to speak. “Listen, woman. I am Kencu, the Great W ar-Eagle. You arc No- weeno. the betrothed of Mcshinauwa. Often have I heard him speak your name. Two moons since, he defeated me in the games. This is my re- venge. You shall be my slave. You shall split my wood, draw my water, and do my bidding. I have spoken.’’ Xot another word would he utter save to bid her do something, or utter a curse as he struck her for disobeying. In the davs of solitude that followed, for very lack of other company, she would lain have drawn him into conversation. Often she asked him whither he was taking her. but received ever the same answer, a silent l x)k of rage. That very afternoon Mcshinauwa departed with one companion on his search for Xowceno. They traced her footsteps along the river-bank until they found the signs of a struggle, and the place where a canoe had been drawn up on the shore. Then launching their canoe, they paddled swiftly up the course ol the mighty river. Resting by night and traveling by day, thus they passed two weeks. From time to time they came upon the places where Kcneu had made his night’s stop, and finally they found a pile of ashes which was but one day old. Xearby. in the bushes was a canoe, stove in so that no one might use it. “He has left the river.” exclaimed Mcshinauwa. “Xow shall we catch him easily.” But it was not to be. Passing on from stage to stage, they ever arrived a day too late at their night's resting-place. But one day on ascending a hill. Mcshinauwa’s companion discerned a small party moving along the edge of the fertile plain stretching out before them. “Come,” he cried. “We have them at last. Turning, he started to run downward, but slipped, and in falling struck his head on a sharp rock. Mcshinauwa built a small fire, brought water, and cared for him tenderly, but late the next evening he died. 50 SOM E R VIL LIC HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Then Meshinauwa pressed on alone. Again, after many a weary day’s journey, he nearly caught up with the fugitive. I !e had now come to the shores of Lake Champlain, but Keneu, arriving two days previous, had fashioned a rough canoe, and was just starting across the lake as lie came near. Seeing the canoe. Meshinauwa let out a mighty cry of anguish and a challenge in the same breath: Oh. thou Shaugodaya! Oh. thou coward! The Great Spirit will yet give you into my hands. P.ut, oli, give back my Noweeno. and go unpun- ished for your wickedness.” Rut Keneu. the sullen one. returned no answer. Only Noweeno, raising herself, sent back a faint cry. Save me. my betrothed! Save me. Meshin- auwa!” Then he cried out to the Great Spirit for aid. and as he prayed, a voice seemed to say: 'Fake heart, my son. I am with you.” Rushing madly along the shore he came upon a canoe, carelessly hidden near the water. Thus he continued his pursuit of Keneu, the Great War- Eagle. He overtook him in the placid waters of the Mississquoi Ray, and fitting a mighty shaft to his bow. lie shot it, and smote Keneu square in the forehead. And there in the peaceful twilight, Meshinauwa and Noweeno renewed their plighted troth. “We will dwell here. said Noweeno, on the scene of mv deliverance.” And so after going home to celebrate their mar- riage rites and receive their parents' blessing, Meshinauwa and Noweeno returned, and on the banks of the Mississquoi Ri er, founded the mightv Iroquois nation. Such was the tale related to Victor St. Croix, the Jesuit explorer. March J6 ? if ranees JFrcst, X. ’04 Most fickle and uncertain March Arrives to wake the slumbering land. Her signals are the blustering winds, She holds all magic in her hand. And when the crocus tries to lift From out the ground her golden head, hen welcomed by such chilling winds. She seeks again her wintry bed. This noisy month now summons back The birds from warm and pleasant climes, Rut they so wisely seem to say, We’ll wait for bright and sunny times. Also the brook with silent song Must for a while a prisoner be, Until most wicked March repents. And frees it from captivity. Re gentle, then, in aiding spring; Calm restless tumult as it nears. And plant most tenderly her seeds. Till April sprinkles them with tears. -------------------------- Gabaneeter Tis fun to be foolish at times.” think the Gab- aneetcr girls of English. ’0.5. for on Friday evening, April Fool’s night, these very sensible young ladies and their gentlemen friends will assemble in Flemming hall, and there indulge in whatever non- sense buoyant youthfulness and joyous hilarity can suggest. Miss Gertrude Armstrong has just been initiated and will join the other members in enter- taining in the Leap Year dance those gentlemen who have the good fortune to be present. Cbe Mission ot tbe Storm Sf. d . Carlcton, £., '04 Storms of seem both dark and dreary, And hearts by them are made sad and lone Yet they tell a wonderful story Of infinite hope, and love, and home. The rain and the snow form a coverlet warm, Protecting the children of Nature so fair. Till they wake in the spring mid sunshine and glory To lighten and comfort the burdens we bear. The fiercer the night of storm and tempest, 'Flic brighter and warmer home’s hearth-fires glow. The wilder and higher the waves on life’s ocean, The nearer and dearer home’s loving hearts grow. ---------------------------- Opeecbe Canoe Club Owing to the agony and abuse of the vocal or- gans caused by the pronunciation of Lambda Delta Cuama. the club has decided to give to the pub- lic its true name, which is the Opeechc Canoe Club. The last meeting was held at Gray’s Curiosity Shop. ()ur new member, Mr. Nangle, was on hand, from whom dues were painfully extracted. Crosby took his usual nap. Scott cracked his usual jokes, and past canoeing adventures were duly magnified. The Frank and Leo Murphys were voted eligible to club honors. This ended the busi- ness part of the meeting and the club retired to the banquet hall, wherein was spread a repast fit for a king. Ere the last stroke of the curlew had ceased to distribute its musical cadence on the surrounding atmosphere the club “butted out.” SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 151 XTbe Bachelor Girls Now that the excitement of the baseball con- cert is over, the club is planning a gentlemen’s night to be held at the home of Miss Ray about April 1. A theatre party is in view ami two engagements to repeat the baseball drill March 2 S and May 2. The next meeting will be held at the home of Miss Reeves. -------- ------------ HA. B. if. Club The N. D. F. Club held its bi-monthly meeting at the home of Carl Ward, Washington street. There was a warm discussion about receiving new members. After the meeting a delightful lunch was served. The meeting adjourned at 9.30. The next meeting will be at the home of Joseph A. Par- ant, Walter street. --------------------- junior Class Bance The class dance of the English and Latin Junior classes which took place March 17 was a brilliant success. The hall was tastefully decorated with flags and palms. Mr. and Mrs. Whitcomb and Mr. and Mrs. Baxter received the guests of the evening. The ushers were the Misses Sarah Gale. Edna Gordon, and Eleanor Turner, of English, '05, and Misses Gertrude Baxter and Ethel Mullikcn, of Latin, ’05. The aids were Messrs. Ernest Ware, Maurice Blair, and Frank Bradford of English. ’05, and Messrs. Robert Burns. Allan Elliclt and Arthur Soule, of Latin, ’05. SPECIAL NOTICE! ILLUSTRATIONS OF EVERY SORT FOR THE JUNE ISSUE MUST BE IN THE HANDS OF THE EDITOR OR MANAGER NOT LATER THAN APRIL 20TH. 5. XT. B. Club The regular meeting of the S. T. I). Club took place Monday evening, March 11. at the home of Gardner W. Stacey. An important business meeting occupied the greater part of the evening. Plans for May week were discussed, and it was decided to go to some suitable spot and camp. The idea of club rooms was considered for the coming year and thought of favorably by the mem- bers. Rowland W. Dunham, one of the popular mem- bers. is at present traveling in Florida, on account of ill health. I� . is hoped he will be able to return to school about April 1. The host served an excellent supper, which was appreciated by all. The next meeting will be held at the home of Harry ( handler, -15 Jaques street. ---------------------------- H. if. jfmtcvuitv� Xabics’ int0bt The fraternity since the last issue of the Raima- tok has enjoyed a very pleasant occasion. The first ladies' night of the season was held at Flem- ming's hall. The affair was a marked success. The first part of the evening was spent at cards. Then followed dancing. Those present were: 'l hc Misses Baxter. Freeman. Davis. Mullikcn. Foote, Gordon, and Ritchie, and the members of the club, Burns. Beard. Soule, Haflford, Burroughs, Nichols, Elliott, and Scwall. The fraternity hopes to have these social events oftener than in the past as they are so enjoyable. The last meeting was held at the home of Edgar F. Scwall. Much business was transacted, and a good social time was enjoyed. B. C. 5. The B. C. S. Club held its last meeting at the home of Miss Nellie Phinney. The entire evening was devoted to business «and the club have decided to give a Leap Year Invita- tion party, to be given in Flemming hall in April. The next meeting will be held the thirty-first of March at the home of Miss LeCour. 152 SOMKRVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR VMcMVtOVwvV ¥ PORT ARTHUR WILL BE TAKEN (Special Cable to the Radiator.) Port Arthur, February 30, 1901. Greetings: I am among you again, and yet I ain't. I am among a bunch of sleepy Russian Cos- sacks who are rubbering over my shoulders and meditating whether to butcher me or not. At this writing I am seated astride a gun on the fort. Oc- casionally it pops at the Japanese warships that are doing a two-step in Society Bay. They dodge every shot. Awful dead here at Fort Arthur ; noth- ing but bombardments day in and day out. Called on Alek (for the benefit of those who haven’t had the pleasure. Admiral Alexieflf) to-day and had a Scotch high ball. He says if the Japs don’t capture Port Arthur inside of a week he'll sell out. Yesterday, as the Japs weren't in sight, the Rus- sian fleet butted outside the harbor to get some fresh air and let the shore batteries plug at them for practice. Three were sunk, and all but three of the crew prevented from being rescued. Slipped up to St. Petersburg (note I say slipped; 1 didn't go on purpose) the other day on the Trans- Siberian Cow-Path. A one-track system, and the train onlv goes by steam on down grades. While in town I skipped up to the palace to sec the Czar. He greeted me cordially.—bade me sit down and enjoy myself. I told him I was enjoying others, and lie passed me a war extra of the St. Petersburg “War Cry.” The Czar told me right out loud that lie was sick of the whole darn business, and remarked upon the inhumanity of the Japs for keeping the Russians lwtt'.ed up. The Czar finally went to sleep during a heated discussion, and 1 went out and took the horse cai for Vladivostok. I arrow in time to dodge a lyddite shell which the Taps were tossing in. Them lyddite shells are bad things if they hit ver right—one feller's gut appendicitis already from the effects of a Lydia-ite. Just received a special from Port Arthur; the re- port says Port Arthur is surrendering. P. S. When thev get through I'ii wire. Hastily, W. M. WISE MAN NEARLY KILLED (Special dispatch to the Radiator.) Just escaped a terrible death at the hands of the Russians. I was fishing on the Yalu when a re- connoitering party swooped down on me and slipped on the bracelets ere I could show my di- ploma from Sandow's college and perform a few ex- amples. They threw a bunch of questions at me-ovitch steadilv for an hour. In mv excitement I dropped my Russian primer, by Anna Held, and so an- swered all their questions calmly with a yesindeed- ovitch. 1 probably queered myself. I was shoved into prison at Dalny. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 153 The following morning I saw a guardsman tak- ing notes from an article on a Southern lynching in an American paper. I perceived I was up against the real thing. To croak at mv age and in such a common-place man- ner seemed too bad. In an agony of dispair I said, Come hcreski. The guard pricked up his ears and emitted a whatovitch.” I cut out the dialect and beckoned. He ambled over, and sat down be- side me. ‘‘Did you ever see a negro?” I asked. He shook his head. “They art most respectable men ' 1 said, work- ing on his emotions, they are martyrs. I am a newspaper correspondent, not considered respect- able by the majority: I am not worthy of such a deathski as you contemplateovitch.” No-ski?” lie queried. Xose-skt, I answered, planting my fist firmly on his nose-ski. The topography of his phiz was materially changed and his respiration was poor. Taking advantage of these conditions I borrowed his clothes, took his keys and escaped: now I can eradicate some more for the Radiato� . Arrived at Port Arthur safely. The Japanese ad- miral. Sunny Jim. has been using Force during my absence. (Sugar and cream not served.) Au Revoi� -. W. M. --------------------------- EXCHANGE A ,4 NOTES A J obef btj %d b V b Center of Vision, we do not understand why you have not received copies of our magazine, for they have been sent each month of publication thus far. Your January number is missing from our table. You arc to be complimented 0:1 your February cover. The M. H. S. Quarterly Review has a very at- tractive cover, but more stories would improve it. The prize story in the Lariat, Cheyenne, Wyom- ing. is very interesting. A new paper on our exchange list. The Usonian, from Malden, is one of the best papers we have yet received, both inside and out. The stories are par- ticularly good. A good sensible paper, and one realizing the worth of an exchange column, is the E. II. S. Record from Boston. The exchange editor wishes to correct a mistake made in the January issue of the Radiator. It was stated that Mrs. Gilbert, now a teacher in our school, taught thirty-six years ago in San Mateo. Cal. It was. as may have been guessed, but twenty-six. A New Hampshire friend, the Argus, from Ply- mouth. prints a long list of exchanges. We won- der if it sends to all. We find this impossible, much as we should like to exchange with all our friends. No stories, R. M. T. S. Register! Why aren't we down on your list of exchanges, Portland Racquet? And on yours also, Las ell Leaves? A verv interesting story was begun in the Feb- ruary number of the Blue and Brown (Lancaster. Penn i. The prize story is also good, but why don't vou have an exchange column. Blue and Brown? The Madrono from Palo Alto. Cal., like most of our small exchanges, is attractive. The print, though small, is clear and good, unlike some of our more pretentious exchanges. It is not pleasing to find words incorrectly spelled, such as lexison, inquiered, destinguished. pomoadour, experimenes. ornirary. It may be, and probably is. the fault of the printers. Phono- graph (Ballston Spa, X. Y.), but it would be well to correct such noticeable matters before you start using thru.” ihot. brot. and so forth. Of course, it is unavoidable that accidents should sometimes occur, however. Will somebody please translate:— Two women sat in the living motherly looking woman setts. ()ne was a plump a town of western Massachu room of a large farm house, in while the other was a spinster of uncertain years. Rather difficult! Surely such a ludicrous order might have been avoided. Gleaner (Pawtucket, R. I.). The Oak. Visalia. Cal., shows its good sense by having a long exchange column, but the print is verv indistinct and unattractive, which seems hardlv necessary. 5. O. ID. Club Secreted in the privacy of their den was hidden the S. O. M. club, apart from the world and wrapped up in the intricacies and solemnities rela- tive to an active secret society. When the mem- bers finally emerged from the realms of mystery and fortune and returned to c arth and Somerville —tin- secretary announced to the world that four names were inscribed on the roll of eligibility of the S. O. M. club. The lucky persons thus fav- ored by Dame Fortune are Harold Currier. James Wecdick and Aaron Xoves, of the English 05” class, and J. Leo Murphy, of the Latin “05 class. A theatre party is arranged for the near future, to be followed by the annual lawn party and a ban- quet ---------... -------------- X. J£. E . Club The last meeting of the L. E. D. Club was held March S, at the home of Miss Bertha M. Hen- nings. 2 Gorham street. During the business meeting plans were made for the Harlequin party to be held on April 1. After the business was concluded, refreshments were served and a social hour enjoyed. The next meeting takes place at the home of Miss Ethel M. Snow, -12 Curtis street. 154 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR ’04 Three more numbers of the Radiator to come. Three chances to see how funny you can be. Won't anybody take a chance? Going, going! The Sigma Delta Club wants to buy a cow for the use of its president and two or three other mem- bers. No cow will be considered which does not give malted milk. Sweeney's proficiency in French is marvelous. Recently we said to him. “Qu’cst-cc que ce pent etre, Eddy?” and he answered. Oui without a mo- ment’s hesitation. ‘T-ost. a little heart!” 'I'oo bad. too bad. Here's hoping it wasn’t one of the Senior girls. Denvir is about to take up Greek again. Think it over. George. Stevens, who has gone South for his health, is great I v missed. So are his books. Recent publications by ’Olcrs:— Little Dick: or. How He Dodged the Chan- delier.” How and When to say T am Yours.’ ” par Mon- sieur L.” How to Make Greek Interesting.” by Harrison. How to Make Mustard Palatable.” by Miss Bradshaw. The Art of Acting.” by Denvir. Songs of All Colleges—with and without.” by Bradford. “His sigh was a hullabaloo, his whisper a hor- rible yell.”—H-y-s. A bon marche—corncakes. Buv some class stationery from Hammett: only nine dollars a quire. Observe the simple beauty of a hat on Getchell. ’05 The two qualities of a metal: “Elasticity and ben- dicitv.” Remember the class dance the seventeenth. Did you have a talc of woe on the back of your report ? First Pupil— What did you get?” Second Pupil— I got as much as U.” Laocoon’s snake dream was exciting. If hageln means hail, then in hageln must mean inhale. Latin translations by our student, Th------w: They sailed crooked ships, or they looked to be crooked in his eye”; He threw out his wing.” The class basket ball season is near its close after the most successful year of its existence, hav- ing beaten such strong teams as Dorchester, and the Septopians. mong those who answered Captain Hafford’s call for baseball candidates are Doe. Burns, Gould, and Burt. Many others will probably be given a trv when the out-door season opens. Adcock and McLaughlin are representing the class on the track team. German translation: They held themselves to- gether.” 'Fhe A. F. Fraternity held its last meeting at the home of the president. Edgar F. Scwall. '06 Miss W-----n. Division 1. should come early to avoid the rush” the first period Thursday. What! Did you get a G? Lucky boy. First boy— The cream in my eclair is frozen.” Second boy— Better not let them know about it over at the lunch counter, or they'll charge you for ice cream.” M----. in French— Jc suis heureux.” Was lie ever otherwise? Ask B------p how many “deers” he saw while camping. First Boy— If those that study German are ‘Germs.’ and those that study French are ‘Pari- shes.’ what are those that study Greek?” Second Boy— Oh, nothing but book worms.” It is said that C---n had to be led home after the reports came out. He got an E. Dolan, translating Greek— ... in order that the baggage animals might l c more safer.” Have you seen the “happy family” yet? Teacher— What wasn’t right about that?” C----r— It was wrong.” 'Fhe class has a fast representative on the high school track team,—Twohig. Funny Mr. Hawes has to get a Carpenter to open the windows. They must stick hard. [Continued on page 156.] SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR '55 NOTES ’04 Interest at ten per cent, will be charged on all class dues after March 25. The school pin will be an excellent one. as the committee is very choice in selecting the design. Do not worry, ’tis better late than never. There was no chance to move in Room 20 when Bean was distributing his four hundred photos. Cotter, Frost, and Barton arc among the num- ber of candidates out for the baseball team. With their assistance the championship must surely come to Somerville. Though the B. C. S. Club girls came toward the end of the programme in the baseball concert, we must remember the old saying, Keep the frosting till the last. C-os-y is fast becoming one of the leading shirt-waist men of our class. During vacation Bean went on a hunting trip to Maine. When lie returned he said he didn't even sec a chipmunk. The Senior dance of the class of 1901 will be held in Anthonie's Academy. April 12. All are in- vited to assist in making it one of the grandest affairs in the history of the class of '01. The Six Club will postpone their meetings until the return of one of its members from Kuiawa- hewahh, Florida. News from our war correspondent of Division A. Chase: The paper says the Japs arc having quite a time over there.” The photograph committee advises all to avoid the usual graduation rush. Miss C-----has refrained from using the old ex- pression. ‘’Thick as bees.” since she has seen her last report. Everything at present is as thick as D’s. P-r-v thinks there will be a chance to display his smile when laughing gas is manufactured in chem- istry. W-l-on spent his vacation in North Adams searching for a lost photograph. One of the tall Sophomore boys leaned against the wall in the corridor and accidentally misplaced one of the beautiful specimens of fine art. My! he exclaimed, “did I see moving pictures?” Who is Charlotte A. Percival? Is he” a great unknown? At the last Senior class meeting the following members were chosen to serve on the dance com- mittee: Miss Stevenson. Miss Ouennell. Messrs. Chandler, Barton, and Duhig. We are sorry to learn that Dunham has gone South for his health, and hope he will soon be able to return. B-igh-m said: Fame is bestowed upon one who has his name in the class notes.” Therefore. BRIGHAM, here is fame. D-h-g thinks that the note in the last issue of the R vdiatok referring to his visit to the barber shop was awfully cutting.” Wilson’s juvenile friend asks at the baseball concert: Mamma, has Albert his regular face on ?” Stacey said he went to see “Three Little Maids.” The sympathy of our class goes out to our class- mate. Miss Bell, in the death of her brother. Ed- ward Bell, who passed away March 1 after a long illness. Mr. Bell was a member of English. 1900, and remained with his class till his health failed. His early death is mourned by all with whom he was associated. Enthusiastic letters are received from Dunham, ’04, who is enjoying a month’s stay at Patatka, Florida. We are glad to know his health is already much improved. '05 Three clubs were well represented in the base- ball concert, the S. O. M.. the F. B. F.. and the D. W. F. This is the mad season for the baseball candi- dates. They are practising in a cage. Spring is here. Every recess you can see lots of people moving in the corridors. Instructor in chemistry—“Around this candle flame there is an invisible flame. Do you all sec it?’ Class—“Yes, sir!” L----- lost a car. Has anyone seen it? He may have mislaid it. W-----n. while eating oyster stew down at the lunch counter, swallowed a spoon and couldn’t stir. The doctor said that he was suffering from “quick consumption.” Have you read the Room 32 Gazette? L----------y and C---r, joint editors. '56 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR L-----dropped a cent in nitric acid. L--- is a cent out. Biological question— Are there any points of similarity between animal matter, like the dog, and vegetable matter, like a tree?” Yes, they both have a bark.” 06 Wanted: A class president. DcNoycr, our former president. is taking a business course at the Winter Hill College. We hope he attends to his work there as well as he did here. The Spectatoi has noticed some of the members of Room 23 playing tag” on the cannons. That is a Freshman game. These balmy spring days should give us more inspirations in our recitations. Bs-!-v's favorite phrase in history, Renewed vigor.” Most sincere wishes are extended for the re- covery of our classmate. Fred Bowen, who is now at the Somerville Hospital stricken with appendi- citis. At a meeting of the hockey team Munro. ’()( , was elected captain for next year. It is hoped that he will turn out a strong team. According to one of the faculty this is a danger- ous world : no one ever goes out of it alive. It is expected that no pupil will be absent on the seventeenth of March without a good reason for it. That isn’t a legal holiday, but we can wear rib- bons. though. What a melodious chime the pipes make when the steam is turned on. Almost as good as the squeaking of bagpipes. ’07 Miss II----(translating French)—‘‘The giant is an ant.” Miss G-----thinks “deux fois sept font quar- ante.” Freshman—“I bet I know where you got those shoes.” Scphomore—“Where?” Freshman— “On your feet.” We all regret the loss of Miss Chase from the list of our instructors. Wanted in room 11—An S-----'s desk. extension put on We extend a cordial welcome to Miss Tousey. who takes Miss Chase’s work for a time. Heard in the corridor—“There arc some pretty girls in room 11.” In I. History B.—“Alexander came to the throne when twenty years of old.” Ham—ton (in all lessons)—“I don’t know.” We arc glad Miss Marsh has returned. 1 ivision C has a Baker, a Carpenter, and a Rose; and division J has a Taylor and a Waite (weight). Xattn IKlotes [Continued from page lot ] Miss H-----11. German III., translating—“I am it.” All the ’05 basket ball team have bought new caps after defeating the Septopians. The universal question—“Won’t you buy a ticket to this basket ball game?” Graves is out for short-stop and Benting for catcher, on the nine. Rice’s version of the Ancient Mariner”:— “Down dropt the breeze, 'I’he masts dropt down.” G----n isn’t inquisitive, is lie? 07 Those anecdotes were interesting, division four. Division two held a debate February 23, the question being ‘Resolved, that a country boy has better chances for development than a city boy.” I.amont was president; Miss Hanson, secretary. Fhe affirmative speakers were: Miss Gridlcy, Miss Fleming, Miss Goodwin. Hale, and Hill. The negative. Miss Gould, Higgins, Gray, Kindlund, and Merrill. The deciding committee decided in favor of the affirmative. What fine singers the tenors are! A well-known quotation. “First in war, first in peace.” etc. Too bad we lost the basket ball game. Division four is planning to keep collars and neckties on hand for the benefit cf Tucker. Look out for the Juniors. They are wearing derbv hats. We miss Mr. Hadley so much when he doesn’t come that when he does come every one sings his best. We miss Cuddy from our class. How much did that glass cost, Nolan? We are sorry to learn of Wiley’s accident. ----------------------------- Japanese and Chinese goods are in great favor just now. Nothing is prettier than the Japanese Imari ware. In this ware, choice designs are found in salad dishes, platters, and punch bowls. There is also the Japanese Hyzen ware, of delicate blue, outlined with characteristic Japanese figures. Not only does the firm of C. C. Bowles Co., 19 Avon street, carry a large line of rare Japanese china and toys, but also it is agent for the leading sewing machines, the Domestic. New Home, and I lousehold. They come in different varieties, while the designs of fittings arc almost unlimited. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 157 ATHLETIC« Ubc .leaseball Concert On Friday evening. February 2( , tne baseball concert was held in Unitarian hall. Every seat in the house was taken. The concert was a complete success from a pecuniary point of view. Some sketches were exceptionally good, others were be- low the average. Those that especially merited applause were: S. '1'. D. Club, Bachelor Girls, Barker and Blount, Grover and Mercer, and the B. C. S. girls. Dunham was the star man of the evening. Selections by Miss Mae Sargent and Miss llcssie Whiting were well rendered. The other numbers included the S. O. M. Club, Irving Carpenter, Dcnvir and Dcnvir, and Curran and Nye The music of the evening was furnished by Clifford’s orchestra. ---------------------------- Salem IHiob Girls, 17; Somerville Xatin Girls, S At Salem, on January 23, the girls of the Latin school were defeated by their fair opixments from Salem high. The girls' defeat may be only attributed to lack of practice, which was caused by lack of interest, and a much greater lack of funds wherewith to hire a hall. Salem, however, won by the superior goal-throwing of their forwards. Latin school were also handicapped by the small size of their “men”(?). Line-up:— Salem. Somerville Latin. Brown (Capt ), f................f., Cutler (Rugg) Griffin, f........................... f.. Symonds Hind, c................................c., Hayes Pickering, c.................c.. Whitman (C'apt.) Russell, g.............................g., Little Goodcll, g...........................g.. Whitney Score—Salem, 17: Somerville, 8. Referee— Miss Torrev. Umpire—Miss Sehuetzer. Fouls— Salem. 12: Somerville. 11. ---------------------------- The following is the baseball schedule correct up to date. This should be kept in mind, and es- pecially the league games, as every one should at- tend and help the team by loyal support, both financially and by enthusiastic cheering:— April 12—Hyde Park at Hyde Park. April 15—Tufts Second at Somerville. April 10—Lawrence High at Somerville. April 20—St. Marks at Southboro. April 23—Bridgewater Normal at Bridgewater. April 25—Cambridge Latin at Somerville. April 27—Lowell Textile at Lowell. April 30—Malden at Somerville. May -1—Groton at Groton. May 5—Harvard Second at Cambridge. The Stadium. May 7—Open. May 11—Cambridge High at Somerville. May 12—Lawrence High at Lawrence. May 11—R. M. T. S. at Somerville. May 18—Malden at Somerville. May 21—English High at Somerville. May 25—Melrose High at Melrose. May 28—Open. May 30—Dorchester High at Somerville. June 1—Open. June 4—English High at Somerville. June 8—Norwood High at Norwood. June 10-11—Dorchester High at Dorchester. June 14—Everett High at Somerville. June 17—R. M .T. S. at Somerville League game. Date undecided. jliockevj iWctes 'Pile members of the hockey team to secure an “S” were Captain Babbitt, Chandler, Ilovcy, Doc, Monroe. Blair, Coleman, Barton, and Manager Mitchell. Monroe, English, '05. will captain next year’s team. Monroe played goal in a creditable manner, and undoubtedly will make a good leader. How- ever. a good captain alone cannot make a good team, and it is to Somerville's shame that more in- terest has not been taken in hockey. The team this year received no support from the school, had no rink for practice, had no coach, and a lack of candidates. Is it little wonder that the team did not make a better showing? Manager Mitchell is worthy of praise for the work he has put forth in behalf of his team. 158 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Uvappa fl bl Eta Stance A very pretty poster iti the hallway at Anthoinc’s announces the fifth annual reception and dance of the Kappa Phi Eta Fraternity, organized some years ago in the class of 1902, Latin school. The party will take place on Thursday evening. April 7. and music will be furnished by Marie Grosse, the celebrated tambourine and hurdy-gurdy player. If our information proves correct, this will be the only time her music can be enjoyed in Som- erville this spring. The advance sale of tickets has been very large, and a repetition of the successful parties of previous years is anticipated. Tickets may be had of Paine, Latin school, and other members. II. W. Poor, of the English high school, has ar- ranged an interesting trip for the May vacation to the mouth of the James river. Baltimore, Washing- ton. Mt. Vernon, and Philadelphia. The trip offers unusual inducements this present year, as Congress will be in session, and the capitol will be seen at its best. Anyone interested will do well to sec Mr. Poor or to call for an itinerary. X nn Classical, 2$; Somerville Xatfn, 14 The girls got the second defeat of the season on March 4 at Lynn, for the same reasons as that of their defeat by Salem. Although they were beaten badly, yet in passing they outclassed their oppo- nents. but could not seem to throw goals in the way the home team could. A return match is to be played on the nineteenth of this month. May our home team have better success! The game will be played at Bacon hall at three o'clock. ------------------------ Xatin, '04 mb '06, 0; Xatin, '05 mb '07, In a very exciting game the girls of '01 and '06 defeated '03 and '07. Throughout the game there was plenty of good work displayed. Miss Whit- man and Miss Baxter played well for their side, while Miss Symonds and Miss Hayes played well for theirs. At the end of the second period the score was 8 to 8. but on a double foul ’04 and ’06 secured a goal which gave them the game. Line- up :— Latin, ’04 and '06 Latin, '05 and '07. Symonds, Youngjohn, f.........f.. Cutler, Rugg Mayes, Gregg. Foster, c. .c., Whitman, Baxter, Cole Whitney. Drouct, g.,.......g.. Leonard, Griffin The Bouve-Sterling THE NEWEST DESIGNS FOR 86 Summer Street 78 Hanover Street BOSTON Shoe, $2.50 YOUNG MEN 13 Water Street 14 Spring: Lane ESTIMATES ON ILLUSTRATIONS For the June Radiator may be obtained of the Business Manager. Clubs wishing cuts of pins, headings, or half tones should speak early. I SPRING COSTUMES and I FANCY WAISTS ? MARGARETTE G. HIGGINS ; FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKER : 148 Pearl Street, - - Somerville §, SENIOR RECEPTION AND DANCE Somerville English High Anthoine's Academy Tuesday, April 12, 1904 7.30 P. M. Subscription, $1.00 a Couple Towne's Orchestra ___________________SOMERVILLE HIGH Mrs. A. M. YOUNG Opening of Pattern Hats and Novelties 3 Medina Building, West Somerville Discount to S. H. and A. students GIKAGOSIAN BROS. GENTLEMENS CUSTOM TAILORS 13 Medina Block. Davis Sq. - - W. Somerville Pressing, Cleansing.Dyeing. Altering and Repairing PEIO PEIRCE 23-A Bow Street Millinery EASTER Opening MONDAY AND TUKSDAY. M A let'll iK. 29 Come ami sec our line collection of Trimmed Hat , copies of imjiortcd creations, as well as all tuc most approved domestic models. SCHOOL RADIATOR 159 TWELFTH NIGHT March 30, 2.00 P. M. March 31, 7.30 P. M. Given by members of the Heptorcan Club in Unitarian Hall. Tickets, $1.00, 75 cents, 50 cents, sold only to ladies. All seats reserved. The proceeds are for the benefit of the Heptorcan Scholar- ships, to he founded at liadcliffe and Tufts. COMPLIMENTS OF George L. Marshall, D.D.I. 5 tow street, Rooms 5, 6, 7 SOMERVILLE, MASS. OFFICE HOURS: October to June. 2-6 P. fl. June to October, 9-12, 2-5 P. 1. Tufts College ELMER H. CAPEN, LL.D., President The College is on a hill-top, four miles from Boston, combining the advantages of country and city. It offers to the students in all its departments the best methods of instruction, and the various facilities requisite for a thor- ough education, at a very moderate cost. DEPARTHENTS THE COLLEGE OF LETTERS.—Degree A. B., and for courses in Biology, Chemistry or General Science, and In Civil, Electrical, Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, the degree S. B. THE DIVINITY SCHOOL.-Degrec D. B. THE MEDICAL SCHOOL.—Located In Boston. Degree M. D. THE DENTAL SCHOOL. Located in Boston. Degree D.M.D. THE BR0MF1ELD-PEARS0N SCHOOL —A technical School for the Engineering Courses. THE GRADUATE DEPARTMENT.—Degrees Pb.D., A.M.,M.S. SUMMER SCHOOLS.—In Chemistry, Biology, English, and Mathematics. For Catalogues or for any information concerning the college, address HARRY G. 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YOSEMITE VALLEY SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR i6i Photographers to Somerville English and Latin School The studios are equipped throughout with every essential inducive of the best results in portraiture. Careful and courteous treatment with every consideration for the preferences of the individual, originality in posing and design, and the prompt execution of all orders have won us friends who. in their appreciation, are our best advertising medium. Your negative goes on file with those of the leading statesmen, clergy, artists and literati of this country and abroad. 146 TREMONT STREET BOSTON Discount cards may be had from the committee. ■cutters is Hie best equipped Training School in the East. Prospralus will tell you why. ADDRESS: KX) Doylston street BOSTON Snappy Styles AT TUB Federal Hat Co. Manufacturing ami Retailing Hatters. 166 FEDERAL STREET. BOSTON Photographic Supplies AT H. h. I. SMITH’S Davis Square MILTON H. PLUMMER, Ph. G. Hpotbecavy 25 Union Square, . . . 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Institute The Teachers make the School The Proprietors are Teachers I ndividual Instruction Positions Furnished Graduates Students 40 Towns Business Shorthand Penmanship Friends of the school will be pleased to know — that we have added to our faculty Mrs. Alice Dexter Wilder several years instructor with us at the head of department w ork in Burdett College $27.50 Per Term Gilman Square, Somerville, Mass. K. H. NI. C. l-TSHliR — Principals CONTENTS OF APRIL RADIATOR Page Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley ( Supplement ), ------- Mirror Lake, Yosemite Valley,.....................................- 164 Radiator Staff,.....................................................165 Editorials,.......................................................166-7 Bird Notes, by Mary E. Dolbear, E., ’04,............................168 The Mission of a Picture, by Maude Huff, L., ’04,...................169 The Fire Department Fooled, by Nellie L. Quennell, E., ’04, - - - - 171 The Demise of Hwensik Hong, by Darius D. Drinkwater, L., ’04, - - 172 Entertaining a Stranger, by Charlotte A. Percival, E., ’04,.........173 A Dream of Summer, by Eleanor Cummings, L., ’04,....................174 Public Occurrences,.................................................175 Radiations from the Radiator’s Wise Man, .........................176 Exchange Notes,.....................................................177 Latin Notes, --------...............................................178 English Notes,......................................................179 Athletics,..........................................................181 BOSTON TYPEWRITING and REPORTING SCHOOL 120 JBoplston Street (iRoom 4U ) STENOGRAPHY, TOUCH TYPEWRITING, CIVIL SERVICE Practical, individual instruction. Civil Service work a specialty. Three successful pupils of last examination have received appointments; two in Philippines, one in Washington. Stenographers’ speed dictation. Day and Evening. TERMS MODERATFL Open all Summer. A Postal Card Sent to our Sales Department, 30 Congress Street, Boston, will bring you our spring price circular as soon as ready. Meanwhile, if the severe and pro- tracted winter has exhausted your supply of fuel, let us furnish you with a sufficient quantity to carry you through the season. Our stock is always the largest, our equipment is the largest, and prices as low as any in Boston or vicinity. Metropolitan Coal Company GENERAL OFFICES 30 Congress Street, Boston SOMERVILLE OFFICE, 31 UNION SQUARE Tel., Somerville, 73-3 MIRROR LAKE. YOSEMITE VALLEY ISATIN ENGLISH SCHOOLS Vol. XIII. Somerville, Massachusetts, April, 1904. No. 7. The Radiator i� published by the Somerville latin and KnglUh High School on the third Thursday of every month during the school year, and only important new matter can b« received after the 10th of the month. Matter for insertion may be left with any of the editorial Staff or mailed to the editor at the Latin High School. In contributing, write on one side of the paper only and sign full name this is for reference only). Communications should be addressed to the editor, business manager, or oxcliange editor, according to their nature. Manuscript must be accompanied by necessary postage to insure its return. Terms, 75 Cents per Year Single Copies, 10 Cents SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT Editorial Staff Editor=� in Cbicf C. SHERWOOD RICKER. L.. 04. associate Editor KATHRYNE L. NOLAN. E.. '04. Exchange Editor HELEN MARDEN. L.. 04. Sporting Editor GEORGE COHEN. L.. ’04. .business Aanager LAURENCE MITCHELL, E.. '04 treasurer GERARD C. BEAN. E., '04. Staff artist. EDWIN H. WEAVER. E.. '05. Class Editors Xatin School WILLIAM L. PHILLIPS. '04. ARTHUR T. SOULE. ‘05. HERBERT S. SANBORN. ‘06. RALPH E. DURELL. '07. English School WARREN B. FARNUM. ’04. LEONARD W. LIBBEY, 05. RICHARD KEYES, '06. LUTHER I. SMITH. '07. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 166 ED I TO RIAL'S H Retentive flDemorg EJ.DOM do we find a person with an aptitude for acquiring knowledge first hand. By “first hand.” we mean at a single reading of the matter to he retained in the mind. With the average and normal individual, a certain amount of concen- tration and association must accompany all at- tempts at memorizing. IIcw this labor may be minimized, and the knowledge become tangent to a whole from which it cannot be detached, is an im- portant question to the student. How many times in reading a ioreign language have we come upon a word, which though our eye immediately proclaims familiar, yet our memory fails to recognize. This is a common example of what daily happens in all our studies, and implies a defect of the memory. This failure of the memory to retain the meaning of a word or the location of an event, however trivial it may seem by itself, nevertheless is a positive menace to the integrity of the faculty itself. We must remember that the mere taking in of a new truth is not enough. Realizing what underlies words and expressions, forms the basis of all mem- orizing. In this work we should take especial care to economize mental energy bv classifying and generalizing our facts as much as possible, throwing aside that which is not absolutely nccssarv. The memory is a faculty that can be overtaxed just the same as any physical organ. Hence we should be careful in over-exercising it. There should be, at least, a relative and, if possible, a positive purpose for all the exercises of memory It is next to impossible to carry definite im- pressions of things which do not in the least inter- est us. Interest gives birth to a desire to know: knowing, in turn, stimulates a desire to know al- wavs. and to know always is to have the subject firmly fixed in the memory. Interest must be found or created before the retaining process be- gins. Association is another important condition for good memory. To associate a new idea with a familiar thought often tends to fix the new firmly, for henceforth the one commands the other, and in that wav an indefinite chain may be forged not easily to be broken. Select a system which seems best adapted to the individual, and cultivate it. Habit, which is practice, makes perfect. In an- other part of the paper we have printed rules for the cultivation of the memory which may be helpful. V K IReaMno W IIV is it that we read a book with greater con- centration than we can ever hope to put upon a declension or a conjugation? Of course, there will he a few who will sec in the paradigm an an- alogy to something higher, but the average pupil finds very little in tuba, tubae, tubae, etc., to be- come enthusiastic over. To be sure, he is exceed- ingly obtuse if later on he doesn’t sec the necessity of it for progress, and this serves to smooth out the wry face contracted during the memorizing of the declension : still, no affection exists. We do not wish it to be thought that we arc en- deavoring to construct a shaft against this me- chanical method of obtaining knowledge: it is in- dispensable. But we do feel that reading has a greater power in shaping thoughts and lives than any other influence in the world. We cannot help being affected by a book, pro- vided it arouses our interest. Oftentimes, it con- tains an element of inspiration that incites us to action. Every book reflects at least one truth, al- though in a good many cases a truth re- garding social life. But, as social life forms one of the foundation stones of civilization, and as without history there could be no progress, we establish a value on books when we.prove they contain grains of truth. Their relative value dc- pehds on their nature. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 167 Wo have proofs of the power of reading in shaping minds in the lives of great men, many of whom have told us that it was some book read in boyhood that helped to fan into an ardent flame a spark of genius which later sent out a bright gleam. Remember that Alexander the great car- ried a copy of the Iliad with him on his famous campaigns. K , K H Tflllorb on Criticism LITTLE while ago a leading Boston daily spoke quite disparagingly of a high school paper published in the neighborhood of Boston. The criticism certainly was severe, but it was well meant and doubtless needed. After assuring our- selves that we were not the rebuked, we proceeded to re-read the editorial and think. We quote here some of the most pointed para- graphs:— “A business man in Boston recently sent to this office a paper published by one of the Boston high schools, in which he was an advertiser, asking us to look it over and say what we thought of it as an example of the intelligence, culture, courtesy, and literary skill oi the students who were responsible for it. We made an examination and were amazed that the officers and teachers of any Boston high school would permit such a publication to go abroad from it. Presumably, this paper was issued by students of the Senior class, candidates for graduation. The presumption is supported by the fact that Senior class interests and incidents consti- tuted the bulk of the contents, and apparently only the affairs of those members of the Senior class be- longing to certain societies were thought to be worthy of much consideration. The under classes, when alluded to at all, were usually treated with what the writers probably thought to be humorous disdain. We will not say what it seemed to an out- sider to be. Personalities of an inane, if not worse, description were plentifully distributed. There was almost nothing to indicate that the school had any serious business, little to indicate that any pupil had done an honorable action or achieved an honorable success. In contents and tone the publication was not above the standard of some country district school where respectable ideals and courteous man- ners have fallen into decay. The smartness of un- refined egotism and vanity was conspicuous on every page. “Barbarisms of expression offending against the primary rules of grammar and taste were many, such sentences as a Filipino youth with a meagre knowledge of English, or a youth who had never had the advantage of associating with educated per- sons who speak English with decent correctness, might be expected to write, being too ignorant to know that they betrayed his misfortune. In this respect this high school publication was a shame to its contributors and its editors, and to the good re- pute of the school itself ' This is the kind of criticism that counts. There are two other kinds of criticism; that of the Exchange column and that of the friend. The one is superficial, the other, a mode of torture. There arc so many exchanges, and so little space, that all that can be said is, Your cover is excellent, such and such a story is good, or a certain depart- ment is going down.” Then there is the friend who says, “The Radiator is lovely this month,” or “Corking good number,” as the person may be. We don’t know whether he is a polite prevaricator or a messenger of the truth. Politeness, ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, gov- erns the statements of friends. We are left in hor- rible doubt—it becomes torture; for after the paper is issued, we see errors that stand out like mon- strosities to our eyes, and probably our friends sec the same, hence the torture. K Vi V V TIbc Suite iRumber LL articles for the June number will be solicited personally. Clubs in presenting their notes should have a concise account of the year’s work, and a list of the officers. Clubs desiring special headings or cuts should see the manager immediately. Class editors arc urged to have a goodly number of bright class notes for this number. June Radiators can be obtained only by subscription. The manager will, at an early date, place blanks in the hands of the class editors for subscription purposes. V. V. V, V, XT be lUisc iDan's 'Unberstuby 'I'HERE is so much of importance and interest going on here at home that the Wise Man, after a conference by cable with 11s, has appointed an understudy to comment upon the affairs of mo- ment hereabouts, while he remains at the seat of war. V V. V. V, Xlbii? flDontb’s Cover ,yE are indebted to Sub-Master Harry L. Jones of the English School, for this month’s cover design. 168 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR J6ir£ Hlotes By ZlDary j£. Bolbcar, ]£., '04 UCH of the pleasure sought in Nature can only be found and appreciated through personal observation. We must seek the birds, if it is these little creatures that interest us, and study them in their natural homes. To do this one must constantly be where the birds arc. This is most easily and satisfactorily accomplished by attracting them to the dooryard. and, if possible, inducing them to build in the neighboring trees. One of the most prolific methods of attraction is low shrubs, so that the birds may have an oppor- tunity to plume themselves after a bath. Another way to call the bird’s attention is to pro- vide it with nesting materials. For the robin a mud bath,—-that is. a large flower-pot saucer filled with a mixture of garden soil and water. The robins make the foundation of their nests with this material. The bluebirds sometimes build in trees, but the bird-house is chosen in preference. A one- tenement bird-house may be made 9x6x5 inches, and should 1 e placed upon a pole at least ten feet A BACK YARD SCENE to provide water in some place easy of access. Birds are frequently seen bathing or drinking at some wayside pool. But if a bird bath is provided for them in the garden they arc sure to come, es- pecially if fresh water is always kept there. A short tree-stump is an excellent place for the saucer of water, and it is well to locale it near bushes or from the ground. Cats arc sure to frighten away the little inhabitants if the house is within their reach. Martins, likewise, build in bird-houses, and ii there is only one on the premises a struggle for ]X ssession takes place. In May the orioles arc in search of nesting materials. Colored yarn and strings hung upon the bushes entice them. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 169 The little chipping: sparrows build their nests of small, dry roots and horsehair. They stay nearer to the ground than most birds, and are somewhat tamer. The illustration shows how a chipping FINALLY TAMED sparrow was so tamed that he came inside the house for food which was placed near the open window. He had a nestful of young birds in an apple- tree near by, and became domesticated through the use of crumbs scattered upon the doorstep, and later by placing a tiny dish of crumbs on the win- dow sill. At first the window was closed : then dav by day it was gradually opened. Finally all fear was destroyed, and the little bird came boidlv in and perched upon the chair to cat. When the brood were old enough to fly, he brought them to the sill, where they fed together. THE BIRD BATH We all know that the robin cats the earth worm, and that the snow-bird eats crumbs. Rut what else do they cal5 There are hundreds of birds and a hundred kinds of food; furthermore, the birds are eating intermittently all dav. The question is. What different foods do the different species cat? If one is successful in getting these feathered friends to stay about in their garden, in watching and studying them closely, there are occasions when valuable observations may be made. tLbe IIMeston of a flMcture J y flDaufce Duff, %. '04 T is raining steadily without, and the lack of sunshine renders still more dreary the bleak and melancholy as- pect of the room, where a young man works steadily at an easel drawn be- neath the sky-light. Here in the great city of New York George Kurtol labors day after day, in a desperate struggle for bread; some- times he produces a picture which the dealer around the corner succeeds in selling for a small sum; sometimes his efforts go begging and return to line the walls of his studio.'' Rut to-day the artist is beginning a new pic- ture. Yesterday, while struggling through the throng, he saw but for a fleeting moment, a little shabbily-dressed boy, whose grace and beauty impressed itself upon the startled artist. Only a moment, and the picture was gone, but the mem- ory of that sweet face with the great solemn eyes has continually haunted Burtol's mind, so to-day he has resolved to try to paint that face from mem- ory. Rut alas, though it is vividly impressed upon his imagination, he can not satisfactorily convey it to canvas—the soul expression will not come. He throws down his brushes and palette in per- plexity. and gazes ruefully at the canvas, when a timid knock sounds on the door. In response to his Come in. the door opens and there, his torn clothes dripping with rain, by one of those miracles that occasionally happen in real life, stands the vision of yesterday. He regards the amazed artist for a moment, and then in a timid voice asks, Want a model, Mister? Only fifty cents an hour!” Rurlol. overjoyed at his good fortune, immedi- ately draws the boy into the room, saying, “Dry your clothes first, sonny, then we’ll sec about that. When the child is dry and comfortable, he is en- sconced in a great arm-chair, and the artist begins again at the canvas with renewed hopes and vigor. For hours he works, and the boy sits so still and motionless that it is evident that he is accustomed to the business. s he works, the artist with eager questions draws forth tin information that Roy Vernon.’' as the boy is called, lives in a miserable room with a woman named “Adelaide.” who is em- ployed as a nurse in the houses of the wealthy, while Roy serves as a model to artists. At dusk the child depaits with his earnings and with Burtol's strict injunction to appear at the studio early the next 170 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR morning. So tor many days Roy spends several hours with the artist, and soon a warm friendship springs up between the two. At last the picture is completed, and one fine af- ternoon Burtol, accompanied by his little friend, knocks at the door of Professor Leland, an emi- nent artist and critic, who once commended certain noints in one of BurtoFs productions, and in whose judgment the artist places unbounded confidence. The visitors are ushered into the presence of the professor, and the precious picture is taken front its wrappings; Burtol apologizes for the intrusion, and begs to know the critic's true opinion of his pro- duction. His host glances at the canvas carelessly at first, but suddenly his shaggy brows contract, and he eagerly draws nearer. For a long time the silence is painful, the critic frequently passing his eyes from the picture to the model, then back to the pic- ture again. At last he speaks, his brow clearing and his face beaming: Why, this is splendid, sir. wonderful! You have put vour whole soul into the work and the result is marvelous. You are indeed an artist!” He warmly praises color, execution, and techni- calities. until at last Rurtol. his cup of happiness overflowing, departs, a dazed but happy man. It is the day of the exhibition at the Great Salon of Paris. It is whispered that many especially excellent paintings will be exhibited, but that the most skilfully exe- cuted of all is the work of an American artist, and is called “A Chance Acquaintance.” The work has been so praised by the usually harsh and un- flinching critics, that all artistic Paris is on the tip- toe of expectation to view it. At last the great portals open, and many mag- nificent carriages roll down the avenue to the door of the Salon. Ascending the steps are people famed in the world of art—critics, painters, sculptors, and connoisseurs, who spend fortunes in collecting pic- tures for their own private galleries; then come all the world of fashion. From one carriage alight a gentleman and lady, whom the crowd about the doors name as the famous minister. Monsieur Jabcau. with madame, his wife. They enter the building with the others and are ushered into the great galleries. Directly opposite the entrance in the position of honor hangs that much talkcd-of picture. A Chance Acquaintance,” a portrait of a ragged little boy. with delicately refined features, and large pa- thetic eyes, that gaze with wistful tenderness from the canvas, stirring the hearts of all sympathetic beholders. Every eye turns first to this and many murmurs of approval are heard. Rut Madame Ja- bcau at the first glance grasps her husband's arm, points towards the picture, and crying. “Victoire. our boy!” falls, almost fainting, into a chair. After madame is revived, she sends her anxious husband for the artist who painted the picture, and Monsieur Ja1 eau soon returns accompanied by no other than our old friend. George Burtol. Tn an- swer to the questions asked him the artist tells all he knows of the hoy who was his model for the painting, and through whom he has gained such fame. He relates how one night he went to the child's home to inquire why he had not come to the studio that day and found him in a tiny room in the poor tenement of New York, with a woman who would not say whether she was his mother or guar- dian At the name Adelaide” both monsieur and ma- dame gave a start, and in hurried tones Monsieur Jabcau tells the artist the tragedy of their lives, •t seems that four years ago they were the happy parents of a little son named Victoire. They had employed as nurse a woman called Adelaide Men- tot, of whom the child seemed very fond. One day, the woman being caught in the act of pilfering her mistress' wardrobe, was severely reprimanded and discharged, and although another nurse was em- ployed. Victoire often cried for Adelaide. One day while the nurse was gossiping with her friends in the park, leaving her charge to play on the grass, the child suddenly disappeared. He cither strayed away or was stolen, and though every effort was made by the broken-hearted parents to recover the missing boy, no trace of him could be found. All that they knew was that Adelaide had left her home at the same time. All the efforts that love and wealth had suggested had been fruitless for learning the whereabouts of either. At the time of his disappearance Victoire was four years old, and three years having elapsed, he would now be about seven if alive. Ah. sir!” cries madame. “the face of the boy in vour painting so closely resembles that of our son! Could it be a picture of Victoire and could the model be our son? If you with your knowledge of Roy Vernon will aid us to fathom this mystery, we will ever bless you!” The great Atlantic steamer has just arrived at Yew York. Among the passengers who hurry down the gang-plank is a young man. evidently an American, accompanied bv a gentleman and lady of dignified bearing who show plainly that they are of French birth. The American gives orders concerning the disposition of the baggage; then all three enter a carrige and are driven away toward the other end of the city. On and on they ride, through the constantly narrowing streets of the poorer sections, through dingy courts and lanes, till finally Rurtol (for the American is no other than he) signals the driver to halt. At the artist's. “Here we are. Monsieur,” they alight, enter a gloomy court-yard, and now stumbling, now groping their wav. ascend endless flights of dark and dingy stairs. At length Rurtol pauses before a closed door and raps. A woman—Adelaide—answers. “Madame.” «lie gasps. She is hastily pushed aside by the lady and gentleman, who hurrv to the rude cot where, with his sweet face thin from seme recent illness, lies Roy Vernon fast asleep. “Victoire. cries his mother, and the picture has accomplished its mission. SOM ERVI LLK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR i i XLhc iftrc Department jfooleb jfoun eb on fact JS UtelUe X. Qucnnell, a ., '04 OOK here, Bill Perkins, I’d be willin' ter bet that you couldn't fool an infant, for all yer lioastin’ talk this evenin’,” and Jake West, the greatest better in Charlestown, glared at Per- kins, who had capped each of West’s choicest stories that night with one a bit better. What will yer bet that I can't fool, wcll-er, well- er-er—the whole volunteer fire department?” de- manded Perkins, determined to keep up his repu- tation as a great practical joker. “O, yer mean it? Then 1 take yer up. I bet the best $5-beaver hat there is in this town against a flowered vest that yer can't do it inside of three months.” ‘Well, I accept your terms. And say,” called out Bill, as the two men separated for the night, “vou’d better be pickin' out that hat. You might be buvin’ it on easv terms.” ' v This conversation took place in one of the rooms of the almost deserted engine-house, which so recently had been filled with men busily swap- ping stories. Although Bill Perkins was a night watchman in the city, nevertheless he found time, like our policemen of to-day. to enjoy many a social hour. You sec 1854 wasn’t so different in its ideas from 1904. I Tow could he win the bet? That question racked Perkins’ brain every night, as he paced the solitary street. And at the end of two months he was no nearer its solution. Indeed, the joke at present seemed to be on him, for West would taunt him every time they met. saying. Hullo, Bill! are yer sure yer know what size vest I wear?” Clearly something must be done! Tt was a clear cold night in midwinter. A slight powdering of snow was scattered on the ground, and this, combined with the brilliant twink- ling stars, for in those days they had to compete with no great brilliant lights, changed Main street from its work-a-day aspect to a more idealized ap- pearance. The thermometer registered ten degrees below zero, and as Bill Perkins puffed and panted in his endeavors to keep warm he thought not of the brilliancy of the scene, but only of how he could win the bet. At last as lie turne 1 his gaze up to the bcjeweled heavens, an inspiration came to him. Fire! Fire! Turn out! Turn out! sang Per- kins to the accompaniment of his rattle. In a minute the lonely streets were alive with men and boys, wearing apparel rather odd in appearance. Many nightcapped heads were thrust out the win- dows. Contusion reigned. W here's the fire? asked a man to Perkins, as all raced to the fire station. Over there.” And sure enough there was a blaze which lighted nearly all the sky. “Guess so.” said Perkins shortly. “Here they come.” And the old hand-engine, drawn by a number of sleepy men, slipped and bumped unwil- lingly over the frozen ground. Slipping, stumbling, and sliding, the unsuspecting firemen dragged the lumbering machine. Never had the engine seemed so heavy, nor Chelsea so far away, as it did to them, half-clad as they were. On. on, they went. Would they ever cross Chelsea bridge? At last, cheered on by the crowd following them, they reached the other side. Then began the hard pull up Powder-horn hill. The rope, which was new and consequently stiff, often slipped from their benumbed hands. How many toes were stubbed that night will never be known, but certain it is that many firemen appeared the next day with a slight limp. Finally, panting and exhausted, they stood on the crest of the hill to get the direction of the fire, and incidentally to get breath. They started, stared, then looked at each each other. An astounding fact presented itself to their benumbed senses. The fire was no nearer than when they had started! “Aw. if wc ain't loons.” struck in another who had been carefully investigating, it ain’t nothin’ but the Northern Lights,” and lie gave a snort of disgust. Slowly, slowly, they turned, and went toward Charlestown. A feeling of anger swept through them. Who was the man who had fooled them? They asked each other, and the crowd, but no one seemed to know. As they put up the machine, each man vowed vengeance in his heart against the person who had occasioned them such a cold, hard run. The more they thought of it the more angry they grew. Two days later Perkins appeared in a new beaver hat. which every now and then he stroked, and as he did so a grin of satisfaction settled on his weather-beaten face. He had won. The story was too good to keep, and regardless of the danger to himself, for lie had heard the threats of the firemen, lie told the joke to his best friend. You know how it is. The talc spread until at length it came to the ears of the captain of the duped company. He immediately reported it to the mayor of Charlestown, and as a result Per- kins was dropped from the force. But. indeed, he didn’t seem to care as long as lie had played such a joke and won his bet. 172 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR TLhc demise of Ibwenetk Ifoong 36 2 arius E . iDrinfewater, X., ’04 T HANCE often puts us in touch with events that the greatest machinations of human skill would not disclose. We are often made the involuntary witnesses of affairs which, though momentous, mean little to us. T realized this. when, after leaving the cable office in I'okio, I followed closely after a Korean who had left the office just before me. carrying a bulky cipher message. I followed him merely because he took the same path as I. After passing a num- ber of low bamboo dwellings we entered a road with only a dismal swamp on either side. i was some- what surprised to sec my Korean traveler turn down a path at one side of the road, and enter the swamp. I was fully aroused when I perceived two men run across the road, coming out of the dark- ness as it were, ami follow the Korean into the swamp. I dropped to avoid being seen. About a hundred yards from the edge of the swamp a bright flame burst up through the intense darkness. The Korean had built a fire. I crept down the path taken by the two men, and came close to it. One of the men jumped forward sud- denly. tittering an exclamation of horror—the gleam of a revolver barrel in the light caught my eye—there was a flash, and a shot rang out on the echoing night air. The Korean threw up his hands and fell over back- wards. dead. I had seen all I cared to. and in un- official capacity as an intelligent agent of a govern- ment deeply interested in Eastern matters. I hur- ried again to the cable office, and dispatched a cipher message to my government concerning what T had seen. II. To understand the significance of this incident I must begin at the beginning, when I was first de- tailed on the matter. Of course, owing to the close proximity of the event, though the actors arc either dead of out of the way. it would be un- wise for me to do otherwise than to garble names and places. Mv government despatched me to St. Peters- burg about the middle of December with a letter to a certain personage there who would in due time inform me what my duty might be. T arrived late one stormy night. A perfect blizzard raged, and it was difficult to see through the blinding snow T was tempted to seek a hotel immediately, when I remembered the haste in which I departed. T went immediately to deliver my letter. I intro- duced myself at a large, brick mansion in the resi- dential part of St. Petersburg. I was ushered into a large library, very cheerful with its crackling log fire. At the further end of the room, seated at a desk, bent over many papers, was a mid- dle-aged man with an exceptionally scragglv beard. I gazed at him intently and started involuntarily, when I perceived he was a Japanese. He looked up at me a moment penetratingly, and then said, You bring me a letter from--------, and von have been battling with the storm.” Correct, sir, on both points.” I answered. May I be seated near the fire?’ “Pray do, and in the meantime I will look over the contents of the letter which you have brought.” I then proceeded to remove the numbness from my hands and feet by basking in the warmth of the cheerful fire, and to study my Oriental host. I franklv confess that at the end of ten minutes 1 knew as little about him as I did at first. His face was a mere blank, and his eyes dull and expression- less. At last, after lighting a cigarette, he turned to me and inquired, Do you understand in any measure your mission here? Not in the least.’’ I answered. “Then let me have your closest attention, and 1 will tell you your duties, so far as human counsel can direct and advice. You speak Russian tolerably well? he queried. “Tolerably, I answered. “Good. Your ear is practiced, and you should hear ten words to every one vou utter. You will owe your services as second valet to no other than M. De X-----. who is at present so much in favor with the Czar. You will pick up stray scraps of information concerning M. Dc X---------- and the Czar, which may be gathered from the servants and come to me with these. Upon these depend our future movements. You will be furnished with a proper disguise, and you will begin to-mor- row. A second valet is needed and you will have credentials. Arc vour duties made clear? “Perfectly, I replied. “Then we may as well retire; the hour is late and our labors multiply daily, he remarked. I acquiesced, and arose early the next morning, feeling in excellent spirits for my work. Without very much parley, I was admitted as second valet to M. De X------ I soon found that the servants were little walking newspapers in themselves, and I became chummy with them. I learned many things, and among them that M. Dc X-----was in high favor with the Czar, who had almost decided to take the former’s advice in preference to that of his other ministers, concern- ing a diplomatic note of the Japanese. I immediately communicated this to my Japan- ese superior, who became agitated and said. “If he succeeds, nothing but war can be the out- come. I returned with orders to be doubly watchful. The following day I returned to tell him that M. Dc X------had apparently been overthrown, and the other ministers had prevailed for peaceful SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 73 methods regarding the Japanese note. M. De X------ was beside himself with anger. This proved grati- fying to my confessor and he felt much more at ease. Rut it was only temporary. I returned the same evening with even more startling news, as it seemed. Fortunately I acted on a presentiment that the conversation I had overheard was of some moment, or the sequence of events would have been lost to me and the world. W hile working in the anteroom of my master’s chamber, I overheard him say. “Remember, if you are not in Tokio to get that, my career is ruined and the demise of Hwen- si k Hong will be a certainty. The patience of the Japanese is about exhausted, and a delay of twenty- four hours may have its effect. This 1 told to my Japanese adviser. He was but an instant in reflection. Your next move must be Tokio.” he said. Start immediately for Vladivostok and thence to Tokio. You must be there cither for the demise of Hwcnsik 1 long or for the interception of ‘that which you can hardly fail to comprehend. When I had replied in the af- firmative, he said, Cable to your government the outcome that it may know immediately how to act. Momentous things will happen ere a fortnight passes.” With these words of advice T was gone. Two, days I had been in Tokio. and thinking something had miscarried, 1 cabled my government my fears, and then directly chanced upon the incident I first mentioned. I had been after all in season both to see the interception of that which could only be the Russian answer to the Japanese note, and also the demise of the Korean by the name of Hwcnsik Hong. That lire was the burning document and the cry of the Russian secret service agent was one of foiled endeavor—the shot, a messenger of futile revenge. Ill Scarcely an hour after the death of Hwcnsik Hong, the Japanese Minister entered the Rus- sian Embassy. Diplomatic relations were at an end. £ntertatntng a Stranger J6v Charlotte H. pcrcival, JE., '04 1), or to give him his full name, How- ard O. Adams, was in a predicament. This was very evident by the worried look lie carried in place of his usual smiling countenance. That a lady was in the case was denied by all the cadets. Ad” was seen with girls of course, but rarely with the same one twice. Gray. Ad’s” roommate, disputed the question with the other cadets. Here is what happened. One day in June Gray entered into forbidden territory, namely that of a man in deep thought. He came across Ad” in the gymnasium, gazing hard at the door of his locker. That a door should he so interesting looked suspicious. Gray shuf- fled his feet and in this way tried to make his pres- ence manifest. Ad looked up very much embar- rassed. and the flush that came over his face would put schoolgirl blushes in the shade. Instead of the usual display of posters and pic- tures of noted athletes was one solitary photo- graph. That it was a picture of a girl is hardly necessary to state. Gray gazed at the picture a few moments. Studying Venus, Ad?” he asked, by the way of introduction. Looks sort of that way. doesn’t it. though?” Ad was very much embarassed. “It is one of the greatest studies, old man. and one must study searchinglv.” said Gray. Often when the quiz comes you fail. “Its the photo of----- Marion, you know-------- she wrote to-day that on account of a prior en- gagement she will be unable to attend the gradua- tion ball.” Possibly she’s right,” Gray ventured by way oi consolation. But what an absurdity to let any- thing interfere with the one event of the season. .She couldn't. Gray—that is, when I was home last ac made full arrangements. Sort of fixed things up, you know.” The flushes came and went over his fair face. Perhaps she’s changed her mind, just like girls, my sister acts that way sometimes.” Ad” hesitated. I see: perhaps she will explain in detail later. Perhaps her father is ill. or there has been a death in the family.” Gray found his role rather difficult to act. Yes, but she would have said so. if she hasn’t gone crazy.” There is a possibility of a misunder- standing. though—a little funny business.” Ad” stopped, should he go on and teil his classmate? '! here is another girl that I know quite well, lives in New York. Perhaps someone has told Marion, and she believes it. So foolish if she has. Gladys is an old friend of the family, and we are, of course, the best of friends.” These reflections were too much for Gray, and he laughed. Of course Ad” felt hurt. Forgive me. Ad, but it seemed so funny.” said Grav. with extended palm. Cheer up. old man. and don’t burn so much midnight oil after this.” d” shook his roommate’s hand. Coming over to grub?” he asked. After their usual meal the two were strolling along the campus. Sav, Gray, got anything on for this evening?” Nothing special, what’s doing, Ad?” Well that friend of mine, Gladys, has sent me a 74 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR note asking me to come over to-night; thought you would like to come. Here it is.” Fifth Avenue, New York, March 2, 19- Dear Addic: Come over to-night if possible; it is important. Yours, Gladys. Well. Ad. this looks suspicious; however, I will go and see that she don't hurt you. By the way. is she pretty?” • Er— who do mean?” “Oh. er— Gladys. Ad.” Yes. she is one of the best girls.” Sure I won’t be in the way? Not at all. Gray.” All right. I’ll go.” . $ Eight o’clock found the pair in the drawing room of a large nicely furnished house, located on one of New York’s finest streets. “Mv friend. Mr. Gray. Gladys, T have written so much, about.” Pleased to meet Mr. Gray. I am sure.” J almost consider I know you without an introduction. Ad has written so much about you. Presently Gladys said, I suppose neither of you hapoens to be without a partner to the graduation ball. Her blue eyes twinkled. Gray thought it was with mischief. Preposterous as the question was she laughed. The laugh was contagious and the cadets joined her. Gray was busy for that evening and Adams was trying his best to make out whether lie was or not. Strange as it may seem. Gladys I am at present not favored with a companion for the ball. Going to have company?” I will have next Tuesday and she is unaware that the ball comes on that night. I wanted some- bod v to attend to her dance order.” Gray thought his hostess very vivacious for a person you know' “quite well.” Have some more fudge bv way of thanks. Addie.” You may thank me only by allowing me to escort you as chaperon, Gladys. When Ad” got home he thought it less pleas- ant to be entertaining to a stranger. • After the introduction the chaperon was called out. the telephone rang or something happened leaving the newly acquainted couple alone. Pretty hard to entertain a strange girl, isn't it, fellow's? Cadet Howard O. Adams was doing and saying things which I am afraid could not be confined to a “tactic book.” And this pretty young woman he had just been introduced to. “That was only a little prank of mine, Howard. Gladys and 1 were chums at boarding school and we found out that her ‘Addie’ and my Howard were the same person. We put our heads together with this result.” “But it was such a cruel joke, don't you think. just a little, dear---- “Ad stopped and became very much interested in a deserted street, but what in a street could make him blush is more than I know. Marion gazed hard at a shelf of books and became strangely interested. I couldn’t see w hether she blushed or not: it was the hour of twi- light. “Why how quickly you get acquainted.” said Gladys, but these cadets have a reputation hard to beat in that direction.” Gladys laughed. B Stream of Summer JSv Eleanor Cumininos, %. '04 The whisp’ring wind in accents low Was sighing through the trees, Whose fragrant blossoms gently stirred Some sleepy, tired breeze. And distant echoes, dim but sweet, Perchance a bluebird's note, Stole o’er the river’s rippling tide And kissed a nymph’s fair boat. And declining, half reluctantly The ling'ring twilight fell; Then through the silent dusk there came The evening’s curfew bell. I woke and found ’t was but a dream Of some sweet summer past; For stars looked on a white, white world In winter's clutch held fast. The northern wind laughed boist'rously, The earth in silence lay; But something in the starlit sky In low tones seemed to say ‘T’will come again; and we’ll forget King Winter’s chilling face, To find ourselves enfolded close lit Summer’s warm embrace. SOMKKVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 175 Stoma E elta Xablcs' ittiiibt This event, the club's “third annual, took place in Flemming: hall. April G. Without making: any verbal display, here are the facts. There was a ban- quet. Postquam exempta fames et amor com- pressus edendi, the harmless game of hearts, was indulged in. enjoyed chiefly by Miss Ritchie and Wyman. Then dancing to Ryder's music. It hurts us to record the sighs when the last waltz er.ded. Those present: The Misses Johnson. Preston. Bouncy, Ritchie. Trueman. Ilasbrooke, Wingersky. Jarvis. Butterfield. Messrs. Cole. Lawson. Stevens. Phillips. Trueman. Pierson, Cohen. Getchell. Moore, Bell, Wyman. ---------------------------- S. O. ID. Club Three neophytes were initiated according to the weird and mystic rites of the S. O. M. Club, on Monday evening. April 4. They were thereby- christened Spud Murphy. “Runt Noyes, and “Doc Currier. In their full regalia, the three can- didates. after the completion of the arduous tests and ceremonials, entered a well-known Boston restaurant and banqueted. At a meeting held on Wednesday. April 13, at the home ot Frank R. Bradford, the names of the candidates were duly inscribed on the roll and constitution, and they were pronounced members. A pleasant lunch was served, and at nine o’clock thev “started home. The club extended a cordial welcome to Samuel Dolbear. who came home to spend the Faster va- cation. He is a member of the Freshman class, Clark University. Worcester. ---------------------------- J8. C. 5. In the belated snowstorm of March 31, the B. C. S. girls trudged bravely to the home of Madge Le f our, Clarendon hill, and there spent a most pleas- ant evening. Arrangements were completed for the gentlemen's night to be held in Flemming hall April 22. IO. X. ID. Club. The last meeting of the V. L. M. Club was held at the home of Miss Kendall. Previous to that the club entertained their friends at a charming Leap Year dance held in Flemming hall March 29, Games and supper were enjoyed before the girls were allowed their choice of partners. Those present were: ‘Divie Clement. Arthur I lirans. Ruth Bidwell, Billy Gillctt, Marguerite El- dridge. Fllwood Jones. Beatrice Ryder. Clarence Woodworth, Mildred Harvey, “Jimmie” Nichols, Ethel Thompson. Bob Thayer. Marion Van Wart. Arthur Duhig. Grace Kendall. Edgar Sewall. Clare Millctt. Fred Whitney. --------------------------- Cbe JBacbelor Girls. Friday evening. April 1. the Bachelor Girls held a gentlemen’s night at the home of Miss Ethel Ray. The rooms were prettily decorated, and an elaborate luncheon was served. During the evening Miss Carrie Ames Wilson, a cousin of the hostess, ren- dered several vocal selections, which were well re- ceived. Miss Libbey also entertained by giving several readings. The members present were Misses Stickncy. Hatch, Pipe, Libbey. Reeves, and Ray, and their guests were Wallis McCoy, Guy Connor. Herbert Michael. Francis Dods. Herbert Currier, and Edwin Philbrick. --------------------------- iResolutlous Xattu, 07 Whereas, by the will of God, our classmate. Francis J. Fox, has been bereaved of his father, and whereas we, the class of 1907. have learned with great sorrow of his affliction, be it therefore Resolved, that we tender him our heartfelt sym- pathy in his sorrow, and be it further Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to Francis J. Fox. and also published in tire Radiator. Lawrence II. Bowlby, President. Mabel Conover, Secretary. 176 SOMKRVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR ww «rai w m Bn JE.vpose .U5v tbc TOnfeeratudg AST fall my revered master and teacher, the Wise Man. hit off a little preach- ment on secret societies that jarred the main beams of several in author- ity. I have since backed into the stall to gather the remaining oats. I hang here below a secret society's bi-monthly indigestion teat of the boys, and the hot-air exhausts and Unecda Biscuit races of the girls. The fellows gradually arrive by ones and twos at the house of the poor guy who happens to be mis- fortunate enough to be standing for the lobster and cream. '1 hey all look careworn, with their blood- shot eyes. T hey have been drinking in three small pages of Latin, two slices of German (one only half-cooked), four swigs of geometry, etc., from the flask of knowledge. The result is dis- couraging. as you may see. To use the well-worn phrase, they would have had brain fever long ago if they had had a place to put it. 'fhc bunch is corailed, and it’s time something did. or busted. The president sobers down for a minute and calls the meeting to order amid the cries of “1 move we adjourn.” A mock lynching takes place as the treasurer reads his report. Some one moves they give a ladies’ night and a feed— then they all move. After that they adjourn. Thereupon they indulge in that great American game of whist. The hour hand backs up to eleven, and ‘‘rings off.” The misfortunate guy says, “Come into the dining-room, boys.” The bunch has been using car trumpets listening for this call since 0.30 and no one has to be carried to the dining-room. The biggest eater feels the best. They all stagger out of the room filled to the palate. Some one hits the piano and they all join in to sing “Tessic” and “I’m Tired.” The parlor watch has run down at 1the next day. The next morning in school they look as though they had sat up all night at the sick bedside of a relative. The girls’ meetings alongside the above-men- tioned arc as Young’s is to a cheap hash house, for excitement, still we chronicle theirs from a sense of duty. About 7.30 the girls appear in twos. If they have new skirts, waists, or collars, they wear them. If not. they say. I plugged so hard this afternoon on that Trench that I was too tired to dress up.” But the girl who appears in the twelve and one-half cent collar that looks like those at Meyer Jonas- soivs. and will wear longer, or the girl with the $1.38 waist that looks as though it was made of the goods receives the Grand Stand eye from the rest of the Wistful Woozlcrs. Then someone hands out something like this: “Oh, you ought to have seen him—lie’s just dear, we saw him this afternoon over by the cannon for the first time. He tipped his hat when he saw us doing the Hotel Touraine Inspec- tion act.” Thereupon the hostess shoves forth either Rus- sian tea (imported) or some Bensdorp’s Cocoa as chocolate, together with some Zu Zu’s, and the girls then kiss each other good-by and run home. Next month in the Radiator we see: The last meeting of the Fu Fu’s was held at the home of Lizzie Blank. At the close of an important meet- ing the members were endowed with a bounteous repast. The evening closed singing college songs. (Note—The girls don’t show it so much the next morning.] jfrom the Scat of Mar [Special Cable to the Radiator.] “All quiet along the Yalu.” The tide is coming in. The Japanese have reached the bank ; whether they make a run on the bank or not—will w ire later. They are removing their shoes and stockings. I’m moving, too. Yours with love, Wise Man. ------------------------- Why docs not X. Y. Z., of the Central Falls High school. Central Falls, R. I., address us through the Observer? We are perfectly willing to send our paper to X. V. Z.’s school when we have enough copies, but if X. Y. Z. wishes them for his or her own especial use. why does not he or she subscribe? We do not send to individuals. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 177 iRules for tbc Abcmorg I. Regard continually the distinction of these properties: Susceptibility, readiness, re- tentiveness. and their relative importance. II. For the cultivation of retentiveness: Re- duce the burden laid upon the memory as much as possible. 1. Nevei impose upon the memory work ap- propriately belonging to the other facul- ties, especially reason. Retain no more than just what is essential for the object in view. (a) Committing to memory beautiful pas- sages in prose or poetry. (b) Learn facts in history and geography, (e) Learn scientific truths and their results, (d) Learn grammatical forms of words, as in the study of languages. 3. Classify and condense as much as possible. 4. Avoid light reading. Spend much time on little reading. A lost opportunity of re- membering weakens our power of re- membering ITT. Whatever is to be retained, see that its im- pression on the mind is as distinct and clear as possible. Attention concen- trated, and for a sufficient time. Feel- ings enlisted. No hurry and distracting element. Associate with former knowledge. Remember objects in groups. Review often. Communicate your knowledge to others. Judicious use of writing. Cherish a sacred regard for the exact truth. IV. Have nothing to remember that you do not wish to remember Opcccbc Canoe Club Ximitcb. The last meeting was held at the home of C. Adams Perry. We have decided to secure bachelor quarters on the river for club purposes. The election of officers resulted as follows: Ad- miral. Harold Currier: vice-admiral. F. Rumbell Bradford: purser, Clyde Winfield Scott. The canoeing season was opened on the night of March 30 by two strenuous members (Lonnie and Addic) clad in straw hats and woolen mittens, who landed on an iceberg and shot “polo-bears.” Crosby took his usual nap and Brad cracked Scott's usual joke. -------------------------- Gabaneeters. The Gabaneetcr dance was held in Flemming hall April -1. Cosy corners, ferns, and the club colors gave the hall a most delightful appearance. Dancing, including several German figures, was the chief feature of the evening, for which Miss Bowlbv played delightfully. Mrs. Gordon and Mrs. Pratt were matrons. The club members are the Misses Robbins, Armstrong. Ricker, Nicholson, Shaw. Hazel Trueman, Muriel Trueman. Pratt, Edmands, Gordon, and Gale. The guests of the evening were Messrs. Thayer. Freeman, Kolster, Keyes, Bailey, Bradshaw. Keeler Rice, Francis Rice, Elliott, Nichols, and Ware. EXCHANGE NOTEJ We were sorry not to see the supplement ot the Argus (Harrisburg, Pa.), which must have been removed from our copy, for we wished to sec the staff of so good a paper. Perchance we have rats in cur building, to whom the pictures would be use- ful. May your future be as worthy as your past, is- the good wish of your friends, Argus. Rather late we have received a new exchange, the Pulse, Cedar Rapids, la. It is certainly a de- lightful paper. The stories, editorials. Exchange notes, and general appearance arc excellent. The account of “The Merchant, of Venice—l;p-to- Datc,” is very good. Very prettily told is The Toilers,” in the Center of Vision, from Boston. Everything about the paper is admirable, and it would be useless for us to mention all the good points. Just read it! Another stranger, and a welcome one. is the Oracle, Manchester, X. II Iv is an interesting and an instructive magazine. The Boston Herald speaks in very complimen- tary tones of the Boston Latin Register. We echo the august opinion, but cannot help wishing that the Register would have an Exchange column. An attractive paper of good print and general management is the Imp, Brighton. Mass. The Kirkwood High School Journal (Missouri) has lately come to us, and is a very acceptable ex- change. The March number is particularly unique. We share your surprise. Journal, in view- ing some of the remarkable spelling which comes to us. Wc have sent more than two copies of the Raima!ok to the Red and Blue (New York City), though it acknowledges but two in its last edition. The Radiators have been carefully addressed, and we do not understand why they were not received. I he Red and Blue abounds in good short stories. The World was too hard on you. Index (Topeka. Tnd.). Your friends will not stand l v and sec you bullied. 'I he fact that you recognize the need of an Exchange column elevates you from the common- place. where the unkind “World” would thrust you. The Epsilon, Bridgeport, Conn., contains some very good stories. Especially worthy of mention is “Vivian's Strategy.” i78 SOM ERVI LLK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR •04 At the last class meeting. Miss Frost was elected class poet, Miss Huff and Harrison, historians. Miss Marden and Phillips, prophets. Take this event along with the graduation music, and you can realize that the year is almost finished. Don't cry. 36aInn: jflonfca In Florida (we hear it said), The maids are passing fair. Eheu! vc would our health would fail, So we could all go there. Tt has it’s drawbacks, (so we hear), “Sensation,” heat and such. On second thought we do not care For Florida so much. When one gets back from Florida, One has to drop his French; We. reconsidering, will try To give our health a wrench! The Pikers are the most unique organization in the class. Their motto: “La Sante Pour Nous.” Their stock quotation: “There’s one, Albec.” ’05 Greek translations: He threw out his wing.” “They took us in and shouted us.” “They sailed crooked ships.” Did you get fooled April first? P.urns, Hafford, and Burt are still working on the diamond, after numerous cut-downs. Incipient earthquakes. The editor wishes only subscribers to apply for ■Raptators. as three mysteriously disappeared last month. Mu------hy’s translation by signs. Wake, up, classmates, and say something witty within the next two months, and greatly oblige the editor. Notes will be gratefully received from any divi- sion other than the third. Only two months more and then-----------. Oh. how we love them! Harvard exams ’0(5 Have you heard about those “originals” Gow does in the geometry class? C-----started in to make a record of visiting on the second floor, but, alas! he couldn’t keep it up. Ask B-----about “the son of the mothers.” Some of those who took that examination on April first thought the day was appropriate for it. “Hullo, John!” Yes, we do think that G-----must have a weak spot somewhere. The Freshmen, after eight months’ of hard work, have their class pins. Good work! Has it really stopped snowing for good? “Poor doggie.” Whv is it that when a teacher spoke about liking some o( his bad scholars everyone looked at------. The Scptopians finished their basket ball season bv defeating the S. T. D. Club, 60-19. We arc informed by the German divisions that “Fish have no feet.” How funny! Rice, the law of gravitation need not be proved by geometry. We wonder why the same Greek word means “brain” or cabbage.” Could there be any reason for it? There were faint rumors of an alarm clock April 3. but--- Our “chief executive” is having a hard life; but cheer up, there are others. Moses, giving the tense of “faciendum esse”: “It is the present, active, future-” Smart boy! Don’t fail to read the most exciting book of the season. This book is an autobiography recently completed by K------, entitled “A Career of Dan- ger and Daring.” ’07 Division four held a debate a short time ago on a question chosen by the class, “Resolved, that Washington was a greater statesman than Lincoln.” Savarv was president, Miss Sturte- vant, secretary. The affirmative speakers were Miss Tufts, Miss Wilson, Miss Thomas, Wild, and Winship. The negative speakers were Miss Stevens, Miss Wedgewood, Spear, Thompson, and Wiley. The deciding committee decided in favor of the affirmative. tContinued on page 180. J SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR i 9 ’04 At the last Senior class meeting the class his- torian. Miss Whiting, and the class prophets, Miss Brown and Mr. Farnum. were chosen. Greetings, Mr. Dunham. We are glad to see you back in the ranks once again. T-u-m-n was seen on the car with an ironing board What’s going to happen? It has been suggested that the Blue Danube waltz be played at the Soiree. W-l-on lost three photos from his desk. It seems that he is constantly losing photographs. Apply to Miss Gooding for the pronunciation of Russian and Japanese names. Hall has in his possession a very ancient time- piece. It is so valuable that one’s time in viewing it is limited. A RECORD BREAKER: Chase recited the whole of Mark Antony’s oration without losing his breath. How did you come out, Bean, after falling through the umbrella rack? According to Miss Benjamin’s statement in chemistry, we arc all smoke-stacks, as she said there is carbon in the breath. Frost thinks we need a new president. P-r-v would like to know if a young lady has a right to hold an empty locket in front of a gen- tleman. Remember this is leap year, Perry. C----y, translating German: ‘My brain is con- stantly growing lighter.” All of the members of the “Six Club have been offered swell positions in a hotel in Ohio. Good- by to the “Six Club. A bright piece of information in Civics: “The Japanese are using X-rays on the Russians.” ’05 Blair. Driscoll. Curran, and Higgins from our class arc still on the squad, which is now cut down to eighteen. Who is the Freshman that defined the “first per- son” as Adam? Mr. Poor laid the blame of a piece of mislaid ap- paratus to the Knights and Ladies of the Broom. Three new members from the ’05 classes have been admitted to the S. O. M. Club: Currier and Noyes of the English, and Murphy of the Latin. Heard in History E: “Mary, and her wife. William----- Did you ever notice that the minutes are a great deal longer between half-past one and two than be- tween half-past eleven and twelve. Can anyone explain the whichness of the wherefore? Heard in chemistry: Nitric acid cats human flesh One of the uses of laughing gas: It is used to pull teeth with. Carbon monoxide is a very- poisonous gas. One can breath it and die without knowing anything about it at the time. ’06 At the class meeting held at the close of the music period. March 30, Richard Fernandez, a member of the “Tech division, was elected president of the class. Let us show our class spirit. History: Finally they became barbarous and went back to their old (barbar)isms. Next—Hair- cut or shave? Have you noticed some of our classmates study- ing the elective slips to find the easiest course for next year. German translation: “He moved the stone with strong strength.” Heard in English G.: “He stumbled on a lake.” We wonder if lie fell in. The ’07 class took a heavy burden on their shoulders when they chose the Powder House for a class pin. II. Hist. A.: “Rome was once divided into two fractions. • M-n-ro seems to think that it wasn’t quite right for the athletic committee to decide that every can- didate for the baseball team must have an average of B. Have you noticed that the girls have gone back to the “no-hat” fad? ’07 At the meeting of the boys held in room 15 re- cently, Pratt was elected captain of the future base- ball nine. Practice up, boys. Why did H---------in I. Ger. A. hesitate to trans- late, “D.er Knabe der mutwillig ist wird sein Auf- gabc nict haben”? New dramatic hit: Da-ly and Miss------------ in “Hands across the Aisle.” Those who want sporty goods in the line of hosiery, please call to J. L-n-, room 17. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADI 180 XIbe Spt er anfc tbc jfl ? Xy dbartba Cbomae, '07 The spider is a wary thing, And cruel is his way. He eats up all the little flies And big ones too, they say. He makes his house inviting, Then waits with crafty smile, His voice is soft and pleading. Tho’ he’s gloating all the while. The flics are simple as can be. He gently draws one in, And tells him funny stories. To divert him, while he spins. The spider's voice grows harsher, His awful teeth do show. He licks his chops and wonders How soon the fly will go. The fly is all a-tremble. These signs—what can they mean? They mean, poor fly. he’ll pick your bones And pick them very clean. The spider laughs a dreadful laugh Before he takes a bite. And vows the fly will all be gone. Before another night. “O cruel, cruel, spider. How can you eat him up?” The spider scornfully replies, “I need him for my sup.” Now all who hear this touching tale, Take warning from the fly. For he. poor thing, was taken in; You may be by and by. --------------------------- H Great Opportunity Mr. Poor of the English school faculty is arrang- ing for his sixth annual excursion to Washington, D. C. The expense is remarkably reasonable, and the time allowed is two days longer than similar ex- cursions include when run by the railroads. The tour includes an ocean trip to Norfolk. Va., a stop at Old Point Comfort and Newport News, a stop at Baltimore, and four days in Washington. A visit to Congress while in session, and several side trips will occupy the time while here. The return is made by way of Philadelphia, New York, and Fall River line. The party will leave here April 30, at noon, and return May 8. Further informa- tion, circulars, etc., can be obtained of Mr. H. W. Poor, at the English school, or at his office any Saturday at 12 o’clock, 298 Washington street. Xattn Motes [Continued from page 178 ] T.et us try to pass in more notes tor the next num- bers of the Radiator. Mr. Hadley has a wrong impression when he thinks that everybody became jealous. The new rule that was made does not suit us very well. The class pins at last! Heard in history class:— Teacher—“Miss J—k—ns, recite on the first Samnite war.” Miss T—“There is not much I know about that war.” , Teacher—“Then recite something you do know about.” How well P.owlbv looked with our class pin on! Heard in algebra: Pupil—“He went down the stream in twelve hours.” Teacher—“ No, he went down in a boat.” We miss our small classes in the hall. How division one must like those Latin tests! We hope Wild will keep his new resolutions. At last the girls' club in division four has a name, the S. T. O. Xlbe flMissy tUillow dfcan? C. dbcCartb� , '05 Pussy Willows soft and gray Woke from sleep the other day, Peeped from out their tiny beds, Nodding drowsy little heads. March, with winds so sharp and strong, Did not let them sleep too long. Shook them in their fluffy beds, Bade them raise their little heads. The Pussy Willows did obey. And in meadows far away Now they chatter with the breeze And laugh and frolic at their ease. --------------------------- ■Resolutions Xatin. 07 Wiiercas, by the will of God. our classmate, Al- bert II. Pettcngill, has been bereaved of his father, and whereas we, the class of 1907, have learned with sorrow of his great affliction, be it therefore Resolved, that we tender him our heartfelt sym- pathy in his sorrow, and be it further Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to Albert I I Pettcngill. and also published in the Radiator. Lawrence H. Bowlby, President. Mabel Conover, Secretary. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR i Si Baseball IHotes The baseball season lias opened at last! Cuddy is bringing the team into great shape. He has his hands full, as he has had to fill a great many positions with new men. Cameron or Dris- coll will probably catch, and Higgins, because of his eyes, is trying for the field. Hall or Burns will play first. Blair at short. Doughty at third, and. of course. Ilad'ord will pitch, aided by Nichols add Hayes, who will play in the field. The other posi- tions are very much in doubt as yet. but will soon be settled. Tift is twirling for Brown, and Dickinson is play- ing second. Attend the games, and support the team. The first league game conies the thirtieth of May. Bear in mind and “butt wise” Let’s have system- atic cheering this year -------------------------- Somerville Xatin Girls, 2$ : Xgnn Classi cal Girls, 26. At Bacon hall the girls made up for their defeat of a few weeks ago by defeating their former vic - tors l v a scant two points. The game was good throughout, and the work of the girls was excellent. Our girls had splendid team work and the forwards good eyes for the basket. Miss Whitney, although her opponent overtowered her by a good margin, plaved very well, and Miss I ittlc, at guard, shot goals from fouls in an amazing manner. Miss Drouet, and in fact the whole team, never played better. ♦ On Miss Donohue of Lvnn fell the most of Lynn’s work. She scored all but two points that were credited to Lynn. Miss Brackett scored the other goal. --------------------------- XCbe jfirst Game Somerville opened its season Friday. April s, with a game against a professional team, some of whom were old Somerville boys. The profes- sionals went down to defeat to the tune of 21 to 11. Though it was only a practice game, it served ad- mirably well to show the good and bad points in the material. The team, we may say. is in fairly good trim for so early in the season. The feature of the game was the batting of Bav- ton. One three-bagger and two two-baggers sailed out over the fielders’ heads. If he only continues strong like this with the bat. he is bound to do Somerville proud. Mafford pitched a good game. He used his curves sparingly, but his speed was with him. In the fifth inning Haves was given a trv-out with the sphere, and he did well. The in and out-ficld work was good and only a half-dozen errors marred an otherwise excellent game. Dris- coll did noble work behind the bat ---------------------------- H Close Call Somerville had a close shave for victory on Pa- triots’ day. It will serve to give the team and the rooters something to think about. Hie playing was terribly loose all around. Wild throws and other errors were the features of the game. We arc not in the least pessimistic, but we must confess the game was exceedingly poor. It was almost a “tragedy of errors.” Lawrence went to the bat with Hayes in the 182 SOMERVILLK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR box. The first man got his base on balls, and managed to steal third. A wild throw brought him home. Hayes struck out the next three men in order. Maurice Blair found the sphere for a two-bagger, but the next three went down and out. In the sec- ond inning Hayes picked off his three men. Hayes then made a two-bagger and failed to steal third. Higgins made Somerville’s first run in this inning. Hayes again pitched a good inning. Somerville woke up with the stick and tallied three runs. The first of the fifth started in badly. Hafford giving his first two men their bases on balls. Law- rence rolled up three runs. Wild throws helped them. Somerville took a brace and found the home plate three times. Doughty and Hayes getting baggers. In the first of the sixth Hafford was in good form, and he struck out his three men. Som- erville’s stick work was good in this inning. Bar- ton pushed out a two-bagger, and three runs were made. Hafford got his three men in the eighth, and Somerville made things look hopeful by tallying for four runs. Lakin made a grand-stand play this in- ning. 'There were two men out. two on bases, and Lakin had fanned twice. The third swing sent the ball prettily out between left and centre field to the fence, and Lakin reached third ‘unharmed ’ The first of the ninth Hafford went up in the air, and the Lawrence boys found him for five hits and three runs. Driscoll had a bad day, making sev- eral costly errors. Final score—Somerville, 14; Lawrence, 11. FLOWERS POP THE SOIREE AND GRADUATION J. W. HOWARD, Florist 330 Broadway - Somerville The Bouve-Sterling Shoe, $2.50 THE NEWEST 86 Summer Street 78 Hanover Street DESIGNS FOR BOSTON YOUNG MEN 13 Water Street 14 Spring Lane Established 1S40 Iver Johnson Sporting Goods Co. STOCKSttOKS TO John P. Lovell Arms Co. Manufacturers. Importers. Wholesalers. Retailers • ''oun dealer' SPORTING GOODS 163 and 165 Washington Street BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A. N. A. DOLLERIS Motor Cycles Electrical Work Bicycles Bell Hanging Electrical Supplies Speaking Tubes Key Pitting Automobile and Motor Cycles Repaired 69 Dover St. - - West Somerville, Mass. Beacon Dyeing, Cleansing and Blanket Co. Some of the Articles that we Naptha Cleanse : Furniture of every description, Carpets, Rugs, Drap;rles, Furs, Clothing, and Bcodlng, for Moths and other Insect Life. Sofas, Bed Lounge.-, Easy Chaim. Indies' Chaim, Parlor Chairs. Mattresses, Feather Beds. Pillows, Furs. Ubtcrs. Coats, Trousers, Vests, Ladles' Skirts, todies' Jackets, Waists. Bath Robes, Felt lint . Cloves. Lace Curtains, Blankets, Etc. Carpels taken up. cleaned, and rclaid; also, recut and fitted Carpets packed moth proof for storage ■3 ®K5r SOMERVILLE, MASS. SENI) POSTAL AND TEAM WILL CALL Telephone, Gtc-i. WHEN THIRSTY Try some of our delicious Ice Cream Soda with crushed fruits Highland Avenue Pharmacy (Successors to F. E. WHITMORE� 263 Hijrhiaml Avenue High School trade solicited EVERY ONE Attend the First League Game SOMERVILLE vs. MALDEN Saturday, April 30 Broadway Field - - Somerville WALKING SUITS made up to THE LATEST STYLE MARGARBITE G. HIGGINS Fashionable Dressmaker 148 PEARL STREET - - - SOMERVILLE SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 183 Herbert E. Bowman, Ph. G. DRUGGIST Magoun Square,. Somerville, Mass. latest Stesions m Summer flnUlmer Mrs. A. M. 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Hazel Fallis, E., ’07, An Elopement of 2004. by Gabriel Farrell, Jr., L., ’06, A Leap Year Dance, by Claire Millner, K., ’05, - The Sheriff’s Gratitude, by F. Stuart Dean, L., ’04, - The Indians of To-day, by C. Buchanan, E., ’06, High School Happenings, .... Latin Notes, ..... - English Notes,......................................... Athletics, ......... Page 188 1S9 190-1 191 192 � 93 194 196 «97 198 200 201 202 204 BOSTON TYPEWRITING and REPORTING SCHOOL 120 JBo lston Street (TRoom 4U ) STENOGRAPHY, TOUCH TYPEWRITING, CIVIL SERVICE Practical, individual instruction. Civil Service work a specialty. Three successful pupils of last examination have received appointments; two in Philippines, one in Washington. Stenographers speed dictation. Day and Evening. TERMS MODERATE. Open all Summer. A Word to the Wise Coal prices have been reduced to the spring basis. We are receiving daily fresh-mined coal of the best quality, and are prepared to fill orders promptly. 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Terms, 75 Cents per Year Single Copies, 10 Cents SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT E ttortal Staff Editor=� insCbicf C. SHERWOOD RICKER. L.. 04. associate Editor KATHRYNE L. NOLAN. E.. '04. Exchange Editor HELEN MARDEN. L.. '04. Sporting Editor GEORGE COHEN. L.. ’04. .iGusincss Aanaficr LAURENCE MITCHELL, E.. 04. Treasurer GERARD C. BEAN. E., '04. Staff artist. EDWIN H. WEAVER, E.. '05. Class EMtors latin School WILLIAM L. PHILLIPS. '04. ARTHUR T. SOULE. '05. HERBERT S. SANBORN. '06. RALPH E. DURELL. '07. English School WARREN B. FARNUM. '04. LEONARD W. LIBBEY. '05. RICHARD KEYES. '06. LUTHER I. SMITH. '07. 190 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR EDITORIAL'S ‘©florlfc Events THE war lias now become a series of rumors and unconfirmed reports, fine things for the editor of the Daily. Still, amid all these false reports, there comes an occasional authentic account of a bombardment or a skirmish adjacent to the Yalu. The first real battle of the war has been fought. Many things surmised by the arm-chair strategist” and “theorist have come out quite true. The Japa- nese tactics were superior and the artillery far su- perior. As a defensive unit, though far outnum- bered. the Russians were poorly arranged. Roth flanks were wholly exposed, and then the Japanese swung around and subjected them to a terrible cross fire. We shall learn a great deal about modern cour- age in this war. Tn the numerous attacks on Port Arthur, especially in the repeatedly unavailing at- tempts to ‘’bottle up” the fleet, we have numerous examples of Japanese heroism. The second at- tempt to bottle up the Russians must cause emotion in the coldest breast. We see four defenceless hulks steam to the harbor entrance, exposed bv the enemy's searchlights, and. attacked by the concen- trated fire of the land forts and batteries, finally sink. Two were sunk by the Japanese aboard, two by Russian torpedoes. The commander killed in this attack. Lieutenant Takeo, was the officer who went back to his sinking torpedo boat in an earlier attack to get his sword. In the battle of the Yalu we see what sanguinary results must issue from reckless bravery on both sides. The heroism dis- played was stirring. On the Russian side we see a defenceless priest leading the charge. On the Japa- nese we behold the little yellow men, scorning death, attacking a line of trenches four miles in length, with fixed bayonets, in the face of a mur- derous fire that simply mowed down their ranks; but. as one correspondent said, “The men behind filled up the gaps, calmly as on dress parade.” This battle is but a skirmish to what we may later expect, and the losses arc bound to be ap- palling for the simple reason of the bulldog grit dis- played by the Russians, and the absolute lack of fear of death shown by the Japanese. Looming up through smoke clouds of the East we see Thibet making a peculiar appeal to those lovers of the old world and old world customs. For this is the one hermit kingdom of the globe, about which there is about as much known as there is of the North Pole. It has been, we might almost say, the hunting ground” of the Mongolian race. There centres their religion,—the fount of their religious thought. No one but those of high caste have ever reached Lassa. Still, we see to-day a great nation, by means of modern destructive en- gines. opening up this kingdom in the name of civilization and commerce. True, commerce is a great civilizer, but its methods can never be unre- servedly applauded till they are wholly pacific. The shooting down of ignorant natives, in the eyes of Lord Rosebery, is going to be in the end a benefit to the world. Let us hope so. It will, at least, show them the difference between a flint-lock and a modern repeating rifle. The opening of the St. Louis World’s Fair at- tracts the world’s gaze from the seat of unrest to observe the progress of nations in peaces Here tlie nations of the world have gathered their great- est productions, both mechanical and artistic. The fact that a man several hundred miles away could, by touching a button, set great pieces of ma- chinery in motion, unfurl a thousand flags, light myriad lights, and cause columns of water to issue from the marble of the cascade, is something to give the writer of the fairy tale quite a bit of trouble to improve upon. Opening with one hundred and fifty thousand spectators, we may expect to sec pil- grimages to the Mecca of progress, St. Louis, from now till December. K K •� � . S 'UHarnmo Y E fear there will be much whining and com- plaining because articles, class notes, and club SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR notes arc cut down or cut out in the June issue. The earlier material comes in. the less probable is it of receiving an attack from the blue pencil. But material that appears at the last minute invariably suffers, for the simple reason that we have allotted space for the department it goes under, and it has to be cut to till that space even though only the first paragraph appears. We use this space to tell you this simply for your own satisfaction. The filling up of our June issue doesn’t worry us half so much as the problem of getting it small enough to come within the amount of our little bank account. We lay down this little law: No material of any nature will be received by any member of the staff after May 20. If you doubt us hold your club notice over till June 1. No amount of coaxing can turn us from the straight and narrow road marked out. Some of our worthy readers know the result of appearing down at the Journal office with a club notice two days late. The direful threats and menaces would send chills up many a back, but we are still with you and preparing our last issue with comparatively good health. As we said before, if you want to win the heart of the editor’s blue pencil, and possibly his own. don’t be last, for you will surely be least if you do, and your article, perhaps, may be leased for next Oc- tober’s issue. That is All. ► « r. • Baseball 'J'HE baseball season is now fairly under way. The team, on the whole, may be said to be playing well. Out of the ten games played, but two have been lost. This gives a percentage of .800. The team is weak in spots, but '‘Charlie” saw these long before we did, and is remedying them. The out and in-field are playing good ball. Now and then we see a careless error creep in. but it sel- dom proves costly. Leo is twirling the ball in good shape. The most astonishing find this spring in baseball material is Nichols. It must be ac- knowledged that he is pitching great ball. If he can only keep up the good work he will prove an excellent support to Leo and Hayes. Driscoll’s work is improving, and by the time for the first league game (which will be before this issue goes to press), he should have mastered all the requirements of his position. A word should be spoken here concerning the 191 second team. Last year this team was poorly managed, and everything went wrong. This year it has started auspiciously, winning its early games. A word, also, about the cheering. There should be organized cheering at every league game, and we make this suggestion: Let the Athletic Asso- ciation invite a graduate to be cheering leader, and let each Senior class in class meeting appoint one member for this purpose. k H IRcw Staff lDembcr ]] ] E were extremely sorry to receive the resigna- tion of the assistant business manager last month, but for very good reasons presented we were obliged to accept it. Mr. Durell has been a valuable help to Manager Mitchell, and, in fact, to the whole staff. He has shown a great aptitude for the work, and has obtained many ads” for the paper. Mr. Whitney, our new assistant business man- ager. promises to be a worthy successor to Mr. Durell. K •� a Corrected ©mission 'I'HE Rules for the Memory, printed on page 177 of the April Radiator, are those compiled by Professor Howe, and we are indebted to Miss Kaan for obtaining them. � % Xlbls flDontb’s Cover E are indebted to Miss Eva G. Hardy, E.. '04 for this month’s cover design. --------------------------- 5 be anb II X) 2 £bna Jf. Gordon, £.. '05 When the evening sun is sending farewell rays across the lea, And the little birds are drowsy in their nests: From the city where I’ve toiled, the city, grim and soiled. I come home to meet my love who waits for me. And I know she’ll be there waiting by our little garden gate, With a welcome shining true from out her eyes; And I'll hasten forth to meet her, to take her hand and greet her. And watch the dimples come with glad surprise. I love this little lady very tenderly and true; She adores me, she has told me so, you see; But then, she’ll ne’er be mine, in that way you’d think to find. For I’m forty and she’s barely three. 102 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR B Dtsit to Gocovarfco J6 j Jf. S. Hammett, X., 04 NE pleasant morning in May, when all vegetation was at its height, and the luscious tropical fruits were ripe, and ready to be eaten, we left Rio de Janeiro to visit Cocovardo, which is the highest mountain in the vicinity. Rising from a lower range of mountains, it towers, like a huge needle of rock, high above the city and surrounding country. Next to the Botanical Gar- dens. this mountain is the chief point of interest to South American tourists. Leaving our hotel, we took the two-mule tram that goes from the heart of the city out to the little station near the foot of the mountain. Our party in the world is gathered, and then out into the beau- tiful suburbs of the city, which are very attractively laid out with fine houses and gardens. The station was soon reached, and when we had bought our tickets, we boarded the train, for it was close to the hour of departure. The train was made up of an engine and one open car. whose scats were swinging, so as to conform to the different grades that must be ascended. The engine pulls the car up the mountain by a cog-wheel fitting into a rail of cogs running parallel to and midway between the other two rails. Any other method of traction would be impracticable, if not impossible, on ac- count of the extreme steepness of the grade, the last COCOVARDO IS SEEN ON THE RIGHT filled the unoccupied seats, and on perceiving this, the driver let down a sign on the front of the car. that read, “Completo.” This was to inform persons wishing to take our tram that all the scats were oc- cupied. and no more passengers would be taken on until there were some vacant seats. This pleasing custom of not carrying more passengers than can be comfortably seated is without exception carried out in the larger cities of Brazil, where the cars are drawn by mules. Thus pleasure and ease are afforded to tourists, and facility of travel and com- fort to those who are intent on business. The ride out from the city was most interesting. We passed by the famous Botanical Gardens, where the largest and most complete collection of flora half-mile of which is at an angle of forty-five de- grees. With a loud clanging of the bell, the train draws out of the station and into a field of corn enclosed by a high bamboo fence, on which little naked Negro children sit, gazing curiously on what they have seen many times before. Now the road lies through a coffee-field. The trees are loaded with shiny, bright, red berries, and they present a strik- ing picture as they stretch out in long, straight rows across the hills on each side of the track, here and there interspersed with orange trees, laden with the sun-colored fruit. Once out of this field, and the ascent begins. The pace lessens as the grade increases, and now an SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 193 opportunity is given to look upon the beauty of the “matto-grosso in its full splendor, for the time of year is early fall, and now all vegetation is most flourishing. Tall palms, raising their feathery tops above the surrounding trees, seem like warders of the forest, and here and there the glaring scarlet leaves of the Jaboticaba make an effective and pleasing contrast to the foliage of the other growth. Flowers of every color and size are here in abun- dance. The St. John’s-wort especially is noticeable, displaying its orange-colored blossoms beside the track, and among the blossoms many varied and gorgeously-hucd butterflies flit about. Suddenly the land and woods seem to drop from sight, and we are out on a rumbling bridge. Far, far down below us is a wooded valley, and between the trees the rushing waters of a mighty torrent may be seen, and the roaring that this great river makes as it hurries over the rocky bed can be heard even above the noise that the train makes as it rolls over the bridge. Again we go into the forest, and al- though we are halfway up the mountain, there is no diminution in the density of the undergrowth or of the forest. A stop is made at the halfway house, and we take advantage of the fifteen minutes' rest to step out and take a look at the surrounding scenery. The forest is all around us. but there on the left, between the trees, may be seen a sparkling waterfall, and as the spray that is made as it falls over the high ledge of rock is caught in the sun's rays, it is turned into a thousand different colors, and then falls back once more into the river, as it hurls itself down the mountain. But we can explore the sights of this place no longer, so reluctantly we board the train, and the climb is resumed. Soon the plateau just below the peak is reached. On this huge ledge of rock is situated a well equipped hotel, from the piazzas of which a good view of the sea and the country south of Rio may be obtained. But we are impatient, and decide to leave our visit to the hotel until our return trip. From this point on. the grade is at an angle of forty-five degrees, and the small, but powerful, en- gine struggles up the side of the mountain with its burden. We notice an abundance of delicious looking red raspberries growing alongside of the track, and we mentally resolve to walk down and get some of the toothsome looking fruit. One last snort and the train pulls up at the termination of its route. A steep climb of a few rods up the peak is before us, but, aided by the fence of rope, we soon stand, out of breath, in the Tip-Top House. This house is a steel frame supporting a large cor- rugated-iron roof, the whole structure being fas- tened to the peak by means of wire cables, to pre- vent its being blown down by the high winds that prevail during the winter season. On its floor are carved hundreds of names of tourists who have scaled Cocovardo, and no one of our party fails to inscribe his or her name on that roll of honor. We then go across the platform out on a nar- row point of rock enclosed by an iron railing, from which point the best view of the surrounding coun- try may be seen. The picture is indeed mag- nificent. In front the deep blue sea. its dancing waves sparkling in the glancing rays of the tropical sun. stretches out. until the blue of the sea meets the blue of the sky in one long, curved line. The land- locked harbor, guarded on the one side by 1'ao d’Asucar. or Sugar-Loaf, that southern Gibraltar, and on the other side by the fort, Sao Paulo, is alive with launches hurrying to and fro on their different ■ missions, and the lighters are laboriously working their way to land or to ship. The two forts on the Islands of Bogota and Cantareira. in the hot, glar- ing sunlight, seem to stare up at us, and we can sec the glint of the sun on the polished sides of the cannon. On the left is Petro| olis. the residence of the foreign ambassadors to Brazil; back of that, the matto-grosso stretches into the distance. Ex- tending from Petropolis, all along the sea front at our feet, 'way around to the right, and back on the right to the sand-hills, lies Rio de Janeiro, at the foot of a long range of mountains that rises in peak- after peak, until, away in the distance, it seems to touch the very heavens and shut all else from view. The buildings of Rio de Janeiro are all roofed with dark red tiles, and this color, blending with the green foliage of the trees scattered here and there throughout the city, gives a very pretty effect. Down on the right, in the suburbs, through which we passed, may be seen the long, straight line made by the Avenue of Royal Palms in the Botanical Gardens. Still following the curve of the harbor, the white gleam of the military college is seen, and not far beyond, Sugar-Loaf, rising straight up from the sea, completes the picture. Zhc Holer's pnch 36 IE. ttajel jfallis, IE., '07 HT overtook a desolate Italian peddler, plodding along a country road, with a large pack on his back, seemingly greatly exhausted. Once he stumbled, and fell directly in front of an approaching horse and wagon, driven by a kind-hearted farmer lad. Ned, for that was the boy's name, quickly jumped from the wagon, and went to the assistance of the unfortu- nate man. Raising the peddler to his feet, he asked kindly, “Are you hurt? In response, the ncddler sent forth a succession of grunts. Then he grasped his pack, and started up the road again, leaving Ned gazing after him in wonder. 194 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR There is something strange about that man, and 1 should like to know where he is going,” Ned said, hah' aloud, as the retreating figure disap- peared from view. Springing into the wagon, he started off slowly in the direction which the ped- dler had taken. It was very dark, but the moon was shining, and an occasional house afforded suffi- cient light for him to see the road ahead for two or three rods. As Ned was passing a brilliantly- lighted farmhouse, he peered eagerly ahead, but saw no signs of the peddler. He quickened the horse’s gait, but stdl he neither saw nor passed any- one. Ned then directed the horse toward home. When he was turning into the driveway he sud- denly exclaimed, Hello! What’s this?” lie leaped irom the wagon, and bent over the limp form of the peddler. Calling his father, they car- ried the peddler into the house, and laid him on the couch in the kitchen, placing his pack beside him. They watched by the side of the unconscious man all niglu. Early the next morning, just as the first rays of the sun became visible, the father and son were conversing in low tones, when the ped- dler. for the first time, opened his eves, raised him- self. and then, with a groan, fell back—dead. A search of his pack was the only way by which they could hope to find out who he was, and where he lived. The pack was covered with white cotton, tied at the top bv a strong cord. Cutting this cord, lx th peered eagerly in. only to find another white covering. 'I iiis. too, was soon removed, disclosing a large miantitv of bright-colored silks, handker- chiefs of all sizes and descriptions, also odd pieces of jewelry. At the bottom of the pack was a tin box about a foot square and four or five inches in depth, neatly done up in a large bandana handker- chief. It was locked, and no key could be found. Ned broke the lock, and father and son stood speechless at the sight of its contents. Could it be possible! Was it a dream? Pilled to the brim with shining gold coins! A note, written in an unsteady hand, was lying on top. Tl read as follows:— ? the 1 ho will bury me decently but secretly, i. a broken-hearted man, give the contents of this box. $5,000, mi life’s earnings. Then should be no doubt about what followed. The peddler was represented to be an uncle and buried in the family lot. With the money, the farm was re-stocked with so many new and expen- sive utensils that it is still an unsettled question among the neighbors where the money for such extravagance came from. Bn Elopement of 2004 Bp Gabriel Jfarrcll, 3r„ ’0(5 DUNCAN! What will you do? Father has become so enraged that he is scouring the globe for you, to take your life. He has just passed through Euroj e, and is now in Asia, but will be back in a few days. If only something would disable his air carriage, so as to give you time to flee. “Helen, do not talk of flight, unless you mean to come, also.” I would willingly, but, alas! where can we go? Listen! You plan some means by which we can escape, and we will elope.” It was a beautiful summer evening in the year 2004. Lieutenant Duncan Parker had come to call on Miss Helen Hcywood. Her father, a man of hasty temper, had been enraged by some of Parker's doings, and several days previous had started in his aerial carriage to hunt him down and take his life. Parker started lion: ■ in his auto at the rate of one thousand miles an hour. Deep in thought, and forgetting to watch ahead, lie did not notice an ap- proaching carriage. Suddenly there was a crash, and the young officer, thrown to the ground, be- came unconscious. When lie had regained consciousness, he found himself lying on a couch in a large laboratory, or workshop. Rising on his elbow to gaze at his surroundings, he discovered a tall, ungainly-looking man working on an oval, which was about one hundred feet high and fifty feet in diameter. It was firmly lashed to the floor with chains, and was covered with a mate- rial which on first glance appeared to be wood; then it seemed composed of stone, but on closer inspection it proved to be neither one of these. Pray, what is this you are working on?” asked Parker, interrupting the workman. Well. Monsieur. began the man, as you have seen this ship. I will confide the nature of it to you, but you must pledge yourself never to speak of it until I give you my permission.” On my word, I’ll not, sir,” he replied. ‘‘Very well, then. First, my name is Maragc— Professor Marage------” Allow me the pleasure of shaking your hand!” exclaimed Parker, jumping up and grasping the man’s hand, for Maragc had become famous all over the world, having established a complete sys- tem of wireless telegraphy between the earth and the moon, over which messages were being con- stantly sent. And.” resumed the speaker, as they again took their scats, “as you probably know, I am interested in the moon. I have for the last few years been experimenting with flying machines and balloons, in hope of reaching it. I did not succeed with SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 195 these, however; but now I’m positively sure that I have solved the mystery with this ship. After a great deal of experimenting, I have discovered a substance which has no gravity, and therefore is not attracted by the earth’s pull. It is with that sub- stance that yonder ship is covered. Not being at- tracted by the gravity of the earth, it will, when I release it. go steadily upward. “My plan, Monsieur, is to allow it to rise until more than half-way between the earth and the moon. Then, removing the cover, the inner frame being of steel, we shall be attracted to the nearest object, which will be the moon. “Well, that sounds reasonable enough, but are you sure that the moon has gravity?” asked Parker, having become intensely interested. “Positive, Monsieur, positive; scientific discov- eries of the past century have proven that. To- morrow at midnight I start on the trip that will make me immortal in the eyes of man.” Parker suddenly became silent, as if in trouble. The professor, noticing this, asked, Are you be- coming ill again. Monsieur?” “No, Marage, I am not sick, but I’m in great distress. Can I implore your aid? You have helped me once, can you again?” “Certainly, Monsieur, if I can assist you in any way. I should be delighted.” “Well, kind sir, I am being hunted down by the father of a woman whom I dearly love. Take her and me with you, and you will save the life of a man and the heart of an angel.” “With pleasure. Monsieur. I should be only too glad to take Mademoiselle and you with me. Company is all that I was lacking. Meet me here at midnight, and we will start on a journey which, if success crowns our venture, will make us famous.” Punctually at midnight Lieutenant Parker and Miss Heywood were greeted by the professor at his laboratory. “All is ready,” said Marage. “We shall start im- mediately. if it is Monsieur’s wish. Is Madam- oisellc willing to venture upon such a perilous journey?” “Yes, Marage, she is willing, in fact, delighted, and we are ready to start at any moment.” “Oh, Duncan!” exclaimed the young lady, “won’t this be superb? I always said an aerial carriage would never be my limit. Jump in, and let's be off. before the frightful vengeance of an enraged father be reeked upon you. Farewell, old Earth, and all your inhabitants. Good-by, we leave you, perhaps never to return to thv bosom.” Parker and Miss Heywood entered. The profes- sor, after completing a few final preparations, re- leased the chains, and made a leap for the ship. Ye gods! He missed, and the ship went steadily up- ward, carrying in it the young man and woman. “Oh. Duncan!” cried Helen, “we are lost! What shall we do? We know nothing about this ship. Wc will-----” Peace, little girl,” appealed the calm officer. We are quite safe. 1 have just been looking over the professor’s plans, by guidance of which I pledge my honor as a gentleman and a soldier to land you safely on the moon. But promise me this much, Helen, that as soon as 1 land you on terra firma you will be mine.” “Duncan, 1 promise.” Time bore heavily for three long, dreary weeks, that seemed like decades, when Parker announced that it was time to remove the cover of strange substance. Opening a hatch, sunlight, most glorious sun- light. poured upon them. Never before had sun- light been so welcome to human beings. After a little difficulty, the cover was removed, and their hopes began to brighten. One night about two weeks later, they were sud- denly awakened and thrown from their carriage by a most terrible crash. Picking himself up, to his surprise, but great joy. Lieutenant Parker found himself standing upon solid ground, surrounded by a host of strangely dressed people. Immediately he started to look for his com- panion. He found her being carried to a building near by. under guidance of a physician, who in- formed him that she was merely exhausted by her close confinement, but would be all right after a short rest. Upon applying restoratives, she regained con- sciousness, and began to ask. ()h. Duncan, shall we ever get to the moon, or back to earth again, or somewhere where we can feel there is some foun- dation to things?” “Helen, we have arrived----” Not at the moon!” she gasped. Yes. dearest. We have arrived at the moon. You were thrown from the ship, and became un- conscious, but you are improving, and aiter a short rest will be yourself again. The good people lure had these rooms ready for us on our arrival. The professor, after recovering from the shock of being left behind, sent word over his line of wireless telegraphy for them to watch for us.” “Oh. Duncan, have we really arrived at the moon ? “Yes. dear: go to sleep now. and I will see you bright and early in the morning. Good night. Parker immediately retired to his room. Next morning they went out for a stroll in the beautiful park which adjoined the hotel, for such was the building at which they were stopping. The scenery was beautiful, but Helen did not appear to enjoy it. She longed for the earth and her home. As they attracted considerable attention, they soon retired to their apartments again. L’pon their arrival. Duncan discovered a message addressed:— Miss Helen Heywood, The Moon. Via Marage system wireless telegraphy. Read. it. please. Duncan.” said the young lady. 196 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR ‘T forgive all ; please return to comfort the broken heart of your “Dad.” “From my father. Good! We will return to- morrow. This place is beautiful, and the people very kind, but I think the earth is the best place for us, after all. ’ 1 think so, too ' returned the young man. ‘T will go this very afternoon, and get our ship ready, and we will start to-morrow morning ' Next morning they received the most glorious send-off from the inhabitants of the moon, and were soon bound for Mother Earth. The weeks went slowly by as they neared their homes. One bright morning they were delighted to find that they could make out the houses on the earth, and soon they could distinguish their own home. How good it looked, and how impatient they were to land! Parker, having now gained considerable skill in handling the ship, soon landed them at very nearly the same spot from which they had started. As they stepped out on terra firma, amid the shouts of people who had been attracted by the ap- proaching object, Duncan whispered, “Have you forgotten your promise, dear? No, Duncan. I haven't,” she replied, sweetly. Rushing to Helen and embracing her, came her father, crying. Oh, my dearest daughter, you do love me. You have come back to comfort the broken heart of your old dad. I have been cruel and overbearing to you. Helen, forgive me, and I shall do better. Then turning to the young man, he said: Lieu- tenant Parker, you have proven yourself a true and noble gentleman. Forget my past actions, and your reward shall be the hand of my daughter. Take her. and cherish and love her until your life’s end.” B Heap year Dance .13p Claire 1DU liter, E., ’05 I. ETTY CARVEL was. perhaps the most popular girl in the Egcrton High School. The boys declared the fact heartily: the girls assented envi- ously ; and the teachers agreed doubt- fully. As for Hetty, she thoroughly enjoyed the fact, with neither doubts or questions. She was happy,—perfectly happy from morning till night. And. she argued, why shouldn’t she be? She was as clever as the average girl of her age; she had plenty of money, and was pretty sure that she always would have; and she had her friends! She may have had enemies, but she was not aware of them, so whv worry about them? On a clear, sharp day in February Betty thus re- declared herself at peace with all mankind. She was on her way to a meeting of the “Gayetv Girls,” held for the sole purpose of deciding upon the final preparations for their leap year dance. It was. con- sequently, the most important meeting in the his- tory of the club. Turning down Hill street, she was overtaken by Donald Cameron and Harold Grey. Betty and Cameron had been chums all their lives, but Harold Grey was a new-comer to Egerton. and Betty had never quite trusted him. “I don’t know why it is, Don. but he doesn’t seem to me exactly true. I wish you wouldn’t go with him so much.” she had said, and Donald had answered, “Oh, that's all right, Hetty. He seems a good enough sort of fel- low. I guess I can take care of myself, and, who knows, he may profit by my good example and be- come a—er, well, a good boy.” “Modesty such as yours is rare in youths of to- day.” Betty had replied, and the matter had been dropped. 'I bis day Donald greeted her with, “Well, Eliza- beth Carvel, we've been chasing you from the time you left your father’s door. Let me tell you, you’re a very-much-sought-after young lady. I did have something to say to you, but hurrying so put it out of my head. Hut now that we are here, we might as well walk along with you, don't you think?” “Certainly. ’ replied Hetty, and the three swung along togetlier. How's the dance progressing, Miss Hetty?” asked Grey. “The dance is progressing splendidly, but I can’t decide whom to ask. IFm. ejaculated Donald, “shouldn’t think you could. ’Sposc you feel you don’t know any one well enough to ask ’em to go to a leap year dance. Should just imagine you to be in that sort of fix, Betty girl.” “Well,” laughed Betty, that’s just the fix I am in. You boys needn’t talk. You’ve had experi- ence at this sort of thing. You must remember, however, that every year is not leap year.” Perhaps I can help you out,” suggested Grew “I know a chap who would gladly accompany you.” Who is he?” inquired Hetty, eagerly. “Here, Hal. none of your funnies,” warned Donald. Oh, lie's a perfectly good fellow. Know you’ll like him. Miss Hetty. He is John Pearson, gener- ally spoken as the “Philosopher.” Here Grey laughed, ratlur sneeringlv. Then, See here, Miss Carvel. I'll wager you don’t dare to ask him. Let’s sec. Tickets for Irving against,—well, an invita- tion to the Gayetv Girls’ leap year dance. Tf Hetty was not a genius herself, she was not wanting in respect for one who was, and she re- sented the spirit in which Grey had challenged her. After a moment's pause, she said, quietly. I’ll take you. I’ll ask Mr. Pearson, and if he will go with me. I’ll take him.” SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 197 “Oh. Hal!” groaned Donald, “you stupid, you blundering, crazy loon, couldn’t you see that she was on the point of asking me? II. The dance was at its height. The hall was taste- fullv decorated with the club colors. The palms, stately and tall, the cozy corners peeping out unex- pectedly from every nook, the bright lights, the music.—everything seemed like fairyland. Far out in a secluded corner sat Betty and the “ Phil- osopher. She had danced every dance, and was glad for a moment’s rest from the merry throng. ’’Yes, John Pearson was saying, “this is the first affair of this sort that I have attended since I have come to this school. Will you pardon me if I ask- how you happened to think of inviting me, Miss Carvel ?’’ “Why, stammered Betty, very much cm- harassed, “I—I guess it was because I wanted to. X—don’t you wish for refreshments now? she added, hurricdlv. They made their way toward the end of the hall. Pearson stood aside, and Betty bravely attacked her duty. Considering her inexperience at such affairs, she performed her task admirably and started triumphantly on her way back to where Pearson had left her, the proud possessor of two glasses of punch. Suddenly Harold Grey ap- peared in front of her, and recognizing her said, in no low ton?:— “I say, Miss Betty, I admire your courage. I really didn’t believe you’d bring him. However, you shall have the best tickets I can get in the house. But aren’t you awfully bored? “Oh. keep quiet, or lie’ll hear you. Don’t you know anything? cried the agonized Betty, scarcely knowing what to do. The smile on Pearson’s face when Betty returned helped to put her at case again. As he was leav- ing tier that night. Pearson again spoke of the pleasant time lie had had. and then Petty said, im- petuously: ‘‘No matter what anyone says to you, Mr. Pearson, you must remember that I’m awfully glad that I took you. Good night.’’ And as John Pearson walked home his thoughts were something like this: “And I don’t believe I will mind bow you happened to ask me. because now you arc my friend, and I reckon you a friend worth having. Betty Carvel.” TLhc Sheriffs ©ratttufce J6 ? jf. Stuart Bean, X., '04 HE citizens of Pine Tree Gulch were, to say the least, angry. And bad they not good reason to be so? Had not their sheriff. Christopher Dodge, who had been elected but a month ago, deserted them ? And that, too, in company with a dirty greaser, who bad confessed to killing Jeb Townsend, their fellow-citizen and saloon-keeper. To be sure, Townsend was none too popular with the men. but that was no excuse for Dodge, and they failed to understand how a white man in his right senses could do such a thing. In the summer of '89, two young men, Chris- topher Dodge and Alec Henderson, started out to find the lost gold of Mirror Canon. Many were the men who had tried to find this gold. Some had never returned; others had come back only to tell of failure and terrible hardship. It was the Captain Kidd story of Nevada. One day a trapper bad stumbled into camp, suffering so from the lack of water that his parched and swollen tongue hung out of his mouth like that of a dog. He told of a wonderful canon whose sides were of rock that shone like glass, and from which objects were re- flected as from a mirror. While digging in this canon for water, he had found gold in richer and more plentiful deposits than had yet been dis- covered. Hence it was that Dodge and Hender- son were setting out to find this lost gold, sanguine of success, yet half fearing lest a like fate was in store for them, which so many others had suffered. To find the canon was not so difficult, hut to find the gold was an entirely different matter. For days they prospected up and down the long valley, look- ing for signs of the lost vein. There was only one source of water, a spring near the entrance of the canon. To this they were forced to return each night. Finally they determined to make a week’s journey into the depths of the canon. Filling a keg with water and taking provisions, they trudged off slowly, farther and farther from safety. On- ward they pressed, willing to endure the heat of the sun and consuming thirst if only they might find riches awaiting them. On the third day, returning to camp. Dodge found his companion flat on the ground, madly lick- ing the moisture from the staves of the broken keg. Thirst had driven him crazy, and. after drinking all the water, he had smashed the keg in a vain endeavor to get one more swallow of the precious liquid. That night he died, raving of home and the pleasant days of his childhood. The next morning. Dodge was up before the sun, trav- eling further forward into the canon. It was too late to turn hack, and his only chance lay in finding water ahead. Onward he stumbled all day long in the cruel heat of the sun. On the second day his strength was gone and he took refuge in the scant shade offered by a projecting cliff. Here, while waiting for death, he weakly strove to drive off the 198 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR two carrion birds who had scented their prey from afar and were circling al out impatient for the feast. But relief came from an unexpected quarter. A Mexican boy of some nineteen years, tending his flocks on the cliffs above, perceived the birds and knew that one more gold-hunter would hunt no more. But as lie peered over the edge, he saw an arm rise and fall again in feeble protest at the offending birds. Descending by a precipitous path known only to himself he brought the man up with all care and took him to his home. In periods of consciousness, Dodge caught glimpses of a Mexican girl, near his own age, and fair to look upon, hurrying in and out, and antici- pating his every want. One day he asked Aleppo, for such was the Mexican's name, Is she your wife?” “Xo.” said Aleppo, “she is my sister. Dolores. Our father, he is dead. He was shot down in Xcw Mexico in a quarrel before we came here. The man who killed him is called Townsend. It is mv one hope to find and kill him. Dolores says I am wrong, but 1 do not think so. I know where lie is now and I shall soon go there.” During his convalescence. Dodge saw much of Dolores, and the friendship which sprang up be- tween them bade fair to become something more. At last the day of departure arrived, and as Chris- topher stood by the door, she came forth to bid him good-by. Taking her hands, he said, “Dolores, I am not rich now, but I will be, and when I am, I will return for you. Remember, all that I do will be for your sake. W ill you wait?” And looking up through tear-dimmed eyes, she murmured. I will wait.” Then snatching her hands away, she fled into the house, and he rode slowly off. Gold had been discovered at Pine Tree Gulch, and a little town was being built up. Here Dodge stopped and took out a claim. It proved to be a rich one, and he soon became an influential factor in the Gulch and was elected sheriff. Was it strange, then, that when he had charged into an angry mob of Pine Trceites and brought forth a dilapidated specimen of Mexicanhood, and had found that this same specimen was no other than Aleppo, that some strange feelings arose in his heart? Was it strange that at night he took two horses around to the jail, and with Aleppo left Pine Tree Gulch at a gallop? Xo, it was his plain duty, and he could no more have avoided it than he could have avoided saving Aleppo from the mob. And besides, was not Dolores to be considered? TLhc Indians of o a£ C. JSucbanan, J'06 ITH ideas of the “noble red man” gained from Longfellow and Cooper, :t is not strange that the average High school student in this far East- ern city errs so in the estimation of the Indian of the West. Having been in contact with them for some time, and observed their daily modes and habits, my im- pression is by no means favorable. Unlike the Indian of Xcw England, education and civilization have not been forced upon them. Eor the most part they are the dirtiest, most slov- enly, and despicable of tramps, roaming about the country, devoid of ambition, lacking all moral sense. W e are apt to picture Indians tall and straight, in their picturesque Indian costume, with the bow and arrow, or perhaps a string of fish slung across their shoulder, their faces painted and bright beads strung in every conceivable place upon their per- sons. l.uit again we are mistaken. With rounded shoulders, and clad in the cast-off clothing of their white neighbors, they shuffle from place to place, begging for what they need, and possessing them- selves, by theft, of any article they may happen to fancy. The fact that they desire it seems to make it their own. All Indians—men, women, and even the smallest children—smoke pipes, and many of them are topers. They live in little clusters of eight or ten tents, called camps. These tents arc very small and look as if they would not hold more than three persons comfortably, but on the day of my departure, when I paid the camp a farewell visit, 1 found twenty squaws sitting on their heels,with toes curled under them, in a circle in one of the tiniest of the tents. These women had been there for hours making baskets and tubs to sell in town, and it is probable that not one of them had uttered a word all that time. Although the day was hot. and they were sitting round a smoky wood fire, from the serene and peaceful countenances they were perfectly satis- fieri with the condition of affairs. Just outside this hovel was an enormous fire, with a huge kettle, fully two and one-half feet in diameter, hanging from three hcavv ] oles. A lonesome-looking squaw stood over the kettle, holding in both hands a stout stick, with which she occasionally gave the con- tents a vigorous stirring. I could not help think- ing that the whole camp was going to have a great feast. I:ut when I inquired. I was told that it was wash day, and that all the clothes belonging in the canto harl been gathered up. and thrown into the dinner kettle to be boiled until they were clean. I had heard a great deal about wash day. It was said that it occurred about once a year, and was considered a very great event. I waited until the “wash” was spread to dry. when I discovered that the orocess had made the clothes look worse than before. The garments made a very curious sight, a light brown streaked with colors in every shade. The Indians are not all bad ; they arc very gentle SOMERVILLE I1IGII SCHOOL RADIATOR 99 and true to their own. Their fondness for their children is remarkable and touching. 1 remember one case of an old man who had a large family of boys. Like the rest of the tribe he deeply resented tiic encroachments of the government, and pre- ferred to allow his boys to grow up about him in his own lazy fashion. When his hoys arrived at the proper age to he taken away and educated, lie would hie to the mountains and hide the young- sters. and returning to his camp, declare stoutly that he had no family. I believe it would he impos- sible for an Indian to tell the truth, chiefly because of their great ignorance. They still believe in many of their old supersti- tions and legends, though their faith has been somewhat shaken by the disbelief of their white brethren. The oldest members of the camp declare that thev have seen and heard spirits in the little springs, and that they know that tiny sprites dance in the sprav of the waterfall, waiting to work mis- chief on anyone unwary enough to watch them. In the fireflies flitting over the marshes they sec the souls of their ancestors, come hack to ward evil from the camp. An owl they regard with terror, believing it to he a messenger of the Evil Spirit, and to be avoided. Their traditions tell us that at one time the Indians were able to converse with animals and by following the advice given them bv certain wild animals, especially the fox. they became a powerful nation. With the coming of the white people, the charm was broken, and now only good or aged In- dians may talk with animals. One of the most dreaded dangers facing an Indian is starvation, and there are numberless wild talcs told concerning the bravery of those who faced the ghost of starvation to save their people. The strongest point in an Indian’s superstition is his belief in ghosts. The ghosts arc mostly those of very good people, who. for their goodness, have been condemned to haunt their own homes until the Spirit is satisfied. A very bad Indian rests quietly in his grave, disturbing no one. All the trouble is caused by those who have led good lives. To keep off evil spirits they wear a twig of cedar: when it is possible they use the red cedar, as the charm is stronger. The ghost dances were proba- bly first used for the purpose of insuring their safety from the “departed ones.7' by singing and shouting their loudest, and making the most gro- tesque motions possible. These old dances arc ior- bidden now. The strangest of all the ghosts are the Ghosts of the Whirlwind, who fly with the gales and. whirlwinds to make ruin where thev can. The Indians look upon heaven, or the Hereafter Land as they call it. as being where the sun sets. A dying Indian is always placed facing the West. When a noted brave is dying his relatives place him upon his horse, and after loading them both down with all their household goods, face them toward the Hereafter Land. until he is dead. A brave thus gains admission to the “Happy Hunting Grounds. XT be pirates of Penzance “The Pirates of Penzance will be given at Union Hall. 48 Boylston street, Boston, on the evenings of May 31 and June 1. After much difficulty this place was obtained, and, although it was desired to give it earlier, these dates were the only available ones. The chorus arc singing remarkably well, and a very fine production is expected. S. Henry Had- ley will be the musical director and Leon H. Dad- mun stage manager. Tickets may be obtained from J. Albert Wilson or Rowland W. Dunham, and from other members of the cast. The prices, all reserved seats, are fifty and seventy-five cents. Richard, the Pirate King...........J. Albert King Samuel, his lieutenant...........Charles E. Fisher Frederic, the pirate apprentice, Rowland W. Dunham Major General Stanley of the British Army, Warren B. Farnum Mabel, General Stanley’s youngest daughter, Miss Eleanorc Bragdon Edith...........) r. c. , , ( Alice Pilsbury Kate........... f Gen. Stanley s p,crtha Pilsbury Isabelle.......) lauJ?htcrs- ( Martha Russell Ruth, piratical maid-of-all-work. Miss Gertrude E. Benjamin Sergeant of Police...............J- Albert ilson Chorus of Pirates. Police, and General Stanley’s Daughters. IResolutlons, JEncUisb, ’06 Wiiereas. by the divine will of God, our class- mates. Ha cl McLean and I.illic McLean, have been bereaved of their sister, and Whereas, the class of 1906 has learned of their great less with deep regret, be it Resolved, that we tender to them our heartfelt sympathies in their great affliction, and further he it Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to them, and also he published in the Radiator. Richard Fernandez, President. Russell E. Freeman, Secretary. ----------------------------- IResolutlons, Xatln, ’06 Whereas, by the will of God. our classmate, Ar- thur C. Gow, has been bereaved of his beloved mother; and Whereas, we, the class of 1906, have learned with sorrow of his great affliction; he it therefore Resolved, that we tender him our heartfelt sym- pathy in his great sorrow: and be it further Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to Arthur C. Gow, and also published in the Radiator. Arthur R. Corwin, President. Irma Christopher, Secretary. 200 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR HIGH SCHOOL HAPPENINGS XU. X. ID. Club At the home of Miss Beatrice Ryder the second installation of the W. L. M. officers took place April 20. Those now holding office arc: Ruth Bidwcll, president; Marguerite Eldridgc, vice- president; Mildred Harvey, treasurer; Marion Van Wart, secretary. The girls are elated over the discovery of a large sum of money, which had been put away for safe keeping, and the place of concealment forgotten. The club pins have been decided upon, and these popular young ladies soon expect to be adorned with their letters. During the recent vacation the club spent a very jolly day as guests of the S. T. D. boys, at their camp at Rivcrhurst, on the Concord river. --------------------------------------- S. XT. ID. Club The Mav vacation was well enjoyed bv the S. T. D. boys, who camped at Rivcrhurst on the Concord river near Lowell. Canoeing, baseball, and exploring the surround- ing country occupied a great deal of the time. Thursday a game was played with the Billerica High school team, which proved to be a fast aggre- gation. but the club boys after an exciting ninth inning won out by a score of 9-7. This was the first defeat for the Billcricas after numerous vic- tories. The club had several visitors during the week, among whom was the W. L. M. Club. The camp consisted of Stacy, Duhig, Frost, Mitchell, Fallen. Bean, Farnum, Trueman, Wood- worth. and Pitcher. The last meeting was held at the home of Row- land Dunham. At this meeting Trueman, Hall, and Ball were initiated. Trueman was elected club icster. and responded with a war dance; Hall meas- ured his length on the floor to be branded; Ball favored the members with choice selections of cat calls on a summer evening. It was decided to give a banquet at the close of the school year. Young’s will probably be chosen as the objective point. The committee on the matter consists of Wilson, Duhig. and Woodworth. All distinguished themselves at the table after the meeting, Duhig carrying off the honors as usual. The next meeting will be at the home of W. Brooks Farnum. --------------------------- Gabaneetcrs “Busy, always busy, are we.” say the Gaban- ceters, and this time it is in preparing to assist in a musical comedy, “Prince Clever,” to be presented by Miss Mary Anita Brown, May 28, in Social hall. TTbc jfrec pass Club The last meeting of the Free Pass Club was held at the Tavern. Harry” was elected president, “Karl vice-president, Ted” treasurer, and Winnie secretary. The reception committee is composed of “Ossie,” “Toodles,” “Mocha,” Pinkie,” and “Dolph.” An attempt was made to collect dues, but it only resulted in the disfiguration of Ted.” There is little danger of another attack from him. Harry with great difficulty kept the meeting in order. It was voted that a banquet should be given, if the money could be obtained without “touching the members. The next meeting will be held at the “Tavern,” January 1. ---------------------------- Cbe Senior ®ov 5 JEntertalncb The Somcrville-IIarvard Club invited the Senior boys who contemplate entering Harvard in the fall to the Harvard Union, on the evening of May 9. The Harvard men gave the ’04 boys a rousing good time. President Frank Phillips of the Somervillc-Har- vard Club addressed the boys gathered, setting forth the aims and purposes of the club. Mr. Baxter then gave some very interesting rem- iniscences of his college days. Mr. Murray com- pared the social life of the small college and the large university in a short talk. Mr. Ilosmer told the boys of the origin of the club, of which he is a charter member, its first initiations, and the help that the club is bound to be to the entering Fresh- man. Light refreshments were served and all the boys joined in singing the popular songs. £)et Hnotbcr A club has been formed consisting of eight girls o? class ’07. The members are: Marguerite Eldridgc. president; Eva Potter, vice-president; Susie Gould, treasurer; Marion Schaefer, secretary; Edith Hills, Hattie Linnell, Alice Doughty, and Edith Stoddcr. ------------------------- Enolisb Senior iDance The Senior dance held at Anthoine's Tuesday evening, April 12, proved a complete success. There were in the neighborhood of fifty couples, making a comfortably filled hall. The matrons were Mr. and Mrs. C. T. C. Whitcomb and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Avery. Towne’s orchestra ac- quitted themselves well with popular and catchy dance music. The committee of arrangements are to be complimented. SOMERVILLE 11 Kill SCHOOL RADIATOR 201 •04 Suggestions for a class motto will be cheerfully received by Rose. Please don't submit any thread- bare arrangements like S. L. S. aut Nullus,” Dulce et Decorum Est pro S. L. S. Mori,” etc. So as not to occasion ambiguity, they arc now known as Big Stevens and Little Stevens. The distinction is purely arbitrary, and has not been demonstrated by personal encounter. When the Wise Man comes marching home from the war he will try to ascertain what became of our class notes for the last issue: in the meantime, kind friends, forbear to slur the innocent compiler. No, dear exchanger, the gentleman to be seen at the head of our column, with the funny thing on his head, wearing Ker libruriam trousers and holding a morning Post in his other hand is not a member of '04 at all. Frankly, we cannot understand what the artist means. Miss Parva no longer Cohencidcs with him. Take Wyman off where no one will hear him— down by the cannon—and ask him if he likes the measles. Those were the good old days.” Which ? When ? Why so? Some of these boys arc at least a fathom deeper than the miller's daughter. Found! L'esprit among the lower classes. Some little boy was heard saying, Pardon, Long- fellow. Great day! He must have meant Dick Bell. Harrison’s wit often saves his life. A certain bellicose gentleman said, Where shall I hit you?” Percy replied, “In the future.” Members of the first and third divisions will re- member that the notes for those divisions must be solicited for the June number. Don't wait till the last minute. Do your worst while you have yet time. ’05 NOTICE—Please pass all notes for the June number in as soon as possible. The editor will have every day next week as bargain day. Please acknowledge the opportunity and do your part to make the Radiator a success. Considerable interest is being taken in the selec- tion of a Radiator manager, who comes from this class. It is even said that petitions are in circula- tion. We are sorrv to learn that “Pcric” Elliott is away for the month. How was the fishing, girls? No matter, you can get yours next year. William Tell. What a cinch! It is understood that certain members of the class greatly enjoyed the May vacation up north. Isn't it great to have our Friday afternoons? Captain I Iafford and Burns may depend on the support of the class at the games. Burt, Harrington, and Sewall are on the second team from this class. The girls who have recently been elected into the popular girls’ Sorority of the Latin school arc the Misses Baxter, Tead, Bunker, Mulliken, Starkey, and Kimball. Please be funny, classmates, even if it does come hard. It is worse for the editor. Only a few weeks more! O joy! ’0(5 Macombcr's latest: “Sibi faciendihe done me.” We all congratulate the girls of the U. S. Club on the great success of their dance. According to Caesar’s description the Veneti must have been similar polygons. New Pupil—Who is that sick-looking boy going home?” Second Pupil—“Oh, that's C------ We will soon be moving heavenward—that is, as far as the Junior quarters. Funny that even the girls got nearly asleep sing- ing that “Slumber Song.” Don’t forget, Twohig, it wasn’t a distaff. “Man wants but little here below,— So they tell us o’er and o’er, But the little that man really wants Is just a little more.” Heard in German 4: They flew through the clouds like a swarm of wild swine.” “The linden leaf fell between his back and his shoulders.” Our first shirt-waist man” was a Freshman— age twelve. Phew! Gas! [Continued on page 203.] 202 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR NOTES '04 At the last class meeting R. Alonzo Might was elected class orator. Many have asked. Who is the Radiator's Wise Man?” This question is as hard to answer as “How Old is Ann?” Think it over. IV. Elocution C. P-r-y—“From certainty to hope is a ‘door’ step.” Keep an eagle eye on the Pirates of Penzance.” Thev have come together and are about to make a final break in the neighborhood of Boston. Oh, charming, charming May: you are certainly becoming very popular with the graduating class W-l-on has had a hair-raising time during the last month. Vandykes are coming into promi- nence more and more every day. If fish makes brains, Trueman must have an abundant supply of them, as he frequently dined on smoked herring while camping May week. The tourists from the class of 1001 while aboard the steamer on their way to Washington talked diligently about Europe. O-os-y was the only one in room 20 that did not smile when receiving a report card. Cheer up. Crosby. D----left his straw hat down South. Never mind. D-----, there are many more Sphinx hats in the market. How nice it must seem to get “A” in every study! The ’atest: The Freshmen were heard singing “Grow Old Along with Me.” They are beginning to realize that they are nearly Sophomores. How interesting chemistry is when candy is brought in to test! We thank the weather man for giving us such beautiful weather May week, and now we do not care if he docs send occasional showers. For information about cost of camping apply to Duhig, room 29. Hints will be given on kinds of food to buy, etc Our class sports, Hall. Ball, and Trueman, have made a few changes in style of dress. To be up to the sports one has to wear one black and one tan shoe, also a white vest and no necktie. ’05 We arc sorry to hear that Raymond Colcgrovc, of our class, has’left school. What an up-to-date history that must be in the Somerville library, entitled The Age of Anne.” A Junior argument: If the inside is the interior, then the rear must be the bacteria.” There is a very strange noise (Aaron B) apparent in the Junior rooms lately. Two questions recently asked in a physiology and physics exam, respectively: “Give rules for the proper carrying of the body”; answer, If dead, in a hearse; otherwise in an auto.” In physics: “Give a rule for obtaining Force.” In chemistrv: Is Ethvl Alcohol anv relation to Carry Mcll?” L----nut the wires of a battery to his tongue to see if lie could taste the current. He was awfully shocked at what he discovered. The class editor extends his sincere thanks for the class note given him this year. T----. rhe Bingville constable,” is at it again! He arrested two blackmailers who forged checks in bookkeeping I. G----. when asked what he knew about Milton, began dwelling on the beauties of a suburban town instead of the biography of that famous poet. ’06 Pupil— Docs it make any difference which para- graph we have?” Teacher—“No, get the right one.” Poets and story writers of the Sophomore class are kindly asked to gather their material together for the June Radiator. Don’t all speak at once. We hope that the Freshmen enjoyed the numer- ous May parties which were given during the va- cation week. Who are the selfish ones who block the exit dur- ing the fire-drill? We are almost on the top of the mountain which we have been climbing for two years. In a few months we will be on the other side—Juniors. Does this suggest a down-hill track? The class social which was planned will proba- ble have to wait until we are upper class-men. ’07 What a hay- spreading machine the boys on the from row of I. English 1 would make! Teacher-- What was the greatest cold snap of ancient times?” Bright pupil— The frieze on the Parthenon.” SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 203 NOTICE: Anyone passing in a class note will receive four (-1) .Legal Trading stamps. Come early and avoid the rush. Only one month more. What then? NOT ICE TO T. TECH.: Has our Baker gone on a strike? Ikappa llMM ii£ta Stance The fifth annual reception and dance of the Kappa Phi Eta 1'raternitv was held at Anthoine’s Thursday evening. April 21. The hall was beauti- fully decorated in blue and white, the club colors. There were between fifty and sixty couples present. Great credit is due John C. Haartz, L.. ’02. floor di- rector. for his able management. The aids were: Messrs. J. J. Hepburn. H. C. Fleischncr, R. Tem- ple. and W. Paine. The matrons were Mrs. Wil- liam H. Seaver and Mrs. E. J. Saunders. Marie Grosse furnished catchy, popular music. -------------------------- X. IE. 2D. Club The last regular meeting of the L. E. D. Club was held at the home of Miss Nellie A. Brown. 72 Wallace street, April 26. A very pleasant after- noon was spent amid business discussion, games, and refreshments. The harlequin party which took place April I I at the home of Miss Gladys Loring was a great sticcess. Probably one more social event will close the three years’ many good times in High school. ------------------------------------- 36. C. 5. Xeap jjear parts The B. C. S. Club, composed of twelve voung ladies from the class of 1901, English high school, held a leap year invitation party at Hemming hall Friday evening. April 22. This is the second dance which the club has held. The hall was handsomely decorated with crepe paper and school flags: cozy corners added to the attractiveness. During the first of the evening a reception was held. Miss Alice Cunningham and Miss Myra Richmond, matrons. Following the reception dancing was enjoyed until twelve o’clock. Music was furnished by Harry Ells. Miss Bessie Priestly served frappe. Among those present were: Misses Lizzie Downs, Martha Russell, Edna Moulton. Ida Hcgan. Esther M. Stevenson, Florence L. Cald- well. Bessie Priestly. Sarah Emerson. Madge I.eCour. May LeCour, Ida Shackford. Kathrvne Nolan. Ethel Thompson, Elinor Turner, and Messrs. Waldo E. Dodge, Edwin Hall. Richard Green. Harrv Hcgan. W. Walter Bigelow, Elmer Carruthers, Harold Butters, James Emerson, Homer Beaudet, Edward Alley, Maurice Twohig, Gardiner Stacy, Charles Jenson, William Smith, Leonard A. Stevenson. -------------------------- POSITIVELY NO CLUB NOTES RECEIVED AFTER MAY 27. Xatfn notes [Continued from page 201 ] One more month and then.—“Darkness or Dawn.” No. Burns did not have his “feet” up in the chair, he had only one “foot” there. Kelley says: Adolescens summa virtute sum.” Three of our class remind us of an auction. C- “going,” B----“going,” Elliott, “gone.” Lowell’s definition of cap-a-pie (from head to foot): A dish consisting of choice fowl cooked together in the form of a pic.” ’07 We wonder how many were satisfied with their cards. Heard in the room: Teacher—“Now is the time for your hardest work.” Heard ill the hall the following recess: “I’m not going to study any more. My average is above F.” Fishing in the fountain is a new attraction for the girls. N-----has not got over the silly age yet. Ask Higgins about “Dear Molly.” We hope there will be more notes passed in for the June Radiator. There arc two new greats in the twentieth cen- tury. D—e and Miss D—1. We wonder how Merrill got two E’s in algebra. Will some one please present Kinl-d with a piece of string. How we liked to study when we came back from vacation. -------------------------- Opcccbc Gance Club, Ximitcb The club held its monthly pow-wow at the wig- wam of Big Long Chief Brad. It was voted that a cup be presented to the mem- ber displaying the most beautiful kite on the river. May 30. The kites will be displayed near Fox Island at 2.45 p. m.. wind and weather permitting. Each member is confident of winning the trophv. NANGLE PAID HIS INITIATION FEE. Gray took Crosby’s usual nap. Perry cracked Scott’s usual jokes. A dainty luncheon of lemonade and cookies was served, and the club trudged homeward on empty stomachs. --------------------------- “Cbc Uncoflnltos” The English school feels honored by the work ac- complished by two of the graduates of 1902, Ralph Clcverlcy and Milbury Ryder, who on Thursday and Fridav evening of the May vacation presented most successfully an operetta entitled “The Incog- nitos.” the music of which was composed by Mr. Ryder, the libretto by Mr. Clcverlcy. So aus- picious a beginning augurs well for further suc- cess. Somerville Wiflb, ll; ZlDccbamc Bits, 3 Nichols again showed his ability to pitch, when he faced the Mechanic Arts batters at Broadway field. At all times lie was steady except in the seventh inning, in which Mechanics scored four runs. Burns at first played a star game, prevent- ing several serious errors from bad throws. HafP played centre and had two chances, which of course he accepted. Cleary played a snappy game at third for the visitors. Score: SOMERVILLE HIGH. AB. BH. PO. A. E. Blair, s.s....................4 1 2 2 1 Doughtv. 3b...................4 2 0 2 0 Hafford, c.f., p..............4 2 2 0 0 Barton. 2b....................4 118 1 Hayes, l.f....................3 1 0 0 0 Higgins, r.f..................1 0 0 0 0 Burns, lb.....................4 0 15 0 0 Driscoll, c...................4 0 G 1 0 Nichols, p....................4 1 0 2 0 Lakin, r.f....................2 1 1 0 0 Holland, c.f..................0 0 0 0 0 Totals.......................34 9 27 15 2 MECHANIC ARTS. AB. BH. PO. A. E. Cleary, 3b....................5 2 2 2 2 Weinz, lb.....................5 1 10 0 0 Decker, c.f........ ..... .. .3 0 I 0 0 Bjorklund, p..................3 1 0 0 0 Anderson, s.s.................5 0 0 5 1 Andrews, 2b...................3 2 1 2 1 Baker, c 4 0 G 1 0 Miller, l.f 4 0 3 0 0 Barry, r.f 0 0 0 0 Totals G 23 10 4 Innings................1 2 3 4 5'6 7 8 9 Somerville ...............4 3 0 3 0 0 1 0 —11 Mechanic Arts ........... 1 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 0— 6 Runs made—Blair (2), Doughty (2), Hafford (3), Barton (21. Lakin, Nichols, Cleary (2), Weinz. Decker. Bjorklund, Anderson. Two-base hits— Hafford. Andrews. Sacrifice hit—Doughty. Stolen bases—Blair. Hafford. Barry. First base on balls—Off Nichols (5), off' Hafford. off Bjorklund (3). First base on errors—Hafford (2), Lakin. Nichols. Weinz, Anderson. Struck out—By Nichols, 6: by Bjorklund. 5. Passed balls—Dris- coll (2), Baker. Hit by pitched ball—Barton, Hayes. Time—2h. Umpire—Butman. Attend- ance—150. ------------------------ Somerville, 4; Groton, 0 In a game replete with good pitching, in which department Nichols was the particular star, Som- erville showed her superiority over the Academy boys of Groton. Nichols was in excellent form, and not a hit could the Groton boys make from his delivery. Not a ball went outside of the infield, and but two men reached first base. Nichols was sup- ported in good shape by Driscoll and Burns, and Doughty played well. The score: Somerville, 1; Groton, 0. SOMEkVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 205 Singles. Charley of the smiling face has again pro- ducer! a good team from chaos. Hats off to the best coach Somerville has ever had. Nichols is pitching great ball, and is making a good alternate for l laff. A good crop of heavy bitters have blossomed forth, and Hafford, Doughty, and Higgins are “bif- fing the horse-hide for fair. Burns at first is playing a snappy game, but, as a local newspaper says, he is a little mite apt to juggle the ball before throwing it. Doughty and Blair seem to fit in their new posi- tions nicely, and are playing good ball. Dorchester is the only team which it is necessary to fear, and even she is going to be an easy one for us. The second team isn't so bad. She has three victories to her credit. Tufts Freshies, Tufts Sophs, and Wakefield high. Attend the games and CHEF.R. English high next Saturday! Driscoll has not yet learned to control himself, but he has shown decided improvement since the start of the season. — ------------------------ iHanwfc 2n , 5; Somerville, 4. Harvard Second beat us by the small margin of two inns. Up to the seventh inning Hafford pitched great ball, and Somerville led four to two, but Driscoll allowed three or four balls to get bv him. which allowed Harvard a chance to score. Hafford struck out eleven men. and hit the ball in good shape. The Bouve-Sterling THE NEWEST DESIGNS FOR 86 Summer Street 78 Hanover Street BOSTON Shoe, $2.50 YOUNG MEN 13 Water Street 14 Spring Lane Biggest Game of the Season Somerville • Dorchester “HAFFORD vs. BRAYLEY” FLOWERS FOR Tl IE SOIREE AN I) GRADUATION J. W. HOWARD, Florist 330 Broadway - Somerville Monday. May 30. 1904 3.30 P. M. Compliments of a BROADWAY FIELD ADMISSION, 25 CENTS FRIEND WALL PAPERS PAINTERS' SUPPLIES HARDWARE HOUSE PAINTING WHITENING, Etc. The largest business of its kind in Somerville, and the lowest prices for first-class stock and workmanship. L. W. BOWEN, = =■ 14 Broadway BOSTON UNIVERSITY College of Liberal Arts Central Location Varied Elective Courses Metropolitan Advantages Enlarged Opportunities for Scientific Study by the Establishment of Chemical and Biological Labora- tories in the College Building. Address THE DEAN 12 Somerset Street - - BOSTON TUTORING IN CAMBRIDGE Candidates for admission to Harvard College or the Law- rence Scientific School can make arrangements for summer study in Cambridge under the direction of teachers of experi- ence thoroughly familiar with the admission requirements. Instruction will be furnished preparatory to entrance, to the remoral of conditions, or to the anticipation of prescribed or elective studies. Excellent laboratory facilities are provided. If desired,reference to former pupils and Harvard instructors will be furnished. Correspondence may be addressed to WILLIAM W. NOLEN Mantcr Hall - - - Cambridge Telephone, Cambridge 827. 206 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Somerville Downs Uufts SeconO Friday afternoon, April 15, Somerville played its first game on Broadway field against Tufts second. Tufts second came down with their crack Fresh- man pitcher, Watson. It was the first time that aggregation had played together. The boys from College Hill went to the bat first. Hafford put them out in one-two-three order. Somerville found Watson for five hits and four runs in the first inning. In the second inning Hafford duplicated the first, and again Somerville was “in” and Holland “up.” He placed a safe hit between first and second. Driscoll, Blair, and Hafford found the ball for safe hits in this inning, also totalling three runs. In the next four innings neither team scored. Somerville got two safe hits, but failed to find the home plate. In the eighth inning, Somerville added two more runs and McCarthy on a wild throw of Hafford’s slipped home, making Tufts’ only tally. The ninth inning was another shutout. Score, 9 to 1. PERKINS the Druggist Highland Avenue C. GARTNER se se Iftomc Baker 237 Highland Avenue GILMAN EXPRESSCO. JOHN E. PALMER, Proprietor Somerville and North Cambridge SOMKKVILLE OF KICK NO. CAMBRIDGE OFFICE Davi� Square 1902 Ma� � . Ave. Tel., SM 4 Son'. Tol., 917 5 Canto. BOSTON OFFICES 14 Devonshire St. 95 Arch St. 89 Broad St. 10 Union St. 77 Kingston St. 65 Kingston St. Furniture and Piano Moving K ‘� i leiic( , 218 Elm SI. Order Box, 90 Fanetiil Hall Market Tel., C7-7 Sum. STORAGE FOR FURNITURE GREGG SHORTHAND SCHOOL 30 Huntington Avenue PREPARES FOR HIGH GRADE POSITIONS The Best of Everything System, Teachers, Pupils and Equipment Latest Designs in Spring' Suits : : MARGARETTE G. HIGGINS CHAS. H. CRANE Pharmacist Fashionable Dressmaker 148 PEARL STREET - SOMERVILLE Perkins, Cor. Franklin St., YOUNG MEN LOOKINQ FOR E. Somerville, Mass. BUSHNESS POSITIONS Should call upon HOUGHTON WARE - - 364 Washington St., Room 2 REPORTERS SHORTHAND SCHOOL CARNEY BUILDING, 42 TREMONT ST., BOSTON Beginners’ Class Day and Evening SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION President Office, 19 Pierce Building, Copley Square, Boston Same teachers 24 years. Courses for Teachers, Speakers, Readers, All who Use the Voice, and for general culture. Send for catalogue; also free booklet, “What Can You Do For Me?” SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 20 7 Herbert E. Bowman, PL G. DRUGGIST Magoun Square,. Somerville, Mass, DIEGES CLUST Latest Designs in Summer fllMinevy Mrs. A. M. YOUNG 3 Medina Building, West Somerville MILTON H. PLUMMER, Ph. G. Hpotbecar 25 Union Square, . . . Somerville, Mass. Prescription Work a Specialty. Kieht Clerk in Attendance Makers of the Somerville E. H. School Pins 373 Washington Street BOSTON - - - MASS. CLASS PINS MEDALS CUPS and TROPHIES of Every Description DIAMONDS, WATCHES and JEWELRY Tufts College ELMER H. CAPEN, LL.D., President The College is on a hill top, four miles from Boston, combining the advantages of country and city. 11 offers to the students in all its departments the best methods of instruction, and the various facilities requisite for a thor- ough education, at a very moderate cost. DEPARTHENTS THE COLLEGE OF LETTERS.—Degree A. B., and for courses in Biology, Chemistry or General Science, and In Civil, Electrical, Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, the degree S. B. THE DIVINITY SCHOOL.-Degrce D. B. THE MEDICAL SCHOOL.—Located in Boston. Degree M. D. THE DENTAL SCHOOL.-Located In Boston. Degree D.M.D. THE BROMFIELD-PEARSON SCHOOL—A technical School for the Engineering Courses. THE GRADUATE DEPARTMENT—Degrees Pb.D., A.M.,M.S. SUMMER SCHOOLS.—In Chemistry, Biology, English, and Mathematics. For Catalogues or for any information concerning the college, address HARRY G. CHASE, Secretary, Tufts College, - - Mass. 208 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION fits you for a successful Business Career Practical advice enabling you to place your talents to best advantage is indispensable and profitable. This advice, together with eighteen years’ experi- ence in this line of work, is offered you free. Mercantile Reference and Bond Association 56 Summer Street If you obtain a position the fee is.one week's pay. No charge unless you accept the place. WT WIT FY DAVIS SQlJARE • J. TTlJLCJL WEST SOMERVILLE ' ( HOT WATER HOT WEATHER WITHOUT A HOT FIRE With one of our Gas WatcrHcaters installed in your home you can have hot water at any time, in any amount from any Hot Water faucet in the house. These Heaters are made entirely of cop- per and brass, and heat enough water for a bath at a cost not to exceed one cent. This is the most convenient and laboi -savingdevice that you can have in your home. We are installing this Special Heater for the special’ price if of $ 17T00, all! complete. FERTILIZERS LAWK DRESSING GRASS SEED FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS LAWN MOWERS GRASS HOOKS RUBBER HOSE HOSE REELS GARDEN RAKES HOES WHEELBARROWS CHICKEN AND POULTRY NETTING SCREEN WIRE SCREEN DOORS WINDOW SCREENS PAINTS, OILS and VARNISHES FLOOR OILS, FLOOR WAX SCREEN BLACK PAINT BRUSHES Lawn Mowers Sharpened KELLSEY STACK 261 Elm Street - Davis Square - Somerville Next door to Post-Office. SUMMER SHORTHAND SCHOOL The Chandler Normal Shorthand School will continue dur- ing the month of JULY. Opening day, July 5. Exceptional opportunity for teachers and finishers. Address, THE NORMAL SHORTHAND SCHOOL ‘fit Columini A veilin', Itoston NESMITH SHOE CO. S3.50, S4.00 andS5.00 ltt II.DKKS OF Smart Shoes for Men, Women and Children. Made on hygienic lasts. Endorsed by leading foot specialists throughout the country. TAN SHOES For Men, Women and Children. The most popular Shoe for Summer Wear. NESMITH HOOT SHOP, 3« West Street. Boston College Ice AT PEARSON’S 304 BROADWAY C. W. THOMPSONS CO. MUSIC PUBLISHERS 13 WEST STREET, - - BOSTON, MASS. ASK TO SHE THE TWO NEW SONGS: New Colonial March, by Marks: “ Sometime, Somewhere, by S. G. Cooke. The Popular Hits ol the Season. JAMES C. TAYLOR Merchant T ailor 294 Broadway, Winter Hill 204 Highland Avenue SOMERVILLE. MASS. Ladies’ Garments made, repaired, and altered. Particular attention given to Dyeing, Cleansing, and Repairing Clothes. High School Trade Solicited. GRADUATING CLASS. LATIN SCHOOL Photo by Purdy GRADUATING CLASS. ENGLISH SCHOOL Photo by Purdy SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 209 SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES NO AGENTS OR SOLICITORS They encourage immature pupils to leave the public schools before being qualified for special training. [« OSTIMJBD OS TACK 212.] 210 SOMERVILLK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Wright Ditson Manufacturers of fine LAWN TENNIS and general athletic goods. WRIGHT DITSON’S CHAMPIONSHIP LAWN TENNIS BALL, PIM AND DAVIS RACKETS Golf --- Gymnasium Goods Wright Diuon' Trade Bathing Suits Mark Base Ball Supplies Sweaters, Jerseys «c universally used. WRIGHT DITSON 344 Washington St. . . BOSTON, MASS. EDW. A. B1NNEY PRED. A. HIGGINS BINNEY HIGGINS Peal Estate Brokers AUCTIONEERS Photographic Supplies AT H. H. I. SMITH’S Davis Square Don't Forget THE SPHINX HAT For Spring - ---- : We make them and sell them to you in our own stores. ALL STYLES, $2.00 Boston Store, 412 Washington Street TYPEWRITERS SOLD Cash or Time SAVE MONEY on ALL MAKES of machines; rebuilt REMINGTON, No. 2, 25 up; rented and repaired: guaranteed and sold from $10 to $60; get catalog, etc.; tel., 166. THE TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE 38 Bromfield Street INSURANCE of Every Description. Mortgages and Bonds Machines Rented Renting and Care of Properly 5 Bow 5t., Union 5q. SOMEDVILLC ♦ ♦ : ♦ ♦ : NEW STUDIO I BRUNEAU rLETCHER ♦ Artistic jZ? jZ? ; PHotograpHers jZ7 ♦ Announce tin- opening of their Studio in the ♦ X New Howard Building. T ♦ 324 Broadway, Mo«haii st.. Somerville f ♦ Kvoknk Buuneai Telephone COS-2 G. S. Flbtchkk ♦ ♦ ♦ George T. Bailey, 45 I earl Street, - Gilman Square. All the “ News ” of the day. Weekly and Monthly Magazines. Circulating Library of the Latest Books. SSTall and see what we have to read. 44 Snappy Styles AT THU Federal Hat Co. Manufacturing and Retailing Hatters. 166 FEDERAL STREET, BOSTON Herbert E. Bowman, Ph. G. DRUGGIST Magoun Square,. Somerville, Mass. Xatest Designs in Summer flUtllinevy Mrs. A. M. YOUNG 3 Medina Building, West Somerville MILTON H. PLUMMER, Ph. G. Hpotbecary 25 Union Square, . . . Somerville, Mass. Prescription Work a Specialty. Night Clerk In Attendance SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 21 I PURDY PERFECTION in PORTRAITURE A photograph is the chronicle in personal appearance of a certain period. Our pic tures are both pleasing and accurate, and can be referred to at a future date with con- siderable satisfaction to the subject : : : : 146 7 REMO N 7 S7REE7 (Between Tempi.k Place ani West St.) Discount to Somerville High PERKINS the Druggist Highland Avenue C. GARTNER Ibome Baker 237 Highland Avenue A Word to the Wise Coal prices have been reduced to the spring basis. We are receiving daily fresh-mined coal of the best quality, and are prepared to fill orders promptly. If you have never traded with us, give us a trial. We know we can please you. Metropolitan Coal Company GENERAL OFFICES 30 Congress Street, Boston SOMERVILLE OFFICE, 31 UNION SQUARE Tel., Somerville, 73-3 212 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES I Cbe Browne and Hicbols School t 223D YEAR • Special attention to individual pupils. Classes X limited to i5. Pupils continuously under super- V vision of head teacher in each department. b ... 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Our certificates arc accepted by all colleges that extend certificate rights. Send for catalogue. TAYLOR, HAGAR KURT 458 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. HARVARD UNIVERSITY The Lawrence Scientific School Offers four-yea'r courses of study leading to the degree of S.B. in Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Architec- ture, Landscape Architecture, Forestry, Chemistry, Geology, Biology, Anatomy and Hygiene (prepara- tion for medical schools), Science for Teachers, and a course in General Science. Students arc admitted to regular standing by examination and by transfer from other Schools or Colleges. Ap- proved Special Students may be admitted without examination. The Catalogue will be sent on application to the Secretary, J. L. Love, 16 Uni- versity Hall, Cambridge, Mass. N. S. SHALER, Dean 1p o$se (3 mnaetum 206 Massachusetts Ave. A Normal School of Medical and Educa- tional Gymnastics FEE $125.00 per Year Special courses arranged as desired. Classes for all forms of gymnastics and athletics. Baroness ROSE POSSE, Director YLj TM X5A. M XSX XSX SE M ! 5X SIA. New England Conservatory of MUSIC (The Leading Conservatory in America) Geo. W. Chadwick, Director Private or class lessons in all departments of Music Midsummer Session from June 24 to September l Hext ScVvooV ea.v September For information address Ralph L. Flanders, Manager Huntington Avenue, - - Boston, Mass. [CONTINUED ON PAGE 277.] A MAIDEN OF THE CHARLES A Drawing by Clyde Winfield Scott. Ex-S„ '05 LAWRENCE MITCHELL. C.jriERWOOO RICKER eldwin hweaver GEORGE COMER. :vv« RADIATOR STAFF. 1903 4 (Sriuuevuugcu au bent bcntfrfj:fvau5b)if cn Striegc 4 on H'ciia (Wilbert. 5s ic Mriege, bic bic Slmerifaner in tester 3cit )Cfai()vt Ijabeu, vuicn un $entfd)cn wol)l S Nand)c au ber 3eit unfcrc teuton a vouch Mriege in Me badnnif; jitriirf. Tie jegige anierifanifdjc 3d)ttljitgcnb bat a ber bod) � ool)l fcinc Wclcgcnbeit gebabt, an cigcncr (Srfaljruiig 511 (ernon, wax' ein fold)cr Mrieg bebeutet. wax' fur llnrubcn unb 3d)veden cr in it fid) bringt, ber ipanifd)c Mrieg war $11 uugleid) bafiir nub 511 weit weg. (Sin Mrieg , wiid)ett Xcutidjeu unb vau ofen. bic ja nie fricblidu '.Nadjbarn warcn, ift burdjau fcinc Mlcinigfcit. Teutid)(aub war hunter, fciitcr oielcn unrnljigcn nub cifcr)'ud)tigcu 'Vacabam wegeu gc;muugcn, cine ocrbalt nigmauig fcl)r grone Evince 511 uutcrljaltcn, aber c fangt nie ciucit Mrieg an, of)ue gutc CWriiiibc. Wan mugtc woljl. ban c ein id)vedlid)er Mrieg fein wiirbe, ben Napoleon bamal auftiftcii niiifjtc, tint fcinc (vraitjoien , u bcfdjaitigcn unb fid) attf bent Maiicrthvonc 511 erfjaiten, aber bod) that c waljrfdjeiiilid) ben meiften Scutid)cn nid)t leib, einen '«Horwanb ; n bent period) , u Ijabett, (Slfag unb i otbringen wieber $11 gewiiineii. SUiand)e frembe Nation, befonber bie englifd)e, ji)iupa- tbiiiertc toobl mit ben Sranjofen. Tcutidtlanb wiirbe bind) bie ; citungen crmaljnt, ba arnie Stanfreid) uid)t ,Vt entebreti. 31 ber tfianfrcid) Ijatte lid) tittr felbft bind) ben £icbftal)l emebrt, obgleid) cr oor tucljr a I .yocibun ben oubrett begangen toorben war. nub Carlyle fagte: St'anim follte benn Jvranfreid) alfein uuter alien 'Nationcu ba 'Hcd)t l)aben, gcitoljlcnc (Wnt ,yt belialten. weun fid) betn (Sigcntiimcr eiunial Wclegcnbeit barbieiet, c wieber 511 bcfoniincn ? 9(1 ber '4 'in,) bun .y ol)eujollern, bie iljm oott Spanien augebotene Mbnig froiie ableljutc, warb e cine Scifc rtif)ig, unb bie Unciiigcmciljtcn glaubten toobl, bag ber Mrieg locnigitcn aufgefd)oben fei. Jlber bent war nid)t io. 'J ari wiirbe bie Uiivube unb llii. ufriebeul)eii imiuer grbncr unb ’■Napoleon umfjte tntr ,yt gut. ban bon Srieben fcinc )tebe ntebr fein fbnue. attf fein '-Ucrlangcn, ban ber Mbttig 0011 reugeu ifjm Hbbitte tljue. bafiir ban cr bent s| rin, eu non obeit;,o(lcru (SrlauOnii) gegebett babe, bie Mrotte bon 3panicn an unebmen. 3� 3cutfd)(anb bauerten bie ' orbereitungen nid)t lattge, obgleid) ' reunen erft feit Murgent bie Wilitarmadjt bane unb bie 3i cipliit in ben anberu bcutidjctt Vdnbern fcinc mcg fo gut war wie in i'teufjen. Troft unfere 4 crtraucn attf reufjen, iiird)teten wir uiu', ba wir nal)c an ber fran, bfifd)en Wren e wobnten, bod) ein wenig oor cinctu fratt, oiifrf)en tiinfall, — befottber ba wir 3M = marf nod) nid)t io gut fdnnteu. wie ipater, - bi Woltfe, ber 3d)wcigfaine. oeriid)erte : SScnn bie 3ran, ofen in ad)t age 11 ttid)t bcrcit iiub, fo forfeit fie feiticn gufj auf bentidjeu 4'oben fepen, auger al tWefangene, uttb wav '.INolifc fagte, barauf fouuten wir tin , wie wir an (Sr fabruug wituten, unb wie ber (Srfolg bewie , mit gu tent 'Ked)t — feltenfeft ocrlaffen. 911 bie 3olbaten in oelb , ogen, fiiigett wir erft an, tin bie 3d)rcdcn be Mriege ;,u oerwirflidjett. (Sin alter (General, ber $ur ; )eit '.Napoleon I initgefampft Ijatte, oeriudjte mu' ; ti trbften, inbent er tin ' orfalle an ieuer 3eit erjaljlte, uttb lucintc. ein Mrieg babe ja bem, ,utage nid)t auf fid), CWcjunbc uttb erwmibctc wiir ben ebettfo gut oerpflegt, wie bal)eint. wfidjt febr lattge nad) bent 4lu rurfcn ber Jrnppcu fanteti bie ')iad)rid)ten oott 3d)lad)ten, juerft mtgewin, bi bie oifijiellen 9fad)riditcn einliefen, auf bie man fid) 2 l6 .SOMKRVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR itct? Ocrlaifen fomttc. Unb immcr loavcn c? SicgeSnadj ridjtcn. tlkm bcm 2d)lad)tielbc toiirbcn bie 'iknounbeten io meit geidjirft, al? e? iljre 9i tinbcn .yiliegcn, nm 'J lag fiii- bie 2d)ioerocr� Punbeten (}ti mad)cn, bie nid)l trail? portirt loerben fomiten. Ta mm ein fber uadi Mvfiftcn mitljali, bie Wanner im Mricgc, bie kronen it .{jaiifc, fo 10 oil ten loir inngen Wabdjcn natitrlid) and) nidjt nviicf= fteljen. nnb boten bem .ymlf?ocrciit iinfcre Tienftc an, bie fef� r gern angenommeit lourbeit. fuerit mngten loir an ben (Sifenbaljiiitationcn anf bie 3iigc loarten. bie 'ikr lonnbete bradjtcn, iodter lonrben loir in ; cltc gcid)irtt, bie in ben bcm herein , nr ' erfiuvm gcftellten grogljcr ,}oglid)en Wiirten anf eftcllt loorben loavcn. 911? 3Jcr= lonnbete lonrben Jsrennb nnb Seinb gleid) bcfyanbclt. nnr oor bie ;Aette, in benen vran ofen loaren, lonrben nod) beionbere 2d)ilbioad)cn geflcllt. Ta incine Svcnnbin nnb id) yemlid) gut fron.jofifcf) jprndjcn, toa? loir nid)t nnr in ber 2d)ule, fonbern and) bind) langercn 9luientl)alt in '| ari? nnb 9 criaiflc? gelernt fatten, mngten loir na tiirlid) bei ber 9 crpflcgnng ber Sranjofcn mitljelfen. 3� einein ber ;kltc. miter ben Sran ofcit, toaren and) $ioei 9(rabcr, bie nil bcionber? intcrefiirteii nnb beren c? nad) 9Japolcon? .Vtrieg in (Sgi)ptcn oielc in ber franjbfifdjen 9lrmce bei ben Tnrfo? gab. Tic 91 r a ber gingen geioblgt lid) mit grogem (Vkfdjrei nnb Sarin in bie 2d)lad)t, fanben aber balb, bag fie bamit bei cioiliiirten fttationen nid)t? crrcidjten. 2ef)r tapfer fd)icncn fie fonft nid)t 511 fein, nod) loaren fie fcl)r ftanbfjnft, locnn fie 2d)ittcr$cn aiK'ljalten mugten. Ter (Sine biefer 9lrabcr loar ein armer, nnioiffenber Wenfd), er loar nidjt fd)ioer oerioun bet, fonbern l)atte imr ba? Skin gebrodjen. 911? bie 9lr$te ben C� h)P?oerbanb anlegten, f ielt er ben Qh)p? fiir Surfer nnb loollte il)n effen. Ter anbere loar reid) unb oorncljm nnb fprad) etioa? iranjbiifd). aber er mar bnrd) an ? niebt baju $u bringen, aud) nnr ein Sikrt mit feincin armeit Sanbsinanit 511 fpredjen, er fprad) inimer nnr feljr ocriid)tlid) bon iljnt nnb nannte iljn einen barren. SSenn loir bicfcni, ber fein fran ofifef) oerftanb, etioa? 511 fagen flatten, lel)rte e ? nn ? 9lbballal), (fo biefj ber th'cid)ej, im nter erft anf arabifd). 9tbbaflaf� beftanb gciobljnlid) barauf, bag iljnt fein (Sfjen ,}uerft gebrad)t lourbc, fonft loollte er gar nid)t ? anriibren. 9lud) follten feine 9Siin= ben oor alien anbereit oerbunbeit loerben, aber bie 9lr$tc fiimmerten fid) loenig uni feine oerdd)tlid)e Wicnc unb ieinen (Sigenfinn. 3� ieinen Turban geioicfelt, lonrben mcljrcre 9?afcn, Cljren. Singer n. i. 10. geinnben, bie er loten ober oenounbeten Teutidjcn nad) ber 2d)lad)t ab= gcfdjnitten Ijatte. (She er ba? Sajorct oerlien, bot er nn? einen filbernen iNing mit arabifdjen 3wd)cit on- 9(a tiirlid) leljntcn loir bicic? Okfd)cnf ab. benn erftcnS loujj ten loir nidit, ob e ? 1111 ? iiberljaupt erlanbt fei, Qkfdjenfe oii,}uitel)ineu. nnb bann fonnte man and) nidjt loiffen, 10a? bie? bei ben 9lrabcrn bebeuten fbnne. Tariibcr loar er linn felir er.jiirnt 1111b loollte nn? feine? SBortc?, 1111b felbft feine? SMicfc? nieljr loiirbigen. Tie $ran(}ofen, bie in Tentfdjlanb oerpflegt lonrben, loaren fel)r banfbar fiir alle?, 10a ? fiir fie get I) an lourbc. 33icle fomiten loeber lefen nod) fd)reiben, einige iljrcr SBunben loegen, anbere loeil fie e? itie gelernt batten. 5s}ir id)rteben baber iljre 93riefc in bie .'pcimat fiir fie nnb laien iljnen bie iranjbfifdjen Bt’itungen oor. 9fad)bem fie aber bavin einen $krid)t iiber bie 2d)lad)t. in ber fie felbft ocrtomibct loorben, gelefen Ijattcn, loolltcu fie lieber bie beutidjen offijiellen 9(adjrid)ten Ijbren, benn fie Ijatten an? (Srfabrnng gelernt, bafj biefc juoerlaffig loaren. Tie Qkfangenen, bie nid)t oenonnbet toaren, lonrben in ben kafernen nntergebrad)t, nnb bie Cffijiere burftcit anf iljr (Sljrenioort, loeber 9t?affen 511 tragen, nod) 511 cuts flicljen, fret in ber 2tabt nntbergeljen. 3� Wain,} lourbc bie? (Sljrenioort einnial gebrodjen, Ijatte aber gliidlidjere locife, loegen ber prenfjifdjen SSatbfantfeit lociter feine fdjlimmen Sotgen. (Sin jioeiter SJerfucb lonrbe loobl nidjt gemadjt. (S? loar ein (jiliid fiir Tentfdjlanb, bag ber .(Iricg nur auf frait}bfifd)em 53oben gefdmpft lourbc, benn trog aller 93orfidjt fattn oiel Sdjaben nidjt oermieben loerben. fo- looljl anf bem Sanbe, al? and) in ben Stiibten. Wandjc? lourbe jerftbrt, maitd)e? Tori abgebrannt, oft jioar loegen abfidjtlid) oon ben Sran oien oergifteter '■Srunncn. Tie Tentid)en fannten iiberbie? bie Okgcnb ebenfo gut, nnb oielleidjt beffer, al? bie Sranjoien felbft, benn 93i?marrf Ijatte einige 3eit efje ber Mrieg an?brad), „feiner fi)eiitnb- Ijeit loegen eine 'Heife nad) bent Sitben Svanfreid)? ge mad)t. Tie ieimfet)r nnferer Solbaten mar nad) all ben 2te gen natiirlid) ein Triuntp ng, aber ber (Siit,}ug ber Trnppen in tbre Saterftabt Ijatte and) oiel Traurige?, benn oiele nnferer tapferen Solbaten toaren in frember (Srbe begraben. llnb be?ljalb, trog aller (Sl)te nnb intereffanten (Srfaljrungen, bie man babci geioinnen fami, mbdjte id) ben 9Bunfd) au?ipred)en, bag bie? Sanb nie loicber ani eigenein ' obcii einen Mrieg mit all ieinen 'ikrioiiftungen erfaljreit mbge. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 217 Le Conte de JMadame Regrrier PAR BERTHA PHILLIPS MARVEL. «Bon jour,� criait une douce voix, et immediate- menu aprfes, parut une t£te fris e I’ouverture d'une porte de la chambre oil etait assise une femme. «Etes-vous en humeur, aujourd’hui, de nous faire un conte?’' Vraiment Madame R gnier etait scmblable h une peinture, vieille, blanche, d’une figure aimable, et un sourire aux lfevres toujours, une broderie aux doigts, en Parisicnne qui ne sait pas rester inactive. L’imagination brillante de Madame fournit aux demoiselles des environs des histoires les plus roma- nesques. Sidonie et Mariette etaient venues pour ecouter les confidences surprenantcs de la dame plongt e dans un fauteuil en face d’elles. Mine. Regnier laissa tomber la broderie, «Ah mes chdries, voyez-vous cette bague ?” Je vous dirai d’oii elle vient, c’est la chose la plus precieuse que je possfcde. Voici 1’histoire. C’etait en Espagne. Le soir entre sept ou huit heurcs se reunissent les jeunes femmes et les jeunes til les nu- bras, des fleurs naturelles dans les cheveux, des sou- liers de satin aux pieds, l’tfventail h la main, suivies par leurs amis et leurs attentifs. Au coucher du solei I, tous les soirs, les galants se mettent h chanter quelque joyeuse chanson, en grattant les cordes d’une guitare. C’est aussi, comme un petit bal improvisi oil on danse le bolero et le fandango. Moi qui etais enfant, et qui n'aimais pas ces danses-lh, m’ennuyais un soir, et voulais me promener de long en large avec Justine, ma bonne. Ma infere resta, en regardant avec admiration les danseurs et les danseuses. Justine et moi, nous suivimes un dddale de ruelles oil de vieilles femmes dormaient sur la pierrc de leur porte, d’autres rues moins sombres oil se trouvaient des magasins, clos h cette heure, et muets, au bord desquels dans l’ombre courte des murs, des decrotteurs ronflaient, la tete sur leur boite h cirer. Nous nous promen ions tranquillement et nous avions gagne la grande place, quand tout k coup Justine me saisit—une voiture approchait et s’arreta, oil ?tait assise une grande dame, ancienne belle per- sonne gardant encore de grands yeux spirituels, un visage aux traits fins, dont la bouche seule, par une sorte de tiraillement douloureux, racontait les com- bats contre la vie. Dfes qu’elle nous eut vues elle cria, « Eh bien mes- demoiselles, que faites-vous ici h cette heure?” Nous n’avions pas eu le temps de nfpondre, qu’un brouhaha de bienvenue se trouva entre les gens qui accouraient de tous quartiers, comme par magie. Le jour suivant fut une fete pour le peuple; c’etait l'arriv e de la reine h Madrid. Son entree inattendue ce soir, commenda les serenades et I’exub rance. Justine et moi restames muettes la demande qu’elle nous avail faite avec une intonation caline et chantante. Mais enlin je retrouvai mon courage et dis: «Ah, Madame, Justine, ma bonne, et moi, nous nous sommes sauvdes du «patio� oil on danse les danses espagnoles. Nous aimons mieux le rafrai- chissement de la belle nuit, que les danses barbares. Sufiit de dire, que je ne savais pas que c’ tait la reine du pays ?t qui je m’adressais. J’avais parle la veritd. Justine voulait me retirer sans continuer la conversa- tion, sans plus de disgraces. Vraiment j’avais in- sulte la reine, j’avais parld contre la couleur locale, car les Kspagnols ont un grand penchant pour toutes les choses vraiment nationales et si caracteristiques. • Kt toi continua la reine tu n’es pas espagnole, je 1’ai remarque l’instant que je t’ai vue, c’est pour- quoi j’ai parl 5 en fran ais. Si tu as un si grand d lain pour nos danses, je commande que tu viennes demain k deux heures, l’aprfes-midi h mon salon, et moi, je verrai si tu peux faire des pas plus agiles que nos petits du pays. A demain, alors, au palais! Adieu.� Je me sentis bien elYrayde, je vous assure, mesdemoi- selles, mais c’«5tait l’ordre de la reine, et il me fallait ob«5ir. Son regard me cherchait, et en reponse h son adieu je rendais un faible «Oui votre Majesty.� Que faire ! Une enfant de douze ans, danser de- vant la reine d’Espagne, moi, qui ne savais que les petites valses qu’apprennent les enfants. Je trem- blais, Justine me grondait, et nous voilh toutes deux bien malheurcuscs. Kile 11c se calma que pour ra- conter notre aventure h. maman h notre retour. Que ma mfere etait contente ! Kile considerait I'honneur d’etre presente h la cour de la reine, et me dit: � I’u avais raison, ma petite, c’est bien,� et elle m’embrassa sur les deux joues. 1’outes les dames, qui avaient en- tendu, cribrent « Bravo.� L’heure ftait solennelle pour moi. Je disparus par une des portes, laissant ?i Justine le soin de m’excuser. Kile me suivit en liaut chez moi et me trouva fondue en larmes. «Mais qu’est-ce qui te prend done?� dit Sidonie, qui avait ?te' un peu adoucie par ma mere, et qui voulait etoufYer mes sanglots. «Nous verrons demain — present vas te coucher. J’obiJis, et aprfes avoir 218 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR pensl mon malheur longtemps, je m'endormis, seulement pour etre trouble par dessonges hideux. Lc matin arriva et moi. je nvlveillai d’une nuit tumuitueuse. ■ Venez m’habiller� criai-je h Justine qui Itait en train d’arranger des journaux sur la table. Peu de temps aprfes, la porte s’ouvrait et la mfere paraissait avec ce grand air qu’elle avait quelquefois, elegante, serree dans un manteau de tulle. «Ah mon enfant, te voilh. Je viens de m’habiller pour la fete aujourd’hui ou je verrai danser ma j etite title. Nous Itions allies, la mire filre, Justine char- mle, et moi epouvantee, h la mort. Nous Itions ar- rivles au palais, ou on nous avait attenducs, et ou on nous amena dans le salon. Toute ma peur, c’ltait d’etre ridicule. Tante Marie m’avait donnl pour la danse un Iventail espagnol, d’une grandeur merveilleuse. Je portais aussi avec moi mon petit tambourin que Toscani, le petit Italien m’avait donnl, il y avait deux ans. Je pouvais en jouer un peu. I oeil de ma mere l.tait tixl sur moi, et le mien Itait sur la porte; 1’attention hale- tante de Justine allait de 1’une 1’autre. Knfin la porte du salon s’ouvrit brusquement ct laissa voir trois femmes, en robes de toile bleue, qui entraient dans le salon, suivies de son Altesse la reine, revetue d’une robe de soie changeante. Klles nous saluaient avec bonte, mais sa Majeste s’arreta et parut un moment se parler it ellc-meme. Alors clle s’adressa it nous avec les manures les plus jolies, et les attentions les plus respectueuses. « Kh bien, ma petite, tu es ma danseuse pour l’heure. Commen ons.� Une des dames se mit au piano ct joua une valse, et je dansai ne sachant ce que je faisais, ni comment. Knfin finit la valse, et les louanges me sonnlrent comme des echos lloignls, «line autre,� ordonna la reine. Je saisis mon tambourin, et hasardai une petite danse italienne en frappant le tambourin. J’oubliai mes spectatrices, le m’amusais, moi, ct ricn n’est plus ravissant que cela, vous save , mesdemoiselles. C’ltait la danse que j’ai faite avec le petit Toscani Les «bravos� enthousiastes me ramenaient et je cessai ma folle danse, pour prendre haleine. Quand je fus un peu remise sa Majesti me dit«Tu fais les pas merveilleusement, ma chlre, veux-tu dan- ser pour moi le bolero que tu ne respectes pas? Je te donnerai les castagnettcs.� Je n’osais refuser, quoique je ne susse pas bien le bolero. J’essayai et je rlussis. Oui mesdemoiselles, car vous vovez ici la bague d’lmeraude. La reine d’Kspagne me la prlsenta, et m’embrassa en disant: «Tu es une brave enfant; tu as bien fait, et je te donne cette bague en recompense —et garde les cas- tagnettes, parcequ’il ne faut pas que tu aies honte de ton bolero.� Nous quittames le palais, aprls avoir dit le « a los pils de usted,� suivant 1’usage espagnol. « Oh les castagnettcs,� crierent ensemble les deux lilies. « Laisscz nous les voir.� « Une autre fois,� fit Mme. Regnier, parcequ’elles ont une histoire, qui est h elles-memes, settle, et je vous la raconterai, plus tard. « N’etes-vous pas contentes pour aujourd’hui?� « Oh oui, ma belle madame.� Sidonie et Mariette s’en alllrent, la porte se fer- ma, et Madame Regnier reprit sa broderie. IT be fate of the ueen .16 ? flbarg Z. dbcCartbv;, '05 ’Tis evening, calm and holy, Each bird is in its nest; The sun, so tired and weary, Leaves Nature to its rest. The world is still and quiet; The few faint sounds of night Are hushed to whispered silence By the entrance of a knight. From afar the sweet bells tinkle, And on the meadow green There comes the sound of footsteps. For Jtis the Fairy Queen. From creature so entrancing, What mortal could depart? He chooses the pine tree yonder To open to her his heart. And there they sit a-chatting Until the Sun is seen, High riding over hilltops In search of the Fairy Queen. The knight in terror hastens, And leaves his tale half-told, And leaves the fairy lady To the wandTing Sun so hold, For the life of day awakens. The knight’s work must be done, So he leaves the fairy lady To be the bride of the Sun. SOM HR VILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 219 Concerning a flllame Skipper C. Sbenvoob iRicfter, %., '04 Illustrated In? aifred 5. Cruentati. E.. '04 HE long stretch of beach held but a solitary person, who looked rather un- interesting in his jersey and paint- smeared duck trousers. The dingy hat was pulled down well over his face, to shield his eyes from the scorching August sun. The way in which he ‘southerly’ shakes us, we can reach the old man by night.” lie looked critically out over the water at a schooner yacht that was listlessly bowing to the on- coming swells. There was a look of satisfaction on his face as his gaze wandered from stem to stern. A feminine voice arrested further observations. •“ NOTHING EASIER.' HE ANSWERED. AND HE CALLED HER TO THE WHEEL. worked over the “tender” announced the coming of a stranger. His thoughts confirmed this. “The weather couldn’t be better.” he mused, pausing, “couldn’t be better, and if that Kentucky maid only shows up on the horizon before this Pardon me, but could you tell me. is that Colonel Dillington's yacht out there?” I wouldn’t wonder, madam.” he answered, as he turned. She made a mental note that the natives along the 220 SOMKRVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR coast of Maine were inclined to impudence. ‘T wonder that there is no one here to take us aboard.” she remarked to her cousin who accom- panied her, an Englishman, if all signs do not fail. Grace Dillington told me this was the place.” True, true,” he replied, and the skipper is not gifted with pleasant phraseology.” She turned again to the man in the jersey. His face was lighted with a peculiar smile, and he had resumed his boat-cleaning. Sir. do you know where we can find the skipper of the colonel’s yacht?” she inquired. Yes, mam,” was the reply. Mental note two: They dislike to be questioned by strangers.” Here is a quarter ; tell us the direction in which we may find him,” she resumed. Keep straight ahead, madam, and get into this which his thoughts were something like this:— The old man didn’t say she was so confounded good looking. I’d a never shown up in this outfit had I known that such a little bird was to take passage. And she thinks I’m a workman of the old man's! I must put that quarter on my watch chain. I may have some fun later, and I will keep up my role and phase this breezy Kentucky belle when the old man introduces us.” The maiden opposite him was likewise adding to her mental notes. Maine skippers,” she reasoned, have at least original, if impudent, ways. They are. furthermore, of extraordinary good appearance, judging by the sample presented.” She gave voice to her next thought:— 1 low long a trip have we to make?” she queried aloud. The wind has suddenly changed,” he replied. -THE DARK MASS OF SCUDDING CLOUDS boat. You arc Miss Hallowed, I presume? The colonel said he expected friends from Kentucky.” Mental note number three: Skippers along the Maine coast have for a cardinal virtue, presump- tion.” Miss Hallowed and her English escort stepped into the boat which the “skipper” had hauled to the shore. He took the proffered quarter as he helped her in. Does the boat leak?” queried the Englishman, as he seated himself in the bow. Not much.” replied the man in the jersey, as the boat shot out over the breakers under his long stroke. The Englishman whistled and fidgeted around in seeming discontent, while the skipper made a hasty examination of Miss Hallowed, after and if that cloud bank reaches us, we won’t sight Southport before night.” Is that a severe storm?” inquired the English- man timidly. I can't say. my friend,” the skipper answered. I don’t recognize that as any storm I ever met before.” Miss Hallowed smiled. The Englishman looked more disconcerted than ever, but he continued his murmurings. A leaky boat and a storm approaching. Is there no train that goes to the colonel’s?” Yes, plenty. Shall 1 put back?” inquired the skipper, greatly amused and pausing from his labors. No,” emphatically came from Miss Hallowed. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 221 ‘'George, you must not act so childishly. I guess the skipper knows his business.” An ingenuous smile toward the skipper followed these words. The yacht was reached, and they stepped aboard. With the aid of the cook, the main-sheet was raised, and the big boat slipped her moorings with the big sail a-flap. The cook took the wheel after the two voyagers were safely installed. Twenty minutes later, the skipper appeared in a faultless llannel suit, and the sensation that passed over Miss Hallowell was visible on her face. The Englishman looked out over the deep with a vacant stare at the dark mass of scudding clouds that they were running down upon in a spanking breeze. The sight of the skip- per in the attire of a gentleman was lost on him. Another mental note must be accredited to the Kentucky maid. When she recovered from the shock, she murmured to herself: Maine skippers are prone to dress in good taste. The subject of her thoughts now relieved the cook, and took the wheel. The sun had disap- peared. and the water had become a greenish black, except where, here and there, a whitecap raised itself upon each wave like a maddened animal show- ing its glistening teeth. The lee-rail was well under, and the bow, sprav- covcrcd. pounded at every occasional wave as though in revenge. A terrific wind had sprung up. and the skipper sent Miss Hallowell and the Englishman below ’ He then cased the boat off a point or two, lashed the wheel, called the cook, and they lowered the main- sheet. The boat was then brought into the wind and two reefs taken. Under this haul, they sped along into the teeth of the tempest. The skipper went below and donned oil-skins. When he reached the deck again, it was raining in torrents. By night the storm had abated, and the appear- ance of the stars announced fair weather once more. The poor Englishman had succumbed to the effects of seasickness, and had been tucked in his little bunk— till further notice,” as the skipper put it. Miss Hallowell came up on deck after tea,” a little Hushed after the day’s tempest. She immedi- ately went aft, and engaged the skipper in conver- sation. It is a well-known fact that it is not good taste to disturb a skipper while at the wheel. She was either oblivious of this fact, or else didn’t care. The skipper, it might also be observed, did not show the slightest traces of annoyance. How did you enjoy the little squall?” ventured the latter. I was terribly frightened once or twice there, when the boat pitched so awfully,” she replied in a truly frightened voice. Have you been a skipper long?” she continued. Ever since I was old enough to handle a tiller,” he replied: about fifteen years.” “How long have you been in the employ of the colonel ?” About fifteen years,” he answered with a smile that let out the secret. Miss Hallowell crimsoned, as she realized that this skipper was the colonel’s son, of whom she had heard so much from Grace, and she stammered, Mr. Dillington, 1 beg------” but he hastily inter- rupted her with. It was my fault, Miss Hallowell, and my own work. I beg of you in return to forget it.” There was a little silence after this, but she evi- dently took his advice ; for she presently said. 1 wish you would explain to me how you run one of these boats.” Nothing easier,” he answered, and he called her to the wheel. In a light breeze that was coming out of the west they sped along, with the Kentucky maid at the wheel. The skipper stood close behind her, coach- ing and explaining to the beginner. But with her myriad of questions came glances, the warmth of which were fast putting the learned skipper away off the course of abstract navigation, and the girl appeared to be more interested in his general con- versation than in the precise meaning of his nautical terms. Soon after the cook came up from below and took the wheel. The other two went forward. The silence was only broken by the musical, uneven rip- ples against the boat as it shot through the unre- sisting waves. Both seemed occupied with their own thoughts. His were somewhat metaphorical when he mur- mured, This ‘Dream’ must sail the sea of life with me.” It was three months later, though, before he gave voice to these sentiments, and the cook drew his conclusions by the light of the moon—even sooner. B Storm off Cape IDatteras .H5 ? iRowlanD 'em. SHinbam, IE., ’04 LL ’shore that’s goin’ ’shore!” This from the lips of the first officer of the Steamship City of Memphis, as the great vessel was about to leave Dock 36, New York, bound for Savannah. Ga. Although the thermometer on that Monday afternoon stood at zero, the sky was clear, and no one aboard had the slightest pre- monition of the fate that soon threatened us. As soon as Sandy Hook Light was passed, the vessel began to pitch quite violently, “the result of a recent storm,” so the captain said. At dinner the effects were very apparent. Several ladies left the table rather abruptly, and were not seen again tor three days. In the night the pitching greatly increased, and 222 SOMKRVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR early in the morning a heavy rainstorm kept what few of us who were not indisposed” inside. But it was not until Sunday night that the climax came. The vessel heaved frightfully, and by the time we reached Cape Hattcras, that famous projection feared by all navigators and termed the Burying- ground of the Seas,” the vessel was heaving so that the life boats on each side of the upper deck alter- nately dipped down into the cold, dark water, and then poured the many gallons thus obtained over the deck. The hurricane deck was flooded with water both from the ocean and from the torrents of rain descending from a black, black sky. Nothing could be seen from the window—for of course it was absolutely unsafe to venture out—except the few lights on the side of the boat. Everything was absolutely blank when one looked straight out toward the horizon, or what would have been the horizon, had the boat been riding smoothly on a that the passengers were informed as to the cause of the delay. A certain part of the propelling appa- ratus known as the Kingston valve had become mis- placed. and it was only with the greatest effort that the fault was remedied. That, in itself, was not so serious, but it seems the vessel was so near the shoals of Cape Hattcras that it was really a miracle that we did not strike. • Tuesday was a great improvement over Monday, as far as weather went. At noon the fog cleared, and in the afternoon the sun was quite warm. Everybody except a few of the ladies came on deck, and a sociability soon prevailed which was ample reward for the hours spent with the single com- panionship of a seasick room-mate. Wednesday was an improved repetition of Tuesday, and the mo- tion of the boat was scarcely felt, although it was gentle only by contrast. At six bells in the afternoon (three o’clock), the SHOALS OFF CAPE HATTERAS. clear day. The shouts of the deck hands could be heard only occasionally above the roaring of the wind, the beating of the rain, and the splashing of water over the sides and decks of the boat. Thus it continued throughout the day, and when all were securely in their berths again—it was necessary to place a blanket in front of each berth to prevent the occupant from being thrown violently on the floor—the boat suddenly stopped. “What has happened?” was the cry from every stateroom on the boat. The machinery was still doing its work nobly, but the boat had undoubtedly stopped. There was no answer to this question, and after about ten minutes of almost breathless suspense, the vessel started again. It was not until the next day white, sandy beach of Tvbee Island at the mouth of the Savannah river was sighted. The temperature was about eighty-five degrees, and as we sailed slowly and carefully up the winding Savannah river, and gazed on its muddy waters, on the distant palm trees, and the huts of the negroes living in the marshes, with their inhabitants waving handker- chiefs of a somewhat paler shade at us, it seemed indeed as if we were truly in another country. The houses soon became more numerous, and as we ap- proached the dock we noticed that tile roofs of the houses along the river were covered with whites and blacks alike awaiting the announced arrival of the vessel they had two days since given up as lost, and waving to us a Southern welcome. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 223 IIMss Xetttta’s Slit J6 jHelen flDarfcen, %., '04 T was Monday morning. The day was as pink and white as apple blossoms could make it, as spotless blue and delicate green as sky and tender grass could make it, as richly gold as the great sun, yet early in the heavens, could make it. Miss Letitia rose with the sun. She milked her cow and prepared her lonely breakfast, which she ate in her tiny dining-room, with its wide-opened windows through which came the sweet morning breeze. Miss Letitia was lonely. Her brown eyes had a wistful look in them. The same dainty china and spotless silver lay on the little table, set, always set, for two. Some day the company would come; she must not be found wanting. With a little sigh, she cleared the table of dishes and snowy cloth, and put a jar of apple blossoms on the centrepiece which she herself had worked. As she washed the dishes, a little song came to her lips:— Someone is coming, someone is coming to-day. She spread her dish towels on the grass by the back porch, her soft white hair blowing around her sweet old face. Then she sped upstairs to the guest room. Holding the pillows in her little white teeth, she slipped her best hem-stitched pillow slips on them. A sheet to match them was spread across the only mattress Miss Letitia owned,—one that had never been slept on. She liked a feather bed, but she knew that “company” sometimes preferred mat- tresses. The room was spotless. So clean was it that the tender vines, scarce turned green, strove to grow within the window, and it was only by Miss Letitia’s careful trellising that they did not. She placed a bowl of apple blossoms on the table, and left the room with a loving look on her tender face. Her checks shone bright pink, and her ner- vous little hands were busy, always busy. The outside of the cottage was spotless as the rest. Pure white, with bright green blinds, it nestled among the pink and white apple trees. It must have seemed attractive to one little mortal; for a pair of tired little feet trudged wearily up the path, took their way into the young orchard, and paused, uncertain, under the most attractive tree. Drowsiness, in its most seductive form, took pos- session of garden and little maid. 'Hie wind whis- pered softly through the great branches, through the lilac bushes, through the tender grass. A bee droned monotonously, pausing now and again to hover over some bright flower, then wended its heavy-laden way to its home, far beyond the little garden,—too far, thought Baby, to follow. The grass was very soft, and it cooled her little bare ankles above the sandals which covered her pink feet. es, it was very warm, and she was very, very tired. “Oh, 0I1. oh! said Miss Letitia in three tiny gasps of delight and wonder, the color in her sweet face coming and going. “Oh, you precious baby!” She held aside the lilac branches, and gazed with parted lips at the warm, pink face, the damp hair clinging in little golden tendrils'round the little forehead, the tiny lips, parted and red, the upturned pink palms; and a sense of greatest love over- whelmed her. A pair of dark blue eyes opened quickly, and sent a little thrill through Miss Lctitia’s frame, such was their look of perfect trust. How many have waited beside a child when it has first awakened, waited without a word, for it to speak? Miss Letitia knelt by the little stranger with clasped hands, waiting, for what she knew not. Motionless, the child looked at her, at the cool, waving branches, at her own pink fingers, back again at Miss Letitia. I want a cookie.” She made this announcement in a sweet little treble, with the most delightful smile in the world, which completely captivated Miss Letitia. She scrambled to her feet, and Miss Letitia caught her. one arm around her bare pink knees, the other across her straight little shoulders. “Will you stay with me, dear, right here with me always, always, precious one?” The child looked at her, and slowly and seriously nodded with perfect trust. “I love 00. I love papa air mama an’ oo.” At the mention of parents. Miss Letitia drew her yet closer and looked wildly around. “Come, dear,” she said breathlessly. “I’ve made some cookies just for you!” And she gathered the little body into her loving old arms. When Miss Letitia once decided on a certain course, no thoughts of right or wrong could stop her. She reasoned like a child, acted as a child would. “You are mine, precious, all mine!” she cried, pressing the young pink face to an old one as pink, “and they shall not take you away from me!” No. no!’” said the child, clinging to Miss Letitia with all her little might, “uni is naughty—me ony like 00!” Then, with sudden change, “Want to see me jump?” Miss Letitia sighed a little sigh of trc;nulous hap- piness. All the morning long she played with the child, and at noon had the satisfaction of sitting op- posite her guest at the tabic and plying her with things good to eat, but not good for little stomachs. That afternoon the dreaded arrival came. Miss Letitia shut the child in the dairy with a wonderful 224 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR doll which she had once played with, and faced the comers bravely, but with heightened color. Miss Letitia told the first lie of her life; com- mitted her first sin. Had she seen the white, de- spairing face of the father waiting in the road, had she heard the low, heart-broken cries of the mother kneeling by the side of a deep, black jjooI, she would not have told that lie. But conscience was dead in Miss Letitia. The child's name was Dorothy, and she had come with her parents to board in the village. This much was impressed on Miss Letitia’s dazed senses. That night the sun set in dull splendor, a long them. Low grumblings and occasional flashes dis- turbed the warm and sullen night. Miss Letitia crept to the bed of her little guest, and, kneeling, watched the little face by the light of a flickering candle. “Oh. it is hard to give you up, dear, so hard!” Suddenly all the wickedness of her deed came over her. and she rose to her feet in horror. Where was that haggard father now? Where was that mother weeping out her bitter sorrow ? Miss Letitia clenched her little hands in bitter anger at herself, and trembled as a leaf that is shaken by a wind too heavy for it to bear. Her DOROTHY. line of leaden clouds sombrely attending its funeral. hen it had disappeared, the pageant moved slowly, sadly on with ominous calm. Miss Letitia felt that her soul was like the sunset, and that the storm would sooner or later break, but she would not let herself think. She tucked the little body into the great bed so carefully prepared, and stood, long after the sweet eyes had closed, watching with hungry eyes. Then she went to bed. Somehow she could not sleep. Visions of two lonely, heart-broken parents tormented her eyes when shut, haunted the room when she opened mind was quite made up. She dressed Dorothy with trembling fingers, scarce waking the child, whose drowsy head fell heavily on Miss Letitia’s shoulder. She left her to put on her own clothes, but the child clung to her and refused to be left. She was now fully awake, and sobbing at the frequent out- bursts of thunder. Miss Letitia dressed hastily, for- getting to don any outside wrap, but wrapping a heavy shawl over the thin dress which Dorothy wore. The first great drops of rain fell. The night was SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 225 black save when the sharp lightning cut it, lighting field and wood with lurid gleam. Now the wind swept sheets of rain against a slim and unprotected figure guarding, oh. so carefully, a bundle. Miss Lctitia was frail, and a sleeping child is none too light. Her breath came in sobbing gasps, and her slight figure was bowed down by wind and rain, but still she hurried on. It was now midnight, but the lights at the hotel were still burning, waiting for the return of the searching party. A woman sat in a great chair by the window, with white, stricken face and tearless eves, slender hands clutching the big arms of the chair, her whole helpless figure held in a tension too great to let her weep, too benumbing to let her move. Suddenly a little woman with pathetic face and dripping garments entered noiselessly, and with a little moan placed her lovely burden on its mother's lap. For one hungry moment she watched the little one clinging to her mother, and slowly waking her with insistent little fingers from the dreadful stupor into which she had fallen. “Oh, my baby, my baby!” It was the cry of an awakened heart. It was Tuesday morning. The apple trees were fragrant with pink and white blossoms, and dripping with the rain of the night. The sky was as fault- lessly blue, the grass as tenderly green, the sun as richly gold as G xl and Nature could make it. Miss Letitia did not rise with the sun. Her cow mooed desolately in her shed: yesterday's apple blossoms were drooping in the jar on her table: the clock ticked strangely, incessantly, insistently, and its hands pointed to seven o'clock. But Miss Lc- titia lay on her guest-room bed, sobbing and moan- ing the minutes away. She later woke to see a little fairy sitting on the bed and patting her old face with dimpled hands, while a sweet-faced woman bent over her. “We is coinin' to live wiv 00,” announced Dorothy. But I—I lied.” stammered Miss Letitia bravely to the happy mother. The mother put her arms around Miss Letitia’s quivering shoulders and smiled with Dorothy's smile, captivating, altogether irresistible, while a boyish whistle sounded in the garden below. May we come?' she asked. And they came. flMetro, tbe Brtist By? ZlDartba XUmoct sl?Y , £., '04 USK is falling over Venice. The great fiery sun drops below the horizon. Twilight comes on. A soft, delicate, violet light falls about all, growing deeper and deeper. The water of the canal is gray and darkening per- ceptibly each moment. The gondolas arc gradu- ally becoming inky black, their tall gondoliers throwing longer and longer shadows. The violet light has turned to a deep purple. Only a pale pink and gold flashes from the tower. Now this has faded away. The purple is black. Bright stars appear, twinkling and winking at each other and at you. The silent silvery moon rises higher and higher. Lights become more and more numerous along the canal, 'flic palaces are blazing forth their splendor. The water reflects another world: a world of myriads of tinv lights and twink- ling stars, and one large, pale moon. The gentle swish of a paddle breaks the stillness as a gondola floats by. Occasionally a gloriously illuminated barge passes, its occupants singing softly and dreamily some fantastic Italian melody. Now all is still. ()n the bridge stands a man. His appearance, his clothes, his very air prove him an American. Ordi- narily he is a practical business man. but the har- mony, the majesty, the luxuriant softness and radi- ance of the scene have transformed him. He stands, hat in hand, as he has stood since eventide. A soft sound of music breaks the stillness, coming nearer and nearer. A gliding gondola comes into view. The music sounds more distinctly. The American feels his heart vibrate. It seems as though it must surely break. The gondola stops at the bridge. A man. standing erect, is playing upon a violin. The melody almost speaks. The soft strains, clear and full of expression, float up to him. It is Rubinstein’s “Melody in F.” The last note dies gradually away. The player’s face expresses all the harmony and sadness of the tune. His eyes are shining. 'Pears course down his cheeks. His head is thrown back. The man on the bridge heaves a long, deep sigh, and, hastily brushing away a few teardrops, he empties his pockets into the apron of the woman in the gondola. Now the gentle swish of the paddle sounds, and soon all pass from view. Two years have passed. Pietro Cristore. the artist, is employed as first violinist in an orchestra in a fashionable Boston restaurant. The American of the previous scene had. with the passing of the night, become his practical self again. He had sought out the wonderful musician, and had finally engaged him to come to America as a soloist. The orchestra with which Pietro trav- eled had managed to exist some three or four months, and had then gone out of existence. Pietro found himself alone in a strange city, Bos- ton. friendless and, worse yet. penniless. His naturally reserved and shy nature was unsuited to 226 SOMKRVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR the task of securing work, especially well-paid work. So, when the position as first violinist in a small or- chestra playing at a fashionable restaurant was offered him. lie gladly accepted it. despite its meagre salary. It was that sort of restaurant where to chatter is the rule and to listen the exception. The few of the latter came often, and their souls were stirred with a strange unrest. The others were content. Pietro boarded in an unclean Italian district. His living cost him but little. His one ambition was to save, that his wife and two boys might join him here. Uncongenial as were his surroundings to his delicate temperament, the thought of return- ing to Italy never visited him. He knew of but two things, to play and to save. At length, one day early in January, he decided that he had enough money to send for his family. With trembling haste he purchased the ticket and immediately wrote to his wife enclosing the passage, and entreating her to make all speed possible. Having mailed the letter, he returned to his room, and taking up his old friend, he played softly the “Melody in F”—the one which he had played more than two years before, and which had been the stepping-stone to his present life. Yet he felt no regret, for Rosa and Gcorgio and Luigi were com- ing soon—very soon. Meanwhile Pietro, true to his artistic nature, con- tinued to live far above his material existence. His companions spoke among themselves of him. Pietro—he grow thin. He no spenda the mon. He justa spend a littlea bit! He save—that is all. ' Pietro steadily grew thinner. His cheeks became strangely red. He contracted a slight cough, a mere scratching of the throat, but thought no more of it. At night he would become restless. ()ftcn he grew feverish, and his eyes were ver y bright. He had no quiet. On such occasions lie would take up his violin and play some soft caressing air. and thus calmed would fall asleep. uce in a while nothing would accomplish the de- sired result but that same sweet, sad “Melody in F.” About the middle of February came a letter from his wife telling of her plans to set sail on the eight- eenth of the month. If fortune favored them they should arrive some time near the end of the month. Pietro’s joy knew no bounds. He snatched up his old companion and kissed it and danced about the room. Soon, however, he sank back on the bed, exhausted. A severe fit of coughing racked his frail body from head to foot. The slight cough had become steadily worse. When the coughing ceased lie was so weak that he was unable to rise, ami. lying on the bed, fell asleep. At the restaurant people wondered. This was the first night Pietro had failed to appear. The days passed on, and Pietro, still unaware of it. grew steadily worse. His color grew more un- natural. His cough occasionally led to hemor- rhages. He grew more restless. He knew that he was easily tired, but that it was anything serious never occurred to him. The last of February arrived. Pietro haunted the wharf, and his inquiry as to when the ship would arrive had become part of the daily routine of his life. After much uncertainty he learned that it would probably reach port about the third of March. On the second day of March Pietro was unable to rise from his bed. All day long he lay in a sort of doze, so weak that it was almost an effort to eat the food which the landlady kindly brought him. 'Hie third broke terribly cold. A fearful snow- storm raged. Early in the morning Pietro walked to the wharf. His breath came hard, but he kept on. Upon his repetition of the usual question he was told that the boat was expected in the after- noon. About noon he returned to the wharf. It was an almost impossible task for him. His feet were wet. and his frame was continually torn by ex- hausting coughs. When he came to the wharf he sank into a chair in the waiting room and fell into a troubled sleep. Late in the afternoon the storm cleared up. It was yet biting cold, and a cutting wind blew. Crowds were gathered about the wharf. The ship was expected in an hour now. Near the front of the gesticulating crowd stood Pietro. All person- alities were forgotten. Now the ship comes in sight. The crowd yells and screams. The ship- comes nearer and nearer. Now it is almost here. Its decks are thronged with people, talking and waving their hands, their jabbering making a qucci sound. The women are arrayed in all sorts of bril- liant colors, red. green, pink, yellow, blue, and so forth, and crowded alxmt them are numerous chil- dren. The men are guarding the few possessions they have brought with them. The people on the shore are eager and impatient. They push and shove trying to get nearer to see their friends upon the boat. Pietro is unable to strive against the rest, and is soon forced to the rear. Then the authorities give forth the orders that no passengers arc to land that night, and the crowd, after vain mutterings and threats, departs. Night has by this time come on. Pietro traces his steps homewards. Disappointment makes his feet even heavier. He moves slowly and more slowly, and finally drops down on a bank of snow. A policeman passing some fifteen minutes later, found the apparently lifeless body. He called the ambulance and Pietro was taken to the hospital. Here restoratives were administered, and the man brought to a semi-conscious state. Examination proved it to be a case of advanced consumption, and pleuro-pncumonia. It was but a question of how many hours, the doctors said. During his sleep, he kept moaning and tossing, muttering in a strange language. The name Rosa was continually repeated. First he would act as if in severe pain. Then he would throw his arms around an imaginary person and grow gentle and caressing. Occasionally his face would light tip with a sweet smile as if he were listening to beauti- ful music. Then all would change, and he would SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 227 struggle as if against some unseen force. Toward morning lie gained consciousness. lie told the nurse his name and related a fragmentary sketch of his affairs, begging to have his wife and children brought to him. The nurse was moved by the touching tale, and in her free time went to the immigration commissioner and explained the case to him. He listened in a kindly manner, but when she had finished shook his head sadly. “I’m very sorry, my dear madam.’’ he said, gently, “but you know, law is law, and my duty will not permit my granting such a request.’’ She pleaded with him to no avail. The commissioner suggested that some relative might be found who would give bonds for the fam- ily. The nurse hurried back to the bedside of the dying man. but he was in a stupor and could not be aroused. Disappointment gave an impetus to her task. She determined to seek out the Italian consul and ask his interposition for the | oor man. He prom- ised to do all he could. It was. by this time, late afternoon, and the nurse hurried back to her post. The consul, true to his word, visited the commis- sioner, who explained that he had not the power to do as the nurse desired, even though he wished to. Some one must give bonds for the family. The consul decided to look the case up more fully on the morrow. On arriving at Pietro’s bedside, the nurse was told that the man’s last moments had come. A priest had been sent for, but Pietro was yet uncon- scious, in which condition he passed away some half hour later. The consul, on being apprised of the fact, went to the ship and spoke to the wife and children. He told her the sad story and explained the situation to her. 'fhc woman was overcome with grief. She told the consul her husband’s address, and said she would prefer to return to Italy and take his body with her, if there should be means enough to do so. Visiting Pietro’s boarding house, the consul found a goodly sum of money, a few belongings, and the violin, which lie conveyed to the wife. Two days later, a sorrowing woman and two little boys, accompanied by the body of the husband and father, took passage on an ocean steamer, and re- turned to Venice. TLhc Bsststant Manager 36 £ jfrcfcericfc (I. 3Brat for , '04 HEN Kent Roberts. Jr., decided to go in for mining, his friends took it in va- rious ways. Some thought that he was wasting talents that might well be employed in the law and in the draw- ing room; some thought that he had been disappointed in a love affair; many believed that he was going to “spoil his future,” and all were convinced that he would be back soon, ready to sub- mit docilely to society’s conventionalities. Kent Roberts, Jr., however, had no such inten- tion. He was neither insane nor disappointed in love. but. looking over the field shortly before his graduation, he had decided that mining offered the best opening for him. Accordingly, he had gone to the office of an old friend of his father and applied for a place. The old man looked him over, not un- kindly. smiled, and told him that he could have a position as assistant manager of the Nowpatuck, one of the company’s smaller mines. Kent had gone away pleased: for he was ignorant of several tilings. He did not know that the crew there was the toughest, the country the wildest, the mine the poorest, of any in the company’s possession. The old friend thought that Kent would get over his idea of mining, and he wanted ‘the recovery to come quickly. Two months later, Kent Roberts, Jr., stepped from a W agner to a buckboard, to finish the last stage of his journey. A few days later lie found himself in charge of a large tract of land on the side of a mountain, a few ramshackle buildings near one edge of this tract, some rusty machinery, and a de- serted mine. 'Flic former assistant manager, when informed that he was to be succeeded by a tender- foot from college, was naturally displeased, to say the least. He was very popular with the employees of the mine, and when he announced that he had secured the land immediately next to the Now- patuck claim, and that he proposed to run the Nowpatuck out of business,” the men went with him. Even the manager went over to the enemy, and when Kent Roberts. Jr., came to assume his po- sition, he found only a deserted mine. Kent reported matters to New York, and then started to work. After scouring the country for miles and miles around, he succeeded in assembling a skeleton crew. This crew consisted largely of green men. and Kent knew little of the practical side of mining; but he found out a little from those few who did know anything about it. and imparted this knowledge to the rest of the crew. In his senior year he had been forced to whip together a winning football team out of raw material, so this line of work was not entirely new. Several months had passed with varying fortunes, and it was evident that Kelley was going to be a dangerous rival. The men of the rival camps held aloof, and such feeling prevailed that a slight quarrel was apt to cause serious results. The workers of the Tacoma mine looked upon their suc- cessors at the Nowpatuck as all sorts of despicable wretches, while the latter, thrown together bv cir- cumstances and bound by the necessity of mutual 228 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR protection, soon gave evidence of an esprit de corps with which it would be dangerous to meddle. To make matters worse, Kent suspected his rival of poaching on his land. The new shaft had been sunk near the boundary, and Kent had strong rea- sons for believing that the boring had been ex- tended into his own territory. At a certain point he could hear, through the earth, the dull blows of pick-axes, and this sound was gradually becoming more distinct. He decided to settle the matter, and one evening he sauntered alone down to the opposing camp. He found there a scene of drunken riot such as a painter might try in vain to depict. Through this crowd he made his way to where Kelley was sitting, half asleep, in a drunken stupor, and tapped him on the shoulder. “Come outside.” he said briefly. lie had intended to argue with Kelley, and to tell him that the encroachment must be stopped ; but he saw that Kelley was in no condition to discuss anything, and he planned only to make arrangements for another meeting for discussion. Kelley, however, was bent on settling matters im- mediately. I le plunged his face into a basin of cold water, and then turned, sober and collected, to face his visitor. ‘‘Well?” he said, interrogatively. Kent went at the matter in a straightforward way. stated his case concisely, and said that he would put a stop to the encroachments. “What you goin’ to do ’bout it?” asked Kelley, half leering at him. “Goin’ to tell the sheriff? • “That remains to be seen,” answered Kent, and he turned to go. Good night, little man,” called Kelley, as Kent started up the path. Now Kent was not very tall; in fact, he was rather short; but he was stockily and strongly built, and felt himself the equal of any man, and he said so to Kelley. The latter looked down at him, some- what amused, and gave him an opportunity to put his theory to test. Kent accepted, and in a businesslike manner they went at it. In the end Kent's training and temperance won him a hard- fought battle, and he left the camp amid the approv- ing grunts of the drunken miners. Some minutes later, as he came to an exposed ledge, he stopped, and, turning, looked about him. Above, the moon was traveling her course through a cloudless sky, and below him lay the valley, through which a silvery stream flowed, the murmur of its passage rising to his ear in the still aif, and beyond rose the mountains, with their snow-clad tops shining in the moonlight, and their valleys deep in shadow. For several moments he stood there motionless; then he fell in a heap and rolled down the smooth surface of the ledge, and a pistol shot sounded upon the still air; then the echo took it up. repeated it faintly several times; then all was still again. Matters were at a critical point. The boring was coming nearer, and it was evident that in a short time there would be a collision underground. They were now so close that Kent and his assistant were able to figure the place where the boring would break into their mine. Kent had not been seriously injured by the bullet fired by “person unknown,” and was examining the side of the mountain with a view to a second shaft, when he heard a loud ex- plosion in Tacoma’s land. It was louder than an ordinary blast, so he investigated. He found a group of men gazing thoughtfully down into the shaft. From what information he could gather from these men, it appeared that some powder was being sent down, but had exploded on the way, and, opening the side of the shaft, was draining an under- ground lake into the mine. Evidently the fallen earth had blocked the passages at the foot of the shaft, for nothing could be heard from below. Kelley and about fifteen miners were there, but be- fore another car could be rigged, the men in the mine would be beyond all need of help. Kent looked at his watch, put it back in his pocket, and then hurried to his own mine. Going to a hut. he took several sticks of dynamite, called his “open-air shift” about him. gave a few instruc- tions. stepped into the car, and was lowered down. As he went down into the darkness, he could re- member perfectly the look of the pines on the side of the mountain opposite, waving in the gentle southern breeze, and the----- The car had reached the bottom. Kent jumped out and sounded the danger signal, in response to which the men came immediately hastening from all directions, lie simply ordered them all to go up. and. taking the dynamite sticks, went to the spot where they had expected the collision with Ta- coma’s people. There was no time for tamping, but a protective mat was near by. and, laying the dynamite near the wall, and connecting a minute fuse—the installation of electrical apparatus took too long—he slowly put the heavy protective mat over the sticks, looked at his watch, and lit the fuse. After seeing that the fuse was burning well, lie retired around a bend in the tunnel, and waited. Thirty seconds—he was tempting Fortune strongly by this act. but it was the only chance; forty-five—he remembered a lone violet that he had seen as he hastened back from the Tacoma mine. There, on the sunny side of a huge boulder, it had sprung up. the first flower of the returning summer, the reminder-----. The whole earth seemed to leap from its course, then to slowly settle back; the lights went out: there was a fleeting sensation of suffocation, a muffled roar, a few rocks were dis- lodged. and then a trickling of water. Kent turned on the current in the ever-ready electric lamp, made his way back, and found that a breach had been made, through which a stream of water was rushing with great force. Clinging to the sides of the breach, he pulled himself along against the current, and at last he stood, waist deep in water, in the Tacoma mine. When the echo of his halloo had subsided, he faintly heard, above the gurgling of the water, an answering call. All was dark, and the light of his lamp penetrated only a short distance in the darkness, but it would guide SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 229 the others to him. Carefully lie made his way, and soon he heard a splashing, and the light from his lamp shone into the ghastly faces of eight men. “Kelley is back there, jammed between two boulders,” said one. The rest need no help.” Where is Kelley?” shouted Kent, as he passed his lamp to the man nearest him. “Near the left-hand wall, end of the shaft,” was the answer. “We tried to release him, but we couldn’t.” “Go on,” Kent said, and he plunged forward into the darkness. “The men. aided by the current, found their way to the breach, and disappeared through it. Kent slowly felt his way, clinging to the left side and pulling himself forward. His hands were cut on the sharp edges, the current swept him off his feet and threw him against the supporting beams, but he kept on. Suddenly the current flung something against him, almost break- ing his hold. It was a human body. He ran his hand over the face, and felt a stubby moustache. It was Kelley, either dead or unconscious. Transferring his hold to Kelley’s body. Kent floated and swam with the current, and before he could stop to pick a way. lie was borne through the breach, back into his own mine. He made a feeble effort to prevent being dashed against the opposite side; then, too exhausted to struggle further, pas- sively floated with the current, still clinging to Kel- ley’s body. lie caught a faint gleam of light: then it seemed as if the sun was rising with golden rays, he vaguely felt that he was seized by strong hands, heard voices that were miles away, and then he seemed to be borne upward, ever upward. One Sunday afternoon late in the summer. Kent sat at the door of his cabin. It was his first time out of doors since the explosion, several months be- fore. He and Kelley had been brought out from the mine more dead than alive, but faithful work and endless care had brought them back. Kelley’s recovery was the quicker, and since that time he would do little but care for his successor. All had worked out “like a story book,” as one of the men put it. Kelley returned to his old position, for Kent was manager; the Tacoma property passed to the owners of the Nowpatuck, the mines were pumped out. and it seemed as if a golden age had come. This afternoon a delegation had come up from the miners’ cabins, and after a few preliminary state- ments to the effect that they had heard of his pro- motion to the office of general manager, that, al- though they were kind of sorry to have him go, they were glad that he was going to a better position,said that they wanted to give him something as a token of their interest in him. That was as far as these men would go in speech, but the eyes of the spokes- man were suspiciously moist as he held out a purse. Then Kent had told them of his reply, that he had declined the promotion, and that he was going to remain where he was. He might have told other things that he had written in the letter, but he didn’t. Now, as the shadows yvere creeping up from the valley, he lit his pipe. Soon Kelley came to the door and said, “Gettin' late. Better come in. “Too good outside,” answered Kent. “Sit down a while, Joe. They talked for a time on the prospects of the mine; then the talk drifted into channels hitherto untravelcd. At last Kelley told how, drunken and angered by his humiliation at the hands of a smaller man, he had dogged Kent’s tracks home that night, and fired at him from concealment. “It was the drink that did it,” he repeated at the end. “Try to forget it, won't you?” If it don’t happen again,”’ grunted Kent with mock solemnity, and they shook hands. Then they sat in silence until the sunset glow had faded from the west and the stars shone brightly in the clear, dark sky. The stars seem nearer earth in that country. Zhc HMfcfcett fortune N the stillness of a moonlight night in early spring, Mr. William Pennypacker, the miser of Penny- packer’s Hill, stealthily dragged the savings of his whole lifetime, enclosed in an iron box, from his house to his rickety woodshed. He cautiously lowered the heavy box to a nook beneath a plank in the floor. During the next few weeks the merry woodmen chopped away in his dooryard. When they had finished the shed was filled with piles of wood extending from the floor to the ceiling. All summer long the miser went each day to the shed and sadly gazed at the piles of wood, beneath which was his fortune. He realized that the one thing that made his life worth living for was now out of his reach. He mourned for this as one would mourn for a dead friend. This continual sor- rowing impaired his health. He grew weaker and weaker throughout the winter. The miser was nursed and cared for by an old servant, who had been attached to him for years. But his only con- solation was his parrot. This bird knew all his secrets, and was even in his confidence concerning his hidden money. The piles of wood in the shed had much dimin- ished by daily consumption. In the early spring when the plank was cleared and the miser could have again looked upon the precious treasure, he 230 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR passed away. His last words were to the parrot: “You won’t tell any one where the money is, Polly?” he said. “ You won’t betray my secret ? ” I'he notice of Penny packer’s death in the county paper brought his two nephews to the scene at once. These young men were his namesakes and heirs. William, for as such was the older of the cousins known to his friends, began to search the house in a systematic way. From the cupola to the cellar, every corner and crevice he ransacked. That the old servant and the parrot could not or would not tell him anything in regard to the hidden fortune aroused his anger and made him a very unpleasant companion to live with. Rill was the title by which the younger was al- ways known. The old house resounded with this call, for lie soon became friends with the old servant and the parrot. He made a characteristically care- less search, going through a few drawers and closets. Then he divided his time between caring for the poor animals in the barn and good-naturedly teasing the parrot. Finally, tired of the life of in- activity he was leading, and not caring to take up a task that seemed to cause his cousin such a mental and physical torture, he decided to return to his home and business. With Rill went the parrot, for William, disgusted with her often-repeated. “You won’t tell any one where the money is. Polly? You won’t betray my secret?” had threatened several times to choke her. William hunted and hunted for days and months. His white face, with his large, black eyes, so frightened the old servant, that when, at last, he was discharged, he went gladly. The neighbors all agreed that the miser’s nephew was crazy. Rack in the city Hill went, whistling, to his work. Ilis salary was not large, but he did not grumble. He spent money faster than he earned it. and now his need for his uncle’s fortune was keenly felt. He would return at night to Polly with a thoughtful ex- pression on his face. “I need the money in the worst way, Polly,” he would say over and over again. Rut Polly merely looked wise. In the morning, he usually read the newspaper to the parrot. Sometimes Rill received the journal of that county where his uncle used to live. One day he read in this sheet, that his uncle’s shed had been destroyed by fire. Polly look interested. He sat down beside the parrot’s cage, and said: “You know that rickety woodshed at the old place, Polly; well, that was burned last week, burned, burned, do you understand?” Evidently she did understand, for she cocked her head on one side, and said in a sharp voice. “'I'he money is in the shed. Polly, the money is in the shed.” Bill jumped up from the chair, opened the cage, took the parrot in his arms, and danced up and down the room. He questioned her further about the secret, but those were the only words she could say. I'he next morning, at an early hour. Bill and Polly started for the old mansion. Bill went di- rectly to the ruins of the shed, and, after a little search, he found the iron box. Then he looked about for his cousin to tell him the news. But where was his cousin? This question was answered by the neighbors. After the woodshed fire, which they believed he had set himself, they had taken him to an insane asylum in a nearby town. Bill visited William in his dismal confinement, and found him raving of parrots all day long. At one time he would seem to imagine he was a parrot, and again lie would say in a loud, shrill voice. “You won’t tell any one where the money is, Polly? You won't betray mv secret?” Xattn Senior Class poem XT be Xtflbt ot ftnowledge .16 : f ranees jfreat, X.. '04 A lighthouse stands upon the rocky ledge, Surrounded by the restless, roaring tide; Unceasing waves now beat against its base. Now hurricanes surge to its mighty side. Then darkness falls, and toward this tower of strength Still roll the raging passions of the sea. And though by day it seemed a hazy cloud, A light now gleams ’hove massive masonry. So shining from its lofty throne on high. The beacon light a message seems to tell, The night-o’ertaken sailor reads its words. Which seem to saw “Have strength, for all is well.” He’s lost from view, the radiance is gone, But. cheered, he braves the billowy waves; So others pass, and in their turn they greet, Then leave it. thankful for the lives it saves. And when the morn awakes with tinted sky. When all the fears of night are put to flight, The tower stands unconquered by the tide, The duty’s done of that all-quenchless light. And we. through all these early youthful years, Have sought to make our wealth of learning more. And. like the rippling streams, have journeyed on, Until we meet upon the ocean’s shore. We find that now we're launched upon the tide, SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 231 The ever endless throbbing tide of life. And with the meagre knowledge we possess. Must enter into all the worldly strife. For future life is sure to put to test, If what we’ve learned is firm, and can withstand The storms of life, just as the tower spurned The surging waves, that ’gainst it took their stand. So may the knowledge which we have acquired Shine forth, illumined, like the beacon light, Its seeds of wisdom on their path to strew, Who wander, like the mariner at night. In truth, the pleasant banks by which we've run 1 lave not been decked with flowers all the way, And if at times, too eager for our lore, A thorn or two perchance led us astray, Then as the lighthouse keeper trims his light. And makes it gleam more brightly for his care, So have kind teachers lingered at our side, And of the hard tasks taken their full share. And now we know the time has come to part, An end must be to happy school life’s day, Almost reluctantly we take her hand, As Opportunity leads us away. So hasten on. for future fields seem bright, The sun’s but rising, and life's just begun, And though upon our journey storms appear, Far brighter paths we’ll reach e’er day is done. RALPH A. HICHT MISS FRANCES FROST MISS BESSIE WHITING PNoiot� yI'oMjr Class Orator, E.. '04. Class Poet, L., '04. Class Historian, E.. '04. Senior Class ®t c, '04 Cune : tTbc Cburlnflian jfclfe Scnfl I Soon through the portal Of our life’s unknown way We, long united fast, Parted must stray. Life’s work on every side Calls for persistent stride. Xo conqueror of success Without pain’s taste. II May youth's bright sunshine Transmit a rosy gleam ; On all our kindred band May fortune smile. When comes the best of life. Time’s branches hoary white. Memory and retrospect Call. “Ne’er forget.’’ Ill As years roll onward, Think we of earlier days When care’s stern furrowed brow On us ne’er frowned. O Alina Mater dear, Thy hand of Faith so clear Shall guide us on our way, Pointing to right. «UI LKV llvLIv ISATIN ENGLISH SCHOOLS VOL. XIII. SOMEKVILI.E, MASSACHUSETTS, JUNK. 1904. No. 9. The Radiator i published by the Somerville Lain and Knglbdi High Schools on the third Thursday of every month during the school year, ami only important news matter can be received after the 10th of the month. Matter for insertion may be left with any of the editorial staff or mailed to the editor at the Latin High School. In contributing, write on one side of the paper only and sign full name ( this is for reference only). Communications should lie addressed to the editor, business manager, or exchange editor, according to their nature. Manuscript must lie accompanied by necessary postage to insure its return. Terms, 75 Cents per Year Single Copies, JO Cents SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT editorial Staff EMtorsinsCbict C. SHERWOOD RICKER. L.. 04. associate Ebitor KATHRYNE L. NOLAN. E.. '04. Ercbanflc Ebitor HELEN MARDEN, L.. ’04. Sporting Ebitor GEORGE COHEN. L.. ‘04. business bana er LAURENCE MITCHELL. E.. '04. assistant Business d ana ier F. PERCY WHITNEY, L., ’05. (Treasurer GERARD C. BEAN. E.. '04. Staff artist. EDWIN H. WEAVER. E.. '05. Class Editors Xatin School WILLIAM L. PHILLIPS. '04. ARTHUR T. SOULE. ’OS. HERBERT S. SANBORN, 06. RALPH E. DURELL. '07. English School WARREN B. FARNUM. '04. LEONARD W. LIBBEY. ’OS. RICHARD KEYES. ’06. LUTHER I. SMITH. '07. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR -33 EDITORIALS ITU the June Radiator comes a farewell. The last school year is over for the class of 1001. To the majority the memories of four years are pleasant ones. A separation conies soon. Many go to college, there to fraternize again for four years. A greater number leave books and school associations forever. They are about to step out into the world to join the working energies that go to make up the uni- verse. Xo matter how glad we may be that our High School work is ended, the mere fact that we arc alxnit to become separated from all our former associations, the schoolroom and the teachers, brings an clement of sadness into graduation. But the other view attracts our gaze most strongly. Our four years' work is over, and we are about to be rewarded. There is a thrill of delight in the con- templation of new things—the possibilities that are suggested to our minds, no matter whether we go to college or enter the world. There is something exhilarating in the prospective new phase of life we arc about to enter. But let us not forget occasionally to look back upon our High School days, to realize that there stands our first alma mater, where there are still in- structors the memories of whom we hold dear. Perhaps there in the old school the pupil caught the first glimpse of his power, his work in life: pos- sibly there he first realized what he could do. and now and through the years deep gratitude must be the answering chord to the teachers who did so much to make him what he is. Our best motto might be, “LET US NOT FORGET.” r r. K Cbampionsbip IPro5pccts T this writing—at the close of the first Dor- Chester game—it may be a trifle previous to be using up space upon such a subject as heads our editorial. Vet. allow us to vindicate ourselves, at games played, fifteen have been won, and two lost. The percentage is .882. Somerville now has played every team in the league.—R. M. T. S.. 1-8; English High. 0-0: Malden. .'•-I : Dorchester. 8-2. Not a single defeat as yet in league games. We hold the first place, and. as we said before, having trimmed each mem- ber of the league once, the probabilities arc indeed in our favor. The team has been playing great ball the last few games, keeping steady in tight places, and doing timely hitting. The only thing to do now is to keep steady. Baseball is much more erratic than football, and the best teams have their bad days. Somerville's “bad days” must not come at league games. For several years now, Somerville has car- ried off the championship. This year must not re- verse fortune. Captain Hafford and Charlie” Cuddy are the two mainstays of the team. “Charlie has coached more teams to victory than any other Somerville coach. “Leo” has placed himself champion pitcher, making twenty-one strikeouts in the Cambridge game, nineteen in the R. M. 'I'. S. game, and seven- teen in the English High game, totalling fifty-seven strikeouts in three consecutive games. Another interesting point is that, although a pitcher, he is the heaviest hitter in the league. A word should be spoken here of Blair, our shortstop. He has been very prominent in athletics during his three years in school, and last year won his “S on every team that Somerville put out. and he furthermore stands very high in his classes. This is not a com- mon occurrence among athletes, and seems worthy of commendation. The timely hitting of Barton. Doughty. Higgins, and Burns has been a large fac- tor in the winning business. The outfield is strong, and they have had no errors as yet. Driscoll is now in good form, as we prophesied he would be. The only thing that the team has to do at present is to keep a firm grip on its present style of playing, 234 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR and here's victory to another championship team for Somerville! w. r XT be Incoming Staff QURING the latter part of May the duty fell to us of gathering the Radiator representatives to- gether for the purpose of electing a new staff. The selection of officers for the coming year was carried through without friction, and the two schools are certainly to be commended on their ex- cellent choice. The new officers are: Editor-in- «•hief, Frank R. Bradford, E., ’05; associate editor, Miss Ethel L. Mulliken, L., ’05; manager, F. Percy Whitney, L., '05; sporting editor, Joseph W. Whitaker. E.. 05; treasurer, Thomas C. Commins, E., ’05; exchange editor, Miss Gertrude Baxter, L , '05; assistant business manager, Floyd J. Pitcher, E.. ’00; second assistant business manager, Ralph E. Whitman, L., '07. Our readers will of course notice the installation of a new office in the second assistant business man- ager. The progress of the paper demands it. The manager’s work is hard, and he should have all the experience possible. By electing a Sophomore- elect to this position of second assistant, we broaden the manager's chances of successful work. If the second assistant carries on his work satisfactorily, he will in time rise from first assistant to manager, with two years’ experience. Mr. Bradford, the man who takes the helm next fall, has satisfactorily proved to this staff and to the two schools his ability in a literary way by his stories that the Radiator has published from time to time. Mr. Whitney, our present assistant business manager, unanimously elected manager for next year, has exceeded our expectations in the short time he has been with us. Elected only last month, he has fallen to the work of getting advertisements with wonderful rapidity and gratifying results. With two such men as Bradford and Whitney guiding lit- erary and financial matters, if the Radiator isn’t a success, it will be your own fault, dear reader. V. K Zbc future ot tbe TRabiator 'j'HE Radiator has a future. How many of its readers have thought of the real future of our paper? Very few, it is safe to say, and probably those few have been closely connected with it. This article may give the readers something to think about. In examining the exchanges from some of the best schools in the country, we not only find ours to be the largest, but also that it equals, if not excels, the best of them; especially our June numbers of last and this year deserve to be examples. The present staff and contributors have learned that only the best material will be accepted; also the man- ager learns that the paper must be full of illustra- tions. This costs money, more than nine-tenths of its readers realize. Each year a demand is made for an improvement over its predecessor. There must be an end to this some time, and that end is not far distant; for the reason that it will be found impos- sible soon to raise the necessary funds. At the pres- ent day every legitimate means is used in order to pay expenses. The sales each month are just enough to pay the engraving bill alone, not to speak of the cost of materials and the printing, which is usually four times the engraver’s bill. Almost every one is willing to contribute articles of one kind or another, as is proved each month by the swamped condition of the editorial department. How many in turn are willing to assist the manage- ment, where, in reality, a great part of the respon- sibility of the paper lies? Do we want our paper put in the hands of some publishing house which has a financial backing, or do we want to continue it as a real organ of the schools? We all insist for the latter; but it is for the teachers and undergraduates to decide, and moreover the time is near at hand when the change must come one way or the other. As a last word from the present management, let everyone next year pay all the attention possible to the financial welfare of the paper, and also at the same time keep the editorial department at its high standard. 1 K K Cbe Out oc ino Staff IT is customary for the members of the departing staff to disclose their high aims to the scorching public gaze. We hereby declare our intentions. The editor enters Harvard in the fall. The man- ager will, in all probability, enter business life, after an extended Western trip. The associate editor will remain by her own fireside and await develop- ments—don’t mistake our meaning. The sporting editor enters Harvard in the fall. The treasurer enters the business world, and the exchange editor goes to Smith. Thus are we accounted for. K Cbe Cover lesions p()R the beautiful cover designs, both inside and out, we are indebted to Edwin R. Hall, E., ’04. Mr. Hall has done much work for the Radiator, and we wish here to express our thanks to him. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 235 Gbe iRabiator JJcar B Review every staff has doubtless done before us, so we took up our work with trepidation. We had little confidence in our ability to improve. Some sought to console us with the thought that it was much better to begin that way than with over- confidence. Admitted—but a lack of confidence is so liable to develop into weakness and indifference that the balm was not very efficacious. No gaudy covers greeted the eyes of our readers: perhaps some were sorry; we think the majority were satisfied. The supplement was a new departure, and kindly received. Sometimes they were pictures of athletic teams, sometimes scenic effects: neither would dis- figure a student’s room. The editorial department has been somewhat changed. We have endeavored to put before our readers two pages that dealt with school and outside life, as seen through their own eyes, 'flic editorials of a paper are the voice of a paper; they speak that which the paper thinks, and should keep in touch with every phase of life that conies to the high school boy and girl. A department that has met with success, if we may judge from casual opinions, has been our Wise Man’s Column. It was distinctly foolish; but nevertheless we felt that it did no harm to have a vein of nonsense mixed with our more serious mate- rial. Whether the Wise Man dies with us is a question for the incoming staff. The one department which, in our eyes, has been more or less of a failure has been the athletic de- partment. We hoped that, with the athletic prowess Somerville enjoys, to have a large athletic column. Our hopes were not realized. We couldn’t afford the space. During our year’s work we have had outside helpers whose names arc not on our staff page. Among them arc Miss Pratt, of the Latin School, Miss Merrill, of the English School, Sub-Master Harry L. Jones, Miss Eva Hardy, Alfred S. True- man, Miss Grace Butler, Edwin Hall, “Sam’’ Barker, and “Jack” Hall. A word of thanks is also due here to the Journal. Our publishers have been especially indulgent to us the past year in many matters that were to us very important, and the entire Journal staff have aided us in many ways. Now, just as we become accustomed to the traces.” just as we are getting to know the work in detail, we arc obliged to give up our labors to a succeeding staff. Could we have another year, after this year of breaking in, we feel we could turn out a paper worthy of the two schools. But instead, we hand you our souvenir number, make our bow, and the curtain falls. We have carried the Radiator along the rocky path of another year. Though the work has been hard, still it has won a place in our affections, and we are sorry to leave it. But it is only from the actual labor that we part, not from our interest in the Radiator. We shall watch its progress over the narrow, rugged way toward success with un- ceasing interest and affection. We have carried the paper through one year. It must go on to its rightful goal, the first place in amateur journalism. Here’s success to the staff of 1904-5! v Gbccrimi I'l IE cheering at the Dorchester game Wednesday, June 8, recalled to our minds the excellent sup- port in a similar manner last fall at the last game of the season. The mass meeting in both schools met with a spontaneous response. There are now two other large games, the seven- teenth and the twenty-fifth. We have the champion- ship well in hand: let us not lose it through a lack of support. We have a team to be proud of. and the way to show our pride is to duplicate the work at the Dorchester game. This is a last exhortation. The pennant must be OURS. It III if '4 a Corrected Omission J Y some oversight, the name of the author of The Hidden Fortune” was omitted. For the charming story we are indebted to Miss Loena Snowman, E., ’04. . Goncernino tbe alumni 'J'HE pupils of the two schools can materially aid the management by giving the names and ad- dresses of alumni desiring copies of this issue. All names must be in the manager’s hands on or before June 21. � � � r, k Gbanks THE management seeks, through this column, to thank the Radiator advertisers for their kind support throughout the year. 236 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Zhc IReceptions lDi .neuter’s The annual Senior reception of the Latin School was held at the home of Head Master George L. Baxter, 17 Warren avenue, Saturday evening, May 14. The Seniors passed a most pleasant evening with Mr. and Mrs. Baxter as host and hostess. After the reception, Miss Hull read the class his- tory. It was a pleasure to all the Seniors to listen to- the incidents of their first years in the school, 'fhe humorous events were well narrated. GEORGE L. BAXTER. Miss Frost then read the class poem, by no means uninteresting. Last, but by far not least, were the prophecies, read by William L. Phillips. All were interesting and many were extremely funny knocks. Miss Frost again entertained the gathering with a vocal selection, assisted by Miss Preston. George Cohen, ever ready, charmed his listeners with a selection on the violin. A literal feast was then set before the avaricious Seniors. The High School songs closed a most delightful evening. The Senior class tenders to Mr. and Mrs. Baxter their most heartfelt thanks for their kind reception. IDr, XUbitcomb’s Few of the Seniors of English, '04, will ever for- get the pleasant evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Whitcomb, Friday evening, May 27. During the evening Miss Bessie Whiting read the class history, in which the incidents of earlier years in High School, long since forgotten, were humorously recalled. Later Warren Farnum and Miss Nellie Brown were confronted by a weird figure in black, who presented them with a large scroll, on which was C. T. C. WHITCOMB. recorded the prophecies of the future of those pres- ent. These were decidedly witty, and, if fulfilled, our class will indeed make its mark in the world. Miss Nichols favored us with a selection in a manner which illustrated to one and all that art they have been struggling for four years to attain. Mr. Avery gave a bass solo, the S. T. D. Club, by request, repeated many of the songs of the baseball concert, and Miss Russell and Miss Pilsbury sang a duct. Choice refreshments were served. 'flic evening closed with songs, in which the class displayed its hearty appreciation of the evening’s pleasure. SOMKRVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 237 We are now obliged to say farewell to our great friends, the papers of other schools, but wc can never forget the enjoyment their visits gave us, nor the help we have derived from them. Even in the smallest or the poorest paper we have found some thought or inspiration. Surely there is less to criti- cise each year, each month, and it would take far less time to name all the bad points than half the good ones. Wc thank you all, brother exchanges, and exchange editors, for your assistance, and we beg you to come again another year” to help and encourage our abler successor. So it is not good-by,” but simply farewell till another year. May that year find us all improved and ready for the work ahead. Good editorials in The Argus (Gardner, Mass.). The Student is as usual abounding in goodness. The Dean Megaphone has its several depart- ments well arranged, and the print is good. The Pulse is a fairly good paper, containing sto- ries well told. Why don’t you have an exchange column, Ora- cle (Plainfield. X. J.)r We aren’t going to say nice things about even the best papers, if they lack this important feature. Through the Spectator, we learn of the disaster of the Appleton (Wisconsin) High school. The last number of the Ryan Clarion has either not been sent or wc have misplaced it therefore we just learned of this affliction. We take this opportunity to sympathize with the pupils. The Argus. Plymouth, N. II., certainly has no lack of stories, and an exchange column that a king might well be proud of. Another new paper with a remarkably good ex- change column is the Legenda. What a con- scientious editor that department must have! The cover of the Radiator is perhaps not quite as charming as usual, but the interior is quite as good as of old. A pity the Radiator is to lose a bright editor! The following is the list of exchanges for April: The Student. Bridgeport, Conn.: The Squib. Golden. C olo.: The Argus. Gardner. Mass.: Col- lege Signal. Amherst, Mass.; The Qtii?z, Elgin, 111 : The Debater, Wakefield, Mass.; The Volun- teer. Concord. Mass.; The Oracle, Englewood, N. J : Center of Vision, Boston. Mass.: Dean Mega- phone. Franklin, Mass.: The Pulse, Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Radiator. Xcw Haven. Conn.: The Legenda. New London, Conn.; 'The Spectator. Johnstown, Pa.: The Mirror. Monticello. X V.; The Mirror. Indianapolis. Ind.: The Oak, Visalia, Cal. : The Oracle, Plainfield, N. J.; The Murdock, Wmchendon. Mass.: The Oracle. Manchester. X. H.: 'I'he Lariat, Cheyenne. Wyom.; The Epsilon. Bridgeport, Conn.; The Recorder. Winchester, Mass.:The Review. I.owell. Mass.; The Argus. Plymouth, X. Lb; The Bulletin, Lawrence, Mass.: The Observer, Central Falls, R. I.: The Classi- cum, Ogden. Utah : K. IT. S. Enterprise. Keene, N. H.: The Skirmisher. San Mateo. Cal.: The Storm King Echo. Cornwall-on-Hudson, X. Y.: Blue and Brown, Lancaster. Pa.; The Oracle. Malden, Mass.; The Racquet. Portland, Me.: The Crimson, Louis- ville. Ky.; The Gleaner. Pawtucket, R. L: Latin and High School Review. Cambridge. Mass.: The Imp. Brighton. Mass.; The Bulletin, Dedham, Mass. Isn’t that a list that would almost stagger you. fellow exchange editors? Even that is not the sum total, as a few, unfortunately, have been misplaced. We wish to compliment The Skirmisher on its new cover. It is certainly very appropriate and well drawn. It has a good exchange column, and most of the articles are well written. The Echo. Cornwall-on-Hudson. comes to ns as a new friend. The form of this little book is most pleasing, the stories good, and the cover modest and attractive. The June Center of Vision reached us just before we went to press. The number is large and impos- ing for a small sheet. We see an awful lot of similarity between this number and last June’s Radiator. In the editorials wc notice this: . . . . We feel wc have accomplished something that should make it a privilege, in the future, for stu- dents to be connected with our school paper.” Phew! what modesty! We arc too polite to say more. 238 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR W� $C- Man’s WlStNtS? Hbvtce to the ©rabuattno Classes of 1904 You are about to take your first Plunge. 999 classes before you have done the same thing and found the water wet. Don’t think that just because you are about to Butt Up and get your little Sheet with a little piece of twelve-and-a-half-cent baby blue ribbon around it, that all the Mills are going to shut down, or that the Elevated will run special cars. The majority of us have seen White Organ- dies and Swallow Tails before. You may be all the Orangeade on the Terra bounded by the Library and the Cannon, but outside you are Ripe Ber- mudas. If you have any Two by Twice ambitions, keep them under your Tunic—you'll outgrow them by July 4, or else lose your Birthright. The Wisest Girls will go home, put their Honor- ably Discharged in the lower bureau drawer, take the Elevator back to the Parlor, and Corral the first thing in Trousers that tries her Sofa. You know the story about the Early Bird. The feller that Enters his business Career with the idea of Hurting Morgan or getting a Half Nel- son on the Trusts will land with a Dull Metallic Sound somewhere in Pie Alley, with just enough to buy a Pippin. When you get your $3.50 job. hang to it like glue—you may get a raise without a Yeast Cake. To the Guy who enters College in the Fall, there is little use to Sling Advice. He’ll Side Step every- thing but Money and Cold Ones. He’ll wear trousers that’ll have cloth enough in them to Clothe the Family—he’ll wear several pairs of Passionate Stockings per Diem, and Tan Shoes with Soles so wide that he’ll Interfere when he walks. He feels that he ought to let the College know he is coming, yet he doesn’t quite know how to draw up the Epistle. His Scorching Shirts will force the Grand Dames of the Village to Wear Colored Specs to Keep out the High Lights. His hardest Work will be to disjjose of the Green Sheets Father Forwards bi-monthly. Anything a feller hates is to find the (ireen Goods in his Pocket when he is hunting for a Match. All advice looks alike To Him. Still, if he Flies close to the Carpet, he is less liable to get a Splinter In Him. If not. he is liable to find him- self. some Cold. Gray Dawn, in a Place similar to the feller that hoped to put a Crimp in the Trusts. Cracked Ice will find him Sooner or Later. That Is All. Good day. Ikuvopatlnn IDeab Eas ? Since the Correspondents have arrived, the War has been progressing at a rate that would make 2.04 look like Funeral Procession. The Yellow Peril has done more for this Scrap than either Japan or Russia. The Battle of the Yalu was a great deal similar to the Charge Up San Juan Hill at Revere Beach. Kuro” got up in front of his Troops one Windy Wednesday and spoke to them on the Subject of the Higher Life. He is not very Prc Possessing without he gets his hand in your Watch Pocket. He wears a Large Assortment of Clingers on his Submaxillary, and a Profuse Hedge beneath his Nasal Proboscis. He said to his men in closing, Yonder stand the Brown-Bred Men with the Slanted Sights. See them first, or they’ll sec you First and Last.” But the Muscos had Cold Feet, and the Japs Did Things for five days. The Banks of the Yalu were Alive with Dead Russians. Kuro” lost guns enough to Adorn every Public Garden and Common in Japan. lie has Hiked to the Tall Anheusers with those of his Sickly Band SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 239 who weren't Too much weighed down with Jap Lead, and the whole Bunch look like the Nervous Pros Ward in the Massachusetts General. If they are heard from again, it’ll be by Telephone. Around the Suburbs of Port Arthur. Later:— Port Arthur has Stubbed its Toe several times, but hasn’t Fallen Yet. The Electrics have stopped Running, owing to the Closeness of the Japanese Proximity. The Russians arc doing all the Neces- sary Running at Present. Stoessil is at the Bat, and there’s every prospect that he’ll either Strike Out or make a Sacrifice, with Oku pushing the Curves. He oku, anyway. Both sides have found the War on the sea Damp. So much so that they say Damp twice, omitting the “p” in the first case. Admiral Makaroff is now studying the League Rules to see how he Fouled the Mine that gave his wife his Life Insurance. Note.—If I get a Check from the Radiator, you may have the Pleasure of hearing from me in the Fall—otherwise I will Check myself. -------------------------- XT be St. Xoufs Exposition Any one desiring a pleasant, comfortable trip to St. Louis should consult Mr. H. W. Poor of the English High School regarding his St. Louis trip leaving Boston, Wednesday, June 29 and return- ing Saturday, July 9. Cost of the tour, $67; covers every expense of the ten days’ tour (except meals while at St. Louis), including:— 1. Transportation for the round trip. 2. Double berth in Pullman palace sleeping car for the entire distance. 3. All meals en route in dining cars or at hotels. 4. Stop at Niagara Falls, with three-hour trip over the International Belt Line and Great Gorge route. 5. Hotel accommodations and admissions to World’s Fair at St. Louis for six days. 6. Stop in Chicago, with three-hour carriage ride about the city. Mr. Poor can be seen at the office of Simmons Marsters, 298 Washington Street, Boston, Wednes- days after 4.30 P. M., and Saturdays at 10 A. M. For further particulars address Howard W. Poor, 27 Mt. Vernon street. Reading, Mass., or English High School, Somerville, Mass. -------------------------- G. J. Caesar built a pontem, Trans the flumen Rhinum, Planks enough to raise a montem! On this spot terrarum. Ah, clever! but could he see The pain he gives our mentem, He would have paused and pawned his saws, Ad Germanes lent-em. Anon, ’06. H jfreneb BMag 1 lie Lecture hall of the English High School presented a most brilliant scene on Wednesday evening, May 11, when seven members of the Sen- ior French class and one from the Juniors, under the direction of Miss Marvel, the instructor at the head of the French department, gave LTIeritage,” a French drama of one act, after which songs were sung in the same tongue, illustrated in a manner both original and amusing. The temporary stage was artistically arranged as the living room of a French home, and the rest of the hall was prettily decorated with flowers and crepe paper. Miss Ida Shack ford did herself full justice, and Miss Florence Dakin excited very favorable com- ment in her character as a petite French maiden. The Misses Ethel Reeves, Maud Weeks, Helen Hatch. Loena Snowman, Elizabeth Canfield, and Mary Thompson deserve praise for rendering their parts so creditably. The orchestra was composed of Miss Ada Bowlbv, piano; Miss Celia Trustenitzcr, man- dolin: and Miss Mac Sargent, violin. Miss Marvel is to be congratulated not only for the proficiency of the students in French, but also for the artistic effect produced by the whole per- formance. Cast of characters:— Mine. Mcrillon, rcntierc.......................Ida Shackford Aline---- 1 f Maud Weeks Virginie. Les trois cousines Helen Hatch Isabelle.. ) ( Ethel Reeves Loursi. amie d’Alinc.....................Elizabeth Canfield Celeste, amie dTsabelle......................Loena Snowman Harriet, femme de chambre.........Florence Dakin Rosine. femme de chambre.............Mary Thompson ---------------------------- Hr TTenng’s jfarm I. Billy made some bread. (Sure to kill one dead.) He tied it up with ribbon, red To disguise its make-up, lead. He took it into school, He put it on a stool, Where all couid gaze upon it. II. Gladys some bread also made. (To cat it one couldn’t be paid.) With footsteps blythe and unstaid, She brought it in to be weighed. The joyous teacher took it, And quite unwittingly put it Right beside that of lead. III. The Judges stood before the exhibit, rare. Indeed,’' said they, “this is not fair— These loaves must have been made by the Happv Pair. 240 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 04 Well, another Senior class is leaving, and we are the elect. Any one who thinks we are glad to go is simply not ac- quainted with the Latin School. We have learned something, and enjoyed ourselves. It cannot be said that the class as a whole has done much in a social way. It has left such things for Lawson and one or two others. ' here was one time, however, when everybody showed up. We thank Mr. Baxter again for the pleasant evening spent at his reception. He is a delightful entertainer. The others who assisted are to he thanked, also. But the boys should get over the delusion that they can sing. A prize for Miss Little. She has discovered that the epic poems are written in gas meter. Strange that no one thought of it before. The class organization for this year has been: President, Percy Harrison : treasurer. Miss Drouet; secretary. Miss Bradshaw; class editor. Phillips; Radiator representatives. Bradford. Albee, and Teele. Miss Frost was class poet. Miss Huff and Harrison were historians, and Miss Marden and Phillips, prophets. Was the ox illustrating the motto ready for cither or for ether? Finally, the editor wishes to thank the class for its enthusiastic sup- port this year. At no time has a request for notes failed to bring forth a deluge of the required article. If he has at times not given complete satisfaction, why. perhaps, erravit, lapsus est. non putavit. Did you see the Pirates of Penzance”? Yes? But you’re look- ing well. Our president had the honor of hearing the first division recite geometry. He says it was awe- inspiring. He went to sleep. Saturday. May 21, the Pikers, Albee, Getchell. and Bradford, made an expedition to Wellesley. They say the scenery was beautiful. 05 In athletics this year the class has earned great success. Promi- nent above all is Leo 1 lafford, who has won distinction not only in our schools, but in the world of school ath- letics. The class, as well as the school and city, may well feel proud of him. In the second position is Robert A. Burns, who showed up so promi- nently in football at end, and is now creditably covering the first base of the championship nine. Elliott, at quarterback, and Sewall. at guard, both received the well-earned football S. Coleman and Doe were representatives on the hockey team, Adcock and Soule on the track. The class, through the editor, wishes to con- gratulate the staff on its hard work and good results of the past year of the Radiator. The editor wishes to beg in this last edition of the Radiator that if any notes have hit too heavily, let them be forgotten; if his notes were poor and incomplete, think one and all how many notes you, individually, have contributed. The present officers of the class are : Presi- dent. Robert A. Burns; secretary. Miss Ruth Whitman; treas- urer. Allen E. Elliott. The editor wishes to thank the members of the class for their help to him. It is through them that the notes have been so nu- merous. Good luck to those who take exams. Just think of it! After three years of toil, we have at last reached the top—Seniors. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 241 Farewell, Seniors! We wish you all a happy vacation. What is the volume of your block? He was tardy, as he was out the night before. German translations:— The sugary (sweet) princess.” I demand my half as your wife (better half). Does a flight of birds resemble a flight of stairs? He had a pain under his arm. (A pane of glass.) Three cheers for the shirt-waist men ! What is the square root of “u (you)? Scholar trembles, but fails to answer. It is 2b or not 2b. (Read it.) Heard in history:— Where was he found?” In Jordan Marshes.” '0(5 Xow that it narrows down to but a few days before vacation, the Freshmen must hasten to wear off the remain- ing greenish tinge be- fore becoming Sopho- mores. Foss ought to be quite a detective by this time, after having read all those Sherlock Holmes books. Wake up. Rice! Don’t be a fossil! Little drops of water. Little grains of sand. If 1?----y did his French himself. Wouldn’t that beat the band! Weren’t you glad that you weren’t absent on the day after the May vacation? G-------(in German)— You should become a grinder like I. Dolan (in Greek)— It seemed best to proceed backwards.” Even Gabe” is dabbling in literature. What next? If Twohig had only lived in the old Roman times, what a race he would have had with Atalanta! --------thinks that that high place in the “Star- Spangled Banner” sounds like a wheezy locomotive whistle out of gear. Again the editor wishes to express his gratitude to the half-dozen who have handed in notes during the year. Class officers for ]903-’04: President, Arthur B. Corwin; secretary. Irma R. Christopher; editor, Herbert S. Sanborn: Radiator representatives, Bergen Reynolds and Carl Burns. Only a few more days before the annual spring cleaning—June 24. Ask Doe how the piano business is. While-----------and---------were studying to- gether the other day, they were heard to laugh. But. then, that place in the German translation was probably funny. AMBIGUOUS. First Boy—“----------. of the Senior class, is complaining because his photos didn't make him good-looking. Second Boy— Well, it’s too bad. but it’s just like him. After Baker had finished seeing the tire engines, he found that Friday, May 13. was his unlucky day. Poor Frost! But that was a measly way to do. C-------(in German)— Good, gooder. goodest.” While the sentimental Senior in his chamber weeps above. Thinking of the four short years so quickly past, Should we join him in his troubles, having troubles of our own. For we're nearly through our second year at last? Let us then be optimistic, we have still two years to stay Before, as Seniors, we ourselves must leave, Yet think not of the future, for too soon will come our day. But ’till nineteen hundred six we need not grieve. Sometimes it’s handy to have a good imagination, especially when some one draws a circle for a geometry demonstration. An example for the Freshmen: If the distance from A to B is y miles, and it takes one hour to row that distance, how long will it take Lamb to row up the Charles river, and how many blisters will he get? Also, how many times will the Metro- politan police take his photograph? It is understood that Corwin did not like that note about himself in the May Radiator. We hereby apologize. So Kelley spent his May vacation down South.” did he? We hope he enjoyed it down there in southern Massachusetts. What could Mc- Laughlin have been thinking about when he answered the ques- tion in regard to the milliner? The singing of Sar- gent. Corwin. Burns, and Carpenter in the Memorial Day exer- cises was bonissime.” Wcdgcwood (parsing a Greek participle)— It is the plural, ac- cusative. nominative.” Our geometry speaks of “approaching the limit,” but some seem to have arrived there already. [Continued on page 219.) 242 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR ’04 Mr. E-----1 entered the room with a plane in one hand and a saw in the other. (Posing for Radiator notes.) It is very plane that I “saw.” The soiree will be held Thursday evening. June at Anthoine’s. The committee for the English School is: William E. Barton, J. ____ Edward Frost, H. S. Chandler. Edna Brine, and Florence Hatch. A full attendance by the class is greatly desired. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. As you look back upon your books, After these classic walls you leave. Think of the lessons you might have learned. And the A’s that you did not receive. As you read this little verse, please do not let your tears fall on the Radiator, as it is not war- ranted to float. Said and heard:— Will you have green grass on your school pin? Wilson’s misplaced eyebrow is greatly missed. Ain’t we sorry that there will be no more oppor- tunities to make charts for history? After Shelley had eloped, lie returned and made it all right with his folks. Duhig intends to return to school next September to complete his High School course, this making his sixtli year. Pretty work, Henry. A very unique club has formed during the last few months of school, called the Big Five.” Note the dainty handshakes and greetings. Charlotte A. Percival spent a whole period in chemistry without blushing. Cheer up, Charlotte. Footnote.—As so many notes have been received about C—o—s—y. the editor has decided to leave the space blank. Place in your own note. Wanted: Some one to guard a necktie; short hours: big money.—W. E. Barton. Miss B-----1 wears the smile that won’t come off in the class picture. The editor heartily thanks all those who have helped fill this space at the expense of others, and trusts that no offense has been taken. Wilson kindly informed the English class that he “knew it all.” For latest style in hair dressing, apply to les Mademoiselles Marie and Matilda, Room 21. La pompadoure—nit. Some recent translations:— Miss Gr—nl—f (in tragical voice)—“I with my own eves saw him—sneeze!” Miss R----d's tremendous effort: “He pressed his love to his heart.” Miss U—d—r—i—1 (absent-mindedly)—“The skin of an auburn-haired lion.” A syllogism: One on D--------y—A lobster is red and I)-----'s face is red. Therefore D----- is a lobster. A point in debate: If the world is becoming “en- riched” with women, why does not the brain de- velop so much faster? Miss Gr—mv—d, of IV. History D, claims the Hottentots” among our earliest settlers of America. Class officers for the past year were: Presi- dent. James E. Frost: v i c e-president, A. Henry Duhig; secre- tary, Edward J. Fal- len : treasurer, Harry S. Chandler; editor, Warren B. Farnum; Radiator representa- tives, Wilson, Bean, Miss Loring, and Miss Nolan. The class is well represented out- side of school: Frost, president of Athletic Association; Bean, manager of baseball team and treasurer of Radiator; Mitchell, manager of Radiator and hockey team manager; Miss Nolan, assistant editor. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 243 ’05 We arc now on the last quarter, nearing the home stretch. The last part of a race is the hardest to cover, and to reach the home goal next graduation and to cross the line with honor means we must sprint, and put our last efforts into a supreme struggle that will cover up any breaks” during the course al- ready run. Don't re- quire a spur to make you run your prettiest; finish your race by ex- erting yourself to the utmost, and win the applause and acclamation of those who have watched you from the starting line. H-----d's version of L’AUcgro”: And every shepherd tells his tale, under the shade of the nut- brown ale.” Despite the fact that the bakers are on a strike, the chemistry pupils have started making bread. Who said scab ? Isn’t it peculiar how one little mosquito will dis- turb a whole history class? Br— 1----------d. vice-commodore of the Opeeche Canoe Club, was compelled to desert his ship last week on account of a severe attack of seasickness, caused by a spring zephyr roughening up the water. Dark deeds in dark places—Developing room. In physiology: The heart is a double organ. Rules for a debate: Address the chair, and wait until it recognizes you.” You don't have to be a Senior to exchange photos if you are in the chemistry class. C-----k has just been appointed window washer and draughtsman in the Somerville High Bank. G------- left a photo in the toning solution too long, and inferred that it must be a high-toned picture. There has not been a plate broken in the chem- istry class, despite the fact that over ninety portraits have been taken. Who says we haven’t a hand- some class? Positions wanted:— W-----n as butler in a small family who give good board. C-----k wants a job as bookkeeper where the boss smokes good cigars. L-----y wants a position where there isn’t much of anything to do. B-------thinks that oil in the ink will make writ- ing easier. W-----n has a nervous typewriter. Every time he touches it it always jumps. According to B-------, the first World’s Fair was held in Hyde Park. Clipping from the Room 32 Gazette, pub- lished by L----------- and C-----------: “All of our staff went to the Chandler short- hand convention to see the Springfield delega- tion. but. to their in- tense disappointment, the city was not repre- sented at all by Junior stenographers.” Class organization: President. Maurice Blair: vice-president. Mollie Edmunds; secretary. Edward Weaver: Radiator representatives. Lauren Waldron, Harold Currier, and Thomas Commins. ’06 We can boast of a few representatives on the baseball diamond: Ink I lolland. on the ’varsity: “Jack Lakin. sub on the ‘varsity; Money Munro. cap- tain of the second team, supported by Pa Rice. Bert” Newell, and Water- house. Will some kind reader kindlv inform Miss Bl—k—. of II. English F. the meaning of a pair of woe-lined optics. Her meaning is a pair of hand-cuffs. B—a—1—y says that Columbus discovered the Isle of Spice.” Every pupil should make it a point to see the English High .School exhibit when they go to the St. Louis Exposition this summer. Have you noticed how some of the boys are look- ing forward to the Junior year? They can wear derbies then. The recently- elected class officers are: President. Richard Fernandez: vice-president. Mildred Harvey: secretary, Russell E. Freeman: treasurer, Mildred Y o u 11 g. Roscoe Waterhouse and Miss Xolan represent the class in the election of R a i) 1 a t o r officers. Miss Kendall. Miss Harvey, and Messrs. Safford, Gove, and Lakin are members of a com- mittee to draw up a new constitution. (Continued on png 4?9'] S. T. D. CLUB Photo bv Purdy SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 245 The S. T. D. Club, which for three years has been very prominent in the English School, will make its adieu this June. Its object has been to promote the social relations among the young men of the class, and also to indulge in the athletics of the school. During its existence it has had five different camps.—Foster’s Fond, August. ’01: Manomet, August, ’02: Haggctt’s Pond, May, ’03: a trip in August and September, ’03, which included Con- conl. Lowell. Newburyport, Ipswich, Annisquam, Gloucester, Marblehead, and Beachmont; and Riverhurst, the Concord river, in May, ’04. Other social events include two club dances, three '‘ladies’ nights.” and two sleighrides. For two years it has taken a prominent part in the baseball concert: be- fore this, in ’02, it was largely represented in the Song Sheet and the Octette. It has lately taken a leading part in the operetta. The Pirates of Pen- zance.” Wilson, Dunham, and Farnum taking lead- ing parts. The club is very proficient in the musi- cal line, as has been proved by its several success- ful attempts. The Radiator staff has two members, Manager Mitchell and Treasurer Bean, who have both been manager of an athletic team of the current year,— Bean the baseball and Mitchell the hockey. It has by no means been slow in the athletic line, but has always been loyal to the Red and Blue.” Twelve members have received their S.” and sev- eral have played on all four athletic teams. Allen has also received an E” for playing on the Exeter football team of ’03, which defeated Andover. Exeter, Dartmouth. Brown, and Technology will claim several of the members next year, while the business world will find a place for others; a few, however, will return to school. The active membership includes the following: President, William E. Barton; vice-president. Ralph A. Might; secretary-treasurer, Rowland W. Dunham; Ilaroid M. Allen, Gerard C. Bean. Maurice L. Blair. Edwin C. Ball. Harry S. Chandler. Arthur II. Duhig, Edward J. Fallen, J. Edward Frost, Warren B. Farnum, Edwin R. Hall, Lawrence Mitchell. Louis II. Remick, Gardner W. Stacey, Alfred S. Trueman, J. Albert Wilson, and Clarence H. Woodworth. Three honorary mem- bers are Guy B. Garland, Arthur M. Russell, and Irving F. Runcy. It is the intention to continue its meetings next year, when the club will be enlarged to about forty members, and will be quartered in suitable rooms in some central location of the city. The W. L. M. Club was formed October, 1903, bv nine members of the English School, for social purposes, and has proven so enjoyable that next year will find them an important factor in functions of a like nature. Business meetings also figured as enjoyment, and were held bi-weekly at the wigwams.” The tribe” has just received their club pins, which are much different in design than any thus far adopted in either school. They are in shape of a shield, the colors being red and white. During the winter the club had a public initiation, a club dance, a pit” party, and a gentlemen’s night, held in Flemming Hall. The club was well repre- sented in the opera. Incognitos,” in Unitarian Hall the first week in May. A lawn party and dance is at present being contemplated. The present membership includes the following: President, Miss Ruth Bidwell; vice-president, Miss Marguerite Eldridgc; secretary, Miss Marion Van Wart; treasurer, Miss Mildred Harvey. 'Hie others are: The Misses Eva Clement. Beatrice Ryder. Grace Kendall. Ethel Thompson; honorary member, Dorothea Smith. 246 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR SIGMA DELTA FRATERNITY The Sigma Delta Fraternity of the Senior class. Latin School, was organized in the early part of the Sophomore year for athletic and social purposes Although the club ran a creditable basket ball team —for in those days basket ball was considered ath- letic—the first of these two purposes was practically abandoned some time last year, and since then it has devoted itself to taking the lid off. and further- ing social intercourse twice a month. The club has enjoyed an unqualified success in this line. In February a dance was given in co-operation with the S. T. D. Club, and on April the third annual ladies' night was held. The membership now stands: Warren Lawson (president), Oliver Wyman (vice-president), Walter Stevens (treasurer), Ernest Moore (secretary), George Cohen. Charles Getchell, Richard Bell. Alfred Trueman, Herbert Cole, William Phillips. Elmer Osgood, and Gladstone Hen- derson. The above is a snapshot of the Opeeche Canoe Club in session. Crosby, in the centre of the pic- ture, took his usual nap while our worthy Commo- dore Currier, represented by the bunch of hair in the fourth boat from the right, cracked Scott’s usual jokes. During the meeting Perry gave us some exhibitions of the best way to hang by one’s toes. Bradford had a weak neck, and it doubled up under him just as the exposure was made. Since the club Pliolu by Purdy was organized, it has increased its membership to eight sunburned specimens of insanity—Commo- dore Currier. Yice-Commodorc Bradford, Treas- urer Scott. Gray, Crosby, Perry. Nangle, Went- worth, and five canoes bearing the Opeeche flag. A fierce discussion was held as to the advis- ability of going on a cruise, but to the end of the meeting the discussion remained on the fence. XU. X. 5. Club, X. '06 This club of L., '06, girls has just finished its second season. The present organization consists of: President, Miss Whitney; secretary. Miss Richardson; and treasurer. Miss Woodman. The other members are: The Misses Eastman, Spinney, Wilson, Sherwood, Stephens, Norton, Symonds, and Lowell. IE. XU. X. The last meeting of the E. W. L. was held at the home of Miss Annie McCoy. The following offi- cers were elected: President, Miss Ethel L. Mul- likcn: vice-president, Miss Annie McCoy; secre- tary and treasurer. Miss A. Myrtle Merrill. At the meeting plans were made for a picnic to Plymouth June 25. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 247 Gbe jfree pass Club The Free Pass Club, the well-known society of the Latin School, held its last meeting June 1 at the Tavern. The social functions of this club have been carried through with great success during the year. The club has for its members some of the most prominent fellows in the Latin School, but their names cannot be divulged here, owing to the tenets of the club. For similar reasons the aims of the club remain unmcntioned. A banquet will be given to the graduating mem- bers of the club on the evening of June 25, at Young's. The club will be carried on next year, and new members will in all probability be elected as soon as they prove themselves eligible. The officers and members of the past year are: President, Harry”: vice-president, Karl : treasurer. Ted”; and sec- retary, Winnie.” The reception committee is composed of Ossie.” Toodles.” Mocha,” Pinkie,” and Dolph.” -------------------------- Oabaneeters 'Hie Gabancetcr Club is composed of the girls of English. 1905, organized December. 1903. Its ob- ject is to be just a little bit different from other clubs. The social career is marked by a very successful gentlemen’s evening, but their forte is in their stage work, in connection with the musical play, Prince Clever.” The members are: Mary Edmands (president), Josephine Nicholson (secretary). Hazel Trueman, Muriel Trueman. Sara Gale. Edna Gordon. Lillian Ricker. Florence Shaw, Tirzah Robbins, Ruth Pratt, and Gertrude Armstrong. -------------------------- 5. H. jf. The S. A. F. was the first club to be organized in the class of 1900 of the English School. During the year it has held regular meetings at the homes of its members. It had a basket ball team, which successfully represented the class of English. ’06. The membership includes: President, Henry Monroe: vice-president, C. S. Rice: secretary. Roscoe Waterhouse; treasurer. Albert Newell. 'File other members are: Henderson. Lakin, Mc- Ncal, Flaherty, Holland, and Western. Z. lb. B. The second successful year of the T. H. D. Club is just about to close, a gentlemen's night being selected as an appropriate wind-up.” Earlier in the season the club en- joyed itself by a theatre party. The club consists of eleven mem- bers. all of '05, English. Two will soon be ad- mitted. with appropriate ceremony. It is the in- tention of the club to continue its organization next year, and several social events arc all ready pro- posed. The club organization consists of: President, Miss Ethel W. Brown; vice-president. Miss Marion F. Pritchard; secretary. Miss Katharine E. Schwab; treasurer. Miss Agnes Clifford. JS. G. S. Club The first club of young ladies to be formed in the class of Eng- lish, '04. was the B. C. S. The first meeting was held January 11. 1902, and the club then num- bered ten members. Since that time two new members have been admitted. Since its organization, the club has held several gentlemen's nights, two invitation dances, and a Hallowe’en party. A sketch was given in the baseball concert, which was a great success. The members intend to continue the meetings after the vacation, and new plans of work are to be made. The present organization is: President. Miss Russell: vice-president, Miss Phinnev; treasurer. Miss Caldwell; secretary, Miss Stevenson. Other members are: The Misses Moulton. Nolan. Ilcgan LeCour, Downs, Priestly, Emerson, and Dillon. --------------------------------------- Ber Crcue Herein The meeting of Der Treue Ycrcin was held at the home of Fraulcin Emma Davis. 13 Mt. Ver- non street. May 4. After the busi- ness meeting, piano selections, games, and a dainty repast were enjoyed by all. The present officers, die Fraulcin Marion F. Bunker, president. Mary B. Conner, treasurer, and Alice G. Merrill, secre- tary. have had a very successful year. 248 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR fl bi Blpba The only girls’ frat of the Latin High held its annual business meeting at the home of its presi- dent. May Davis. The names of six Junior girls were proposed and voted on for membership in the club. The chosen ones were the Misses Baxter, Bunker. Starkey. Tcad. Kimball, and Mulliken. After a week of trials, the girls gathered at Blanche Preston’s house for the final initiation. Refresh- ments were served, and a pleasant hour followed, in which the ’05 girls were made the active members for the ensuing year. 'Flic club has now a member- ship of forty-two. It has enjoyed six successful sea- sons. and hopes to be even more prosperous under its new management. ---------------------------- %. i£. E . Club Hic L. E. D. Club, organized January. 1902, claims the distinc- tion of being the first girls’ club of yp' the class of 1901, E. II. S. During the three years of its cx- istence. the young ladies have en- joyed many good times, especially at the Leap Year dance, the first one of the season. Among the other social times of the last year arc the Progressive Supper and Harlequin Party. The present members are: Amy L. Butterfield (president), Ethel M. Snow (secretary). Gladys Loring (treasurer). Edna J. Brine. Mary E. Dol- bcar, Nellie A. Brown. Helen L. Hatch, Alveda F. Greenwood, and Bertha M. Hennings. ---------------------------- 1R. E . jf. Club The officers elected at the second installation of the X. I). F. were: President. Ice Water Parant: vice-president, Meet me in St. Louis Willard; secretary and treasurer. Master Bessie Duncan: and correspondent. Bud Hincklv Wise Lane. The boys will close the successful year with a banquet at the home of Blacksmith Baker. Color-bearer Ward spent most of the last meeting angling with Ice Water Parant in the lakes and rivers of New England. St. Louis Willard still talks about his hoisting sails on the briny deep. Bud Wise” Lane talked about his coming match with Learned, the tennis champion. Blacksmith Baker is bald-headed from butting in. ---------------------------- IResolutlons, Xatln, ’05 Whereas, by the will of God. our classmate, Mary B. Connor, has been bereft of her beloved father : and Whereas, we. the class of 1905, have learned with sorrow of her great loss: be it therefore Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be pub- lished in the Radiator, and be sent to Mary B. Connor. Robert A. Burns, President. Ruth L. Whitman. Secretary. Cbe .iGacbclcr Girls The Bachelor Girls organized early last Septem- ber. with a membership of six. Miss Gladys Libbcy was chosen president, and Miss C. Louise Stickney, secretary and treasurer. Weekly meetings have been held at the homes of the members. The first social event was a theatre party at the Hollis. Fol- lowing this came a very enjoyable dance on New Year's eve. During January and February the club girls were busy preparing for their part in the base- ball concert. They were invited to repeat the drill at Odd Fellows’ Hall, and again at Anthoinc’s, which they did. After this excitement, a gentle- men's night was given at the home of Miss Ray, April 1. Many were the jokes played upon the poor victims, but they all survived, and declared it a rousing good time. The Girls not long ago were chaperoned to the navy yard. In the spring vacation another theatre party at the Colonial was held. The last social affair of the season is to be a lawn party at the home of Miss Pipe, the latter part of June. Many preparations are going on to make this event surpass all others. Members of the club arc: Misses Libbcy, Hatch, Pipe. Ray. ' 4. and Reeves, Stickney, '03. ---o-.� -.------------ E . XT. Club The D. T. Club, organized at the beginning of the Junior year, has passed another successful win- ter. During the year meetings have been held at the homes of the different members, where very enjoyable afternoons have been spent. Two new members have been initiated, making the mem- bership ten. the limited number. The greatest event of the year was the gentlemen's night. held at Flemming Hall. The first part of the evening was spent playing hearts.” followed by a spread, the evening ending pleasantly with dancing. Plans have not yet been made for next winter, but the club still proposes to hold its regular meetings. The members are: The Misses Susie Ritchie, Mar- garet Lowell. Hattie Bailey, Blanche Preston, Carrie Jarvis. Grace Harding, Grace Jouctt. Helen Nichols, Cecelia Doe. and Marion Cousens. --------------------------------------- X . 5. Club, X. ’06 The members of the I’. S. Club, which was formed by L.. '06, girls in December. 1902, have spent an enjoyable winter, the meetings having been held at the homes of the different members. Al- though stormy weather prevented a number of the meetings, the club enjoyed many social afternoons. The girls arc one and all anticipating a jolly vaca- tion. and wish the same to all their friends. The members of the U. S. arc: Ruth Hills (president), Helen Hopkins (treasurer). Alice Hun- newcll (secretary). Genevieve Fosdick. Bertha Hutchins, Adele Crane. Lucy French, and Freda Haskell. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 24Q Enoltsb notes [Continued from page 243 ] '07 Puzzle: Who is the girl with 'light hair in Room 17? For information re- garding the difference between scholar,” ■‘student,” and pupil,” apply to Miss Do—gl—s, of Room 10. Could Miss R-----, of I. History A, in- form us whether the Romans are mourning yet for their dead soldiers? s misconduct: “Dolls in Miss S----y. of I. Drawing A, draws her models in a vapor bath on a hot day. Question for debate: “Are the curls of the Tech division real or otherwise?” (They look suspicious on hot days.) In the studio the other day the Normal Girls” were about baked and ready to be served at the lunch counter. For a description of circus parades, refer to P-------and R--------. of Division I. Navajo” is Division .Vs favorite song. Heard in I. Elocution A: “The dead whale.� (wails) are rolling along the seaside.” And in I. English A : “In accents disconsolate answers the whale (wail) of the forest.” Evidently the whale is quite a favorite with those girls. Sophomores (?) next September! Teacher— Why is Miss J----------- not here to-day?” Bright Pupil— Because she is absent.” Heard in Room 15:— “Were you communicating. Wi—1—d?” “No, I was just going to.” The Bakers’ Union is on a strike, And no more bread we’ll get. But the Tech Division needn’t mind, Our Baker hasn't yet. The no hat fad is contagious. Even some of the boys are getting into it. My, but doesn’t it sound good to hear the money rolling on the lloor of Room 18! Heard in the corridor:— First Student—“I hatefor the last.day of school to come.” Second Student— Why?” First Student— Because we get our report cards on that day.” Xea—y, of Room 18, is a member of the Don’t Worry Club.” 1 le always has the smile that won’t come off.” Ncalv says it is too hot to recite. The class officers are: President. Henderson; vice-president, Cox; secretary. Whitney: treasurer, Lane: class editor, Smith. I. English C: Car- penter. in giving an il- lustration of high and tall. says: The policeman is high and the mountain is tall. How funny! Say, II—1----------, how old is Ann (e)? Heard in English J : She had a green grass dress.” Car-----r docs not get his algebra be- cause he is trying to solve the brick problem in Boston American. ---------------------------------------- Xatin iHotes [Continued iron� |� « 0 241 1 '07 The customary cry in Room : Take your own seat. Miss Kimball had a fit over the present in- dicative active third person singular of fio. Teacher— What is the word for despoil?” Pupil - “Sapolio — arc-avi-atus.” Teacher— How do we stand now?” H—gg—ns— On our feet.” Sophomores next year! Heard in Latin: Alexander, when his father having been died. We wonder what color he was. We are glad to hear that Tucker is a wide- awake. intelligent boy. Class officers: Presi- dent. Lawrence H. Bowlby: secretary, Mabel Conover: edi- tor. Ralph B. Durell. Bowlby made a fine appearance one Monday morning. 250 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR ©ration By? tRalpb B. IMobt, B’04 Mr. President, Instructors, Fellow-students, and Classmates:— O reward the hero, that phe- nomenal dispenser of lavish gifts, Andrew Carnegie, has re- cently placed in deposit a large sum of money, that brave deeds may not pass unrecog- nized, nor the spirit of real heroism lack encouragement, Mr. Carnegie’s interpretation of the hero being one who has imperiled his life for others, the fireman, the policeman, the sailor. or whoever has saved the life of a fellow being. A noble benefaction, indeed, and well may the world applaud it. But the boon of rescued life and the need of shining gold alike derive their (lightest value from the ultimate use to which they are devoted. This broader and. I be- lieve. higher and nobler view of the hero, his life of service to mankind, 1 ask you to consider with me now. We will enumerate no lengthened list of the worthies of old whose deeds fill many a ponderous volume in yonder library, nor yet recite the names of the military heroes of our own loved land, no need of that; the breeze which, sweeping over Bunker Hill, passes this way to linger a moment on this spot made sacred by their blood, would whisper their names, though every tongue of ours were silent, and our hearts must respond with pride, “I also am an American.” In 1807 Robert Fulton gave to the world the re- sult of his efforts, the Clcrcmont. A rude craft, but containing the applied principle from which all the later magnificent results have been obtained. Scarcely half a dozen years later, George Stephen- son, with a genius for mechanical experiments, modeled in clay engine after engine until, on July 25,1814. he completed the first locomotive. A rude affair again, we say, but in embryo that which made possible all that has followed. Shall we not write high, in that Hall of Fame we this morning dedicate to the real hero, the name of Fulton and of Stephenson? And with them the names of those whose patient genius and toil revealed the means by which our thoughts, our very words, are trans- mitted through the air, beneath the sea. whenever man would send a message to his brother man,— the names of Morse and Field, and in our day of Bell and Edison, of Marconi and Dolbear. But these, you say, are men of genius, men with a gift, a talent. We foresee the names will be few in our Hall of Fame. Listen! Our list is not complete, nor our definition of the real hero finished. Long- fellow has said, “Genius is only great patience, the talent of faithfulness.” Wherever the work of the inventor is to-day benefiting mankind, note the army of workmen to whose individual faithfulness is entrusted the carrying out of the great ideas. Have they no part in the grand work? Some time ago the manager of one of the great electric lines, accompanied by a friend, boarded an open car and took a seat near the motorman. Pres- ently the car stopped at a grade crossing, and the motorman reached up to turn off the power. “Why do you do that?” asked the friend. “Orders,” was the laconic reply. “What would happen if you didn't?” persisted the inquirer. “A week’s loaf.” Turning to the manager, the friend remarked, “What a triumph of organization is your great system, when the final details can be executed with such almost machine-like attention!” “Not at all.” replied the manager. “For one man who can give what you call machine-like attention to detail we discharge a dozen incompetents. If a man hasn’t it in him to be faithful, no set of rules can furnish it for him.” The application, friends and classmates, is easily made. The field of the hero, from Dean Swift’s Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would de- serve better of mankind and do more essential ser- vice to his country than the whole race of politicians put together,” to Longfellow’s “Genius is only great patience.” is wide enough for each of us to find a place. Whether what arc counted as talents are ours or not, heroic service is still possible to us if we have developed in our character and bring to our work the one grand requisite, faithfulness. As we pause a little while, the last golden sands are swiftly dropping from the glass which measures our high school course; as we plant here the ivy, type of our faithful remembrance of this place, each heart. I know, must feel the resolve to be ourselves worthy of the remembrance we here pledge to our school; to reward the faithful kindness of our in- structors by the gift not of shining gold, but of ap- preciation. and to go forth to live, whether our lot be humble or more distinguished, at least a life of service to our fellows. Let us cherish this resolve, let us delay not in its execution, for often have we learned the lesson:— The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on; nor all your piety nor wit Shall turn it back to cancel half a line. Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.” . Holding fast to this resolve, classmates, as we part to go our several ways in life, to meet, perhaps, but seldom, we shall all have the proud satisfaction of knowing that the class of 1904, both individually and as a class, is proving not unworthy a grand op- portunity, then:— “In the world’s broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle; Be a hero in the strife.” SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 251 The S. O. M. Club was organized two years ago, being established by the charter members, Clyde E. Scott, Frank R. Bradford, Leonard W. Libbey, Lauren W. Waldron, and Frank J. Murphy, and was the first club organized which consisted of English School Sophomores. The following were admitted to membership in their respective order: Edwin H. Weaver, Arthur J. Mullen, Samuel II. Dolbcar. Frederick Spike, Albert S. Snow. George F. Trcnholm, Harold R. Currier, J. Leo Murphy, Aaron B. Noyes, I. Leo Bryan, and Samuel S. Barker. The officers for the past year arc: Presi- dent, F. Rumrell Bradford: vice-president, Leonard W. Libbey; secretary. Albert S. Snow; and treas- urer. Lauren W. Waldron. The club is famous for its unique initiations, so- cial successes, and general talent, the staff artists for the past two years, and probably next year, coming from the club, as well as the editor-in-chief for the coming year. During the past year the club was successfully represented in the baseball concert, and has given a theatre party, a half-century bicycle ride: and a banquet, among other things, and invitations have been sent out for their annual picnic at Silver Lake Tuesday, June 28. Septopian jfraternits The Septopian Fraternity, formed for the purpose of playing basket ball and having a social time, was organized October 2, 1903. During the year the club met at each member's house three times. After winning nine games, one of which was a rec- ord for high and low score against Dorchester High School second team, 70-2. the last was lost to Somerville Latin School. '05, in an overtime game for the championship of Somerville, by the score of 26-24. Chester Cuddy captained the team dur- ing the season. The club’s ladies’ night was held at Flemming Hall April 22. The affair was a com- plete success, as the first part of the evening was spent in playing whist, in which Mr. Bishop and Miss Bunker captured the prizes. A dance and re- freshments followed. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop were patron and matron. The girls present were: Misses Tead, Bunker, Christopher. McDonald, Bodwell, Hyde, and Foote. As the club will prob- ably be nothing but a memory in 1901-’05, a fare- well banquet will be held at Young’s in June. The members are: Carl II. Burns (president), Chester Cuddy (vice-president), William B. Moses (secretary), Edmund J. Twohig, James Doughty, Arthur R. Corwin, F.rle A. Bishop, and William Elliott. -------- --------------- Ebeta Epsilon Appearances arc deceiving,” so the saying goes. The appearance in this case is the non-appearance of any club notice in the Radiator previous to this one; and greatly are you deceived who think that the Theta Epsilon has ceased to exist. No, the at- tendance at the meetings and the interest shown by the members assure us that the club will continue for many years. The meetings have been excep- tionally happy ones this winter, and we are looking forward to another season of equal enjoyment. A picnic has been planned for July 2. It will be held at Plymouth, and will be chaperoned by Miss Walker. The officers and members for the past year have been as follows: President, Harriet K. Robinson: vice-president. Hazel Rugg; secretary. Cara E. Patten: treasurer. Ethel M. Cole; Gertrude E. Baxter, Ruth Dodge, E. Louise Kittredge, Mary T. McCarthy. M. Louise Tliiery, Ellen Baker, Ruth Whitman, and Mr. Hosmer. ---------------------------- Cbc 21. if. jfratcrnitp The A. F. Fraternity has enjoyed the most sirc- ccssful season since its organization. The frat.” which was organized in October. 1902. consisted of six members. Since then two more have been added to the list. The club socially has been very enjoyable this year. The ladies' night, which was held at Flem- ming's Hall, was very much enjoyed by all. The club has the marked distinction of capturing more S's” than any other organization in the school, seven being awarded this year. The ’05 basket-ball team, which was made up principally from this club, was unsurpassed in the last season. The frat” will be reorganized in the fall, and we hope to have another successful season. The members arc: Edgar I '. Sewall, president, J. Edward Beard, secretary and treasurer, Leo Ilaf- ford. Robert A. Burns, Allen E. Elliott, James Nichols. Harry Burroughs, Arthur T. Soule. 252 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR LATIN SENIOR INFORMATION BUREAU Emery Moore: Height, five feet, standing; chief oc- cupation. dancing; favorite song, “Look in the book and see”: ambition, to sleep long and often: opinion of other sex. not quiet enough. Wyman : Age, eighteen ; weight. 1 5(5. stripped : favorite expression. Wotted”: fond of ladies, espe- cially one Lil”: favorite song. Lil, I like you for fair”; very fond of cherries; his ambition in life, to do others as often as he can: he will die a lingering death. Lawson: Age, either twelve or twenty; weight. 137; favor- ite expression. Good morning. Si” ; opinion of the other sex, they all love him; a great pro- moter of graft, to wit, the photograph business; future prospects, lie will probably stick to the markets; he will die of too much inhalation. Phillips: Will smile if called ‘‘Bill : weight, Wednesday nights, beyond calculation : favorite phrase, That's a Pippin”; aim in life, to stick in second division; favorite song, I don’t care what teacher says. I can’t do this sum”; future outlook, a stickler for the Wise Man; opinion of the other sex, not altogether hopeless; will die of stage fright. Bell: Known as Dick”; measure- ments, eight by twicefavorite expres- sion, not fit for publication; aim in life, to set up a place like ‘‘Thomp- son’s” for his own use and that of his friends; opinion of other sex, don’t need ’em; Phil Morris will fix him ere the bristles shade his upper lip. Denvir: Known as “George” and and Harry”; the only true sport that ever darkened the portals of the Latin School—the greatest ad- vertisement Raymond ever put out; one of the Summa Sammy type— his favorite pastime, working; he is he’ll never die; the Charles will be dragged at some future date. McLaughlin: Known as Mocha” ; age unknown : his children arc old enough to vote; proclivities, athletic; favorite pastime, shaving; fav- orite expression, “Are you feel- ing well this morning? You are looking well”; ambition in life, to go to Harvard without taking exams; he will step on his beard some windy Wednes- day. stub his toe. dislocate his map, and will never recover. Ricker: Weight. before Radiator comes out, ninety; after. 150; known as Rike,” Winnie,” etc.; aim in life, the sight have been off his gun for two years; favorite walk, the Rcz. or Highland avenue; favorite expression, “Greet- ings”; opinion of fair sex. fine after dark; will die of careless- ness or rheumatism; father of cinch theory in life. Stevens: Known as “Steve” ; favorite song. If father’s will- ing” : chief catastrophe of life, had his lunch stolen, ’twas un- insured ; favorite expression, Kf-kf”; likes girls, not par- ticular ; will die of being asked if he has ever run an auto. Miss Preston: Known as Miss Preston ; fond of clothes, and has her reasons; has a pre- dilection for Clacky”—can’t understand it, but that’s not our business; very strong in the lungs and vox; she may not die —note pres. subj. Miss Drouet: Known as “Lil”; favorite motto, “Hand- some is as handsome docs”; has had 900 pictures of herself taken -step up and take one if you don’t want to get her mad with you; favorite expression, “Reely”; favorite pastime, prac- ticing the “Kangaroo” walk and looking “coy”; will die of a lame arm. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 253 Kathryne Nolan, alias Kate or Katie, Kit or Kittie: Age, twelve summers and six winters; weight, all in the mind; dis- position, smart; highest ambition, to be the only It; opin- ion of other sex, very interesting as nature studies; fav- orite pastime, hunting for hot doughnuts for the staff. Warren Farnum, the worthy class editor: Size of boots, No. 12; age, six; disposition, flowery; fond of dark-complexioned children; favorite pastimes, camping, sleeping, and hunting. Arthur Duhig, alias Rough-house Art: Rising hour, in time to curl his front hair; opinion of opposite sex, in love with the sex in general; a strong tendency toward pugilism. Gladys Loring: Age, ask B.; weight, ask B.; disposition, ask B.; pet phrase, ask B.; opinion of the other sex, man=B.; favorite pastime, talking to B.; highest ambition, to be the better half of B. So mote it B. Eva Clement, alias Divie”: Age, four and one-half; height, six feet, three inches, when standing on a box six feet high; disposition, frisky; chief ambition, to get there; opinion of the other sex, a jolly lot. Gerard Bean, alias Cliff; opinion of other sex. likes them all; chief am- bition, to be the great I Am ; fav- orite pastime, visits East Cambridge every day; always busy about nothing. William Barton. alias Billy: Weight, 108 ounces; height, medium: favorite pastimes, baseball, study, and calling on G---------; opinion of other sex, quite fond of the lady-birds. Edward Frost, alias Teddy: Age, eighteen; the boy with the brilliant complexion; opinion of opposite sex. likes the girls, especially J-. J. Albert Wilson, alias A1: Age, prehistoric; Our Basso- profundo”; favorite pastime, training the infant mind; pet phrase, Isn’t that crude, fel- lows?”; chief ambition, to go abroad and study music; opin- ion of opposite sex, depends upon their musical ability. Edward Fallen, alias Jimmie: Age, about ten ; disposition, hasn't one ; pet phrase, has he one?; opinion of other sex is universally percepted; favorite pastime, cooking. Ethel Ray: Weight, something awesome: disposition, never killed a cat; highest ambition, dangerous; opinion of opposite sex, awfully cun- ning.” Alfred Trueman, alias Ike: Age, middle, more or less ; weight, wait; disposition, coquettish; pet phrase, Cold feet” : favorite pastime, hold- ing down Bunker Hill Monument; highest ambition, to give “ditties” from Mark Twain; opinion of other sex, all there (in Lowell); favorite dish, smoked herring. 254 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR “TLhc flMratee “The Pirates of Penzance ' was given May 31 and June 1 in Union hall, Boylston street, Boston, by pupils of the Somerville High Schools. We lack superlatives to express the success of the opera. There was not a single flaw to mar the beauty of the production. S. Henry Hadley has been working with some sixty pupils of the two High Schools the greater part of the winter, and the results were far from vain—to witness the crowded houses both nights. First of all. great commendation is due Mr. Had- ley for his untiring zeal throughout. He turned out soloists and a chorus that, considering time and facilities, were worthy of any Boston stage. This opera only adds another to Mr. Hadley's successes. Leon II. Dadmun. well known on the Boston “boards' and in Somerville for his coaching and as stage manager, put the spirit into the pupils that won the repeated applause from the audience. Rowland Y. Dunham, the leading man, who took the part of Frederic, a pirate apprentice, car- ried through his part in excellent shape. His sing- ing and that of Miss Bragdon, J. Albert Wilson, and Warren B. Farnum kept hand-clapping in the ascendency. Miss Eieanorc Bragdon’s work as leading lady can only be spoken of in expletives of praise. J. Albert Wilson and Warren B. Farnum as Richard, the pirate king, and Major-General Stan- ley, of the British army, respectively, gave excellent interpretations of their parts. Their acting was perfectly natural, and the equal of anv Sothern. If anything, Wilson's work as Edward, sergeant of police, was better than that of the pirate king. of Ubensance” Miss Gertrude Benjamin, as Ruth, played pos- sibly the most difficult part, and her acting was be- yond criticism. Her voice at times was weak, but it was scarcely noticeable. The work of Misses Alice and Bertha Pilsbury and Martha Russell was good, especially the sing- ing of the former two. The chorus work seemed the best of all. With Mr. Hadley at the front, the daughters, pirates, and indice gave some exhibitions that were simply GREAT. 'Hie chorus girls—for such they were—looked sweet enough to—[orphan often] we won't say it— still we felt it. Our supply of adjectives has given out, yet we must sav that those who failed to see the opera missed the best production the Somerville High Schools have ever given. The members of the chorus were: The Misses Loring, Welch, Ed- monds. Burk. Bowlby, Marden, Williams, Hamlin, Trueman. Clement, Gordon, Gale, Baxter, Gooding, Brown. Hunnewel 1. Brown. Harvey. Turner, and Messrs. Barton, Perry, Bradford. Doughty, Vcr Wicbc, Gorman. Blair. Barker. Vcr Wiebc, Soule, Stacy, Ball. Mitchell. Nichols. Phillips, Moore, Bean. Despeaux. Stevens. Lakin. Scott, Currier, Chandler, Woodworth, Duhig, and Frost. The cast: Richard (the pirate king), J. Albert Wilson: Samuel (pirate lieutenant), Charles E. Fisher: Krederic (a pirate apprentice). Rowland W. Dunham; Major-General Stanley, of British army, Warren B. Farnum: Mabel (General Stanley’s youngest daughter). Miss Eieanorc Bragdon; Edith, Kate, Isabelle (General Stanley’s daughters). Miss Alice Pilsbury, Miss Bertha Pilsbury, Miss Martha Russell: Ruth (practical maid-of-all work), Miss Gertrude Benjamin: Edward (sergeant of police), J. Albert Wilson; chorus of pirates, police, and General Stanley's daughters; orchestra of fif- teen pieces. Synopsis of scenery: Act I., rocky shore on the coast of Cornwall: the pirates’ lair. Act II., ruined chapel on General Stanley’s estate. Patrons, Mayor and Mrs. Leonard B. Chandler, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon A. Southworth, Mr. and Mrs. George L. Baxter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. C. Whitcomb; business managers, J. Albert Wilson, Rowland W. Dunham. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 255 Ebe IRabiator Staff at Wlorh 256 SOMER VILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Brranoed by Xaurence iDitcbcll September 14—School opens. September 17—Captain McLaughlin calls for football candidates. September 22—First annual meeting of L. F.. D. Club. September 18—First annual meeting of S. O. M. Club. September 30—After a loosely-played game. Somerville lost to Everett, 6-0. October 2—First meeting of Septopian Frater- nity: October 3—Somerville redeems herself and de- feats 15. C. Prep., 27-0. October 7—By superior weight Groton wins, 6-0. October 8—First annual meeting of the S. T. 1). Club. October 8—First meeting of the Bachelor Girls. October 9—Somerville defeats Cambridge Latin. 5-0. October 15—The October Radiato� , Fall number. October 20—Medford loses to us, 5-0. October 21—Reception to English Freshmen. October 24—We win the first League game, from Malden, 23-0. October 27—Somerville, 12; Cambridge Latin, 0. October 30—The B. C. S. Club entertains its friends with a Hallowe’en party. October 31—After much dissatisfaction with the officials. Somerville loses to Salem, 11-5. October 31—A great many Hallowe’en parties. November 7—We win second League game, from Dorchester. 17-5. November 9—W. L. M. Club holds its first meeting. November 11—Somerville has a stage fright, and with nearly all substitutes in the game, loses to Lowell Textile, 5-0. November 14—In the third League game we again win. this time with our old rivals, Boston English High. Score: 11-0. November 17—The first Senior social is a suc- cess. November 19—'Hie November Radiator, Thanksgiving number. November 26—Before a large crowd, Somerville wins the championship, defeating R. M. T. S., 6-5. November 28—The snappy quarterback cele- brates the victory in a very unique way in Medford. December 3—English School Alumni banquet. December 9—The S. T. D. Club holds its third annual ladies’ night. December 22—The December Radiator, Cham- pionship number. December 22—The second Senior social is a suc- cess (?). December 29—Banquet to championship football team of ’03. December 30—Class of ’01, Latin School, holds its reunion. December 31—The Bachelor Girls entertain their gentlemen friends. Januarv 5—The Tuniors hold a social in Guild Hall. January 0—The L. E. D. Club holds the first Leap Year dance. January 6—By some unknown cause the hockey team defeats Boston Latin, 2-0. January 19—The W. L. M. Club holds a dance. January 21—The January Radiator, Staff num- ber. January 23—The third Senior social has a large attendance (?). January 23—Salem High girls, 17; Somerville Latin girls. 8, basket ball. January 28—Phi Alpha Club holds a dance in Flemming Hall. February 9—The Sigma Delta—S. T. D. dance at Anthoine’s. February 11—A Pit party by the W. L. M. Club. February 17—In an exciting basket-ball game, ’05. Latin, defeats the Septopians, and wins the championship of the Latin School. February 25—The February Radiator, Alumni number. February 26—The baseball concert is the best ever given. SOMER VILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 257 March I—The Somerville Latin iris lose to Lynn Classical School. 28-1-1. March 17—The Juniors hold a dance at An- thoinc’s. March 23—Latin, ’05, defeats R. M. T. S. at bas- ket ball, 39-9. March 24—The March Radiator. March 29—A Leap Year dance by the Y. L. M. Club. April 1—A gentlemen’s night bv the Bachelor Girls. April 1—The Latin Seniors make the best of April fools’ day. April 4—A very pretty dance by the Gab- aneeters. April 6—A ladies’ night by the Sigma Delta Club. April S—Somerville plays great ball and defeats a professional team, 21-11. April 12—The English Seniors hold a pretty- dance at Anthoinc’s. April 13—Somerville defeats Tufts second casilv, 9-1. April 19—Somerville has a close call with Law- rence High, winning only by a score of 14-11. April 22—The I . C. S. girls give a very pretty Leap Year party. April 2(5—The April Radiatok. Spring number. April 30—The S. T. D. boys go to Rivcrhurst to camp. May 4—Nichols pitches a great game against Groton, who do not get a hit. and Somerville wins, 3-0. May 5—Somerville has Harvard second beaten, when a slump in the 7th gives Harvard the game. 6-4. May 7—Somerville casilv defeats Mechanic Arts. 11-6. ' May 10—Straw hats are seen in the English School, while fishing is the craze in the Latin. May 11—Somerville defeats Cambridge High easily. 11-0. Haflford makes a record of twenty- one strikeouts. May 12—Somerville defeats Lawrence High sec- ond time. May 12—The Free Pass Club held its annual meeting at the Tavern. May 14—Mr. Baxter entertains the Latin Senior class. May 1 I—YYc win the first league game from Rindge Manual Training School. 4-3. Haflford had nineteen strikeouts. May 19—The May Radiator. May 21—In the second league game Somerville defeats Boston English High. 9-0. Haflford had seventeen strikeouts. May 23—In a close game at Melrose Somerville wins. 5-3. May 27—The Senior class of the English School is charmingly entertained by Mr. Whitcomb. May 28—In the third League game Somerville wins from Malden, 8-4. May 30—A big crowd gathered to see the Somer- ville-Dorchester game, only to be disappointed by the rain. May 31—The Pirates of Penzance” is given by pupils of the two schools in Union Hall. Boston. June 1—The expectations of all are surpassed by the success of the Operetta. June 4—Somerville again trounces Boston Eng- lish High School. 11-1. June S-—Somerville defeats Dorchester in the fifth league game of the season by a score of 8-2. The crowd and cheering was a credit to the school. Let this continue. June 13—Ivy day in the English School. June 16—The Senior class enjoys it last social event in Anthoine Hall—the soiree. June 16—The June Radiator. June 23—Graduation. Good-by.” Gvafcuation E3.icrci$c9 bred crick A. P. Fiskc. Chairman of School Board, Presiding. Overture— Si j’etais Roi”..................Adam Hadley’s Orchestra. 1. Singing—Four-part song. Greeting to Spring (Waltz).........Strauss .Solo— Toreador's Song. with Chorus. (Carmen)..........Bizet J. Albert Wilson. 2. Prayer. Rev. W. Bradley Whitney. 3. Singing—Bass Soli and Chorus. Ear from the Forest” (Ernani). ..Verdi Orchestration by S. Henry Hadley. •All singing accompanied by Hadley's Orchestra, under the !. Wldrcss to Graduates— Education After School.” Rev. W. II. P. Fauncc, 1). D.. President of Brown University. 5. Singing— Lelawala. a Legend of Ni- agara..........Henry K. Hadley Ballade for Soli. Chorus, and Orchestra. Soprano, Maud F. Weeks. Tenor, Rowland W. Dunham 6. Presentation of Diplomas. Frederick A. P. Fiskc, Chairman of School Board. 7. Singing—Hunting Chorus. Hark ! the Mountains Resound.” (Sea- sons) ......................Haydn direction of S. Henry Hadley, teacher of music In the schools. 258 SOMKRVILLK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Somerville, u ; Cambri oe, 0 In the game with Cambridge, Hafford made an excellent record by striking out twenty-one men and allowing but one hit. Somerville had little difficulty in winning, and at no stage of the game was there a dangerous pre- dicament. Xot an error was made bv the followers of the Red and Line, and swift, clean fielding was perceptible. Hafford and I Hair each got four hits, and Doughty. Burns, and Lakin did their sha-c. Kllis for Cambridge was the only man to hit the ball for his side, and Mahoney and McCullough fielded well. The score:— SOM KRVILLK HIGH SCHOOL. BH . PO. A. K. 1 I Doughty, 3b 0 0 0 Hafford. p 0 3 1 Barton. 2b 1 0 0 0 Haves, l.f 1 0 0 0 Holland, c.f 1 0 0 0 Burns, lb 2 4 0 0 Lakin. r.f 2 1 0 0 Driscoll, c 0 21 1 0 Totals 27 5 1 CAMBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL itn . PO. A. K. t1. Colsburg, s.s 0 1 2 3 McCullough, c 0 5 0 0 Mullins, c.f 0 1 0 0 3 i o 1 7 1 Ellis, lb 1 10 0 0 Winlockc, l.f 0 0 0 1 Mahoney. 2b 0 2 2 1 1 o o Totals 24 12 6 Innings ....1 2 3 4 5 G 7 8 9 Somerville High ....21103 2 2 0 - -11 Runs made—By Blair (3), Doughty (2), Hafford O). Hayes. Burns (2). Lakin. Two-base hit— Blair. Three-base hit—Hafford. Stolen bases— Blair (2), Doughtv. Hafford. Lakin (3), Douglass. Bases on balls—Off Hafford (7). off Murray (4 . Struck out—By Hafford. 21 : by Murray, 4. Sac- rifice hit—Hafford. Passed balls—Driscoll Mc- Cullough (3). Cmpirc—F. Storey. Thru?—lh. 50m. Somerville, 12 ; Xawreitce, 2 ()n May 12 the team went down to Lawrence, and beat the ioeal high school at Glen Forest without much trouble. Nichols pitched for eight innings, and got ten strikeouts. But four hits were made from his delivery, and these were all singles. O'Brien, of Lawrence, was hit hard and often for a total of seventeen hits, four of which were made by Hafford. He secured a home run. a tln ee-bagger. and two singles for a total of seven. In the last inning Haff” went into the box to warm up. as he had had no chance in the field, and struck out three men in succession, pitching only eleven balls. Lannen. of Lawrence, did the best work for his side, and his catch of a foul fly in the sixth was a brilliant one. The score:- SOMERVILLE. BH. PO. A. K. Blair, s.s 2 0 2 0 Doughtv. 3b. . 1 0 1 11 afford, l.f.. p. 4 0 0 0 Barton. 2b. . .. 2 1 3 2 9 0 o Burns, lb tY 1 0 0 1 lolland. r.f... 0 1 0 0 I Iriscoll. c. . . . 15 2 0 Xichols. p.. l.f. 1 0 1 0 27 8 3 LAWRENCE. BH. PO. A. K. Kellv, 3b. . 3 1 o 1 2 3 Hanrahan. lb. 0 7 0 1 Lane, l.f 1 0 1 0 Lannen, c 0 14 5 0 Mulcahv. c.f. .. 2 1 0 Lvnch. r.f 0 0 0 Ebert, r.f..... O'Brien, p..... Brown. 2b...... SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 259 Totals . Innings Somerville 1 .aw rcnce 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 1 0 1 27 15 4 .1 2 3 1 5 6 7 8 9 .2 0 2 0 3 2 0 2 1— 12 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0— 2 Runs made—By Blair (3). Doughty. Haflford (’ ), Barton. Burns. Nichols. Kelly. Lannen. Two-base hit—Nichols. Home run—Haflford. Stolen bases —Doughty, Haflford (3). Barton, Holland. Burns. Fitzgerald. Lane. Lannen (3). Mulcahy. First base on balls—Off Nichols (3). oflf O'Brien (3). Struck out—By Nichols. 10; by Haflford. 3; by O’Brien. 7. Double play—Lannen (unassisted). Hit by pitched ball—Holland. Wild pitches— Nichols, O'Brien. Passed balls—Driscoll. Um- pire—O’Mahoney. Time—2h. 10m. Somerville, 4; 1R. 1D. Z. S., 3 At Broadway field, before a large gathering. Somerville won her first league game of the season. It was a pitchers’ battle from start to finish, with Haflford doing the better work. Leo was up in the air in the first inning, and things looked dubious, but he settled down to work and made a new league record of nineteen strikeouts. Beckett, of Cam- bridge. had ten to his credit. Haflford gave the first man a base on balls, and the next three got singles. Here he caught a man at second, but on a wild throw to Burns two men scored. The next two struck out. and the three runs made in this inning were the only ones made by Training School. Somerville went out on pop flies in one, two. three order. The next ten men were struck out by Leo. and Somerville in the second scored two runs, and one in the third, tieing the score. From the third inning on it was a battle royal for the two pitchers, with the result that Haflford pulled his team to victory by his superb pitching and by a timely two-bagger, which brought in the winning run in the fifth inning. Beckett pulled his team out of three or four bad holes with remarkable control. Somerville showed the effects of good coaching and good team work. Driscoll. Barton, and Burns also shone for their brilliant playing. The score: SOMFRY 1 LLK me ill. AH. H1I. 1 0. A. K Blair, s.s 0 3 0 1 Doughtv. 3b 1 0 1 1 Haflford. p 4 2 0 2 0 Barton. 2b 1 1 1 1 0 Haves, l.f 3 0 0 0 0 Higgins, r.f 4 1 0 0 0 Burns, lb 4 0 3 0 1 1 lolland. c.f 2 0 0 0 0 Driscoll, c 0 20 1 1 Totals 5 27 5 4 R. M . T. S. AH. Hit. 1 0. A. k. Easlev. s.s A 0 2 1 1 Parks, c 1 13 1 1 McCrehan. c.f 1 0 0 0 Adams, lb ..... 4 0 3 0 0 Murphy. 3b 0 0 1 0 Swcenv. l.f 0 1 6 i) Beckett, p 0 1 1 0 Clueas, r 4 0 1 0 0 McArdle. 2b 3 0 1 1 0 Totals 0 24 5 2 Innings ... 1 23 1 5 ( 7 8 9 Somerville High . . .0 • 1 0 1 0 0 0 - -4 R. M. T. S................3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—3 Runs earned—Somerville High (1). Runs made •Doughty. Haflford. Barton. Higgins, Parks. Adams, Murphy. Two-base hit—Haflford (2i, Bar- ton. Stolen bases—Doughty. Barton. Parks. Murphy. First base on balls—Off Haflford. Parks. Sweeny. Beckett; off Beckett. Blair. First base on errors—Sweeny. McCrehan. Burns, Higgins. Struck out—By Haflford. 19; by Beckett. 10. Double play—Beckett. McArdle. and Adams. Passed balls—Driscoll. Parks (2). Hit by pitched balls—Holland. Hayes. Time—Hi. 30m. Umpire—H. Clarkson. Attendance—1,000. CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL TEAM OF 1903. Photo by Puidy SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Somerville, 9; Englfsb IMob, 0 Leo Hafford again showed his great ability to pitch when he administered defeat to the High School 1x ys to the tune of 9 to 0. Nineteen men fanned the wind, and but three hits were made from his delivery. Burke pitched a good game until the seventh, when he was hit so hard that, after seven hits had been made, he retired in favor of Scanlon, who managed to stop the scoring. Errors were made by English High, which counted for runs, but an excusable error by Barton was the only one credited to Somerville. At the bat Hafford and Doughty took the honors, the former getting a two-bagger, a three-bagger, and a clean single. Burke’s hit was a dandy, going straight as a die along the first base line. Stolen bases were frequent, and Somerville se- cured eleven. 11 afford in the third inning took the crowd off its feet by stealing second, and on the next ball thrown, stealing third, and on an error made by McNulty at third scored the first run. Driscoll was in fine form, for not a man of High School stole second, and the three who attempted 261 to do so were thrown out. He also got three diffi- cult foul tips. The score:— SOMERVILLE HIGH. All. mi. PO. A. K. Blair, s.s 1 1 1 0 Dough tv. 3b ...5 2 0 1 0 Hafford. p .. 3 1 0 0 Barton, 2b ... 4 0 2 2 0 Haves, c.f 0 0 0 0 Higgins, r.f ... 3 1 0 0 0 Burns, lb ... 4 1 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 Driscoll, c ... 4 1 18 1 0 Holland, c.f 1 1 0 0 0 Totals ...37 11 27 5 0 ENGLISH HIGH. All. 1111. PO. A. K. McNulty, 3b ... 2 1 4 1 0 Howard, 2b 0 1 2 1 Scanlon, p.. l.f ... 4 0 1 0 0 Burke, l.f., p . . . 4 1 0 1 1 Quinlan, c.f ... 3 0 3 0 0 Parker, lb ... 3 0 G 0 0 McLaughlin, r.f ... 3 1 1 0 0 Norton, s.s 0 1 1 1 Marron, c ...2 0 ry 4 0 1 Davis, r ... 0 0 0 0 0 Brophv, c ... 1 0 0 0 0 Totals ...29 3 24 5 4 Innings .1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Somerville High .0 0 0 1 2 0 6 0 - -9 Runs earned—Blair, Doughty. Hafford. Barton. Runs made—Blair (2), Doughty. Hafford (2), Bar- ton, Burns. Holland. Driscoll. Two-base hit— Burke. Three-base hit—Hafford. Stolen bases— Blair (2), Doughty (2), Hafford (3), Barton, Hol- land. Curran. Driscoll. First base on balls—Off Hafford, McNulty (2); off Burke. Barton; off Scanlon. Curran. First base on errors—Blair, Burns. Struck out—By Hafford. 17: by Burke. 5; by Scanlon. 2. Passed ball—Driscoll. Wild pitch—Burke. Time—lh. 30m. Umpire—Henry Clarkson. Attendance—1,000. SOMERVILLE HIGH TRACK TEAM, 1904. Photo by Purdy SOMERVILLE HIGH HOCKEY TEAM, 1903-1904. Photo by Purdy 264 SOM I -R VILLI : HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Somerville, 5; IDelrose, 3 On May 25 Somerville High visited Melrose and faced a left-handed pitcher, who proved several points better than any other thus far this season. The umpiring was also very rank all through the game, as the official was a Melrose man, and showed favoritism for his home team decidedly. Melrose started the scoring of one run in the second, and again in the third: it was the fourth, however, be- fore the visitors got wide awake and tied the score, 2 to 2. Somerville also scored in the fifth, sixth, and ninth, while Melrose added one to her score in the sixth. Barton's two-bagger was the best hit of the day. while Driscoll. Doughty. Burns, and Bar- ton did fair work in the field. The best work of the home team was done by Harris and Wheeler. The score:— SOMERVILLE HIGH. AH. hh, , I’O. A. K. Blair, s.s 5 0 2 1 2 Doughtv. 3b. 5 1 4 2 0 11 afford, p 3 0 0 3 1 Barton. 2b. . . 1 1 3 • 0 Higgins, r.f. . 4 1 0 0 0 Haves, c.f.... 4 1 0 0 0 Burns, lb.... 4 1 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 lolland. l.f. . I 0 0 0 Driscoll, c... 0 9 1 0 Totals .... 6 2? 9 3 MELROSE HIGH . AH. HU. 1 0. . Wheeler, c... 0 12 1 1 Cassell, s.s. . . 1 0 0 2 0 Pettengill. lb. 4 2 10 0 1 Harris, p.. .. 4 3 1 2 0 Scanlan. 2b.. 4 0 o 3 1 Folsom, c.f... I) • 0 0 Wilson. 3b. . . 4 1 0 2 II Campbell, r.f. 4 2 0 0 0 Holmes, l.f... 4 1 0 0 0 Totals .... 9 2; 10 3 Somerville, S; iDalOen. 4 By beating Malden. Somerville got her third straight league victory by a score of S to I. Haf- ford did not let himself out. as he was saving his arm for the Dorchester game. Even at this, he out- pitched his rival. Cate, by securing ten strikeouts to eight, and allowing fewer hits. Hafford gave three bases on balls to Cate’s two. Three of Malden’s runs were made in the first inning, and her other in the third. Somerville made one in the first and sixth, two in the third, and in her bitter seventh, four more. Hafford. Barton, and Doughty did most of the stick work, while Burns and Blair in the field played a snappy game. Morton and Hill did the best work for Malden. The score:— 'frit um.i1 SOMERVILLE HIGH. AH. Hit. PO. A. K. Blair, s.s 0 1 5 0 Doughty, 3b 2 1 1 0 Hafford. p 2 1 5 1 Barton. 2b . 4 1 1 1 1 Haves, c.f . 4. 1 1 0 0 1 liggins. r.f . 4 0 0 0 0 Burns, lb . 4 1 13 0 1 Curran, l.f . 2 0 0 0 0 Driscoll, c . 4 1 8 2 0 Holland, l.f 2 ' 0 0 0 0 8 26 14 3 MALDEN HIGH AH. Hit. 1 0. A. i-:. Elder. 21� 3 0 1 2 0 Connellv, s.s 0 2 1 1 White, c.f , I 2 1 0 0 Porter, r.f , 4 1 1 0 1 .4 0 1 3 1 Hill, l.f . 4 1 3 •0 0 Babcock, lb . 4 1 6 0 2 Tobin. 3b . 4 0 0 1 1 Morton, c 2 0 9 0 0 Totals 5 24 •7 6 Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Somerville High 1 0 2 0 0 1 4 0 - -8 Malden High 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0—4 Runs earned—Hafford. White. Two-base hits— Hafford (2). Three-base hit—Barton. Sacrifice hit Connelly. Stolen bases—Doughty. Hafford (3). Hayes, Burns. Porter. Hill, Babcock. First base on balls—Off Hafford, Elder (2), Morton; off Cate. Doughty. Hafford. First base on errors— Blair. Barton. Driscoll. Cate. Struck out—By Hafford. 10; by Cate. 8. Passed balls—Driscoll (2). Morton. Wild pitch—Cate. Hit by pitched ball—Morton. Time—lh. 45m. Umpire —Henry Clarkson. Attendance—600. SOMERVILLE HIGH BASEBALL TEAM. 1904. Photo by Purdy EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. S. F. L. ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION CAPTAINS AND MANAGERS Or ALL S. H. L. ATHLETIC TEAMS OF 1903-1904. 268 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Somerville, U; 36. JE. lf S., I At Somerville. June 1. the home team defeated Boston English High School in the fourth League game by a score of 11-1. The last spark of hope for the visitors’ chances of championship were dashed to pieces by the overwhelming defeat they received. Their only run was made in the third, when Burke hit a little pop fly with two out. and DRISCOLL O'-Amt onc on The CA CrC Hayes made the very worst kind of an error. Som- erville scored in six out of the nine innings. Haf- ford was easily the star of the game, having thirteen strikeouts, and out of five times at the bat he got three two-baggers and two singles. Blair also made three hits out of five times up. onc of these being a three-bagger, which by fast base-running he managed to reach home on a low throw. The work of the infield was also commendable for the home team. The score:— SOMERVILLE, AH. Hit. 1 0. A. K. Blair, s.s 3 2 0 0 Doughtv, 3b 1 2 1 1 0 Hafford. p 5 1 0 0 Barton, 2b 1 1 4 0 Haves, c.f 1 o 0 0 1 Higgins, r.f 4 3 1 3 0 Lakin, r.f 0 0 0 0 Burns, 3b 1 0 1 1 Holland, l.f 0 0 () 0 Curren. l.f o 1 1 0 0 Driscoll, c 1 14 0 0 Totals 42 17 27 7 2 B. E. H. S. AH. mi. , 1 0. A. K. McNulty, 3b 0 1 4 1 Howard. 2b 1 1 4 3 1 Scanlon, l.f 0 0 0 1 Burke, p 4 0 1 1 1 Parker, lb 4 0 8 0 0 McLaughlin, r.f.. 0 0 () 0 Quinlan, c.f 0 0 0 0 Norton, s.s 1 1 0 3 Brophc, c 2 0 0 2 0 Marron, c. . ... 1 0 4 2 0 Totals 2 25 32 7 •Burns hit by batted ball. Only two out in eighth inning. Runs—By Blair (3). Doughty (3), Hafford (2), Hayes (2). Higgins. Burns. McNulty. Two-base hits—Hafford (3). Three-base hits—Blair. Base on balls—Off Hafford (3), off Burke. Hit by pitched ball—Scanlon. Stolen bases—Hayes (2), Blair. Hafford, Higgins, apd McNulty. Struck out By Hafford. 13; bv Burke. 9. Umpire—Bvrns. 'lime—lb. Mini. LEO HAFFORD. Captain of This Yejr's Baseball T am and also Next Fall's Football Team. Somerville, 5 : iRorwocfc, 3 June 1 Somerville visited Norwood, and in a drizzling rain defeated the home team, 5-3. Con- sidering the difficulties, the team played a fairly good game. Somerville was at the bat for the first part of the seventh, and two runs had been scored, when it began to rain so hard that the game was stopped. These last two runs, however, were not counted, but the game was given to Somerville by the score at the end of the sixth inning. Umpires, Steele and Kady. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 269 Somerville, S; iDorcbester, 2 At l.oO on June 8 the S. H. L. baseball team received the biggest sendoff it has ever known be- fore a game. The teat)? and student body went to Dorchester, both determined to win, and the score tells the depth of their determination. Hafford had in all seventeen strikeouts and only three hits made off his delivery, two of these being scratch hits; on the other hand, Brayley had but twelve strikeouts, and was touched up for eleven hits. Hafford had four hits, out of five times up, the fifth being a free pass. By winning this game. Somerville has a more promising chance for the championship, as all the teams in the league have been met once, and one team twice; all have resulted in victories. The Dorchester team by no means used the most sportsmanlike tactics to win their game, but, in spite of all. were unsuccessful. Clapp and Sullivan, cspecialh the latter, distinguished themselves in a disreputable manner by persisting in stepping in front of Driscoll to prevent his throwing to second. At the bat Barton, Hafford. Blair, and Holland excelled, while Ross hit a “Texas Leaguer for two bases for Dorchester. The score:— SOMERVILLE. AB. H. IB. 1 0. A. K. Blair, s.s................ 4 3 2 3 1 0 Doughty. 3b............... 4 1 1 2 0 0 Hafford. p................ 4 0 4 2 4 1 Barton. 2b................ 5 1 1 0 0 I Hayes, e.f................ 4 0 1 0 0 1 Higgins, r.:.............. 4 0 0 0 0 0 Burns, lb................. 4 0 0 4 1 0 Holland, l.f.............. 4 1 1 0 0 0 Driscoll, c .............. 4 2 1 1(5 2 0 Totals ...............37 8 11 27 8 3 DORCHESTER HIGH. AB. K. IB. 1 0. A. K. Hayes, l.f.............. 3 0 1 1 1 0 Murphv, c.f............. 4 0 0 1 0 0 Clapp, 3b............... 3 1110 1 Fish, c................. 4 0 0 11 3 0 Brayley, p.............. 4 0 0 0 2 0 Sullivan, lb............ 4 0 0 7 0 0 Callahan, r.f........... 3 0 0 0 0 0 Ross, s.s............... 3 1 1 1 0 1 Lewis. ?1 .............. 3 0 0 5 2 1 Totals ...............31 2 3 27 8 3 Innings ...............1 2 3 4 5 (5 7 8 9 Somerville ..............1 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 1—8 Dorchester...............0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1—2 Umpire—Clarkson. Attendance—2,000. The Radiator goes to press before the season finishes, so we cannot truly hail Somerville as the “champs.” but we can say that they have the great- est chance in the world to land on top. Sinoles The king of them all—Leo! Hayes has at last found himself, and is hitting the ball in good shape. Too bad, but Nichols was lost to the team be- cause of complications aroused by his transferring from the Latin to the English School. If we win. Dorchester intends to protest Hafford. but it we lose they will not. Is this sportsmanlike? Rain has hoodooed the team three times this year, and therefore the season is very late. Didn’t Burke, of English High, have a happy grin when lie hit the ball for two bases? How many sandwiches did you eat (after the Norwood game)? Hats off to Charlie Cuddy, “The King of all Coaches. who has never yet turned out a losing team. If Lukin had more show, he certainly would strengthen the team at the bat. as was shown April 19. when he iiit the first ball pitched for three bases. No matter. John, your time will come. The cheering should be of the highest order with a former football player and editor of the Radiator as leaders. We haven't found a ball field that can touch Broadway. Batters must not annoy Driscoll. We will send a few pointed points about our catcher upon the re- ceipt of a postage stamp, that would make the sober think twice before they got careless. Our official scorer is always there. If you want a hit. step up—either kind. Cbc JBattiiLj Bvcraoe The batting average up to date after the first Dorchester game at Dorchester, June 8, is as fol- lows :— Games At Bat Hits Per cent Hafford 21 15 .711 Haves 19 5 .363 Doughtv 20 7 .350 Blair 22 (5 .272 Barton 22 5 .227 Higgins 19 4 .210 Driscoll 20 4 .200 Burns 20 3 .150 Holland 11 1 .090 Curran s 2 .250 Lakin 1 1 0 .000 The baiting trophy is in the form of a gold-lined cup. given by the alumni. It is in the hands of Manager Bean. A cup of similar nature was offered last year, and was won by Hafford, who at the end of the season stood the highest, with an average of .429. It will be plainly seen that he is much stronger at the bat this year than ever before. 270 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Head Muster. George G. Baxter.......................27 Warren Avenue Miniter. Frank M. 11awe� .........................257 School Street Sub-Mwt«r. Charles T. Murray....................28 Franklin Street Teacher . George M. Hoamer....................12 Arlington Street Sarah W. Fox................99 Irving Street, Cambridge Frances V. Kaan.....................133 Central Street Eudora Morey.............195 Huntington Avenue. Boston Bena Gilbert.........................51 Elmwood Street Florence H. Paul.....................63 Prescott Street Grace T. Pratt..............62 Waverly Street. Roxbury Edith M. Walker........................9 luring Street Mabel G. Curtis.............S29 Boylston Street. Boston A. Florence Moulton...................51 Putnam Street Instructor In Music. S, Henry O. Hadley......................46 Pearl Street Jn nitor. Joseph Young........................ 121 Highland Avenue Seniors. Xatin School Bailey. Hattie M....... Bigelman, Anna I....... Bonney. Florence....... Bradshaw. Helen........ Cousens. Marlon G...... Cummings. Eleanor S.. . Davis. May G........... Doyle. Emily M......... Drouet, Gillian........ Elliott. Gura A........ Epstein, Emma.......... Epstein. Elizabeth..... Ford. Elizabeth C. B... Foster. Katherine It... Frost. Frances M....... Fuller. Helen.......... Garton. Mildred N...... Gohring. Gillian M..... Green. Florence........ Gregg. Ella C.......... Hayes. A. Carolyn...... Holland. Gertrude F.... Huff. Maude E.......... Jarvis, Carrie A. M.... Johnson. Hilda B....... Jouett. Grace X........ Keach. Helen A......... Bicount. Helen I....... Gittle. Margaret....... 1 ong, Margaret A...... I owell. Margaret E.... Macdonald. Itachel L.... Mardcn. Helen.......... McFadden. B. Gillian... . McFarland. Beatrice M. Page. Mabel K.......... Pomeroy. Nellie G...... Preston. Blanche O..... Ritchie. Susie E....... Slight. Agnes T........ Smith. Harriet E....... Wallace. Olive P....... Wells. Marlon D........ Wilson. Rena D......... '04 . . .11 Pembroke Street .....7 Bradley Street .....7 Hancock Street ....7 Westwood Road . . . .12 Thurston Street .....38 Vlnal Avenue .....9 Harvard Place ... .29 Berkeley Street .....66 Walnut Street .. . .32 Marshall Street ... 100 Willow Avenue .. .100 Willow Avenue .. .29 Charnwood Road .....257 School Street .....23 Greene Street ...31 Thurston Street ... .113 College Avenue ..10 Bllllngham Street .....11 Cambria Street .....15 Greene Street .....55 Putnam Street .....198 Central Street .....55 Bartlett Street .....231 Pearl Street .....91 Perkins Street .....37 Chester Street . . . .22 Sargent Avenue ........34 Day Street .....40 School Street ...17 Winslow Avenue .....37 Harvard Street .....8 Concord Avenue .....S3 Boston Street .....27 Berkeley Street ......21 Cedar Street ..33 Dartmouth Street .....41 Myrtle Street .....51 Jaques Street .....54 Bartlett Street ... .318 Summer Street 13 Mt. Pleasant Street .....192 Central Street ......49 Banks Street . .1S5 Highland Avenue Albee. Harold F........ Banks. Albert G........ Bell. Richard D........ Bradford. Frederick C Butters. Edgar A....... Cohen. George.......... Cole. Herbert A.. Jr.. Cutler. Homer J........ Dean, F. Stuart........ Eaton. Philip G........ Edwards. Frank L------- Farrell. Gouts T....... Fosdlck. Charles W... Garrick. Frank J....... Oetchell. Charles H... Gilbert. Percy C....... Hammett. Fred S........ Harrison. Percy A.... ....51 Putnam Street ........94 Broadway .......26 Bow Street ....31 Veazle Street ....98 Oxford Street ..103 Sycamore Street .......34 Pearl Street ....8 Gester Terrace ....8 Madison Street ....1 Hancock Street . .23 Fountain Avenue 8 Grand View Avenue ........31 Elm Street ....295 Gowell Street ....36 Banks Street ...51 Elmwood Street ....25 Windsor Road ,.65 Wheatland Street Hartwell. Oliver W................ Hawes. Richard W................. Hayes. Herbert E.................. Hovey. Oscar C................... Bawson. Warren G................. Gcavltt. E. Darwin............... Elbby. Harold S.................. McCarthy. Thomas J............... MeGaughlln. G. Sylvester......... O'Donnell. James F............... Paine. William W................. Phillips. William G.............. Ricker, c. Sherwood.............. Robertson. Rhodes................ Rose. Charles B.................. Shlere. Roland C................. Stevens. Damon B................. Stevens. Walter I... Jr.......... Sweeney. Edward F................ Teele. J. Merle.................. Vnse. Frank O.................... Wyman, Oliver A.................. Graduates. Horton. Gawrence M............... Burroughs. Ethel................. Strout. Helen A.................. . .. .77 Munroe Street .... 257 School Street ... .55 Putnam Street ...81 Chandler Street ..101 Summer Street .....30 Adams Street . .35 Cameron Avenue .. . .51 Gilman Street . . .19 GJnwood Street .17 Columbus Avenue . .110 College Avenuo ...211 Holland Street ..106 Professors Row 29 Mt. Vernon Street ..15 Brastow Avenuo .....210 Elm Street . .. .45 Kidder Avenuo ... .5 Kenwood Street .... 4$ Walnut Street . . .125 Orchard Street 162 Morrison Avenue -----35 Bartlett Strcot .150 School Street 11 Ganders Street ....37 Day Street Juniors. Xatin School Baker. Ellen A.......... Baxter, Gertrude E...... Bunker. Marlon F........ Butters. Ruth G......... Chadwick. Alice M....... Cole. Bthel M........... Connor. Mary B.......... Darling. Margaret C..... Davis. Emma E........... Dodge. Ruth R........... Doe. Cecilia J.......... Dunham. Jennie M........ Elliott. Alice F........ Freeman. Fanny B........ Gardner. Florence C..... Griflin. M.trv R........ Hall. Avis C............ Hawkcs. Annette K....... Holm. Fidel a E......... Howe. Ina G............. Kimball. Nellie 1....... Kittredge. Eleanor I,.. .. Geonard. Florence I..... Taint. I.lllv M......... Gant. M. Mvrtle......... Marshall. Edith M....... McCarthy. Mary T........ McCoy. Annie R.......... McMennlmen. Eleanor G. Merrill. A. Gertrude.... Merrill. A. Myrtle...... Merrill. Ettamao........ Mulllken. Ethel G....... Munroe. Edith F......... Nelson. Clara E......... Newell. Clyde C......... Patten. Cara E.......... O'Riley. Josephine A.... Robinson. Harriet E.... Rugg. Hazel............. Saunders. Florence J.... Scott. Alice M.......... Sias. Bertha D.......... Starkey. Marlon A....... Toad. Constance......... Thlery. M. Goulso....... Whitman. Ruth G......... ’05 .......12 Windom Street .......75 Boston Street .18 Prospect Hill Avenuo .......78 Summer Street ...........24 Day Street .....29 Raymond Avenuo .......SS Orchard Street .......15S Central Street . . . .13 Mt. Vernon Street .....29 Columbus Avenuo .....86 Chandler Strcot .....6 Pleasant Avenue .......93 Gowden Avenuo .....2 Mt Vernon Street .......43 Willow Avenue ..........IS Wyatt Street .......94 Perkins Street .......156 School Street .....12 Concord Avenue .....13 Sanborn Avenuo ..........5S Main Street ........6 Charles Street .........195 School Street .......50 Curtis Street .......50 Curtis Street ... .22 Francesca Avenuo .......24 Preston Road ..........62 Main Street .... 11 Concord Avenuo .......11 Glncoln Street .......11 Gincoln Street .........228 Elm Street .....39 Dartmouth Street .......11 Albion Street .......21 Everett Avenuo .... 2S Francesca Avenuo .......26 Albion Street .......7$ Prospect Street ......161 I owell Street ........1 Boston Avenuo 24 Powder House Terrace .......120 Rogers Avenuo .......91 Munroe Street .........161 Elm Street .......96 Munroe Street ......19S Summer Street .....12 Dartmouth Street Adcock. John If.... Alger. Paul E...... Blyth. Alexander... Burns. Robert A .. . . Burroughs. Harry E Burt. Walter F..... Colman. Irving P... Cooper. Ernest G... Denvlr. George H... Derby. Francis C.. . Dockham. Arthur S. Doe. Arthur F...... Durell. Thomas P... 205 Highland Avenue . .25 Delaware Street ... .16 Dresden Circle .. .27 Thurston Street ... .S3 Munroe Street ...29 Appleton Street ...151 Central Street .... 7 Virginia Street .. .197 Summer Street ...15 Westwood Road ...48 Quincy Street ...86 Chandler Street 131 Highland Avenue SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 271 Dwyer, John K.......... Elliott. Allen K....... Ellis, lister F........ Fitzgerald. Edward F.. Klah ive. George V..... Gould. Walter K........ Groves, John M......... Haftord. la o E........ Hagen. Andrew A.. Jr.t Ham. Fred 1«..........1 Harrington. Wendell P. Hinckley. George W. . . . Hooper. William E...... MacGregor. Edwin S. . . Mahoney. John W........ McDonald. Ray T........ Merrill. Irving W...... Mead. Francis V........ Moore. Ernest D........ Murphy. J. Leo......... Perkins. Albert C...... Robinson. Sheldon A .. .. Scoborla. Leon F....... Sewell. Edgar F........ Sharp. Harold II....... Smith. Ivan G.......... Soule. Arthur T........ Spalding. Howard C. . . Stevenson. Leonard A. . . Thumith. William E. Thurlow. George L...... Vor Wlebe. Ernest F. . . . Whitney. Frederic P. . . Wright. Joseph M....... York, George M......... ........25 Greene Street ...103 Jenny Lind Avenue ........30 Adams Street .......21 Dane Street .....Ill Lin wood Street ....102 I xlngton Avenue .....11-A Putnam Street ...327 Washington Street ........22 South Street .....04 Thurston Street ........47 Cedar Street ........254 School Street .....124 Professors Row .....223 Medford Street ........10 Parker Street ........56 Cedar Street ........11 Marlon Street .....00 Chandler Street .......50 Wallace Street .....102 College Avenue .....0 Mt. Pleasant Street .....11 Pleasant Avenue ........23 Veazle Street 33 Powder House Terrace .......10 Summit Street .....13 Benedict Street .......... 407 Broadway .....21 Cottage Avenue .....20 Berkeley Street ....S7 I-exington Avenue .....02 Partridge Avenue ........17 Oxford Street .....107 Sycamore Street .... IS Buckingham Street ......32 Dartmouth Street Sophomore . Xatin School 045 Blanconl, Ida....... Bruce. A. Winifred.. Christopher. lima R. Cogan, Margaret M. Corwin. I ilhan A.... Couseus. Grace E... . Currie. A unie M.... Cutter, Enid J...... Delay. Julia M...... Donnvan. Juliana C.. Doughty. Mary M... . Downer. DciOthy........ Drew. Vera E........... Eastman. Clare......... Edwards. Gladys E...... Flanders. Sadie V...... Foley. Mane C.......... Foxdlck. Genevieve I... French. I.uc.v K....... Haliburton. Marlon E. . Hartley. Carrie A...... Haskell. Frederica M . . ■ • Hills. Ruth W.......... Hopkins. Helen S....... Hopkins. Vera A........ Hunnowt !l. Alice...... Hutchins. Bertha C..... Hyde. Hazel I ......... Kimball. Rebecca B Kimball. Winifred R. King. Mary B........... Kosehwltx. Mary K...... LaMourc. Pearl F....... l-ovejoy. Lillian E.... Lowell. Ethel M........ Mackenzie. Martha H. Mael.aughlii . Eva..... Marden. Albi-rtona..... Marden. Louise K....... McCarthy. Mary T....... McConnell. Gcorglno K McDonald. Roberta B- . . McLean. Florence N Norton. Charlotte A Preble. Eleanor C...... Richardson. Eleanor.... Scott. Katharine .1.... Sherwood. Grace........ Spinney. Helot E...... Stephens. B rtha...... Symomi-'. M. Lillian... Taapkon. Emily S....... Towne. Cella L......... Wellner. Georgia C..... Whitm y Edna I) A...... Wilson. Calla M...... Wiswail. Lucy F------ Woodman. Margaret R Youngjohn Marion A. .....297-A Beacon Street .....22 Aldersey Street .....219 Summer Street .......24 Stone Avenue .... 195 Highland Avenue .....12 Thurston Street .......15 Campbell Park ........175 School Street ..........32 Lino Street .....126 College Avenue .. .359 Somerville Avenue ......7 Westwood Road .....31 Marshall Street .....106 Sycamore Street .....23 Fountain Avenue .....14-A Melvin Street .....203 Summer Street .......... 4 46 Broadway .......60 Adams Street .....7 Sartwell Avenue .....50 College Avenue .....19 Chester Street .....41 Belmont Street .....50 Cralgie Street ... .97 Josephine Avenue ..........23 Milton Street ....16 Mt. Vernon Street .....51 Madison Street ..........30 Mead Street ..........5$ Main Street ......94 Bartlett Street ........1 Wyatt Circle .......39 Stone Avenue .....63 Willow Avenue ..........262 Pearl Street .....91 Perkins Street ....... 46 Prescott Street .... 25 Francesca Avenue .......S3 Boston Street .......51 Gilman Street ..........21 Howe Street .....� 3 Greenville Street .....59 Berkeley Street ......5 Gorham Street .....55 Tennyson Street ..........1� Grant Street ..........I' Dover Street .....121 Belmont Street .....117 Sycamore Street ... 11 Francesca Avenue .....14 Greene Street .....233 Holland Street ........9 Gilson Terrace ........101 School Street .....10 Sanhnrn Avenue .....101 Cross Street ... 299-A Summer Street .......61 Putnam Street .....S2 Marshall Street Armstrong. Kenneth P................112 Sycamore Street Baker. Crosby F......................5 ?™Tfo,r‘1 Avenue Benting John M........................132 Hudson Street Berry. William 11.. Jr..................39 Cherry Street Bishop. Erie A........................ Ames Street Bowlby. It. Archer......................3 Harvard Place Brown. Minot J......... Burns. Carl II......... Carpenter. Irving F---- Carr. Wentworth C...... Converse. Stanley C.. .. Corwin. Arthur R....... Cox, Murray J.......... Cummings. I-cslie O.... Dolan. William F......... Elliott. William M..... Elvedt. Ralph H........ Farrell. Gabriel. Jr... Fillmore. Malcolm G.... Foss. Saxton C......... Frost. Roscoe W........ Gleason. Gay........... Gow, Arthur C.......... Graves. Lester L....... Gray. Walter F......... Jarvis. Seward T....... Kelley. Walter E....... Knight. Robert M....... Lamb. John M........... Leavitt. John H........ I-owis. Harold......... i owell. II. Parker.... Macomber. Robert 1«.... McLaughlin. John J.... Morrill. Charles A..... Moses. William B....... Murray. James A........ Perkins. Edward B...... Plllsbury. Robert F.... Reed. Leon F........... Reynolds. G. Bergen.... Rico. Mark J........... Sanborn. Herbert S..... Sargent. George B...... Sharry. Charles !• .... Simmons. Ralph M....... Tobin. John J.. Jr..... Twohlg. Edmund J....... Wedgwood. John R....... Whitcomb. Ernest R. .. .....11 Morrison Place .....27 Thurston Street .....22 Laurel Street .....74 Cralgie Street ...... 456 Broadway ... .169 Summer Street .....16 Central Street .....38 V’inal Avenue .12 Buckingham Street 103 Jenny Lind Avenue ......36 Ames Street ........80 Avon Street • • 3S1 Highland Avenue ..249 Highland Avenue ....26 Electric Avenue .....S2 Mu 11 roe Street .....42 Franklin Street .....19 Cottage Avenue ... 19 Dartmouth Street .....231 Pearl Street .....34 Montrose Street .... 114 Professors Row .....9 Westwood Road ........253 Elm Street .....10 Westwood Road .....42 Aldrich Street ... .102 Thurston Street ...27 Partridge Avenue .....IS Irving Street ....17 Westwood Rond ....424 Medford Street ..6 Mt. Pleasant Street . .. ,2S Burnside Avenue .....27 Lincoln Avenue .....22 Franklin Street ........35 Maple Street .....1S3 Central Street .....3 Sanborn Avenue .569 Somerville Avenue . 406 Highland Avenue .324 Washington Street .....22 Stone Avenue .....16 Madison Street ........358 Broadway jfresbmen. Xatin School Bradford. Edith H.......... Budgell. Elysnbeth I...... Burt. Grace M............. Capon. Rosamond E......... Chatfield. Annie E........ Conover. Mabel............. Conover. Ruth.............. Cooper. Mabel G............ Crane. Dorothy............. Currier. Lillian M......... Cutler. Susie A........... Daniel, A. Frances......... Derby. Florence J......... Donning. Esther H.......... Ellis. Harriet A........... Evans. Ona A............... Fillmore. Ruth I........... Fleming. Theda E........... Floyd. Irene M............. Foot . Katherine Ford. Ellen M.............. Fuller. Beulah R........... Goodwin. Edna L............ Gould. Anna C............... Grant. Alice S............. Gridley. Grace E........... Griffin. Irene K........... Grimshaw. Margaret M....... Hnllctt. Ada F Manso.om. Marion I......... Hanson. Marlon A........... Harrington. H. Louise...... Higgins. Helen I........... Hills. Miriam F llolden. II. Mildred....... Holmes. Helen H............ Hood. Marion................ Jenkins. T«oila M.......... Kimball. Irene M Kingman. Ethel S........... Lang. Felicia L............. T-arson. Martha............. Libby. Ethel M.............. McCarthy. Anna E............ McCarthy. Katherine J...... Mercer. Dorothy B........... Merrill. Inez F............. Millie. Laura A............. Moulton. M. Hazel.......... Pearson. Edith M........... Pipe. Hattie L............. Sargent. Margaret A......... Sharp. Marguerite A......... SI as. Edna M............... Snow. Mildred G............. Stevens. Shirley A.......... Stone. Ruby M............... ’07 ......272 Summer Street ......109 Porter Street .....29 Appleton Street .....8 Professors Row ... .18 Charnwood Road ......I Arthur Street .......17 Arthur Street .......7 Virginia Street .....152 Summer Street ....15 Morrison Avenue .....8 I-ester Terrace .....14 Chapel Street ......36 Cedar Street ...28 Billingham Street ......36 Adams Street ......21 Clarcmon Street .. .381 Highland Avenue .......53 Laurel Street .......25 Holton Street .... 138 Sycamore Street ... .29 Charnwood Road .....19 Lesley Avenue .....28 Appleton Street . - .50 Columbus Avenue ......11 Hall Street ..179 Highland Avenue .......13 Wyatt Street ......76 Newton Street ......5 Westwood Road . . .137 Sycamore Street ........IS Austin Street ........89 Oxford Street ......15$ Summer Street 41 Belmont Street .....153 Central Street .......50 Banks Street ........2 Benton Road ......67 Boston Street .......53 Main Street .....14 Westwood Road ........4 24 Broadway .779 Somerville Avenue ........13 Jay Street ......24 Preston Road .....51 Gilman Street • 42 Josephine Avenue ......32 Chandler Street ...15 Fountain Avenue ......19 Arthur Street ......91 Glenwood Road ......13 Cherry Street .....2 Sargent Avenue ..159 Highland Avenue .....19 Munroe Street ......29 Church Street .....45 Kidder Avenue ......32 Chandler Street 2f2 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Sturtevant. Kdna M.. .. Sturtevant. Florence M Symonds. Mary D....... Talntor. Melon H...... Thomas. Martha B...... Thomas. Nellie B...... Tufts. Lydia A........ Ward. Elaine W........ Washburn. Gladys E. .. Wedgwood, Harriet C.. Weissback. Gladys P. .. White, Hazel.......... Wilson. Emily I,...... ____78 Columbus Avenue ... .76 Columbus Avenue .......14 Greene Street .......16 Chester Street .......21 Cherry Street ....23 Stlckney Avenue .......316 Summer Street .......22 Milton Street ....233 Willow Avenue .......16 Madison Street . ... 24 Francesca Avenue ....30 Riclulalc Avenue ........9 Irving Street Atkinson. W. Earl.... Berry. Albert J....... Bowl by. l.awrence H.. (’ommlns. Edward F.. Conunt. T.loyd C...... Cuddy. Chester........ Davis. Tenney L....... DeWolf. Charles W. . . Donovan. John M....... Doyle. Henry G........ Dresser. Frank........ Durcll. Ralph B....... Fox. Francis J........ Freeman. Frank If.... Gillooly. Bernard V. . . Gorton. Hayes E....... Gray. Howard A........ Hale. G. lister....... Hart-lean, David J .. . . Hart. Fred W.......... .....9 lister Terrace .....39 Cherry Street .....3 Harvard Place .....24 Hanson Street .....17-A Cross Street .....14 Church Street .50 Mt. Vernon Street ... 23 Charnwood Road ... 126 College Avenue .... 29 Berkeley Street .......3o Pearl Street .131 Highland Avenue 283 Somerville Avenue ......2 Jaques Street ..33 Winslow Avenue . . 15 Thorndike Street .....71 Wallace Street .......53 Cross Street .....20 Church Street ....98 Prospect Street Higgins. W. Arthur....... Hill. Kenneth P.......... Kind hind. Thor. O....... I.amont. Richard It...... LeCaln. Harry B.......... LoGallee. John H......... Ia onard. James II....... I.owls. Albert E......... Merrill. Charles S....... Merrill. Frank w......... Merrill. Walter E........ Miller. Alton I.......... Noble. Arthur W.......... Nolan. William H......... Northrop. Howard B....... O'Brien. James........... O'Connor. Thomas F....... Pettenglll. Albert H..... Phelps. John H........... Poole. Irving............ Ransom. Arthur T. H...... Rice. Nathaniel.......... Roch. Harry C............ Savory. Willard B........ Ski III n. Fred B........ Snow. Thornton A......... Spear. Russell B......... Thompson. Charles II.. Jr Tucker. Rufus S.......... Waterman, Max L.......... Whitman. Ralph K......... Wild. Prescott F......... Wiley. Raymond........... Wlnship. Liwrencc 1...... .....10 Waldo Street .....35 Jaques Street .44 Hawthorne Street ... 13 Conwell Avenue .410 Highland Avenue .... IS Summer Street ......1288 Broadway .... 14 Benedict Street .....129 Cross Street .....90 Curtis Street . .19 Columbus Avenue ...87 Glen wood Road .....16 So wall Street .... 15 Linden Avenue .. .145 College Avcnuo 9 Spring Hill Terraco ......9 Myrtle Place . . . .9 Knowlton Street ......17 Cross Street .46 Mt. Vernon Street .......42 Otis Street ... 143 Summer Street .....tl Flint Avenue ....7 Landers Street . .37 Burnside Avenue .17 Francesca Avenue ........203 Broadway ■ .29 Florence Street ..50 Dartmouth Street .. . 15-A Maple Avcnuo .12 Dartmouth Street .136 Highland Avenue ......22 Pearl Street ....74 Perkins Street Mend .Master. Charles T. Whitcomb 14 Walnut Street Master. John A. Avery.....................22 Dartmouth Street Sub-Masters. Everett W. Tuttle...471 Massachusetts Avenue. Boston Harry L. Jones......................167 Highland Avenue Howard W. Poor............27 Mt. Vernon Street. Reading George W. Earle...........................79 Boston Street Harry F. Soars........44 Orris Street. Melrose Highlands Charles F. Abbott....................45 Greenville Street Teachers. A. Marlon Merrill..;.................Hotel Woodbrldge A- I«aura Batt.....................62 Highland Avenue Esther Bailey......1172 Masacliusetts Avenue. Arlington Lucy Ingram..........................19 Aldersey Street Caroline A. Marsh........................6 Essex Street Ed a I. Nichols......................66 Putnam Street M. Helen Teole...............11 Jason Street. Arlington Clara A. Johnson.....................177 Central Street Mary F. Garrick......................271 Medford Street Bertha P. Marvel...................19 Highland Avenue Hila Helen Small..................232 Highland Avenue Harriet E. Tuell.....................13 Greenville Street Helen L. Follnnsbce..................20 Montrose Street John M. Jaynes.......................34 Putnam Street Elizabeth Campbell.............................9 Hamlet Street Grace E. Lord......133 Massachusetts Avenue. Cambridge Bertha P. Chase......................6 Highland Avenue Bessie D. Davis....................13 Mt. Vernon Street Helen E. Harding.... 60 Orchard Street. North Cambridge Ella D. Gray.........................147 Walnut Street Nina A. Cummings.....................47 Wallace Street Bessie L. Forbes.............................92 Orchard Street Bertha A. Raymond........................16 Hillside Park Blanche S. Bradford..................161 Summer Street Nellie H. Swift ......................13 Pleasant Avenue Amy I,. Cole. Secretary and Librarian.. . .13 Lincoln Street Seniors. lEnfllfsb School Anderson. Ida L........... Anderson. Theresa W....... Bell. Martha E............ Benjamin. Gertrude E...... Benoit. Louise............ Blackwell. Nona E......... Bowl by. B. Ada........... Breck. Marlon L........... Brine. Kdna J............. Brown. Nellie A........... Butler. Grace E........... Buttcrlield. Amy I,....... Caldwell. Florence I...... Canlleld. Elizabeth M..... Carleton. Florence M...... Carty. S. Agnes........... Clement. Eva F............ Copland. Isabella L....... Corkhlll. Agnes M......... Corner. Lucy M............ Dakin. Florence A......... DeAvellar. Margarlda M. . . Dolbear. Mary E........... Dole. Blanche A........... Downs. Lizzie A........... Farrell. Catherine A...... Gooding. Alice G.......... Grant. Lillian M.......... Greonle f. Elizabeth E.... Greenwood. Alveda F....... Hall. Bernice T........... Hardy, Eva G.............. Hatch. Florence A......... Hatch. Helen 1............ Hogan. Ida F.............. Hennings. Bertha M........ '04 ....353 Highland Avenue ..........21 Perry Street ..........53 Avon Street .....10 Burnside Avcnuo .....84 Lexington Avenue ..........18 Lowell Street ........51 Wallace Street - • .4 17 Somerville Avenue .....36 Columbus Avcnuo ........72 Wallace Street ..........95 Flint Street .....17 Farragut Avenue .........50 Preston Road .........205 Cedar Street .........20 Preston Road .........89 Gilman Street ........22 Carlton Street ...........33 Ash Avcnuo ............8 Perry Street .......5S Belmont Street ........15 Aldrich Street .........11 Arthur Street ......134 Professors Row .........30 Quincy Street ........23-A Cross Street .......109 Llnwood Street .........14 Boston Street ......12 Medina Building .....69 Columbus Avcnuo ......14 Bow-street Placo ......7S Concord Avcnuo ..........27 Oxford Street .....10 Wheatland Street ........9 Montrose Street ........10(1 School Street ........26 Gorham Street SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 73 Higgles. Ethel G......................ST Prescott Street Johnson. Catherine M...............3$ Thorndike Street Lamb, Mary K..........................S3 Putnam Street I� 1 tell. Edith D.....................39 Hudson Street Libbey, Gladys C. G...................15 Gilman Terrace Eorlng. Gladys.....................76 Highland Avenue Martin. Helen A....................29 Farragut Avenue Mclnnes, Mabel 1.........................86 Glen Street McNeill, Katheryn T...................50 Alpine Street McRae. Alice M........................1 1 Boston Street McTwlggan. Ellen.........................21 Park Street Merrill. Lynda V......................11 Marion Street Moores. Edith J..........36S Prospect Street. Cambridge Moulton. Edna C. . ......................50 Rush Street Nolan. Katheryn 1..................15 Mountain Avenue Norton. Emma F........................73 Hudson Street Nute. Ethel M.......................329 Highland Avenue Phipps. Ell la B......................7-A Vlnal Avenue Pilsbury. Bertha E....................39 Boston Street Pipe. Eoulse S.....................21 Francesca Avenue Qucnncll. Nellie 1.......................24 1 Broadway Quinlan. Martha R.....................156 I.inwood Street Ray. Ethel A.......................... 477 Medford Street Reid. Alice 1.........................37 Spring Street Reynold . Agnes R.....................12 Belmont Place Romm. Harriett.........................373 Medford Street Rushton. Edith J...................15 Mt. Pleasant Street Russell. Martha K........................ 1097 Broadway Sargent. Emma F.......................... Parker Street Saunders. Winifred....................313 Beacon Street Shackford. Ida A......................150 Tsnvell Street Short. Gertrude M.....................S Bowdoin Street Simonds. Sabrina H.......................1 Howe Street Smith. Flora B........................9 l.incoln Street Snow. Ethel M............................12 Curtis Street Snowman. Lociui A.....................32 Sewall Street Stevenson. Esther M....................26 Berkeley Street Story. Helen P..........................67 Hancock Street Tarbox. Florence G....................30 Austin Street Tolman. Edith 1......................30 Tenney Court Trustenltzer. Celia...................17 Cedar Avenue Underbill. Merta.....................99 Moreland Street Underhill. Norma.....................99 Moreland Street Wallace. Isabel........................35 Harrison Street Ward. Anna B.............................23 Dover Street Weeks. Maude F........................9 Montrose Street Welch. Grace M.....................14 New Cross Street AVhitlng. Bessie G....................51 Preston Road Wingetsky. Martha.....................25 Arthur Street Wiswell, Helene E.....................10 Rogers Avenue Wright. Nellie A.......................245 Medford Street Babbitt. E. Leslie..................207 Highland Avenue Ball. Edwin (’...........................694 Broadway Barton. William E.....................16 Crocker Street Bean. G. Clifford.....................13$ Is well Street Brigham. Percy A............................3 Dell Street Burton. Elmer A..........................2 Homer Square Chandler. Harry 1............................15� . Alston Street Chandler. Harry S..............................45 Ja.iues Street Chase. Edward I..........................$5 Vine Street Cotter. Joseph T......................29 Hanson Street Crosbv. Howard II.....................17 Madison Street Duhlg. Arthur If......................282 Summer Street Dunham. Rowland W.....................68 Willow Avenue Ellis. George H.......................54 Marshall Street Fallen. Edward J......................66 Sidney Street Farnum. Warren B...................32 Brastow Avenue Frost. James E........................12 Albion Street Hall. Edwin R.........................182 Summer Street Hlght. Ralph A.....................SS Highland Avenue Hillerv. John. Jr.....................15-A Cross Street Mitchell. Eauronee....................SO Preston Road Moodv. Eeroy H.....................15$ Morrison Avenue Perry. Charles A......................11 Maple Avenue Smith. I eo I.........................113 Prospect Street Trueman. Alfred S.....................145 Summer Street Wilber. George G......................69 Franklin Street Wilson. J. Albert.....................52 Brastow Avenue Graduates. Benton. Ruth............ Darling. Alice M........ Fraser. Carolyn......... Fuller. Bessie G........ Kelly. Ethel M.......... Eamont. Elsie G......... Lewis. Eena I........... Plimpton. Florence H.... Reeves. Ethel W......... Rice. Olive B........... Rice. Idella M.......... Smalley. Caroline J..... Stiekney. C. I-ouise.... Swasey. Maud B.......... Witham. Isabel A........ Doughty. James E........ Manning. Charles N Nangle. Charles W....... Thompson. Charles A. . .. ........10 Howard Street ......42 Liberty Avenue ........16 Porter Street ....159 Highland Avenue ..........65 Flint Street .....13 Con well Avenue ........IS Kidder Avenue ......19 Warren Avenue ....15-A Herbert Street .........33 Grant Street ........13 Gorham Street ..........15 Rond Street ......35-R Jaoues Street ........IS Quincy Street .......15 Mortimer Street . . .359 Somerville Avenue ..........32 l.ake Street ...........5 Cross Street .....21 Burhslde Avenue junior . Enfllteb School Ahearn. Nora V......... Allen. Mildred E....... •05 25 Elnden Street � -A Melvin Street Allen. Ruth V Armstrong. Gertrude M Bacon. Bertha M Baker. Mina W Baron. Edith P Bldwell. Ruth A Brown. Ethel W Carlton. Grace M Chlpman. Camilla E Clarrldge. Ruth T Clifford. Agnes Conner. Maude E Cox. Klva D 100 Porter Street 160 North Street 186 School Street 196 Broadway 26 Wheatland Street Culliton. Elizabeth M Dadmun. Blanche B Davenport. Ethel E 97 Morrison Avenue 301 Summer Street Dougall. Elisabeth E. Edmands. Mary G Elils. A. Eoulse Emerson. Anna N Farrell. Eaura B Folgcr. JCcta B Franke. 1.Milan C I- rye. Susie M 156 Summer Street 139 Morrison Avenue 27 Austin Street 121 Morrison Avenue 222 Highland Street Gordon. Edna F 1� Eoeke Street Hardy. Isabelle F 15 Montrose Street Hatchett. Eva M Hayward, Bertha (I 35 Mt. Vernon Street Cutter Street Johnson. Frances P. Kennedy. Kdlth J S Evergreen Avenue Eamh. M. Charlotte Ijcavitt. Grace V. 31 St. James Avenue 15 Quincy Street Eoveless. Ruby J 17 Glen Street Mace. Cora E Madden. Mary G 7 Gould Avenue 6! Marion Street Martin. Esther F Matthews. Elsie M Meehan. Esther A Merrill. Florence M Mess. Martha A 39 Farragut Avenue 27 Morrison Avenue 10 Franklin Avenue 19 Chester Avenue Mlllner. W. Claire Motherway. Mary V Forsythe. Eeona E Dodge. Annie M 22 AIdersey Street 12 Skehan Street 265 Broadway 26 Virginia Street Nicholson. Josephine G 368 Highland Avenue Patterson. M. l ouise Perry. Bertha J Peterson. Mabel C Pilsbury. Alice C 17 Avon Street 19 Delaware Street Prichard. Marion F Pynn. Catherine E Ransom. Marie B Reed. Florence M 29 Ash Avenue 42 Otis Street Ring. Anna F Robbins. Georgie E Rose. Ellen M Russell. Grace R 52 Sprlngtleld Street Sawyer. Vera E Schwab. Katherine E Shaw. Florence E Shaw, Florence M Smith. Anwelda H Spofford. Ethel M 11 Oakland Avenue It Highland Road 103 Central Street 51 Eiberty Avenue 17 Florence Street Stacy. Helen J Staev. Jessie F Stanley. Nettle Stevens. Jennie G IS Edmands Street 14 Madison Street 73 Hail Avenue 59 Adams Street Sutton. Edwlna M Thayer. M. Ethel Thompson. Jeunc E Thomson. Mary B Trueman. Hazel C Trueman. Muriel B Turner. Eleanor T 35 Warwick Street 49 Morrison Avenue 76 Cross Street 33 Highland Road 145 Summer Street 274 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Walford. Annie It.....................20 Concord Avenue Whittaker. Alla A.....................27 Montrose Street Willey. Helen J.......................34 Rogers Avenue Williams, Ninon J........................98 Elm Street Abbott. Oscar F.......................123 Beacon Street Baldwin. James .......................63 Sycamore Street Barker. Samuel S......................5 Putnam Street Berton. Scott W....................332 College Avenue Bettlncourt. Manuel J..............479 Columbia Street Blair. Maurice L...................240 Highland Avenue Blount. George F......................16 Hanson Street Bradford, Frank It....................276 Summer Street Bradshaw. Orin W.........................72 Rush Street Brown, Herbert G......................23 Norwood Avenue Bryan, lirniiltis i......................7 Jerome Street Burke. Michael J......................337 Lowell Street Cameron. Morley I� ................5 Evergreen Avenue (’base. Charles E........................86 Vine Street Clark. Harold C...................33 Hawthorne Street Colegrove. Raymond J..................12 Cutter Avenue Commins. Thomas C.....................21 Hanson Street Cook. Frederic W......................14 Granite Street Curran. William L........................33 Cedar Street Currier, Harold It....................10 Montrose Street Cushing. Raymond E....................27 Sewnll Street Davis. Chester B.................217 Washington Street Dawes. Chester 1......................8 Ashland Street DeAvellar. Manuel J...................11 Arthur Street De Caro. Frederick ...................214 Medford Street I� ••80011. Richard W..................'. 6 Orchard Street Drake, Arthur W..........................2 Bark Place Driscoll. Waiter J.......................24 Pearl Street Dunbar. Harry I..........................87 Flint Street Foster. Harold F......................19 Electric Avenue George, Arthur H......................39 Newbury Street Glassman. Ira . .v....................37 Sargent Avenue Gleason. William II......................23 Ames Street Guorke, Ralph B..........................7 Mystic Street Harris. Philip S..................33 Mt. Vernon Street Hlggens. Alexander ...................38 Din wood Street Higgins. Harrison C......................10 Waldo Street Hlghley. Philip S.....................184 Summer Street Hlllcry. I-rank II....................15-A Cross Street Hines. Robert T...................'......9 Preston Road. Howard, Herbert H.....................10 Mystic Street Hughes. Frank M..........................46 Glen Street Kiley. George II...................... 10 Appleton Street Kindlund. Eric A..................14 Hawthorne Street Dumont. George II.....................13 Conwell Avenue Dibbey. Leonard W.....................27 Winter Street Marston. Walter C........................18 Rush Street Maynard. Clarence D...................43 Central Street McQuade, Benjamin F...................6 Taunton Street Murphy. Frank J.......................102 College Avenue Moran. David B...........................6 Laurel Street Nary, George W...........................14 Rush Street Nichols, James W...................182 Highland Avenue Noyes. Aaron B....................21 Raymond Avenue pdelsterna. Detlof ...................20 Durham Street O'Gara. James H.......................7 Henderson Street Parks. Charles A......................IS Westwood Road Scottron. Thomas C....................359 Beacon Street Sears. Winthrop ..................25 Dartmouth Street Silva. Charles .......................93 Newton Street Smith. Walter M..........................1 Bark Place Snow. Albert S........................31 Robinson Street Stacy. Gardner W......................14 Madison Street Stolar. George F.........................10 Essex Street Tolman. Walter A......................30 Tenney Street Tope. Richard B..........................32 Vlnal Avenue Trenholm, George F................9 Elmwood Terrace Waldron, laturen W....................69 Hudson Street Walker, Edgar T. P.......................500 Broadway Ware. Ernest A....................54 Dartmouth Street Weadlck. James M......................157 Ix well Street Weaver. Edwin H.......................139 Central Street Whitaker. Joseph W................146 Sycamore Street Wlggin, Leslie S......................116 Glenwood Road Wilson, George II................Ill Washington Street Sopbomorcs, Enfllteb School '00 Allen, Ruby G.........................9 Franklin Street Armstrong. Florence M.............5 Kensington Avenue Atwood. Renali J..................46 Springfield Street Austin. Edna M........................14 Pinckney Street Baird. Bertha B.......................322 Beacon Street Barber. Edith I)......................36 Marshall Street Bcccy. Nellie E..........................21 Alpine Street Berglind. Sarah J.....................53 Dickinson Street Blake. Edna D............................25 Irving Street Blake. Magie B....................309 Washington Street Bodwoll. M. Elizabeth.................40 Willow Avenue Brine. Marguerite I......................42 Craigle Street Buchanan. Christina E....................20 Oxford Street Buchanan. Margaret E.....................20 Oxford Street Carroll. Helena T.....................16 Everett Street Chlckorlng. Ina M.....................42 Sargent Avenue Clark. Rebecca E..................25-A Prescott Street Copland. Jennie F........................33 Ash Avenue Cowan. Helen M........................26 Highland Road Crane. Rose K.........................61 Prescott. Street Davenport. Myrtle M...................301 Summer Street Dawes. Ethel L........................S Ashland Avenue Derby. Mary E............................39 Day Street Devlin. Annie W........ Dexter. Emma J......... Downs. Edith W......... Driscoll. Grace A...... Dutton. May F.......... Earing. Agnes R........ El ter. Mildred R...... Fisher. Helen E........ Fitch. Mabel E......... Fitzgerald. Mary A.... Gardhain. M. Louise.... Grace. Loretta F....... Greenwood, Nina M.. .. Gridin. Rena A......... Grow. Florence L....... Guild, Edna M.......... Hammond. Dora H........ Harris. Alta M......... Harvey. Mildred 1...... Hayward. Mabel F....... liegan. Margaret E..... Hill. Dora I........... Hines. Florence L...... Hobbs. Nettle F........ Hopkins. Fannie........ Jacobs. Isabel......... Kendall. Grace B....... Kiley. Annie L......... l.aDuke. Ada M......... Landers. Maud I........ Lawrence. Wynnlfred S. la?ahv. Elizabeth F.... Lebert. Mae V.......... Leyland. Adelaide L.... Littlelield. Buth H.... Hallburton. Marion E. ■. MacKenzie. Elizabeth.. . Mahony. Ruth A......... Manning. Helen F....... Mayberry. M. Leah...... McGuire. Eleanor M. . . . McIntosh. Mary E....... McLean. Hazel B........ McLean. Lillie B....... McNahb. Edith E........ McNulty. Mary L........ Merrill. Mildred F..... Miller. Hazel 1........ Moody. Mabelle G....... Moorehouse. Gertrude E Morang. Frances E...... Morehouse. Ethel L..... Morgan. Iris D......... Morrison. Marlon L..... Mulllken. Esther M..... Nickerson. Alice E..... Nolan. Marlon B........ Xourso. Dora E......... Nye. Florence G........ O'Brien. Mary A........ Osborne. Irene A....... Perry. Edna M.......... Peters. Ruth M. M...... Prouty. Emma J......... Purcell. Mary G........ Quinn. Margaret G...... Rav. Nellie F.......... Regan. Josephine W... Rice. Alice M.......... Richmond. Harriet M... Rlsdon. Florence J..... Ronan. Julia C.. . .... Rumrlll. Alice L....... Russell. Frances E..... Ryder. Beatrice........ Schick. Katie E........ Slmonds. Edith I....... Skinner. Nellie M...... Smith. Dorothea W...... Souther. Mabel C....... Stnckpole. Ethel F..... St. Coeur. A. Clotilda... Stearns. Grace E....... Sullivan. Nellie A..... Taylor. Annie L........ Taylor. Bessie L....... Thompson. Ethel M.... Tuttle Helen S......... Van Wart. Marlon R.. . Velio. Florence E...... Welch. Frances E....... Whltmarsh. Maud........ Wilson. Harriet E...... Wood. Roth E........... Woodbrldge. Annie.. . . Young. Mildred P........ .........24 Virginia Street ...........36 Sewall Street .........11 Medford Street ............241 Pearl Street .........9 Pembroke Street .........16 Sargent Avenue ........16 Oakland Avonue ..........47 Linden Avenue ........69-A Walnut Street .....380 Somerville Avenue .......33 Springfield Street ...........6 Madison Street .....14-A Bow-street Place ......22 St. James Avenue ..........206 Ix� well Street ........28 Webster Avenue ..........1 - A Banks Street ..........43 Hudson Street .....17 Wellington Avenue ..........5 Wlndom Street ..........100 School Street .........13 Chester Avenue .............9 Preston Road .. . .5 Marshall-street Circle ..........23 Boston Street ............29 Derby Street j...........41 Cedar Street ...........41 Dane Avenue ..........43 Bonalr Street ........10 Pleasant Avenue ............8 Minor Street ..........Middlesex Avenue .........530 Medford Street ...........19 Oxford Street ...30-A Pearl Street .........7 Sartwell Avenue ..........25 Putnam Street ........28 Franklin Avenue ..............36 Oak Street ...........191 Pearl Street ...........36 Marlon Street .........86 Concord Avenue ...........7S Oxford Street ..........78 Oxford Street ...........151 Pearl Street ...........54 Hanson Street .........144 Holland Street ............13 Flint Street ...........15 Oxford Street ...........13 Howe Street .........157 Iyowell Street ...........74 Harris Street .......40 Waterhouse Street ...........21 Brook Street ..........67 Central Street ...........206 Pearl Street .......15 Mountain Avenue .........87 Moreland Street ...........51 Cedar Street ..............ll Dell Street ..........67 Boston Street ..........14 Virginia Street ...........38 Beacon Street .......220 Highland Avenue ..........293 Beacon Street ............9 Homer Squaro .........16 Virginia Street ...........16 Beacon Street ..........19 Linden Avenue ........171 Willow Avenue .............8 Ivaloo Street .........373 Medford Street ..........45 Meacham Road .........25 Hancock Street .....12 Spring Hill Terrace ' ..........18 Gorham Street .............10 Howe Street ............73 Cross Street .........227 Harland Street ...........61 Preston Road ...........37 Oliver Strcot ... 185 Beacon Street 12 Mt. Vernon Street .... 5 Summer Street . .109 Summer Street .....20 Ware Street .....19 Cedar Street .......44 Film Street ,68 Clarendon Avenue .. .336 Summer Street 303 Highland Avenue .14 Chauncey Avenue .....9 Irving Street .....10 Tower Street . .13 Pleasant Avenue ... .55 Walnut Street Atwater. Harry.... Austin. Lester.... Bailey. Carlos A . ... Bailey. Francis T... Beach. Albert J. . . . iBbehman. .Heijry S. Bowen. Frederick C Bowen. Harry L. ... Butters. George W. .......1 Avon Street ......9 Vlnal Avenue ....16 Bradley Street ....16 Bradley Street 16 Buckingham Street ...337 Stimmer Street ... 12S Linwood Street ........16 Broadway ....19 Church Street SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 2 5 Buttlmer, Edward M.. . Buttlmer. Stephen .1.. . Center. Charles H...... Coan. Hubert A......... Crerle. Rodney S....... Cush Inc. S. Truman.... DeA vellar. Joseph I. . . . DeNoycr. Alfred I...... Dolbear. Benjamin I,.. . Drake. Lewis E......... Fernandes!. Richard O.. Flagg. Paul W.......... Flaherty. James A...... Freeman. Edwin A....... Freeman. Russell E.... Cove. George II........ Had lev. Freddell O.... Hall. John G........... Hurt. Albert L......... Henderson. Herbert J. . Hicknk. Stanley C........ Holland. Frank H....... Hopkins. Robert G...... Houdlette. Elmer C. . .. Hutchins. Cheston M... Ireland Everett W...... Jones. Girard N'....... Keach. Arthur.......... Keaney. James J........ Keves. Richard A....... Kllmartin. James L.. . . La kin. John R......... Lillie. Raymond W...... Lloyd. Frederic A...... Manning. John F.. Jr. . . McCabe. Joseph F....... McClennen. George F.. . McNeill, Chester W.... Mooney, James J........ Monroe. Henry W........ Newell. Albert I....... Nickerson. Daniel I.... O'Donnell. Joseph...... Phllbrlck. Nell H...... Pitcher. Floyd J....... Potter. Bertram L...... Pratt. Arthur YV....... Rice. Charles A........ Rico. Charles S........ Pice. YVa'ter C........ Ring. William II....... SafTord. Carl R........ Savage. Sldnev I....... Scott. YVintleld....... Sheehy. Randall D...... Smith. Charles H....... Stacey. Lewis.......... Stewart. Arthur M...... Thayer Robert B........ Tripp. Augustus B...... Walker. Ilenrv I....... Waterhouse. Roseoe M. Weston. Victor R....... Wheeler. Ernest A...... Whitnev. Elmar II...... Winn. Maurice.......... Wlswall. Ralph A....... You me. Roy O.......... ......351 Lowell Street ......351 Lowell Street .......27 Sewall Street .......IS Fremont Street -----4IS-A Medford Street .....2 Thurston Street .......11 Arthur Street .......65 Albion Street .....131 Professors Row .......117 Cross Street .....33 Robinson Street .......73 Hall Avenue .....45 Everett Avenue .....2 Mt. Vernon Street .....t’ 5 Sycamore Street .......14 Wesley Street .....30 Conwell Avenue .....1S2 Summer Street .....31 Charnwood Road .......39 Prescott Street ..........32 Otis Street .....31 Knowlton Street ...... 44 Tennyson Street ........9 Webster Street .......21 Wesley Park . .. s 10 Evergreen Son a re ........7 Cedar Street .....22 Sargent Avenue .. .201 Somerville Avenue ........6 Adams Street _____ISO-A Medford Street ........1 Hillside Park ..... 446 Medford Street .......6S Albion Street .....152 Medford Street .....192 Tremont Street .....192 Medford Street .....2S Conwell Street ......333 Lowell Street .......70 Myrtle Street ........65 Hudson Street ........21 Grant Street ....17 Columbus Avenue ....15 Wheatland Street .......2$ Preston Road ........5 Arthur Street .....24 Delaware Street .....33-C Dover Street ........9 Linden Circle ..406 Somerville Avenue .....16 Bowers Avenue .......ll Wesley Park .....27 Rotters Avenue ....261 Hiyhinnd Avenue .....105 Walnut Street .......45 Cedar Street .........4 7 Pearl Street .......39 Dows Street ...11 Evergreen Avenue ........67 Walnut Street .....11 Bigelow Street .....193 Summer Stree .......23 Conwell Street .......13 Ja iues Street .....10 Sanborn Avenue ........11 Pearl Terrace .....299-A Summer Street 31 Moreland Street jfresbmen. Snfllteb School 07 Abbott. Ida F....... Abrams. Lucy A. .. Adams. Florence E. Arens. Velma IT. . . . Bull. Ethel M....... Banks. Mabel I . Beuudet. Nellie B. . Blnncv. Ethel F. . . Blenkliorn. Jennie E Blols. Jennie M..... Bowdlteh. Alice M. Brodli; Rosie J..... Rrunton. Isabelle M. Burnham. Ruth K. .. Burns. Edna T....... Rustcod. Helen L. .. Chandler. Bertha M. Chovln. Clorlnda M. Clark. Elsie F...... Cloverley. Marlon G. Coign n. A Piles A. E. Conwuv. Gertrude H. Coughlin. Mary E. . Cox. Gertrude A. ... Cox. Jean I ......... Crispin. Florence IT. Cronin. Mnrv G....... Dalton. Edith W. . . r olav. M. Elizabeth Derby. Ruth F........ Donahue. Alice M.. . Doughty. Alice M. - - Douglas. Florence F. Drew. Ellen M........ .......45 Munroe Street .......35 Stone Avenue ........ 49 Franklin Street .......38 Berkeley Street ...........694 Broadway ..........94 Broadway .......1 Chester Avenue ....................Left .......50 Webster Avenue .......36 Concord Avenue .......11 Henry Avenue .......1! Aldersey Street .......19 Hanson Street .......9 Fountain Avenue ..........in Otis Street ....634 Somerville Avenue ...33 Hawthorne Street .......Park-street Station .......IS Kingman Street ..........24 Otis Street ..........19 Clyde Street ..........53 Kent Street .......33 Pinckney Street .......17 Jagues Street ...82 Mt. Vernon Street .22 Powder House Terrace ..........32 Line Street ..........39 Day Street ..........30 Trull Street .......49 Webster Street .......19 Marshall Street ..........59 Cedar Street Driscoll. Margaret IT...... Duddy. Nettle M............ Dunbar. Blanche I.......... Duntou, Annie F............ Durroll, Eva F............. Eld ridge. Marguerite...... Ennis. Alary 1............. Epstein. Celia ............ Fallis. E. Hazel........... Fitzpatrick. Helen M....... Freese. Vivian C. E........ Classman. Ida ............. Golden. Annie . . .'....... Gould, Susan C............. Graves. Emma M............. Graves. Ruth M............. Hall. Charlotta F.......... Hall. Julia R.............. Hall. Mildred G........ Ilallolt. Helen G. . . . Hallett. Isabel E. .. . Harrington. Grace V. Harrison. Edna H. .. Hartwell. Ethel M. Hatch. Sarah R. ... Hayden. Mary T. ... Higgins. Alice M........... Higgins. Margaret 1....... Hills. Edith J............. Hinckley. Miriam P......... Holmes. Ellen R............ Hughes. Gertrude B......... Hurd. Helen F.............. Jennings. Lillian M........ Johnson. Gertrude M........ Jones. Anna F. .. Cook. E. Ethelyn .......... Gordon. Laura T............ Kimpton. Elizabeth L. ... Larsen. G. Lillie C........ Leahy. Mary A.............. Lefcbre. Grace R........... Leonard. Mabel L........... Lfnnell. Hattie M.......... Lord. Bertha E............. Loth. Agnes C.............. Ludw'g. Hattie 1........... Lynam. Marguerite D........ Macdonald. Gertrude C. . .. Muck. Margaret L. ... Martis. Madeline V. .. McGovern. Mary L. ... McKenna. Elizabeth T. Merrill. Marion ....... Morgan. Georgia C. ... Morrison. Annie M. .. Mullen. Ella M......... Newell. Bessie G....... Nichols. Jessie M...... Norton. Rnberta........ Noyes. Carrie L. O'Riley. Elizabeth A. . ... .78 Parker. Jessie M Pearson, Lena G 76 Perkins. Helen C 3 Perkins. Nellie K ... 147 Pickering. Gertrude . - . 29 Potter. Eva G ... 17 % Preston. Brunette IT. . . . . 224 Purdy. Alice E. Putney. Alice E............ Qunrnstrom. Dagmar E. .. Quest. Emma J.............. Quinlan. Lillian M......... Ray. Alice M............... Ray. Harriet F............. Richards. Rertha W......... Ritchie. Bflie M........... Robinson. Nora T........... Russell. Margaret A........ Sargent. Cora H............ Saunders. Mabel ........... Schaefer. Marion L......... Silva. Lucilia ............ Simpson. Ethel ............ Skelton. Gertrude ......... Smith. Annie E............. Smith. Anna E.............. Smith. Miriam B............ Sodergulst. Alice I........ Stodder. Edith F........... Story. Addle E............. Strout. Luella M........... Sullivan. Mayetta ......... Trask. Mabolle A. P........ Turner. Sophia E........... Tvler. Ruth D.............. Warren. Ethel M. G......... Watson. Marion E........... Weeks. Gertrude A. IT. ... Willoughby. Bertha T....... Wilson. Marlon F........... Arnold. Edmund A. Austin. Arthur A. .. Rags ter. Arthur R. -----22-A Murdock Street ........17 Bond Street ........3 Mystic Avenue ........100 Flint Street ........19 Hall Avenue ........50 Walnut Street ........7S5 Broadway .....100 Willow Avenue • ... 16 Hawthorne Street .......3$ Hanson Street .....9 Hammond Street .....37 Sargent Avenue ......173 Albion Street ........196 Pearl Street .....17 Rogers Avenue .....17 Rogers Avenue .......72 Harris Street. .......39 Quincy Street .....78 Concord Avenue .....155 Walnut Street .....31 Madison Street .....308 Lowell Street . .. .55 Wheatland Street .....76 College Avenue ........56 Curtis Street .....22 Franklin Avenue ........31 Ivaloo Street .......51 Iteaeon Street .....19 Church Street ....26 St. James Avenue ......265 Beacon Street ..........296% Broadwa. .......35 Temple Street .....60 Central Street .....38 Thorndike Street .......31 Winter Street .......58 Vinal Avenuo ..........28 Thorpe Place .......40 Gilman Street ..396 Washington Street .....Middlesex Avenue .....16:5 College Avenue .....164 Willow Avenue .....21 Everett Avenue ........I Pearl Street .......71 Boston Street .-......3S Rush Street .....8 Hawthorne Street .....5 Norwood Avenue .....79 Concord Avenue .......79 Flint Street ........9 Concord Avenue ......292 Lowell Street ...47 Fairmount Avenue . .601 Somerville Avenue .......19 Joseph Street ....5'� % Florence Street ......65 Hudson Street .......13 Wesley Park . .. . 33 Francesca Avenue Raymond Avenue .....II Prescott Street ........4 Belmont Court ......23 Wyatt Street ........27 Linden .Street ...s Buckingham Street .. . 19% Summer Street .....«77 Medford Street ........IIS Cross Street 293-A Summer Street ........8 Newman Place ........ 1097 Broadway .....343 Beacon Street ......156 School Street .......6 Austin Street ........158 Pearl Street .......11 Jasper Street .....9 Eastman Place .....4 I Harrison Street .......12 Mystic Street ...15 Highland Avenue .....16 Atherton Street ..........166 Broadway .....67 Hancock Street ..... 17 Flint Street .....3SS Medford Street .....213 Medford Street .338 Somerville Avenue .....481 Medford street . . 18 Columbus Avenue .......10 Wesley Street .....Ill Central Street' .....67 Willow Avenue ............187 Beacon Street. ..............63 Austin Street .............9 Porter Avenue 276 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Baker. Roger K.........'..............•••• L ® l‘r0 Bezanson. Arthur II...................■ laurel Street Bishop. William A.....................-6 Pearl Street Blalsdell. Herbert E..................«5 Park Street Blunt. Aimer K.......................2S Lincoln Avenue Brennan. Richard A....................« GIbbcns Street Bridges. Corrll B.....................23 Tower Street Bryan. Sanford L......................35 Derby Street Buckley. John F.......................12 London Street Callow. I'M ward It..................42 Concord Avenue Ca™magii.l ? He8, T. 7 |jve iiymre J Connelly. Louis B.....................2« Clyde Street Vi V I owIs K ‘ ' -� nr� 1- tST ..:.....................-.WSR SSSS w'K'Tifom.. 6V.V Twlchell. Leroy M..... Van Wart. Henry A----- Ver Wlebe. Max C...... Virchow. Gustav P..... Waite. Frank W........ Ward. Carl II......... Waugh. Frank.......... West. Walter R........ Wheeler. Charles A---- Wheeler. Walter L..... Whflpley. Avard K----- ........72 Central Street ... .68 Clarendon Avenue .........17 Oscar Street .......21' Nashua Street ......43 Florence Stroct ...1 7 Washington Street .23 Mount Vernon Street ........CO Cedar Street .32 Mead Street Ooonibs. W. Parker .....................34 Tufts Street Cox. Edgar It....................303 Washington Street Cudmore. Thomas J.......................07 Trull Street Daley. Frank J.........................12 Heath Street I� ay. Harry S..........................S5 Bonalr Street Downs. Benjamin A.................3S-A Moreland Street Duncan. Fred G.......................2 Brastow Avenue Karle. Ralph W..........................3 Preston Road V.v. nson. Filial ..................114 Prospect Street York. Allen C. Walsh. William J. -13 Jamies Stroct •••‘86 Somerville Avenue .........358 Broadway .......38 Wallace Street .........30 Rush Street .....• •Irving Street .....10 Thorndike Street ......H Merrlam Street Kvenson. Ulnar Fallon. Francis P. .7 Beach Avenue FUzherbert. Leroy .........................ilS neoln Street r cii. st.-r L .....................14 Lincoln street Freeman. Arthur W.................231 W 1 {?”a venue Frizzell. W. Chester .......................... Gilley. Charles It.......................V«'irvin5 Itrf-f-t Cmiiiwiii i,.in. f ............................. • 43 lr Ing btr ,t Gorman F Carlton....................2 Pleasant Avenue Craostein A Albert .................9 Buckingham Street O es Tnlbert C? ..i.................25 Browning Street Ha!nan.C Fred J.! ! - •' . i . . • •'•'! •'.363 Beacon Street Hamilton. Roy G.......................................8“®® Harmon. James ...............................•Twvait cVrcle il'.i-i Walter I,. ............................3 V att Circie Hartford Percy N....................33 Monmouth Street Hcndorson. Bismark ................................to Kim Street Henderson. William T................ 39 Hilliard Charles P.............................I I Herbert Street Hogan Percy A.......................50 Highland Avenue llofnmii. Harold .1.................‘ Jbbetaon Street Holmes. James F.....................49 Thurston Street Hopkins. Merton W...................44 Tennyson Street Hopkins. Ralph W...............................50 Craigle Street Hurley. James P......................................Street Johnson. Charles A............................. 10, School Street Kennard. Norman S............................. 108 Central Street Lane. Jasper A................................23_ Everett Avenue laavm. Lester A...............................15 Quincy Street i .rtns Ilarrv 1.............................4 Benedict Street Macdonald. Albert J............................80% Heath Street Macdonald. William A..........................80% Heath Street Madlgan. John M. J............................5. I iwrence Street Malone. Stephen J.............................4 Tremont Place Marshall. William II...............14-A Gilman Terraco MeGarr Francis F..............................10 Spr ng Street McGuire. James J. F...........................36 Marlon Street McIntosh. Walter II................100 Josephine Avenue Merrill. Charles K........................90 ( urtls Street Merrill. Philip A.............................144 Holland Street Miller. Harry ................................98 Porter Street Carpenter. F. Fulton ..............20 Pleasant Avenue Foster. Arlon......................79 Mt. Vernon Street Nangle. John M............................5 Cross Street Nealy. Ralph S............................ 9 Bond Street Nelson. Fdwln L. Jr.............................14-A Maple Street Osborn. William L................................S6 Porter Street Pad os. Joseph V..............................28 Glenwood Road Parant. Joseph A..............................26 Walter Street Pauly. Herman A...........................21 Hall Street Pearson. Paul H...............................91 Glenwood Road Perry. Walter F...........................70 Cedar Street Peterson. C. 1-awronce .......................51 Porter Street Pitman. J. Russell ..........................9 lx?e Street Pratt. Charles II.........................12 Vine Street Putney. Bernard K.................. 17-A Melvin Street Ralston. Everett B.................8 Kensington Avenue Reardon. William H............................29 Glenwood Road Rich. Raymond A...............................17 Browning Road Richardson. Harold P.........................36 Glenwood Road Richardson. Lawrence W.......................13 Linders Street Ricker. J. Waldo ............................104 Bartlett Street Riddell. Ralph H.........................51 Temple Street Rltzman. HJalmar U...........................58 Berkeley Street Robbins. John W..........................IS Knapp Street Rook wood. William J.....................26 Ivaloo Street Ronan. Lewis J...............................373 Medford Street Rose. Louis E................................42 Harrison Street Russell. Avolon G........................9 Church Street Salisbury. F. Douglas ...................7 Miner Street Scanlan. Arthur J........................11 Avon Street Sewall. Lorenzo F........................73 Walnut Street Simonds. Calvin W........................22 Sewall Street Simmons. Warren..............................19 Fountain Avenue Smith. Fred H................................51 Liberty Avenue Smith. Henry J...........................69 Myrtle Street Smith. Luther 1..............................15 Highland Avenue Sonia. Louis F...........................19 Linden Street Stevens. Clinton II..........................7 Ellsworth Street Stevenson. Thomas J..........................26 Berkeley Street Sullivan. Charles M......................13 Hall Street Sweeney. F. J.....................202 Highland Avenue Tarleton. Howard.............................Gone to New York Taylor, Irving R.............................49 Dartmouth Street He takes a when school closes. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 277 SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES Ilbassacbusetts College of Commerce (INCORPORATED) AND 0re0g Sbortbanb School 30 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Mass. Cbe personnel H. W. PELTON, President ; C. C. DEXTER, Secretary and Treas- urer— formerly the leading instructors in a Boston Business College — pro- prietors of the Lynn Business College, one of the most successful of the high- grade commercial institutions of the state. GEO. P. LORD, Vice President — recognized as the most up-to-date originator and organizer of business training methods in the United States — proprietor of the Salem Commercial School, one of the largest and most widely known business schools in the country—recent proprietor of the Gregg Short- hand School of Boston. Cbe Courses anb Employment Department The Shorthand and Business Courses include all the methods which these experienced educators have originated and proved to be practical in their own schools — methods which other schools have both approved and adopted. The Employment Department is under the same successful management as the similar departments of the three schools. Cbe Summer School The Sessions are continued all summer in order that beginners need not waste several weeks before taking up their courses, and that graduates of high schools may bring their shorthand studies to a finish promptly and be assisted to a situation by the Employment Department. Call at the office, or write for full information [CONTISI KD ON PACK 283.] 2 8 SOMERVIl.LK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR SEWING MACHINES THE p Lock Stitch and Chain Stitch, two Machines in one, CELEBRATED l-fOlTieSIlC and t|,e Light Running New Home The Domestic and the New Homb have been the Leaders in every great improvement that has been made in Family Sewing Machines for a third of a century. Sold without the aid of canvassers. Warranted and Kept in Order Ten Years. Sold for cash oi on instalments. Old machines taken in exchange as part payment. Needles and Oil lor all machines. Sewing machines rented. All makes repaired. In Our Japanese Department can be found a very choice assortment of China Novelties in the newest Decorations. Very appropriate tor Gifts or Whist Prizes. Telephone, 1352 Oxford. C. C. BOWLES CO.. 0| p. si«ie Entrance .Ionian Mar� li Co. 19 Avon Street £ Dry ciikI Dancy Goods SCHOOL SUPPLIES NOVELTIES CONFECTIONERY l i l Glove Cleaning 86 Highland Aye., Somerville Open Tuesday, Thuraday. and Agent for Cuatont Laundry Oppoxlte High School | Saturday Evenings S Princess and Double Violets eo “ liars Ion hunker I? 5 rLorasT s a J 0 c.itv Hall Avenue, Boston HH CD A large assortment of all seasonable Flowers £3 always on hand. £§ All orders delivered free of charge. Telephone. 3779-4 Main. cd 05 c ; 2 3 Pansies, Enchantress Carnations W. J. EMERSON DEALER IN Boots, Shoes, anb IRubbers 148 Perkins Street EAST SOMERVILLE. MASS. Compliments Dew Drop Inn Geo. S. Allison, . . Proprietor Great Reduction in «£ Horace Partridge Co. BOSTON General Athletic Outfitters BASE BALL, TENNIS and TRACK GOODS Fencing Supplies a Specialty HORACE PARTRIDGE CO. 84 Franklin Street BOSTON Telephone Connection. Only the Rest Materials Used WALTER H. SNOW lice dream anfc jfanq? Ilccs LIGHT CATERING Kpeclnl Attention to I’urtie wild Wedding� 89 Marshall Street, . . . Somerville, Mass. Lo atei sham Gilman S uakk C L. STEVENS MILLINERY .. AT .. 41 Cross Street Mrs. R. W. CONWAY, . . Manager DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF Groceries anb {provisions Teas, Coffees, Spices, c., c. Clarendon Block, Cor. Day and Elm Sts. Telephone Ii5 SOM ER VI LI,K HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 279 £ CompVmnts 0 ? I Gridlcv's Coffee Rouse « Cuneb Room i WILLIAMS COURT AND WASHINGTON STREET f BOSTON, MASS. 2 SOIREE Somerville Hig'H and Latin Schools CL4NS O F1 10 04 Anthoine Academy, June 16, 1904 Reception at 8 o’clock Tickets, $1.50 per couple. Balcony seats, 25 cents CHAS. H. CRANE Pharmacist Perkins, Cor. Franklin St., % . y y- yy cJt £ TKLKPHONK SOMKKVII.I.K HILL HOLT 79-81 Bow Street, Jet. Somerville Avenue SOMERVILLE, MASS. E. Somerville, Mass. AUTOMOBILE STORAGE, REPAIR AND SUPPLY STATION First Class Automobile Repairing of all Kinds GASOLENE, BATTERIES, LUBRICATING OILS SUPPLIES S TO K AG K Ct t t iz-1 7 SKCOND-IIAXI AI’TOMOItlI.KS FORD MOTOR CARS KSTAKUSHEI) 1881. Compliments of MANUEL M. SILVA HAIR CUTTER 324 BROADWAY..........................HOWARD BUILDING Cor. PERKINS LINCOLN STS. - - EAST SOMERVILLE Near Marshall street Particular nttcntton given lo Children's Hair Culling. TVIrplioiiP, .113-5. Not open evenings during June and July RODERICK CAMERON MERCHANT TAILOR 38 SUMMER ST., SOMERVILLE h. McCullough Hce Cream Wholesale and Retail Special Delivery Tel., Som. 736-2 28o SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR DIEGES CLUST S. AGER Home Bakery Bread, Cake and Pies Fresh every Day 166 School St., Somerville ALBERT r. I lALIz lpbarmactet 48 Cross, corner Webster Streets EAST SOMERVILLE, MASS. Tel., Iit i i Repairing anil Jobbing H. O. WHITE ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR Electrie Wiring anil Complete Inst itllatlon� Put In New or Obi KnlUlliig� Electric Light� , Motor� , Oh� Lighting. Telephone� , Hell� . Door Opener� , Speaking Tube� 26V Highland Avenue - Somerville Registered with N. E. Ins. Exchange r ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦■ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Telephone 117-3 ♦ HOWARD LOWELL SON I Rack, Civery $ Boarding Stable! Storage for Furniture. Carriages, Sleighs, Etc. 70 to 76 Gilman Street SOMERVILLE. MASS. Mrs. E. S. BARROWS jftne OIMlUnertg Makers of the Somerville E. H. School Pins 373 Washington Street BOSTON - - - MASS CLASS PINS MEDALS CUPS and TROPHIES of Every Description DIAMONDS, WATCHES and JEWELRY 130 Pearl Street - - Somerville G AGOSMA e Osl 1 LADIES' AND (lENTLEMEN'S C CUSTOM TAILORS 13 Medina Block, Davis Sq., West Somerville ? 1 WKCIAL ATTKNTION PAII TO Pressing, Cleansing. Dyeing, Altering and Repairing £ Telephone Connmion. E. S. SPARROW CO. WHOLESALE HARDWARE RETAIL Cutlery and Wall Paper Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Colors, Crockery, House Furnish- ings, Wooden and Tinware 1 College Avenue, Cor. Highland Avenue WEST SOMERVILLE. MASS. J )r. GILMAN, Manager. Agent or Hag State '«e Co. A FRENCH PEASANT 2 2 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR The Bouve-Sterling Shoe, $2.so THE NEWEST DESIGNS FOR YOUNG MEN 86 Summer Street RfiCTr M 13 Water Street 78 Hanover Street DUD 1 14 Spring Lane 2 v Visit West Somerville’s $ X Fashionable Milliner .. 2 i 1 TCtvs. CVavVcs VD. Jacobs 1 2 6 233 Elm Street, West Somerville X Corner Grove Street g V Open Monday, Tucaday, Thur day, and Saturday 9 ? Evenings ? 6 •: 0 : 0 : 0‘: 0 : 0 : 0 : c,:‘0 : 0-:-G : 0 : co: 0 : 0 :'0 : 0‘:� 0‘: 0 : JACKSON CALDWELL CO. Lamps, Stoves, Ice Chests, LACE CURTAINS, SIDE BOARDS, TABLES, BEDS, CARPETS, ETC. Everythin? to Furnish a House with UNION SQUARE Telephone, 32-2 Somerville. BARNEY BENNETT • S5-A Summer Street First-class Shoe Repairing HAND SEWED WORK GUARANTEED A Fair of l.ace� with Every Job GEO. H. THAYER DEALER IN Boots, Shoes and Rubbers including the famous “ JULIA MARLOWE” Elastic Instep Shoe 6 Medina Building - Davis Square W. Somerville GILMAN EXPRESSCO. JOHN E. PALMERt Proprietor Somerville and North Cambridge SOM K it t ILI.K OFFICE NO. CAMBRIDGE OFFICE Davi� Square 1092 Maw. Ave. Tel., 303-4 Som. Tel.. 917. Camb. BOSTON OFFICES 1-1 Devonshire St. 03 Arch St. 81� Broad St. 10 Union St- 77 Klngaton St. 63 Kluguton St. Furniture and Piano Moving Residence. 218 Elm St. Order Box. 00 Fnncuil Hall Market Tel., 67-7 Son� . STORAGE FOR FURNITURE M. D. LEWIS DEALER IN Groceries and • Provisions FINE CREAMERY BUTTER 51 Summei Street, cor. Prescott Street SOMERVILLE, MASS. Tel. 518-2 KxtnhIKhcd 1894 WM. J. WILEY Oils Paints Varnishes Lawn Mowers Window Screens Vegetable Seeds Grass and Flower Seeds Poultry Netting Paint Brushes Garden Hose Floor Oil Rakes Hoes Davis Square - West Somerville MOULTON C LIBBEY 3e veler .... 3 Studio Building Davis Square West Somerville Orders Solicited For Diamonds, Watches and other goods. Repairing f all kind� a specialty. Mantel Clocks called for and returned. Latest Designs in Spring Suits : : MARGARETTE G. HIGGINS Fashionable Dressmaker 148 PEARL STREET - - - SOMERVILLE PLOWERS POP Tl IE SOIREE s AND GRADUATION J. W. HOWARD, Florist 330 Broadway - Somerville SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 283 VACATION HARDWARE fi W. E. PLUMMER CO.’S 52 Union Square INGERSOLL WATCHES will stand lots of banging around and cost $1.00 and $1.50. And for ladies' size, the NEW ENGLAND costs $2.00. THE NEW FOLDING BROWNIE CAMERA for $5.00 fills the bill. J. ALBION BRIGGS CO. AUCTIONEERS Real Estate and Insurance Agents MORTGAGES NEGOTIATED 17 Union Square - Somerville, Mass. CARE OF PROPERTY A SPECIALTY Notary Public .IiiNtlcc of the Peace Tel. 202-3 CURRIER lb air Buesser 43 Union Square - Somerville Children's Hair Cutting a specialty THE AMERICAN ELECTRIC TAPE CO. DEALERS IN ELECTRIC TAPE, SPLICING COMPOUND, SCRAP RUBBER, Etc. Office. 305 Sudbury Building, - Sudbury Street, Boston Telephone, 678-6 Haymarket Successor to CT TTDT TDD A 1N.T A T Wholesale and Middlesex Coal Co. UlxO IN V-vJ, Retail All Rail COAL Wood, Hay We deal extensively in all grad. s of COKE. All orders delivered promptly. H. A. CRAWFORD, Manager Telephone, 320 Somerville 29 DANE STREET, SOMERVILLE, MASS. S. Armstrong Co. Barrels Somerville, Mass. L. H. BROWN Hack, Livery, Boarding� Sale Stable Cor. Somerville Ave. and Prospect St. SOMERVILLE THe Two Remaining Games June 17, at 3.30 P. M. SOMERVILLE vs. R.M.T.S. June 25, at 3.30 P. M. Somerville vs. Dorchester BROADWAY FIELD - - - ADMISSION. 25 CENTS The management earnestly requests a large attendance and organized cheering. Mr. Ricker Cheering Mr. hall Leaders SOM ERVI LLK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 284 IRabtator lP U33le Hrranoei) bp tbc IRabiatcr's liaise iDan A Liberal Reward Is Offered for the Correct Solution SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 285 Reliable for Style and Wearing Qualities Lamson Hubbard Spring Style 1904 The new Lamson Hubbard Spring shapes, in soft hats and Derbys, continue to be the most dressy, becoming and comfortable hats made. LAMSON HUBBARD 90-92 Bedford Street and 229 Washington Street REKAMHCTAW -AND-- RELEWEJ 339 Medford Street MALTA TEMPLE Dana W. Bennett and Dexter F. Bennett INSURANCE 147 Milk Street « Boston Telephone, Boston 1755 RESIDENCE, 41 PUTNAM STREET WILLIAM K CUSHMAN Gents' Furnishings LAUNDRY GILMAN SQUARE Tel., 505-5 Somerville Rl VTU’ S Strawberry Cream Pies DL ! Ill 0 And French Cream Cakes ARK DKI.ICIOliS Try his celebrated i RUTTJSR, KHKK8K. and BGG8. IIOMK MADK 15KKAI), and all kinds of Groceries,at Superior to all other� . | the lowest possible prices. GOOD ELGIN CREAMERY BUTTER. DAVIS SQUARE, Opposite Postoffice PEARL STREET STUDIO 237 Pearl Street,.................Somerville PHOTOGRAPHS ALL SIZES Also Crayons on Bromide from small piclures. We are prepared to do outside viewing. Developing and Printing Done for Amateurs C. E. STEPHENSON D8ALKR in Watches, Clocks and Jewelry 351 Medford St., Gilman Sq., Somerville Careful attention given to the repairing of Watches. Clocks and Jewelry. Clocks called for. E. F. HICKS, Caterer 3 Waverley House. . City Square, . Charlestown ICE CREAM Of the very finest quality Cut and Put Up in Boxes A Specialty for Fair and Churches at Special Rate Prices sent promptly on application. G Ae 5 CRULLERS G. W. CLARK, 351 Summer St., SOMERVILLE FRANCIS M. WILSON jt Undertaker Telephone 330 103 Cross Street Talbot’s Bostonette and Cravenette Rain Coats TALBOT CO. 395-4«3 Washington St. OPJPOSITK Franklin Street BOSTON BOSTON MADE All the nobby SCOTCH EFFECTS (Half Belted) PRICES $10, $12, SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 286 SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES __________________ SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION President Office, 19 Pierce Building, Copley Square, Boston Same teachers 24 years. Courses for Teachers, Speakers, Readers, All who Use the Voice, and for general culture. Send for catalogue; also free booklet, “What Can You Do For Ale?” Comer’s College u;i Years In Boston. ?.0 Years Cor. Washington and Bench Sts. REMOVAL On July 1st, 1904. Corner’s Commercial College will remove to the Walker Building, 120 Boylston Street, Boston. For accessibility, light, ventila- tion, and convenience our new rooms are without equal. Long experience in teaching and careful personal attention to each pupil enable us to guar- antee the most satisfactory results. BOOKKEEPING SHORTHAND EMPLOYMENT Send for latest prospectus. Open all Summer A SHORTHAND EDUCATION Time, 2 to 4 MontHs Cost, $25 to $40 THE EASIEST SYSTEM TAUGHT THE BENEDICT SCHOOL, 14 Beacon St.f Boston 7th Year SUMMER SHORTHAND SCHOOL The Chandler Normal Shorthand School will continue dur- ing the month of JULY. Opening day, July 5. Exceptional opportunity for teachers and finishers. Address, THE NORMAL SHORTHAND SCHOOL 221 Columbus Avenue, Boston Compliments of A FRIEND TYPEWRITERS Save Machines Money Rented on all and Makes Repaired Cash or time THE TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE 38 Bromfield Street, Boston STENOGRAPHERS’ CIVIL SERVICE SCHOOL Walker Building. 120 Boylston Street, Boston. M. T. REDD1N, Principal ATTENTION, GRADUATES ! Have you decided on your life-work ? Consider the advantages to he gained by pass- ing the CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION. Several of my pupils are now holding lucrative GOVERNMENT positions. Knter now and prepare for the OCTOBER EXAMINATIONS. Individual instruction in SHORTHAND, TYPEWRITING, and all CIVIL SERVICE subjects. Beginners rapidly advanced. Qualified thoroughly in from four to six months for business stenographers. Positions secured. Send for Prospectus. Day and Evening TERMS MODERATE Open all Summer I CONTINUED ON PACE 28$.] IHOm M 288 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES Tufts College ELMER H. CAPEN, LL.D., President The College is on a hill-top, four miles from Boston, combining the advantages of country and city. It offers to the students in all its departments the best methods of instruction, and the various facilities requisite for a thor- ough education, at a very moderate cost. DEPARTMENTS THE COLLEGE OF LETTERS.—Degree A. B., and for courses In Biology, Chemistry or General Science, and In Civil, Electrical, Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, the degree S. B. THE DIVINITY SCHOOL.—Degree D. B. THE MEDICAL SCHOOL.—Located in Boston. Degree M. D. THE DENTAL SCHOOL____Located in Boston. Degree D.M.D. THE BROMFIELD-PEARSON SCHOOL —A technical School for the Engineering Courses. THE GRADUATE DEPARTMENT.—Degrees Pb.D., A.M.,W.S. SUMMER SCHOOLS.—In Chemistry, Biology, English, and Mathematics. For Catalogues or for any information concerning the college, address HARRY G. CHASE, Secretary, Tufts College, - - Mass. BOSTON UNIVERSITY College of Liberal Arts Central Location Varied Elective Courses Metropolitan Advantages Enlarged Opportunities for Scientific Study by the Establishment of Chemical and Biological Labora- tories in the College Building. Address THE DEAN 12 Somerset Street BOSTON Is the best equipped Training School in the Last. Prospectus will tell you why. ADDRESS: loo Bogistoo Street BOSTON School of English Speech anb Expression Graduating, Normal, Artistic or Professional Courses. Three Departments: Elocution, English, Physical Culture. Eminent Educators as instructors. Class and Private lessons included in each course. Summer session in July. 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All Work Guaranteed 38 BROADWAY, . . . EAST SOMERVILLE SOM KK TLLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 289 BEAUTIFUL F CTURES Are you interested in art and beautiful pictures? If so, PHOTO ICR A, The American Journal of Photography, will be for you an endless source of education and delight because it is a permanent record of Photographic Art in America. Thousands of readers take it as it shows the latest advances in the art of picture making. It is the only independent, high class magazine, published in the United States, devoted to photography, and its contributors include the brightest minds in the artistic and photographic world. Every issue contains a supplement in the nature of a photogravure, heliotype, or color process reproduction, worth the cost of the magazine alone. Price, 25 cents a copy. Subscription, $2.50 per year. RHOTO ERA PUBLISHING CO. 170 SUMMER STREET, . . . BOSTON Wellington=Wild Coal Company Anthracite COAL Bituminous Successors to Horatio Wellington Company and B. F. 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