Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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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.

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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.

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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.