Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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S $ 7 0Xd? «UMtKV 1LLL LATIN ENGLISH SCHOOLS Vol. XVI. Somerville, Massachusetts, October, 1906. No. 1 The Rauiatok is published by the Somerville Latin and English High Schools on the last 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 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, according to their nature, should be addressed to the editor, business manager, or exchange editor. Manuscript must be accompanied by necessary postage to insure its return. Terms, 75 Cents per Year Single Copies, JO Cents SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT EMtorial Staff ECdtorstnsCblcf WALTER H. MC INTOSH, E., '07 Ebitor ADA F. HALLETT. L.. '07 Business Abanaoer ARTHUR L. THAYER. E., ‘08 Ercbanflc Ebitor MARCARET A. SARGENT. L.. '07 assistant Business Aanager HOWARD GRAY. L.. '07 Sporting Ebitor JASPER A. LANE. E.. '07 Second assistant Business Abanafter FRED A. HOYT. L.. '09 alumni Ebitors CORA H. SARGENT, E.. '07 HAZEL WHITE. L.. '07 Staft artist HAROLD E. KEBBON. E.. '08 Class Editors Enfllfsb School CHARLES HILLIARD. '07 EDWIN A. SIBLEY. '08 WALTER PILCHER. '09 ANDREW HANDLEY. '10 {Treasurer GEORGE HOSMER Faculty) Xatin School HENRY G. DOYLE. '07 F. D. COOPER. '08 SPENCER L. SAWYER. '09 ARTHUR H. SANBORN. '10

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4 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR EDITORIALS With this issue the Radiator staff of 1906-’07 assume the task of producing for the High Schools the sixteenth volume of the Radiator. It is with much apprehension and some serious misgivings that we take up this responsibility, for do not the Somerville High Schools prize their Radiator highly? Do they not expect the staff whom they elect to produce a paper which shall rank as one of the best? Yes. this is expected, and no less will prove satisfactory. But as is well known, the staff, by itself, is helpless, and in order to accomplish what is expected, enthusiastic support must be given, and it is now our pleasure to believe that we shall receive it. The things we ask are few, but if granted, our most ardent ambition will be accomplished. We ask and hope for two things: the financial support of the student body, and the literary support of those who have the ability. We also ask those who read our paper to patronize our advertisers, so that the business men of Somerville and Boston may never have a reason for believing that to ad- vertise in the Radiator is a matter of charity. Remember always, dear schoolmates, that the Radiator is a paper published by you, and for you, and that its success means honor for your school, and if in either the Latin or English School there is any one so insensible to the thrills of scholastic patriotism as not to wish to secure honor for his future Alma Mater, he is indeed an unworthy mem- ber's ; : The aOfK-x .to the. Latin .School, which has just been completed, comcs .aV a, gtvat; relief to both the Latin and English Schools. The congestion which has been so noticeable and disagreeable in previous years has to some extent disappeared. The two schools are connected by means of a brick corridor, of attractive architecture, which runs from what was formerly the east door of the Eng- lish School to the west end of the annex. The rooms used by English School pupils occupy two floors and a half, giving ten additional rooms. A large hall on the upper floor of the Latin School is to be used by both schools as occasion makes necessary. The rooms are all equipped with tele- phone connection to the head master’s office, the latest means of ventilation, and also with electric clocks and bells governed bv a master clock in the office. The tinting of the walls in the English School is a marked improvement, giving to the rooms and corridors a certain airy appearance with- out darkening them. It is still necessary in the English School, how- ever. to use as classrooms the lecture hall, not originally intended for such a purpose, and we fear that the continuation of the present rate of increase will find the school at the end of two years as badly off as ever, unless further additions to the building arc erected. We arc. however, ready at the pres- ent moment to join in the refrain. Sirs, for this re- lief much thanks,” and to appreciate fully all our advantages. We arc indeed fortunate in being able to attend a school occupying a site of such historical signifi- cance and overlooking such a breadth of interesting and beautiful landscape. On one side Tufts Col- lege, on another Harvard, and on a third side may be seen the gilded dome of the Massachusetts State House and Bunker Hill Monument, while at our very feet lies the fortification thrown up by the Americans when they withdrew from Bunker Hill. Is there another school that can boast of being within sight of three institutions of such world-wide importance and of so much of historic interest? Word comes from Brockton to the effect that its new.high school was opened September 10, with an attendance of over eight hundred pupils. Mr.