Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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PINS Winter Street, Boston, 129 Tremont Street 82 84 Washington St., 222 Clarendon St., Boctos CONTENTS OE OCTOBER RADIATOR Frontispiece...............................................2 Editorial Staff...............................3 Editorials....................................I Captain Taylor, M. V. S. C., by Lester C. Gustin, E.. ’09.(� Letters to a Freshman, Number One.............8 First Impressions of Cape Cod, by Mabel W. Wilber. L.. '09.8 A Fishing Trip in boggy Weather, by C. E. II. . . . . . . 9 The Stroke of Fortune, by Allison Newton, L., '09 . . .11 Fighting a Forest hire, by 1). Austin Palmer, E., '09 , . . . .12 In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree, Parody by Louis Hippo, E., 09 ...... 13 Latin Notes ................. 14 English Notes ................ lii Resolutions...............................................IS Club Notes................................................IS Alumni Notes.................................19 Exchange Notes...............................20 Athletic Notes...............................21 Suburban Coal Company WHOLESALE AM) RETAIL ALL-RAIL GOAL WOOD and HAY COMPLIMENTS OF Jesse S. Newcomb We deal extensively in all grades of COKE All Order� Delivered Promptly ----------0--- H. A. CRAWFORD - - - Manager ---o--- 29 DANE ST., SOMERVILLE, MASS. TELEPHONE 320 SOflERVILl.E J. A. Harsh Coal Company No. J8-40 Park Street Telephone 319 Somerville, Hass. COMPLIMENTS OF WILLIAH S. HOWE DEALER IN Furnaces and Ranges FIRST-CLASS PLUMBING 51 Union Square, - - Somerville, Hass. To bn fill. Moofcs For Your Library GUNN SECTIONAL BO()K=CASE Noted for its Simplicity and Convenience J. C. McLEAN 33 Union Square, Somerville, Mass. CM A It I. KS r. CI.ARK. GORDON A. SOl'TIIWORTH. V X 3 livVIv ISATIN ENGWSM SCHOOL� Vol. XVIII. Somerville, Massachusetts, October, 1908. No. 1 The Radiator I 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 r.ay l c left with any of the editorial staff or mailed to the editor at the English High School. In contributing, write onone side of the paper only and sign full name ( this is for reference only). Communications, according to their nature, should bo addressed to the editor, business manager, or exchange editor. Manuscript must lie accompanied by necessary postage to insure its return. Terms, 75 Cents per Year Single Copies, 10 Cents SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT Editorial Staff associate £Dltor VIVIAN BEERS. L.. '09 £Ditor= fn=Cblef ERNEST V . CHAPIN. E., ‘09 Business kanaser HOWARD A. MacLEAN. L.. '09 £xcbatige £bitor LORINNE R. WHITNEY. L.. 09 assistant Business fflanaoer STUART FOSTER. E„ ‘10 Sporting £0itor Second assistant Business dfcanager PERCY G. WHTMAN. E.. ‘09 J. ELIOT SLATER. L.. ‘09 alumni £bitors treasurer L. ELIZABETH CHICKERING. L.. ‘08 GEORGE M. HOSMER (Faculty) EDNA F. TEELE. E.. '09 Staff artist M. ESTHER SHAPLEIGH, E.. ‘10 Class lEbitors Xatln School ALLISON NEWTON. ‘09 HARRY H. GREENWOOD, ‘10 MELVIN J. MESSER. ‘11 FRANCIS J. MAHONEY, M2 JEitflUsb School LESTER C. GUSTIN. ‘09 ANDREW HANDLEY. ‘10 ARTHUR LEIGHTON. ‘1! OLIVER CHURCHILL, M2 4 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR EDITORIALS An editorial in the last June issue referred to the new staff in a highly complimentary manner. We return cordial thanks for this and other courtesies received from the past management. Rut we do not yet feel the confidence in ourselves which they expressed for us. As we take up our work, we realize what a task is before us. A great deal is expected of the Radiator. It is exceedingly diffi- cult for us. with little or no experience, to uphold the previous high standard and at the same time please a set of intelligent, but critical and widely- differing. readers. We expect to meet many diffi- culties, and perhaps disappointments, but to over- come these successfully, and to maintain a paper that shall be, as it always has been, acceptable and pleasing to its supporters, is the earnest hope of the new staff. Our greatest aid will be from you, schoolmates. We must have your attention to our efforts, your indulgence for our mistakes, and your support, both literary and financial. Re- member, the welfare of the paper is not by any means wholly in our hands. The duty of the editor is merely to gather and collate the material fur- nished by the student body. The business man- agers should not be forced to meet the Radiator's financial needs by hunting ads” alone, but by a reasonable amount of yearly subscriptions and cash sales, as well. All can help with pecuniary sup- port. And those who are gifted with a ready pen should feel it their duty to contribute stories, poems, social reports, and class notes. If you will furnish the quantity, we will guarantee to select the right quality. K V� v Old friends of the Radiator may find it some- what changed under different administration. There will be slight rearrangements suggested by our predecessors’ experience or by our own ideas. Such will be made only because we strive to pre- sent the best paper possible. In editing contribu- tions, impartial fairness will be used. An article will stand on its own merits, aside from personal influences. So if the results are not satisfactory, (! ) not be t o quick in judgment. We invite thoughtful criticism, to show us the trend of our readers’ opinions and wishes, but not hasty con- demnation. r r r The Somerville High Schools extend you a hearty welcome. Freshmen, offering you many op- portunities of acquiring knowledge and of develop- ing mental, moral, and physical strength. You have now been here long enough to appreciate siune of the customs and advantages of the schools. You begin to realize that a person is good only for what he is worth. If you wish to make a name for yourself you must get right into the harness and work for it. You will meet fair play from teachers and schoolmates, but no favoritism ; but you will not find it very difficult to make and keep your place. We boast that our athletes play the clean- est. pluckiest kind of a game; that our scholastic distinctions are bestowed only on those who have proven by conscientious, steady application that they are deserving. Longfellow says: The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well.” You have four years before you to make either a success or a failure—failure if you start in with the idea of having a good time, suc- cess if you take high school as it is meant to be taken. Then the pleasure will offer itself. In this connection we wish to call your attention to the Letters to a Freshman,’’ beginning in this number. They are written by one who has had ex- perience in the subjects he discusses, and so knows how to make every point significant. Although you may think them a bit sermony. they are well worthy of your serious consideration. TIIK SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 5 Much as we regret to lose Mr. South worth, we consider ourselves fortunate in securing as able a successor as Mr. Clark for superintendent of schools. He comes from Washington, D. C., where he has been prominent in educational work for years. Mr. South worth has been conscien- tious and energetic in his duty. Mis many years of service have gained for him innumerable staunch friends in teachers, pupils, and citizens. All join in wishing him well at his retirement. Especially has he the admiring regard and good will :f the high school students. Judging by the way the people of Washington regretted to lose Mr. Clark, we believe that he, also, will prove a wise and skilful director of the school system of which we arc so justly proud. 5 . K We are glad to notice that interest is being taken in the orchestra. This is a project that all musi- cally inclined are interested to help. Although several valued members have left, there is still talent enough in the two schools to make a suc- cess. When the players who. out of 1,700, are brilliant performers enough to form a school or- chestra have been systematically drilled for a time, they will be able to produce real music, harmoni- ous and accurate. The pioneers of last year ac- complished highly creditable results. Now we ex- pect them, after a season’s experience, to be an even more pleasing feature of the numerous re- ceptions. debates, plays, and dances that we are all looking forward to this winter. r Debating is a subject which seems to be receiv- ing much attention in the last few years. The English High society is in active operation, and several smaller clubs which were started last year among the underclassmen will probably soon be working again. In the Latin School one or more clubs may form, to contest among themselves and with the English School. These arc favorable signs, for there are few. if any, better means of improving the mind, quickening the intellect, and acquiring self-possession than debating. It is no small art to stand before an audience and give con- clusive arguments in clear, forcible English. A word battle with a keen opponent trains the ear to be quick in catching the important points, the mind to grasp the argument clearly, and the judg- ment to criticise and refute it. Our debaters, then, are worthy not merely of tolerance, but of respect and even admiration. Many who do not feel ca- pable of taking aggressive part are anxious to see the inauguration and success of interclass and interscholastic debating. . Seniors, do you realize that this is the last chance? Eight months more and you will be graduates! Then will you look back and say. 1 couldn’t have done better.” or will you say with vain remorse, I wish I had made the most of my last year”? Great changes can be wrought in eight months. A deficient pupil can make up con- ditions and finish with a fair record: or a good scholar can relax and get through merely on suf- ferance. It is the time for the business man to put the final polish on his training: for the prospective college student to clinch the last hold on his prep- aration : for every one to snatch at Knowledge,— the life-preserver that our Alma Mater llings to us as we arc launched into the current of the great world. . . The Somerville High Schools open with an at- tendance of 1.700. a membership far beyond their capacity. Especially is the English School over- crowded. It now holds fully 1,200 pupils, twice the number originally designed as the extreme limit. Ibis naturally results in great congestion. To help the trouble, the desks have been set in double rows, seats have been put in several rooms intended only for laboratories, and lastly, the Annex was built. Hut still there is no elbow room and. worst of all. 1,200 pairs of lungs are con- suming the cubic feet of air sufficient for only half that number. W hat is the conclusion to be drawn from these conditions? We must be thoughtful in the use of the corridors and staircases. Since there is none too much room, we must exert our- selves to keep our places. Our very misfortune offers one advantage, a magnificent opportunity to learn to observe the rights of others. 6 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR Captain Cavior, fll . t). 5. C. 36v Xcster C. Gustiit, E., '00 X July IS, 1911, the hot afternoon sun beat pitilessly clown on the white tents of the headquarters' staff, and the heat reflected from the sand seemed to dance in long, wavy lines back to the sky. About the tents a few soldiers walked lazily, smoking and talking to pass away the time. In one of the open doorways a middle-aged man sat writing. It was the gen- eral in command of the second great volunteer army that the United States had raised to drive back the triumphant legions of Japan. Three months before, almost without warning, the war- cloud had burst, and the Pacific coast awoke to find itself in the grip of an immense army of in- vasion. Four miles in front of the headquarters’ tents stretched the long lines of citizen soldiers—the pride of the nation—sent out to face the yellow hordes from the East. That they were outnum- bered five to one made no difference to the Yankee boys in khaki. Over hill and dale for fifty miles the long, thin lines lay. the sunlight glancing on the polished bayonets. Far out on the extreme left, in an open clearing in some dense woods, stood the gun-carriages of the Massachusetts Wireless Corps. At four o’clock on that eventful day. suddenly a low rumbling broke the stillness. The general paused and listened. Again it came, longer and louder than before. The wireless operator heard it. too. and began moving his tuning instruments in frantic haste to catch any message that might explain the sound. Suddenly came a buzzing. “Japanese batteries opened on left llank. it spelt out. Then silence. The headquarters’ operator tried in vain to call, but received no answer. Then gradually the rumbling died away. An hour later the buzzing in the receivers com- menced again. The Japanese are--------- it said. and then stopped in a sharp buzz. A minute after- ward it started again. “Japanese are co--------- another buzz and then silence. Then in short, jerkv sentences, broken by intervals, came the following message: “Japanese coming, send help, hurry. Look out for------” Silence again. But where were the Japanese coming? Send help where? The general strode up and down, racking his brains in vain for a solution to the problem. Was it from the left flank that the mes- sage came? If so, why did not the station answer when ca'l !? Was it a trick to force him to hurry his men to the left, and thus weaken the right? Meanwhile, let us see what was taking place in the woods which sheltered the left flank. Captain Taylor was walking slowly up and down behind the instruments of his corps. On his right lay the Sixteenth Massachusetts Regiment, on his left nothing but dense forest. Suddenly he heard a dull boom, and the next instant a twelve-inch shell went screaming over- head. burst in the rear, uprooting trees and blow- ing branches high in the air as it exploded. 'Phis was followed by another, and yet another, and soon the air was filled with flying steel. The re- ceiving set. struck by a living piece of metal, was utterly destroyed, and its fragments mingled with the mangled body of the unlucky operator. Then, after a sharp bombardment, the firing stopped. Captain Taylor was getting worried. He sent two men out with orders to search the woods to tlie left and front. Then followed an hour of anxious waiting. Suddenly a horse and rider burst from the woods, the man swaying in his saddle, and a fast-widening spot of red dyeing his khaki coat. With a final effort, he waved his arms towards the forest whence he had emerged, gasped out the word “Japanese,” then plunged from his saddle to the ground—dead. Tavlor hurried to the colonel of the Massachu- setts regiment, who sent quickly a line of skir- mishers into the woods and formed for a flank at- tack. Soon a scattering fire came from the forest, and one by one the skirmishers came into the open, then by twos and threes, and in a short time the whole line could be made out, retreating slowly backward step by step, firing as they came. '1 he wireless operator hurriedly began to send to headquarters. “The Japanese are, he sent, when a deadly dum-dum bullet struck him. and he sank to the ground. Another operator sprang forward. Scarcely had he touched the key. when he, too. sank with a groan. Man after man came up. only to send a few words and then fall before the enemy’s sharpshooters. THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 7 Meanwhile the Japanese were approaching through the woods. For an instant the firing stopped. Then a noise like an approaching whirl- wind swept across the open. The waiting soldiers grasped their guns even more tightly, the officers walked slowly up and down the waiting line, speak- ing words of encouragement to the men. A frightened rabbit sprang from the woods and scur- ried through the line. Then a fox and more rab- bits; the wild creatures of the woods were fleeing before the approaching storm. Xow the trees and bushes began to sway as in a hurricane. Mere and there through the leaves could be seen the blue uniforms of Japan. “Load !” rang the command down the silent line. Aim!” A thousand rifles were leveled. And then, as the hordes of Japan burst from the forest with a wild cry of Banzai! the banner of the rising sun floating in the lead, the command. “Fire!” rang forth, and the roar of the rifles as they blazed out their rain of death awoke the echoes of the Marathon. For an instant the lines of Japan wavered, but. pressed by the hordes be- hind. they came on. Now the rifles commenced to blaze along their lines, and the Americans began to go down by the score. Step by step they were forced back, leaving the ground covered thick with dead and wounded. The color-bearer dashed for- ward and planted the stars and stripes between the lines, singing We'll rally ’round the flag, boys.” For an instant the lines re-formed, but it was im- possible for one regiment to hold back the thou- sands hurled upon it. and they were again forced backward, the men fighting desperately as they re- treated. The regiments along the line began has- tily to form for the flank attack, but they withered away before the leaden hail from the Japanese rifles. Captain Taylor raised himself on his elbow, his clenched teeth holding back the stream of blood. Near where he had fallen he saw the wireless set. Dragging himself out from underneath the body of tile Japanese soldier he had impaled with his sword, he crawled to the instruments. Many of the guys on the pole had been broken, but the antenna was still in serviceable condition. After several vain attempts, he finally got on his knees and reached for the key. Slowly and distinctly, though everv movement caused sharp pains to dart through his body, he sent: Japanese have at- tacked left Hank. Send help at once. Look out for the sunken road. Captain laylor, M. . S. C. At that moment he was seen by a Japanese sol- dier. itli a curse the yellow man sprang for- ward and ran him through and through with his bayonet, but it was too late,—the message had been sent. Outside the headquarters' tent the general paced anxiously up and down. Near by stood the waiting regiments of reserves, the trains ready for an immediate start, yet no message came. The operator of the wireless station listened, but no sound came to him. Suddenly, so faintly that he could hardly read it. came the message:— “Japanese have attacked left flank. Send help at once. Look out for the sunken road. “Captain Taylor, M. V. S. C. With a yell lie dropped Ins receivers and sprang with the message towards the general. Quickly tiie troops filed into the waiting trains, and with a cheer started for the firing line. Far off in the fighting line the boys in khaki store! shoulder to shoulder with fixed bayonets, fac- ing the yellow devils from Japan. They were not in the shelter of the woods now, but out on the open plain. They knew what was coming. The Japa- nese had massed their men for the final charge. With blowing bugles and wild cries of “Banzai! they came on. Not a man in that thin, brown line wavered. The front of the advancing horde met it only to reel back, broken and disordered. Again they came on. and again they reeled back- ward. For a third time they came.—thousands and thousands of them. The brown line, weak- ened by the previous charges, began to Waver and break in places, when suddenly from their rear came the glorious notes of the bugle. To those that were left to see, the sight will never be for- gotten. Up a slight rise, on the double quick, with the setting sun gleaming on their shining bayonets, came rank after rank of Yankee volunteers. The light from the crimson west shone on the waving banners as they floated above the moving lines. For an instant the men of Japan tried to with- stand the furious charge they received, but it was impossible, and they were forced back over the ground which they had won. back into the forest, back across the clearing where the men of the wireless corps had died, back to the shelter of their entrenchments and frowning batteries. Captain Taylor was found with his dead hand still clutching the key. A week later in the East- ern newspapers his name was among those re- ported as dead. But how he died, how his mes- sage won the day, the world never knew. 8 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR “letters to a jfresbman 1Rumber Qwc Dear Freshman: Believe me when I say that I wish I could have again the opportunity to begin high school which you are now having. But providentially it comes but once. I mean by that that if you make the most of your opportunity you will never regret it. If you do not, you will regret it just as I do now. And I suppose that is a part of Providence that we should learn by our mis- takes. What I mean by making the most of your op- portunity is this: You are entering school not only fresh in name, but in reputation. None of the teachers know you yet. so that in the first two years you will have the opportunity to make or mar a favorable impression with them, which is no mean consideration. It is needless to say that I marred mine, and have been fighting against a reputation for laziness for the past year. You have another opportunity which comes but once in the course. It is the chance to spread along equally and normally over the four years the work wliich is required to get you into college. Don’t do the way I did. I loafed the first two and a half years, and have spent the rest of the time repeating underclass courses and studying con- tinually. with the awful nightmare of approaching examinations ever hanging over me. And I wasn't the only fool. There were quite a few of us who sat up till twelve o'clock many a night, wish- ing we had again the chance to do our studying more gradually through the four years, as it was intended we should. But we thought we knew, and we had a good time, only to find that those who worked at first have the laugh on us now. Another point: I hope you take the various school interests thoroughly to heart, as well as the study part of it. The football season is now on. and our school has a good team. Don’t leave the support of the school activities to some one else, for if everybody did that nobody would have any interest. You’ll get a lot more out of your course if you support the various athletic, social, and literary enterprises which the schools offer. The Radiatou is a fine paper, but it will be better when all the underclassmen subscribe and try to write stories and class notes for it. 'Hie Debating Society, also, ought to interest you. If you are in the English School, join it. If in the Latin School, make it a point to attend the public debates. You'll be proud to see how well your schools do. Don't forget that they are yours. If you play any instrument except the har- monica. bring it along and try to make the school orchestra. If you’re good at it. vour chances for making it arc good; because not many have the inclination or industry to learn to play anything more than “Chopsticks” on the piano. Above all. be sure to attend your class meetings and join the Athletic Association. Don’t let a clique or a society run the elections. Take an in- terest and interest others. If they want you to run for any office, don’t shirk. You’re probably as good for the place as any one—perhaps better. Don’t be a “Don’t care. or I’ll never be Your friend, A Senior. 3first ITmpresstons of Cape Cob m Isabel m. TllUbcr, X., ’00 1C Ble steamer made its way up Provincetown harbor, I stepped to the rail to catch my first glimpse of the city. It looked as though it had serious intentions of falling into the bay, rising, as it did, from the very edge of the water. I didn’t have long, however, to speculate on the possibilities of such a calamity, for within ten minutes I was on the wharf. And what an uproar! Every kind of noise and cry, from “Carriage, lady, carriage! to Baggage transfer! greeted my ears, until I thought I had stumbled into a miniature Boston. I finally man- aged to get my dress-suit case away from an enter- THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 9 prising youngster, who thought he was going to earn a quarter, and started up the wharf. When I got to the head of it, the outlook was not en- couraging. There was just one street. On one hand a gentleman was assuring strangers that the best shore dinner could be had on the right, while on the other hand another gentleman was just as positive that we should go to the left. I did neither. Instead. I got into a carriage and took a drive through the town. I was calmly enjoying the quaint little city, when the carriage came to a sudden stop. The reason? Oh. simply we had met another carriage, and the question arose as to who should back into the broader part of the road. It was finally decided that we should turn around and go back over our course. Inside of fifteen minutes I was in a train and on my way up the peninsula. 1 pushed uo the cur- tain and looked out. Sand, sand. sand, and then some more sand, just for novelty's sake. Was there ever such a country? Add to barren reaches of sand an August sun. and ask yourself what beauty there could be in such a scene. Gradually the outlook changed. Here and there patches of grass appeared and stunted pines struggled sturdily for existence. I v the time 1 reached North Truro the aspect of the country was quite changed, and I took courage. As I plunged down a steep hill from the station in a strong country carriage. I looked with interest on the little village. Just one street wound to the north. hite farmhouses snuggled down among eld apple trees, and the village church looked across the street almost into the face of the squat little post-office. Then the well-kept lawns gave way to hay fields, which stretched away, swaying gently in the sun. The sandy road began to wind up and down over hills pretty to look upon, but oh. how trying to the pedestrian! The farmhouses came less and less frequently, and lo! we were away from the village and out in the open country, an undulating, dazzling combination of greens and yellows well calculated to win the heart T f the visitor. That evening I started out from the farmhouse where I was visiting, towards the beach. It was hidden from my view by a high hill, but when one reached the top what a sight greeted the eyes! The water of the bay stretches oft toward the horizon, guarded only by the protecting arm of the cape. Toward the west the sun was just sink- ing behind the little glistening city of Province- town. And as old Sol sank to rest. I turned away, well satisfied that such a scene should end my first day on Cape Cod. It jfisbtng Crip tit Jfoggv JSy? C. JE. 1b. tTClcatbcr HERE'S nothing the matter with the weather. W hy don’t you go fishing now? I’ll go with you. said Mr. Morrill, on entering the woodshed where Harold Atwood and I were sitting early one afternoon on a cold, cloudy day of last July. I was spending my va- cation in one of the outermost towns of Cape C od, Harold was passing a fortnight with me, and Mr. Morrill was a summer visitor with whom I had gone fishing on several previous occasions. Such was his answer to our question as to when, in his opinion, the weather would allow us to go fishing and have some small hope of success. And why shouldn’t we go fishing? Here was an opportunity to give Harold some new experi- ence, for as vet we had been unable to enjoy even that sport on account of continual disagreeable weather. Besides, my mother had remarked that morning that the house was nearly destitute of food, for. like many other small summer resorts, the question of knowing whence your next meal is coming was not one of the least puzzling. Then we were all ready to go. not even having to stop and get bait, because I had dug some on the pre- vious day. not knowing when we might need it. After considering everything to be gained by go- ing. we decided to go. W hile we were running about getting our oiled- skin coats, fishing tackle, and other necessities, my father, noticing our unusual activity, asked us what we were going to do. I told him. and invited him to join the party. Instead of responding, he looked displeased, walked to an easterly window, and stood looking out. while we impatiently awaited his reply. After a moment or so, he IO THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR turned and said: “It looks as if the fog might shut in at any minute, and there arc wind clouds off in the east. In short. I won't go, and you shouldn't. Such undeniable arguments, founded on perfect knowledge, should have convinced us. but we had decided to go. and instead of listening to reason, we were soon sailing down the river in my small sailboat. This river flows into the bay about a half a mile below our cottage, and this short dis- tance was quickly covered, and we were soon steering straight for the fishing trap or weir that had been most successful that summer. As the wind was still dead astern, we were alongside within fifteen minutes. We went around the end and came to anchor under the lee of the weir. The fishing around these traps is better than either farther off or close in shore, because perch and flounders feed on the small marine growth on the poles, and the distance at which they are placed from shore has been proved by experience the most profitable. It is not desirable to anchor di- rectly to these traps, however, as there arc leaders under water in which your tackle is likely to be- come entangled. After we had been fishing for about two hours, it became very evident that the boat was dragging her anchor, for we had left the trap far behind, where we had originally anchored. We had not noticed this before, although we had won- dered what made our lines trail out so. As the fishing, which had at first been very exciting, now began to abate and the wind rapidly increased, we saw the necessity of changing our position. Still we fished on, each waiting for some one else to move, until at last we were two miles from where we anchored originally, and our lines could no longer reach bottom. There was no use waiting any longer: indeed, we had waited too long al- ready. Large masses of wild fog were floating over our heads, and night was setting in nearly an hour earlier than usual. We hauled our lines in together, and while Mr. Morrill took in the anchor, Harold set the jib and I hoisted the mainsail, so that we were soon under way. But it was obvious to me almost immedi- ately that little or nothing could be gained by sail- ing. for every wave was so large that they continu- ally threw the boat’s bow off and shook the wind out of her sails, and before she could gain any headway the operation was repeated. I gave up the tiller and took the oars, while Mr. Morrill, who was not yet convinced, tried his hand at sail- ing. By our combined rowing and sailing, we at dusk reached the weir we had first anchored near, but now the trap was directly in our way. and we had either to come about and work up so as to pass to windward of it. or to abandon sailing entirely. We decided upon the latter course, be- cause of the saving of time, and as 1 had been rowing continually since we began to sail. Mr. Morrill relieved me at the oars. The wind had risen to quite a gale, and we began to see the wis- dom of my father's advice. Mr. Morrill rowed until he was exhausted, and we had scarcely gained a hundred feet. Each wave carried the boat with it. and it took one’s entire strength to hold, while on one of these billows, what he had gained with much exertion. Harold and I now took an oar apiece, and it was soon evident that we had gotten to some ex- tent under the lee of the shore, both by our prog- ress and by the size of the waves. It was now dark, and our only guide was the lights in a group of cottages which we knew to be just above the river mouth. What was our astonishment to sec them disappear simultaneously even as we watched! Harold gave several guesses as to the cause, but I knew that the fog that had been lying in a bank off to windward all day had crept in at sundown, and unless we reached the beach before we lost our sense of direction, we would have the opportunity of spending a night on the water, which I personally did not fancy. I took both oars now. and rowed as hard as I could, until it seemed as if we should have reached the beach had we been traveling in the right direc- tion. Just as we had decided to change our course, a verv dangerous thing to do under the conditions, what was our surprise to feel the boat stop abruptly, accompanied by a soft, grinding noise under our bow. On close examination, we found we were really aground, the water and the sand looking so much alike that we had approached it unconsciously. 'I he fog was now so thick and it blended so perfectly with the water that it was nearly impossible to tell whether you were float- ing in fog or water. We followed the shore within ten feet of the water's edge, as there was no surf to hinder us. and after considerable diffi- culty found the river mouth. And what a strange looking river it was! Although I thought I knew every inch of it. I didn't know my way in it. and its strangeness was increased bv the strained condi- tion of our eyes. At last we reached home, and found my father anxiously awaiting us; lie had worried more than we had. We were too tired to do anything but eat our supper and go to bed, reserving the story of our experience until the next day. THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 11 tTbc Stroke of fortune 36 ? Hllison IRewton, X., ’09 jj HY was such a fuss made over the old place, anyway?” was the question he kept asking himself. To be sure, he had been born and had lived there all his life, but the world had no terrors for him. His imagination carried him to nothing worse than what he had gone through the past year, or what his father had be- fore them. Me could remember work from morn- ing to night for one single purpose, to keep the mortgage paid up. And why? Was there any- thing different about that place from any other? They couldn't be bound to it on account of the neighbors, for lie could trace even in his recollec- tion the different ones that had gone '“to the city. and call to mind easily that this was one of the few things that ever aroused his father from his apathy sufficiently to induce him to pass any sar- castic or heated remarks. And yet his father just a year ago to-day, on his dying bed. had said: “Dickie, guess I’m about through. There’s money enough in the stocking to pay the interest to- morrow, and you'll tend to it after I'm gone. The sobs of his mother had just ceased from above. Why did she care? She wasn’t born here. What had the old place brought ever since lie could re- member but hard work and sore trouble? The mortgage would be lifted to-morrow all right, and he didn’t give a “hang if it was. What did he care if he was turned out of house and home? If this was home, he’d like to trv something that wasn’t home. At last he arose from the table littered with papers, and sweeping them all together, chucked them into the fireplace. Stooping to pick up those which he had dropped, he noticed one that was a piece of parchment, and when he had tossed the others into the fire, he brought this over to tV light and examined it. Undoing the parchment, he saw that on it was fastened a piece of half-burnt paper, which read; I he money, ten thousand dol- lars ($10,000). to wit, hath been pla----- tpid this was as far as he could decipher. Below was ap- pended a note which read to the effect that James (irantham had amassed a considerable fortune, hidden it somewhere, and made a will, imparting to ho one its provisions; that as he was rum- maging one night for some papers in his strong box. the lamp had set fire to his papers, and that the old man, attempting to extinguish the flames, had been so severely burned that he had (lied from the shock, .leaving nothing but this piece of paper giving a clue to the where- abouts of his fortune. He read this over again, and then remembered of hearing his father tell about how he used to search when he was a boy. If he only had that ten thousand now! Well, he might lift the mortgage, as mother seemed to care so much about it. and then perhaps it would be better for her to stay at home. It would be pretty hard to support two in the city the first year. Not that it would make any difference ultimately, but then, it would ease off the first two or three years. But what’s the use? I haven't got it, and. furthermore, there’s no chance of my getting it. so I'll quit thinking about it. By this time he had become so wrought up that his head ached, and he felt feverish all over, as if something would burst. So he put on his hat and coat, and strode out of the house in the direction of one place which at least would recall many pleasant memories. As he drew in the inspiriting night air. he began to look at the place in a more favorable light. He had had some mighty good times when he was a kid on this same old place. As he wandered over the fields, each object seemed to recall some little incident, and each incident brought back some pleasant recollection. At last he stood before the old oak. with the huge rock beneath and the brook near by. Here he was completely lost in thought. Yes, he did wish he had that ten thousand dollars. Five or six years would really be a short time to make such a fortune as that. Wonder if he would be able to save enough at the end of the year to come back just a day or so to see everybodv—under the tree, of course. Ten thousand dollars would come in mighty handy. A thunder shower had just broken overhead, but so deep was he immersed in thought that he stood there unmindful of it. When the lightning Hashed the whole panorama before him, he would take notice, and when it thundered draw his coat close about him. Suddenly, a blinding flash, a splitting crasn! Clapping his hands to his head, he is thrown over, almost stunned. By the next flash, some- what recovered, he has begun to look about 12 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR to see what lias happened.. The trunk of the mas- sive oak is split from branch to root by a great white gash, but what is that black thing? Doesn’t he see something there near the roots? The next Hash confirms this; there surely is something there. Groping along, he runs his hand down the gash. Ah. what is that cold thing his hand touches? A metal; a handle to it; a leek; It s a box: a small box. l y Gracious! It’s grand- father’s money! It's the fen thousand dollars! Jftgbting a jforcet jfire By Hustin lPalmer, B., '09 SAY, Al, what’s all that smoke up there in your timber lot?’’ I don't know. Isn’t it Charles burning brush up in his pasture?” ‘‘No! He wouldn’t be burning brush in a wind like this. We’d better go up.” ‘‘1 guess you're right. 'file scene was that of an old solitary farmhouse on the side of one of New I lampshire’s stately hills. About 200 yards back of the house was a thick pine wood, from the heart of which a cloud of smoke was arising. This timber lot and the farm were the property of a young man locally known as Al, who during this conversation was sit- ting on a mowing machine in a field to the left of the house. This was where 1 spent my summe; vacation, and on the present occasion I was in the house reading. The person who had addressed the young pioprietor was a man who, with his two companions, was setting a telephone pole directly opposite the house. On hearing the cry of fire. I quickly joined them. Al left his horse standing in the field, the men left the pole half set. for they all realized that a fire in that dry season, with the wind sweeping at terrific rate toward the buildings, would mean great loss if it once gained headway, for it must take in the village, which was directly in its path and only a mile away. Running across the inter- vening opening, we plunged into a dense growth of underbrush which had grown up under the lofty pines.- After traveling a half-mile and getting se- verely scratched by the bushes, we found ourselves face to face with a dense cloud of smoke. A f.w more steps showed us (lames rushing up twenty- five feet into the pines. I was at a loss to know what to do. but seeing the men cutting evergreen branches. I quickly followed suit, and with these began beating out the Hames. The fire was burning in an open circle about an eighth of a mile in diameter. 'I he Hames were two and three feet high, except in one place, where the dead leaves and needles were feeding the Hames into the boughs of the pines. We began work, but it seemed almost impossible to check it. Soon wc heard shouts in the woods, and men kept arriving until we numbered about a doz.ti and a half. Although we put out the Hames, the heart of the fire would still smoulder on in the six inch coat of needles and leaves, and readily ! laz forth at the least call of the wind. As there was no water near, the only thing to do was to dig dry earth and strew it over the smoking earth. This, one can imagine, was no little task, for practically every foot of that quarter of an acre was smoking and smouldering. While part of us kept down the blaze, the others were steadily throwing on gravel. Thus in the course of an hour the fire was under control, and the men all left, planning to come back if the smoke increased. Then we two, Al and my- self. were left alone to guard this smoking and smouldering mass. We were kept busy putt ng out the small Hames that insisted on breaking out, and shoveling dirt on the smoking stumps. We had entered the woods at half-past ten, and it was now a little after noon. Shortly our dinner arrived, sent by my companion’s mother. We were a pretty spectacle as we sat there on a log. our hands and faces more black than white, our eyes swollen and red. and our clothes ragged and burned- The last touch was added to this picture when we took the meat and potatoes in « ur grimy hands and devoured them as only • nc can who Ins had strenuous exercise in the invigorating fores air. This last touch was made necessary by our kind provider’s forgetfulness in sending rs silve:- ware. I'ive times during the meal we were inter- rupted to extinguish Hames. THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR ij Finishing this rustic repast, we once more set to work digging and strewing soil until the fire seemed in its last stages. Then we reclined on the pine needles a short distance away, and were pass- ing the time pleasantly by conversation, when a sudden crackling brought us to our feet. What presented itself to us was a fire on the other side of the clearing, sweeping quickly into a low under- brush. Snatching our fir boughs, we put in ten minutes solid work, and at the end of that time we saw with relief that we were the masters. W e kept more careful watch the remain Itr of thr after- noon, putting out many small fires which t' e wind created. At five o'clock I returned home and had a hearty supper. Then, strapping a hammock and a coup1 e of blankets to my back, taking my sweater, a lan- tern, and a pail of food. I went back to relieve AI that he might go home to his supper. On h's ic- tum, by coming 'way around, he was able to get very near with a team, bringing three wash b !lcrs full of water. This he brought that we ni ght more easily put out any fire that might arise dur- ing the night, for it was thought unsafe to leave the place over night. We hung the hammock between two trees and the lanterns one on either side of it. and then re- sorted to a pack of cards. The three of us. for my young brother had joined us for the night, were enjoving ourselves, when a flicker and then a hurst of flame sent us to the other side with water. It was a small blaze, but looked the fiercer because of the surrounding blackness. Thus we s;:c it ti c time until ten o'clock, when my two compairons, one in the hammock and one on a bed of pi e needles, wrapped themselves in their l ankets and were soon asleep. Left alone I wrapped myself in my blankets, and sat leaning against a tree, from whence I could sur- vey the burnt district. I was companionless in a black wood, except for a pack of cards, the heavy breathing of my comrades, and the thought that less than a hundred yards from my resting place a man had committed suicide. Thus 1 remaiuc 1. expecting to see accompanying every crackle of the hushes a new flame. But twelve o’clock ar- rived, and no fire had appeared. I now awakened mv companions, and we had our midnight meal. It was extremely cold for that time of year, and those who came forth from their warm blankets felt it keenly, and wrapped their blankets arorn 1 their shoulders. Stepping aside. I was reni n led of a Valley Forge picture of soldiers thus w rapped up. eating by lantern light. It was now my turn to sleep, and I was quickly slumbering, while A1 took up the watch. Ah. ut one o’clock a fire broke out on the edge, which would have proved disastrous to the woods had we not been there. About two the wind l ad s d'ed that little danger was left from blazes, so we a1! turned in. sleeping soundly until four. Then ?n t' c gray light of the dawn we put the remaining water on such places as still smoked, an 1 hurried home, a miserable looking trio. But soap and water, fresh clothes, and a good breakfast soon brought u around again. We returned that afternoon, hut found every- thing as we left it. Thus ended one of the mest stirring and pleasant experiences of my vacation. After careful consideration, we concluded that the fire had been set l force A1 into selling h's timber, which would have been hut little damaged if cut at once. However, as we had no proof against the man of whom we suspecte I the act, nothing coidd be done. Hn tbe Sbabe of tbe 0lt Kpple Xivee paroDE In? Xoufs I. In the shade of the apple tree, Where the birds and the bees sing with gl e. And the blossoms so sweet, [Mus the absence of beat. Seem to weave fairy charms over me. Since I know of a place just like that. You may bet your old hoots to a hat 1 will go right away To spend one pleasant day In the shade of the old apple tree. 1 tppo, '09 II. In the shade of the old apple tree: ’Cause 1 came out of season, you see. There were no blossoms there,— But the ants in my hair Seem’d to take a kind interest in me! (X !) I just happened, quite sudden, you know. ( )n the home of a hornet or so— So I guess I ’ll not stay Any ionger to-day In the shade of the old apple tree! 14 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR B.O.W. ’ox '09 Allison Newton, Class Editor. The adage, A good beginning makes a bad end- ing.’ is a dead letter, as you well know, prudent classmates. Rather for you is that most excellent saying, “All’s well that ends well,” for in one sense we are both beginning and ending this year. So let us begin well, that we may end well. Long live our class of '09, Long live her gallant name. So may she be the best of all, And ever known to fame. Teacher (to Miss W—lb—r, scanning): “Where’s the pause?” Miss W—lb—r: It’s all pauses.” Every Thursday the German scholars like to air their German. It certainly needs it. Teacher: Well, what is a man of letters?” Sh—r—dan : The mail man.” Was that merely coincidence. Miss 15—It? “WHERE DII) YOU GET IT. GENTLEMEN? 11—nd—rs—n : The hat. “'Dick”: The socks. D—gg—n : The bucolic diaeresis. Teacher: What is the most remarkable thing about Greek?” Pupil: ‘ M—ldo—n’s translations.” Muldoon he studies fiercely His lessons day and night, That’s why they sound ferocious When he stands up to recite. At the annual meeting of the A. A. our class- mates. “Ned Garland and Eliot Slater, were chosen respectively for president and baseball man- ager. Garland, after his election, conducted the meeting with great dignity, straightening out a knotty point of order which the Hon. Kirkpatrick saw fit to raise. Heard in Greek 2:— Teacher: Is there any one absent?” Pupil: No; if there was there wouldn’t be any one here.” X—1—ti says he always has his lessons. In the book, he means. First Pupil (translating French conversation): ‘ Have you an ache in the head?” Second Pupil: No, M------. a pain in the neck.” Br—wn’s invariable rule for gender: “Some are masculine, some arc feminine.” Teacher (translating Virgil): And lie placed garlands on his brow.” Garland (from back of room): What, sir?” In Henderson’s desk there was a hat. On top of which were books; When some one on the cover sat, It spoilt the hat’s good looks. Why is Robertson like a furnace?—Hot air. A consistent conversation in English, according to Mrs. G.:— First Boy: I have had a hair cut.” Second Boy: “Why haven’t you had them all cut?” A notice concerning the school orchestra asks for players of wind instruments. What’s the mat- ter with II—nd—rs—n? Teacher (in Latin): Have you a picture of this in your mind?” Bright Pupil: Maybe, but it’s a chromo.” It is rumored that in Room 21 the teacher started to read the Greek Composition” in the morning exercises. Miss M—cv. in translating, says: The triple youths row.” Does she mean triplets? Mac-----says: “In my division there are only my friend—a boy—and I, and twenty-three other girls.” There was a boy who said: I don’t care W’hcther it rains or whether it’s fair.” So he sat in his seat. And scuffled his feet, W hile running his fingers around through his hair. Who’s the boy? We “now take the opportunity to apologize for some of this verse!!! Thank goodness it isn’t all ours! We have also refrained from twitting on facts, and have in no way been held to them. We have used the names of those only who are jokes” anyway, and shouldn’t care. THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR i5 TO Harry H. Greenwood, Class Editor. At a recent class election the following officers were elected for the year: President. Robert Davis: vice-president. Arthur Tcllicr: secretary- treasurer. George Dawson: and editor, Harry Greenwood. The Freshmen certainly received a warm wel- come, as did some of the Juniors. Our class is well represented on the football field by Cousens. Howard, and Woodman. Grimmons, Fames, and Trueman are not with us this year. Grimmons is at Andover, Fames is in a preparatory school in Xew Hampshire, and Trueman is working in the Electrical Works in Lynn. Keep off the grass! Shorty says that Sophomore Latin is fine. I). Brooke McKinnon’s English is perfectly marvelous. Br—nt informs us that by violent exercise this summer lie has reduced his weight. He is a mere shadow now. Some Juniors have been taking lessons in the correct use of slang. Too bad no one is allowed to sit beside Miss B—k—r. In history: “Persons who committed suicide wilfully were tried for murder by a council in Draco’s time.” R—d says that he is classical. The three giants of our class, Grainger. Gren, and Dawson, form a strong trio in the ball game which takes place daily. K----im claims the championship of the class in pugilism. Heard in Greek (Frisky translating): “The ships hasten into the tent of Cyrus. Our president’s speech at the class election was of so great length that it has been decided not to print it. It was with great enthusiasm that Davis told how his administration should be run. Putney is decidedly a ladies’ man. Keep up the good intentions that you have thought of all summer.—that of studying hard and making this year the best of all the years in high school. 'll Melvin J. Messer, Jr., Class Editor. At a recent class meeting the following officers were elected: President. Xorville L. Milmore; vice-president. Philip Tead; secretary, Ruth Cum- mings: class editor. Melvin |. Messer, Jr. If some of that cheering at the class meeting could only be canned and taken to a game! That old excuse for skipping a period, that Satan tempted you and you told him to get behind you and he pushed you out. cannot be used this year. If a word to the wise is sufficient, think of the wise ones in Room 12! M—lm—e certainlv loves to slide on his chin, if looks count for anything. All M—s—r wants is four or five pages of notes. Please leave all class notes with the editor, seat 47, Room 11. Baseball practice will soon be resumed in the laboratory. The flies are getting thicker every day. It takes the Ercshies quite a while to get over their kid days. Tag still amuses them. Ridco likes to express his opinion of Latin grammar and rules. Jerry M—sk—1 knows where attributive posi- tion is now. i—t—11 and M—rp—y thought they couldn't sit together and behave well, but they have sud- denly changed their minds. Taylor will hereafter answer to the name of Schneider. Donahue (class pugilist) extends a challenge to all Freshmen. R—s thinks it would be a “cinch” to pronounce German when standing on your head. « It seems to be a race between M—1—r and X—h—1 for first place in Division II. The school board have recently bought a num- ber of second-hand baby carriages for next year’s Freshman class. Be sure to see V—1—111s and T—d in their fa- mous imitation of the Katsenvammer Kids. Teacher (to pupil in Latin 5): “Decline propo- sitio. meaning an offer or a proposal. Miss S—g—t: “Please don’t ask me, indeed. I couldn’t. (Freslunan Notes on page 18.] i6 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR '09 Lester C. Gustin, Class Editor. Seniors, we are now on the home stretch. Let every one do his best and finish with flying colors. The annual election of class officers resulted as follows: President, Edward Donahue: vice-presi- dent. Harry Checthain; secretary. Eleanor Dun- ning; treasurer. Samuel Rich. According to some young ladies of the Senior class, Eddie, our new president, is just too cute for anything. Heard in the corridor: “Oh. Taft’s got Bryan skim a mile. Chee—am (dreaming of ice cream): The theme was very smooth. We hear Crocker, our old classmate, is engaged. Hard luck. Ed. Watch Haz—t—ne and Miss Lo—joy practice the Romeo and Juliet act in Room ?1 at recess. Instructor: If you should hold vour arm out horizontally and should suddenly lose your will power, what would be the result? Harrington : “My arm would fall to the ground A movement has been started for making the school more homelike. Observe the lace curtain on the door in Room 22 X. Ever notice Kirkpatrick gazing longingly towards Maine? Lloyd says lie laughed so hard the tears ran through his eyes. What joke was that? We hear everything in the physics laboratory is rickety. Harl— made a hit in German with his elevated ankles. We had a short, but interesting, talk from Mr. Clark recently. The applause seemed to indicate that our new superintendent had made a favorable impression on the reverend Seniors If you have a condition, make it up. We’re waiting for you in the Senior rooms. Well, talk about your tenors! Aren’t wc just about “it ? When in need of mental exercise, write a few class notes and send them to Room 21. '10 Andrew Handley, Class Editor. Another year is gone. We are Juniors, with two classes below and only one above us. In one short year we shall be It. 'I he following anecdote is not vouched for, but it seems quite possible :— Scene, a court room. An important case is be- ing tried. Lawyer: And you say you looked into the room and saw two boys studying? Witness: “Yes, sir. Lawyer: Did you recognize them?” Witness: “Yes, sir. Lawyer: Who were they?” Witness: Jones and Winn. Just then the floor opened with a crash, and the unfortunate witness disappeared, while the odor of sulphur pervaded the room. Moral: Tell the truth. Don’t look at McCarthy. 11 is countenance is that of a mad man after chemistry. A member of III. French 1 asked a Frenchman a question in his native (?) tongue the other day. The man is somewhat better now, and will recover. THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR l7 Notice! These nicknames are perhaps appro- priate. but their unhappy owners beg you to desist in their use:— Red” J—n—s. “Studious” W—n. “Sticks” A—r—n. Punk” B—n—t. “Beaut’’ W—lk—ns. The class .elections resulted as follows: Presi- dent. Clarence Mixer; vice-president. Mabel Hen- derson; secretary. Joseph Pike; treasurer. Prank Ahern. The child S—s— has been transferred from 22 to 28. Heard in history E: Alfred the Confessor mar- ried the son of Godwin.” Arnold likes to talk over the telephone. Ha! Pitman has a library period? We still have the captain of the football team in our class. We hope to see F—s—er in the interscholastic debates next spring. Young B—nn—tt has graduated into long trousers at last. Have you noticed the way the Freshmen act dig- nified? We arc glad to see Foster in his high position on the Radiator staff. Hodgdon is a graceful dancer, so they say. How many will sing in Mr. Hadley's musicale next winter, if such a thing should happen? Tl Arthur Leighton. Class Editor. The class election resulted as follows: President, Lawrence Caldwell; vice-president, Ruth Dillon; secretary, Frank Fallis; treasurer, Austin Pierce; executive committee, John Glover and John Laurie. Teacher (reading theme in 12 X): Little Jim trudged along the dusty road------” (At this mo- ment a prolonged shriek came from a passing train.) Teacher: Applause from the galleries.” Ware now owns another horse, and it is ex- pected that he will soon go into horse racing or become the proprietor of a circus. Baker (in geometry): If two plane figures coin- cide by superstition.” Division I), has the Big Three,” Misses B—ss, Br—d—ry. and Cha—f—c. for members. How are those shoes, Boothby? The following officers for Room 18 were unani- mously elected : Janitor, Artz ; assistant janitor. Ward. Go to Cadario for pencil kindlings. Cutler, translating French, J’ai vu sa femme,” says: I have seen his woman.” That old-rose tie of Cl—gh’s has not appeared among our midst for some time. Horrors! has he lost it? Some of those poor, bewildered faces of the Freshmen are really pathetic. Please contribute class notes generously this year and make a good column. Bring all notes to Room 30 A, seat 25. Pure, wholesome amusement: Watch Pierce laugh. Curly” Lawrence has recently purchased the latest thing in lavender socks. P—tt—son and W—1—n are the latest recruits in the long trousers army. T2 Oliver Churchill. Class Editor. Three cheers for the Freshmen of 1912, Three cheers for the boys and the girls. For they are here to work with a will. And trim the Sophomore boys and girls. Freshmen of 1912, we are just beginning our four years of study at a school that stands high amongst the foremost of this state, and one that has graduated many a class: let us now highly resolve that we will not fall below the standard set by past classes, that have passed out of the doors of their Alma Mater. Following are the class elections: President, Robert Garland; vice-president. Edward Little; treasurer. William O’Connell: secretary, Agnes Cameron. If our treasurer is tardy some morning, it will be plainly understood that his sister mislaid her curling irons. L- dry is fast becoming a pet in Room II X. He is a regular little lady. Freshmen not attending a dancing school will find it hard to purchase their dogs” at Harry’s, as it requires a certain amount of gracefulness. i8 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR C—v—11 was heard saying that if he grew much slimmer his clothes would become too small for him. All Freshmen wishing to belong to a “Weston Club ' go to Co—g—ve. Room 11 X. Any one finding Latin puzzling go to Professor Nex. II.. Pantry Room 12. He is a most excellent scholar. ().: Why is the Freshman class like summer? v � A.: Because it contains fair May and June. ------------------------------------ Xattn, ’12 [Continued from |� .� gc 15.) Francis J. Mahoney, Class Editor. Freshmen of Rooms .‘12 and 34. keep off the English School lawn! Poor La M—t! Poor W—Is—n! L—ch (reciting in history): “The Pentacosiome- dimdi were those who owned over 500 bushels of men. M—ch—1 seems very anxious to get a new block. readier (in algebra): “X, Y, Z, — La M—nt: “Punt. That was a fascinating story of Gordon Olsen's. Too bad we couldn't hear it all. If the school is cold this winter, it will not be for want of fire wood, since there are so many tooth- picks on the tloor of Room 31. Wonder who owns that gun! Heard from a Freshman at the football game: ‘‘Oh. 1 hope he makes a home run! H—11: “You’re afraid to light. H—f—r—n : No. my mother'd lick me.” H—11: “How'll she know? 11—f—r—n : She’ll see the doctor at your house.” ---------------------------- IResolutions Whereas, by the divine will of God, our friend. Percy G. W hitman, has been bereaved of his father: and Whereas, we. the members of the Radiator staff, have learned with great sorrow of his loss; be it Resolved, that we tender him our heartfelt sym- pathy. Ernest W. Chapin, Vivian Peers. S. V. The S. V. has already begun its fourth year of activity. Two meetings have been held at the homes of Miss Teresa Sweeney and Miss Martha Delay. At the last meeting M ss Helen Anderson was initiated into the club, and plans were made for making a merry I fallowc’en. i he present offi- ce! s and members are: President. Miss Grace E. McIntosh: secretary. Miss Ruth S. Manning: treasurer. Miss Martha W. Delay: Helen Ander- son. Frances Donovan. Bessie Horton. Elsie Mc- Donald. Bertha Nason. Edith Potter. Teresa Sweeney, Alma Wiley. Ruth S. Manning. Secretary. ----------♦—------------------ U bi aipba Eailv in June the newly-initiated members of the Phi Alpha Sorority held a meeting at the home of Marion Corliss, 3(5 Greenville street. I he officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President. Beth Chickering; secretary. Mar. i Corliss: and treasurer. Amy Barker. I lie other three active members are Helen French. Marias I lallet, and Lorenc Whitney. The first regular meeting was held October 3, at the home of the president. Arrangements for the coming winter were discussed, but no definite plans have yet been made. The present members sincerely hope that the social successes of past years may be equalled, if not surpassed. , jfresbinan IResolutions Whereas, in the providence of God, our class- mate, Myra Flagg, has been bereaved of her father; and whereas, we, the class of 1912, have learned with sorrow of her affliction ; be it there- fore Resolved, that we tender to her our sincere sym- pathy in her great sorrow; and be it further Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to Miss Flagg and published in the Hum School Radiator. Robert M. Garland, President. Agnes N. Cameron, Secretary. THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 9 Howard II. Crosby. English, 'ol. was graduated in June from Annapolis Xaval Academy, and after a furlough of forty days, spent at his home in this city, joined the flagship Connecticut of the Atlantic squadron at Sa Francisco for its cruise around the world. Gorham W. Harris, English. ’02, Harvard. '07. is now at Harvard specializing in chemistry. Ernest A. Ware, English. '05, is a Senior at M. I. T. Frances E. Welch, English. 0(5. Salem Normal School. '08, is a cadet teacher in the Morse School. Harrison Higgins. English. ’03. is a Senior at the University of Maine in Orono. John J. Savage. English, ’o 2. is vice-president of the Senior class at Boston College. Ethel Hartwell, English, '07. is doing clerical work at the Cambridge court house. Pearl E. Whitehouse. English, 'os. is employed as stenographer and typewriter by the Poston Hook Company, Fenway. Boston. Gladys A. Rudgell. English, 0:5. Salem Normal School. 05. was married recently to Henry L. Rip ley. who is a Technology graduate. The engagement of Martha Wingersky. English. ’04, to Ira Glassman. English. '00, has recent!) been announced. Robert C. Cochrane, English. 03. Dartmouth. ’07. is in the second year of the Harvard Medical School. Ella Keefe. Edward Brewer. Mice Mulholland. Gladys Musgrove. and Harold Wiswall, all of the class of ions, are attending the Winter Hill Busi- ness College. James J. Mooney. English. ’00. now of George- town Cnivcrsitv. Maryland, has been awarded the gold medal prize for excellence in English. Carol Whitney. English, '07. is a Sophomore at Tufts. John Dunavan, Latin, 07, is working at the North Station. Ethel P. Sturtevant. Latin. ’02. Tufts. '07, has just received an instructorship at Simmons College. Elinor Xeilon. Elsie Crispin, and Sybil Fernan- dez. English, ox, are Freshmen at Boston Normal School. Percy A. Brigham. English. 04. Massachusetts Normal Art. '08. has been elected director of manual arts. Portsmouth. X. IL. High School. Elmer C. Houdlette. English. '0(5, has left Tufts College and entered the Junior class at the Uni- versity of Maine, where he will take a course in civil engineering. Morris Wing. English. '07. is working in the electrical department of Bigelow. Kennard. Co. Arthur Campbell. Rupen Eksergian. Harold Kebbon, Ralph Riddell. Archibald Lawrie, Ingia- ham Taylor, and W illiam R. (Hidden. English. i) ;. are Freshmen at M. I. T. Mabel L. Teelc. English. 'OS. is taking a course at Xortltfield Seminary. Marion Loring. English. '08, is at Simmons Col- lege. Boston. Fred Earle. English. ‘08. is taking a post- graduate course at the Latin High School. Lawrence Richardson, IL, 07, has entered the Freshman class at M. I. T. Margaret Fcindel. English. 08 is traveling with the Library Bureau. I,inwood E. Snowman. Latin. ’00, Harvard. ’ !. l as recently been elected secretary and treasurer of the University of Porto Rico. Mae Seaver. Latin. ’08. has entered Miss WTeelock's School of Kindergarten. Grace Burt. Latin, ’07. is at Boston University, after teaching a year in Connecticut. Alexander Elder. Latin. ’03. Harvard. '07. is now in the third year of Harvard Law School. The marriage of Grace X. Jouett. Latin. 0-1. t G. Waldo Proctor. Latin. '02. took place October G at the Baptist church, West Medford. 20 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR Maude Huff, Latin. '0-1, Wellesley, '08, is teach- ing English and French at the Essex High School, Essex, Mass. Arthur Healey. Latin, '08, has entered the Freshman class at Tufts. Florence Bouncy. Latin. ‘01, Radcliffe. 08, is at Lyndon Institute. Lvndonville. Vt., teaching Latin and German. Mark Allen. Latin. '08, has entered Dartmouth this year. Emily Taapken. Latin, 00, is a Junior at Mt. Holyoke. Ruth M. Smith, Latin, 08, is a Freshman at Smith College. Richard Lamont. Latin, '07. is in the Sophomore class at Tufts. Lucie A. Kramer, Latin, ’08. entered Radcliffe College this fall. Margaret M. Grimshaw. Latin, '07, Radcliffe. '11, has received a $200 scholarship. William E. Patrick. Latin, '08, received the Price-Grcenleaf scholarship at Harvard. Genevieve Fosdick, Latin, '0(1. is a Junior at Tufts. Marion Aldrich, Latin. '08, has gone to Wheaton Seminary this year. Marion Youngjohn. Latin. '0(1. is studying art in Cincinnati. Charles Merrill. Latin. 0(1. is a Junior at Har- vard. Helen Stearns, Latin. '08, is a Freshman at the Salem .Normal School. Gladys Weisbach. Latin. '07. entered Radcliffe this fall. William Giles. Latin. '08, has entered the first year of Tufts Medical School. Madeline Woodley. Latin. '08. is a Freshman at Boston University. Howard Gray. Latin. '07. is a Sophomore at Tufts. Helen Watson. Latin, '((8. is at Bradford Acad- emy this year. Francis Frost, Latin. '04. is teaching the first grade in a primary school at a viand. Mass. Harold Cohen. Latin. '((8. entered Massachusetts Agricultural College this fall. Edith Bradford. Latin. '07. is a Sophomore at Tufts. Exchanges Again we extend a hearty welcome to all our exchanges. We shall endeavor to make helpful suggestions, and we hope that they in turn will help us. Your st ries. Student, are bright and interesting. ' Washington Memories,’ relating the trials in the journey t: and from the capital, is certainly very humorous. A story of an entirely different kind is Look Back, which reviews the entire school life from home teaching through college. “The Study Hour is a clever parody on Longfellow's “The Children’s Hour. A new friend appears in the Commencement number of the Mcgunticook from Camden. Me. The enthusiasm and the school spirit shown in this interesting magazine are noticeable. With a graduating class of eleven, they make up in quality what they lack in quantity. As a graduation number, the Sagamore is well edited. One of the most amusing sections of the magazine is “Who's Who Among the Seniors,” giving word pictures of the graduating class. Wake up your poets and authors. Record. Bos- ton English High. Set them to work! The edi- torials in the June number are good, especially the one entitled “After School. What? The cut for your “Locals” column is most original. The cover of the June Megaphone, while simple, is attractive. Great importance is given to the alumni pages, which are certainly successful. The High School Recorder, of Winchester, has an attractive graduation number. “Our Wash- ington Trip” is an interesting story, giving a good description of the various buildings and parks in the city. The class statistics for 11)08 arc quite amusing. “The Victory, in the May Clarion, holds the reader s attention well. It is a story which shows that school spirit predominates over personal spite. A reproduction of the beautiful painting. “Old Temeraire. is given in the same number. A brief history of that vessel and a sketch of the life of the painter. Joseph Mallord Turner, explain the picture. THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 21 On Monday. September 14. Captain Mixer is- sued the call for candidates. About thirty-five re- ported for practice, ten of whom are last year's S men. The new men look promising, and with Coach Baldwin in charge of the players S micrville ought to turn out a good team. The line is strong, with Gustin. Caldwell. Rus- sell. Woodman, ami Nolan, and Eorg. Howard, and Garland are three good ends. With Pep Cousens. Dickerman. Donahue. McCarthy. McDonald, and Kirkpatrick to choose from, a set of strong backs can i c depended on. The daily work consists of tackling the dummy, signal practice, and a short scrimmage with the second team. Somerville has an unusually good team, ami the games should be well attended. Coach Baldwin plaved la t year as guard on the Dartmouth College team, which won every game, beating Harvard. 2 2-0. He played on the Somer- ville teams of '04 and 05 as tackle. Manager Cheetham announces the following schedule:— September 20—Everett High at Somerville. September 30—Groton High at Groton. October 3—Cambridge Latin at Somerville. October 7—Boston Latin at Somerville. October 10—Haverhill High at Somerville. October 14—Quincy High at Somerville. October IT—Brockton High at Brockton. October 24—Waltham High at Waltham. October tS—Tech. Bill, at Somerville. October 31—Dorchester High at Dorchester. November I—Hyde Park at Somerville. November T—Malden High at Somerville. November 14—English High at Somerville. November 26—R. M. T. S. at Somerville. Jfootball Captain The 1907 football team voted Clarence Mixer, English. ‘10. captain of the team for this season. Captain Mixer, on account of last year’s good work, rightly deserved the position, and would have done credit to the team and to the school. But in the Everett game Mixer twisted his knee, an injury which will keep him out of the game for the rest of the season. Knowing this, he handed in his resignation, and a special meeting of last year's football players was held. It was accepted, as all saw the necessity of having a captain that could play in all the games. Fred Eorg. English, ‘10. was elected. Eorg has played on the eleven for two years as end. and has got the reputation of being a steady player. His previous work has shown him capable of making a capable leader. Somerville, 6; Everett, 0 In the first game of the season Somerville played a good game. The line held strongly, but the backs showed lack of team work. About the end of the first half Mixer had his knee muscles torn, which will probably keep him out of the game for the rest of the season. Everett was evidently trying to develop kicking, for almost every time they had the hall they punted immediately. Somerville’s touchdown came in the second half on a fumbled punt got by Garland and on line- bucking by Cousens. Woodman showed ability at kicking, and was also strong in the line. The line-up:— SC M ER VILLE. EVERETT. Howard (Garland), be.................r.e.. Green Caldwell, ht.........................r.t.. Brauer Russell, l.g........................... Ho rle 22 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR Gust in, c..........................c.. Locke Woodman, r.g...............l.g., Sawyer Nolan, r.t........................l.t., Moore Forg, r.e.........................l.e., Norris Donahue, q.b............q.b., Lansing (Soulis) Mixer (Dickernian), l.li.b..r.li.b.. Rosenthal Kirkpatrick (McDonald), r.li.b.l.li.b.. Brickley Cousens (McCarthy), f.b............f.b„ Brock Score—Somerville. : Everett, . Touchdowns —Cousens. Goals from touchdowns—Woodman. Umpire—Nichols. Referee—Hapgood. Head linesman—Woodlock. Linesmen—I larding and Tuells. Timer—Tom Commins. Somerville, 0; Groton, 0 Somerville went to Groton and held their strong team to a tic. “Pep Cousens dislocated his shoulder, an accident that kept him out of several succeeding games. .......... ----------------- Somerville, 5; Gambrtfcoe Xatln, 0 On Broadway field Saturday, October ;5. Som- erville defeated Cambridge Latin, 5-0, but it looked up to the last minute of play as if it was to be a tic. In that minute Howard made a spec- tacular run on a forward pass, which paved the way for the touchdown. Russell and Caldwell were both out. and this weakened the line quite appreciably, although Millmorc and Pease played a good game. Garland tackled hard and took in forward passes like a veteran. For Cambridge. Sweet and Graus- tein played well. Many forward passes were used with varying success. At the end of the first half Somerville was on the three-yard line, and prob- ably would have scored if the whistle had not blown. In the second half Cambridge had an excellent chance for a touchdown. On a fumble a Cam- bridge man picked up the ball and started down an almost clear field, but he stumbled and made no gain. A little later Somerville made a forward pass to Forg. who had a chance for a long gain, but he fumbled. With but two minutes to play. McDonald made a pass of twenty yards to Howard, who got to the seven-yard line, where he was tackled by Graustein. On a delayed pass McCarthy made a touchdown. Woodman failed to kick tlie goal. The game ended just after the next kick-off. The line-up:— SO M ER V11 ,LE. C A M B RIDG E. Garland (Howard), l.e..............r.e.. Dovey Millmore, l.t......................r.t., Lang Pease, l.g.................................r.g., Coleman Gustin. c....................................c., Byngham Woodman, r.g........................l.g., Merrill Nolan (Mitchell), r.t...............l.t., Stewart Forg, r.e............:..............l.e., Parry Donahue, q.b........................q.b.. Green Dickernian (Kirkpatrick. Dugan), l.h.b., r.li.b., Close McDonald, r.li.b.............l.li.b.. Graustein McCarthy, f.b..............f.b.. Sweet (Nason) Score—Somerville. 5; Cambridge Latin, 0. Touchdowns—McCarthy. Field judge—Hilling, of Cambridge. Umpire—Catharin. of Dartmouth. Referee—Paul, of Bowdoin. Linesmen—Roberts, Harding, and Cousens. Timekeeper—Burns. Time—15-minutc halves. Somerville, 0; Boston Xatln, 0 In a loosely-played game Wednesday, October ?. Somerville had hard work to keep Boston Latin from scoring. Somerville time and time again made illegal passes and was penalized. Somer- ville received the kick-off. but was held, and had to make a punt, which was fumbled. Russell get- ting the ball. Two forward passes worked well, but a third was intercepted by Boston. A moment later Somerville made a pass to Gar- land. who made a brilliant dash and a touchdown, but the ball was brought back as a penalty for off- side play. Latin School on the ten-yard line tried for a goal, and failed. The second half was a se- ries of forward passes and punts. Once Latin School was on the fifteen-yard line, but they were held, and Somerville punted out of danger. Latin tried to return the punt, but Caldwell broke through and blocked it. getting the ball for Somer- ville himself. The latter part of the half was mostly taken up with punting. The line-up:— SOMERVILLE. BOSTON LATIN. Garland, l.e........................r.e., Ayer Russell (Caldwell), l.t............r.t., Allison Pease (Russell), l.g.......................r.g., Elcock Gustin, c....................................c., Fraser Woodman, r.g...................l.g., Prendergast Nolan, r.t.................................l.t.. Cleary Forg. r.e..................................l.e.. Madden Donahue, q.b...................q.b., Fitzgerald Kirkpatrick (Dickernian), l.h.b..r.li.b.. Temple McDonald, r.li.b........................l.li.b., Tehan McCarthy, f.b.....................f.b.. Van Eten Score—Somerville, 0; Boston Latin. 0. Field judge—Tom Commins. Umpire—Tufts, of Waltham. Referee—Hapgood. of Brown. Lines- men—Campbell. Cleary. Freeman. Time—15- minute halves. THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 23 association ADeeting The annual meeting of the Somerville High School Athletic Association was held, and the fol- lowing officers were elected: President. Edwin Garland. Latin. ’Of); vice-president. Lester C. Gus- tin. English. 09: secretary. Ralph Y. Atwater. English. ’00; treasurer. H. L. Jones. Faculty members. II. F. Sears. English, and Mr. Wilkins, Latin. Alumni members. Stone and Reynolds. Eliot Slater, Latin. 09, was elected baseball manager for 1909. Kirkpatrick, McCarthy, and Duggan were chosen to see about hiring a hall for basket ball, and to confer with other schools. Application for Tickets ... for the ... Rindge- Somerville Game NOVEMBER 26, 1908 Undergraduate members of the S. H. S. A. A. will be given first choice of seats. I| Applications will be received the latter part of October. Watch the Bulletin Boards BUY YOUR LABORATORY COATS PRICE $1.00 . . . FROM . . . PRICE $1.00 BELDEN SNOW UNION SQUARE and TEELE SQUARE COMPLIMENTS Of R. H. 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PINS $2 S4 Washington St,, 222 Clarendon St., Boston Winter Street, Boston, 129 Tremont Street CONTENTS OF NOVEMBER RADIATOR Frontispiece................................................ Editorial Staff............................................. Editorials ................ To Autumn, by Irene Kibbc, L., '09.......................... A Rainy Day at Camp, by Marion Corliss. L., '09............. Jonathan, by Margaret Lincoln, L., T1....................... Plymouth Caves, by Burt A. Hazeltine, E., '09............... Letters to a Freshman, Number Two........................... The Central Maine Fair, by Carl L. Hartshorn. E., ‘09....... The House at No. 13, by J. Elliot Slater, L., '09 ......... Lobster Fishing on the Maine Coast, by Samuel Rich, E., '09. English Notes ................ Cherubs Dance............................................... Resolutions................................................. Latin Notes................................................. 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Very soon tlie hoard will groan under its load of good things. Presently we may groan, too. Is this all the sea- son means to us, however? In many cases it means the family reunion, the strengthening of that dearest of ties—the bond of relationship. How many of us think of the day as like the first day which the sturdy Pilgrims set apart to give thanks for the blessings of heaven? Should we not pause at this time and count our blessings”? Eor, after all, our disappointments, our misfor- tunes. our sorrows, even, are dispensations of a Providence that in its far-seeing wisdom knows better what is for our good than do we helpless children ourselves. A few minutes spent in try- ing to realize this will engender in our minds a humbleness of spirit, an uplift of soul on which to build a truly noble character. Our rapid modern life does not allow of much introspection: but this, of all days, is the time for us to appreciate and render thanks for the glorious gift of our every-day life. . r. The Latin School has been very fortunate in se- curing such able teachers as Miss Mabel Bowker, Miss Mary Cliff, and Miss Grace Sprague to fill the vacancies this year. Miss Bowker is a graduate of Radcliffe College, and has taught in Dedham and Arlington High Schools. She is teaching English and history. Miss Cliff is also from Rad- cliffe, and has taught before in the Dalzell Private School. Worcester and Milton High Schools. Mathematics and English are her specialties. Miss Sprague, a graduate of Wellesley, comes from Hingham High School, having previously taught in Ilopedale. She teaches English and Latin. We regret the loss of Mrs. Higgins, who resigned after many years in the Latin School, and Miss Thayer, who is now on leave of absence. Miss Cunningham, also, is missed by many, having accepted a position in a Boston school. In the English School are only two new teach- ers. Miss Elizabeth II. Hunt, from Malden, who teaches English, and Archibald S. Bennett, instruc- tor in mathematics. Mr. Bennett refused an offer of the principalship of the Monterey High School. California, in favor of our faculty. His most tell- ing experience, however, was obtained at Kansas City, where he taught in a school of 1,800 pupils. Some of us were surprised to hear of a new name, Mrs. Thurston, in the freehand drawing room, but we found Miss Carrick under her present name, agreeable as always. Miss Marsh is greatly missed. We hope her leave of absence may not need to extend beyond the present year. � r The Seniors, as the graduating class, have many social duties before them. One of importance is the soiree. 'Phis custom of holding a Senior dance originated, we believe, with the idea of meeting in a brotherly and sisterly way to have a last jolly THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 27 time together, an evening to he remembered for years. Lately it seems to have grown more for- mal and exclusive. The price of admission has reached a ridiculous figure,—the afifair has become a ball rather than an “evening party.” Whv can- not our soiree be conducted on more simple, •democratic principles this year? Let the frills be omitted, so that the one of moderate means can go. too. If only single tickets were used, this would obviate the embarrassment and disappoint- ment of the girl who isn't invited, or the fellow who can't afford to take two. At the same time, those who wished to go in couples could do so as readily as by the usual plan. Another consideration is the time. February or March would seem the best selection, for too soon after Christmas our finances are at a low ebb. in April the weather is anything but propi- tious, and later the warm summer makes dancing uncomfortable. Moreover, the expenses attend- ant upon graduation are enough to think about toward the end of the course. Our suggestion is merely for a common-sense consideration of the question from all points of view. Our Senior soiree must be a success in every way.—for the last of the oughtys,” above all classes, should leave a good name in this as in all things. 9� at x Now that the football season is practically over, as we look back on it. there is only one thing, per- vading all the games, which is to be regretted. Aside from the question of the league champion- ship. our team has proven again and again the best that Somerville has had for years. Even man. from the captain down to the least conspicu- ous substitute—for the second team is no small factor of the first team’s excellence—is deserving of the most cordial praise. Baldwin, too. has shown us that he is in every way a most efficient coach. I he way he has helped the fellows to play not only a strong, persistent game, but even the brilliant, scientific football that we are so proud of this year, is highly gratifying to every son of the Red and Blue. The team and the school owe much to the stimulus of his training. 'Pile support of the student body has in general been inter- ested and enthusiastic. But the cheering! It took the “big games to show that we could cheer. Up to the Waltham game there had been practi- cally nothing of the sort. There a very creditable section of rooters blossomed out. But on our own ground, even under the direction of certain lively, though self-appointed, leaders, the fellows seemed unwilling to show their interest by waiving dignity to give a really rousing yell.—the snappy kind that makes a player recognize his own name even down there in the game. Of course there will be good cheering at the Thanksgiving day game, as there always has been, but—the baseball season is coming next, and—a word to the wise is sufficient. Co autumn Arctic Itibbc, '00 The summer with its flowers has gone to rest; The birds have flown to warmer climes than ours; That gorgeous oak, all red and bronze, now towers Above the gloomy pines, as if to test Its glories with the sombre-lined crest Of them, and proves itself victorious. Oh. sad voiced autumn, with thy driving showers, We mortals here below arc surely blest That thou so glorious art. And let us wait With patience till the months shall roll around. And thou shalt be with us once more. 1 love Thee best of all the seasons. Thou’rt the gate Which ushers out the summer with the sound Of rustling leaves and whispers from above. 3o THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR B IRainv £ av at Camp JBv? ADariOn Corliss, X., '00 j HAT a tempest we have had, and how good it seems to sec the sun and the blue sky again! Last evening, even before sunset, we could plainly see that a storm was approaching. The air grew damp and foggy, and the sun as it went down was hidden by a threatening bank of clouds. They rose higher and higher during the evening, until the twinkling stars and the waning moon were no longer visible, and the sky was overspread with a heavy canopy. All through the night the wind howled shrilly around the corners of the house, and blew the rain in stormy gusts against the windows. All night the trees creaked and groaned, as they swayed to and fro. and at times a dead branch, blown off by the gale, fell heavily upon the roof, and startled us from our troubled sleep. All night the wind- tossed waters lashed against the rocks, and the little cottage shook in the grasp of the mighty storm-king. And what a day it has been! I Iow cold, and gray, and cheerless! This morning the leaden sky hung heavy above us, and the opposite shore was hidden by the mist and the rain. The trees stood dripping and motionless in the dense fog. The water lay in the hollows of the ground like miniature lakes. The road was gullied out. and the banking washed away in places by the streams which poured down over it last night. Such was the appearance of the outside world! ithin we were scarcely more congenial. Un- less there is a large family together, a rainy day nearly always grows tedious before it is over. 1 here were only two of us, and we wondered how we should pass the time. No tennis to-day. nor any paddling, either. W e could hardly step out- side on to the veranda, everything was so drenched by the shifting rain. Not a person was to be seen passing; not a boat of any kind upon the lake: no signs of life would be visible until the arrival of the station wagon, which brings mail and pas- sengers. How eagerly we watched the awaited team as it crossed the bridge and toiled slowly up the slope! Should we have any mail this morning, or might there possibly be any passengers inside the closed curtains? What a happy surprise was coming to us! Almost unbelieving, we watched as two friends from home slowly emerged from within the carriage and waved us a greeting. We were al- most too much astonished to open the door for them! Wet by the pouring rain, but nevertheless happy, they came in, and after changing their damp garments and sipping a hot cup of tea, they felt at home with us, and as comfortable as we. They told us all the news from home, and also said that it had just occurred to them this morning an hour or so before they started that we might be lone- some and glad of company. And glad, indeed, we were! The mo.ning passed sooner than we could realize, and as noontime approached, the sky seemed to clear a little, the heavy clouds parted, and the rain ceased. A gentle breeze stirred the trees, and showers of drops fell from every branch. The birds began to move about and twitter to each other, and a squirrel or two came down from their holes to drink the fresh rain water. The rain was over, but the earth was drenched, the rain-washed air was not yet clear of fog, and the sun tried in vain to show his face. After a substantial dinner, we found that we should like to venture out into the dripping world. About a quarter of a mile from our camp an old hermit lived, and toward his home we made our way. As we walked through the fragrant woods, the trees shook sparkling drops upon our heads. Here and there we saw a slender sapling blown over by the storm, half supported in its fall by some older and stronger tree. Soon we caught sight of the hermit’s cottage. Hidden away among the trees, and built of boards unpainted and long since stained by the weather, it would hardly be noticed by the casual passer-by. Before the door a rooster was strutting up and down like a king in his court-yard, and in the doorway sat a sleek, black cat. apparently on the best of terms with his majesty. As we came nearer, the old hermit saw us through the window, and came out to welcome us. He was a quaint old fellow, with long, shaggy hair and beard, and great bushy eye- brows. His skin was as thick and brown as leather, his hands were knotted with toil, and his clothes hung loosely from his gaunt frame. Gladly he ushered us into his little home. It had T11 Ii SOMERVILLE RADIATOR ii •only one room, with a good-sized stove, a table built against the wall, a corner cupboard, and a bunk, besides several chairs in more or less rickety condition. Behind the stove were some small kittens, who wakened and crept out as we entered. When we were seated, he told us about his solitary life, and said that he would not go back to live in the city, or even in a town, for any amount of money. Soon afterward we were attracted to the door by the brightness outside, and found to our sur- prise that the air was soft and warm, and that the sun had at last crept out from behind the clouds. All nature lay sparkling under its bright rays. We wandered slowly home again in the glowing sun- set. The mail man passed by. and gave us several letters. A beautiful evening was in store for us. Everything was good and as it should be, and we were very glad for the rain, and the clean earth and sky, and the clear, sweet air. Now the sun is slowly sinking behind the tops of the trees, and the shadows are beginning to gather on the placid water. Soon darkness will be over all. Jonathan By? fDaroaret Lincoln, ’ll ‘ you will come with me to a little New Hampshire town, I will introduce you to the strangest man you may ever hope to meet. The town is Belknap River, and Jonathan, my friend, lives but a few minutes walk from the station. He lives in a little white cot- tage, at one end of which he keeps a tiny shop, where he has potatoes, flour, yeast cakes, eggs, and candy—purchased no one knows when. At present his family consists of a housekeeper, a cow, a dog, and himself. I say at present, be- cause it is rumored about Belknap River that he is looking for a wife, as his late wife. Dotty, the suc- cessor of Hannah, who in her turn succeeded Martha, died about three months ago. His housekeeper, says the rumor, is making a des- perate attempt to be chosen number four, but as she is some sixty-five years old (and looks it), and as Jonathan—according to the Oldest Man in Town—is seventy-five, and looks forty, he may consider her too old. Much of my friend’s youthful appearance is due to his hair, which hangs in chestnut ringlets al- most to his shoulders. Many refused to believe the Oldest Man concerning Jonathan’s age. till one very windy day. about a month ago. the chest- nut ringlets took flight, and landed in Belknap River. Boor Jonathan had to retire to his house while the wig-maker from the neighboring town could manufacture some more. Jonathan’s first marriage.—I get all mv infor- mation, let me state, from the Oldest Man in Town,—took place when lie was a young man of twenty-five to a Miss Martha Sharply, some eight years his senior. Martha, because of her superior years, gave the poor man twenty years of more or less “hen-pecking.” Johnathan’s period of mourn- ing for Martha was short, and in a very few months he made another attempt, this time going to the other extreme; he chose a lady some twenty-five years younger than himself. But again Jonathan was to be a widower, for Hannah died of consumption before she was twenty-five years old. This time he remained single for over ten years, taking for a housekeeper Miss Maria Anne Sharply, a mild younger sister of the late Martha. Every one predicted a match between the two, but for nearly twelve years they lived lives of single blessedness. Then Jonathan bought a dog, and named it Elizabeth (the fact that the dog was a male did not trouble him in the least) after the girl he’d orter a-married forty odd years ago. And then, just as every one—and es- pecially Maria—was sure that she would be chosen to fill the empty place, Jonathan took the entire village by surprise by marrying some one from one of the neighboring towns, whose only name, so far as 1 know, was Dotty. Boor Dotty was feeble-minded, and Jonathan fared worse bv his third marriage than by his other two. Dotty lived ten years, and three months ago Jonathan summoned back Maria Anne. and. ac- cording to the wit of the town, he has hung a To Let” sign on his heart again. 32 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR BMymoutb Caves 36v? J5urt B. jlla eltinc, IE., '00 1114' road leading from Ludlow, Vt.. to the famous Plymouth Caves, the goal of many tourists through this portion of Vermont, winds for the first few miles along the shores of three lakes. These lakes are very beautiful, for on all sides they are surrounded by high hills and mountains, which seem to rise in some places nearly perpendicularly. Sometimes there seems hardly room enough between the solid rock and the lake for the road; at other times the road passes through a level space grown up with ever- greens and birches, making a pleasant contrast. At the head of these lakes the road follows the banks of the I Hack River, here scarcely larger than a brook. The scenery along the river is. perhaps, more picturesque than on the lakes, for the valley can be seen for quite a distance, with mountains rising on both sides tier upon tier, as far as the eye can reach. On one side the river gurgles along under the protection of the black willows; on the other rise the foot-hills, with here and there a herd of cattle peacefully grazing. At frequent intervals, as the valley widens out a little, a farmhouse is seen back from the road, under a few wide- spreading elms or large maples. ()ccasionally the road passes through a short stretch of woodland, only to emerge again into some fertile valley farm. For several miles the road winds along thus until Plymouth Union is reached. At the crossing of two direct roads, with mountains rising on both sides, it is a typical country village, such as are found a few miles back from the railroad. For a mile and a half further up the valley we drove until the river could hardly be distinguished as it crept along through the marsh grass and over the stones: then, taking down some bars, we drove out into a meadow and fastened the horses. The meadow was very narrow, and beyond the fence far up the mountain extended a pasture. The entire surface of this land in all directions was covered with great boulders of lime-stone, all water-worn and standing in all positions. The ground was filled with great sinks, sometimes sev- eral feet deep, formed by the water. Not knowing where to find the entrance of the caves, which was located close by. we wandered about, looking be- hind every clump of trees and every block of lime- stone, to the great amusement of the only one of the party who was familiar with the place. Finally we found it. and. lighting our candles, prepared to enter. The entrance is a narrow hole about the size of a well and ten feet deep, at the foot of which is an oval room about fifteen feet high and about twice as large as a good-sized room. On one side is a sort of hollow in the wall, and above it a dome which tourists have named “the pulpit.” This first room, for there are seven in all. is partially filled with stones, which appear to have been thrown in to make the passage to the cave less difficult. Out of this is a sloping passageway which leads into another room about half the size of the first. The floors of this and the remaining rooms are of smoothly-worn stone. The third room is shaped very much like a Mexican oven, and has a conical hole at the top extending nearly two feet into the solid rock. This room is only about four feet high, and the passage into it is scarcely large enough to crawl through. Out of the second room are two passages, which lead to two others which are likewise connected. One of these is quite large, but the other is noticeably smaller. Out of the larger of these is also a pas- sage leading to two other rooms, each too low to stand upright in. and about fifteen feet long and half as wide. (hit of the further of these runs a long tunnel, which docs not appear to lead any- where. The walls and roofs of all the rooms show that these caves were all formed by the action of the water, probably by washing out the dirt from among the rocks. The day was quite warm out- side. but I was very glad to have on my sweater, and I have since been told that the temperature in the caves both summer and winter is about forty- four degrees. A few rods higher up on the hill is another cavern, which I also investigated. This is much harder to enter, as the opening, between huge rocks, is on an incline, and scarcely wide enough to crawl through. This cave consists of one very large room, the floor of which is broken up by many levels. There arc several blind passages out of this room which entice one to search for other rooms which do not exist. The walls of this cave are like those of the first, while the ceiling is very THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR wet and continually dripping. The floor is of stone, and there are many puddles, some of which appear quite deep. This cave was partially lighted l)y the opening, and the air was very good, while the air in the larger was so poor that the light of our candles became quite dim. The feeling upon coming out of both caves was that of partial suffocation, for the contrast between the cool, clammy interiors and the hot. sultry day outside was very marked. It seemed good to be on the 3: road again, and to feel the light breeze which had sprung up as the evening approached. The drive homeward was also interesting, for, before we had covered half the distance, night had wrapped us in total darkness. It was a very strange sensation to be carried along over a road which could not be seen half a rod ahead. How- ever. thanks to a good driver, we had no trouble in winding down the valley over the road vve had en- joyed so much during the earlier hours of the day. letters to a jfresbman. 'Mo. 2 Dear Freshman: You’ve been in school long enough to see that some of your classmates seem to get along on mighty little study. Don’t be mis- led by the fact that they get good marks or arc in the teacher’s good graces. 1 refer, of course, to those who cheat, crib, or copy. I’ve been in school enough to sec that sooner or later the cheats get it where the Newport lady wears her rope of pearls.’’ Sooner or later their marks fall, as does their teachers’ estimation of them, and great is the fall thereof. Imagine the feelings of a fellow when the teacher who has always liked him finds that lie copies three-fourths of his work. They must be too intense and bitter to describe. I’ve seen and you’ll see fellows who go through school and into college just by cribbing. How much of an education do you think they get? How do you think they get along in a college where the honor system prevails? There is a vulgar saying which always comforted me when 1 saw how easily the cheats seemed to get along. It was this: It all comes out in the wash. You haven’t been in school long enough yet to know exactly who’s who. Rut it doesn’t take long to find out who are congenial. It seems, however, as though some young people never found any- body with whom they were friendly. There arc some whom I have noticed at recesses who stay by themselves quiet and retired. Somehow 1 al- ways pitied them. Remember when we saw Lord Dundreary how he said that it must be a fool bird who would go off in a corner and flock by itself.” That saying always, impressed me. If you don’t get anything else out of the four years at school, get a good friend. You’ll never regret it. You’ll enjoy the whole thing so much more if you have somebody to talk it over with. It took me until my Sophomore year to find the fellow whom I liked best. Don’t be in a hurry to choose a friend, but when you do, get a good one. Rut that doesn’t mean that you are to be exclu- sive about it. Don’t get a friend and know him and him alone. Make an effort to know first all the fellows in your class, and then the fellows in the other classes. Don’t be an odd stick. Don’t be a grouch. I hope this doesn’t seem like preaching, old man, but I made some errors which a friendly word from one of experience may help you to avoid. For instance, before I went to high school I had no definite idea as to whether I was going to col- lege. and if so. which one. or whether into busi- ness. and if so. what kind. At the end of my Sophomore year I was pretty well decided that I was going to Tech. Possibly you realize what that means in the way of preparation, and if not, you will soon find out if you take that course. Anyway, at the end of my second year I was not prepared to go on with the third-year work, so I decided to try for a less difficult scientific school, which I am still trying for, but may change before June. I know it is hard to decide what you like, what you’re best fitted for: but it will save a lot of work if you’ll decide during vour first year. Then you have three years more in which to map out your studies accordingly. Don’t go all through school without any aim or any idea what you like or what vou can do. Sit down and think about it. Ask your friends who have been to college and those who are in business. Then think some more, but try to decide early. From one who knows what he’s talking about comes this advice, i. e.. Your friend, A Senior. 34 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR “Zhc Central fllbatne jfair” 36 } Cavi X. tmvtsbovn ’09 'ERY year, near the little town of Watervillc, occurs the great Central Maine hair. People from all over the state (lock to the little, low meadow two miles or so from the outskirts of the town to see the mag- nificent exhibition of stock, the horse-racing, and the Midway. The office building and the two great halls rise at the left of the tall wooden gateway which forms the main entrance to the fair grounds. In the northern portion of the meadow lies the magnificent race track, half a- mile in circum- ference. and quite level, in spite of the undulating character of the land. Looking south from the grandstand, one sees only the white expanse of numberless tents, varying in sizes and shapes from the wire-bender’s shelter to the great air-ship house. I’etwccn the race track and the tent-city lies the most prominent feature of the whole fair— the Midway. I experienced some difficulty in entering the ex- hibition halls on account of the throngs of people who were examining the rugs, embroidery, and lace—perhaps the handiwork of their friends. As these articles afforded me no special interest. T passed on to the exhibit of the state entomologist. The gentleman in charge showed me the live lame of almost all the injurious insect pests which infested that district, with a mounted life-history collection of each. At the next booth I elbowed my way through an immense crowd, only to be re- warded with the sight of a new sewing machine in operation. The rest of the booths were occupied by novelty dealers and magazine agents. In the second hall I saw what was considered the finest display of agricultural products ever shown at Watervillc . The entire floor of the exhibition room was devoted to gigantic cucumbers, melons, squashes, apples, pears, grapes, and corn. I next visited the cattle exhibit. The animals were arranged in stalls along the rear of the race track. 'Hie pride of the state in oxen and cows at- tracted many admirers. The horse show interested me as much as any of the exhibits. The horses occupied box stalls along the course of the race track. Some of the most famous of Maine’s race horses were proudly showing off to crowds of admiring by-standers. Next came the poultry exhibit. The ingenuity shown in the arrangement of the cages in order to crowd them all into such a small area as the exhibi- tion tent afforded, and yet to place them so that all might see their occupants, was something every- body noticed. I never imagined there were as many kinds of fowl as were exhibited here. From the rear of the poultry tent came the most enticing sounds of the whole fair to me. The muffled reports of the gasoline engines and the hum of the gears at the exhibit of farm machinery could be heard even above the cackling and squawking of the fowl. I examined all the pumps, mowing machines, cream separators, hay loaders, and fire extinguishers, and watched their opera- tion. I’pon leaving the machinery exhibit by the front exit. I found myself upon the great Midway. The characteristic “board walk” was not to be seen here. This Midway was paved only with the once- green grass of the meadow, but it extended from the airship enclosure to the main entrance—almost an eighth of a mile. Preparations were being made for the daily flight of the airship, so I amused myself bv watching the crowd until the great machine rose slowly and majestically from the fair grounds and started to encircle the race track. Suddenly a tiny tongue of flame darted from the gas bag near the engine exhaust. It grew in size so quickly that, before the awe-struck people could realize what was happening, it en- veloped the whole machine. A great shout of warning arose from the crowd, but it was too late. The framework with the aviator crashed to the ground. The poor fellow lived only a few hours after lie was picked up. This terrible scene did not place me in such a frame of mind as would warrant any enjoyment of the wonders of the Midway, and I passed as quickly as possible through the gaunt- let of yelling ticket-sellers and made my way home- ward. THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 35 £bc Ifoouse at llto. 13 3. Elliot Slater, %.t ’00 , what a night it was! The rain, the fog. the muddy streets, the murky glare from the few electric lights, the dark houses and the darker spaces between, the black alleys, the scarcity of living creatures, human or other- wise ; everything tended to bring a feeling upon me of dread, of unrest, almost of fear. My sur- roundings were anything but pleasant, for I was in a poorer part of the city: my route, however, ne- cessitated my passing through it. and through it I must go. The few people 1 had met sped past me as if afraid of me. My course led me through an especially narrow street. When I was about half-way through it. I heard a voice calling from the darkness. P� ut this did not make my steps slower, rather it hastened them. Then the voice called again. Looking back. I saw a man stand- ing in an open doorway, his figure brought out more sharply by the light behind. A man. I say, but a very queer specimen of one. He was old, over eighty. 1 should say. with silvery white hair hanging down over his bent shoulders. His face was lean and cavernous, and his eyes were deeply sunken, but sharp and crafty. His nose was long and slightly hooked, his mouth, with thin lips, straight and firm. His whole appearance gave me the impression that he was a man of great ability, but that this was hampered by narrowness of mind and thought, in his left hand he carried a cane; with his right he was beckoning to me. At first undecided. 1 then thought 1 would see the adven- ture out. I turned and approached him. and as I came closer I noticed the number of the house. It was IT When I came to the foot of the steps, without a word he beckoned me to enter. I obeyed. Scarcely had I entered the front door, when it closed with a bang, and the noise echoed and re- echoed between the walls of those empty rooms in Xo. 13. 1 looked about me. and even then was half tempted to turn back. 1 seemed to be in the long, wide hallway of an old house which had seen better days. The floor, the walls were without covering or ornamentation. Xot a piece of fur- niture was in sight. 1 hese facts, together with the number. 13, and the appearance of the old man, made me even more uneasy than before. 1 hen 1 was rudely awakened from my thoughts by the voice of the house’s occupant. Come, was all he said, and led the way into rooms beyond. Only one word, but that one was uttered in a tone I knew so well, with the voice which had spoken to me from babyhood upwards. It brought back to me all the tender memories of my boyhood and youth. My father? Surely this old man could not be my father! Why was he here? Where was my mother, my brothers? Mv father had been cruel to me, and in a fit of rage driven me from home, nevertheless he was my father, my own flesh and blood. He must never know. Xo. I would not make myself known. Fifteen years of knocking about had changed me so that he would never recognize me. Rut what did he want of me? I turned towards him. and found him scrutinizing me with a very sharp look. “You look honest.” said he. A shiver ran over me. How far he came from the truth! Again he spoke:— ■‘Will you defend an honest but weakened old man from the dangers of a robbery, or worse?” Then I found my tongue. Of course, fa-----sir.” I replied, nearly giving myself away. Then come, and I will give you directions. Here in this house, sir. there are $100.000 stored away, and on this night I feel sure that some one is coming to rob it. 1 shall not tell you where this money is. for I do not know that you are not a robber, although you don’t look it.” I feebly thanked him. Xow. you come into this back room where the money is and stand guard to-night, and to-morrow morning you shall have $500.” Very well.” I acquiesced, and followed him. He led me into a room containing three pieces of furniture, a chair, a table, and a stool. Sit there and wait, and if you see a sign of a living creature, fire! With these words he left me to my own thoughts. Strange thoughts they were, indeed! Imagine me in my own father's house—how he came here I do not know—and defending it against the house-breaker. What was that? Surely I heard a sound! There it was again! llien the door slowly opened, and a head appeared. In- stantly I felt for my gun. and then crept behind the chair. The door opened a little more, and a 3 3 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR man entered, shooting the rays of his lantern around the room. lie did not see me. but I saw him. and I gasped when I saw that face. It was my okl pal. who had roomed with me. eaten with me. roamed with me for years! What I could do I did not know. My pal’s life was in my hands, my father's, also. Then, without warning, there came a shot, and my pal fell to the floor. Eve got you!” was the exulting cry, and mv father hobbled into the room. “What’s the mat- ter with you, why didn’t you shoot?” he snarled at me. I did not answer, and he turned and left the room. I’m going after help, and will he back immedi- ately; look after him,” he called behind him. My plan of action was at once formed, and I bent over my pal. He was breathing steadily, and on examination I found that the wound was slight. Perhaps he could walk when he came to. I must hurry, for the old man would be back soon. Stooping down, 1 picked up the limp body in my arms, and with it struggled out of the room, through the long hall, to the door. Laying my burden down, I wrenched open the front door, and then, with my pal in my arms, staggered from the door into the storm. Xobster jfisbing on tbe flbaine Coast By? Samuel IRtcb, £.♦ ’00 X Mt. Desert Island, in the vicinity of Southwest Harbor and Bass Harbor, the lobster business is carried on to a very great extent. The traps used there are of pine lathes nailed across round ashen hoops, and the “heads,” instead of being nearly vertical, as are those used on the south shore of Massachusetts, arc nearly horizontal. The herring and sardine industry of this section of the coast offers excellent opportunities for the fishermen to procure good salt bait. For a very small price a man may buy a barrel of cuttings,” or herring-heads. The smaller dealers use de- cayed sculpins, dog-fish, and small pollock. The bait is placed in a network pocket suspended from the top of the trap, except in the latter case, when it is usually placed on a hook driven in from the bottom of the trap. A line called a “warp” is made fast to one end of the weighted trap, and floated by means of wooden buoys and empty bottles. A hole or depression in the sea-bed, with a ledge on one side, is an ex- cellent ground for lobsters. The most disgusting and provoking enemy of the lobsterman is “sun- jelly,” a red, slimy substance which clings to the “warp,” and which burns like fire when got upon the flesh of hands or face. In the fall of the year every lobster sheds his shell. They turn dark about a week before, and the claws become softer. During this process he always crawls under a ledge, for it is a proverb among lobstermcn that a lobster is his own worst enemy. They eat each other if caught while “shedding. Lobsters which arc long enough to cover the law arc called counders,” and short ones are termed snappers.” An average catch for the summer would be about one lobster to a trap every day, although cases have been cited where, out of seventy-five traps, a man has caught 800 lobsters, but such cases arc rare. In the winter the price advances from thirteen and fifteen to forty and fifty cents. Consequently, many of the fishermen prefer to store them until a better market. Large cars of nine and ten decks, each of which is capable of holding 200 or more, arc used for this purpose. All the lobsters have to be plugged” so that they cannot bite, for, once bitten, they bleed to death. One of the many difficulties with which to con- tend in this business is the storm. Traps placed a mile or more from the cliffs on Bass Harbor Head have been broken to pieces on the rocks. Passing steamers sometimes catch a “warp” in the propeller and snap it off, leaving the trap on bot- tom. with no means of raising it. There arc many hardships to endure and many sufferings in winter, but although the work is hard and sometimes very dangerous, the profits are correspondingly large, for there is always a good market for lobsters. THi : SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 37 '00 Class Editor, Lester C. Gustin. It is rumored that Cheetliam will be the all- interscholastic manager. Two cents reward for the best suggestion of a “snap” course. Apply to Baby ' Jones, Room 20. Always at leisure between S.30 a. m. and 1.30 p. m. Here’s one from Cyrus: Somerville has chal- lenged the East Lexington team, but they refused to play because they were not Concord. ’ They, however, are nearer Concord than Somerville. Why don't you carry her books. Miillc? Ha—1—inc: His feet were encased in a species of Scotch tweed.” We hear that President Eddie has camped on our trail. Heard in Room 31: Rich, can’t you leave those Latin School girls alone?” Teacher: What is the meaning of ‘pre-emi- nently’?” A voice from the dictionary (Miillc): Sur- passed by evil.” Impossible: Flint asleep in German. Miner is fascinated with physics; he even spends his recesses in 31 ! Go to Hartshorn and Hilliard for high-class wireless instruments and demonstrations. While Mitchell was visiting the zoological gar- den in London last summer, lie succeeded in cap- turing an escaped rabbit, and was awarded a medal by the king, with the inscription: To William Mitchell for services as a Hare Restorer. Ask Jones what Noah wrote about Roosevelt. We hear that F------1 has taken up French lit- erature. Warning to the history pupils: Look out or you will be peenalized. o. Miss G.. you cannot get rid of the IV. Tech division, even for elocution. We hear that one of our instructors is going to learn Esperanto in order to understand her pupils. Er. cr. err. What is it? Only Gustin in IV. Elocution A. According to Atwater, good” and bad are abstract nouns. Oh, for Professor Genung’s command of Eng- lish ! no Class Editor, Andrew F. Handley. Have you seen the stiff hat brigade in Room 28? It was announced in 111. History E. that Pitman wrote two criticisms on the charter of Henry I. Who is your (chemical) affinity. Sisk? Our friend Mardcn has left us. Here's wishing you good luck. Harold. Cliandler, beware! Speak not to the friends of others. Knight is still dark on politics. For political discussions, sec Arnold. III. History A learned that to—er—is human, etc. Doesn't that advanced algebra remind you of your Freshman days? Cooper says Sulla was cunning. Why not ‘‘cute, Bert? Mus-----c got mixed up with a French woman in History E. Thomas was sister-in-law of Henry 111.? 38 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR ’12 Class Editor, Oliver Churchill. Heard in the corridor:— hirst: “Lend me a dollar to go to the Thanks- giving game, will you?” Second: “It doesn't.cost a dollar to go to the game, does it?” First: “It does the way I want to go.” H—d—on seems worried. We hope it is nothing serious. i ot next June, hut.mw is the time to make up your conditions if you wish to sit in a Senior room next year. Sliver, where did you get those socks? Listen! Hark! Sullivan wants to recite. Arnold says his greatest advice to children is: “Don’t take bookkeeping.” Rosborough is said to be studious. ’ll Class Editor, Arthur Leighton. Sm—h and Job—s—n would like to drop deport- ment. Artz. translating Donnez-moi lc doight,” says: “1 land me the dog.” Cl—gh's rose tie has appeared again. “A bad penny always returns.” How does Bridges make those little curls? L—w—nee is the champion lady killer of divi- sion 1). with R—g—n a close second. Have you heard Fallis’ new neckties? They certainly speak for themselves. Miss Wood (translating in German): “The fisher fished and he fished three fish.” For Latin pronunciation apply to Professor Humphrey. Go—gh and T—x nearly wore themselves out talking politics before the election. '1'—x now thinks that Bryan should have won. The Freshmen inform us they mean to trim us. It will take an extremely sharp pair of scissors to do it. P—leer has a bad habit of talking (?) to himself. At last J—n—on has learned to elocute without smiling. Wanted: Notes, notes, notes, notes, notes, notes, notes, notes, etc.! Miss Tec—e in Room 12 says that when the cards come cut again she will have a pair of smoked glasses, as those red marks affected hei eyes. Our little Perp. Cliff has flown awav. and in his place is a refined young man. with a few more feet of cloth than the little trousers Perp. used to wear. Bob Gar—a—d says he likes June the best of all the months, as he likes to have the sun smile on him as it does when June draws near. Heard in music:— Teacher: “What does that long note give you a chance to do?” Boy in back seat: “Turn the page.” Pa—ks has a weather eye on hosiery. First Boy: Is that girl having a fit?” Second Boy: “Oh. no! a common occurrence; came to school in a hurry, and her pins have not fulfilled their duty.” Ge—o—ge thinks his lessons will come as quickly and with about as much exertion on his part as his lunch does at Rhodes’ when he yells out: “Ham!” Who causes that smile on Nellie's face? If Cl—r—nee Heart isn’t a cute little Freshman, what is he? Gberubs H ance The Cherubs, a social club composed of several alumni and several undergraduates of the Somer- ville High Schools, held its third annual dance at Anthoine hall on Tuesday evening. November 3. The affair was well attended and enjoyed by all present. IResoluttons Whereas, by the divine will of God, our school- master. Frank M. Hawes, has been bereaved of his brother: and Whereas, we. the members of the class of TOIL have learned with sorrow of his loss; be it Resolved, that we tender him our heartfelt sym- pathy. Xorvillc L. Millmore,. Ruth Cummings. Till-: SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 39 ’09 Class Editor, Allison .Newton. We have finished the first two months, and oh! how quickly! We have made a start and set the pace. Is it the right one? Is it the one best cal- culated to give satisfaction when our high school days are over? If not, now is the time to get busy. D—gg—n is highly elated over the success of the basket ball project. Well, here's good luck ! H—nn—well (in geometry): “Well, that’s com- mon sense.” Teacher: Exceedingly common, so it seems.” Howe is profiting by his study of French idioms : Youlez-vous to get a swat?” C—1—m—n, so very serene, Grew so abnormally lean, So thin and comprest, That his back touched his chest, And sideways he couldn’t be seen. M—r—y is causing his usual merriment. M—d—11a—d: I haven’t anything wrong.” Teacher: “You haven’t anything else.” McLean says the Radiator is hot stuff. They usually are. for that matter. Dick” (when called upon to translate): Funny! where’s it gone?” Antiques for sale: Colman’s “(«reck Composi- tion and Sheridan's jokes. Teacher (in singing period): e will open the meeting with a prayer.” Echo: “For the unfortunate children.” 11—nd—s—n has been caught telling some more anecdotes. Where is Nemesis with her barrel stave? One of the teachers mentioned the other day that Eryx was translated to heaven. It is su- perfluous to state that Muldoon didn’t do the job. One of the teachers says Dick can talk as much as three girls. Bennett declares this is a libel, and says she couldn’t prove it if she took three Miss Wentworths. McC—thy states that some books are not fit for children to read. In an interview we found that he included Virgil, Homer, and several others of repute. 1)—o—11: ‘That is a reductio absurdum. Teacher: It is certainly absurd enough.” Teacher: Arc we all here?” Sheridan (looking at Muldoon): Muldoon isn’t.” SI—t—r gets excused from singing to rest his eyes. Pupil (translating): He sent him ahead. ’ C—m—n: Why didn’t he send him a foot?’’ One of the fair sex propounds this: If the girls combined to have nothing to do with the boys, should it be called a boycott? No: a miracle. Better late than never” is M—ar—v s motto. Miss Chick (translating): They stretched their —stretched their-----” Voice: Necks.” SI—t—r, in outlining Johnson’s life, puts Mrs. Johnson’s death under first successes. Ralph Bennett has left our midst. No more trouble for Dick. 40 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR TO Class Editor, H. II. Greenwood. Merrill informed liis history teacher that he thought Monroe, author of his doctrine, lived a long while ago. Everybody wants to turn out and root hard for Somerville on Thanksgiving Day. All are satisfied with the election except Barron. Cheer up! A beautiful pin adorns M—Ki—on‘s coat, shin- ing out like a beacon light. Miss R—be—ts and Room 25 are the best of friends. S—bo—n was heard to make the remark that D—v—s was something contrary to fact. Ki—a—m informs us that he is taking education on the installment plan. I)—le was seen lately proudly walking up and down the corridor exhibiting Mellin’s Baby Food. Keep it up, I)—le; some day you may be an ad- vertising agent. Miss H—s. Miss R—b—r—s. and Miss V—son are seen daily wending their way towards the “Hot Chocolate” counter. Tell me not in mournful numbers That our class no longer dreams, For 'tis heavy now in slumbers, And it sadiy needs J. E—s. I’—nev got his hands burnt badly the other day. Tnc Junior class football team journeyed to Brookline and played the Brookline High School Junior class. They were defeated by Brookline by the score of 11-0. Welch, F. Newton, and Reed excelled for Somerville. Where were you last period. Miss Br—e? AN hen B—ant received the report of Taft's elec- tion his astonishment knew no bounds. Pe—rs—n wishes all to know that a piece of iron is imbedded in his head. Our honorable classmate, S—b—n, was seen coming to school with a sidewalk brick in his hand. Nothing serious, lie used it in physics. C—r—ie’s hosiery is most pleasing to the eye. R—d was formally initiated into a club. For refreshments doughnuts and milk were served, but the poor Orville received only a toothpick and a glass of water. And how we laughed! How did the bridge get shipwrecked, Miss Wi—1—s—n? M ill Miss Li—le say •Johnnie again? Oh, no! Tr Class Editor, Melvin J. Messer, Jr. A few of the (brilliant) members of the class made miniature Vesuviuses in their ink-wells. Stop! look! listen! before you whisper in Room 12. Cut out the art. Sis. See W—1—ms and T—d in their latest comedy, entitled: “She was a nice girl, but we couldn’t study.” M—d—1—s is losing his Sunny Jim smile. Can it be from over-study? See the Indian maids in 12. Winnyhaha and W ise Eyes. Questioner: “I thought M—s—r was going to have his seat changed.” Answerer: “Oh. lie decided he could let the people around him alone.” Questioner: “Impossible!’’ Kenney says he hates “old maids,” and you bet he’ll never be one. Not if he knows it, leastwise. Do little boys fall in love? Nick (bless ’is ’art) says yes. Hard luck, old boy. German Teacher: “The articles play a very im- portant part in the German language. (Jive me examples of the two most commonly used arti- cles.” Pupil (absent-mindedly): “Frankfurters and Kartoffel salad. Mac got stung! 'frying to pull down the cur- tain of a curtainless window. Why you should preach such a sermon About taking up Greek. I can’t see, When I’ve tried both Latin and German, And they are all Greek to me. Money is so tight this fall that the ink-well covers of Room 14 have been sold for junk. I wonder why the teachers delight in putting Howard in the front seat! Miss R------h is going to become a nurse. A grand rush of the sick boys is expected when this becomes known. A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS. Supposed to have been written by W. Marshall. Act. I. A young girl of regal beauty stands alone in her palatial apartment on Highland avenue. It is early autumn: the song of locusts and the hum of endless recitations in Latin 14 come through the open window. THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR Act II. She gazes fixedly at the instrument of torture in the corner, and the cold light of implacable deter- mination fills her steel-blue eyes. Act III. She places her helpless victim upon the rack and prepares to commence the torture. Act I V. Shrieks, groans, moans, and semitones fill the room for thirty minutes. Act V. It is over! She stands again alone, pallid, but triumphant! She has executed a—Beethoven sonata! Class Editor, Francis J. Mahoney. Cbc Class of 1012 Have you heard of the Freshman class That’s come to High this fall? It’s the very finest class That’s ever come at all. it will beat your upper class men Just as easy as can be ; For it's the class of Nineteen Twelve, The best one. don’t vou see? S. M. C. The girls of Room 34 take great pleasure in rais- ing and lowering the windows and curtains. For information about history, apply to R_gC—s. H. Lc—rs’ supply of paper is inexhaustible. Somebody says he wonders if R—no—y doesn't want a mirror or a valet. G. Olsen, we should like to hear a few more of your anecdotes. Miss Kane is not very exact. For she always says “extract” W henever she means “subtract.” Now, really, that’s a fact. W’hat do you know about young Xormie Mitchell? He calls O’D—n—oe Little Tim.” O’l)—n—oe is very studious of.late. He must be afraid of Mi—h—1. Ly—ch is quite a jiu-jitsu artist. He practices on La—d—rs. Who is Marks? The star (?) Latin scholar of the third division. 4( We re all glad to see Mildred’s arm coming around all right. That auto certainly can kick high. Mildred can write (?) with his unbroken arm. Chinese? He calls it English. I;it . was walking along in a happy manner, When suddenly he slipped on a piece of banana. With a slip and a slide, more stars he espied 'I han are seen in the Star-Spangled Banner. When Blumsach ran to assist him, Fitz made a pass, but missed him. Who scared Wh—p—e? The barber. Get wise to the pompadour. I wonder if Bra—gan got help with his algebra. Wh—t—k—r: “The Greeks were shipwrecked.” Teacher: Shipwrecked on land!—oh, never mind. 1 suppose they had airships. Blu—sa—: I don't sec how they could start out in 483 I . C. and return in 480.—three years before they started. McL—n is quite a pitcher. L—nd—rs simply loves to play football. Miss Louise Marie Clevenger, a member of the Freshman class, residing at 18 Brastow avenue, was pleasantly surprised by several girl friends on Thursday evening. November 5. Games, music, and charades were features of the affair. The girls ' served ice cream, cake, and fudge. Arrangements were in charge of Miss Ruth Stevens, who, in be- half of the girls, presented Miss Clevenger with a Brownie camera. Teacher (in English): What was Front-dc- Boeuf doing at the gate when the horn sounded and interrupted him?” H—Id—n: Roasting the Jew.” Peach er (during study period): “Will the scholar who is rolling the pencil please stop?” H—pk—ns: It’s the radiator.” History Teacher: Who won the battle?” Pupil: Taft! Soak him! The challenge of the Sophomore class pugilist has been accepted by J. Pr—t. P—ge is surprised at his report. Why shouldn't he be? For Instruction in the Art of Facial Contortion, Apply to Rice, Room 34. 42 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR EXCHANGES We arc sorry to read. College Signal, that the college barn was destroyed by fire at so great a loss. How the Freshmen must enjoy conforming to the senate rules! It is certainly a fine idea. Herald, of Westfield, to have the history of your high school. Your cuts are very good, especially the one for your ex- change column. “The Lilac’s Story” is interest- ing. giving a little story connected with the Red Horse Inn of Sudbury. The Johnstown High School Spectator is wel- comed as a new exchange. You have a good lit- erary department. Although the stories are not long, they are interesting. The current events column is also especially good, for it-deals with current topics both of national and international importance. We would advise that more care be used in selecting the advertisements. You. Binghamton High School Panorama, have a striking cover design. Julius Sneezer” is an amusing take-off on Julius Caesar.” The edito- rials are all good, and undoubtedly you will have a fine November number, as you are planning. Why put your exchange column off among the ad- vertisements? Per Usual.” in the October Oracle, is a story which the boys would appreciate, for it tells of the trials a boy has when he is getting ready in a hurry for a party. The cover design of pine cones is very suggestive of the state from which the Oracle comes. We arc glad to welcome a new exchange, the Polaris, from Freeport, 111. It could be improved very much with more stories; we hope, Polaris, you will succeed in your story contest. School Life, Melrose, certainly has some very interesting stories. The Old House is the tale of an old house which had been unoccupied for years. Finally a distant relative, an old maid, came to live in the house. The gardener had superstitions about the back yard because a bright light followed him. Soon after he was killed by a trolley car. The old maid and her servant had experience with the light, and moved from the house. A boy in the next house had thrown the light with a mirror. The “Personals” column and cut arc good. Where is your exchange column, Clarion, West Roxbury? The stories of the High School Gleaner, of Paw- tucket. are excellent, especially An Unexpected Test of Skill and The Four A’s’ Vacation.” The Scientific Notes are also very helpful. Their Hazing Experience.” in the Cambridge Review, is very pleasing. The Sophomores in a college of the West had been instructed that no hazing should be done: nevertheless, that did not trouble the boys. They planned to meet a new- comer at the station, met their victim, and hazed him. Afterward they found out they had hazed a new instructor, and the ringleaders were expelled. My Visit in Val DTsere” is interesting, telling of a visit among the French Alps. The Artisan, of the Mechanic Arts High School, has also some well-written stories. More cuts would add a great deal to the various columns. 'fhc editorial on school spirit of the Echo, from Dubuque. Ia.. has the right ring. Every school paper should be supported by every student. Why tuck the exchange column off among the ad- vertisements? Your cuts. High School Recorder, are good and catchy. 'I'he Advent of Rosy” is humorous. Your cover design is neat and attractive. We welcome the Crimson and White, from Gloucester, Mass. While simple, the cover de- sign is neat, and the themes are good. We acknowledge with thanks the Spectator, Co- lumbia University, the Maine Campus from the University of Maine, and the Brown Daily Herald, of Providence. Intelligent Junior (picking up a Caesar”): “Oh, say. Latin is easy; I wish I had taken it. Look here (pointing to several passages);— ‘Forte dux in aro’—forty ducks in a row. ‘Passus sum jam’—pass us some jam. “ ‘Boni leges Caesario’—bonv legs of Caesar.” —Ex. Teacher: What is the largest river in Italy, Leo?” Leo: “The—the—the--------” Leo’s sister: “Say. Po, Leo.” Leo (quickly) ; “Sapolio.”—Ex. THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 43 TYOTFS OF THE A LVMNI CAMP-BELL-OS Milburv Ryder, English, 02, is with the Elsie Janis Dramatic Company. Mr. Ryder lias also been very successful as a writer of musical plays. Catherine Brine is a stenographer for a real es- tate firm in Boston. George I. Liscomb, English, ’01, and later of Dartmouth, is now engaged in journalism on the Chicago Tribune. Gertrude Kelly. English, '08, is employed by the Austin Biscuit Company, Boston, as a stenog- rapher. Mildred Merrill. English. ’06, Salem Normal School, ’08, is taking a graduate course at the lat- ter institution. . May Danolds, English, '08, is in the office of a wholesale grocery store, Boston. Genevieve Bryant. English. '08, is a bookkeeper for A. Worthylake, Somerville. Louise Austin, English, ’08, is a stenographer for Blake, Wright, Co., Boston. Ethel Martz, English, ’08, is now taking a course at Bryant Stratton’s, Boston. Marjorie Loring and Merle A. Kibbe, English, ’08, and Helen Tainter. English, ’07, are attending the Normal Art School, Boston. Nina Gilley, English, '08, is a Freshman at Bos- ton University'. Mabel Kish, English. ’08, has returned to her home in Woonsocket, S. D. Eflfie Richie. English, ’07, is a member of the Freshman class at Tufts. Mildred Hager and Lillian Luce are both at- tending the Bridgewater Normal School. Allen G. Chapin. English, ’99, has been trans- ferred to the Boston office of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Elsa Risdon. English. ’08, is a stenographer for James P. M unroe, treasurer of the M unroe Felt and Paper Company, Boston. Miriam F. Hills. Latin, ’07, has been elected president of the class of 1011. Radcliffe College. Harold Baldwin. Latin, ’03. Dartmouth. '07. is employed in the United States Bobbin and Shuttle Company, Lawrence. Mass. Dick” Merrill. Latin. '08, is playing right end on the Tufts 'Varsity. Ada F. Hallett, Latin, '07, is a Sophomore at Smith College this year. Mary W. Kingsley. Latin, ’99, Tufts, ’03. re- cently returned to Somerville, after a year's travel in Europe. Mildred Holden, Latin, '07. is a member of the Sophomore class at Mount Holyoke College. Marion L. Smith. Latin. '08, has entered Mt. Al- lison College, Sackvillc, N. B. •. Allen Hooper, Dick” Merrill, and Herbert Field, all of the class of ’08, Latin School, have made the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity at Tufts. Hooper and Field play on the Freshman football team. Irving Poole, Latin, ’07, is a Sophomore at Har- vard. Edna A. Whitney, Latin, ’00, is a member of the Junior class of Smith College. Harold Etheridge and William Maulsby. both Latin. ’08, now Freshmen at Tufts, have made the Zeta Psi Fraternity. Saxton Foss. Latin, '00, and Walter Merrill. Latin. ’07. have been taking a course in mysticism with Onaip at the Boston Food Fair during the last month. Tom” Durell. Latin, ’05, is in the Senior class at Yale. Richard W. Hawes, Latin. ’04, received his de- gree from Yale last June, and has now entered the Harvard Law School. Joseph A. Hegarty. Latin. ’03, Harvard, '07, is in the third year of Harvard Medical School. 44 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR Somerville, 39; toaverbill, o Somerville met Haverhill and beat them. 30 to 0, on Broadway field. The game, as the score shows, was a very easy one. The first half ended 29 to 0. and the subs in the last period added ten more points. Captain I'org had gone to see the English High and Rindge game. Couscns was back and displayed great speed. One play espe- cially showed his power. He caught a kick-off. put his head down, and plowed his way down the middle of the field for seventy yards, when he was stopped by Ciorman. Haverhill’s plucky quarter- back. Garland was tried at halfback, and played a fairly good game, although unfamiliar with the position. After Haverhill’s first kick-off a forward pass brought the ball well into the enemy's territory. On the five-yard line the ball was fumbled, but recovered. The next play Cousens went over the line for the first touchdown. Woodman missing the goal. The next touchdown was made by Caldwell, who on a cross tackle play plunged through the whole team and ran thirty yards for a touchdown: Woodman kicked the goal. A run by Garland and line-bucking by Couscns made a third touchdown goal. On the kick-off Cousens made his spec- tacular run and McDonald made a fourth touch- down. Woodman kicked the goal. McDonald and Garland on forward passes and long runs made the final score of the half, with a goal by Wood- man. With a team of substitutes in the second half. Somerville was often penalized on the forward pass, but still they pushed McDonald over for two touchdowns, Howard missing both goals. The whistle blew a moment after the last touchdown. The score:— SOM ER VI LEE. H AVERI 11LL. Howard, l.e........................r.c., McKay Caldwell (Hunnewell), l.t.........r.t.. Hutchins Millmore (Hurley, Parker), l.g.......r.g.. Read (iustin (Hagar), c...................c., Collins Woodman (Coleman), r.g...................l.g.. Mason Xolan (Pease), r.t..............l.t., McFadden Parks (E. Garland), r.e..........l.e.. Chapman Jarvis (Donahue. Duncan), q.b.....q.b.. Gorman E. Garland (Kirkpatrick), l.h.b.r.h.b.. Roberts McDonald, r.h.b........................l.h.b.. Blake Couscns (McCarthy), f.b...f.b.. Ryan (Vaughn) Score—Somerville, iff): Haverhill, 0. Touch- downs—Cousens (2). McDonald (3). Caldwell, Garland. Goals from touchdowns—Woodman (I). Eield judge—Nowlin. Umpire—Stacey, of Bowdoin. Referee—Hapgood. of P rown. Lines- men—Harding and Rice. Timer—Rice. Time— 15-minute halves. ------------------- Somerville, 34; Quincg, 0 Somerville found Quincy an easy proposition, and rolled up thirty-four points, while Quincy didn’t come within scoring distance of our goal. Eor the first few minutes Quincy made some good gains, but soon Somerville got down to business and showed Quincy how to play. The first touchdown came quickly on a poor forward pass, which Garland could just touch. Donahue grabbed the ball and went fifty yards for a touchdown. Woodman kicked the goal. Som- THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 45 crvillc was hold on the ten-yard line, but Quincy’s punt was short, and two charges sent McDonald over. Woodman kicking the goal. The half ended as McDonald made thirty yards around right end. In the second half Somerville kicked off. and was penalized for being offside. The second kick-off was fumbled. Hurley falling on the ball. The first rush McCarthy was sent over for a touchdown. Woodman missed the goal. Cousens now went into the game, and showed up by making forty yards, shaking men off with little exertion. Steady gain put the ball on the ten- yard line, from where Hurley made a touchdown. Xo goal. The next touchdown was an easy one. Donahue made a long run on what was intended for a forward pass, and then Cousens received a forward pass and made a touchdown, McDonald kicking the goal. Somerville kicked off. Quincy tried to punt, but it was blocked, Somerville getting the ball. Cousens made the touchdown. McDonald kicked the goal. The score:— SOMERVILLE. QUINCY. Howard (Garland), l.e...............r.c.. Nash Caldwell, l.t.......................r.t.. Lakin Russell (Parker), l.g.. .r.g., C. Carlson (II. Prout) Gustin (Mitchell), c..................c.. Blake Woodman, r.g...................l.g.. E. Carlson Nolan, r.t..........................l.t.. Baker Eorg. r.c,....................l.e.. Marsh (Hill) Dona van (Jarvis), q.b..............q.b.. Gore Kirkpatrick (Hurley), l.h.b.......r.h.b., Howe McDonald, r.h.b...........l.h.b.. Clapp (S. Bates) McCarthy (Cousens), f.b.........f.b.. R. Bates Score—Somerville. 41; Quincy. 0. 'Pouch- downs—Donahue. McDonald. McCarthy. Hurley. Cousens (2). Goals—Woodman (2). McDonald (2). Umpire—Scriven. Referee—Badger. Field judge—Nowell. Linesmen—Harding and Hill. Time—15-minute halves. Somerville, U; Brockton, 0 Somerville went to Brockton and beat their heavy high school team. 11 to 0. It was a much harder task than it was expected to be. Brock- ton’s men outweighed ours almost to a man. They had a strong defence, and Somerville found hard work to gain through the line. Somerville had the better backfield, although Casey, of Brockton, was a star player. Garland also played a snappy game at end. tackling hard and receiving forward passes in fine style. Eorg played a good game, also, rushing the ball well on forward passes. Mr. Whitcomb and Mr. Avery watched the game with evident interest from the side lines. Both scores were made in the first half by Eorg on forward passes, Woodman kicking the first goal. Somerville was content with the score, for in the second half the substitutes were given a chance. 'Phe line-up:— SC )M ERYILLE. BROCKTON. Garland, l.e......................r.c., Mooney Howard (Caldwell), l.t............r.t.. Tolman Russell, l.g................................r.g., Polt Mitchell (Gustin). c................c.. Johnson Woodman (Coleman), r.g........l.g.. II. Dunbar Nolan, r.t...................... l.t.. Maddox Eorg (Park), r.e........................l.e.. 11. Gardner Donahue (Jarvis), q.b... .q.b.. W. Dunbar (Rapp) Hurley, l.h.b..........................r.h.b.. M. Gardner McDonald, r.h.b.........l.h.b.. Long (Francis) Cousens (McCarthy), f.b.............f.b., Casey Score—Somerville, 11 ; Brockton. • . 'Pouch- downs—Eorg (2). Goal from touchdown— Woodman. Head linesman—Rapp. Umpire— Elton. Referee—Bragg. Linesmen—Smith and Johnson. Time—15-minute halves. ■ ■ —---------------—— TiUaltbam, 5; Somerville, 0 Although outplayed in every part of the game. Waltham High on nothing more than a fluke play was able to defeat Somerville High on the Waltham field. In the second half, after having rushed the ball to the three-yard line, where they were held on a punt a few plays later, McDonald fumbled and Stankard received the ball squarely in his hands, and only had to keep on running to make the touchdown. Erom the blast of the starting whistle Somer- ville made Waltham look weak. Not once did Waltham make first down, which shows how Som- erville outplayed them. 'Phe backs, Cousens, Diekerman. and McDonald, were too much for the Waltham line, which gave way like paper. Cousens was the star of the game. He was in every play, and gained the most ground for Somerville. Donahue played a wise game, but used Cousens too much, for when he was most needed lie was all in. In the second half on the three-yard line Cousens could hardlv stand, and because of this could not hit the line hard. 46 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR All the linesmen played a good game. Garland and Forg covering the ends especially well. Somerville was handicapped by the field, which was hardly better than a pasture, being up and down hill, as the waves of the ocean. A row of benches surrounded the field, and those who stood up could only get an occasional view of the game. In the first half W altham's goal was constantly in danger. Just at the end of the second half Somerville threw a Waltham man back of the goal for a safety, but it was not called, as the whistle had blown. The work of Somerville was line-bucking most of the time in the first half, while Waltham kicked, trusting to luck to get the ball if it was fumbled. This policy later won the game for them. In the second half Somerville worked its way down to the goal line, but was held. Donahue made a fair catch on a punt, and McDonald made a poor try for a goal. Then came the fumbled punt and loss of Somerville's hopes. The touchdown seemed to dishearten Somer- ville. who did not play as well after it. Over 500 loyal sons of Somerville went to the game and really cheered.—the best that Somerville lias done for quite a while. The line-up:— WALTHAM. SOMERVILLE. Stankard. he.........................r.c.. Forg Miller, l.t.......................r.t.. Nowlin Getchell, l.g..................r.g.. Woodman Guthrie, c.................c.. Gustin (Mitchell) Wright, r.g.......................l.g.. Russell G. Smith, r.t.....................l.t.. Caldwell Carlton, r.e........... he.. Garland (Howard) T. Smith, q.b.............................q.b.. Donahue Barry, l.li.b...r.li.b., McDonald (Kirkpatrick) Leary, r.li.b................l.li.b.. Dickerman Sanderson, f.b............................f.b., Cousens Score—Waltham. 5: Somerville, 0. Touch- downs—Stankard. Field judge—Ingalls, of Brown. Umpire—Hallahan. of Boston. Referee —Pendleton, of Bowdoin. Head linesman—Paul, of Wesleyan. Assistant linesmen—Stacey and Ballantvne. Time—20-minute halves. •------------------------------ Somerville, U; TTecb’U, 0 Somerville High met and defeated the strong and heavy eleven from Technology, class of Tl, by the score of 11 to 0. Many of the best men were out of the game so as to save them for the game with Dorchester. Garland played his usual good game. Forg also played well. Somerville kicked off and held lech so they had to punt. Somerville returned the punt. Tech rushed the ball to the thirty-yard line, where Nowlin blocked a play and got the ball. A well- executed forward pass brought the ball to the ten- yard line, but Somerville held and punted out of danger. The half ended with Somerville in pos- session of the ball on her own twenty-yard line. Somerville was on the defence during the first half, but in the second woke up and rushed the ball hard. A forward pass to Caldwell placed the ball on the thirty-yard line. Another to Garland brought the ball to the one-yard line, where Mc- Donald made a touchdown. A poor punt out lost the try for a goal. Somerville kicked off, and after two downs Tech punted, but it was blocked by Caldwell. A forward pass to Forg took the ball to the fif- teen-yard line, where Cousens made a touchdown. Woodman kicking the goal. Time was up soon after. The line-up:— SOMERVILLE HIGH. TECH. 11. F. Garland, l.e...................r.e.. Williams Caldwell (Millmore), l.t........r.t., Van Tassel Coleman, l.g...............................r.g., Fitzherbert Gustin (Mitchell), c....................c.. Hall Woodman (Pease), r.g.......................l.g.. Kimball Nolan, r.t..........................l.t., Adams Parks (Forg), r.c...................l.e., Merrill Jarvis (Donahue), q.b...............q.b., Shatz Hurley (Dickerman). l.li.b..............r.li.b.. Metcalf McDonald (R. Garland), r.li.b.......l.li.b.. Odell Cousens, f.b........................f.b., O'Neill Score—Somerville, 11 : Tech, 0. Touchdowns —McDonald, Cousens. Goals from touchdowns —Woodman. Field judge—Nowell. Umpire— Mathers, of Nebraska. Referee—Hallahan. of Boston. Linesman—Russell. Time—15-minute halves. Bssociation Ifceetino At a meeting of the athletic committee, Checthani was elected basket ball manager. Cheetham is also manager of the hockey team. --------------------------------------- “After the game is over, After the field is clear, Straighten my nose and shoulder, And help me to find my car.” —Ex. Senior: Why is an assembly hall speech like a wagon wheel?” Sophomore: “Why?” Senior: “The longer the spoke, the greater the tire.”—Exchange. THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 47 In chemistry:— “What is a dipping needle?” Absent-Minded Pupil: Did you say a knitting needle?”—The Clarion. Teacher: Miss---------, you will remain this evening after school.” Miss -------: I have an engagement with the dressmaker. Teacher: “What for?” Miss-------: “To have my tooth pulled. —Ex. I looked at his fancy hosiery, And my thoughts broke forth in rhyme, “Do they call them clocks,” I asked myself. “Because they look like time?” —Ex. Old Gent: I want to get copies of your paper for a week back. Editor: “Hadn’t you better try a porous plas- ter?”—Ex. “I wish merely to remark, said the parrot that had come in a cage all the way from Boston, that my name is not Polly, and I do not desire a cracker. Will some person kindly bring me a plate of beans?”—Ex. WHEN YOU NEXT BUY Fancy CracKers TRY SLATER BROS. 420 Medford Street, - Somerville College Clothes With just the Dash and Style required by well dressed young men. ‘iVoitou 3ruiiman Come ' 0. You need Exercise! WHY NOT TAKE IT AT THE Somerville Y. M. C. A, GYMNASIUM AND SWIMMING POOL? CALL FOR PROSPECTUS Was Hood’s Milk on your table this morning? Established 1S16 COMPLIMENTS OT R. H. Rhodes................... Student’s Luncheon Highland Avenue, Cor. Prescott Stiect C. M. SCHOFIELD Upholsterer, Cabinet Maker, and Finisher FURNITURE PACKED FOR SHIPMENT Caning, Carpet, Shade. Mattress, and Cushion Woik 237-A HOLLAND STREET, WEST SOME RVI1 LE Phone Somerville 1308-2 TKELE SO. Hood's Chemical ami Bacteriological Laboratory H. P. 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Cold Cream, Stationery, Etc, TEELE SQUARE 1852 TUfTS COLLEGE 1908 (Acc pt©0 by tu Carnegid Foundation) FREDERICK W. IlAMlUT Nr LLA . '• .v PRESIDENT . DEPAftTHENTS: The College of Letter� (Decree A. B. find B. S.) . The Crane Theological Sphool (Degroies A. B. and B. D.) The Engineering DepartcjeBt (Degree B. S.) The Bromfield Pearson School,'n tochweal sob oof con- nected with the £ngi«e mog: Department. The Medical School (Degree M. D.) The Dental School (Degree t . M. D.) . r The Graduate Departmeufc (Degrees M, 3. arui A. M.) Vouut Men Arid Yvuu;� Wv«n u re airnul .! °u •i'V term to. ill Oovartmont Ot tUaCoHa :' or Catalogue Add PHILIP M. HAYDEN, Secretary- Tufts College P. O. Mass. 30.000 PKBT OP GLASS THRU; TfiLBPHONb’S J. W. HOWARD 'florist 330 BROADWAY Brand?: 1353 BEACON ST. .Somerville CoolklgcComer, Brookline Kota aaJ Carnation l-arm, Kum«U Straet, Wobwra, Men Wellington-Wild Coal Company COAL FOR FAMILY AND STEAM USES General Office, 7 Central St., Boston WHARVES Craigie’s Bridge, East Cambridge 149 Medford Street, Charlestown 34 Warren Avenue, Charlestown BRANCH OFFICES Union Square, Somerville Gilman Square, Somerville 226 Main Street, Charlestown 511 Main Street, Charlestown Photographs In All the Latest Styles of Finish Platinum, Sepia, Artist-proof, Aristo Platino, and Carbonette PORTRAITS In Oil, Water Colors, India Ink, Sepia, and Pastel Developing, Printing, and Enlarging for Amateurs Framing of All Kinds Done at Reasonable Prices freeman’s Studio 22 Broadway • « East Somerville, mass. Water Colors and Crayons For School Use ARTISTS' MATERIALS Wadsworth, Howland Co., Inc. 82 84 Washington St., 222 Clarendon St., Boston Dieges and Clust IF WE MADE IT IT’S EIGHT Class Pins fraternity Pins Medals, Cups MAKERS S. E. H. S. PINS Winter Street, Boston, 129 Tremont Street CONTENTS OE DECEMBER RADIATOR Frontispiece ................. 50 Editorial Staff............................................51 Editorials.................................................52 The Christmas Angel, by Edith M. Northrop, E., ’09.........53 The Christmas Gift, by Crystal Lowe, E., '09 .......... 51 Will’s Christmas Eve, by Vivian Beers, L., ’09 .......... 55 Holworth’s Vote, by Cecil M. Barlow, E., ’10...............56 The Partner, by Katherine Griffin, L.. TX..................58 The Winning Gift, by M. Anna Ayres, formerly E., '09.......00 The White Ants of the Sea, by Howard A. Mac Lean, L., ’09.C 2 The Picket, by Lester C. Gustin, E., ’09...................05 The Real Christmas Spirit, by Irene Kibbe, L., ’09.........01 Latin Notes................................................05 English Notes ................ 67 Exchanges..................................................70 Alumni Notes...................................................................................71 Athletics......................................................................................72 Treasurer’s Statement for Year 1907-1908 71 Suburban Coal Company WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ALL-RAIL COAL WOOD and HAY COMPLIMENTS OF Jesse S. Newcomb We deal extensively in all grades of COKE All Orders Delivered Promptly ----------0--- H. A. CRAWFORD - - - Manager 29 DANE ST., SOMERVILLE, MASS. TELEPHONE 320 SOflERVILLE J. A. Harsh Coal Company No. 38-40 Park Street Telephone 319 Somerville, Hass. COMPLIMENTS OF WILLIAH S. HOWE DEALER IN Furnaces and Ranges FIRST-CLASS PLUMBING 51 Union Square, - - Somerville, Hass. 3obn fill. HXHoo s For Your Library GUNN SECTIONAL BOOK=CASE Noted for its Simplicity and Convenience J. C. MCLEAN 33 Union Square, Somerville, Mass. THE JUNGFRAU WHICH ALWAYS WRAK8 A CROWN OK SNOW Vol. XVIII. Somerville, Massachusetts, December, 190S. No. 3 The Radiator 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 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 English High School. In contributing, write on one side of the paper only ami sign full name. Communications, according to their nature, should In� 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 Ebttorial Staff Bssoclatc jeoitor VIViAN BEERS. L.. '09 JEDitorsinsCbicf ERNEST W. CHAPIN. E.. '09 business Manager HOWARD A. MacLEAN, L.( '09 Exchange jeoitor LORENE A. WHITNEY. L.( '09 assistant Justness Aanagcr STUART FOSTER, E., '10 Spotting J£Dltor PERCY G. WHITMAN. E.. '09 Second assistant Business fcanaocr J. ELLIOT SLATER. L.. 09 Blumnl Editors Crcasnrcr L. ELIZABETH CHICKERING, L., 09 GEORGE M. HOSMER (Faculty) EDNA F. TEELE. E., '09 Statf Brtist M. ESTHER SHAPLEIGH, E., '10 Class EMtot's Xatln School ALLISON NEWTON. '09 HARRY H. GREENWOOD, '10 MELVIN J. MESSER. Jr., '11 FRANCIS J. MAHONEY. ’12 Enfllfsb School LESTER C. GUSTIN, '09 ANDREW F. HANDLEY. '10 ARTHUR LEIGHTON. 'II OLIVER CHURCHILL, '12 52 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR Merry Christmas! And what is a Merry Christmas? Is it the day that marks our week of vacation? The day when we rest off to exchange beautiful gifts and to partake of the famous plum pudding and other delicacies of the season? Or is it the great religious holiday of the nation, the day when student and worker alike take a breath to look Life squarely in the face, and grasp his hand with renewed confidence? Is Christmas day to us what it was to the wise men 1,908 years ago,—the Christian idea of peace and good will? Whether you count your presents or the love that prompted them ; whether you look over the past year with a sigh or a smile; whether you look for- ward to the New Year as a gray trial or a golden opportunity, we heartily wish you a Merry Christinas and a Happy New Year. Naturally we are pleased to have the football championship come to Somerville again, but it seems a pity that our last game should not have been an out-and-out victory. The poor form showed by our team was probably due to the fact that they had had no game for almost two weeks. If the alumni game scheduled for the preceding Saturday had not been canceled, our men would have been in proper training for a sweeping vic- tory. The succession of games this year has helped to keep the fellows in winning trim. Manager Cheetham deserves credit for his schedule. We hope he will do as well in arranging basket ball matters. The outlook is certainly encouraging, with several well-known stars of the game avail- able. THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 53 It always brings a smile to a teacher’s face to bear of the good work of the alumni, and when one distinguishes himself as did our Somerville man. Ernest Ver Wiebe, in the Harvard-Yale game, the whole school applauds. We would call your attention to the treasurer’s statement in this issue. The figures given reflect greatly to the credit of the past year's staff. The present management arc beginning to realize now how kind Mr. Hosmcr is in his interest for the Radiator. RltSKIT VKK WlRUK Zbe Christmas ngel. Where sorrow hovers with drooping wings, And grief in all its anguish seems to reign. The Christmas angel comes with soothing balm, And whispers: He that’s dead shall live again.’’ Where war’s wild clamor fills the air. And tumult reigns supreme through all the earth, The messenger of Christmas comes again With peace, to tell us of the Saviour’s birth. Where wrong has wiped away the last faint ray of right. And false has seemed to cover all that's true, Again the Christmas angel softly speaks: Rejoice, for David's city brings a King to you.” In the lowliest place in this great world. By lighted church or gloomy prison-pen. That angel voice still whispers as of yore. In Noel sweetness: “Peace, good will toward men.” Edith M. Northrop, 1C, ’01). 54 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR Cbc Christmas (5it't .H3v? Crystal Xowe, IE., ’09 was Christmas eve, and the surf rolled high as it washed into Jovial j Cove this cold December night. The froth-topped waves broke on Breakers Ledge with a boom that reached old Captain Trent's fireside. It blended with the old man's musings. as he sat in his little cabin among the rocks, with only the black cat, “Tar,” for company. In fact, Captain Trent and Tar had for ten long years sailed life’s sea together, and were the sole occupants of this little cottage by the sea. The captain regularly supplied the islanders and sum- mer visitors with lobsters, but. aside from that, lie played the part of hermit away from his fellowmen. As the evening lengthened, the wind rose higher and stronger, moaning among the crags and blus- tering around the old captain’s hut with a greater force than it had for many a week. The cold rain and hail were lashed into fury against the window panes, and it bespoke a bad night on the coast. Still the old man sat by his driftwood fire, and although it was his usual custom to frequently go to the door and look for signs of distress at sea. this night he remained silent and motionless on the shadow-haunted settle, deep in thought. It had been a terrible blow to the captain when his beautiful daughter Miriam left the home to elope with a summer artist. For ten long years he had heard no word from her, nevertheless he had tried to live on. trusting in God. Now the hope always cherished was deserting him, and the storm mocked him with despair. ’Tis dangerous, indeed, when a man doubts his Maker. Hark! What was that? Tar is already on his feet, and gazing with piercing intentness at the door. Again, and a muffled knock arouses the captain from his reverie, and he half staggers across the room. The iron bolt is scarcely forced back when, with a blast, the door is thrown open and a small cloaked figure is whirled by a fierce gust of wind violently against the wall. Quickly returning to his senses, the captain re-fastens the door and turns to the strange visitor. There, gasping against the wall, stands a little girl of perhaps eight years, closely enveloped in a dark hooded cloak reaching to her knees. Across her white face a single wet curl is flung, and two appealing blue eyes are fixed on the captain's face. One glance at her, and the captain starts for- ward. grasps the small, heaving shoulders, and with difficulty chokes: “Your name—child, your name!” A sharp, indrawn breath, and the little one re- plies: “Why, I’m just Miriam, sir; but it’s mother-----’’ “Yes, yes, I knew it! I knew it was so! You are so like her. almost sobs the old man, still clinging to the bewildered child. But it’s mother, sir! She is very ill at the inn, and—and------” Yes, yes, tell me all quickly!” And she told me to come for you. I’m sure I don’t know why. But oh, please, sir, you will go, won't you? For it is mother—and she is all I’ve got.” For answer, the captain went to the hook where hung his oilskins, put them on, and returned to the child. Removing her cloak, he laid the exhausted Miriam on the hearth settle, and with an encourag- ing word, disappeared into the storm. A short time later Captain Trent was at the bed- side of his lost daughter, who in her last moments bcsceched his forgiveness for her wilfulness, told of the death of her husband some years before, and her yearning for her childhood home; how she feared his unforgiveness, and therefore kept silent. But God is taking me to Himself, dear father,—so I no more shall see it. I leave you my little girl. Miriam. She will be to you what I should have been—good-bv.” Thus it was a way- ward soul found its haven of rest. Captain Trent returned to his little cabin, to Miriam and to Tar. and knew that God had not forgotten him, but sent the Christmas gift of his heart's desire. To them that wait it shall not be in vain. THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 55 Mill’s Christmas Eve JS ? Uiviait Scers, X., ’00 T was Christmas eve. All over the world happiness reigned, or should have reigned, but we could hardly call that muffled figure, wandering across the college campus, expres- sive of happiness. In fact. Will Pierce was a poor picture of happiness. Will was by no means an ordinarily morose or dissatisfied person, but for one who had spent his Christmas holidays as far back as he could remember with his family, the practically deserted college was not exactly the setting conducive to an enjoyable holi- day. Will peered disgustedly over the top of his coat collar. How bare the campus looked! He shiv- ered and quickened his pace. He had searched in vain for a belated chum in the dormitories: they had all gone—even his roommate. How he envied them! There was no help for it. Will had a bad attack of the blues, for which a tour of the deserted dormitories had proved a poor remedy. Well, Room lo, Dana Hall, was 'better than the campus; it was warm up there, anyway. lie kicked the snow viciously from his shoes, and be- stowed a freezing look on the servant who opened the door. Halfway upstairs Will stopped short, as an idea occurred to him. A smile spread slowly over his face; he’d see whether he’d spend Christmas alone or not! He descended the stairs three steps at a time, and hastened off toward the village, this time whistling. Half an hour later a much-laden-down boy mounted the stairs, opened the door of Xo. 15, and, staggering in, set down two bulky bundles as carefully as though they were glass. He tossed his hat and gloves unceremoniously on the floor, stirred the dying embers of the wood fire, and turned up the lamps. The room was an unusually pleasant one. It was papered in good taste in a soft shade of red; red silk curtains hung at the windows; over the hardwood floor were spread several C )ricntal rugs, and at either side of the fireplace were high-backed settees piled with cushions. Several easy chairs, a bookcase, a bamboo table, with an electric drop lamp, and the usual collection of pictures, posters, and curiosities on the walls completed the furnish- ings of the room. Some boys might have been content with such a room, or could have found comfort in their pipes and books; but Will was not of this class, lie had evidently a scheme, how- ever. for he heaved a sigh of satisfaction as he loosened his overcoat and sank back among the cushions of the settee. Plainly he had devised some means of relieving the monotony of his Christmas eve away from home. Will’s dog, Raffles, a Boston terrier, noticed the change from his post under the table. A few minutes passed, during which Raffles’ master shed his overcoat. Then he opened the bundles, disclosing to the wondering eyes of Raffles a turkey, with cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, and a plum pudding, and a collection of crackers, fancy nuts, and bon-bons. He set the table, added a large pitcher of cider and some odd glasses, and sat down again with an expectant air. Raffles, well trained, eyed his master indignantly, but did not venture out from under the table. Presently there came a faint tap on the door, and at Will's cheery “Come in!” the door opened, and four lonesome-looking Freshmen ventured in just far enough to close the door behind them. For a full minute they divided their looks of astonish- ment and wonder between Will, the dinner, and Raffles, the latter accepting this admiration with a superior air. Will had his hands full at once, making the Freshmen feel at home and carving the turkey. This bird, for one so young, offered a great deal of resistance, and in the fun and laughter accompany- ing Will’s efforts to carve it. the ice was broken. Scarcely more than an hour since, these fellows had been practically strangers to one another. The supper was a great success, Will with his ready wit being well supported bv the Freshmen. Supper over, they gathered around the fire, lit their pipes, and exchanged stories until long after midnight, the host relating to his eager listeners manv incidents of his four years of college life. Truly the spirit of Christmas inspired all: even Rallies was a picture of contentment, his platter oj turkey bones between his paws. About . W ii. the company parted, after singing heartily several college songs. The Freshmen 5 3 THIS SOMERVILLE RADIATOR bore away with them invitations to dinner and a Christmas tree at Will’s next day. As for Will, his happiness was complete: he had made their Christmas eve and his own a happy one. Before he went to bed that night lie carried down to the servant to whom he had been so freezing a goodly share of turkey and mashed potatoes. It was 3 a. m.. and outside the moon looked down on the deserted campus and in at the win- dows of Xo. 15 Dana Hall, where a certain Senior named Bierce slept in perfect contentment. It passed on and glanced in at four other windows, where as many Freshmen lay awake, but happy, and all sharing in the conviction that Will Pierce was the best fellow in college. Dolvvortb’s IDote B ? Cecil ID. Barlow, i£., TO ORBES, with his hair rumpled, a scowl on his face, and his hands thrust deep into his pockets, walked slowly to his room, kicking the door hard as he entered, despite the fact that it hurt him more than it did the door. Forbes was a living example of what a change a month’s unpopularity may make in a fel- low. But a scant four weeks ago he was one of the best-liked fellows in the school, especially among the lower classmen, and it was rumored that he was one of the few Sophomores to be elected to the Tau Delta Phi, the most ex- clusive secret society in the school. But all this had faded into the dim past: it was all so sudden, too—a mistake on the football field, sharp words with the captain, reduction to the second team— and it was done. Forbes had on the impulse of the moment accused the captain of favoritism. The accusation was as great a mistake socially as it was morally. Holworth, the captain, was as fair as any captain that ever lived, and. moreover, he was a Senior and very popular, and, to crown all, a member of the Tau Delta Phi. Forbes’ following fell away from him rapidly after this, and he drank deep of the draught of popular disfavor. With an ordinary boy this trouble would have soon righted itself; he would have become lonely for companionship, he would have made proper reparation to Holworth, and would have regained his former place in the regard of his classmates. But Forbes was not an ordi- nary boy; not that there was anything abnormal about him. but lie had an infinite capacity for amus- ing himself. With him popularity was only an accpiired taste; it had been forced upon him, so he accepted it and enjoyed it. Now it had been taken away from him. and instead of mourning it, he went back to his books, his guns, and his canoe. W hen Forbes was introduced to you he was very angry, and the unfortunate reader is perhaps wondering why Forbes was angry, as what his classmates did or thought affected him not at all. Well. Forbes was angry because Mr. Leavctt, the mathematics teacher, who was commonly and dis- respectfully known as Conic Sections, had just told him that, as far as mathematics was concerned, it was apparently impossible for him ever to see the inside of college, which was, as Forbes reflected, but another way of telling him that he was a wooden-head. Forbes walked down to the boathouse with a gun under his arm, and spent five minutes in get- ting his canoe out of the pile of canoes and other boats that littered the boathouse. Finally he got the canoe on the runway, and flinging his gun into it. he ran it down to the water and leaped in. In a few minutes his long, clean strokes were sending the light craft over the smooth water covered with floating leaves. It was a beautiful afternoon, and Forbes, being a human being, was soon in a happy frame of mind. Soon he came to a fence of heavy steel wire that crossed the river at a narrow point and effectively prevented any boat not capable of being lifted out of the water from passing. There was a notice over the wire obstruction stating that beyond the steel fence was “out of bounds,” and that members of the school were forbidden to go any farther up the river. Forbes honored the no- tice with a wink, and with a schoolboy’s disregard of rules lifted the canoe out of the water, over the fence, and in again, and in a minute was continuing his way as if nothing had happened. As he turned a bend in the river, an astonishing THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 57 sight met his gaze. Mr. Leavett was standing waist-deep in the water, trying desperately to get hold of his canoe, which was held by the current just out of reach against a projecting rock. There was a book on the ground, and it was evident that .vir. Leavett had been reading when the cur- rent carried his canoe from its mooring to its pres- ent position. An unholy desire to shout with laughter at the master's predicament filled the boy, but he controlled his desire to indulge in merri- ment. and pushing his boat to within a few feet of the master, inquired politely if he could do any- thing. With a helpless gesture. Mr. Leavett indi- cated the boat. Forbes pivoted his canoe, and by using all his strength managed to reach the drift- ing boat in spite of the powerful current. He seized it by one of its slender, cross pieces, and in a few minutes he was paddling with one hand towards the shore. When'hc reached the rock o.i which Mr. Leavett was standing, the master reached out to grasp the canoe, and losing his footing on the slippery surface, he stumbled and fell into the deeper water that surrounded the rock. To dive from a canoe is a dangerous feat, even for the ac- complished, so Forbes hesitated a moment, during which time the master came to the surface and sank again. Then Forbes dived, and with the strength of the expert swimmer seized the unfortu- nate master and made for the shore. There are some things in this world which one man may do for another over which effusive thanks arc a mockery. Sav- ing a man’s life is one of these things. After a simple shake of the hand, the man arid boy, dripping wet, started to walk briskly towards the school. Not a word was spoken all the way home, until at the gate to the school grounds the teacher invited the boy to come to his room, where there was an open fire. The boy accepted. Later, with dry clothes and higher spirits, they sat before the fire; there was a new sympathy between them, and they both knew it. At last the master spoke. We must do something about your mathematics, Forbes,” he said. “Now about the function of that angle you slipped up on,” he continued, reaching up to a shelf and taking down the hated book. They worked half an hour on it. and when they stopped Forbes saw into the intricacies of Trig” with a new light. The teacher had often tried.to help the boy. but hitherto their relations had been strained and connected work therefore impossible; now it was different, and Forbes felt that college was perhaps not impossible, after all. Next morning the mathematics recitation was in full swing. Every one was alert except the mem- bers of the Tau Delta Phi. who had had a lively election pieeting the night before, and in conse- quence of which were all seated in the back rows, sleepy and uninterested. The members of the club had of course heard of Forbes’ feat, as had the rest of the school; it was impossible to keep such an affair secret. Some people claim that girls excel as distributers of news, but such claimants can never have gone to a boys’ school. Forbes' heroism did much to restore his lost prestige, so when his name was put up to vote at the meeting of the Tau Delta Phi. he had received only one contrary vote, and this one was from llolworth. Ilolworth was not bitter, he was not even angry, only he said lie did not see why he should help to bring into his club a fellow who had insulted him and was not ready to do the right thing.” Why. said Ilolworth. “should you fellows choose out of all that vast ‘bunch’ of ‘Sophs’ the one fel- low who is sore on me?” When Ilolworth said this he was half ready to vote for Forbes, and ex- pected to be persuaded, when, after the proper amount of hesitation, he intended to gracefully back down” and vote for Forbes. But, singularly enough, his clubmates accepted his argument as convincing; thus Forbes lost his vote. The recitation continued, and in the course of time Forbes was called upon to recite. It was a hard question; two had already failed on it. and a titter of amusement ran around. To expect Forbes to answer that question was. in the eyes of the class, the height of humor. Stillman, who had sporting propensities, offered in a hoarse whisper to bet a canoe and two fine dogs against Mere- dith’s trot” to the Anabasis, the latter being the envy of the school. But Meredith refused this offer with scorn. Ilolworth turned around in his seat and said in a tone that all the Tau Delta Phi boys could hear: If Forbes gets that right he can have my vote.” Forbes, seeing that he was the object of some amusement, flushed as he arose in his scat. He glanced at the figure on the board, an intricate tangle of arcs,-sines, and tangents that had already proved too much for two students. But it happened that this problem involved the par- ticular point that Mr. Leavett had made clear the night before. Forbes cleared his throat and went through the demonstration without a flaw. There was a gasp of surprise from the back seats that meant more than Forbes knew. They went to the next class, and Forbes heard nothing more of his brilliant recitation and the strange prize that Ilol- worth was to give. 58 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR It was just before the supper hour and quite dark as Forbes heard a slight noise at his door. No one knocked, but the door opened slowly, and Forbes saw a boy’s head appear around the corner. It was Hartman, the secretary of the Tau Delta Phi. I say, Forbes,” he said, if your nerve is all right you might take a walk along the Upper Road to-night about 7.30. Good night.” With this he disappeared, and Forbes heard the door slam as Hartman left the dormitory. It seemed too good to be true, yet true it was, for Forbes saw a shadowy group disappear after supper and lose itself amongst the trees. So 7 o’clock saw Forbes with a smile on his face, rummaging around his room for the clothes that would best resist the strain of a Tau Delta Phi initiation. Here let us leave him. I have nothing more to tell about Forbes and his doings except that, after his initia- tion (which was not so hard, after all), when he was a full-fledged member, he “made it all right” with Holworth, and the two became the closest of friends. be partner JEg ftatberfne Griffin, X.,’ll j 11EY had known each other for a very fc.Ah K. s|lort time, yet they had been drawn to profess love. And one day the charming, auburn-haired daughter of the West went into the room of the daughter of the East, a winsome, light-haired girl. Barbara,” she began earnestly, you an' I’ve just started in for four years of college, and for those four years we’re likely to be together. So • far, you an’ 1 have become good friends, and I have gone farther than just friendship, and I love you so much as to want you to go partners with me. Of course, it’s if you agree. Somehow I think vou and I were made for each other, even if we are so very different.” “Do you mean ‘chums,’ Dolores?” she asked. “If that is just the same as ‘partners,’ why of course I am more than willing. I’ll try not to be too quarrelsome,” she added, laughing, “but seri- ously. I’ll try to be a true partner, Chum.” “ ‘Chum’? Will you call me that, and shall I call you ‘Partner’? Rut, tell me, is ‘chum’ the same? We’re always pard or partner out home, you sec.” Why, ‘chums’ arc two girls who usually go to- gether all the time, and have good times together, and are true friends, you know,” answered Bar- bara. I’d rather be ‘partners I think ‘partners’ seems a little nicer than ‘chums.’ Partners are truest friends, and they stand by you in thick and thin, and share all your sorrows as well as joys. And oh, their friendship and love is so true—even as strong and firm as the house that vas built upon a rock in the Bible, and nothin’ can shake it. Why, you might's well try to pull up an oak tree with one hand as to pull up a partner’s friendship. It seems as though ‘partners’ would mean more than ‘chums’ to me, but p’raps ‘chums’ means it all to you,” and Dolores looked earnestly at Barbara. Indeed it does, Chum,” replied the winsome maid from the East, as she gazed into the other girl’s serious brown eyes. “Then let’s shake on it—with you as ‘Partner’’ and me as ‘Chum,’ and thus they scaled their part- nership. Partner!” called Chum, as she entered the for- mer’s room one day some time later. Hullo! Come in—I’m reading a letter from mother,” was Partner’s greeting. Chum curled up in the window seat and looked out upon the campus, as she listened to the letter. At its close she sighed—a great, long sigh. Part- ner waited. It was customary for Chum to give forth these sighs occasionally just before she spoke about her home. I’d liked to have known my mother, Partner,” she began softly. I was only two when she died so all I know about her is all that Dad told me. She was wonderfully pretty—dark hair, and great black eyes, and I was named for her. But Dad’s been both my mother and father. Glory! It must be awful lonesome for him back home with- out me. Sometimes when I think of it I feel as though I must give up college and go back to him. But he would be so disappointed if I did. it doesn’t seem hardly fair to him that I should go home.” “I wouldn’t. Just think of Commencement, and TIIE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 59 before that there are the letters and the summer vacations,” replied Partner. “Yes, but still, Dad and I’ve never been sepa- rated for one night since my mother died, and that means all my life. It’s different with you, where you go off to house parties and visits at any time, and so you couldn’t really be expected to miss home quite so much as I do. “But there, 1 forgot what I came in for. There's a meeting of the Owls at five, for to- night's Owl spread, and it’s half-past four now. Hurry and get your coat and tarn. The meeting is at Grace Allan’s. Come on, and Chum hurried Partner away to the meeting. Just after Thanksgiving President Wilbert an- nounced the dates of the Christmas vacation. It was a long one, that is. longer than the college usually allowed, and naturally enough the girls were overjoyed. As Partner and Chum strolled across the campus toward the library, two other girls joined them and talked gaily of the coming holidays. It is a splendid chance for the girls who live away off to go home,” remarked Helen Rhoades. “Indeed it is. I’m going, you may be sure—oh, by the way, Dolores, you live in Montana, too, don’t you? said Florence Dale. “How nice! for perhaps we can arrange to be together. Gwen Harding goes half-way with ps, and the other Westerners take their trains in Chicago.” “Dandy! Perhaps all us Westerners can ar- range to go as far as Chicago, anyway, answered Chum gaily. Chum always welcomed a large gathering. And so they chattered gaily on. with visions of happy reunions with their loved ones and dreams of merry, merry Christmas. A little over a week later books were laid aside, with no great sorrow. 1 confess, and the girls turned from Latin and “lit” to the packing of their trunks. Much to Chum’s great delight, a dozen Westerners went off to- gether. and—well—who is there that has an idea that the long journey was a tiresome one? Chum considered herself fortunate, for she had Florence Dale every bit of the way to her home. Florence was the president of the Sophomore class, besides being, in Chum’s terms, a “dandy girl.” so Chum was happy, but in her happiness she did not forget that she was going home—home! to Dad. Tired, but oh, so happy, she alighted from the train, and then—and then—where was Dad? Rooted to the spot, she gazed blankly around her. What could have happened that he had not come? And then she heard a voice saying:— “Howd’y, Miss Dolores. Here, I’ve got yer trunk on, and now ye get up here, and we'll be at the ranch in a jiff. She recognized the cowboy Jim. but she returned no answer. Silently she took her seat, and so she rode home. Jim glanced at her once or twice and opened his mouth, but said nothing. She’s heerd, I guess,” he said to himself, and then he urged the horse to greater speed. Three days after Partner had gone home she re- ceived a note from the college secretary. It also contained a telegram sent that she might announce to Chum the severe illness of her father. But Chum had already started for home, and was two days distant from college. So the secretary had forwarded the telegram to Partner as Chum’s dearest friend. She also added that Mr. Webber was indeed very ill. and that he had not long to live. Poor Chum,” said Partner, and then she wrote a long letter and addressed it to the far-away chum in Montana. Three days more passed, and on the third even- ing Barbara’s father called her into the library. What is Mr. Webber’s first name?” he asked. “John. I think—oh. father, is he dead?” ' Yes, girlie,” and Mr. Glendon showed her the newspaper where John Webber’s death was re- ported. “Then Chum got home before—poor, dear Chum, how dreadfully she will feel!” And Bar- bara went upstairs. An hour later her father called her to come down. In the library she found her mother, also, and Mr. Glendon quickly spoke of his plan. “Barbara, are you willing to give up Christmas this year and go out to Montana? Your mother and I have talked it over, and if you wish—we’ll go “Why, father! Of course I’ll go! I’d go this minute to Chum! But when--------” “Just as soon as you can get ready. Wait a minute—what do you say to the early train to- morrow? I have telephoned, and there is a train leaving at S a. m. There, now. you and mother can see to the packing. he added, smiling as he returned the hug given by his enthusiastic young daughter. It was Christmas morning when the Glendons reached Pepper Ranch Station, and were there met by the cowboy. Jim. A telegram to the house- keeper had prevented Chum from learning of their coming. “A Christmas surprise,” said Partner, and her 6o THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR father meant to give her one if Chum could be per- suaded to go home with them. At the ranch Part- ner learned that Chum had gone out riding. Let's about all she do now since de Padre he die. Go out on de horse all cr time. Ver’ lone- some—quiet!” exclaimed the Spanish matron who welcomed them. P.arbara, however, went out to look for her. ‘T won't go far from the house,” she promised her father. After a long ride, Chum turned Girl's head homewards. Lonely as she had never been before, she made her favorite Indian pony her only com- panion. She had not yet forgotten the arrival at the house, where she had found why her father had not gone to meet her. Just in time she had arrived there, to hear his voice once more as he welcomed her. While she sat there at his bedside, he told her weakly to stay at college, and somehow the message seemed to bring a thrill of gladness to her. Then he had whispered her name and her mother's before falling asleep. That night Chum was fatherless. It all came back to her as she turned the horse toward home. Going home always did—and yet it wasn't home now—it never could be without Dad. She passed the little chapel, where the last Christmas mass was being sung. It was the familiar words of “Peace on earth, good will to men.” that drifted out to her, sung by some of the ranchmen. Girl,'' she said, it doesn't sound as it did lait year. The best singer isn't there.” The auburn head bent low on the neck of the pony, and they went slowly along the road. Suddenly Dolores lifted her head. Did some one call? “Chum! There was no mistaking the voice or the name. For an instant Chum waited, wondering. Then she pulled Girl's rein, and as she hastily dis- mounted. she whispered happily:— “She's come, Girl. Partner's come—the truest partner who ever lived. Girl, dear,” and then she ran quickly forward with a happy cry of “Partner! Cbc TKPUnnmg Gift 16 y fib. Buna Byres, formerly u£., ’09 “As longas Minnesota is a state in this great land, As long as Berklund College holds its well-estab- lished stand. As long as Jimmie Cordinglcy is leader of our band, We’ll always be------■ Order! demanded the chairman, striving for voice above the mingled shouts of the chorus, “Rah! Rah! Rah! for the Yec Zee!” an occasional “Merry Christmas, old man! and “Squelch ’em. Jim! which resounded through the Yec Zee Club headquarters, the old history lecture hall. “Order! Order!” he repeated sternly. “We haven’t quite an hour to get through this meeting ami be off—most of you fellows are due for that 7.10 Westbound—so there's no time to waste. Mr. Thurston has requested to speak from the platform.” Momentary quiet ensued, as Mr. Thurston,” the son of Berklund’s president, and the “baby” of the Vcc Zee Club, stumbled up the steps of the high stage, turned his back upon the audience, and placed a hand upon the shoulder of the retreating chairman. “Mr. Chairman, he began solemnly, “we, the members—oh. well. Jimmie, we fellows want to give you a little remembrance for the five years you ve been—boss of us!” and thrusting a small leather case into the hands of Cordingley, lie re- tired amid loud laughter and shouts of You’re a winner. Mont! and “Forget the speech, Thurs- ton.-' while the boss,” opening the box which en- closed the little remembrance.” an exquisite time- piece. engraved with the Yec Zee coat of arms,” endeavored to restore the volume to his strangely- choked voice. Fellows,” he said, after a pause, I guess my speech will be shorter than Maurice’s. I can’t thank you—just now. I think we all realize that— this is the last Christmas we’ll all be together. But—after you graduate, fellows, don't forget old Berklund and the Yee Zee—you sec I’ll have a constant reminder of the days.” The hearty cheering which greeted the speaker was interrupted only by his second request for at- tention. after which he'added in a lighter tone: “Then, about that gift contest we have planned for after the holidays; I consider that I’ve beaten you THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 61 out on that already. But I'll give you all a chance, fellows,—we'll keep the watch out of the game. And again, thank you!” hastily descending the steps. Whether it was his undue haste or the mist that had unconsciously gathered in his eyes that caused him to make the misstep, he suddenly lost his balance and fell heavily to the side. He's hurt!” cried some one in front. ' lie’s fainted!” His head struck the iron pedestal on the atlas!” (let a doctor!” Well, what a strange fall!” exclaimed the col- lege physician when lie arrived a few moments later. No, the head's all right, but I’m afraid there’s a break—in this ankle.” Just then Jimmie looked up. “What a clumsy fall! Why. Doe Morgan! I’m all right, just stunned----” but the severe pain in the injured foot caused his whole frame to shiver. You’ve broken your ankle. Jimmie.” the doctor stated grimly, and it means the hospital. It s not a bad break; you can be moved home in a few days, 1 hope, and the three weeks' rest ought to get you pretty well together again. You’d best send a telegram to your folks about the accident, and postpone your arrival home for—say a week. I—can’t—go—home.” There was tense deter- mination in every word. Consulting the watch, which he still held and which, strange to say, had escaped injury, he thought rapidly. Montie. get a telegram to the house saying that I've changed niv mind—I’m going to spend the vaca- tion with one of the fellows—1 won t be home. You might tell Grace I'm sorry—but no, never mind. Go now. Then he explained to the doc- tor : “The folks are to have a house party for the holidays, you know. My brother’s just over from a four-years’ study abroad, and we were to enter- tain some friends. Just fancy an invalid at a house partv! No, I'll stay in the pound!” Dr. Morgan smiled. The boy’s light statement at the end recalled a remark of President Thurs- ton: Cordinglcy would conclude a tragedy with his little joke.” As Maurice Thurston hastened along the road, his mind going through a series of changes as to whether or not he would wire the given message, lie was encountered by a surprised Why. Montic Thurston, where in this world arc you going?” His sister Leslie reached his side, and not being able to stop him. gripped his arm and stumbled along beside him. To get a telegraph—Jim Cordinglcy's broken his head—or was it his leg?—let go my arm! Maurice! What do you mean?” Her grasp on his arm now tighter than ever, and tripping at an uneven run, she finally drew from him a some- what disconnected story of the accident. And his sister Grace is going to bring down half a dozen girls from her school, all to amuse Jim. of course! he concluded. If lie went home now. with a broken ankle, he’d be more lionized than ever! His folks will be wild—Jim would have been the life of the party—and now—I've a good mind to tell them about what he did, and make him go home.” Don't you dare, Maurice Thurston!” she cried. You do just what Jimmie said. It’s too much of a sacrifice—I know there isn't another fellow in the world who’d think of doing such a noble, unselfish thing—but you've got to do what he told you. He’s trusted you. you see! But he shan't go to the hospital! He’ll come right to our house! I’m going to get father to send up the sleigh. Montie,” and. releasing her hold, she turned in the opposite direction, leaving her brother to gasp: No other in the world—noble! unselfish !—well that girl's the limit! But she’s a peach!” Five o'clock.” observed Leslie. The boys are just coming from ethics, Jimmie. Father’s going to have all the Yee Zee's take dinner with you to- night and spend the evening—won’t that be nice?” Jim dropped the “Advanced Trigonometry” over which lie had been glancing absently, and looked across to where she sat. Your father is too good. Leslie,” he replied a little chokily. You've all been too good to me. I've never had such a pleasant vacation, broken bones and all! I never can begin to repay any of you for what you’ve done. I suppose the fellows will have lots of good news. he mused, changing the subject reluctantly. I’ll be mighty glad to see them. I wonder if Van Zandt got the racing car he's been raving over, and if Langsford’s dad gave him the money for a Euro- pean trip next summer. You know we planned to have a gift contest after the holidays. The winner is the man who got the most valuable present, and that which he most desired, both conditions to be decided by an impartial judge. There’ll be some fun to-night.” But you haven't got your presents from home yet. Jimmie. Did you forget that?” lie shook his head, and crossing the room a little unsteadily, seated himself beside her on the 62 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR divan. “Nothing I could get from home would be what I most desire.” he answered, rather brokenly. “Rut—I'd like very much to win in the game,—and my desire granted would win—without a doubt. Help me to win. Leslie!” The growing earnestness in his voice almost frightened her, and while impulse would have led her to rush out to Maurice in the hall, she was restrained by the hand which held both hers, and the low. sincere declara- tion : For—you—alone—can !” “Say. Jim, remember about that vote on gifts we were going to have?” asked one of the boys later in the evening. Why not have it now, and let Miss Leslie be judge?” ‘‘Fine!” agreed half a dozen. Oh. let us all decide the winner.” protested Maurice, but I'll keep the record. You first, Langsford.” The polling of votes seemed unusually interest- ing. and at last. Now you. Jim,” brought Cording- ley to his feet. I think I'm winner, fellows,” he announced, smiling confidently, “because Fve won—why, where is—she?” It was some twenty minutes before even partial quiet was restored and “she” was produced by Maurice to receive a less demonstrative but never- theless sincere share of the congratulations which had been accorded the unanimously-elected win- ner.” I was looking for father.” she finally responded to her several questioners; why, we haven’t told him yet. Jimmie! Great Scott, no!” accepted the rather ruffled- looking Jimmie, handing the practically abandoned crutch to Maurice, and taking her arm for support. “Excuse us. fellows, and come on. Miss Winning Gift, until we see that—father is told!” Cbc Mbtte Huts of tbe Sea 36y ibowarfc B. iDacXean, X., '09 HE mantle of night fell dark upon the land, and the flaming beacons of war shone here and there, lighting up the rocky headlands with a dull light. The stillness upon the water was fearful, and only the flickering light of the blazing piles gave evidence of the work of man. The horrible holocaust of war had settled upon t ie two greatest world powers. Upon the small expanse of water which separated the two nations the armadas of both were concentrated. The strength of the two armadas was compara- tively equal, for what one lacked in battleships it made up in cruisers. The sub-marine flotillas were almost exactly equal, except for the men that manned them. Each nation depended on the sub- marines to blow up her enemy's battleships. The Achilles was the most powerful sub-marine in existence, except for one other equally as strong in equipment. The Achilles was equipped not only with torpedo tubes, but also with a new stupe- fying apparatus which was rammed into a vessel, and through which a certain secret anaesthetic was injected. This caused all on board to become unconscious, and then the vessel was casilv boarded. The Achilles was commanded by one Samuel Pitt, who had gained this position through long service in and faithful study of the sub- marine. He sat now in his own small cabin making out his report and waiting for the morrow, when they were to attack the powerful opposing fleet. He had in his possession a diagram of the fleets as they were stationed on the sea. lie thought he knew the position of his enemy, the pride of the sub-marine flotilla. This boat he intended to de- stroy, for if lie succeeded in this he would take away the enemy's greatest offensive power. So as he lay down that evening he decided to seek out his antagonist first of all. The day dawned dark and misty, the day that shall go down in history as the day when the politi- cal aspect of the world was turned upside down and the aspirations of one nation were blasted. With Samuel Pitt at her wheel, the Achilles went along at twenty-five knots an hour submerged about a fathom. He glanced repeatedly at different indi- cators : first at the submergence, then at the speed, then at the most important of all. the acoustic de- tector. This was an instrument to ascertain the THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 63 nature of an approaching object from the sounds it made. It would register the heavy poundings of the engines of a battleship or the quick throb- bings of a torpedo boat destroyer. lie began to come into the danger zone; it registered now a battleship, now a cruiser. The lieutenant came up to sefc how far they were away from the supposed position of their antagonist. “We have ten to go yet. said Captain Pitt. “Yes, sir, we ought to make it in about fifteen minutes; there goes a cruiser. the lieutenant said, as he glanced out the conning tower at the dark green water swirling by. “Look quick! the detector says a sub-marine! exclaimed Pitt, as he rang for half-speed. “It can't be the Rotterdam, we have seven to go yet. said the lieutenant. Get out the magnet detector and we’ll find him. ordered the captain. The little arrow pointed directly astern. Of all the jumpin' Jerusalems, this gets my salt- horse! snapped the captain, as lie whirled the wheel around and headed the boat in the opposite direction. He had not progressed far. when a dark shadow passed overhead, and the arrow pointed up straight. Meanwhile the lieutenant had gone down and unshackled the stupefying at- tachment, with which they intended to ram their antagonist and tow it into port as a prize. The captain was thrilled as this thought flashed through his mind, and he bellowed down a tube to get everything ready, for the other was floating lazily on the surface unsuspecting. The boat was sent ahead, while every man aboard awaited the shock and hissing of the anaesthetic. The Achilles rushed headlong upon its foe as a spider upon its prey, and as it rammed the other the hissing of the anaesthetic was heard. The men of the Rotter- dam flew about in confused haste, and reeling shadows darkened her portholes. The sailors of the Achilles, standing about waiting for the time when they could board the other, suddenly became aware that they themselves were being over- powered by their own weapon. Captain Pitt jumped forward and shut off the anaesthetic, ordering his own men to shoot forward a torpedo. The torpedo was dispatched, and the Achilles ducked as low as it could go. then they heard a dull thud and saw pieces of steel go sinking by their heavy plate-glass portholes. Finally the Rotterdam itself came rolling down as one in the last throes of death, and Samuel Pitt. captain of the Achilles, wept to see the boat that he had wished to take for his own everlasting fame sink to the deep bottom of the North Sea. a helpless wreck. Cbc picket Bv Xcster G. Gustm, E., '09 HE night was cold. The sharp wind, rising from the river, blew the sting- ing hail across the snow-clad wastes, swaying the giant pines till they seemed to moan a dirge, and causing the weary soldiers of the South to wrap their ragged blankets yet more tightly about them, as they lay in their snowy beds beneath the pines. He was a pitiful figure as he stood there alone on the snow-covered slopes of the Potomac, a boy in years, but an old man in experience. Undcr- neath a tattered blanket, which was tied tightly about him. one could see the dusky gray of the rebel uniform. His feet, wrapped in rags, left footprints in the snow tinged with red, and the barrel of his rifle lay icy cold against his naked arm. Beneath the cap which was pulled low over his forehead his face seemed careworn and hag- gard. but his eyes gleamed with an unconquered light. The forest, dark and forbidding, rose be- hind him. dimly visible through the driving snow. With a half-desperate movement, his hand went to the haversack at his side in search of food— nothing to be found but a few dry kernels of corn. He put them in his mouth and chewed greedily in a vain attempt to stop his gnawing hunger. Suddenly came the sound of hoofbeats: a small body of horsemen burst into view, halted at hi.� challenge, gave the countersign, rode on, and again he was alone. And now. as he paced slowly up and down through the gathering dusk, his thoughts turned towards his home on a distant mountain side. He thought of his mother, watching and praying for his return, and he saw her as though she were 64 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR before him—saw her sitting by the table sewing, though he knew her thoughts were of him. Then his father’s face rose before him, worn by years of toil and trouble—his father, too old to carry a gun and fight, but ever following the army in his thoughts. He saw his sister, too, but she, per- haps, was thinking less of him than of another who wore the rebel gray. And then a face, cold in death, came to his mind. It was that of his brother, killed in the foremost rank when Lee had hurled the pride of the South- ern army against the living walls of blue at Gettys- burg. He did not weep when they brought the body back, but the hatred in his heart grew even more intense against the Northern invaders, and seemed to blaze in his eyes. But soon his eyes grew soft, and the hatred died down as he thought of another loved one on the distant mountain side, one who he knew was watching and waiting for his return. He staggered for an instant, and then, half sobbing, he hurried on. while evil thoughts came crowding into his mind. Why was this war going on? What did he care whether or not the black man was a slave! What mattered it to him if Lincoln was president! Would it be wrong for him to leave the toil, and misery, and starvation which he endured to return to his mountain home? With a curse he choked these thoughts back, and his mind reverted to the bloody battle fought a few days since, when he and his comrades had clinched in a deadly hand-to-hand struggle with the enemy, and the fury of the conflict had made murder seem righteous. But hark! Suddenly there came to his ears a dull sound from the river. Nearer and nearer it seemed, and now he knew it was the sound of muffled oars. He hurried towards the water. Dark blue forms were everywhere leaping towards him from out of the driving snow. With a half-articulated cry of “Halt!” he tried to bring his gun to his shoulder, but his frozen hands re- fused to obey. The enemy were everywhere com- ing upon him, but still he tried to drive them back. Already he felt the glittering bayonets tear his side. With a dying effort, he raised his gun, jammed his frozen fist against the trigger, gave the alarm, and saved the army. XLhc IReal Christmas Spirit By llrene Ikibbe, X., '00 HEN Marjorie Durante, of Boston, married Guy Lessing, but recently graduated from the M. I. T.. their friends were delighted with the match, and when it became known that Lessing was to go to Arizona to care for his father's large interests in a mining con- cern there, taking Marjorie with him, everybody foretold that the loneliness would be too great for them, and that they would soon return. Through the wife of Mr. Lessing's superintend- ent. a neat little home had been prepared for them, and by her wise forethought a maid had been pro- cured from a poor family just settled in the town. The aged father, enfeebled both in mind and body by a mining disaster, must be supported, and Ellen had chosen this means. The old man, unaccus- tomed to the well-meant kindness of the town folk, had refused to take charity from strangers' hands, so upon his daughter rested the entire burden of his welfare. Lessing and bis wife were cosily settled when winter set in. and by December he had gained a thorough knowledge of the mine and its workers. As the Christmas season approached, Majorie found herself longing for her home, and soon she even performed her household tasks mechanically, her mind intent upon her Eastern friends. And then came Christmas eve. The living room had been made delightfully attractive against the home-coming of Lessing. From the divan in the corner, piled with pillows, the easy chairs, and the soft, thick rugs on the floor to the pictures on the walls, everything bespoke the comfort of a happy household, while the glow of the fire crackling on the fire-dogs cast a rosy light through the whole room. The figure of Marjorie seated by the hearth, however, was the personification of de- spondency and loneliness. At last she rose, determined that not even thoughts of home should mar this, her first Christmas eve with Lessing. She went to the kitchen, and while she helped Ellen prepare for the morrow, the conversation turned very naturally to I Continued on pajtc 75.] THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 3$ ’09 . Class Editor, Allison Newton. A. class meeting was held recently to consider the class dance. It was agreed for Duggan to ap- point the committee from our school, the members of which arc as follows: Marion Hallet, Edith Jones, Mabel Wilbur, Walter Nolan, and Matthew Duggan. It seemed rather early to bring up this subject, but it is the intention to hold the soiree earlier this year, as those of previous years have repeatedly failed to clear expenses, supposedly on account of their lateness. Oh. resolutions many, Good intentions by the score, A brand new leaf at New Year’s, Oh. we’ve heard that all before. Oh, now the year is over. And there's time to do no more, You tell us you've succeeded? Oh, we’ve not heard that before. The Christmas motto is: “Peace on earth, good will towards men. We trust, however, that it won’t seem impertinent to inquire if this will hold good when the report cards reach their destination. Our former classmate, Charlie O’Donnell, is a student at Tufts Medical. Here’s health to Charlie, but not to his patients. Sh—r— 1—n affirms the centaurs won every- thing but the bicycle race. Dick says he prefers his vacation after Christ- mas, so’s he can play with his presents. Miss C—sh—ng (translating): “Going up he slept.” D—gg—n : “Me must have had an upper berth.” It is frequently necessary for the teacher to ask C—1—m—n where he is translating. One of the teachers says the only way to keep Th—y—r out of mischief is to set him on the piano. Teacher: “How do abstract nouns end?” Sh—r—d—n : “With the last letter. This little song is affectionately dedicated to “Liz Henderson. It is to be sung to the tunc of The Man with the Ladder and the Hose”:— He's the man at the blackboard, lie’s the man with the chalk, And to the teacher back he must not talk. He must fix each slight mistake, Whether few or many they make. Must the man at the blackboard with the chalk. M—cl—n: “Say, Brown, when did Scott die?' Br—wn : Seventeenth century. M—cl—n: When was he born? Br—wn: Some time before that.” With the help of the police, we were rescued lately from a little dog. Half the time Sh—r—d—n doesn’t know what he’s doing, and the other half lie doesn’t care. “SCHOOL DAYS.” Every Day Is Ladies’ Day to Me.”—M—cl—n. Somewhere. —N—1—n’s lessons. Not Because Your Hair Is Curly.”— H—nd—rs—n. Bye Baby Buntin. -----. Keep On Smiling. —“Dick. “I Want What I Want When I Want It. —Miss C—rl—ss. ' Wait in g.”— For I —C—t h y. Hats Make the Woman. —N. N. M. Why Don’t You Try?”—Sh—r—dan. Rainbow.”—Miss W—m—n. All the Girls Love Me. —D—gg—n. Sympathy. —For the Teacher. Mamma’s Boy.”—J—v—s. 66 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR ’10 Class Editor, H. H. Greenwood. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. In history: “At this time Athens was really at its height, and also began its decline.” St—art then proceeded to illustrate vividly. Ma—by persists in saying funny things. Tc—ier has taken it upon himself to direct the Freshmen through their stormy path. B—ant is playing a fast game of football at re- cess on the lawn, and has earned his name, “Frisky.” I). Brooke McKinnon is making quite a splurge in the Senior class by his profound knowledge of French. Senior: Will Gren try the exams in the spring?” Junior: Will he get the chance?” Mo—eaux (translating): I haven’t got this very well.” Teacher: The information is unnecessary.” Teacher (testing ears): “Can you hear it tick?” Pupil (with hand over ear): I can’t help it.” Three Greek sentences were found by the teacher to have exactly the same mistakes. This merely goes to prove that great minds run in the same channel. It is understood that Killaim is taking a P. G. course in the Sophomore class. Lately he took three exams and flunked in four. One of our teachers remarked that there was a decided difference in our manners in school and in the ballroom. What about the ball field? Riddle :— His nicknames are many, his talents are great, They range from mathematics to Greek; He just bought a hat to cover his pate. Which we all will agree is quite neat. Welch graduates from the Highland School in ’09, if signs go for anything. Some of us are very witty, Others not at all. Most of us have not the gift Even algebra to recall. Really, now. it’s most astounding, Very touching, don’t ycr know? If our pen we start a-going, Like a whirlwind it will go. Let us now look above and view Er—what these letters spell for you. O. R. ’ll Class Editor, M. J. Messer, Jr. Kiss is a noun. It is more common than proper. It is never declined. It is not very singular, is generally used in the plural, and agrees with we.” Miss L—m—s is responsible for this, and she seems to know. Tis wrong for any maid to be Abroad at night alone. A chaperon she needs till she Can call some chap her own. ( Who's responsible for this?) In the future X—w—1 will surely be an actor. I laven't you ever noticed the very dramatic raising of the curtain when he starts to explain his theorem? '1'he work of writing for this column is carried on chiefly by a few faithful contributors. It is meet that this class should show more loyalty by helping to make this column the largest and best in the issue. Give all class notes to the editor, Room 11, seat 47. Heard in the corridor:— Mac: “Had a great dream last night.” T—y—r: What did she look like?” No holly decorations on our cards. Some suitable Christmas presents:— Robeo—A Latin trot. Rideo—The same. W—1—s—Some pennies to match. Miss L----1—The latest novel, What’s What and Why.” Miss C—m—gs is very busy. Which one? Oh! either one. Middlemas is going out for end next year. His work on the Sophomore second scrubbing team is very promising. The new opera company in Room 12 are re- hearsing their new playlet, “Fifteen Lines of Caesar: or, We Had to Work All Night to Do It. MORGEN UNI) ABEND BLATTER. Traveler, in thy pilgrim’s robe, Herald it around the Globe, A Monitor to Post each man, I� e a true American.” Bid the captain or the colonel Record this Transcript in his Journal— Take the papers great and small, The Radiator’s best of all. [Freshman Notes on page GO.] THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 67 ’00 Class Editor, Lester Gustin. There is many a man that is sorrowful, There is many a man that is sad, But this isn't so with the Seniors, Who are always happy and glad. (Nit.) Palmer asserts that his father was once a mem- ber of Radcliflfc College. Chapin has a new abbreviation for parallel- opiped: | | “Oh, pipe it.” Teacher: How many are seventeen years old?” Miss H-----: I'm just between seventeen and eighteen. How old am I?” A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everybody. Better get to work and make up those condi- tions. How about it, Seniors? According to Hilliard, the plural of German is Deutschmans. Ever see Cyrus sizzle on the gridiron when the mercury hovered around ninety-nine degrees? Heard on Broadway field:— Voice from the Score Board: What is the dif- ference between a nine and a six up here?” Answer from Below: Three.” Heard in physics: To find the specific gravity of a liquid, use a ‘sinker.’ ” We hear that in a certain baseball game Snow “extinguished” himself by fanning out.” How about those social obligations of the foot- ball squad, Cy? Remember, only three dances a week and be home by 10 o’clock. Whitman says the room of the door was open. If some of the Seniors were Indians:— Sit-on-His-Hat Freeman. Blue-Moon Harlow. Cuckoo Whitman. Tweedledce-Tweedledum Blanchard. Hazeltinc, the medicine man. Big Chief Gordon. Geddes is going to be President some day if he keeps on. The more, the merrier,” holds good in the num- ber of notes passed in to us. That’s what makes, us look so sad. A motion has been made that the Senior soiree consist entirely of moonlight waltzes. Second the motion. Congratulations to those who have survived the Thanksgiving dinner. Hurrah! This is the last of leap year, and Wal- ter is still safe. Jones’ face is dark with gloom, For he sits in a Freshman room; Miner's face is full of glee, For he abides in 23: But Atwater’s face, it glows with pride. He sits with Seniors, dignified. This is where we were going to put in a remark about Miss Dunning, but she objected. Football season's over, As any one would vow If he just took A good long look At the frown on Chcetham’s brow. 68 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR ’10 Class Editor, Andrew F. Handley. It has been suggested tliat William Howard Taft is large enough to fill Charles W. Eliot’s chair. Is Moon our only musician? Knight, have you found that light you told about in English? Ho—n says he thought he would have turtle soup.”. Bry—n asleep? Look out for the engine, Me. Class wonders:— Abbott—Mathematician. Bert Cooper—Deutcher. Winn—Our light. Arnold—Our flagpole. Bennett (translating German): From the smoke-stack a white handkerchief waved a long time after the departed train. Ambitious youths:— Rod—: To be a politician. Ro—: To be less troublesome. Ma—n: To be a magician. Sullivan: To learn chemistry. Hod— has three test-tubes. M—(i—nn says five feet in iambic measure equals sixty inches. Teacher thinks she is learn- ing something every day. In English (whispering in rear of room):— Teacher: Who is talking?” Miss B—tt—n (buried in Macbeth”): King Duncan.” Cha----is a very good salesman. WANT ADS. Wanted by S----k—An undecorated report. A bright young man would like position as bookkeeper. 0-5-1 Wanted Immediately—Information as to the whereabouts of mv chcmistrv notebook. 19-133-3 Wanted bv Ed Handlev—Some notes. 1-6-S Did some one say J—nes had a friend who would lend him two cents (.02)? McCar— says he ain't not going to be rich. Hence, loathed Melancholy, For Christmastide is here. Merry Christmas! ’ 1 I Class Editor, Arthur Leighton. Dearborn complains that so many young ladies cluster around the mirrors on the third floor that he finds it impossible to get a drink of water. Girls, take notice and don't deprive Lester of his chance to.cool his parched throat. D----is has also made his debut in long trousers. W—1—h’s feelings are often hurt, but have not yet been murdered. In history:— Teacher: To what place did the Crusaders then go, Dutelle?” Enthusiastic Pierce (from back of rpom): “An- tioch.” Teacher: “No, Pierce, I didn't say, do tell!” Waldron (translating German): And she told her not to let him out of her eyes.” • Miss Br—d—ry appeared so dangerous because her name was not in the November Radiator that it was thought wise to insert it this time. An—r—n. translating Itaque prius, quam quis- quam conaretus,” says: “Before he had attempted to do any one.” If Miss E—s—h—r wrote a poem, it would surely be written by metre (Meta). Why is B----so late every morning? Does he mislay his hair-curling utensils? Wr—t (in English): “Shakespeare had three children and they were twins.” Miss Conti (reading from “Merchant of Venice”): And Jacob's sheep grazed upon his Uncle Laban's sheep.” (Pretty tough grazing, presumably.) Hanscom is getting to be quite a waiter. Many of the young ladies of our class are enter- tained at recess by B—r—ow, a favorite Junior, who gives a demonstration of the Grecian bow on the Latin School steps. A----z has many admirers in 30-A. Any one wishing to learn how to fall gracefully, apply to Miss F—t—p—t—k, 30-C. Miss McC—ag—r and Miss II—k—v like French so well that they can’t get to 28 quick enough. Racing is therefore in order. Division J has two Fitzvs” in it, and they both help to keep things humming. THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 69 M2 Class Editor, Oliver Churchill. New ear’s draws near, and don’t forget those resolutions,—and the stocking at the foot of the bed. A Merry Christmas to all! C—v—1 is deliberating whether he will hang up a stocking large enough for a derby or one that will admit an automobile. A certain lad in I-x was heard saying he wouldn’t mind having a Trainer. Miss X—g—e is looking for a position as an ex- press agency for books. She takes only six of her own. Ray M—d—n, when asked whether lie combed or carded his pompadour, replied that he now combed it. but expected to use the rack in the near future. Some of the Freshmen, especially boys like Xellie, are so dignified that strangers recognize them as teachers. Deni—y is so nutty that the squirrels are chas- ing him to school. Who does the most explaining in algebra K, the teacher 01 the phenomenon in seat 21? How shy M—t—n is in music! Those beautiful girls around him even make him forget when Thanksgiving conics. When it comes to reciting, Tib-----o seems to have a sore throat. Your photo will appear a few moments after leaving your name and complexion at Miss San—rn’s studio, 4-X. Room 12 has the honor (?) of quartering a Senior. Think of it, classmates! How little was Little when Little was little, for it was little we knew of Little who says he is Little now. Poor Cov—1 came to school one day, His mind made up as to what he would say To the little Don—hue girl that day. Alas! that night after school he stayed late, For the speech he prepared did not pass his face. There was a rumor that was spread, That George his Latin once had read, But we all know that is not true. For a thing like that he could not do. The Sophomores must think they are a tough proposition when they talk about our trimming them with scissors. We suggest a paper-cutter. Xattn ’ 12 Class Editor, Francis J. Mahoney. Four members of the 1012 football team have secured positions on the Radiator’s all-Freshman eleven. Hopkins, whose work on the defensive this fall has been phenomenal, is the first choice for right end. Currie is the pick for fullback. This sturdy line-smasher is about the best seen on a Freshman gridiron this year. No one but Blumsach has any claim to the position at quarter- back. Babe” Hall has been chosen custodian of paraphernalia. (He holds the caps.) Teacher: “R—ce, you were asleep.’’ R—ce: ‘Xo, sir. it was Palmer.” On Thursday, December 3, to the surprise of all present, Miss G—in recited in Latin. Most enjoyable is the presence of X—w—11 at the Latin recitation of the third division. The teacher in Room 31 has collected enough toothpicks to exchange for a curtain. Will somebody please tell Ri—e to forget the shoes? Blumsach the beautiful, A funny man is he. Speaks right up in school; His savings delight me. Come to Room 35 If this man you would seek. His office hours are at recess Every day this week. L. T. D. Healey organizes a searching party after each recess to recover his chair. Miss Ir—n, of Room 32, has heard that her ear- sight is poor. There was tumult in the classroom Southwestward from the hall ; The air was rife with noises Echoing from wall to wall. The teacher in the corner Was there unknown to him Who emitted all the noises With such vigor and such vim. When she harshly spoke to him. He didn’t hear a sound; But suddenly he spied her—!!? Should have seen him turn around! Here goes for a Merry Christmas and a jolly vacation. 70 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR EXCHANGE NOTES ()ne of the most interesting exchanges is the Lakonian. of Laconia. It has some very well- written stories. Some of the best are The Night of the Dramatic Club” and “Outside the Palisade.” The cover design is neat and attractive. With the exception of the cover design, the Gleaner, of the Pawtucket High School, is very good. “An Unknown Hero,” a true narration of the working man in Italy, has started out well, and one may look forward to the rest of the story with interest. More stories would improve your school paper, Clarion. West Roxbury. But the article on Lib- eral vs. Industrial Education” is one that is well worth reading. Where is your exchange column? The alumni number of the High School Pano- rama is a great success. The various articles by some of the alumni are helpful. Among them. The Work of the Newspaper Man. “Teaching as a Profession,” Preparation for a Medical Career. Manufacturing as an Occupation, The Ministry as a Profession,” A Sound Word of Advice,” and “The Advantages of the Legal Profession” cover a wide circle for various outlooks. Why not put the advertisements in one place? Your cuts. Cue. for the various columns are fine, especially those representing the Chinese children. The Cue Sketches” columns are also good. Wouldn't a few poems add a great deal? A Week of Thanksgiving” and I lome's Where the Heart Is. in the Racquet, from Portland. Me., are worthy of mention. The cut for the exchange column is very neat. The Item, of Dorchester, has some good stories, but we miss the exchange column. “The Election of an American President” is interesting and well written. It would be better to separate the adver- tisements from the reading matter. The Roxbury Enterprise could be improved very much by more stories and poems. The article on The Art Museum is one which every one ought to read. Many helpful hours could be spent there, and we all ought to know more about our own na- tional museums. The class notes in the Salem Advance arc bright, and the stories and poems arc very good. Why not develop the exchange column? The business managers of the High School Bul- letin. of Lawrence, should be complimented on the number of advertisements. The “School Gossip” columns arc amusing. One of the best exchanges received this month is the Quarterly Tatler, of the Sachs School for Girls. The literary department and the exchange columns are very well developed. The whole paper is attractive. Why not criticise your exchanges, Crimson and Blue, instead of just mentioning the exchanges re- ceived? A few more stories and cuts would im- prove the paper. The essay on Our Debt to Commerce” in the Pinkerton Critic is well written, and the letter de- scribing Smith College is interesting. The cut for the exchange column is good. The Morristonian certainly shows the lack of a good literary department, and we hope the editor will have a hearty response from the school body for his call for more stories. T he Maine Campus has a successful football number. All the articles are interesting. While the cuts for the various columns in the Argus are crude, the idea of each is very good. The paper has a literary department, having many stories and poems, but the exchange column is wanting. THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 7‘ Alumni Notes Ernest F. Ver Wiebe, Latin. '05, Harvard, ’09, played a brilliant game as fullback on the 'Varsitv team in the Harvard-Vale game. Seward Jarvis, Latin. ‘07, played right end in the Harvard-Brown game. P. E. Alger, Latin. '05, a Senior at Massachu- setts Agricultural College, won an M this year. C. Sherwood Ricker. Latin, 0-1, Harvard, '08, is doing graduate work in philosophy at Harvard. Among the winners of ‘‘TV’ at Tufts this year were William E. Hooper, Latin. '05. Tufts, 09, and Frank W. Merrill, Latin. 08. Tufts, P2. Arthur Healey, Latin, 08, played on the second team. Louise Carr. Latin. '08, is studying at the Emer- son School of ()ratory. Arthur I. Plaisted. Latin, 81, was electrical en- gineer in the constructional work of the Charles- river dam. Marion F. Ilincks and Susie II. Pilsbury. both Latin, '08, arc Freshmen at Ml. Holyoke College this year. Cyrus A. R. Sanborn, Latin, '01. Harvard, '05, now in the second year graduate school, has been appointed to the Charles Haven Goodwin scholar- ship. Annie R. McCoy. Latin. ’05. is a Senior at Tufts College. 11. Parker Lowell, Latin. '06, a Junior at North- western University, is editor-in-chief of the Sylla- bus, a Junior monthly. Edwin P. Fitzgerald. Latin. '03, Harvard, 07, is in the third year of Harvard Law School. Edith Bradford, Latin. '07, Tufts, '12, has been initiated into the Lambda Chapter of the Alpha Tau Delta Sorority. Dick Merrill. Latin. 08. was the only member of the Freshman class at Tufts to win a football T. Eleanor Cummings. Latin. 01. Boston Univer- sitv, '08, Lisette Parker. Latin. '08, and Helen Hig- gihs. Latin, '07. arc taking courses at the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics. Eleanor Richardson, Latin. '06, a member of the Junior class at Radcliffe, is president of the Som- erville Radcliflfe Club. Edna C. Woodbury, Latin. '08, a Freshman at Tufts, was recently initiated into the Alpha Omi- cron Pi Sorority there. Clifford B. Lewis. English, 00, and Amherst, ’06, is with the Library Bureau, Montreal, Can. Mr. Lewis has the distinction of being tne youngest manager in the employ of the company. Chester MacNeil, English. '06, is assistant man- ager of the weekly department in the Massachu- setts Accident Company. Victor Weston, English. '06. is employed as a stenographer in the New England Casualty Com- pany. John Robbins, English, '07. is working in the office of the American Type Founding Company. Walter P. Nichols, English. '08, is a salesman for Bigelow. Kennard Co. Herbert L. Perry. English, '08, is an agent for the Boston Transcript. Louis Olin, English. '08, is connected with the advertising department of the Boston American. Nellie A. Wright, English. 04, formerly the as- sistant bookkeeping teacher of our school, is now the stenographer for the secretary of Tufts Col- lege. Alice Collupy. English, '03, is a stenographer for the Boston Straw Board Company. Ethel Davenport. English. '05. is employed by the New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad Company. Miss Amelia Laurent, English, '03. is employed by Lozier Car Company as a stenographer. Camilla E. Chipman, English. 04. was married to Henri Dieudonne Alphonse Ganteaume Septem- ber 28. Miss Lulu Tracey. English, '01, is the secretary for the Brown Simonds Company. Somerville. Miss Annie Evenson. English, 08, is a stenog- rapher for the same company. Jennie Brown, '99. is working for the Roxbury Carpet Company. Jasper Lane, English. '07, is employed in the office of C. A. Putnam Co. Miss May Bartlett, English. '08. is giving piano and elocution lessons. Arthur Sullivan, English, 08, is working in the office of S. S. Pierce Co.. Boston. Myrtie Davenport. English, '06. is a stenog- rapher for Baldwin Robbins, of Boston. 72 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR ATHLETICS Somerville, 5; 5 orcbester, o On Saturday afternoon, October 31, the Somer- ville High School team journeyed to Dorchester and played its first league game of the season, win- ning by the small score of 5 to 0. Both teams played good football, the forward pass being espe- cially well executed by Somerville. Couscns was the hero, and showed great grit. In the first few minutes of play Garland and Couscns both dove for a punt that went outside and hit a post. Garland was only dazed, but Cousens struck on his'shoulder and suffered a complete dislocation. Doc” Merrill went to work, and in a little while he had the dislocation reduced and the arm bandaged. As the time was up. Cousens trotted on the field with the doctor running after him tying the last knots in the ban- dages. In his crippled condition lie blocked Dor- chester's play, and shortly after made a sensational touchdown. Garland played a slashing game at end. and Eorg also played well. Somerville kicked off. and on the first try Dor- chester gained her distance. She then punted, and Cruikshank recovered on Donahue's fumble. Somerville soon got the ball and punted. Then came the accident to Cousens. and Dorchester saw victory coming until the cripple himself blocked the advance. After an interchange of punts came a forward pass to Cousens, who ran fifteen yards for a touchdown. Woodman failed on the try for a goal. Garland ran the kickoff back for twenty yards. McDonald’s forward pass to Eorg netted twenty more, and he reeled off twenty-five more before he was pulled down. It looked like another score, but Dorchester held for downs. Garland ran in the punt thirty yards, but again Dorchester rallied and got the ball on their five-yard line. Dorches- ter fumbled, and it was Somerville’s ball on the fifteen-yard line, but failed on a try for the goal. Somerville for the rest of the half punted freeh- and kept the ball in Dorchester's territory. The second half consisted mainly in punting by ,Somerville and Dorchester trying to score. They worked several delayed passes, but Eorg and Gar- land solved it and stopped them. The summary:.... SC MER ILLE. DORCHESTER. Garland, l.e...................r.e., McCarthy Caldwell, l.t...........................r.t., Conley Russell (Coleman), l.g..................r.g., Gleason Gustin (Mitchell), c........'. .c., Hotchkiss Woodman, r.g............................l.g., Hart Xolan. r.t..............................l.t.. Fletcher Eorg. r.e...............................l.e., Eraser Donahue, q.b............................q.b., Ross Dickerman (Hurley), l.h.b..r.h.b., Cruikshank McDonald, r.h.b.......................l.h.b., Sullivan Cousens (Dickerman), f.b.........f.b., Abbott Score—Somerville. 5; Dorchester, 0. Touch- down—Couscns. Umpire—Mains. Referee—- Page. Linesman—Scanned. Field judge—Chase. Assistant linesmen—Mixer and Spalding. Time— 25 and 20-minute periods. --------------------------— Somerville, 17; dDalOen, 0 Somerville exceeded the hopes of her most ardent admirers by defeating the greatly-boomed silent eleven from Malden. Fully 4.000 at- tended the game. Malden was outclassed in every way. She made no impression on our line, and her trick plays were rendered useless by Somer- ville’s weight and speed. At no time was Somerville’s goal in danger, with the exception of the last few minutes of play, when Hadley ran in a punt to Somerville’s fifteen-yard line, where Caldwell pulled him down. Morgan then tried for a goal, but with poor success. The first half was almost over, when it was dis- covered that there was no timekeeper. Cuddy wished the game to start over, but Somerville al- ready had two touchdowns, and refused to listen to the proposition. It was agreed that fifteen min- utes had been played. Another incident was .when Donahue and G. Miner were sent to the sidelines for a little mixup. Somerville kicked off. and after a short run in, Malden tried to gain, but couldn’t. There was a fumble, and Gustin made a fine tackle and saved a long gain. Malden fumbled, and bv line-plunging the ball reached the five-yard line, where Dicker- man made the touchdown. Woodman kicking the goal. The second touchdown soon followed on I'll 1C SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 73 fumbles and good line-bucking by Pep and Dickerman. McDonald made the touchdown from which Woodman kicked the goal. The rest of the first half was all in Somerville’s favor, who were rapidly going down the field when time was called. In the.second half Somerville showed less dis- position to rush the ball, and played an easy game. Cousens ran in the kickoff well, and after a good gain Somerville made some clever forward passes. On a forward pass and an onside kick Somer- ville got the ball at the five-yard line. Here Woodman made a great punt over the heads of the Malden players. A little later I'org picked up a fumbled punt and ran for a touchdown, no goal being kicked. The rest of the half was easy play- ing on.the part of Somerville. Score—Somerville, 17; Malden. 0. Touch- downs— McDonald. Dickerman. h'org. Goals from touchdowns—Woodman (2). Empire—Leo Daly. Referee—Paul. Field judge—Bragg. Head linesman—O’Brien. Linesmen—Russ and Babcock. Time—20-minute halves. --------------------— - — Somerville, 20; Bnolisb IMcjb, 5 Somerville High’s second league game was played on Broadway field Saturday, November 11. 'and resulted in the defeat of their opponent, the supposedly strong English High team. Except- ing the first few minutes of play, Somerville kept the ball in English High’s territory most of the time. The first score of the game was due to Mitchell, when he broke through the line and blocked Up- ham's punt, which rolled back of the goal line. Pishon falling on it for a safety. Several long end runs by Dickerman and a forward pass to I'org brought the ball to the four-yard line, and on the second attempt Cousens went over for a touchdown. Woodman kicked the goal, making the score 8 to 0. The next score was made in a similar way. Cousens scoring the touchdown and Woodman kicking the goal. Somerville scored once in the second half on a forward pass by Hurley to Garland, who ran twenty-three yards, to within four yards of a touch- down. Then Cousens was given the ball for the third touchdown, from which Woodman kicked his third goal. It got so dark that good playing was impossible, when I pham made an onside kick, and Somerville lost the ball in the darkness. O'Brien picked it up and ran seventy yards for a touchdown. The try for goal failed. Soon after the game was called, with several minutes more to play. For English High O’Brien and Pishon played well, while Garland. I'org. and Dickerman ex- celled for Somerville. Woodman out-punted Upham. The summary:— SOMERVILLE HIGH. ENGLISH HIGH. Garland ( 1 loward). l.e Caldwell, l.t Russell (Coleman), l.g Mitchell (Gustin), c h'org. r.e Donahue (Jarvis), q.b Dickerman. l.h.b . . .r.h.b.. ()’Connell McDonald (Hurley), r.h.b l.h.b.. Upham Cousens ( R. Garland), f.b Score—Somerville. 20: English High. 5. Touchdowns—Cousens (3), O’ Brien. Goals from touchdowns—Woodman (3). Safety—Pishon. Referee—Paige. Umpire—Chase. Field judge— Connell. Linesmen—Mixer and Kelley. Time— 20-minute halves. --------------------------- Somerville, 5; 1R. ib. XI. S., 5 On Thanksgiving day Rindgc sprung a surprise on the over-confident Somerville team and held them to a 5 to 5 tie. ()ver 7.000 spectators turned out in the drizzle to see the game, and most of them were disappointed in the showing of the Somerville team. The Cambridge team played better and snappier football, but Somerville braced at the critical places, except when the touchdown was made. Blocked kicks were numerous, and many fumbles were made. Somerville wins the championship with a percentage of 1.000. Stiles’ Eighth Regi- ment band was present by virtue of subscriptions. The field was in good condition, considering the weather. In the cheering Rindge had the best of it. as usual. The Somerville rooters mostly “fuss ’ and therefore don’t get together. The Cambridge boys started, in at the first, and didn’t let up for a moment. The play was mostly in Somerville territory, and after the touchdown Rindge played a little harder instead of becoming weaker. Rindge kicked off to Donahue. Some tries at the line showed Rindge’s strength, and an onside kick was worked to I'org. After a change of 74 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR punts Rindge began to play football. Wilson made a long gain. Another try made no gain, and Rindge punted. Somerville returned the punt to Wilson, who ran it in quite a distance. A forward pass gave the ball to Somerville, but one fumbled by Forg gave the ball back to Rindge. Maricle went through Somerville’s line for good gains. Wilson brought the ball to the five-yard line, where Somerville held and received the ball on the onc- half-yard line. A little later Wilson tried for a goal, but with no success. Somerville punted out and regained the ball on a fumble. A twenty-five-yard gain by Caldwell and a ten-yard gain by Forg cheered up Somer- ville. but the ball was lost on an uncompleted for- ward pass on Rindge’s twenty-five-yard line. The half ended with Donahue making a fair catch of a punt. The first score came quickly in the second half. Rindge punted after the kickoff. A forward to Forg, ten yards by Cousens. brought Somer- ville stock tip. Then Dickerman made thirty yards to the ten-yard line, where Cousens put it over in three drives. Dickerman made a fair catch of the punt out, but Woodman failed to kick the goal. An interchange of punts followed the kick- off. and then O'Brien made a good gain for Rindge. Rindge punted on the next play, and Somerville made ten yards on a forward pass, but Rindge got the ball on a blocked punt. Somerville did the same thing. Russell blocking Hayes' punt, and Somerville punted. Rindge now went steadily down the field. The ball was on the fifteen-yard line before the danger was realized, and the rally came too late. Wilson took the ball to the five-yard line. O'Brien made four more. Now Wilson went between Nolan and Forg for a touchdown, and Hayes lost a chance to win the game by missing the goal. Two minutes later the game closed. Somerville had won the championship, but not as easily as ex- pected. For Rindge. Wilson played the star game, al- though O'Brien, the other halfback, played well. Cousens played well, but was little used. Garland, although in poor condition on account of his arm. also played well. Russell broke through repeat- edly and blocked punts. The summary:— SOMERVILLE HIGH. R. M. T. S. E. Garland (Howard), l.e......r.e., Metivicr Caldwell (Hunnewell), l.t.........r.t.. Stone Russell (Coleman), l.g........r.g., Bingham Mitchell (Gustin), c............c., I. Swart Woodman, r.g...................l.g., W. Swart Nolan (Miilmore), r.t...................l.t., Ambrose Forg (Parks), r.e................l.e., Danehy Donahue, q.b.....................q.b., Hayes Dickerman. l.h.b.................r.h.b., Wilson McDonald (R. Garland), r.h.b.. l.h.b., O’Brien (Walsh) Cousens, f.b.............f.b., Maricle (Corr) Score—Somerville High, 5; R. M. T. S., 5. Touchdowns—Cousens, Wilson. Field judge— Bankhart. of Dartmouth. Umpire—O’Donnell, of Holy Cross. Referee—Larkins, of Holy Cross. Head linesman—Paul. Assistant linesmen— Christman and Mixer. Time—25-minute periods. ---------------------------- Treasurer's Statement for H)ear 1007—1908 RECEIPTS. Balance on hand October 10, 1007......... $9.60 Contributions from teachers and pupils for payment of Radiator debts..... 258.78 F'or advertising space :— 190G-1907 ............................. 34.10 1007-1908 ............................ 357.00 Yearly subscriptions.................... 324.75 Subscriptions to June issue............. 107.75 Cash sales for monthly issues........... 130.10 Back copies sold to public library........ 2.50 $1,224.07 EXPENDITURES. Somerville journal Company, payment of debt .!.......................... $308.78 Dobinson Engraving Company, payment of debt................V............ 50.00 Dobinson Engraving Company, half- tones, cuts, etc.................... 64.00 Somerville Journal Company, printing of monthly issues..................... 602.93 Staff, postage, car-fares, etc.......... J7.47 Perry Pictures Company, half-tones.... 8.50 Printing subscription blanks............. 4.90 Jordan Photograph Company, picture of staff ................'.............. 4.00 Fletcher, photographer, picture of class editors.............................. 4.00 $1,124.04 Balance on hand October 10, 190S... 100,03 $1,224.07 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 75 f Continued from pagA G4.] Christmas time and its meaning. Ellen spoke ' hopefully of the day's promise of happiness, but the details of her home seemed to Marjorie most unfavorable, and in the sympathetic mood occa- sioned by her own homesickness, she determined to visit this household and, if possible, do some- thing to brighten their Christmas day. In pursuance of the promptings of her heart, she bade Ellen put on her shawl, and together they went through the hurricane winds which swept un- impeded across the arid plains. As they entered the dilapidated house, the wind whistled and moaned through the rough patching, and made the house seem even more desolate. Upon the table, supported by three legs and a box, Marjorie de- posited the basket generously filled from her own Christmas store, which they had carried between them; then, after a few cheering words to the pathetic figure of the father wrapped in blankets, they returned together. That evening, seated in the cheerfully-lighted living room. Lessing found his wife preoccupied, and said: I'm afraid my little wife is very lone- | some and homesick out here alone with me. No. dear. she replied thoughtfully. “I have 1 been with Ellen to see her father, and I feel now how very happy I should be this Christmas eve. ’ ODA OR BROWNlE For Christmas is Just the Thing Prices from $1.00 up PHOTO SUPPLIES and ALBUMS W. E. Plumer Co, 52 UNION SQUARE C H. SCHOFIELD Upholsterer, Cabinet Maker, and Finisher FURNITURE PACKED FOR SHIPMENT Catling. Carpet, Shade. 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SOMERVILLE TELEPHONE Telephone 02 Somerville BAY STATE OIL COMPANY Wholesale Dealers in Illuminating Oil, Motor Gasoline, Naphtha and Benzine Roland St., near Waverley St., Somerville Original Special Designs Furnished for Medals, Badges, Class Pins. etc. All rights reserved to manufacture these designs. JOHN HARRIOTT ♦♦♦♦ ' IJWTON,' MASS?’ Est. I860 No connection with Harriott Co. FletcKer's Studio 324 BROADWAY, WINTER HILL PHOTOGRAPHS Of All Kinds TELEPHONE - 186-2 FOR BEST RESULTS .. USE .. YOUNG SMALL APOTIIECAHIES Headquarters for Y. S. Cold Cream, Stationery, Etc. TEELE SQUARE 1852 1908 TUETS COLLEGE (Accepted by the Carnegie Foundation) FREDERICK W. HAMILTON, D.D., LL.D. PRESIDENT DEPARTflENTS: Tlie College of Letters (Degrees A. B. and B. S.) The Crane Theological School (Degrees A. B. and B. D.) The Engineering Department (Degree B. S.) The Bromfield-Pearson School, a technical school con- nected with the Engineering Department. The Medical School (Degree M. D.) 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Dieges and Clust IF WE MADE IT IT’S EIGHT Class Pins Fraternity Pins Medals, Cups MAKERS S. E. H. S. PINS Winter Street, Boston, 129 Tremont Street 82 ic 84 Washington St., 222 Clarendon St., Boston CONTENTS OF JANUARY RADIATOR Frontispiece ................ 78 Editorial Staff ................ 71) Editorials ................. 80 A Morning Ride on a London ’Bus, by Stella M. Shepard, L... ’0!) ...... 82 Just a Story, by Ernest G. Hall, E., '10 ........... 83 The Enchanted Sleep, by Alice W. Hammond, L.,’09 ......... 81 The Fur Coat, by Irving N. Fox, E., ’ll ........... 80 The Doctor’s Nell, by Marion Corliss, L., ’09 .......... 87 Chair Manufacturing, by Arthur B. Cragin, Jr., E., '10..................89 How Ted’s Wishes Came True, by Marguerite Stevens, L., TO...............90 Her Debut, by Hazel I. Thompson, E., TO.................................91 English Notes...........................................................92 Latin Notes.............................................................94 Exchanges ................. 97 Alumni Notes............................................................98 Suburban Coal Company WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ALL-RAIL COAL $ WOOD and HAY Wc deal extensively in all grades of COKE All Orders Delivered Promptly --------O-- H. A. CRAWFORD - - - Manager 29 DANE ST., SOMERVILLE, MASS. TELEPHONE 320 SOHERVILLE COMPLIMENTS OF 3obn fill. Moots COMPLIMENTS OF Jesse S. Newcomb J. A. Harsh Coal Company No. 38-40 Park Street Telephone 319 Somerville, Hass. WILLIAH S. HOWE DEALER IN Furnaces and Ranges FIRST-CLASS PLUMBING 51 Union Square, - - Somerville, Hass. For Your Library GUNN SECriONAL BOOK-CASE Noted for its Simplicity and Convenience J. C. MCLEAN 33 Union Square, Somerville, Mass. HON. JOHN M. WOODS Mayor of Somerville Vol. XVIII. Somerville, Massachusetts, January, 1909. No. 4 The Radiator i 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 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 English High School. In contributing, write on one side of the paper only and sign full name. Communications, according to their nature, should Im? addressed to the editor, business manager, or exchange editor. Manuscript must lw accompanied by necessary postage to insure its return. Terms, 75 Cents per Year Single Copies, 10 Cents SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT Editorial Staff associate Editor VIVIAN BEERS. L.. '09 EOitorsinsCbiet ERNEST W. CHAPIN, E„ '09 Business fcanafler HOWARD A. MacLEAN, L., ’09 firebattfle Editor LORENE A. WHITNEY. L.. ’09 assistant business flbanager STUART FOSTER. E.. ’10 Spotting Editor PERCY C. WHITMAN. E.. ’09 Second assistant Business fcanatjcr J. ELLIOT SLATER. L., ’09 alumni Editors L. ELIZABETH CH1CKERING, L., ’09 EDNA F. TEELE. E., 09 Statf artist M. ESTHER SHAPLEIGH. E.. ’10 Crcasurer GEORGE M. HOSMER (Faculty) Class Editors Xatin School ALLISON NEWTON. '09 HARRY H. GREENWOOD, ’10 MELVIN J. MESSER. Jr., '11 FRANCIS J. MAHONEY. 12 Enfllisb School LESTER C. GUST1N. ’09 ANDREW F. HANDLEY. ’10 ARTHUR LEIGHTON, ’ll OLIVER CHURCHILL. ’12 8o THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR EDITORIAL'S It seems hard to realize that half of the school year has been left behind. Rut for good or ill. we are now within five months of—what? The begin- ning of the summer vacation or the end of a year of mental growth and intellectual improvement? For the Seniors, especially, these months have much significance. They arc distinctly ours. No class has a like claim on ?09. They are ours to brighten or to tarnish, to fill with real High School life, or to frivol away in purposeless idleness. How short and fleeting it will all seem when at last we stand in the gateway and view our future, shrouded with the mist of uncertainty, which is yet tinted by the glow of promise, like a great awaking city over which the rising sun sends his first beams to drive away the shadows of night! Then shall we be overcome by a sense of our own unfitness, or shall we know that High School has put us four big strides nearer manhood? We shall come next June into a relentlessly clear light. v It is quite generally known that the Senior soiree will take place at Anthoinc hall February 23. The effort of the committee this year has been to make the affair as simple and yet enjoyable as possible. First, remember that the committee arc not the whole show. Without your hearty co- operation they are powerless. It is a matter of class pride for us to push this through with a vim. to make the ’0!) soiree the greatest event Anthoinc hall has ever witnessed. It has been decided that the proposition of com- ing in carriages is to be discouraged. Such a cus- tom is much too pretentious for our age, unless caused by inclement weather. Again, you need not feel embarrassed if you cannot appear in a dress suit. This question of dress should be de- cided by individual inclination and means. It is the duty, as well as the privilege, of every Senior to attend the soiree. The ideal way would be for each Senior to invite a friend not in the class.—a graduate, a member of a lower class, or from a different school. If you cannot dance, you can at least enjoy the music from the balcony. Let there be no question of financial success. And when the class of ’ )!) gathers for a good time, things ought to move at a right good pace. The sporting part of our little community are proud of the basket ball team,—and with good cause, too. The fellows are certainly putting up a pretty game. The play is clean and as scientific as the nature of the game admits. Mistakes occur —they do in every walk of life—but they are few and in most cases not serious. A team that can play several fast, hard games in rapid succession, rolling the score up into the twenties and thirties, and then win by one point, shows that this younger generation is not wholly a degeneration, after all. McCarthy is to be congratulated on his showing as referee.—or do they call it umpire? We have not consulted expert opinion on that point. His fairness and cool, accurate judgment are admir- able. We are forced to say again: “Where is the en- thusiastic crowd?” Those that do attend are THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 8 f enthusiastic enough, but it is a very desponding start for the players to see only a small gathering •of Somerville supporters to commend their good •work. Cheer up! It doesn’t cost anything to see a hockey game. Yes, we have a hockey team. Although so much warm weather has prevented them from attaining great skill in concerted action, yet a number of skaters reported and enough practice has been done to show that we may expect to make a good showing outdoors as well as in this winter. This sport has a claim on more than our school patriotism. It is a question of our physical health, as well. A brisk walk to the pond, the exercise required to keep warm while watching the fellows tear round after that little piece of rub- ber, and a brisk walk home will prove a consider- able factor in our bodily development. Why not take a little time occasionally from our all-impor- tant studies to try it? r � . The March issue, according to the Radiator custom, will be an alumni number. We hope the alumni will take a personal interest in this and help it along as much as is in their power. The advice and counsel of our older brothers and sisters would surely meet with favor—presented, for instance, in the form of a serious article on business or college life. The advantage of their wider experience and training, too, should make their work of greater merit. We hope to hear from a large number of graduates, if only a note for the regular alumni columns. Let every loyal alumnus feel it his privi- lege to contribute story, poem, essay—in short, anything of literary value, be it humor, tragedy, or simply an expression of opinion on matters of school interest. r . Xot only to the alumni, but to the undergradu- ates, teachers, and all interested in our schools, we would say that the Radiator earnestly wishes to be of the greatest possible use in its particular sphere of action. One phase of the school publica- tion which has not been considered here or, we be- lieve. in any secondary school, is its usefulness as a bulletin or monitor. 'I bis is somewhat the idea of the Spectator of Addison’s time, but not quite so broad in application. We cannot hope to emulate that paper in improving contemporary morals—we are glad if we merely set our readers thinking, if we throw a new light on matters of current inter- est. Hut we feel that the Radiator has a field open to it of considerable importance in offering every one an opportunity to present opinions and questions for public discussion. We extend this cordial invitation to all. If you have a thought which might be of value to the school or its par- tisans, or a criticism of some existing condition, for which you could suggest an improvement, or a question that might be answered by some of our readers, write it down in clear, simple style and give it to the editor-in-chief or to his associate for a new department, The Letter Box.” This scheme is at vour disposal. If there is a call for such a department, we will gladly create it and do everything to further its welfare. Your verdict will be not simply decision, but action. Turn failure into victory, Don't let your courage fade; And if you get a lemon, [ust make the lemon aid. —Ex. 82 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR H Aborning IRtbe on a Xonbon ’JSus 36$ Stella ID. SbeparD, X., ’OO S our first (lay in London dawned brightly, we started for a 'bus ride, that we might first get a general idea of the city. We were anxious for this first ride, since the ’buses looked so different from anything we had ever ridden in. A London ‘bus is similar in shape to an old-fashioned coach. Besides having seats inside, however, there are scats on top, which are reached by steps leading up from the platform. The entire outside of the 'bus is covered with ad- vertisements of every size, color, and description. Huge placards bearing the advice, Use Nestle' - Milk. Eat Heinz’ Baked Beans,” or See ‘Get- ting Married’ at the Oxford, are far more promi- nent than the sign telling the destination of the ’bus. 'fhe greater number of the ’buses are drawn by horses, although motors are gradually being substituted for them. The driver sits on top. and. as we discovered later, finds time to discuss the city, as well as to drive the horses, if he thinks his passenger is enough interested to leave a small coin in his ready palm. Seeing one of these funny-looking conveyances approaching, we signalled the driver, and were rather startled when he did not stop, but merely slowed down a very little. The conductor, with frantic gestures, implored us to get on while the ’bus was in motion. Though much surprised, we managed to climb aboard, with the aid of the oblig- ing conductor. We proceeded next, with fear and trembling, to mount the steps to the top, as we found the inside too warm. It was rather difficult at first, especially when the ’bus gave a lurch side- ways, but we got to the top finally. Once seated, we questioned our affable driver, who told us that it was very hard for the horses to start the ’bus again when it was brought to a full stop, so on that account passengers were accustomed to get on and off when the ’bus was in motion. By this time we were well down Oxford street, in one of the shopping districts. There were crowds of people on the sidewalks, and it was in- teresting to watch them. We were most surprised to see women, who were evidently shopping, wear- ing light gowns of fancy colors, with long trains, and light-colored slippers with decidedly French heels. We could not understand this, for we have always thought of English women as being models of sensibility, but alas! our ideals were shattered. Where were our tailored gowns, chic hats, and sensible walking shoes? Whenever we went shop- ping during our stay in London, we noticed this, for nearly all the women wore equally foolish cos- tumes. and the salesgirls quite despised us, who were dressed so simply. We learned afterward from a resident of London that the tradespeople wear the best they own on the street, and have nothing better for evening affairs. They hope in this way to gain equal notice with the nobility. We noticed now that we had reached a poorer quarter, and learned from our driver that we were in the slums. The streets were very narrow, and either side was lined with small booths and tables laden with everything from bedsteads to carpet tacks. Nothing was missing, Even parlor orna- ments appeared on some stands. The buyers, mostly women, were walking up and down among the salesmen. Most of them had not bothered to remove their aprons, and a great many wore furs. We were dressed in thin waists and were without coats, so we knew they were not worn for warmth. After some puzzling, we concluded that it was purely a matter of pride with them. What did it matter that the furs were at least ten years behind the fashion and that the month was July! We rode on and on until we were told we must change ’buses. While standing on a corner wait- ing for our 'bus. the pedler nearest us started to shout Fresh vegetables!” at us. He stopped suddenly, however, so suddenly that we looked to see what had happened to him. We turned just in time to see his wife clutching him by the arm, and saying in a stage whisper: “Them’s ’Mcricans. Don’t you know better’ll to yell at ’em like that?” We were so amused that we stepped up and spoke to her. We found her really a bright-appearing woman, and enjoyed a few moments’ conversation with her. Her husband, though grieved at his breach of etiquette, soon recovered at the sight of a few pennies. Our ’bus came rattling along, and we climbed in. Our ride was uneventful until we reached West- minster. We decided to leave the Abbey for another day, and as “Big Ben” pointed to the hour of twelve, we continued on our way to “Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese.” Here we left the ’bus, and spent a delightful hour in the old tavern frequented so often bv Dr. Johnson and Charles Dickens. TIIE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 83 3atst H Storv ®v Ernest G. Dali, E , '10 OT a great while ago I was conversing with a young man of my acquaint- ance. as we stood on the corner of two busy thoroughfares, and there were passing by numerous autos, of many styles and colors. My friend turned to me with a queer smile, and asked, in his droll way: Would you believe that at one time T owned and operated my private automobile?’’ You are jesting.” “No, indeed!” Then kindly inform me the how and when.” And as we walked along, I pressed him for the story, which proved to be both amusing and in- genuous. T want you to first understand,” he said. I was just that age when all boys arc interested in any contrivance upon which they can ride in imitation of the grocery man or jockey, or, as it was in my case, in imitation of the chauffeur. I had out- grown my first tricycle, and was on the lookout for a more complicated pleasure vehicle. “It was then that I was allowed the use of the only hammer and saw in the house, and 1 had at my disposal an assortment of nails ranging from brads to three-inch spikes. With these trusty, time-honored tools I would build a machine (if it may be called such) that would simply paralyze the fellows with envy. I made an inventory of the material at hand, and found a pair of small express cart wheels, a pair of larger wheels (on a baby car- riage, originally), two long wooden strips from the grape vine trellis, and three boxes of different sizes. The small wheels were placed forward, and the wooden strips were used as a floor. The body was mounted high enough so that the axle of the front wheels revolved beneath it. The three boxes formed hood, seat, and tonneau, respectively. “Then for the finishing touch red and green paints were forthcoming. I had been told that these paints were to be used on the piazza chairs, but when I thought of the honor of adorning my wonderful wonder, I used it. '1 he wheels were red. and the rest green. Don't you think that made a most charming combination? lie remarked with a wry expression. And if the thing looked at all like my mental picture of it. I do not wonder at his expression. I was very proud of this, the work of my own hands. I assumed a high and mighty countenance, and transformed mv walk into a strut. Oh, yes! I was proud, very proud. There is an old adage which makes some connection between ‘pride and a fall. is there not? Well, keep that in mind and prepare for the worst. I took the machine outside and stood it before the public gaze, and a few min- utes later every boy I knew was around me. “Astonishment, curiosity, and envy were ex- pressed in their faces, as I remember them now, each wishing to be the chosen and honored guest to occupy the one rear scat. It was settled that Guy should ride first. In lie climbed, and I, grasp- ing the steering wheel, assumed a stern and busi- ness-like expression, as we started along the high- way towards a rather steep hill. Our motor power was furnished by our friends, who very kindly shoved us along. Proud? As proud and happy as any two millionaires in their expensive car. We reached the top of the hill at last, thanks to our friends, and having turned the car about, we, with a joyous laugh, started on the descent. “The hill was a long and steep one. the road new, firm, and well rounded: so before many seconds, we were tearing along at terrific speed. So great was the speed that when I saw a small stone pro- truding from the road, I dared not turn out for it. The right forward wheel struck it firmly. Oh! Why did I not know beforehand that clothesline was not to be relied on. especially when it had seen years of service. The rope snapped, and the steering wheel was useless, and we fast approach- ing the speed of an express train. The car swerved into the gutter and out again, across the road: each time it swerved the curve was sharper, and the fourth time we slued, made the turn, and— it was all over. Spectators said afterwards that Guy arose majestically from his seat and soared into space, only to alight at a very sharp angle upon terra firma like a ton of brick. As for me, I remember very plainlv taking three somersaults and a slide on my back of about four yards, a trick I had never before been able to accomplish. I arose.—slowly, very slowly, indeed, not much hurt, but perhaps a little bewildered. I looked toward my ‘wonder.’ There it lay, emblem of my shattered hopes, and I 84 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR marvel now that it was not emblem of my shat- tered bones, as well. Guy arose, sobbing loudly, and I doubt if he was thinking of shattered hopes or cars, or anything else, but home and mother. “The debris, for that was all which was left, was taken back to the house and placed beside the fur- nace, into which it gradually and finally went. Yes, oh, yes, I owned a car once ’ And then he joined me in a hearty laugh at his own expense. tCbe Encbanteb Sleep Hlice TO. Ibammont), ’09 OME, come, my men, it is time to be up and stirring.” Thus spoke the leader of a band of strange-looking men. They were evidently sailors, for near by their odd-looking ship, a regular Roman trireme, was drawn up on the shore. As the men began to arise, their leader continued speaking. “The sun is already high in the heavens, and there are no signs of that terrible storm which drove us on to this island last night. By the way, do you recall the words of that beautiful young lady whom we met here last night? She told us if we drank of that water we would sleep 2,000 years. Well, as sure as I am a Roman citizen, 1 haven't slept 2,000 years. Every- thing looks the same.” His companions all agreed that, with the exception of a slight stiffness in their limbs, they felt as young as ever. As if to prove the truth of the words, they busied them- selves about the ship. Soon the ship was in the water, the rowers in their places, and off they started. They had not gone far, however, when a line of smoke appeared on the horizon. When one of the sailors called the attention of the captain to it. he said: “That is rather strange. Usually we see land before we see smoke. Perchance it may be land, so we will steer for it.” As they watched the smoke, they could see a large, dark object appearing above the horizon. A ship on fire!” shouted the captain. “To the rescue! Bend to your oars, my men. As they neared the dark shape, they could see that it was not a ship on fire. The smoke came from one place only, and did not spread. “What kind of phenomenon is it? they asked one another. “We must investigate.” It seemed to be coming swiftly towards them, and was assuming an alarm- ing size and appearance. “Alas! alas!” cried the captain, “what cruel fate pursues us? Some ter- rible sea monster is coming to destroy us. See the black eyes in its sides and the smoke coming from its mouth!” Then the ship, for it was nothing but a modern battleship, fired a salute. The Romans were nearly paralyzed with fear. With shrieks and groans, they crowded around their captain. 1 Ie was the first to recover, and ordered them back to their places. Let us escape from this mon- ster !” he cried. To the oars! to the oars!” The battleship evidently had business of its own, so, as it steamed away in one direction, the half-crazed rowers drove their ship in the opposite direction. All day they rowed, and towards night came in sight of land. Although they hastened towards it, night overtook them, and they landed by moon- light on an unknown and apparently deserted shore. As they were exploring their landing place, one of them, uttering an exclamation, called iiis comrades to him. What curiosity was that? Narrow bands of iron planted in the earth and stretched as far as they could see in the moonlight. I never heard our legion tell about finding such things as these in Britain. What can their use be? said the captain. As he finished speaking, a shrill, distant whistle made them all jump. It grew louder and louder, and finally a dim light appeared in the direction of the sound. That, too. came nearer and nearer, and with a rush another terrible monster, belching forth fire and smoke, fled bv them. It rushed on. regardless of the frightened crew. Such a relief as it went out of sight! They hastened from the place and gathered by the road- side in an excited group. If the gods did not mean to destroy them, why were they sending such terri- ble monsters? At any rate,” said the captain, let us thank the gods for our deliverance, and pray that they send no more.” Hardly had lie finished speaking, when they heard another strange noise in the distance. This was a long-drawn-out bellow, and soon another monster rushed along the road. Alas! alas! it THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR «5 was checking its speed. Shrieking and yelling, the Romans flew in every direction. Rut they were not the only ones astounded. A young man, wondering what the disturbance was, stepped out of his automobile. The searchlights on the car had revealed some queer-looking persons, and, as he did not lack courage and had a certain degree of curiosity, he started to search the bushes. Fi- nally lie flashed his pocket light on the startled countenance of the Roman captain. In his ancient dress he presented such a ludicrous ap- pearance that the first thing the young man did was to laugh heartily. This seemed to reassure the ancient Roman, and he looked less frightened. Then, strange as it may seem, when the young man addressed the captain in English, he understood him and replied in English. He was still uncon- sciously under the spell of the enchanted water. So when the young man asked him who he was, he was able to answer: “A Roman citizen and a captain of a ship in the service of Caesar. ’ Another hearty laugh, and the young man said: ‘Ouit your jollying, and tell me why you are dressed in this fashion and where you arc going.” Then when he answered in the same way, with a perfectly grave and truthful manner, it was the young man’s turn to be amazed. His amazement grew when he heard the Roman's adventures, and lie asked to see the crew and the ship. When they Teached the ship, they found the frightened crew assembled and mourning for their lost leader. The appearance of the stranger startled them, but, assured by the captain that he was friendly, they Regan to ply him with questions. lie finally put his hands over his ears and begged them to stop. Then he suggested that the pilot and the captain go with him to his home in the city. There he would show them the modern inventions, and they, in turn, could tell the crew about it. All seemed satisfied with the arrangement, and after the young man had persuaded the Romans that the auto- mobile was a harmless, convenient mode of con- vevancc. they started off. After a ride of about an hour, they came into the city. Here the hustle and bustle, the electric lights, cars. etc., terrified the old Romans, so the young man. driving his machine as swiftly as pos- sible. soon reached his home. They were given little time to wonder at the furnishings of the house before tlicv were called to dinner. They evidently believed in the saying: “When you arc in Rome, do as the Romans do.” for they tried to cat with their forks as their host did. After many awkward attempts, the young man told them to use their fingers, and they gladly did so. As they had all had a strenuous day. their host thought bed the best place for all. While passing through the hall, they saw the young man’s sister at the telephone, and wanted to know what she was doing. When they were told that she was talking with a friend twenty miles away, their amazement knew no bounds. The captain took up the re- ceiver and listened. He was evidently charmed with the novelty of talking with a person twenty miles away, and it was with difficulty that they got him away to bed. The next morning before breakfast their host played the phonograph for them. This seemed to them the greatest wonder of all. They looked into it. around it. and were sure there must be some kind of dwarf inside. After breakfast the young man took them in his automobile to sec the city. They wanted to know what the people were rushing for. When told that they were going to their work, they wanted to know when they visited the baths. ’()h! you mean the public baths? We don't have them now. Too busy to waste time that way.” “Waste time?” said the captain, “and too busy? Why. there we learned the news of the day!” We have newspapers and magazines for that purpose now,” said his host. Yes, I noticed the books and papers at your home, and should think so many would bewilder you. And no time for anything but business, l ake me back to ancient Rome.” said the captain. Your modern inventions are wonderful, but in- stead of saving time you seem to be busier. I should be crazy if I remained here long.” Then the young man, seeing that his visitors (for the pilot shared the captain’s sentiments) were be- coming uneasy, asked them if they wished to go back to their ship. They replied in the affirmative, and he took them back in the automobile. The sailors welcomed them with delight. They, too. had seen enough of this modern land of mon- sters. Ihit. said the young man. “there is no an- cient Rome now. It has fallen in ruins. “Young man. Rome has been called the Eternal City, and 1 still believe it is standing. You have been very kind to us. but we go to seek another land. Farewell.” With that they again prepared the ship for sailing, and were soon on their way. During the night a heavy storm arose. The old 86 TIIE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR Roman ship was again tossed on to the shore of As soon as they had eaten the food and drank the the enchanted isle. A beautiful young maiden met water, a deep sleep came upon them—another them, and this time offered them food and drink, sleep of 2,000 years. XLhc jfuv Coat Bp flrptno 1R. jfor, IE., ’ll T was a few minutes after noon of ?. cold, stormy, January day, when Miss Clara Bennett came hurrying through the great railroad station in Boston. Trotting along beside her was her small niece. In the station all was bustle and confusion. Bells clanged here and there, while two or three locomotives were letting off steam with a deafening roar. People were hurrying back and forth, seemingly doing their ut- most to get in each other’s way. Great baggage trucks piled high with trunks were being rolled swiftly through the station. One old and portly gentleman, laden with two heavy suitcases, made a ludicrous attempt to run for his train, arriving just in time to have the gate shut in his face. lie immediately dropped his suitcases and proceeded to tell the gateman what he thought of him. This worthy being was used to that, however, and he walked calmly away, his temper not a bit ruffled. Miss Bennett, however, noticed but few of these incidents as she walked along scanning the head- boards. At last she found the train she was going to take, the Continental Limited for the West. She got on the last car, and seated herself with her little niece in the middle of the car. There were but few people traveling that day, and when the train pulled out there were not over a dozen in the car. The car within was warm, but outside the scenery was dreary and cold. It had been snowing for the past twenty-four hours, and by this time a northeast blizzard was raging. The wind moaned and shrieked, while the snowflakes beat a soft tattoo on the heavy window panes. Although the train was a fast one and made but few stops, it constantly lost time, and when it crossed the Con- necticut river and reached Greenfield, instead of its being four o’clock, it was six. and pitch dark. At that station two heavy moguls were hitched on to pull the train over the steep grades of the Berk- shires. At about seven o’clock, as her niece had fallen asleep in her large fur coat, Miss Bennett went for- ward into one of the other cars to see a friend there. Meanwhile the snowdrifts were getting deeper and deeper, the wind howled more dismally, and the train ran slower and slower, as if it could hardly drag itself along. Finally the train crew decided that if they were to get anywhere they would have to drop the rear car on a little-used side track some distance ahead. A brakeman hurried through the last car, yelling out in his unintelligible voice: All passengers change to forward cars!” The few passengers picked up their belongings and passed out of the car, never noticing the fur coat in which the child was sleeping. The brakeman took off the red lights at the end of the train and went back, also, without noticing the child. He pulled the con- necting pin. and the train went on without the last car. In about ten minutes Miss Bennett came back, and. much to her surprise and alarm, found the former last car missing. On questioning the occu- pants of that car, she found no one who had seen anything of the child. On hearing this, she gave a little cry of alarm, and then became silent, trying to think how to save the child. Almost instantly she made up her mind that she must get off at the first station to get aid. Call the conductor,” she said. He was sum- moned and was told of the case. Well, I could let you off at Zoar.” he replied, but I doubt whether you can get any assistance there. The station is two miles from the town, and unless there is a team or some one there. I am afraid that you can do nothing. It is your only chance, though, as the next station is ten miles beyond.” When the train reached Zoar Miss Bennett got off and entered the little station. There were only two persons in it. the station agent and John Forsyth. Forsyth had been sitting moodily in the fill THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR «7 little station waiting for the Boston train, which was stuck in a snowdrift somewhere in the moun- tains. The prospect of spending the night in the dismal, badly-lighted station, which shook and rat- tled with every gust of wind, was not very pleasant to him. But there was no help for it. for there was no way of reaching the town in that storm except by walking, a hazardous undertaking. It can he imagined that when lie heard the express stop and saw some one getting off, he welcomed the diver- sion. As the train started with many puffs. Miss Ben- nett walked up to the agent’s window, and com- menced talking with him very earnestly. Forsyth could not hear the conversation at first, but as they began to talk louder, he made out that a child had been left alone in a car three or four miles back down the tracks, and was in danger of either starv- ing or freezing to death. Miss Bennett frantically beseeehed the station agent to make the attempt to save the child. He was obdurate, however, saying he could not leave his post of duty. At this Forsyth stepped up and asked if he could be of any assistance. Miss Bennett turned to him gratefully and explained the situation. Forsyth at once offered to try and save the child. Buttoning up his coat, he stepped out into the bitter cold night. He had a fairly easy time of it going, for the wind was on his back, and the re- cently-passed train had made a path for him. On account of the darkness and storm, he could not see his hand in front of him. When he reached the car. he discovered it by running against k. But his troubles had only begun. When he tried to get into the car, he found all the doors locked, so lie broke the window in the door and crawled through, cutting and scratching himself not a little. He had no trouble finding the little girl, who was crying softly, very much frightened. Picking her up, lie carried her to the window and dropped her into the deep snow outside, and then climbed out of the window himself. Then began the fight for life that Forsyth will never forget. As he tramped back along the rail- road carrying the dead weight of the child, the wind, striking him full in the face, nearly took his breath away. The small, whirling flakes of snow cut his face. The drifts got deeper and deeper, until at times he floundered almost helplessly. Then his arms and shoulders began to ache from the weight of the child. With every step he took the muscles of his legs twinged terribly, and he soon became aware that the intense cold was numbing him. He began to have doubts of ever reaching the station. Finally his senses seemed to leave him, and he staggered on, on, on. fighting against the cruel, merciless storm. How he ever reached the station he never knew. When he came to. he was on a bench, with the station agent and Clara Bennett bending over him. Then the station agent went off and left them together, smil- ing to himself, as if to say: There's another case of love at first sight.” Cbc Doctor’s “IWell” Be Ration Corliss, 00 was a dark, stormy night in early spring. Outdoors the rain poured down in sheets, and the wind howled fiercely around the houses. The last car to M-------had just gone by, and the clock on the mantel struck eleven as the young doctor rose from his desk and turned off the light. Eleven o'clock! Well, another hard day’s work was over, and a good night’s rest would prepare him for the morrow. Yes, he cer- tainly was tired! But hark! the telephone was ringing. Wcarv. he took down the receiver and answered the call. As he listened, his body became more alert, the tired look left his face, and his eyes gleamed with the light of battle. Here was his first hurry call to real danger, here his first case of life and death. A serious accident had occurred on the railroad. One of the brakemen on the night freight had been run over and severely in- jured as he was coupling two cars. One arm was almost gone, and the flow of blood must be stanched soon in order to save the man’s life. Could the doctor come immediately? With trembling fingers he hung up the receiver. 11c seized his bag. which stood by the desk. Step- 88 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR ping hurriedly around the room, now to the medi- cine chest, now to the instrument cases, and again to the drawers full of cotton and bandages, he took from each what he needed, and put them into his bag. He snatched his coat and hat from the rack as lie went by, and ran out through the shed into the barn. A lantern hung on a peg just inside the door, and this he lighted. ‘'Nell, he said softly, “Nell, be quick, my girl, we must hurry! In an- swer to his call the old horse stuck her head up over the side of her stall, and looked knowingly at him. Then she backed out. and coming up to him, rubbed her velvety nose against his shoulder. Quickly lie harnessed her into the old buggy, quickly lie led her out of the barn and closed the door, and an instant later he was in the carriage and they were off. Nell had been a racer in her prime, and now, al- though she had been abandoned by the race track and was leading an easier life with the village doc- tor, nevertheless there was good stuff in her still. And the doctor knew it. “Go! Nell, go! ' lie cried. “You must do your utmost, we must get there in time!’ Nell pricked up her ears, her pace quick- ened. and soon they were leaving the village behind them. It was five miles by the road to the junction, where the railroad passed through the town. The way was steep and rocky. Gullied out by the storm, and softened by the rain till the mud was over a foot deep in some places, it was almost im- possible to go with much speed on such a road. But Nell was used to the mud and rain, and Nell knew the road as well as the doctor knew it. On they sped through the beating storm. The doctor buttoned his coat more closely around his throat, and drew the robe tighter about his legs. The buggy swayed and rocked as it jolted over the Stones, and the mud Hew in great balls from the horse’s heels. The time seemed interminable to the young doc- tor. At length he peered out into the darkness,, but could not see where they were. He knew,, however, that they must reach the junction soon. Nell was doing nobly ! Every muscle stood out on her smooth body, her nerves were high-strung with the excitement of the moment! She was back on the race track once more, but it was no human rival with whom she was matching her strength now! It was Death, cold, grim, relentless Death! Could she win? Through the mist and the rain a light twinkled, and then another, and another. A long-drawn sigh escaped from the doctor’s lips. They had reached the junction at last! The lights grew more numerous. People were hurrying to and fro. As he pulled up before the wounded man’s house, he was aware that shouts were rising from all sides, and lie heard a cry of: “Thank God! the doctor has come! He was almost pulled down from the carriage and led forcibly to the room where the man lay, wounded and almost dying. Willing hands helped him to take out his appli- ances. to cut the clothing from the sufferer’s body, and to bind the limbs with bands of cotton. But what of the old horse? Where now was old Nell? As her master entered the house, kind hands led her around to the barn, and unfastened the harness from her heaving sides, and drew out the thills. They would lead her into the barn, and rub her down, and put a warm blanket over her. But as she stepped out of the harness, and was about to enter the door, she stumbled, a quick, con- vulsive throb ran through her body, and she reeled unsteadily, 'flic men tried to hold her up, but in vain. She fell among them as they endeavored to help her on. and with a gentle neigh for her absent master, she died upon the threshold. A life was saved, and a life was lost! But old Nell had won her last race as nobly as ever she had upon the race track ! iflesolutions Whereas, by the divine will of God, our class- mate, Bertha Nason, has been bereaved of her be- loved father; be it Resolved, that we. the class of 1900, tender to her our heartfelt sympathy. Edward A. Donahue. President. Eleanor Dunning, Secretary. Whereas, by the divine will of God, our class- mate. Mildred L. Hatch, has been bereaved of her beloved sister; be it Resolved, that we, the class of 1900 of the Eng- lish High School, tender her our most heartfelt sympathy. Edward A. Donahue, President. Eleanor Dunning. Secretary. TIIK SOMERVILLE RADIATOR S9 Chair Manufacturing Bp Httbur B. Cvaotn, 3r, TO XTY miles from Boston is the largest chair-manufacturing town in the world. There are about fifteen fac- tories, which employ between 1,500 and 2,000 people. Men come from many near-by towns to work in these factories. The factories run ten hours a day the year around, with the exception of four or five weeks about Christmas time, when they run thir- teen hours. Carload after carload of raw material comes into the town, and is quickly finished and shipped to some place in our own country or to a foreign land. Thousands of feet of lumber come in on flat cars from the West, the South, and the North, which is measured—some out of doors— sawed, and put in the dry-house. The raw mate- rial is sawed into pieces of the sizes needed for the making of the rounds, back-posts, legs, spindles, and the waste is made into the seats: that is. the pieces that are large enough. The smaller pieces of wood are dumped as waste and sold for $1.50 a load. Some of this waste is used in the morning in the fire-room, as it burns quickly, and gets up the steam in a short time. A man is continually kept busy hauling these loads to the customers, some of the factories having two men doing such work. The wood turning is not done by hand, but by a machine, which is run by a man who has nothing to do but feed it. The seats of chairs, in- stead of being made by hand, are now made by a machine that turns out 10,000 a day. Great cost of labor is saved by this machine: it used to take three men to make 2.000 a day, now in two days this machine will make nearly enough for all the chairs made in two weeks. These seats, instead of a glue joint, which will easily break when set in damp weather, have a dove-tailed joint, which it is almost impossible to break, and which will not warp as the glue joint. The bow of the chair, if a fancy one. is supposed to be hand-carved, but on the ordinary chair it is burnt in on a machine by a round, heavy, heated plate. This work is called embossing. The bend of the posts of the chairs is not natural, as they are steamed and put on a frame to be bent, then returned to a room and dried over night. Many of the costly chairs that we think have a natural and beautiful grain are greatly fixed up; in some cases it is the wide grain on the bow of a rocking chair which, if seen when it came into the factory in the white, would be worth but very little. These are burnt, and the small grain wid- ened on the bow. which, when finished and pol- ished. looks beautiful. To-day many of the West- ern parlor furniture companies arc making chairs of paper, with only the little wood used for a frame. These chairs of twisted paper are claimed by the makers to be as durable and cheaper than wood. The finishing of cheap chairs is done quickly; cheap stain, varnish, and laborers are used on these. In many factories the stain is in tanks and the chairs dipped; also, they arc dipped in the var- nish. In good work the stain is put on by brush, and likewise the varnish, thus keeping the chair from runs. Many other things can be explained by one who has ever visited a chair factory. It is possible t gain permission to visit almost any fac- tory by asking at the office. IResolutions of the Class of 1904, S. %. S. Whereas, we learn with grief of the death of our classmate. Frank (). Vose; Resolved, that his class express now its appre- ciation of his worth and its regret at this early loss. Resolved, that the class extend to his family its sympathy in their bereavement. Resolved, that these resolutions be placed on file, and that a copy be sent to the family of the de- ceased. Percy A. Harrison. President. Hilda B. Johnson, Secretary. Cbeta Bclta The Theta Delta Club has been formed from the classes of '01) and '11 in the Latin and English Schools. Officers: President. Edith M. Northrop, English. '09: secretary. Elizabeth Barnabv, Latin. '11: and treasurer, Laurette Shaw. Latin. '00. Other members: Helen Swain, English. '00: Mabel Steven. Latin. '09: and Frances Abbott, Latin. T1. Those of the classes of ’09 or ’ll wish- ing to join may leave their names with the secre- tary. 90 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR IBovv tEeb’s Mtsbes Came Crue Be ZlDarouerite Stevens, %., ’ 0 was circus week in Glendon. This was very apparent, for every fence and every barn was gay with the cir- cus posters, that is, every barn but Ted’s. Ted’s father had no use for “such nonsense,” and refused to allow the advance agent for ‘‘Barney’s Greatest Show on Earth,” to put up any gaudy bill-boards on his land. To Ted. the world seemed a pretty hard place for little chaps. He was the most wretched boy in the town those days. Not only had his father forbidden him to go to the circus, but had also ex- pressed a determination to let the constable take “Freckles” to save paying his license. The former was a great disappointment to him, but the latter broke his heart. “Freckles” was Ted's inseparable companion, a homely, yellow cur, similar to hun- dreds of mongrel pups in evidence anywhere. To his master, however, he was beautiful. Knowing that his troubles were many, the little dog pleaded for a run up the road, undoubt- edly hoping to cheer his usually lively comrade. Accordingly, they started down the lane to the highway. Ted was rapidly becoming very cross as he thought things over. He kicked viciously at a stone which happened to be in his way. The sharp-edged stone cut his foot, making him jump quickly, and then he sat down to soothe the injured toe, for he was barefoot, as were all the boys in Glendon in the glorious spring weather. Looking around for the stone, he saw a four-leaved clover right beside his hand. He picked it joyfully, and immediately began to wonder what his wish should 1)e. lie desired to go to the circus, oh. so much, but he couldn’t bear to part with “Freckles,” so he wished for both, and went home in a more joyful frame of mind. The big tents were erected in a large, level field not far from Ted’s house. That night lie could not sleep for thinking of the many wonders so near and vet so far from him. It was after mid- night when he stole to the window and looked at the canvas shining white in the moonlight. The temptation was too great. Putting on his clothes, and softly calling: “Freckles,” Ted ran across the fields toward the tents. Silence prevailed, broken at intervals by the trumpeting of restless elephants and chattering of the monkeys. As they drew near, “Freckles” began to sniff, and gave a sharp, excited bark. Then he ran quickly to the furthest tent, yelping strangely. Ted hurried after, and saw to his consternation a tiny tongue of flame licking greedily at the flap of the performers’ tent. He gave the alarm, crying: Fire! Fire! Fire!” and in a moment the circus hands, thoroughly aroused to their danger, checked the blaze and saved the circus. The Hon. Barney himself came and questioned Ted. When lie heard the story and saw the long- ing in his eyes, he told him to come over in the morning and sec the animals and the people as they really were. And most wonderful of all to Ted was the pass, which was to admit him any time through the week, as often as he could use it. Then Mr. Barney asked how he should show his appreciation to “Freckles.” Ted eagerly told him of the unpaid license, and was assured that it would be paid that very day. It was still early morning, and Ted hastened home to dream of the glories so soon to be his. After the day began in earnest, he was the hero of the village. Even his father had no objection to his leaving the chores for him to do and going over to sec his new friends. They welcomed him gladly, and before the week was up he had won a firm place in the hearts of “Barney’s Greatest.” When they left they gave him a $5 bill as a re- membrance. For many a long day Ted did not tire of telling how he saved the circus. But never for a moment has he forgotten to give the credit to the four-leaved clover, which certainly made his wishes come true. THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 9' IBer IDebut JSs iba el n. Thompson, n ., ’l0 T was one of those beautiful balmy clays in early spring, and all the world seemed full of new life. Amid all this rejoicing there was sorrow in the little farmhouse on the hill, for there on a bed drawn up near the window lay an old. white-haired man. His thin, emaciated hands were folded peacefully upon the snowy coverlet. The great, blue veins stood out promi- nently against the deathly whiteness of his brow. His breath came with difficulty, and it was now evident to the young girl seated at his bedside that her only living relative, her beloved grandfather, was dying. As the girl sat watching the dying man, she was struggling vainly to prepare herself for the fast- approaching separation. W hen she bent over him to smooth back the damp, white curls from his forehead, he opened his eyes and extended a thin, trembling hand toward her. Taking his hand in her own. she leaned forward and tenderly kissed the pale lips, murmuring as she did so: Grand- father. grandfather, oh, don’t leave me alone !” Daughter, dear,” he whispered, ‘‘you have been my good, faithful child. How can I leave you?’’ There his voice faltered, and he closed his eyes wearily. Then, as if by a sudden inspiration, he opened them and gazed lovingly, yet painfully, at the girl now kneeling at his side. Darling,’’ he began once more, when the time comes to which we have looked forward so long,—when that time comes, think of your grandfather, and remember that you have his blessing.” W ith that, he closed his eyes and sank into a deep slumber. Late that night, when all the world was at peace. Henry Spencer left his grand- daughter alone in the world. Helen Spencer had lived with her grandfather from infancy. From early childhood she had been wonderfully gifted with a beautiful voice, and the dearest hope of her life had been to win fame with this gift. Some time before the death of her grandfather, a wealthy professor had offered a musical education abroad for the finest display of vocal talent. Helen, urged by her grandfather, and eager to have her cherished desire realized, had decided to compete. The days which followed the old man’s death were days of bitter sorrow for Helen. Every now and then that dreadful sense of loneliness would come upon her. Over and over again she told herself that she must regain her strength and lay aside her sorrow for the sake of the test before her. Grandfather wants me to do my best,” she said repeatedly to herself. In this way the days rolled on into weeks, and the weeks into months, until at last the eventful evening arrived. The hall, which was beautifully decorated for the occasion, was crowded with en- thusiastic relatives and friends of the participants. The exercises of the evening were carried out in a splendid fashion, and some very remarkable talent was displayed. Helen Spencer's name ap- peared last on the programme. She ascended the platform, and her heart beat fast as she turned toward the sea of eager faces. She began sweetly, but tremulously, the words of a very difficult selec- tion. and in her nervousness almost faltered. As she stood there, the remembrance of her grand- father dawned upon her. and her heart almost stopped beating, for there in the midst of that vast number of people, his pale, sweet face arose before her. She could see the eagerness in the expres- sion. In her excitement her voice wavered, and then, remembering how she used to sing to him. Helen involuntarily broke into the beautiful strains of an old. familiar melody. The whole house seemed filled with the harmony, and those in the- audience were speechless. Xow and then a sob was heard, and as she ended, loud and long was the applause. Wonderful!” Superb!” were the words which passed from lip to lip. but Helen saw nothing but that pale, sweet face which had spurred her on to success. She scarcely knew how she reached her seat, where she was enthusiastically received by her friends. There was no longer any doubt in the minds of those present who the winner of the coveted prize was. The professor was completely amazed at the young girl’s wonderful ability to sing. As he an- nounced to the audience that Helen Spencer had unanimously won the prize, he invited her i be [Continued on page 96.] 92 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR ’09 Lester Gustin, Class Editor. Seniors, remember the annual dance. Let every one turn out and do his best towards making it one of the largest and most successful affairs that the school lias ever held. THE ’09 SIDE SHOW, decides—the living skeleton. Miss Grainger—the charmer. Parker and Hilliard—the charmed. Hartshorn—the ossified man. Gordon—the wild man of Borneo. Jones and Miner—the Siamese twins. Littlefield—the tattooed man. Pease—the reciprocal of Geddes. Oh. Mildred, please let us put in that note about you! The centre of gravity makes the focus ()f a concave mirror equal the locus Of the parallel rays from the electrophorus. When Miner begins to work. Here’s another from one of our budding poets:— A young fellow of Tomahawk Bluff Carried pistols to make him look tough. When they asked: “Do you chew?” lie replied: Yes. I do. I'm a wegular wetch of a wough.” Cheetham says he wishes for a wish. Recently W. Jo—es was heard asking a pretty young Freshman: “What is better than an idea?” Why. you. dear, of course. Walter. Come on. Seniors, get busy and give Ernest some stories. Never mind if you haven’t written any before: you will never know what you can do until you try. Who knows but what our class may hold a Shakespeare or a Webster? ODE TO THE DRESS SHIRT. (To be sung at the Senior soiree.) The steel breast-plate, the coat of mail Are nought compared with thee; Thy stiff, starched whiteness would resist All squadrons of the sea! Surrounded by vour frame of black, Alone in might you stand. The worst of agony for men Throughout this mighty land. Wireless calls of some of the Seniors:— Hartshorn—T. Y., ten years too young. Jones—B.. beautiful boy. Cheetham—B. S.. Bay State Wireless Company (Gosh). Atwater—R. A., real article. Chapin—W. X.. walking novelty. Gustin—G. S.. well—never mind. A joke at last:— “Why is German opaque?” Flint: Because you can’t see through it.” You can tell of awful earthquakes, ()r predict a foreign war. Speak about financial troubles, Or about the trusts and law. How in stirring state elections They arc buying up the votes, But the only thing that worries us Is notes, notes, notes! THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 93 '10 Andrew F. Handley, Class Editor. Some New Year resolutions:— Rosborough—to study bookkeeping. Knight—to keep away from red ink. Musgrave—to learn chemistry. Sullivan—to recite in history (once in a while). Henderson—to study elocution. McCon—11 received A in deportment. Three years of trying (??) was necessary before acquiring this standard. Heard in III. German (3):— Ahern: “The children ran to the floor.” Some recent publications:— “The Value of Small Packages,” by E. E. Adams. “The Reign of Henry VIII.,” by Miss Don—v—n. McConnell is going to change his study periods into sleeping hours. WANT ADS. Wanted ! A personal treasurer. Esculators on High School hill. An adding machine wanted. An audience for my chemistry lectures. A neat young man wants position as waiter. A stenographer wants good position. Recruits for next year's orchestra. Wanted! A two-horse wagon for books. Arnold is supposed to have written an essay on “Soft Lights and Green Music.” Do you find any fat in oranges? Forever—r—r. Never—r—r. This was heard in Elocution E. Ever see any frozen ink, Division E? The part between the beginning and the end is very hard to understand.” McCo-----1 wishes to die as the D. of Clarence died. Hod—on wishes to know if Henry VIII. drank Tudor tea. One afternoon shortly before Knight fell, a rob- ber lay in wait behind a Bowl(d)er for his prey, llis Maxim had always been: “Delays are danger- ous. so upon seeing a Mason approach, he imme- diately pounced upon the hard-working Mason, clothed in White. The Mason, however, proved very good match for the Savage highwayman, and rapped him on the head with a Pike, and made his escape, crying: I Winn!” You should learn the song by McCarthy, en- titled: Love Virtue and the World Is Yours.” Quimbv said to leave three and a half words out, and the sentence would have unity. A girl in Division E, upon rising to recite in elo- cution. cried: “Would you?” Heard in chemistry: A precipitate is an almost substance. ’ll Arthur Leighton, Class Editor. Miss Bow—n, translating Jeter a la portc,” says: Throw me out the door ’ A few nicknames of Division A:— Fat Fallis. Artful” Artz. Pericles” Clough. Weary Dunton. Kid Cutler. Handsome” Clarke. Professor Cushing. “Grandpa” Boothby. Golden-Haired” Anderson. Silent Ball. Inquisitive Fogerty. j Speechless” Cameron. How deeply grieved and outraged some of those Seniors in II. German (1) look when the division is called a second-year division! In German: Mine Eltern haben zwei Kinder, einen Sohn und cine Tochter. My parents have two children, a son and three daughters. Ware, Ware, Ware. Ware, Ware. (We did this because Ware was so particular that nothing about him should appear in this column.) C-----r (translating French): All,of her friends had died but she. 1-'arrow says that you add all the endings of verbs to pronouns to form a verb. Teacher: When did this event happen? Ge—i—r: It was when there were knights. Welsh (awaking from a blissful dream): We have night still, don’t we? Puzzle : Did F----ever comb his hair? W—Idron (translating audibly to himself in Ger- man): “Here is the man that bit my dog. A boy going along a street started to hit a dog, but was stopped by his father. “Don’t do that, but be kind and Pat-’er-son, said his father. B—s—n is able to do two things at once. He can act foolish and pay attention at the same time. {.Freshman Xotos on pape Wts ] 94 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR ’09 Allison Newton, Class Editor. At a recent class meeting Duggan appointed the following committee for the selection of class photographer: Alice Hammond, Lillian Tread- well. Frank MacCarthy, and Herbert Jarvis. Duggan left it to the class to decide whether he should appoint the committee or not, which seems a good precedent for future classes to follow. It is rumored that the banisters on the girls’ stairs have been somewhat worn lately. •THE GREATEST SHOW OX EARTH” Here we have it. ladies and gentlemen, MacLcan silent for a whole half-hour. No, madam, he is not sick. At your right, gentlemen, is the moving picture of three consecutive recitations in which Miss Corliss did not make a single objection. There is the lean man, Coleman, just completing the twentieth line of a perfect translation. Stop! Look! Listen! Here are Miss Wentworth and Miss Macy actually reciting above a whisper. Xo, madam, he is not in pain. This is merely Earle trying to sing. Here you may hear a phono- graphic record of Henderson relating an anecdote absolutely correct in every particular. Yes, sir. absolutely correct. If you don’t believe, look at the “Lady’s Hum Piflle.” This, ladies, is not a photograph of a junk shop, only a picture of the class editor’s desk. Ladies and gentlemen, here is Sheridan in a lucid interval. He has actually been in this cond---(If that funny boy will stop laugh- ing and the gentleman with the red wig will recall that wink, I will proceed)—I repeat it. he has been in that condition for ten minutes. With this last phenomenon we will pass out. Dick: “Going to take Miss ----------- to the soiree? Henderson: I don’t think so.” Dick: How’s that? Henderson : “She's going to take me.” Milliken : I don’t see how you spell Mississippi. I’ve spelled it two different ways, and you’ve marked it wrong both times.” One of Miss Smallwood’s: You had better not speak with kings passing through your lips.” The temperature is falling fast, Snow falling from the blue; The people angry glances cast, For they arc falling, too. Slater thinks Coleman had better hire a special car for the soiree. Teacher: Quel page?” MacCarthy: “Ce matin j'etais---- One of our illustrious president’s translations: Like a bull-cow in the herd.” Henderson has found out what Nemesis means. Sheridan is wound up. That’s why the teachers arc trying to run him down. We were somewhat surprised to learn that our class now has a new news medium. It is called The Daily Whistle,” and is edited by our versatile friend Richard. Here is a sample item from the society column: Lizzy Henderson was seen standing in a puddle the other day making a noise like a bromo-seltzer.” THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 95 TO H. H. Greenwood, Class Editor. The Q. H. A. will run a dance at Anthoine’s Academy Tuesday, February 2. Tickets are fifty cents each. Murdock’s Orchestra will furnish the music. Tickets may be procured from Arthur Tellier, Green, or Rice, of the Latin School. What should we do if we had to carry around some of the names that the nobles of ancient Greece did? The lights of Room 20 give great satisfaction. In fact, they had to be turned out, as they gave too bright a light, and then they would not go on again. Goodspeed, glancing over the top of his desk, was heard to say: Gracious! look at that wild animal!” The wild animal turned out to be Maulsby’s hair. Everybody turn out and root at the basket ball games. They are held weekly at the Y. M. C. A., and cost only fifteen cents. The girls are cordially invited to attend. 1). Brooke McKinnon's avoirdupois is really be- coming dangerous. He surely must tip the scales close to 200. We dispute Reed. Samos never was on Athens’ side. It was in the Aegean sea. Shorty says never again. We wonder who Shorty is! Everybody came back from vacation with morocco-bound New Year's resolutions until they got their report cards. 1 hen it was all off. The academy was built on the Acropolis, not under Pisistratus. Maulsby was informed that he would make a fine lawyer, as he could start an argument out of nothing. Moral: Nothing was ever spoken more truthfully. Pales, it is understood, has a great capacity for water. He was known to drink a faucet dry the other evening. Bryant, our class philosopher, was heard to re- mark softly: It looks to me like a big night to- night. Then Davis woke him up with one of his soothing touches which he frequently administers. The other classes seem impatient to know when the Junior dance is to take place. Do not fret, Bob” will get there yet. Division 2 can boast of a very efficient fife and drum corps, according to all accounts. Pierson is a regular fiend for library books; he can read one in a study period. Putney has just returned from a pleasant vaca- tion in New Hampshire. From all that he told us, he must have had a most delightful time. Tl M. J. Messer, Jr., Class Editor. To sec M—rs when he leans back in his seat, perfectly contented, makes one wish Latin and geometry were lying at the bottom of the Dead sea. (By the way, who killed the Dead sea?) Division 4 is quite honored because of the fact that they were the first to decide definitely to cele- brate Christmas with a German feast. Marzipan, Pfeffeneuser. U m—m—m. Why does T------d always go to prayer-meeting Friday night? Phillips (in German): Die beriihmten Manner Griechcnlands.” “The wise men of Greenland.” Oh!!! Those Christinas tics! Does Ralph like Latin prose? Who is Rudolph? Oh! but that hall-duty job is a lonely one. M—s—r thinks it comes just at the wrong time. How are those new resolutions going? Wanted! A war correspondent in 13. Apply to Ed. A few of the desk-carvers have suffered. The Desperate Three of 12.” Guess who. Division 3 had great fun watching some ama- teurs in 1 trying to draw circles on the blackboard in geometry. I I—r—v and N—t—n are great shots with pea- nuts. The boys in the editor’s row had a grand change of seats. It is hoped they will do much better, but it’s doubtful. Some of the desks in 11 seem to have the “tidd- ledy-winks.” There was a young Herr known as Nick, Who mastered his Deutsch mighty quick. For this was his hobby. In it lie was nobby. His “sprecken was herrlich and slick. Teacher (in Roman history): Was Gracchus a name frequently found among the Roman no- bility?” W—g—n: Yes, almost as frequently as Smith in the Somerville city government.” 96 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR ’ Murphy just caught the Carr, and was greatly surprised when it headed for the Barnes. So lie jumped off and waited—it seemed to him for Wcekes—and not another one came. ‘T ought to Rideout—it is so far.” he murmured. Finally, however, he started to walk. At the top of a Hill he saw a Rich mansion guarded by a hideous Griffin. At this point M---s appeared in his auto and invited Murphy to ride with him. Leo ac- cepted joyfully, and offered his benefactor a Pierce of gold. “Look out for your Derby.” came the command. I'm going to Turner ’round tliis cor- ner.” 'I bis tale ends as did that of the three men wno went to sea in a bowl:— “If the auto had been stronger, This tale would have been longer.” T2 Francis J. Mahoney, Class Editor. The class pin committee is composed of Albert Smith, Charles Dickerman. Louise Clevenger, Bertha McNeill, and James Prout. It is a good thing that Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo. Division 1 had a half-hour less of algebra. Teacher: Then you’ll admit that you were wrong?” Pupil: No, but I'll admit that an erroneous statement might have unknowingly crept into my assertion.” Lynch’s hair is turning gray—and no wonder! WANTED! A good, reliable bov to stand on the tracks behind the school and hold up trains while the first division recites history. Teacher: What is the opposite to Senior?” Pro—t: Freshman.” This is one of Doo—g’s. Listen:— ).: Why is a dog in an ice-chest like a lamp- post? A.: Purp-in-de-coolcr. What do you know about Lamont’s dolly? Toast to Plummer: Though his business is to furnish mankind with the dumb blessings of light and water, may he be a good spoutcr and easily turn his lead into gold. Toast to Carpenter: Although he appears a plane and honest man. he gouges and chisels, and adze it to your bill. This augurs ill for the reputa- tion of the trade. Toast to A. Smith: The most dissatisfied of all tradesmen; always on the strike for wages. Toast to Taylor: The most charitable of men; he takes measures to hide the imperfections and cover up the faults of others. Blumsach's Poetical Works consists of two (2) poems by Israel Blumsach, of Somerville, Mass. 'l he first of these will appear exclusively in the next issue of the Radiator. ------------------------------ JEnolisb ’I 2 Oliver C. Churchill, Class Editor. Well, it’s New Year’s again, and how about those resolutions and the broken toys? Pa—1—ne Ho—m—n has advanced a great deal in dancing. Seat 10, Room 13 X. Monday is occupied by L—tt—e’s feet, which have the ribbon for fancy dress. Miss N—I—n, 1 X. draws the Gibson girls by wholesale. R----d does his own advertising in French F. by declaring he is looking for a wife. Distinguish the difference between Radiator and Delineator, Miss Fo—e—, of 14 X. Our new medical term in graphs, Axis of Ab- scess.” Division C.’s stories are so dry that some of the pupils occasionally mention a water scene, which is. oh, so cooling to our parched imaginations. It isn’t everybody that can be a Bourne. That isn’t saying we wouldn’t like to be. It must take a lot of outside study to get an offence card, for it takes a wise man to be a fool. Miss C—b—y is very forward on passing con- gratulations. but awful slow on giving us a chance to return them. ------------------------------ Iber E ebut [Continued from page 91.) present at his home the following day, in order to make arrangements for the trip abroad. Two weeks later the professor, his wife, and their young prodigy boarded an ocean liner bound for France. Upon arriving in Paris. Helen was placed under the direction of a famous vocal in- structor. She developed rapidly, until after two years of successful practice she returned to her na- tive land, a wonderful singer. When questioned regarding her success, she attributes it all to the beautiful vision of her grandfather on the evening of her debut. THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 9 7 EXCHANGES We extend to all the exchanges best wishes for a very prosperous New Year. The South Boston Chandelier has some well- written stories. The article. ’’Wanted—An Aim,” is one which all ought to read. The Academian would be more interesting if the literary department were better developed. More stories. Review, of Lowell, would improve your paper, although what you have are very in- teresting. especially those entitled Jim’s Sacrifice” and King.” The Register, of the Boston Latin School, shows a marked improvement over the preceding num- ber. All the stories are good, and the editorials helpful. But there is one column that is lacking, ami that is the exchange column. Why not have one? We would advise that the Echo, from Turner’s Falls, develop their exchange column. Do not let the whole page be used for jokes, with no criti- cisms of the exchanges. The Origin of Some of Our Christmas Cus- toms,” in the Institute, of Cohoes, X. Y., is a very good article, for. as the title suggests, ii tells of the Christmas customs which many might not know. Here’s hoping you will succeed in your story con- test. Your literary department shows good, hard work. Red and Black. The true sayings of famous men which arc scat- tered throughout the Hood River Mascot make the book interesting, but we miss the alumni and exchange columns. Enlarge your exchange column. Academy Bell. All of your stories are very good. One of the best exchanges we have received this month is the Academe. The book is well ar- ranged. Both the literary editor and the business managers should be complimented on the good showing of their departments for December. We welcome several new exchanges this month. The Blue Owl. from Attleboro, Mass., has some fine material and a goodly number of advertise- ments. The Key, of Battle Creek. Mich., is rather large for a high school paper. Wouldn’t it be a better arrangement to have the advertisements together? The cover design of the Triangle, from Troy, X. Y., is neat and attractive, while the stories are interesting. We wish you success, Educator, of Abington, in the continuance of your school paper. It would be better if the name of the state from whence you come were mentioned, so that one would not have to look among the advertisements to find out. First Miss: I can sing ‘School Days’ in five sharps.” Second Miss: I sang it in six flats, but they made me move out of every one of them.”—Ex. What do you expect to be when you come of age, my little man?” asked a visitor. Twenty-one,” was the little man’s reply.—Ex. Mistress: I want a girl for general housework; some one who is strong and willing to do every- thing. Bridget: “Do yces take me for Taft?”—Ex. The Xew Minister: “Don’t you know who I am, my little man?” Little Billie: Sure. Don’t vou know who vou are?” The Bride : Just think of it. dearest, fifty years from vesterdav will be our golden anniversary. — Ex. I want to complain of the flour you sent me the other day. said Mrs. Xcwliwcd severely. What was the matter with it. ma’am?” asked the grocer. It was tough. My husband simply wouldn’t eat the biscuits I made with it.”—Ex. I’m the champion long-distance cornet player of the world. I entered a contest and played ‘Annie Laurie’ for three weeks.” Did you win? Xo. my opponent played Sousa's ‘Stars and Stripes Forever.’ ”—Ex. 98 THE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR William Hoyt. English, '08. has returned to his studies at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, after a few days spent at his home in this city. We note with deep regret the death of Harry Rich. English. '1)8. which occurred early in the present school year from typhoid fever. Mr. Rich was graduated from the Normal Art School in '01, and will be remembered pleasantly by more recent classes of the English alumni as having taught a year in the English School in the department of mechanical drawing. Later he was elected to a position in the Rindge Manual Training School, which he held most acceptably to the time of his death. Mr. Rich was a young man of sterling worth of character, attractive personality, and had shown genuine ability and much promise as an instructor. 11 is early death is felt as a distinct loss by the Eng- lish alumni. Recent visitors in the English School: Miss Bertha Richards. English. ‘ 7. now of the Framing- ham Xormal School: Miss Elizabeth Greenlcaf, English, '01. Bridgewater Xormal School. '0(1. now instructor in the Norwood schools: Miss Eleanor Xcilon and Miss Elsie Crispin. English. 08, of the Boston Xormal School: and Miss Mildred Hager and Miss Lillian Luce. English. '08. who are at- tending Salem Xormal School. I)r. and Mrs. Cobb (Xellie Brown, English. 1)0) are pleasantly located at Arlington. Others of the class of '00 are Lizzie Marshall and Vivian Stevens, now each responding to the name Easton, they having married brothers. Mildred Merrill. English, '02, Boston Univcr- sity. 7. has recently been appointed to the posi- tion of assistant clerk to Superintendent Clark. Alfred B. Mahoney, English. OS. is attending the Boston College Preparatory School. Boston. Theresa W. Anderson. English. 04. is a book- keeper for Nightingale Childs. Edward E. Sweeney, Latin. '04, a Senior at Ho.y Cross, has been chosen captain of the football team there. Grace Gridley. Latin, '07. and Annie Gridlcy, Latin. '08. are trying hard to keep up their record for hard studv at Capen School. Northampton Mass. At a reunion of the class of 1904, Latin School, held at Flemming Hall December 30, 1908, Percy Harrison was re-elected president, and Hilda John- son was elected secretary. Dr. George L. Baxter and George M. Hosmer were guests of the even- ing. Lost, strayed, or stolen—a youth, Lawrence, surnamed Bowlby. last seen boarding a train for the wild and woolly West. Any information re- garding the same will be gratefully received by his Somerville acquaintances. Helen Phelps, Constance Carpenter, and Harriet Whitaker, all of Latin. 08, are Freshmen at Bos- ton University. Harry Burroughs. Latin. ’05, a Senior at Dart- mouth. has recently been seen pacing the campus at Mt. Holyoke. We wonder what branch of study lie is pursuing there. Robert Burns, Latin. '05. is working for the Union Soapstone Company, Boston. John Groves, Latin. '00. is still treading bricks between here and Harvard. Edna Sturtevant, Latin. '07. is a Sophomore this year at Mt. Holyoke. Xed French’s favorite song at present is: “I Am Working on the Railroad All the Livelong Day. Ralph Durell and Harold Lewis, of the class of Latin. '07. are Sophomores at Yale. Edward Norris and Cornish Pearson, Latin, ?08, are growing strong wielding the shovel and the hoc at Massachusetts Agricultural College. Which is it. Tead. Amherst or Smith? TIIE SOMERVILLE RADIATOR 99 S. U. The S. Y. gave its third annual dance in Flem- ming Hall Friday evening, January 8. A good time was enjoyed by all. and it was agreed that this was the greatest success of the club’s exist- ence. Among those present were: Grace E. McIntosh, Martha Y. Delay. Ruth S. Manning, Frances Donavan. Edith S. Potter, Teresa Sweeney, Helen G. Anderson, Elsie McDonald. Alma W iley. Bessie Horton, Arthur Peterson, David Crocker, Lewis F. Willard, Edward Donahue, Raymond Wiley, Richard Powers, Frank Van Ummerson, Mr. Hoyt, William Bishop, and Harold Smart. Ruth S. Manning, Secretary. -----------• ----------------- z. u. n . The girls of the Sophomore classes of the Eng- lish and Latin High have formed a club, called T. I. P. There arc six members at present. They are: Zillali Campbell (president), Mildred Atwood (secretary), Meta Eiscnhauer. Annie F'itzmaurice, Ruth Dillon, and Margaret Rich. ----------- ----------------- Pupil (who was sitting in the rear of the room) to Teacher: Please change my seat. I’m lonesome up here. Teacher: ‘‘Well, here’s a pencil, draw a crowd.” —Ex. I thought I knew I knew it all. But now I mifst confess, The more 1 know I know I know. 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PINS Winter Street, Boston, 129 Tremont Street CONTENTS OE FEBRUARY RADIATOR Frontispiece................................................................ 102 Editorial Staff..............................................................103 Editorials...................................................................104 Wireless, by An Enthusiast...................................................105 Reparation: The Story of a Brave Man, by Cecil M. Barlow, E., To ..... 100 Oil Day, by L. E. Chickering, L., '09........................................107 The Witch’s Escape, by Marion F. Dondale, E., TO . . . . . . . . . 10S A Night's Rest, An Extract from the Diary of William Hunnewell, L.. 09 .... 109 The Fourteenth of May, by Herbert W. Porter, E, ’12....................Ill The Letter Box...............................................................112 Club News....................................................................Ill Latin Notes..................................................................115 English Notes................................................................117 Exchanges....................................................................120 Alumni Notes ............... 122 Resolutions..................................................................123 Suburban Coal Company COMPLIMENTS OF WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ALL-RAIL COAL is WOOD and HAY Jesse S. Newcomb We deal extensively in all grades of COKE All Orders Delivered Promptly ---------O--- H. A. CRAWFORD - - - Manager 29 DANE ST., SOMERVILLE, MASS. TELEPHONE 320 SOilERVILLE J. A. Harsh Coal Company No. 38 - 40 Park Street Telephone 319 Somerville, flass. COMPLIMENTS OF WILLIAH S. HOWE DEALER IN Furnaces and Ranges FIRST-CLASS PLUMBING 51 Union Square, - - Somerville, Hass. 3obn HR. HBloobs For Your Library QUNN SECTIONAL BOOK-CASE Noted for its Simplicity and Convenience J. C. McLEAN 33 Union Square, Somerville, Mass. CARNEGIE LIBRARY. WEST SOMERVILLE i SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Vol. XVIII. Somerville, Boston. Massachusetts. February, 1909. No. 5 The Somerville High School Radiator is published by the Latin and English High Schools on the last 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 be left with any of the editorial staff or mailed to the editor at the English High School. In contributing, write on one side of the paper only and sign full name. 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 Entered as second class mail matter at Boston P. )., February, ltXW Single Copies, 10 Cents SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT EMtorial Staff Hakodate Editor VIVIAN BEERS. L.. ’09 Editor=in=Cbicf ERNEST W. CHAPIN, E.. ’09 Business fcanacicr HOWARD A. MacLEAN, L.. ’09 Exchange Editor LORENE a. WHITNEY, L., '09 Bsdstant Business Manager STUART FOSTER. E., ’10 Sporting Editor PERCY G. WHITMAN. E.. '09 Second assistant business fcanaacr J. ELLIOT SLATER. L., ’09 alumni Editors Crcasurcr L. ELIZABETH CHICKERING, L., ’09 GEORGE M. HOSMER (Faculty) EDNA F. TEELE. E„ ’09 Statt artist M. ESTHER SHAPLEIGH, E.. ’10 Class EMtors Xatin School ALLISON NEWTON, ’09 HARRY H. GREENWOOD, ’10 MELVIN J. MESSER, Jr., ’ll FRANCIS J. MAHONEY. M2 Etuilisb School LESTER C. GUSTIN, ’09 ANDREW F. HANDLEY, MO ARTHUR LEIGHTON. MI OLIVER CHURCHILL. M2 104 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR A movement lias been agitated recently for a school cadet corps. This is at once a good scheme and a difficult problem. Military drill as under- taken by school battalions has many advantages and few objectionable features. As a question of health, the crcctness of carriage and grace of motion thus learned are invaluable. Prompt and absolute obedience to a superior is a quality ex- ceedingly difficult for impetuous youth to acquire. Military training is perhaps the best means of ac- complishing this. Moreover, it is a point of national importance for every loyal young citizen to learn the proper use of arms. A country whose boys are forced to serve in the army or navy for a stated term docs not know the raw recruit,” but produces in time of need an immense army of vol- unteers who already have the foundations of sol- diery laid—in the practiced skill of their healthy bodies and the patriotic enthusiasm of their daunt- less spirit. Since our busy nation does not take these years by compulsion out of a man's private life, what better than that we should voluntarily spend a little time through our High School course to gain some insight into the science of martial affairs? In general no one can deny that it is de- sirable for the three reasons mentioned—as being beneficial to the individual, both physically and morally, and of deep significance to the country’s patriots. But in our particular case prosaic prac- ticality deters us. Assuming that the proper au- thorities, realizing the advantages of the plan, should provide accoutrement and, if necessary, in- structors, we are still confronted by the inexorable question of a drill room. The use of quarters out- side the school would be inconvenient, and in most cases that come to mind, impracticable. The Latin hall, which is the largest floor space we have under our own roof, would hardly lend it- self as a parade ground cither for size or for loca- tion. In spite of these objections it is the confident hope of the promoters to sweep away all incredu- lity that military drill can be undertaken in a vital way and made an essential part of our curriculum. You've heard that proverb about the will and the way ? Well, it has been proven many times that when Somerville exerts the will there has got to be a way. . We regret to note that debating has not been so energetically pursued this year as heretofore. In fact it has dropped almost entirely from our con- sideration. The rumor of clubs forming in the Latin School seems to have been groundless, or, if formed, they must have been secret societies, as we have heard nothing from them. Recently one or two brilliant talkers in the Senior class threatened to get up a team and challenge the English School Debating Society. Such an event would be highly interesting, and may even be possible since interest seems to be reawakening in that society. Several meetings have been held this month, and a start SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 105 made toward earnest work in the club. Let us show Mr. Avery that our earnest wish is for its continuation. The importance of debating as a means both of pleasant diversion and of mental development cannot be over-emphasized. Many schools offer it in the regular course of study. Al- though such is not the case here, yet we have al- most equal opportunity in our clubs. Some stu- dents claim to be too busy for such matt ers. I Jut the others—in the large majority—are the ones who show the lack of school spirit; those who have the best chance to help along public affairs have the least inclination and energy; while, much to the honor of school and class, those who are already burdened with work display the lively interest and activity that make the school what it is. � W K In response to our proposal of last month we have received a communication for the Letter Box. We are glad that this new departure has met approval, and that the first article submitted treats of an important question with dignity and mature judgment. This letters offers our readers still another opportunity to broaden the usefulness of the new department. An interesting reply might be an argument from the opposite side of the question. The argumentative essay, which has appeared but little in the Radiator, rightly devel- oped. holds the interest and attention as no other form of article can. One month the champion of a cause puts forth most convincingly his views. The next month an equally spirited contention is held by his opponent. Thus the reader gets a clear understanding of the matter from both points of view, much more impartially than as if one per- son discussed it pro and con. We invite such a literary debate in our columns on the subject now brought forth, or on any other of general interest which our readers may care to take up. The Letter Box has still another sphere of service, as a medium between school and home authorities. Does the principal wish to discuss some rule or custom which may be misunderstood at home, or does the teacher wish to show the parent the aspect of the classroom and recitation as she sees it. or does the unassuming pupil wish to give the school the benefit of his observation and thought? Write to the Letter Box. Don't be bashful. We impose but one condition: To protect the Radiator from imposition and to give assurance that his purpose is sincere, the writer must sign his name and class. A simple request that his identity be withheld from publication shall meet with ready compliance. Wireless 36 an Enthusiast The recent disaster to the steamship Republic has brought before the people as perhaps no other incident could the advantages of wireless teleg- raphy as a life-saver at sea. Picture for an instant the result of the recent calamity if there had been no wireless to send its urgent call for help flashing across the fog-covered waters. There would have been a brief moment of panic, a hasty attempt to escape in the small boats, then later the roar of angry waters closing over the remains of a mighty ship—and hundreds of souls more would have gone to swell the death-roll of the sea. But hap- pily there was no such ending. The invisible waves of ether, traveling with the speed of light, sent all the words that were needed to bring half a dozen ships hurrying to the rescue. The collision, instead of showing the puny strength of man as compared to the raging fury of the elements, showed rather the triumph of the human brain over the blind force of nature. io5 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR ■(Reparation: £bc Stow of a DBrave flfean Bp Cecil Barlow, IE , TO was cold, bitterly cold, not that windy, blustering variety of bad weather, but the still, solemn chill that scents to penetrate everything. It was in the winter of 1872, and the German army, having slowly fought their way through the heavily-fortified frontier towns, were now rapidly traversing the Unpro- tected provinces of the interior. The Prussians were now encamped but three or four miles from the town of Sainte Jeanne, for which every effort of defence was being made, as the position was considered of strategic importance. The town was situated in the midst of a broad, fertile stretch of land, which was a plain except for two hills rising in front of the town and completely protecting it, with but a very narrow pass between the hills. Many sentinels were posted around the entrance to this pass, and it was on this night, Christmas eve. 1872, that Francois, our hero, was one of these men. Francois walked wearily up and down his post, and his aching feet, tied up in torn bandages, left a little red trail as he walked. He had been able to exchange jests and shouts of cheer with the sen- tinel on the next post, but a snowslidc had de- prived him of this small consolation. A strange, numb feeling suffused his body, and his mind was filled with utter despair. If there had been any prospect of relief. Francois could have borne it. but it was hopeless, there was nothing ahead but dis- aster. Xo wonder that Francois turned in his path and looked longingly towards the cheerful smoke curling from the chimneys of his native town but a few miles distant: there was warmth and comfort, here was hunger and death. Fran- cois hesitated a moment, then, letting his rifle fall from his nerveless grasp, he pulled his shako down over his ears, and plunging into the deep snow, made off towards the town. Francois reached his cottage as night was fall- ing. 11 is wife was astonished to see him. but when she fully understood that he had deserted, her sur- prise gave way to terror. “Oh, Francois, how could you do it!” was all she said. She had had very little physical suffering during the war, and to these peasants there is very little mental pain, st the excusability of the affair was lost to her; she saw only the enormity of it. the disgrace and the treason. Yet Francois was her husband, and family ties are strong among these people; had it not been for that, she would undoubtedly have given him up to the authorities, so intense was her loyalty. Francois ate a hot supper and went to bed. He did not sleep well, in spite of his weariness, and in the gray of the early morning an unnamable fear drove him to the window. He looked through the frost-covered panes out onto the plain below. He was just going back to bed. when he noticed some- thing unusual. Showing up clearly against the snow was a black line extending from the distant plain to the mouth of the pass, a thin line, just like a suspended cord. Francois looked again, and the line wavered and seemed to vibrate as if some giant finger had struck the cord. Then Francois saw the gleam of polished arms, and he knew that the Prussians were attacking, attacking the pass! The pass he should have been guarding! For the space of a minute Francois stood still. The house was empty; it was Christmas morning, and the whole population had gone to mass. He must do something, he did not know what. He stumbled down the dark stairs and ran out into the deserted street. He could not bear to leave his wife with- out even saying good-by, but he could not write, and to wait until church was over was impossible. Fven during the half-hour it took him to run to the nearest hill overlooking the pass no plan of action came to his mind; it was too late to warn the army. He scaled the hill breathlessly, giving thanks as he did so that he had played here when a boy and knew every nook and foothold on its dangerous sides. When he reached the summit lie realized that he had made a fatal mistake! He should have climbed the other hill. On the second hill there was an immense boulder which rested upon a base very small in proportion to the size of the rock. 1 lad he been on the other hill, he could easily have dislodged it and caused it to fall into the pass, where it would have effectually closed the passage, and the column of soldiers pressing for- SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 107 ward thus suddenly checked would have thrown the whole attacking division into disorder, but—Francois gazed helplessly across the few feet of space that separated him from this means of de- fence. Then an idea struck him. He brushed a path in the snow for about ten feet, being especially careful to clean away the ice around the edge of the chasm. He stepped back the entire length of the distance he had cleared, and ran lightly for- ward, springing as he reached the edge. He landed against the almost perpendicular face of the rock, and for a moment his fingers clutched for hold on the slippery surface, and then—the great inanimate mass and the quivering body of the man went crashing down into the abyss below. During the confusion of the Prussians that at- tended the fall of the rock the alarm was given, and a strong detachment of troops was sent to de- fend the town. The authorities never knew that Francois had deserted, and full military honors were paid to all that was earthly of Francois, private in the Army of the Loire. ©it Bp X. IE. CbfefceriUQ, ‘X., '00 S perhaps you know, oil is carried over railroads in large iron tanks. These tanks are filled from the top, and in the bottom near the centre is a cap from which the oil can be drawn off. When one of these tanks, which hold about fifty barrels, is to be emptied, the cap is taken off. and a rubber pipe is put in its place, the oil be- ing kept from running out by a plunger adjusted from the top. ()n the other end of the rubber pipe a sort of faucet is attached, which affords the means of stopping the oil as each barrel is filled. Such a tank, filled with fish oil, was standing on a track waiting to be unloaded. At ten o'clock in the morning two men came to unload it. In the habit of loading and unloading oil tanks, it never entered their heads that the plunger shouldn't be working. So Fat took a wrench and got under the tank to unscrew the cap. He was care- lessly turning it around, when—splush! The cap was forced out of his hand, and the oil was coming at a sixty-mile-a-minute rate from the outlet. Mike, immediately thinking of the plunger, got on top of the car and tried to shove it in place, but either it was out of order, or it didn't fit. or something; it didn't stop it. Meanwhile the oil was pour- ing out on the tracks. Xow. as luck would have it, the tracks in the yard were inclosed two together in a sort of driveway, with curbstones along the sides, or at the rate the oil was coining out. it would soon have been all over the yard. As this fish oil was thick like molasses, it would hardly have been pleasant either to walk on or to smell. As it was, it quickly made its way toward the water drain, but Mike rushed for some burlaps and stopped up that means of es- cape. Quite a few of the men working in the yard came up to see what the trouble was. and to help if possible, and had procured a number of burlaps. Fat took a wad of them and tried to stop up the hole, but the force was much too great, and he only succeeded in giving the onlookers and him- self an oil shower bath. He. in particular, was not in the least slighted in that respect. The oil ran down his coat sleeve.—a pleasing sensation, to say the least. Then some. or. indeed, a good deal, hit him squarely in the face. and. running down his neck, eventually came out his shoes. Ferhaps you notice that nothing has been said about the frame of mind which Pat and Mike were in. ()f course they were very calm and cool. They tried to put the cap back on. but always with the same result—shower baths—until the oil all ran out. The next thing to do was to shovel the oil into the barrels, for fifty barrels of oil was too valuable to lie wasted, although it would all have to be refined over again. Mike, accordingly, telephoned for more men and plenty of shovels and brooms. When the recruits had come the shoveling began, and in earnest, too, for to shovel up all that fish oil was no easy task. That was oil day in the yard, all right. Wherever those men went the oil went. too. The men worked hard all day until five o'clock, and had not finished then; for all I know, they may be shoveling oil yet. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 10S Zhc UEUtcb’s Escape B ? Barton jf. E onOale, ]£., TO the fast-gathering twilight of a dreary January day. an old woman came, with tottering steps, down to a bridge which crossed a frozen stream on the outskirts of the town of Salem. As she stood In hesita- tion. she often glanced apprehensively at the town which lay beyond a strip of woods. Then she tried to pierce the gray shadows on the opposite side. and wondered if her son would come in time, lie- fore leaving home for Cambridge, he had promised to return in January. Would he come to-night?” she wondered. Only a short time before, on entering a neighbor’s house, she had heard some one accusing her of witchcraft, and old Mistress Hobbs had not come so recently to Salem that she was unaware that within an hour or two she would be awaiting conviction and execution in the town jail. Perhaps the constables were already going to her house. Would they come to find her? Just then the sound of a horse’s feet approaching rapidly startled her. Who was coming? Chilled with cold and fear, she sank in the snow, not dar- ing to see whence the sound was coming. As the clattering hoofs sounded on the bridge, Mistress Hobbs started to her feet, and the rider, seeing a figure rise so suddenly out of the snow, drew rein. Who’s there? he called. ()h. John ! John ! shrieked the figure. That you, mother? What---------” “Aye, it is! And you have come in time!” In time for what? What can you be doing-----” Yes. yes. save me! That boy of Stokes’s jest said I was sticking pins an' sech things in him. air fright'nin' him. An' his father was askin’ him ’bout it when I went in the back door to see old Mistress Stokes. And—oh. John, save me!” Sure, 1 will, mother. Rut I must give a letter to the townsmen from Gov’nor Bradstreet. Come this way; I'll hide ye so the lunatics won’t find ye! She followed him down the steep bank to the river's edge, and then down under the bridge. There the bank jutted out a very little distance over the river, forming a narrow shelf. The space between this and the planks of the bridge was just wide enough to allow one to lie quietly there, but any movement would be sufficient to throw him in the river. Now. mother, you stay there, an’ I’ll be back by dawn an’ take you before anybody’s awake. I’ll put them off the track, pretend 1 haven’t met you, an’ then they won’t be down this way. Keep quiet, ’cause the ice isn’t too thick. Good-by!” He clambered up the bank, and throwing him- self on his horse, galloped on to the town. On entering the town, John rode immediately to the sheriff’s house. In response to his knock, the ponderous door was flung open, and he stepped within. Well, what are ye doing here now? Have ye found the witch?” (The sheriff was very near- sighted.) What witch?” What witch, do ye say. ye saucy knave? Will ye pretend ye don’t know who ye was sent to find? Old Widow Hobbs, of course. What news of her?” Of Widow Hobbs? Of mother? Put on your specs, old man. and see who it is ye’re talking to. What of her? What have ye to do with her? Hah! ye John Hobbs? Why, we all thought ye was in Boston town!” cried the old man, push- ing his horn-glasses before his eyes. 1 was till just a little while ago. The gov’nor sent me with a message, a letter to the officers of the town. But tell me of mother.” Why. she's been ’cused of witchcraft, and seems to have left the country. Ye hain’t seen her. have ye?” ao. indeed. I’d have brought her home if I had. 1 don’t much doubt she’s run away to her relatives farther up; she’s always wanted to go there. She can’t get far, though. She hasn’t gone Boston way, so it’s no use to go that way after her.” Just then five or six of the townsmen came in, and John took the earliest opportunity to leave, saying that he must get some rest before returning to Boston. When he had taken some food for himself and his horse, he started for the bridge. Might better start now than later,” he thought. It was still two or three hours before dawn when lie reached the bridge, and, dismounting, went down to the edge of the river. An exclamation of SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 109 horror escaped from his lips as his glance fell on the river. The ice was broken, and—his mother— was gone. How long ago had it happened? What should he do? Probably she had already drifted down stream, and all hope of rescue was vain. Xot knowing what to do, he stood silently watching the dark water. In the early dawn he was riding slowly through the forest. The horse, tired by his long journey, was moving slowly along the narrow path, when suddenly a movement of his horse startled him from his reverie. Looking up. he saw a dark object lying in the road directly before him. What could it be.' Me sat motionless, ready to shoot if the slightest motion proved it to be an animal of the forest. If it was. however, it was dead, for it made no sound. His curiosity aroused, he ap- proached softly. It was—yes, it was some person —and as he knelt beside it. the increasing light showed—his mother. With a cry he recognized her. Lifting the body carefully, he laid it gently by the side of the road. He gathered a few sticks, and hastily struck fire by the growing heat of which he tried to revive life in the apparently life- less form. Put it seemed impossible. Mother! mother! he called over and over, but there was no answer. At last, when almost despairing, he thought he heard her speak. “The dawn—is com- ing—John—the river------ John worked harder than ever. Later, as they ate the food John had brought, seated around the fire, she ex- plained. “I heard them coming, John,’’ she said. I must have fallen asleep and heard them, but it was all real to me. I started, and the motion threw me off the ledge. The shock of the cold water woke me thoroughly and frightened me so that I was able to get out. I didn’t notice in the dark- ness that I was on the opposite side of the river, and I walked on to meet you. But the way seemed longer than usual, and at last I sank down in the snow. That was the last I knew until I heard you calling as if you were a long way off, and then I woke and saw you. 'I he rest of the journey was uneventful, and after resting in Cambridge a few days, they went on into Rhode Island. H IRtgbt’s IRest Bn Extract from the Biarv? of TKfltlUam ibuuncwcll, ’09 WAS tired, clean tired out, and as I came home from school fell to thinking of the good night’s rest which was in store for me. How fine it would be to get to bed early for once! These were my thoughts as I entered the house. As I settled down to do a little studying, the telephone bell rang furiously. I got up. a little irritated, and went to answer it. “Hello. Willie, this is auntie. Will you come over and get a little ice off the front steps? It is so slippery I’m afraid to go out.” I said “Yes” and rang off. So kind of aunt to think of something for me to do when I was weary from loss of sleep! It took two hours’ solid work to get those steps in walkablc condition, and at the end of that time I was struck with a new occupation. This time it was sister. “You have just got to help us out down to the church to-night,” she said. We are going to give a supper, and we haven’t enough waiters. Now put on a clean collar and hurry up. There was no time to beg off. and so down I went. “Should have a good feed, have some fun, and come home early to bed, I argued, so away I chased to the church. Tired as I was. I slung hash like a veteran, and at last sat down to my own. The meat and the coffee were cold, but they tasted good, and I was filled at last, four plates of ice cream included. Came home early, walking briskly to digest the coffee. Then sat down for a little more studying. It was an English compo- sition, and took time, but I soon quit and began to read a most interesting book. To go to bed was out of the question, as my stomach warned me that sleep was not forthcoming. At 11.30 went down and fixed the furnace, gave the horse a drink of water, and was back to bed. Hardly had 1 got comfortably warm, when I was reminded by mother that I had left the light SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR i io in the front hall going full blast. At that moment I felt the same towards her and myself as I had towards auntie and sister, and perhaps a little worse. I Jut 1 left my warm bed and tramped down the cold, draughty stairs and turned off the gas. I his time I would get comfortably fixed and sleep till morning. About an hour later was awakened by cold shivers running along my back.. Piled on another blanket, made the already blue air more dense, and went off to sleep again. It was a short nap. however, as 1 was gently, but firmly, shaken by father, who was say- ing that the horse was cast. Xow 1 got mad. and who wouldn't? Some one was certainly trying to rob me of my beauty sleep, and I rebelled. I absolutely refused to get up. and said I didn't care if the horse kicked the side of the barn out. I Jut pa didn't see it that way. and with unwarrantably emphatic language said that it was my own fault, as I hadn't tied the horse up short enough. Well, I decided there was no more sleep for me till I had done his wish, so down 1 went. With our combined efforts, we dragged the animal from the stall on to the stable floor so that he could get up. It was exhilarating, to say the least, and I was waked up finely. I Jut to wake up in the middle of the night and start a tug-of-war on a horse’s tail in a gym. where even your own thoughts would freeze, is not the kind of exercise I am accustomed to. Sulked off to bed, giving pa and the horse a look that was colder than my thoughts. As I stubbed my toe getting in bed. I growled: “Well, what in the world is coming next! It came all right, in the form of a crash of shat- tered glass. I awoke with a start, and gripped the bed-post hard enough to break it. Another Italian earthquake. 1 thought, but soon realized my mistake, as I heard the milkman stumble uj the back steps with a couple more bottles. Could 1 be any madder? Xot that night! Felt like chasing the man back to the farm, and wished that the cows had never gotten into the ark. After a few more explosive remarks, dropped off to sleep once more with a sense of breaking dawn and breaking milk bottles on my mind. It was in this way that I was awakened again about five o’clock. The coffee had been getting in its good work, and I was dreaming of smashing every bottle in that milkman’s cart. It was a furious dream, and 1 was more furious; only I was work- ing it out in reality: the pillow was the milkman and my watch crystal was the load of bottles. As the watch went living through the air to the floor, I came to. Oh. what a night! A fine night’s rest! I hissed. I'll sleep now if I have to take chloro- form. Don't care what time I get up or when I get to school. 1 will sleep.” And so I raged, till I finally cooled off externally and internally and dozed off. only to be awakened again by father. Get up. he was saying. “You chump, you left the furnace door open ail night, and the fire’s dead out. This was the climax. With the yell of a mad man. I was up and dressed, had the fire going in no time, and with a soul full of revenge and a mouth full of breakfast, was on my way to school. Some of the teachers noticed an irritable and bad-tetnpered boy that day, and wondered what was the matter. He alone could tell; never will he forget that night’s rest. Signed and certified, William Hunnewell, L., '09. u SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 111 Cbe fourteenth of 3S ? Herbert WL. porter, he., T2 OUBTLESS this seems an ordinary date to most people. To every patri- otic American rifle, however, it is the one great day of the year; it is the day of Winchester’s birth. On the night of the thirteenth, from eleven o’clock until twelve, all American-born firearms have the gift of speech. Thus it was that a dis- cussion occurred in a little basement gunshop of Boston. “Pards,” drawled an old Marlin repeater, who till now had spent his life in the far West, yister- day I dropped a bead for the first time on one o' these new-fangled shoot-sticks. An' ycr can stake ycr claim that I reflect with great sadness on the decline of sportsmanship in the East. If any feller ever struck west o' the I fig Water with one of them wholesale shot-dispensers, he’d be run out o’ town. “Sir. it was a Baker-Batavia that spoke, an aristocrat of shotguns, you are obviously from the West, and therefore allowance must be made for vour ignorance of hunting in the New England states. In this section of the country. I am proud to say, we hold a high place in the estimation of every hunter. Stung! exclaimed a pert little sixteen-gauge Stevens. I reckon that you’d better ‘stake your claim' that there’s more of our blessed tribe than yours in good old Massachusetts. “Yes. my aged friend. said a Fox double-bar- reled condescendingly, we allow that you may be a sufficient arm for large game, but there your use- fulness ceases. Thus in the matter of general utility I am by far your superior. I carry every- thing from buck to dust shot. I lull! grunted an old Winchester 351, ‘T hope this 'ere logical argyment eases you 1 Lawson gents’ mainsprings. I come from the old Pine Tree state, an’ I tell you I’ve shot more deer and moose than you’ve got twists on those purry blue bar’ls o’ yourn, an’ I never saw no use in these durn spatter-guns yit. I also beg leave to sav, said a gentlemanly Remington. Model ’07, “that I have always looked with contempt upon every arm designated by a gauge. Oh. that word gauge! stormed a fiery Mauser who had seen service in the Philippines. How weak and effeminate it sounds beside the word calibre! Shades of Dupont! What would those ladies’ guns have done in the Spanish war!’’ It seems to me. however. said a bold little Flobert. that if we would be quite fair in this mat- ter. we should see clearly that the varying condi- tions in various parts of this country demand a variation in firearms, and I think---’’ But a storm of protest cut him off: Traitor! Crack his breech-lock! Twist his sight! Plug his muzzle ! Slap the baby ! We don’t accept opinions from 22 s,” sneered a Stevens’ 25. There was a rusty cough, and an old, dusty army-rifle clanked from a far corner of the shop. Clearing his chamber with another hoarse cough, he slowly turned to the last speaker: Nor frum them either as can’t put a bullet through a shingle at twenty feet: you couldn’t smash an egg at five paces with the wind behint ycr. Hear! Hear! laughed a little Hopkins and Allen. First production of the Springfield fac- tory, gas-pipe barrel, soft pine stock. Model ’ M. Silence, you fool! said the Remington. Have respect for a Civil War veteran. As I was just going to say. continued the old army rifle. I think that little production of Bill Flobert‘s come purty nigh to the truth. Even if we do think we're a little mite better. I move that we treat these 'ere strangers courteous an’ call ’em by their right names. I've seen my bit of war. an’ I calkalate to agree pretty well with Cncle Billy Sherman about it. Now, who votes for peace? Every lever was thrown back and Ave! rang out from a score of metallic throats. Very good. resumed the veteran. Now. as is indicated by that there chronometer, we will have a short spell of peace an' quiet: but, com- rades. just think it over, an’ I calkalate we’ll spend a purty pleasant hour 'bout a year from now. And as he spoke the clocks of the city struck twelve, and quiet returned to the little gunshop in the basement. I 12 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR THe Letter Box H plea for a Xarcjer School Htbletic Xcaiiuc ’RING the last football season a num- ber of points of dissatisfaction arose. Chief among these were the inability of strong teams to meet each other, poor attendance at most of the games, the indecisive results when strong teams not in the same league came to- gether. and finally doubt as to which team was the actual champion of Eastern Massachusetts. These points, with many lesser ones, have arisen not only in the most recent football season, but throughout every season of both football and baseball for the last few years. Opinions will differ as to how much of a drawback these disadvantages are, but it can do no harm to discuss them and see if some remedy can be found by changing or altering the present athletic system. To get a better idea of the troubles and the means of eradicating them, it is necessary to get a fairly clear idea of the present organization of school sports. There arc four leagues around Boston in which the principal schools are included. Each league, except one, has four members, but since two schools are each in two dif- ferent organizations, there are thirteen in the entire list. Besides the Interscholastic League, composed of Somerville, Rindgc. Dor- chester. and Boston English, there are the Boston High School League, made up of Dorchester, Bos- ton English, Boston Latin, and Mechanic Arts; the Preparatory, including Newton. Brookline, Cambridge Latin; and the Suburban League, em- bracing Malden, Medford, Everett, and Melrose. In considering any change in the present system, one fact stands out so clearly that it must be ad- mitted by all. It is not possible for all the teams to be in one league.—the playing season in both foot- ball and baseball is too short. This being under- stood, one looks to sec if there is any natural divi- sion. It seems that there is. There are certain schools that stand out distinct from the rest in that they have good teams year in and year out which are always strong bidders for the champion- ship. These teams appear to have a sort of pres- tige or custom of success, but there is probably a deeper reason for their victories. They generally represent large districts and hence have more material to work with. Somerville High may often have a team which is not of championship calibre, but it is impossible for her to have an insignificant team on account of her large attendance, if for no other reason. The same applies to the other mem- bers of the Interscholastic League, to at least three of the Boston School League, and to Newton and Malden. It is, therefore, practical to include in the main group these seven or eight schools, and to contrast the specific advantages which would come from their union with the ad- vantages of the old order. ()nc of the hardest tasks confronting the manag- ers in making out their schedules is the arranging of contests with strong teams not in the same league. The primary object of all teams is to win the championship in their own respective leagues. The schedule is made out so as to have the team rise gradually to the league games. The attempt is made to have each team that is faced a little more powerful until a couple of games before the league contests, when weak opponents are sought. The end in view is gradually to increase the work of the team up to a short period before the critical match, then to give it a short lay-off by meeting weaker schools. As the games of the dif- ferent leagues do not come on the same dates, it is almost impossible for a manager to obtain a date with a powerful outside team that will fit both in his own schedule properly and in that of the other manager. Phis difficulty would not exist if the strong schools were in one league instead of sev- eral. Although in many of the earlier games the teams would not have reached the height of their strength, this would be true of both parties and would be as fair for one side as the other. Each league game counts as much as any other and there would be no occasion for holding back any- thing in reserve. Rut if under the existing order a manager aban- SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 1 '3 dons his prejudice and arranges games with strong outsiders at all costs, the result is ordinarily indecisive. His team is not fitted to meet its op- ponent. It is being nursed along for the league games and this match is only an incident. In the last football season Somerville and Mechanic Arts both met Waltham High when they were pro- vided only with common plays and were still raw and crude, compared with the latter team, which was trained to the quick to meet them. They were both beaten ; but there seems little doubt that if they had played Waltham at the fullest extent of their development they would have overcome her decisively. Had Waltham been in a league with these two they would have prepared for her and won. Waltham's league games with Fitchburg and Leominster were ridiculously easy and so she was able to concentrate all her attention on each game as it came along. Another unfortunate fact that has arisen in the last few seasons is the poor attendance at many of the games. Athletic associations must have plenty of money if they are to live, and poor teams will not draw crowds. At almost half the games last fall our grandstand was practically empty, and a few persons dribbled along the side-lines were the only spectators in evidence. On the other hand the public will turn out in grand style to watch a good team. The Malden, the Waltham (where the attendance was the greatest in the his- tory of its field), and even the Boston Latin game, although on a Wednesday, illustrate this. It will also turn out to sec a league opponent, good, bad, or indifferent, as the interest in their team's suc- cess is great among the general public and many business men follow the games more closely than the students themselves. Now. as in the new proposition the people would have a chance to see their representative not only meet strong teams, but meet them in the same league, the attendance would probably double. One objection that might be put forward is that such a schedule would bring too severe a strain on the players, particularly in football season. This might be made up for by dropping some of the Wednesday contests. But if players can be given scrimmages almost every day in the week, as was done last season, the result being to overtrain them for the final game, it ought surely to be practical to cut out some of this drudgery and give them a few more matches, without any greater physical strain and certainly with more enjoyment. Some may complain that the smaller teams would be left out in the cold. Is there anything to prevent their organizing an association of their own where all would have an equal chance, and where they would not year after year serve simply as victims for the big fellows to triumph over as they do now? In these days when connections are so handy it is about as easy to play in a town fif- teen miles distant as in one, two or three. Some eight or nine years back there were only two leagues, the Preparatory and the Intcrscholastie, and the combination worked finely. The winning teams of both leagues used to play off for the championship of Greater Boston. These two leagues were not organized according to strength but to vicinity, on account of the poorer car ser- vice then in vogue. In addition to these faults of the present system which the new would overcome, there would be a chance for several innovations which would hardly be practical now. There would be an opportunity for making a closer connection of sports. It might even be advisable to introduce a system like that used in the Olympic games. Besides the separate rewards given to the champion baseball and foot- ball teams, the most valuable trophy would be pre- sented to the school surpassing in all lines. There would have to be some method of counting agreed upon, such as baseball and football five points, hockey one, basket ball one, track three, etc. This plan if introduced would cause an interest to be taken in minor sports, such as hockey and basket ball, as these might be the deciding factors in the combat for the main reward. At present this in- terest seems sadly lacking. At this point some of the teachers might raise the cry that the schools would be so overrun and occupied with athletics that there would be no time for study. The answer is that a combination so closely organized as this would be easier to control than is the present loose arrangement. The rules would be more tightly drawn and a much stricter standard of scholarship could be demanded by the masters. The greater the honor and the keener the desire to contend, the greater the power in the hands of the one who calls for good work before the aspirant is allowed to enter the competition. There could undoubtedly be many practical reasons cited showing the difficulty of realizing any such plan: the jealousy between teams, the doubt as to which actually deserve to be admitted, etc. This article does not attempt to answer these. It is merely trying to show that such a league would be desirable and a great improvement over existing 114 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR conditions. If this be admitted that is all that is wished. Where there’s a will there’s a way.” and perhaps some method may be found in the future for realizing such a scheme. In the meanwhile, let us repeat.—discussion can do no harm. Simply as a suggestion, attention might be called to the fact that there is talk of abolishing the Boston High School League. If this is carried out. the natural consequence is for it to be ab- sorbed in the Interscholastic League. Two of its members already belong to the latter association: therefore it is natural for the other two. Boston Latin and Mechanic Arts, to come in also. If this should happen, the Interscholastic League, com- posed of six fine large schools, would be the most powerful and infiuential organization in Massa- chusetts. and Xewton. Malden, or Waltham could probably be induced to enter if it were deemed ad- visable. W. S. Howe. L.. ’00. Z. JB. Club The T. B. Club held their first dance in Anthoine Hall January 2 . The hall was prettily decorated with wisteria and chrysanthemums. The matrons were Mrs. W. A. Henderson and Mrs. J. Cabot Kimpton. The members arc: Mabellc Hender- son (president). Ethel MacLean (vice-president). Anna Kimpton (secretary), Sylvie Aker (treas- urer). Sigrid Aker. Marion Earle, and Marjorie Sawyer. Music was furnished by Poole’s or- chestra. Cau 'Olpstlon E elta At the last meeting of the fraternity, it was de- cided to hold a dance on April 22. This is the first public affair ever attempted by the fraternity, and the members are exerting every effort to make it a success. Tickets may be obtained from Clay- ton Millikcn. Latin. '05). Charles Hughes, English, ’05), Harold Smart. English, ’05), and any other members of the fraternity. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR «15 || Mfl« gci� lolofcloTatQTQlo] I XT' rii'?J ’00 Allison Newton. Class Editor. Of course, like all class editors, we have been continually deluged with notes from our class- mates. and, in common with our colleagues, we have evened up with gentle and soothing remarks on their personalities. They, however, have gone us one better by contributing reams of poetry??? We have determined, though, to have our revenge. We shall publish some of it. 'Twas just the other day in class That all did shed a tear When some one mentioned Bacchus, And we found he wasn’t here. These are the ebullitions of Mac Lean while gaz- ing upon a wooden Indian cigar sign. A hand- some prize is offered for any satisfactory explana- tion of not over 1,500 different words:— The car rushed madly down the street. The woman held her breath, The ship was sailing o’er the sea Into the jaws of death. But ho! I see a form ! Oh. pray, what can it be? It is but dear old Stcwy, With his hands upon his knee. By the way, since this attack, detailed above, the poor lad has been stricken with a love story. (?!) THE SENIOR SOIREE. In our last year comes a gala time. The time of all the year; Amid the dance and music Is a time we’ll long hold dear (whoever she is). The author of the above lines did not sign his name, but we know whom it sounds like. Slater’s little ditty, which he affectionately dedi- cates to a friend, an artist in the use of slang, has. been blue-penciled out. Some of Richard’s terrible speculations on Hen- derson's loquacity met the same fate. We refrain from explaining how Miss Treadwell can write so feelingly in the following sonnet:— Have you not seen the slippery sidewalk’s glare. As oft to work or school you wend your way? And boldly starting out. as if to sav: 'I will not fall. —a foolish, empty dare,— For after several moments of great care. You think you're safe: just then, to vour dismay. You slip, and down you go, and down you stay; For thus a sidewalk takes one unaware. Your hat flies off: at least, it gets awry: our new umbrella cracks beneath your weight; You make one last attempt to stand up straight; Perchance successful, whereupon you try io gather your belongings if you can. And start afresh, this time a wiser man. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 116 TO II. II. Greenwood, Class Editor. Every one wants to turn out to the basket ball games, as the school is represented by a very strong team. R---- 1 (after a brilliant recitation): ‘‘How do I know? It’s a question.'” MacKinnon wishes to announce through this column that he wishes the “a” left on in Me. Remark heard by pupils of Room 2f at 8.35 every morning: “Ah! here are the union help.” Omnis Troia Xeptuna humo fumat. Neptune smokes all Troy on the ground. R----d is writing a very pretty piece of music, entitled “Shorty.” It is with great regret that we hear that our classmate, Bill” Sharp, is sick. Here's hoping his recovery will be quick. M—1—x was the cause of great excitement in Room 2d. It was similar to the fall of Troy. I� —r—li marches proudly around Room 25 bear- ing the window pole. A teacher claims he is train- ing for a ten-mile walk. The Freshmen think school's wondrous. The Sophomores think it’s a lark. The Juniors don't know what to think. The Seniors keep it dark. T—1—er certainly makes a fine bear for a small fellow. This space represents the editors winning smile. The I). 11. Club of the Junior class is having a great, successful time. For information apply to Putney. Woodman, and Reed. Moving day in Room 33. Heard in history: T wish you to be most care- ful. however, about these topics. I don't believe in dates, as you have already noticed.” And then we all laughed. A loud, thunderous, reverberating noise is heard, then a gentle voice saying: Will some one please wake Davis up?” 1 loward’s recesses are taken up nearly every day by teaching his honorable classmates the chain- gang walk.” There seems to be only one way to convince Maulsby. but that has yet to be found. Tl M. J. Messer, Jr., Class Editor. S—rg—t has lately developed a great talent for art. Most of his efforts are as good as a Runic stone, for it's mighty hard to tell what they are all about. Some one has remarked that Nowell has a lean and hungry look. We advise Grape Nuts. Who wants to be a soldier? Jerry got lost in 21 the other day. Is it as seri- ous as all that. Jerry? What Sophomore e'er wrote such punk. Or let such quishy maxim fall: Tis better to recite and flunk Than never to recite at all”? How quickly you can judge of a boy’s year in high school by the lunch he demolishes! The Freshman takes milk, of course ; the Sophomore, pie: the Junior munches sandwiches; the Senior devours hot dogs fiercely. The sweet co- eds naturally eat nothing but fudge, ice cream, and pickles. The air of the library is congenial to some of the boys, but there is a strange perturbation there, for usually they don’t remain long. Miss St —k—le’s squeak during Latin recitation is very (?) musical. The audience seems well pleased with Nick’s new comedy. Looking Backwards.” President of Woman's Rights Club. Miss Atkins. Anybody wishing to take piano lessons may apply at Room 11 at recess. . Miss Lincoln is a tony soul. As through the streets she takes her passage, She lugs a shiny music roll Stuffed full of angel cake and sassidge. Newt (reading English): “The perserve widow.” Heavens, fellows, another kind! How to act in a fire drill:— First—Get excited. Second—Make a formation rush for the door. Third—Fall gently, silently, and softly down stairs, as the quickest way of getting there. This course is ascribed by competent authority. The girls decide in English lit- erature. as they the pages scan. The finest poem ever writ Is surely Pope's Essay on Man. Freshman Notes on page 121. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR '09 Lester C. Gustin, Class Editor. The time for choosing the Class Day officers is almost here. It is really but a short time before Ivy Day, when we stop to consider. Lour months is none too long for the class historian and class prophet to look into the past and future of every Senior. Come on. Juniors, wake up and get busy about your dance. Poor Walter! Was he really mad 'cause he got the introduction? How some of the boys' are going to try for their letter:— Jones—Marbles. Miner—Tiddledv winks. Laurent—Ping-pong. Holmes—Continued fractions or else determi- nants. Chapin—As a Marathon runner. Holm—Checkers. Brigham—Chess. Palmer—Just talking for it. For the benefit of a certain young lady in the Senior class, we wish to state that our eyes are brown, also that we absolutely refuse to play the Japanese Prayer’’ when any of the opposite sex are present. Seniors, wc have passed one-half of the final year. Have we accomplished one-half of our Senior work? If any of us have been so unfortu- nate as to get a D.” now is the time to make it up. If wc wait, class pictures, Ivy Day, and prep- arations for graduation will be here, and it will be difficult to find time for extra study. The marvel of the '09 class! Six-foot Crocker, and he walks on all of them. Heard in elocution :— Why did he ask all the questions? Bagster: ' Because he wanted to know. Translated in German : He had rubbed his head so much tiiat in the course of vears he had become bald.” Notice:— The hair-comb on Whitman. The frown on Miss Dunning. The smile on Jones. The books Blanchard takes home. The books Rich doesn't take home. The laugh on Lloyd. The French from Harlow. Pile Solid that Russell knows. The recently-cultivated tenor of Miille. Buck” says the last stand of the Old Guard at Waterloo was a grandstand. The latest from Shakespeare: Rosalind was disguised as a woman. Arrangements have been made to have the fol- lowing lectures given soon :— How I Made My Money. Cheetham. Immortality of the Soul, Snow. Wild Animals of the Tech Class,” Miss Granger. Why I Love Elocution. Miss Greenberg. Get busy, poets of the ’09 class, and send us in some notes. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR ji8 TO Andrew F. Handley. Class Editor. Heard in III. German (3): Man sollt nicht lesen wahrend man ist. One should not eat while he reads.” The (K)nights are becoming shorter. How about it. John? Vou don't know what MCI stands for? Well, ask M------vc. One of the most thrilling of modern detective stories has been published recently. Xo one- should delay in the least in reading this story. It is entitled The Missing Papers.” Written by F. L. Arnold, S. F. H. S.. 1 . So great.is the plot of the story that it is advised to be published in some country newspaper. In history:— Teacher: What claim did the king have to the throne? Pupil: He married his wife's brother. It is always Knight in Room 28. It has been said that one member of our class was asked to buy four dance tickets in one day. He must be a good dancer. The Schools of England will be a topic for dis- cussion in Room 28 every day at recess. Profes- sor Rodway will lecture. He has attended the schools, and therefore knows. Going to play on Somerville next spring. Hodg? The school year has now gone three-fifths of its way. If you have any deficiencies, now is the time to make them up. Remember, you want to sit in a Senior room next year. Hughes (translating French): When I awoke the sun was on my head ' Heard in III. German (3): Lip—res: 'Flic noise of battle which he tasted. How many per cent. Fahrenheit, Hod? 'feacher: What arc columns of tlamc?” Pupil: Columns of flame. Arnold is still growing old. Pupil (to teacher, speaking of Henry VIII s wife): Which one? Our friend. Alvin Quimbv. has gone back to Maine. III. French (2): M. de Yerac est ties prenable par les yeux. M. de Yerac is very easily taken by the eyes. Do not think McConnell is a professional stcrc- opticon (the spelling of this word was gotten from a Senior) operator. THE HISTORY LECTURE. One of our ethics periods this month was taken up by a very interesting lecture on the time of Queen Elizabeth. Miss Tuell, of the history de- partment. lectured. 'flic lecture covered many points of international concern about explorers, and all great men of the period. The colleges at Oxford were pictured and described during the pe- riod. This is the first time during our three years that we have had a lecture of this kind, and the great applause at its conclusion is proof that another would be enjoyed. Tl Arthur W. Leighton. Class Editor. Knox now has an enlarged shoe box for a desk, and it is only by a careful use of practical geom- etry that he is able to store away in it a geometry and a hat (not a derbv). • “He who hesitates is lost. According to this. Hurley will disappear some fine morning when he attempts to air his knowledge in history. In German:— Teacher: “Glaubst du alles, was du liorst?” Do you believe all that you hear? Waldron: Xein. No.” A FEW AMBITIONS. Farrow—To go to France. Fox—To become an author. Smith—To drink much cold coffee. Clough—To grow. Bridges—To make his hair more wavy. Blanchard and Freetoe—Same as Clough. Regan—To do nought. Hayden—To be Regan's first assistant. Conant—To be Regan's second assistant. The sun’s spots are put into complete oblivion by the spots on II—n—ill’s socks. It is rumored that Pierce's piercing glances have pierced a fair maiden’s heart. Fisher is still fishing fishy fish. (Apology: We hesitated before adding this chestnut to the collec- tion already in the column, but finally yielded to Blackett’s persuasive argument.) Some think that if McC----y knew as much as lie thinks he does, he would be a very wise man. Miss W—n—g (in Deutsch): Mit deni Halts greift man. With the house one grasps.” SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR A few alliterations of Division D.:— Brainful Henson. “Boisterous Bernson. “Battling Butters. ' Claudia Caldwell. Cunning Conant. “Dande Dearborn. Dry Dutelle. ‘ Hearty Hayden. Healthy” Howland. “Heavy Hurley. Melancholy Molen. “Prominent Pierce. “Rich Regan. Sunny Sargent. Wanted: A private detective to solve the mys- tery as to where the contributions of the class are! T2 Oliver Churchill. Class Editor. You’re improving in the smile, Miss Lay, now add a few dimples. Space left for the comic laugh, that belongs to Nuts. Rag men have no sympathy after 1.30 if the snow is moist. Class spirit! Realize what it means and he loyal to your column. Pickle is getting bald-headed, or else he is try- ing to make his hair correspond to the rest of his make-up (thin). Miss Dow—y thinks she is growing taller every day. Explosion in Science A. Miss M—y—r is re- covering steadily. Room 12 contains a Kitchen, hut no dining- room. The latest translations: “With a tear on her lip and smile in her eye. There was never a maid like young Lochinvar. The W. A. S. P. is growing. A few pupils, noted for their art of stinging, were admitted recently. Phin—y, our noble-minded classmate, lias dis- carded his fine line of neckties and taken on a choker and knot tie. The Wood Bees :— C—s—r—ve. a sport. Alice M—r—ss. the winsome lass. Wasps of 1 X. O'C-----, etc., a pretty hoy. Johnson, wild spider tamer, 14 X. 119 You may grow out of it. Sh—w, for sometimes there conics over your face an expression that is almost humane. The pupils of 1 X have got the collecting and mating of rubbers at 1.30 down to a science. The worst thing a Ercshman can do is to like an upper class pupil. Remember, we are only Fresh- men. We girls think Boh is getting prettier every day. Some people think C—v—11 and C—s—r—ve are twins. Miss San—rn has invented a new language, which is more agreeable than Latin or French. Cosgrove thinks a v entine box would he ap- proved of. 1 guess he has a scrap-book to he filled. Boys, get wise to that ’0!) necktie of Miss C—by’s. Have you seen the sleeping beauty in seat 72, Room 1 I X? Mr. Avery’s domestic art for girls could he put into practice by helping the hoys on with their coats and supplying mirrors and combs. We regret the loss of Miss H—1—111—s’ pleas- ing smile: at least, the writer does. R—g—r certainly doesn't take the price of shoe leather into consideration while puzzling out his Latin lesson. So passed away Boh Garland, And came William in his place. The fellow with the curly hair And blushing schoolgirl face. 120 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR The most complete Christmas number received was the Spectator from Johnstown. Penn. The cover design of the three wise men is very attrac- tive. and the many Christmas stories and poems show hard work on the part of the pupils to make the number a success. The year book of the Oracle, of Burlingame, Kan., is very interesting. The pictures of the members of the graduating class and the class his- tories of the various classes add a great deal to the graduating number. The prize stories. “Peter and the Old Man” and Joy’s Christmas Fairy. in the Beacon, of Chelsea, are good. Would it not he a better plan to keep the advertisements together? The exchange column is bright and helpful. The cover of the Par-Sem. from Xorth Parsons- field. Me., is neat and attractive. The story. Grandfather's Story.” is interesting, for it has a weird tone which is not found in many stories. The Medford Review has a very interesting number, but the exchange department could well be developed. The stories in the High School Herald, although brief, are good, and the exchange notes to the point. The Vox Studentis has an interesting story. That Old Slave of Mine. A few more jokes and poems would, however, improve the paper a great deal. You have a good cover. Dome, but why not bet- ter cuts and more stories? Your cuts. High School Panorama, are excel- lent. and the football story. Jimmy’s Play,” is especially good. We didn't notice any jokes in the Item, but their loss is made up by the excellent stories and poems. Your cuts. Whims, are exceptionally good, and the story. “Elizabeth Barton’s Christmas,” is very interesting. Why not have more cuts, Messenger? It would make the paper more attractive. You have plenty of stories and jokes. Salem Commercial School Quarterly, but vour poems seem to be lacking. The printing. Argonaut, is rather small, other- wise the paper is first-class. The Quarterly Taller is an excellent paper, and we enjoy reading it. 'I'lie Mascot has plenty of stories, but how about the cuts? 'I'lie Echo is one of the best of our exchanges : it always contains something of interest. The story of Glimpses of Life in the Far East,” in the Melrose Life, tells of many of the customs of the Eastern countries. 'I'lie Brookline Sagamore says that our literary department is far in advance of any other ex- change we have yet received.”—Thank you. Saga- more. We're in a pickle,” said a man in a crowd. A regular jam. said another. Heaven preserve us,” said an old lady.—Ex. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR I 21 ’Twixt optimist and pessimist The difference is droll; The optimist the doughnut sees, The pessimist the hole. —Ex. “Waiter,” said a traveler in a railroad restau- rant. did you say I had twenty minutes to wait, or that it was twenty minutes to eight?” Nayther, Oi said ye had twenty minutes to ate, and that’s all ye did have. Yer train’s just gone.” —Ex. Teacher: “Now, class, what is it that a man must have in order to succeed?” No answer. Teacher: “Well, can't you think? What does it say on the store door? Tommy (suddenly): I know now. It savs: •Pull Ex. Teacher: “Johnny, can you tell me how iron was first discovered?” Johnny: “Yes, sir. I heard papa say yesterday that they smelt it.”—Ex. They were Romeo and Juliet, Twas in a restaurant they met. They got mad then. And they're mad yet. ’Cause Romeod” what Juliet.” —Ex. Student: “You say that if I buy the pony it will save half of my studying?” Clerk: “Yes.” Student: “Gimme two.”—Ex. Teacher: “Where are the largest harbors in the world?” Bright Boy: “On the coast.”—Ex. Pat and Mike each wished to be up first on St. Patrick’s Day. Pat: If I get up first I'll make a chalk mark on the floor.” Mike: “And if I get up first Til rub it off.”—Ex. “I saw a big rat in my cooking stove, and when I went for my revolver he ran out.” “Did you shoot him?” “No. he was out of my range.”—Ex. “Faith, Mrs. O’Hara, how do you tell the twins apart?” “Aw, ’tis aisy. I sticks me finger in Moike’s mouth, and if he bites I know it’s Dinnis.”—Ex. Fond Mamma (to Willie’s aunt): Have you seen my sunburst yet?” Maiden Aunt: “No, but I shall if he eats that seventh piece of pie.”—Ex. If a Senior meet a body Coming to the High, If a Senior call you Freshie,” Need a body cry? Ilka Senior’s been a Freshie In the days gone by. We'll smile and say. “We’ll soon be Seniors, Coming to the High.” —Ex ----------------------------- Xatin, '12 Francis J. Mahoney, Class Editor. 'Tis said that Mitchell leaves Marks after him everywhere lie goes. He visited the public library atSt. Louis (Lewis) last summer,tore a Pa(i)ge out of a book which contained pictures of flowers that Blum about the Nile(s), and being a heavy Walker,, made work on the floor for a Carpenter. He said that he thought the “cops” would Lynch him for Holden up a Smith at his Forg, but he went to the Holmes of the “cops” and fixed it up. He then started for a Music Hall. He tore his coat on the way, so he had to go to a Taylor. This Taylor Burns gas. and the Plummer was repairing the pipes. On leaving the shop, Mitch stooped to pick up a Chequer. As he did so. a Mann sprang from behind a Bush and struck him, but Mitch did not Fall. The Mann escaped. Mitch asked a Small boy whom he met where he could buy a cigar, 'flic youngster refused to answer. “Oh, Du Telle me.” said Mitch. Well, sir. De Celles ’em across de street. Mitchell next visited Chinatown, where he proceeded to raise Kane withi the little men wlio eat Rice. Healey! Tacks-ss-s-ss-s. Curry might easily secure a position with a circus company as a wood-eater. Macdonald had a toothache the other day. If we judge by his face, it must have been a swell affair. M—t—11 has a day off each week—Tuesday. M—r—s has thoroughly recovered from the mumps. The Freshmen should get busy and attend the basket ball games. Miss McN-------1 has quite a collection of sweaters. P—ker is all right at basket ball. Ol—n's train is late too often. (This column slipped, but by strenuous efforts we saved it from falling out entirely.—Ed.) 122 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Ada ilallett, Latin. ’07. lias recently been com- pelled t leave Smith College on account of her health. Bergen Reynolds and Kenneth Armstrong, Latin. '00, are Juniors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Olive Wallace. Latin, '04, Mt. Holyoke, '08, is teaching in the high school at Hillsboro, X. II. Katherine Foster, Latin. '04. is very active in the college life at Vassar, where she is now a Senior. The engagement has been announced of Irma R. Christopher, Latin. ’00. to Charles Adams Jen- sen, of Winthrop. Russell Freeman. Latin. ‘0(5, is studying at the Boston Art School. Constance Tcad. Latin. ‘05, is working in the Congregational Publishing House on Beacon street. Florence Sturtevant, Latin. '07, is a Sophomore at Smith College. Edward Xorris and Cornish Pearson, members «of last year’s class at the Latin School, entered the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Ruth Whitman. Latin. 0o, is now a Senior at Mt. Holyoke. Gorham W. Harris, Latin post-graduate, '03, Harvard, ’07, is acting as assistant in the chemical laboratory at Harvard. Marion Bunker. Latin. ’05, is teaching in a private kindergarten in Brookline. Herbert Sanborn, Latin. '0(5. seems to be divid- ing bis time between Wellesley and Harvard. Eleanor Richardson. Latin. '00, Alice Hunnc- ■wcll, Latin. ‘07. Irene Floyd, Latin. '07, and Alice Chadwick. Latin. ' : . took prominent parts.in an operetta, The Rebels. given at Radcliffe January 8 and 9. Miriam Hills, Latin, '07, was otic of the assistant costume managers. Recent visitors in the English School: A delega- tion from the Everett High School, including Head Master Lockwood, Miss Freeman, with several others of the faculty. Representa- tives from the Haverhill. Weston, and Quincy High Schools, also a number of our Old Grads. whom the mid-years gave an opportunity to call on us, and who are always welcome. Mabel Jefferson. English, '08, is a bookkeeper for (I. R. Willis Co., Boston. I lester Philbrick. English, '08, is at the Chandler School of Shorthand, Boston. Hattie Pipe. English. '07, is a stenographer in Boston. Agnes R. Wallace. English, '98, was married to William Eden, of Somerville, this month. Professor and Mrs. Charles F. Thomson, of Paterson. X. J.. announce the engagement of their daughter Marie to William U. W’vman, English, '02, Dartmouth. '00. Emily Wilson, English. '07. is a stenographer for Bigelow. Kennard Co.. Boston. Eleanor MacQuinn is working in a broker’s office on State street. Boston, as a stenographer. Mildred Young. English. '00, is now a Junior at Simmons College, where she is taking a course in I lousehold Economics. Elmer C. Houdlctte, English. ’00. is now a Freshman at the Cniverstiy of Maine, having pre- viously spent two years at Tufts. Joseph Parent. English, ’07, is a surveyor for the Boston and Maine Railroad. William Bishop. English. ‘07, is employed by the Boston and Maine Railroad. The class of English. '07. recently held a meet- ing preliminary to a grand reunion in the near fu- ture. The meeting was held in Room 19 which was filled to overflowing quite in the old time fashion. William Bishop. Edna Harrison, and SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 125 others of the noted debaters had evidently lost none of their ability. Pray follow this good ex- ample of class reunion, classes '9G —’0 S inclusive. Elisabeth Laurent. English, ’02, is at present employed by the Crosby Steam Gage and Valve Company, Boston. Eva Bancroft, Latin. '08, is a member of the Freshman class at Simmons College, and is study- ing at the Boston Conservatory of Music. Eleanor Preble, Latin, '0(5, Grace Cousens, Latin, 06, and Marion Ritchie, Latin. 08, are taking courses at the Framingham Normal School. ----------------------------------------- IResolutlons Whereas, by the will of Providence, our class- mate, Laura Elston, has been bereaved of her father; Resolved, that we. the.class of 1000, tender her our heartfelt sympathy. 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Matter for insertion may be left with any of the editorial staff or mailed to the editor at the English High School. In contributing, write on one side of the paper only and sign full name. 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. Term� , 75 Cents per Year Entered as second class mail matter at Boston P. � ., March, HHK' Single Copies, 10 Cents SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT E itorial Staff associate Editor VIVIAN BEERS. L.. '09 EditorsinsCbicf ERNEST V . CHAPIN. E., 09 Business fcanaacr HOWARD A. MacLEAN, L., '09 Ercbanfle Editor LORENE A. WHITNEY. L.. '09 assistant Business fcanaaer STUART FOSTER. E.. '10 Sporting Editor PERCY G. WHITMAN. E., '09 Second assistant Business Manager J. ELLIOT SLATER. L., '09 Blumni Editors (Treasurer L. ELIZABETH CHICKERING. L., 09 GEORGE M. HOSMER (Faculty) EDNA F. TEELE. E.. '09 Statt Hrtist M. ESTHER SHAPLEIGH. E.. 10 Class Efntors Xatin School ALLISON NEWTON. '09 HARRY H. GREENWOOD, '10 MELVIN J. MESSER, Jr.. 'II FRANCIS J. MAHONEY, '12 EnfUisb School LESTER C. GUSTIN, '09 ANDREW F. HANDLEY, TO ARTHUR LEIGHTON, 'll OLIVER CHURCHILL. T2 128 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR EDITORIALS We have tried to make this issue of the Radiator interesting to the alumni. While un- able to reach many, we are sincerely grateful to those who have responded to our call. The arti- cles contributed by graduates will be read with un- usual interest as springing from the fountain-head of wisdom—experience. The article by Mr. Luce was delivered as an ad- dress to the Senior and Junior classes of the Eng- lish School at their Lincoln Day exercises. The listeners were much pleased with Mr. Luce, and would be glad to see him again. The speech was taken down in shorthand by Miss Sargent and Miss Waranow, promising stenographers of the class. The skill which they have acquired in that study allows us to present a practically verbatim report. There being no stenography department in the Latin School, we were unable to get the talk which President Hamilton, of Tufts College, gave before the entire school at their exercises. 'Phis is un- fortunate, as President Hamilton’s masterly ad- dress would have added much interest to our columns. UK� � � � We greatly regret to announce the resignation of Miss Eda L. Nichols, of the English School fac- ulty. She has been at the head of the elocution department since the school opened in 1895. Her pupils have found her always earnest and conscien- tious in duty, and fair o judgment, with kindly sympathy and interest in all. Those who have met her in a social way know her for a true and congenial friend. All are sorry to lose a valued instructor, but join in wishing her Godspeed. She leaves for a position in the Curtis School.. Staten Island, N. Y. Assuredly our loss is their gain. Miss Laura Lambert, of the Emerson School of Oratory, has been engaged to take Miss Nichols’ classes for the rest of the year. . Our friends will be interested to hear that the School Hoard have unanimously recommended an addition to the English School to provide accom- modation for our large and constantly-increasing number, thus leaving the present Annex entirely to the Latin School, as it should be. Who knows but that the Radiator may have an office yet? r As we write, work is being started to equip Som- erville with its first public wireless telegraph sta- tion. 'I'llrough the indulgence of higher authori- ties, we are to have poles attached to the pair of chimneys furthest apart on the English School building. Between these uprights the plan is to string an antenna of four wires, each composed of No, 1? bare copper double stranded, giving a stretch of about ninety feet. The instruments themselves will be placed in the physical labora- tory. As soon as the subscription being raised by the pupils concerned equals the cost of materials, our construction experts—wireless engineers, they SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 129 like to be called—will make up a receiving set good for several hundred miles. Transmitting ap- paratus, being more expensive, we cannot hope to get immediately. Rut patience and perseverance accomplish great things, and so we hope to have in the near future the outfit worthy of our topo- graphical situation. Soon the Radiator will be .sending compliments to President Taft via wire- less. or printing accounts of Roosevelt's African adventures received by the bespectacled gentleman with the “S” on his sweater; namely, B. S. r r We understand that the Latin Seniors and Juniors, singing together, have already taken up several pieces for graduation. The two upper classes of the English School are separately study- ing Mendelssohn’s oratorio, “Elijah,” and, Mr. Hadley tells us, doing creditable work with it. Speaking of music, our orchestra, which started out so hopefully this year, has recently suffered the loss of their skilful first violin, Mr. Quigley, who left school. We take this opportunity to voice their needs. Good violin players seem hard to ob- tain in sufficient number. Wind instruments, such as clarionets, trombones, and flutes, would make the work more pleasing and well balanced. 'Cellos arc desired—in fact, if you can play any musical instrument presentable well, kindly report and help to keep our orchestra up to last year’s form. The work at the Freshman reception was certainly a good beginning, but it requires continual applica- tion to keep up any good standard. . v � Mr. Poor, sub-master in the English High School, will conduct his annual tour, as usual, this year during the spring vacation. The party, under personal escort of our genial friend himself, leaves Battery Wharf at 0 p. m. by the Merchants and Miners Line Friday. April 23. A forty-hour sea trip speaks for itself. The itinerary includes many points of historic and present interest,—Newport News. Old Point Comfort. Hampton. Baltimore, Annapolis, Washington, Philadelphia, and New York. Those who have had the privilege of tak- ing this trip with Mr. Poor know what a delightful vacation it makes. We cordially thank S. Newton Cutler for his present to our libraries of the two sets on “The Government of England.” The author, A. Law- rence Lowell, was Mr. Cutler’s classmate at Har- vard. Such favors arc fully appreciated. laboratory Bote a tolU? £ouno ehemistrp touch Mbile mixing a compound ot stuff 2 roppefc a match in a vial, Huh after a while flbev found his front teeth and on e cuff. — fix. 130 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR H Xtncoln IDav Ht t ress° J6 j TRobert Xuce, JEsg., X., '77 : toarvarb, ’82 [Given before the Senior and Junior classes of the English High School, February 12, 1909,] a T would be impossible for me to sketch Jvifpl the life of Lincoln in any detail this morning: all that I can do is to offer a brief outline, and then draw con- -■- elusions that may be of value to us. I have been renewing my acquaint- ance with the story of his life preparatory to ad- dressing several audiences, and have been exceed- ingly interested to notice how my own point of view has changed since I read it as .a youth. In reading over again this story, I have found many things to encourage and to inspire me, but the great lesson from it is the lesson of growth. From the early biographers one is apt to gather the impression that he was a demigod, and that he was not a man whom you and I might hope to ap- proach. but when you read his life in the light of experience, you can see that he was very much of a man. and that he had his strength and his weak- nesses. He was not great in the possession of gifts, for he had not any wonderful gifts, unless it be the gift of work, and I sometimes think that is the greatest gift of all. I should differ somewhat from the governor in one phrase of his proclama- tion, where he said that Lincoln was deprived of the benefits of an early education. Education and schooling arc different things. Lincoln had access to the greatest books of all time—the Bible, Shakespeare, and the poets—and he mastered them: and it were better to master a dozen of the great books than to skim through a library of triviality. As a child he read more than his com- panions and playmates, and was always known as a persistent reader. Yet he was not a bookworm in the sense that he spent all his time reading. It is noticed by all his biographers that he was always willing and glad to do any task set before him, and to do it thoroughly. He was born in extreme poverty, among wretched surroundings, but poverty may not mean unhappiness, and he was doubtless as happy as other boys of his neighborhood. At the age of seven he emigrated into the new country of In- diana. where outdoor work was his daily task. When later lie moved to Illinois, he was still the uncouth country lad, the type of his time and of his surroundings. Yet he was inspired by ambition to make more of himself, the natural ambition of a youth who had read much. Hardly had lie come of age when he ran for the Legislature. He was defeated the first time, but nevertheless ran again, and was elected, serving four times. He was twice defeated for Congress before he won. Only four years before he was elected President of the United States, he said to a friend: “The race of ambition for me has been a failure.” Two years before he was President he said that all his allies and friends had deserted him. His life had not been one of unbroken siy:cess, but he refused to accept failures as final, and set to work to make victories of them, and at last became the leader of his country, be- cause he persisted in his labor. Defeat counts little: it is the work that ultimately tells, and gets the real results: it is the pleasure in the work that is its chief reward. Lincoln at the age of twenty-one had no trade, money, nor profession,’—hardly any clothes. When he exercised the right of his majority and left his home, he agreed to split 100 rails for every yard of jean. As late as when he was a member of his state’s Legislature, he went in his homespun clothes. Think of a politician of his rank going out every evening to get the cow, bringing her home and milking her, chopping wood, going to the grocery,—doing that on the very evening of the day when he was nominated to the Presidency! This was not affectation nor ostentation, merely the plain, simple life to which he had always been accustomed, and in which he found no shame. Until he became President he never employed a clerk or a stenographer, but wanted to do things for himself. That is the true American instinct— self-reliance, the instinct to do homely tasks with- out any feeling of degradation, the instinct we all should have. To be sure, every bov here who goes into business will sooner or later find, when he is out in the world, that if he desires to make money and prosper, he may have to follow the op- posite rule: “Never do yourself what some one • Prepared l� y Deborah Waranow (1!H)9) from her shorthand notes and from those of Marion Sargent (lliOD). SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR � 3i may do for you.” Hut that will not give you the satisfaction that comes from doing work yourself. Whether you follow the one rule or the other, the important thing that you should realize is that there may be honor in either, in doing things for yourself, or else in having others do them for you. Lincoln had reached middle age before the great honors of life came to him. When he was en- trusted with the Presidency, he was a shrewd, awk- ward. country lawyer, with a high, shrill voice, having given no promise of greatness, but known as an honest man. He had early acquired a repu- tation for honesty, because on the failure of the grocery store in which he was a partner, he shoul- dered the debt, and for fifteen years he devoted himself to paying the entire deficiency. He might have escaped that, since the law had no claim upon him. but he considered it a moral duty, and so com- pletely did he fulfil his obligations that he became known as “honest Abe,” a name and reputation of the greatest value to anybody. And in all his characteristics there was the same trait of honesty. It was known that he refused to take cases where there was no justice on the side of the client who applied to him. In business he showed a gener- osity that came near being his financial undoing, a charity that any man or woman might well imitate. The tender heart sooner or later is sure to arouse sympathy and win love. This helped him to captivate the imagination of the American people. He was always kind: would return strayed birds to their nests; would go into the mud when a pig was mired, that he might take her out. He was never willing to give pain to any being, and after childhood was not known to fire a shot at any living thing. Recause of this trait he threatened the discipline of the army when lie became President, again and again showing his tender heart by yielding to the appeal of some widowed mother for the life of the son who had been condemned by court-martial. Yet we find in «him that strength of character which nerved him to send thousands to death on the battle field that the nation might be saved. His books had been few. but he had studied in the greatest of schools, mankind itself. He had mastered that branch of learning. He knew men.—whether they were the intellectual leaders of the East, the radical abolitionists, or those strict constructionists who were equally severe and deemed him a usurper of the right of the people. Between these two extremes he had to follow a middle course, patient and unswerving. You know the story of those four years, the bickerings, the jealousies, the misunderstandings; and how even Lincoln's own associates in the cabinet mis- trusted him, and said slighting things about him in his presence. He brought with him a sense of humor which they could not appreciate. He could tell a story as no other American could, a gift which again aroused the admiration of the people. There is nothing like a sense of humor to make life happy, and if I were to advise any boy or girl what quality to cultivate to achieve the most happiness and suc- cess in life. I should say good nature, for the savage, bitter man is a plague to the earth. I would rather have good nature than all the learn- ing you can get. The good-natured man or woman is a blessing to everybody with whom he or she comes in contact. Thus Lincoln’s love of humor saved him from sadness, for he had been afflicted with a tendency towards melancholy since his mother’s death, and he became at times the most pathetic figure that we can imagine; but this saving grace of humor brightened his days. As a statesman. I may not praise him too highly. As a general, he directed our armies so skilfully that he was said to be the master of all. though lie knew almost nothing about warfare when he came to the Presidency. As a writer, he had early cultivated a style of fine writing, but from this he freed himself, be- coming at last one of the greatest writers of his day. because he was able to pen a few, simple, strong lines that reflected the very heart of the people themselves. It must be discouraging to that student who has spent years and years in try- ing to get a command of the dictionary, and in polishing his style, and who has tried to read everything that has been written, to find at the end that some master of simplicity has carried off the palm. The renowned orator. Edward Everett, was at his best on the battle field of Gettysburg, and then came Lincoln, with those few sentences, pregnant with power, and carried off all the honors of the day. This should be a great inspiration to us. Though we may not have learned to use all the five-syllabled words, and though we may feel that we are not trained and skilled in the arts of rhetoric, yet if we arc able to think and to express things clearly and simply, ours, perhaps, may be the same sort of victory. Lincoln was at all times a familiar man—easy of approach, and dignity played no part in his career. I would not underrate the importance of 132 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR dress, or manners, or the use of good English, and I think it would be wrong to praise Lincoln for his lapses in such matters, but we can draw this con- clusion—that these are merely external things, the husk of life, and it is the true grain which lies within that counts. Getting at the real character beneath the surface, we find the chief help from the story of his life in the inspiration it gives us to emulate that goodness which is greatness. And by doing our part, wherever our lives may lie, perhaps we may. like him. achieve sooner or later that greatness which is goodness. Drumming in IKlevv Soutb Males By? IE. 1. Baiucls, X., '88 NK of your editors discovered that I traveled in Australasia for two or three years and asked me to write something for the paper. I was once a pupil of the old high, myself, and besides Mr. Baxter, some of the pres- ent corps of teachers were there at the time, and had the misfortune of treating my case. But to get to Australia. It took me just four weeks. 1 broke my jour- ney several times crossing this country, and the ocean trip consumed twenty-one days from l'risco. This voyage allows one day at beautiful Honolulu, six or eiglit hours at Pago Pago, Samoa, and one day at Auckland, N. Z. At Samoa you see the South Sea Islander true to the picture, not much on but a short skirt, and the rest of the body dressed in cocoanut oil. They swarm about the ship in their catamaran dugouts to sell mats made from vegetable pulp with designs in native dyes, carved wood affairs, inlaid war clubs, etc. The latter took my eye until some tourist was unkind enough to remark they may have been “made in Germany,” which is true of some so-called native relics sold in various parts of the world. The green-stone Tiki of New Zealand as sold to tourists is carved in London. We explored the native village, chipped in a shilling apiece to pay for a sample of their fantastic Hula dances and even purchased souvenir post-cards, which one might imagine had not pene- trated to the South Sea Islands. By way of va- riety a few of us donned bathing suits and plunged into the Pacific from the ship’s side. We arrived at Auckland on a Wednesday, which was being celebrated as a holiday, being the Prince of Wales’ birthday. When we reached Sydney, four days later, we found that Monday was also the prince’s birthday. We asked how many he had per week as a rule, and found out the custom in New South Wales is to celebrate all holi- days on the following Monday. This shows the character of the people, who believe in a full quota of relief from business. Thus on every holiday they have from Saturday noon to Tuesday morning to take a trip, etc. They observe Good Friday and Easter Monday, and the half day Saturday in between, not being worth while to bother with business, stores are closed from Thursday to the following Tuesday. This would give some Ameri- can merchants heart disease to contemplate. Dur- ing this period the bulk of the population re- ligiously attend the horse races, which are more numerous than in any country I ever heard of. The Australian idea of America is that we go so fast that we die young, have no healthy recrea- tion, chase the mighty dollar in our sleep, and some day will be subjugated by the black race. They would ask me what we were doing to protect ourselves, and 1 being a Northerner would look at them in astonishment. But to return to the holi- day, this struck some of us very forcibly at the time, because we used all our cash on the voyage, and couldn’t get a penny until we cashed our paper on Sydney banks. You might wonder how we got broke in the middle of the Pacific, but there are several outlets for coin, amongst them being too liberal with subscriptions to the concerts aboard, given for the benefit of a sailors’ home, or something else, which I have forgotten. I spent three days at the Hotel Australia figur- ing out my 200-page American catalogue into L. S. I), (pounds, shillings, and pence), then started to cover the Northern Railway line of New SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR '33 South Wales to visit the chemists shops (drug stores). They would he insulted, however, if you called them so—their idea of a store” being a catch-penny American trade bazaar. I might say right here, girls, that they don’t sell soda or candy; and, boys, no cigars, cither. Soda can he had in a few city shops, which are copying American ideas to a certain extent. Their idea is to cling strictly to their legitimate line, medicine, drugs, etc., and not run a department store, such as many of our druggists try to do. My towns were the ones in black-faced type on the railway guide, and I found them hits of places, one to three thousand population, having one 1 two in business in my line, and one train per each twenty-four hours. That’s going some, for a swift American. You will, therefore, appreciate the fact that with one train a day over a 500-mile run you arrive at certain places any old time at night, and likewise depart the same old time the next night, with only one business call to make. You might wonder how a business house could send out a man to “drum” that country, but the point is, they in- dent” six months to a year’s supply, and an insig- nificant looking little country shop would yield an order worth several hundred dollars. 1 will give an example of night connections which occurred in my first week out: I was visiting Tamworth. going “down” (north), and from there had to travel up” (south) to a branch line; I sat up by the open fireplace in a lounging room, waiting for a train due at 1.37. arrived at Werris Creek Junction at 2.37 a. m.. had a cup of tea and a scone, and walked the platform until 4.03 a. m.; then got my “down” train for Gunnedah. and ar- rived at 5.44 a. m. Another town I reached at 5 a. m. one winter day, and the hotel was distant about half a mile, bus waiting always (they are kind to the traveler in that respect), and we arrived with our teeth chattering with the cold. The hotel was cold, and we simply had to go to bed at ( a. m. to get warm. A description of the climate is now in order. This part of the country has a range of temperature from only a few degrees below freezing to 120 de- grees in summer. You might wonder why we were so cold in such a mild winter. The only arti- ficial heat in the trains, which have crosswise com- partments as in England, is a can of hot water they throw in for you at the principal stops. Xow about four hours in a railway coach at 32 degrees is sufficient to delicately chill the marrow which is supposed to exist in the interior of the bones. Likewise, hotels (barring large cities) have no heating system other than an open fireplace if. about two rooms, dining and parlor. I have sat by one of these fireplaces with my face uncomfortably warm and cold chills on my back, and got up in disgust, to go outside for a walk to get warm. The country hotels (pubs) are all one type, built for a semi-tropical climate, two stories high, corrugated iron roof, with balcony on three or four sides, projecting over the sidewalks (footpaths), so in case of rain one can go many blocks under a roof, because other buildings are likewise provided. Thirty-two degrees in winter is their cold mark, like zero with us. and when the thermometer goes below that, they speak of it as so much frost.” I''or instance, were it 28 degrees, they would greet you in the morning with the remark that they had four degrees of frost last night.” Then, farther inland the trains run once in forty- eight hours only. Imagine going to a village one hundred miles away to see one man, with three trains per week. In one town like this I actually had to hurry and run for the train at the end of the second day’s wait. I will explain: They do noth- ing in a hurry. The first morning the tradesman spends in getting acquainted, then we adjourn for lunch. He begins to place his order in the after- noon. and orders an item now and then, as it occurs to him. in between dispensing. We separate for supper, and I drop in in the evening; and he con- tinues to add to the order until closing time. In other words, at the end of two days lie would just begin to think of signing and closing the order, just in time for me to catch the train if T hurried. When I made the large cities of New Zealand it would take me two weeks to finish in a place of 50,000 population, with about twenty calls. 'Three days would be wasted in getting acquainted, then they might have progressed so far as to ask when I intended to get away. If I said Saturday the whole twenty of them would say they would visit the sample room on Saturday. Then 1 would be- gin to handle the truth carelessly, about three days in advance, by which method f might be able to get clear of the place in something like reasonable time. I could not use the twelve-milc-an-hour railway for all towns, some being reachable bv coach only. One example: I was in Armidalc. with Casino my next stop. I took the train at early morning, reached Tenterfield about noon, transferred to the coach,” and drove until three o’clock the next morning, thus consuming twenty-one hours to 134 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR cover about one hundred and fifty miles, which Americans expect to cover in one-quarter that time. These towns have no sewerage system and no water supply other than rain, which is conserved from the roofs and caught in tanks around the eaves. There are no fresh-water lakes in the state. When I arrived they had just broken a seven-years' drought, and lost sixty million sheep. The country was bankrupt on this account. Al- though the most fertile land in the world with rain, they never know when they are to be visited with distress for lack of it. This is descriptive of New South Wales only, and as the island is three thousand miles across, as big as the United States, other states are entirely different. Queensland is tropical, with sugai- growing as the chief industry. South Australia has many vineyards. West Australia is one of the principal gold producing countries of the world, bordering on the vast deserts just east of it. It is so similar to the Sahara that they have imported camels to be the beasts of burden. I� ut perhaps I have told you enough al- ready. jfiret “Hectare By? 1Ro ?al Bailey jfarnum, B. '02 METIMES we do those things, in the course of our lives, which we fought against, detested, and stubbornly re- sisted in our younger days, not be- cause we couldn’t do it, but rather because we had a natural distaste for it. Such has been my experience at this early stage in the game, and as I look back to those elocution lessons with Miss Nichols and Miss Ray- mond, 1 wonder and smile at my painful embar- rassment. Oh, the dread of those recitations, es- pecially when my time came to perform in the hall! Oh, that I had made the most of those opportuni- ties and doubled the value of the education I re- ceived ! Now I am actually doing those very things I tried to slide through, and even the little I did get at school has proven its worth to me again and again. In my position as teacher of art. I have each year a number of opportunities for talking and lec- turing on that subject, and as much of my work consists of lectures to students, it would seem as if I were destined to follow that vocation, talking before the public. A fortune teller once told me that the next time she would see me would be when I was before the public. I thought at the time she might mean in the police court. Now, however, I am constantly expecting her to rise from one of my audiences and exclaim: ”1 told you so!” But for the benefit of those who dislike elocu- tion. and who may some time wish they didn’t, for the pleasure of the few who like it. and for the amusement of the alumni, I shall tell of my first real lecture. It was my first year out of Art School, my first year in Cleveland, and my first attempt at telling a large audience something I thought they didn’t know. It was also before a teachers’ and mothers’ club! I remember distinctly the day the principal of the art school where 1 am teaching came to me, and said: ‘‘I have been giving each year a lecture before the Teachers' and Mothers’ Club of Paines- ville. This year I am unable to do so. Would you like to?” And I remember with greater clear- ness how 1 said, with a gone feeling” in my voice: “I would be pleased to.” Where my heart was at that time I have never found out. It certainly wasn’t in the right place. It must have been where Jim’s was during a battle of the Civil War. He was hit in that region of the body, but when told that it was a miracle that the bullet hadn’t SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR «35 entered his heart, he replied: Not at all, boss, for ’twas in me mouth.” I had a month in which to prepare my lecture and learn it. and such a month ! P y day I was per- petually struggling with pencil, paper, quotations, jokes, and lectures on art: by night I dreamed of great powers of oratory thrown away upon an un- appreciative audience. How that audience would diminish! ()ne by one they would get up and quietly steal out. and all the power of Webster, all the eloquence of Bryan would not hold them. Those were never-to-be-forgotten nights. The day arrived, and with fluttering heart 1 took the train to Paincsville. Painesville is a town about a third as large as Somerville, and when I saw the many farms and only one or two principal streets, 1 took heart and left the train with more confi- dence. But I nearly lost it when a pretty young teacher approached me and asked if I were Profes- sor Farnum. Professor! 1 almost said “No,” but caught myself just in time and answered that I guessed I was. She was a dandy, and for once I blessed the gift of tongue which woman is said to possess. I forgot where 1 was until we began to enter the doors of what appeared to be a school building: then I remembered so suddenly I almost collapsed. It seemed as if I never would get through that doorway, and every second I felt cer- tain it would drop on my shoulders. Come right in. professor. We're waiting for you. So glad you could be with us”—and all that and more, while 1 seemed to be passed from one woman to another like a maple seed in a breeze. My first guide had disappeared, and with a stranded and strangled feeling I got to the hall where I was to speak. Again I experienced the same sensation I had upon entering the building, only more so. A buzz of many voices, a flutter of silk skirts, and then a hush of expectancy added to my already weakened condition. Well, some- how 1 got onto a platform with the president of the club and seated myself without quite giving- way. From that time on I was continually in a state of semi-consciousness, with one of those hot-cold, dry-wet, chill-fever feelings assailing me from time to time. 1 can’t say that 1 was numb, yet I really couldn't feel much, either. I remember quite dis- tinctly the time I forgot the fourth line of the sec- ond verse of a poem on Artistic Temperament.” but before and after that all was more or less pain- ful oblivion, yet I could tell when the martyred audience became fidgety, too. Anyway. I was in a pretty helpless state, and the worst of it was I couldn't seem to stop. I never could seem to hit the final note. I'd begin to think I had it and then something would prompt me to add another word, and I’d start all over again to wind up. But all things conic to an end eventually. So did that lecture. And I only consumed twenty minutes! That was the longest twenty min- utes, without exception, I ever experienced. When I finished 1 was sure 1 heard a great sigh of thanksgiving, though they were kind enough to applaud, and I know that the audience had re- ceived as much pain as they had inflicted. Fortunately there was more or less business after the talk, and in the excitement of parliamen- tary law I was almost forgotten. It was then I made my escape, or thought I had. but others were before me. and I must either pass through them or turn back to the scene of my labors. I decided to go on. Immediately I was surrounded, torn to pieces, and scattered to the four winds, with these words faintlv trilling in my ears: I’m so glad to shake your hand, professor”; Professor, it was perfectly delightful”: Why, professor, we wer sure you were going to be a venerable old gentle- man. You are so young, you know.” I have never lectured in Paincsville since. 5. V. The girls of the S. Y. are planning to give a dance at the Xcwtowne Club. Cambridge, the Monday evening after Easter. The sorority hope to entertain many friends. Ladies’ tickets, thirty- five cents: gentlemen, fifty cents; seventy-five cents per couple. UMM Hlpba Bailee The annual dance given by the Phi Alpha Sorority will be held in Anthoine Hall on the even- ing of April 5 at 8 o’clock. The members arc do- ing their best to make the affair this year as en- joyable as possible. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 136 tEbe possibilities of tbe jfutuve Be H. B. TTripp, B., ’0 3; Unite, 'll If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.— Addison. URING the past fifty years the atten- tion of the world lias been repeatedly called to new and marvelous inven- tions. These inventions have im- proved and increased our methods of long-distance communication and transportation. They have reduced hand labor, and given us countless things which add greatly to general comfort and convenience. During the next fifty years we may reasonably expect even greater inventions and improvements. Step with me into the future for fifty years and see what things may be possible. Those of you who read the newspapers may pick up a copy of the morning news and read an item somewhat like this:— Washington, 1). C. Mrs. Walter Wellman re- ceived a message from her husband last evening (this by wireless telephone, of course) to the effect that he would be at the North Pole before 12 o’clock to-day. He also said that the aeroplane, at an elevation of 150 feet, had been making an average speed of seventy-five miles an hour. Yes- terday at 11 o’clock the power from the '.Mas- sachusetts’ gave out, and that since that time he had been depending upon the station at Niagara for his power. Mrs. Wellman says that the new ‘visualizer’ is working most excellently, and that she could see quite clearly through it that her hus- band was looking very well, in spite of the long hours he had been working. Last night at 11.15 Dr. Bernhardt, of the Bos- ton Symphony Orchestra, received a message of congratulation from Mr. Wellman for the excel- lent manner in which the new Symphony was ren- dered, and said that he was very much pleased, as he had heard the whole performance while passing over Iceland.” Articles of this character will not be a novelty then, as the wireless transmission of power in suffi- cient quantities to operate an airship or an ocean liner may by no means be an impossibility, in spite of what is said to the contrary. Let us take an imaginary journey in an ocean liner. ()n inspection of the vessel, we find that the great quantities of machinery usually seen arc missing, and that the space is filled with freight. In the very bottom, however, are eight motors, small, but powerful, driving the vessel at such a rate that it takes us much less than four days to cross the Atlantic. The power used by these motors, as well as that used for lighting and heat- ing. will be furnished by the mammoth plant either at Niagara or their only rival, the Zambesi Falls in Africa. We call on the captain. While there the tele- phone bell rings. He answers, and we listen in” to the following conversation :— Hello, Captain Johnson; this is the Pinkerton Bureau of New York. Have you a man aboard about sixty-five years old. gray hair, heavy mous- tache. steel blue eyes, and who walks rather erect for a man of his years?” Yes, several; better send a photograph,” re- plies the captain. A few moments later the operator raps on the door and is admitted. He hands the captain a photograph. When the officer has glanced at it, lie says: That is the exact counterpart of the man we were speaking of this morning, with the excep- tion of the moustache, which he might have easily removed. Wonder what they want him for?” 'Phe individual in question is the absconding cashier of the New York National Bank. He is arrested. A United States naval vessel in the vicinity is called, and the man transported to it, and thence to New York, where he is handed over to the authorities, almost before the news of his crime has been published in the yellow journals of that city. After dinner we retire to the main saloon for amusement. Here we are able to witness the new SOMERVILLK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR ‘37 comic opera which is being performed on the stage in Philadelphia. We can see the acts of the players in the far-away city, hear the words they speak, the songs, choruses, and accompanying music. While here, the porter enters and tells one of the party lie is wanted on the New York telephone. On answering, he finds that, in the hurry and con- fusion of departure, he neglected to sign a certain document which must be used in court on the fol- lowing morning. It is but the work of an instant for him to step to the ‘‘Telautograph'’ and write his name. This is instantly reproduced on the de- sired document. in the little square of glass above the instrument he is able to see the face of the man in the great city, and thus knows that the paper is in the hands of the proper party. When we return from our flight of fancy, it seems as though such things were impossible. At present they are, but when we stop to think that half a century ago there was not an electric car nor an electric light in the world, is it unreasonable to expect that some of these things, at least, may become commercially available during the coming half-century? Less than sixty years has electricity been doing man’s bidding, but in that time it has revolutionized our whole existence, both in busi- ness and pleasure. It holds in its grasp the reins which control the success or failure of more in- dustries. directs the actions of more men, makes possible the power of our great national govern- ment. and still has far greater undeveloped re- sources than any other power at present known to the human race. In all other lines, just as in the electrical, the most stupendous works and marvels arc yet to be accomplished : the greatest tunnels, bridges, build- ings. vessels, engines, and machines are yet to be built. ()nc of the most important things to be done during this period is the development of a method of transforming the latent heat in coal into mechanical energy without the extravagant waste which seems to be unavoidable under the present methods. The rising generation has hundreds, thousands of possibilities open to it. There is plenty of work for the future. If we are to keep up to the pace of progress which has already been set, every man will be obliged to do his share, add his small part to the work which shall make the twentieth century stand out in history as the most progressive one of all time, marked by the marvelous achievements of the hand and brain of man. T he workers and not the dreamers will be the ones who will make such a thing possible. It is being recognized more and more, by the critical students of affairs, that our wonderful inventions and mighty strides in commercial and private life are not the fruits of momentary inspirations or dreams, but. on the contrary, the results of years of toil and labor on the part of many men. They are the inevitable results which from time to time mark the constant progress of scientific and indus- trial evolution. Somerville :!6ovs at Darvarb Bv Hxnrv? G. 2 o ?le, X.t '07; t an?art , Tl N October 15, 1000, sixteen graduates of the Somerville Latin School, at that time students in Harvard Uni- versity, met ‘‘to promote sociability and good-fellowship among them- selves. in an organization to which was given the name of the Harvard-Somerville Latin Club. L. S. Thierry, now a lawyer in l os- ton. was the first president ; G. M. Hosmcr, now of the Latin High faculty, the secretary. The club was popular from the start, meetings being held monthly, or oftener. and various enter- tainments being given. Later a basket ball team was formed, which was very successful. Every succeeding year the club increased in re- pute. All Somerville boys in college were ad- mitted. including graduates of the English School, and later all residents of Somerville were made eligible. Various prominent Somerville men have ad- dressed the club at different times. 'Hie most wel- come. of course, has always been Dr. Laxter, of 138 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR the Latin School, while .Mr. Avery has likewise been received with pleasure. Edwin Day Sibley and Sain Walter Foss have also entertained the club and received its appreciation. Besides the above gentlemen, a number of others have been elected honorary members, including Mr. Whit- comb. Robert Luce, Frank H. Hitchcock, Dr. A. E. Winship, Rev. Peter MacQuccn, Dr. W. A. Bell, Professor G. P. Baxter. Frank W. Kaan, and Messrs. Hawes, Murray. Wilkins, and Sprague, of the Latin School. In 1904 the club considerably broadened its scope by giving a play, a step which has produced good results. In 1905 the club offered All the Comforts of Home.” with great success; in 1906, “The Troubles of a Bachelor”; in 1907, Bachelor Hall”: and in 1908, A Regiment of Two.” These attempts have proved so successful that the club has been encouraged to offer something even more pretentious in 1909 ; this will materialize some time in March. It is the opinion at the High Schools (or was a very few years ago) that, owing to the examina- tions. the only ones who could go to Harvard were the brilliant students and the “pluggers.” This idea is false. The consensus of opinion among those who have entered up to the present seems to be that, with a reasonable amount of ap- plication to the solid preparation given by our High Schools, passing the Harvard exams” is, roughly, a pipe.” Now as lo the kind of fellows that arc wanted. The great need at present is for all-round men; and these are what Harvard requires. Not intel- lectual marvels; not fellows who can get a base hit three times out of four at bat. or run ninety yards through a broken field without interference, yet cannot tell the difference between a quadratic equation and a simple progression, or between a case of hendiadys and one of onomatopoeia: but the fellow who can solve a simple quadratic, and can tell an onside kick from a forward pass—he is needed at Harvard. A few examples of what Somerville boys have done at Harvard may serve to impress the above statement. This fall one of the star fullbacks of the country was a member of the Harvard-Somer- villc Latin Club; yet his head was not turned by the fulsome praise of the newspapers. Among others have oeen ’Varsity debaters and basket ball players, besides players on class teams, cross- country runners, members of the glee and man- dolin clubs, and lastly, but not least, scholars of the highest rank. These last have been many; so many, in fact, that instructors have remarked it. One of the club’s charter members is now himself an instructor. These examples should show the versatility which Harvard brings out and en- courages. ()f late, however. Harvard has not been getting the representation it deserves among Somerville High graduates. There is no reason for this. A degree from Harvard is recognized, from the At- lantic to the Pacific, as the stamp of a thorough training; her law and medical schools are the first in the country: her graduate school turns out scholars equal to the best of Oxford, Paris, and Gottingen; her faculty contains great authorities on many subjects: her elective system enables a student to perfect himself in those things for which he i i best fitted. The proximity of the college to Somerville enables the student from that city to live at home, if necessary. Reports of snobbish- ness at Harvard are grossly exaggerated; the very cosmopolitanism which is Harvard’s most noticeable feature tends to prevent it, and to in- duce broadness of opinion by allowing a fellow to meet all sorts and conditions of men. Every Senior and Junior—indeed, every Sopho- more and Freshman—in High School must con- sider seriously these two questions: (1) Am I go- ing to college? and (2) Am I going to Harvard? That the answer to at least one may be ‘‘Yes” is. the sincere wish of—the Harvard-Somerville Latin Club. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 139 flSearl ant Ssb=of=1Ro$es 36v ll . ID. Greenwood, X., 'OS XUGLY nestled among the hills lay a long, shadowy valley. The twilight was veiling the landscape with a mantle of soft, gray mist, when a traveler, weary and spent, might have been seen looking steadfastly down from the brow of a hill toward the other side of the valley. Tall and slender, robed in flowing gar- ments of black, he was a strange, fantastic figure. Slowly he descended into the valley. Denser grew the mist, and as it grew denser, the soft gray changed to a softer violet. The traveler saw not the turning color, but—what was that, that music so clear, so sweet? It was only a hillside stream that murmured gently through the valley, and it lav but a few feet distant. The music drew him to it. He knelt on its bank and dipped his hand in its cooling waters. “Foot-sore and weary I am in this search. Still I must press onward till I see those magic colors and learn the secret they alone may impart to their seer. Perhaps they lie concealed in some drop of your crystal waters. Pearl and ash-of-roses. Ah, they have led me across mountains and rivers, over plains and through forests to find them. And then, when I have? Why, the secret I long for will be told by the moaning of pine trees, will be written in colors of sunset, 1 shall breathe from the perfume of flowers. The shimmering wings of a little gray bird, dimly seen through the violet mist, caused him to look up. He heard the clear call of the bird to his mate beyond the mist, and the answering, sweet notes touched him singularly. They held him so that he sought only for the singer. Forgotten was the babbling brook and its merry song for now— he saw nothing but the fluttering wings of a little gray bird. “Where do you lead, sweet messenger? To some star where those colors abound, or toward hills ever crowned with clouds of pearl and ash-of- roses? Did your love-call hold the answer? Does your mate the secret know? Shall I wander through the valley by this happy, murmuring stream, or through the mist shall 1 climb toward you. little gray bird? But the mist had gone, and with it into the dark- ness went the traveler. I11 that shadowy valley the same violet mist was settling over the solitary scene, when, gazing from, the brow of another hill, stood a second wayworn traveler. She. too, was dressed in a strange man- ner. in crimson robes. She. too. looked far across the valley to the other side—looked toward the hills back of which lay a world mystically wrapped, in shadows. Slowly, almost wearily, she made her way into the valley, and was going to cross to the foothills before the violet mist fell deeper about her, when, — “What is that? she cried. “That merry ripple,, that silvery melody? Whence does it come? Ah. it is a gurgling stream that winds through this val- ley. I would follow it to the hidden spring where it bubbles up beneath the rocks. Among what hills shall 1 find your source? What sparkling; mist-maiden dwells in that spring? What---------? But just then a little gray bird, with soft, glim- mering wings, caused her to look up. With a- cjuick utterance of delight, she gazed intently into, the fast deepening violet mist. For her. the: stream was silent, the valley gone, the hills no� longer encircled it. Only two things she saw— the violet mist and a little, gray bird flying heaven- ward. While she was watching him rapturously, the little bird gave a sweet, melodious love-call, and through the mist came the low, sweet answer. That answer touched the crimson-clad wanderer. “Little winged guide, do you lead to sun-lit 7 meadows where that flower grows whose chalice holds the longed-for colors, or do you but flit to realms of a darker mist than violet? To rose- haunted gardens or forests of deepest gloom? Shall I follow you. O gray bird, to learn the secret of the pearl and ash-of-roses, or in silence shall T wander by this stream, across these misty meadows to the world beyond the hills?” [Continued on page HI.] 140 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR THe Letter Box H Discussion X the last column of the Letter-Box there was a suggestion of a larger athletic league. This plan, no doubt, would he a benefit to scholars, school, and community, but there are some disadvantages to be considered, soni difficulties to be overcome before such a league can be formed. Let us consider some of these, hirst, the two chief purposes of this league are, as 1 understand, to show the relative strength of the schools in athletics, and to make it easier to arrange games at the right period of the season. Cannot this be arranged with the present system? Secondly, how is such a league to be formed? Thirdly, would it not be harder to arrange a satis- factory schedule? hirst, as is stated above, the chief purpose of such a league is to show the relative strength of the schools of Greater Boston. Is that relation not known now? To be sure, Waltham was ac- credited with the football championship when Somerville practically defeated her. but that is only one case in a thousand. You will find in almost every case of football and baseball that the winner of the Interscholastic League or of some other strong league has been given the championship un- questioned. For instance, there was no doubt concerning the right of Dorchester to the cham- pionship in baseball in the last two years, and of English High in football. Previous to these years, Somerville has undoubtedly been the champion in both lines of sports. Perhaps these teams have had no loving-cup to stand in the school before the eyes of admiring hundreds, with the names of the players engraved thereon, but the public opinion has been with them. And why? Because during the season the championship team has probably played all the other strong teams, and has defeated them. If not all. they have defeated those who have on their part defeated the remainder. For example. Dorchester may not have played Malden in baseball, but they defeated Somerville, who had defeated Malden. Secondly, the next purpose of the league is to have a satisfactory arrangement of the schedule, so that one team would not be playing its hard teams first. With such a league as suggested, the disadvantage we wish to avoid is immediately presented. There are but eleven Saturdays and holidays in the baseball season, and eight in the football. With eight league games, a team would be playing hard games on the second or third Sat- urday. A defeat at that time might mean the loss of the championship. You may say that it is as fair for one as it is for the other, but this is not always so. Somerville and R. M. T. S. always de- velo]) slower than Dorchester and English High. Thirdly, how is such a league to be formed? 11 ere lies the chief difficulty. Who shall determine the members of the league? There are some schools whose superiority is undoubted, such as Somerville. English High, Dorchester, R. M. T. S.. and Malden. But there are other schools, such as Waltham, who are champion teams in one line of sport. But what kind of a baseball team has W altham? It is not equal to some minor school teams. Thus it would seem necessary to have a special league in each sport. Is this practical? This argument is strengthened when we turn our attention to basket ball and hockey. Who have been the champion basket ball teams this year? Melrose. Winthrop. Westfield. Allen School, and Somerville,—only one team which has relative strength in other sports. Fourthly, how is the manager to arrange a schedule? Say, for instance, that the eight league games are arranged first, as at present. This leaves him about three Saturdays early in the sea- son for other games outside of the league. It would be almost impossible to arrange games so that the relative strength of teams all over the state could be known. And if such a date was se- cured. it would be early in the season. Again SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR conies the question: “Is it not as fair for one as another?” Yes, hut it is generally acknowledged that the hard games should come last. Under the present system, hard games can be arranged last, for there are not too many league games to pre- vent. There was a statement made that it is one of the manager’s hardest tasks to arrange dates with teams in other leagues. This is not so. There is no difficulty in arranging dates with Greater Boston teams. The difficulty is in ar- ranging dates for distant teams. Again let me state that, with the present system, a manager can arrange dates with other strong teams, and at the right time, whereas with the proposed system his schedule would be narrowed down to Greater Boston teams. Let the league be broader, if pos- sible, for otherwise it would be impossible to ar- range Saturday trips. These four reasons: (1) because under the pres- ent system strong teams meet as well as in the proposed system; (2) because the difficulty in a satisfactory arrangement of dates is increased : (3) because it is difficult to arrange such a league: (4) because the difficulties of the manager, which were to be surmounted by the supposed system, are made heavier: these four reasons show a few of the difficulties which must be overcome before this league is formed. J. Elliot Slater, L.. ’00. I4! O. E . C. The Girls’ Dramatic Club of the Somerville Eng- lish- High School held its first social on Friday evening, February “ , in the Latin School Hall. Each member brought a friend, and many teachers and past members were also present. The first part of the evening was devoted to introductions. Miss Beatrice Bowditch, president of the club. Miss Xichols. an elocution teacher, and member of the club, and John A. Avery, head master of the English High School, received. After a short entertainment refreshments were served, and the remainder of the evening was given up to dancing. 'Hie hall was prettily decorated with high school banners, club banners, and palms. The Misses Sargent played the dance music. ------------------------------------------ A farewell party to Miss Xichols was held by the Girls’ Dramatic Club on March 5 in Citizens Hall, Gilman square. A very interesting and well- rendered programme was given by the members, and then games w ere played. Dancing followed, and then the dub was specially favored by a few selections from Mis Xichols. Miss Gladys Cam- eron. Miss Hilda Foley, and Miss Annie Benjamin played for the dancing. pearl ant Bsb ot 1Roses [Continued from page 139.] Xo longer was she seen through the darkness. . The morning sun rose clearly in that valley, flooding it with golden light, and the little brook sang gaily on its way to the river. But—there by its side at play is a tiny little maiden, her checks kissed pink by the morning breeze, and her pretty curls tumbled about in charming confusion. But see. she stoops and picks up something from the ground. In her small, warm hand she folds it lov- ingly. and with a caress places it against her cheek. We hear her murmur: “Poor ’ittlc birdie wiv yo soft, gway leavers,” and she strokes them gently. The wistful blue eyes brim over, and—a tear steals over her cheek. It is caught by a sunbeam, and lo! it is pearl and ash-of-roses! Again through the violet mist a bird with shim- mering wings soars heavenward, and again a low, clear love-call floats out on the air. but this time no soft, sweet love-note answers. --------- ------------ '1 he Phi Apha Phi Club, consisting of a group of 11)1! girls, at a recent meeting elected the fol- lowing officers for their second year: President, Julia Merrill: vice-president. Laura Richardson: secretary. Katherine Griffin: treasurer. Alice Rey- nolds; business manager, Ruth Merrill. The other members arc: Pauline Skilton. Ethel Pea- body. Velma Strout, Helen Field, Grace Rockwell, and Ethel Carr. Katherine Griffin, Sccretarv. 142 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 09 Lester Gustin, Class Editor. The Senior soiree, the dance of the year, has come and gone. In spite of the.somewhat stormy weather, it was well attended, and, according to conversations overheard, everybody had a “great” time. The dance was held earlier than usual this year, so as not to interfere with later class duties and social affairs, and also in hopes that the mer- cury would not be hovering around 100 degrees, as in June. The later hope, however, was vain, for scarcely had the dancing commenced when we felt the white-starched band around our neck slowly and gently falter downward. Dear little Ernest, he worked hard! Ah. but it was a sight to make one weep to see him manfully struggling along Boston's thoroughfares carrying a load of bunting nearly as large as ourself! But. joking aside, the dance was a grand success, and was well repre- sented by the school. The only criticism heard was that the sign used for the moonlight waltzes gave too much light, and that really didn’t make much difference, anyway. Save up your pennies for class dues! Holm: Das kleines Kind!” Really? Oh, see the blush on Winnie’s face! W. Jones (in physics): “Does it have to be heated to the freezing point?” We wish to modify a statement made in the last issue of the Radiator. in which we called your at- tention to the “books Rich doesn’t take home.” We have absolute proof that he took home his German Composition for two consecutive days. Marvelous! Miner (in higher mathematics): “540 degrees minus . 160 degrees is greater than 800 degrees, at least.” Lloyd (in geometry): If two members of an equation are equal the third member is equal.” We have heard that we have been criticised be- cause only members of the Tech division “receive knocks” in this column. In regard to this, we wish to state that at least four-fifths of the notes passed in come from members of the Tech divi- sion. and as the total number passed in each month rarely exceeds five, it can readily be seen why the other divisions are not represented. We assure you. we do not wish to favor the Tech division, and will gladly pass in any notes that are given us. (let busy. Hurrah! At last we have succeeded in becom- ing a member of the Girls’ Dramatic Club! Can Miss S-----ns tell the time easily yet? Freeman (in Deutsch): 'Pile coffee was hardly drunken.” I'eacher: “What is the meaning of anaesthetic?” Miss Sim—onds: Something like Sulpho- Xapthol.” We note that a silver medal has been awarded our school for the work exhibited at the James- town Tercentennial Exposition. Perhaps we aren’t up and coming—eh? The display of brotherly affection between Pease and llandlev in the physics laboratory is very touching. We saw Bill Davis, our former president, read- ing last month’s Radiator. Let’s put something in about him this time. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR M3 HO Andrew F. Handley, Class Editor. There was a boy named Jones, Who thought he French would drop; When asked: “Parlez-vous Francais?” He replied: “Sure I do not.” There was a boy named Crispin, Who studied his lessons so hard, (?) That ever at the end of the months He had plenty of red on his card. A few recent publications by our distinguished classmates:— How 1 Study, an excellent piece of imaginative fiction by the well-known author, Winn. Home Work and How to Avoid It,” a four- volume work, in which the author, Mr. Cooper, shows his excellent ability to deal with a subject which he knows nothing of! Girls I Have Met. by Duncan. The work- consists of eighteen volumes. This work, while not complete, is representative of the author’s bril- liant style. How Did Girls Get into Division A? by Fos- ter. A scientific investigation. “Who Pinched the French Dictionary?” a ro- mantic poem, by J------s. The Literary Indigent says: Read this little work and you will never re- gret it. (You won't live long enough.) Free! Brick sidewalks taken up. Apply to Miss Paterson, Room 20. Arnold is the modern Napoleon Bonaparte. Chandler was seen in the corridor talking to two young ladies. After you, old man. McCarthy is the greatest humorist known. Knight some others Co. think The Idylls of the King is a good book since it will fit in their pockets. It has been said that Ross is very cute. The definition of “cute may be found in the dictionary. A few notes have been passed to me indirectly, and therefore I do not get names on them. Sig- natures must be placed upon matter in order to go into print. Jones’ favorite song is: “Hello! Hello! Hello!” Chan—r is a very level-headed boy. Upon see- ing a dwelling enveloped in flames, lie went imme- diately to call the fire department. Musgrave says James went away without stay- ing there. HI Arthur Leighton, Class Editor. MacDougal, the only boy of Division F, fre- quently sings: Can’t you see I’m lonely?” Well! well! our new tenors are certainly very cute. Miss Somes (in II. History G and II): William the Orange. Pi—e gives many soulful glances in Miss S—kf—d’s direction. We apologize for having given Freeto, in the last month’s issue, credit for something which does not belong to him. Which is to say, we attached an e to the ending of his name. One day McCarthy told Hanscom to Ware away and take Wellington Bridge(s) to the Woods be- yond. Then he hired Sheer Luck” Holmes to track him and Lynch him. As Snow covered the ground, the first was easy. Hanscom, the Rich Baker, was frightened when the detective hit him in the eye to Blackett. Then Hanscom, who was a Welch man, offered the Sargent of the “Sporty” Morrison guards, Patterson by name, some Sterl- ing if he would drive off the gang that had now come up to see the fight. Just then who should approach but Waldron and Torrey. each armed with Physics books and a lot of advice. The crowd all turned on them, and Hanscom escaped to his Holme(s) in Magoon square. Teacher: “Say something in French.” Miss II—c—y: J’ai jaim. In German:— Miss-------(translating): I sit the glass on the table.” Ware would like his address to be published as follows: Dartmouth Street, Somerville, Massachu- setts, United States of America, Western Hemi- sphere, North America, New World, North of Mexico, South of Canada. Snow wishes to know: Am I Snow or am I not?” Q.: According to some teachers, what would Torrey do in a vacuum? A.: Drop books. B1—k—tt is oh! so funny. Ha! ha! Hanscom frequently wears the famous Seven League Boots (judging from appearances). (Freshman Notes on poge 140.) 144 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR '09 Allison Newton, Class Editor. The soiree is over—financially ahead. The class photographer has been selected—Purdv. 'flic prophets, historians, and poet were chosen at a re- cent meeting, and Duggan now feels that the major part of his arduous task has been completed. As historians. Miss Corliss and McLean should prove an especially happy selection, and as prophets, the originality of Dick Bennett and Miss Moore's sense of humor must necessarily insure success. Miss Kibbc has a hard task, but from her former work we are sure of its creditable accomplishment. Teacher: “Should that be vobis?” Nos. responds the class. Teacher: Where is your grammar? Milliken: I didn’t have time to get it.” Teacher: “Didn’t have time?” Milliken: Xo; 1 got home this morning just in time to leave. Miss Martin asserts that she has seen boys you could call real pretty. Don’t that beat all! Column: I studied the wrong lesson. Sheridan: That's what they all say.” (By the way. this was the day after Column fainted at a Chapman meeting.) Miss Corliss says the Ladies’ Home Journal says not to studv at home. Hurrah for the Hum Piffle”! Of all the famous reported telephone messages, this is the best: Please see that Xcd wears his rubbers home, as his health is exceedingly deli- cate.” Slater is agitating the purchase of a broom for the dressing room, as his hat doesn’t do any kind of a job. When Miss Wilbur, in translating, said, He was loaded,” and then paused before she specified, with honors,” the class was horrified. HenderSon: Is it true that Adcock’s gone to sea?” Sheridan: “Yes; to sec his English teacher.” The request for next year's intentions brought some of these startling responses, so it is said:— Muldoon—To stay at home to help mother. McCarthy—To tour the country in the lecture, The Block System and Other Forms of Paper.” Column—To go to Harvard. 1 lenderson—To go to Yassar. Milliken—To take a P. G. course in hooky. QUERIES AND ANSWERS. Can a bee sit down?—Miss Corliss. Ans.: Sure, but why is a bean? Why does Sheridan come to school?—Anxious Pupil. Ans.: Don’t ask impossible questions. What is the nebular hypothesis?—Thayer. Ans.: ()ne of those cloudy statements with which Brown begins a geometry demonstration. What is reason?—Brown. Ans.: A quality ab- solutely absent in girls and teachers. Will you please define home study?—“Dick.” Ans.: Allowing the books to remain on the table and improve themselves. (1) What is whispering? (2) What arc notes and do boys write them?—Inmate of Nunnery. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR '45 Ans.: (1) Whispering is the ordinary manner in which girls recite and boys converse during school hours. (2) Notes are a species of bosh which the class editor is compelled to write monthly. Boys do not write notes, but teachers do. How long did it take Burke to deliver the Con- ciliation Speech?—Miss Belt. Ans.: The official timer never obtained it. He had only an eight- day clock. When will the Radiator be out?—'00. Ans.: To-day. ’10 H. H. Greenwood, Class Editor. A class meeting was held February Id, at which the class dance committee was appointed by the president. Those on the committee arc: Robert Davis, Arthur Tellier, Herbert Merrill, Leslie Hooper, and Marjorie Sprague. We have learned in physics that there is no such thing as cold. Moral: All is not cold that shivers. It is claimed by one of the notables of the class that light is simply an excuse of the gas company to collect money. A definition heard: “A thermometer is a machine invented by a druggist to drive humidity to the soda fountains. Bill Sharp is back again with us, and everybody is glad to see him. Welch’s favorite song: “You arc in the right church, but the wrong pew.” Some of the infants of Division 2 like their teacher so well that they arc inseparable. Noble has been elected class artist by his divi- sion. McKinnon seems to be quite a ladies’ man; he has also lost one pound of avoirdupois. Not from study, but from dissipation. The D. B. Club held an election of officers lately. Great crowds collected and awaited the returns. You musn't play ball on the grass, but you can play marbles on the walk. Will some one explain why they call Miss R—ts “Silver Hair”? W—1—h does not like to be called a child. Isn’t it funny that children never like to be told so? Which editor’s smile was meant in this column last month? ’ll M. J. Messer, Class Editor. The lights in T1 were playing tag with each other during Johnnie’s recitation. No wonder! Some girls have had a lot of time recently to do some canceling. Oh, the results! Mont was just seated in a recitation chair in ’ll when he was told to leave the room. What a pity to disturb the poor boy when he was so comfort- ably seated! At last the dignified Miss Pierce has been spoken, to. She was kindly told to turn around.” What could have been the attraction? It is quite a fad now for the girls to wear a red. and blue hair ribbon. A few Sophomore girls- started it. Will it become popular? Sargent and Barnes, when interviewed about their trip to Washington, said that the weather was fine and that they thoroughly enjoyed their trip. Miss Bowen wishes it distinctly understood that nothing is to be put in the Radiator about her. Heard in Latin: “The river flew.” G—s is ready to meet all comers in the paper- weight class. This seems to be a new class. Donald Whitney, the editor of the Sophomore Weekly, is nowadays exceedingly busy with his editorial duties. Did any one notice the dullness in ’ll? M------r. was sick and P-----s and T-----r were reforming. It makes the whole room shake when Nick’” rocks that imaginary doll on his knee. John Henry Marshall’s latest hit, Mit cinem Schneeball,” proved very pleasing. According to Miss Tw—ly. all feminines seem to have peculiarities. How odd ! Why does the faucet in the dressing room run dry about the time Mac arrives? Sealing wax seems to be good for both stick and hat pins. The ’ll Club cheer:— Sis boom bah ! Sis boom bah! Pickles and fudges, rah, rah. rah! Are we in it? You bet we are! Kisses and candy, rah. rah, rah! The ’11 Club has ordered a dozen spyglasses for inquisitive outsiders. 146 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR '2 Francis J. Mahoney, Class Editor. If you're not in the third division, you’ve missed it. Miss Kelley's recitation was excellent. I’m a poet of immortal fame, Israel Blumsack is my name. Every time I write a verse They all say: It's not so worse.” The unexpected has happened ! P—m—r has a hair-cut. What you least expect almost never happens. Teacher: “Mildred's laugh always comes last.” Mildred: Ha! ha! ha! Teacher: Tell what you know about the battle of -------” Ol—n: He crossed the stream in a shower of arrows, and carried the enemy’s position by a bold dash.” We have recently found out that another can't say another thing unless one says one thing. Perhaps W. L------s can't eat rapidly. Come around at recess and see. At a meeting of the Fresh Air Club it was re- solved “that as long as D-----T—ele shall persist in keeping the windows closed in warm weather, he is a menace to the public health and shall be ostra- cised. Tee lice! L—m—t is SO funny!” S—n—ers displays an excellent assortment of ostentatious neckwear. Different styles, colors, etc., on exhibition each day. Mitch is rather warm-blooded. ------------------4 .«■ jSttdlisb, M2 Oliver Churchill, Class Editor. What some are practicing to become:— C------ell—A married man. Bob—A lost (he)art restorer. Alice M----s—A boxer. Miss Lay—A worker of jiu-jitsu via thumb. Bob says that every time he looks at Pickle he owes himself a nickel. We are pleased to note that Chaunccy Cosgrove won the half-mile race at Brae-Burn. Rogers, cut the amount of questions in 2 X Tuesday. Morgan is said to have a noise-proof box in which he keeps his neckties. Room 12 is a great attraction for Sophomore boys and Junior girls. Can Alice be the centre of interest? Kitchen advises 11s all to take ourselves back to the woods. Cheer up. classmates, only two more reports. This to the lazy. It's a good thing it is not football season, for oh. what would happen to the derby in 4 X? “Percy” L—n— . nearly choked over a potato he had in a theme in English. Puzzle: In what way is Ross like Abe Lincoln? Watson's suit comes in handy when a checker board is needed in 4 X. Cosgrove has a large understanding. June is coming.” “Which one, the month or the fair damsel?” Phinney: ‘‘Oh. what do I care for expense? Give me another cent’s worth of gum.” O—i—by has challenged Long Tomboat. ------------------------------------ IResolutions Whereas, by the divine will of God, our class- mate. Howard MacLean, has lost his beloved mother; Resolved, that we, the class of 1909, extend to him our sincerest sympathy. Matthew Duggan. President. Hazel Cushing, Secretary. Whereas, by the divine will of God, our friend, Howard A. MacLean, has lost his mother. Resolved, that we. the Radiator staff, offer him our sincerest sympathy. Ernest W. Chapin, Vivian Beers. Whereas, by the divine will of God, our class- mate. Bessie S. Cohen, has been bereaved of her beloved father; be it Resolved, that we, the class of 1911 of the Latin High School, tender her our most heartfelt sym- pathy. Norvillc L. Milmore, President. Ruth Cummings, Secretary. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR M7 7VOTES OF THE ALVMNI CAJ ra.ELL-08 IT. Parker Lowell, Latin, ’0(5, is editor-in-chief of the 1910 'Varsity year book at Northwestern University, instead of the Junior Monthly, as was stated in the December issue. He is a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity there. Leslie Cummings, Latin, 00, is a member of the same fraternity at Harvard. Martin E. Gill, Somerville High School. ‘SO, has been appointed judge at Porto Rico. Frank H. Hitchcock, Somerville High School, '87, recently chairman of the National Republican Committee, is the postmaster-general under Presi- dent Taft. Austin F. Hawes, Latin, '97, Tufts, ’01, graduate of Yale Forestry School, who has been State For- ester of Connecticut, lias been appointed State Forester of Vermont, and will be connected with the University of Vermont. He will reside at Burlington. Yt. Francis Y. Mead, Latin. 'Oa, has returned from an extensive trip to the Mediterranean, having visited the Azores, Gibraltar, Genoa, Naples, and Rome. Charles IT Rose. Latin, '04. Boston College, 08, has been appointed principal of the Edgartown High School. Wendell P. Harrington. Latin. ’0( , is in the Freshman class of the Law School at Cornell. Harold H. Sharp, Latin. ’05, is president of the Senior class of Boston University. Walter F. Burt, of the same class, has been chosen chairman of the Class Day committee. Arthur Gow. Latin. ’06, is illustrating the 1910 Dartmouth Annual. Among our boys who are interested in the M. I. T. athletic teams are: LcRov Fitzherbcrt, Eng- lish, '07, a member of both the Freshman and Sophomore football teams: Harold Babbitt and Emmons Whitcomb, English. ’ � 7. are both on the tug of war team: Ralph Riddle and Harold Kebbon, English, ‘08, on the Freshman football team; Ingraham Taylor, English, ’08, is a member of the Freshman relay team: and Paul Pearson, English. '07. is assistant track manager. Merton Hopkins, English, 07. is assistant business man- ager of the school paper, the Te h. Richard Fernandez, English - . M. I. T.. ‘10, has been specializing in the study of chemistry. Past members of our school employed by vari- ous Boston firms are: Miriam R. Smith. English, 07, employed as a stenographer and bookkeeper in the Norwich London Accident Insurance Company: K. A. Yacubian is a salesman for the Oriental P. Rug Company, of Back Bay: Ed- ward Brewer is a salesman for L. I). Jackson Com- pany, of Fancuil Hall: and Carl Ward. English, 07, is with H. E. Gutterson Co., dealers in leather goods. Nina Gilley. English, '08. now a member of the Freshman class of Boston University, has been awarded a scholarship at that institution. Ethel Wheeler, English, '00, Emerson College, Ml. is teaching elocution and hygienic culture in the Plymouth (N. 11.) Normal School. John Backus, English, '02, and Tufts, '00. is a sub-master in the Newburyport High School. Leona Forsythe, English. '05, is training for a nurse in the Massachusetts General Hospital. Edna Harrison, English, 07, is completing her eighteenth month of training as a nurse in the Massachusetts General Hospital. (Continued on page 151.; SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 148 EXCHANGE NOTES Again, as the Johnstown Spectator conies to us, we cannot let it pass without praise. There is much of interest throughout the number. The Current Events page keeps one in touch with the daily happenings. The cover is very neat. By request of a former student of our schools, we have received a new exchange, the Olympian, from Biddcford. Me. We would suggest a better arrangement of the departments, for the exchange column seems to be cut off from the rest of the paper. The article on W hat Lincoln Means to Me, in the Sagamore, is original. It likens Lincoln to the ()ld Man of the Mountains, which has re- mained through so many years, surrounded by mists at times. So, like it. did Lincoln withstand the clouds of discontent, slavery, and political strife.” A Midnight Climb.” in the Latin School Reg- ister. gives a very interesting picture of climbing by moonlight the Rhigi Kuhn in Switzerland, and •.then of the sunrise on the neighboring peaks. It would be better. Crimson and Gray, of Waits- burg. Wash., to use larger type, for it is difficult to follow the lines in reading. As usual the Cue. from Albany. X. Y., is full of interest from beginning to end. The alumni notes in the Dean Megaphone are so written as to be of more interest to the reader than such notes in the average paper. The Academian has a very exciting story. “A Mexican Bull Fight.” It makes one feel as though one could see all the splendor of Mexican costumes and the fight. The Tiltonian also has a fine literary department. Many of the exchanges received this month have had an interesting literary department: another among the list is the Item, of Dorchester. How about having that advertisement which stares you in the face? By the Roadside, in the Blue Owl, is to be mentioned among the best stories. It is some leaves from the diary of a wandering musician, and shows a great deal of thought. Sherlock Holmes: “I saw an automobile to-day that must have just completed a long, hard jour- ney. Watson : How could you tell that?” Holmes: Because the wheels were tired.”—Ex. Principal parts of the verb ilunco: “Flunco, llunkere, faculty, fire ’em.”—Ex. Senior: “Professor, I am indebted to you for all I know.” Professor: Don't mention such a trifle.”—Ex. Age and a small brother alwavs tell on a girl.— Ex.' Pm sorry to have to do this. said Tommy, as he spread the jam on the cat’s face, but I can’t have suspicion pointing its finger at me!”—Ex. The Scientist: Do von know that the oyster is a reasoning animal? The fgnoramus: “No. Why?” The Scientist: “Because he knows enough to shut up.”—Ex. Teacher: The three boys in the front seats were the only ones to get correct answers in the exam.” Voice (from the rear): “Good team work. —Ex. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR i 49 XTbe JBasfeet JSall Season Somerville High lias been represented this sea- son at basket ball by a team so good that it has merited far more support and praise than it has received. The sport itself, although having at- tracted more notice than in former years, has de- served a much larger share of attention on the part of scholars. The majority of the games have been played at the Somerville Y. M. C. A. at 3 o’clock p. m., while a team calling themselves the Mohicans, but in reality little more than the Som- erville second string men, has entertained the spectators between halves with contests with other substitute teams. The candidates were called out by Captain Matthew Duggan soon after the close of football. The first string men at the opening of the season were Duggan. Mitchell, Donahue, Pierce, Parks, Eorg. and Hurley. After engaging in one game, Mitchell left school, and his place at centre has since been filled by Pierce. Somerville played their first game on December 15, beating Revere quite handily, 3G to IS. De- cember 22 they won from Marlboro, 29 to 8. A fortnight later an event occurred which showed basket ball fans all over the state that a new star had arisen, that there was another factor to be reckoned with. This event was the defeat of the Technology Sophomores. The latter five had been enjoying easy victories, having decisively defeated all their This account was prepared at our request by V. Smart Howe, Latin, 09. opponents. In addition to the regular squad, they brought to Somerville Parker, the regular centre of the Tech ’Varsity, and one of the stars of that remarkable team. At the end of the first period Somerville led slightly. In the second half the con- test grew faster and faster. Tech showing the better form, until just before time was called they suc- ceeded in tying the score. The two captains them agreed to play five minutes extra. Each side made one on a foul, then Hurley caged the ball for two more. Duggan scored another foul, apparently giving his team a safe lead. Tech, however, scored- a goal from the floor, and the gong finally rang; with Somerville only one point in the lead. A day or two later the team went to Brockton- and beat Mr. Whitcomb’s team bv the score of 33 to 31. in another heart-breaking game. The score was even toward the close of the second half. With only a minute to continue. Duggan made a long one-hand shot, and won the game with a splendid goal from the floor. The team up to this point had been developing continually and with fair speed. They continued their victorious march by winning from DeMcrritt School, GO to 10. About this time Donahue aban- doned basket ball for hockey, and Hurley was forced to leave the game for several weeks. Donahue’s place was taken by Taylor, who quickly showed himself a player of great merit, but Hur- ley’s loss seemed at the time irreparable, and his place was never completely filled. The team was naturally somewhat disorganized by these changes when it came up against Win- i50 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Chester January 20. T his team had played both Melrose and Winthrop, the two most prominent claimants, at the present writing, of the Greater 'Boston championship, and was beaten by them only after such extemely close contests that it might be called practically the equal of either. Winchester started off with a rush, and had scored two goals after hardly ten seconds of play. At the end of the first half it was leading by some six or seven points. The second half was a thriller Somerville would make gain after gain, only to see Winchester increase its lead again. Somerville finally crept up and tied the score. In the last minute of play the pace was tremendous, both teams spurting as if at the finish of a foot race. Barely a second before time was completed! Ref- eree McCarthy called a foul on Winchester. Dug- gan then took the ball, and amid breathless sus- pense sent it squarely into the basket, and Somer- ville led, 33 to 32. I'ntil the Winchester game. Somerville had been without a coach, and it had been practically impos- sible to develop the team work that was necessary. Alfred Dickinson was now secured as coach, and the team put in hard work in preparation for the Rindge game, which ranked as the most important contest on the schedule. On February 2 the two teams met. but in the second half the Rindge team left the floor, accusing McCarthy of partiality. Two weeks later the same teams met again, this time at Cambridge, when the result was similar to the first, only it was the Somerville team which this time refused to finish, on the alleged reason of the Cambridge officials unfairness. These two miserable fiascos only succeeded in showing the absolute folly of having as officials— no matter how fair they may be—pupils or gradu- ates of either of the opposing schools. Right here it will not be amiss to say a few words in regard to Referee McCarthy. He has, according to the affirmations of the most competent judges, run the games not only with ability, but with perfect fair- ness. In a number of close games he has not hesi- tated to call fouls on Somerville, when, by so do- ing, he seemed to be dooming his team to certain defeat. He never tolerates the slightest unneces- sary roughness, nor any other infringement of the rules. Great credit is due him for his efficient work in every department of his position. Between the Rindge contests, Somerville de- feated Haverhill, 31 to 20. They again won from that team, 30 to 20. on February 22. March 10 a game was scheduled with Melrose High, but the latter team unfairly canceled the game at the last minute, on account of a contest with Winthrop scheduled for three days later, and sent a substitute team in their stead, which the home team walloped to the tune of 104 to 10. At the present writing, the team has completed its schedule, but will probably try to arrange a game with the winner of the Winthrop-Melrose game. Perhaps the most remarkable feature about the whole season is the marvelous improve- ment over the work at the beginning. The team has gone on gaining in strength with every game. It has not yet met defeat, and has as good a right to the title of champion of Greater Boston as any other. Let us hope that by the time this is printed they will have played the decisive game and won conclusively. Since the foregoing account was written, Som- erville has played Melrose, the winner of the Winthrop-Melrose game. After the roughest, most exciting contest of the season, the score ended a tie, 21-21. Another game is being ar- ranged to take place on a neutral floor to decide the championship. Baseball Scbebule April 17—Mechanic Arts. April 19—R. M. T. S. April 21—Everett. April 21—St. John’s Preparatory School. April 28—Waltham. May 1—Cambridge Latin. May 4—Brockton. May 8— R. M. T. S. May 12—Groton at Groton. May 15— English High. Mav 19—Medford. May 22— R. M. T. S. May 20 —Brockton High at Brochton. May —Malden High at Malden. May ill— Dorchester High. June 2—Bradford Durfee Training School. June 5—New Bedford at New Bedford. June 9—Arlington High. June 12— Dorchester at Dorchester. June IT— English High. June 19—Malden High. League game. . SOM HR VILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 151 Hlutnni iRotes (Continued from page 147 ) Crosby F. Baker, Ernest R. W hitcomb. Robert M. Knight, and Ralph M. Simmons, of the class of ’00. Latin School, are Juniors at Tufts College. Knight is a member of the Theta Delta Chi Frater- nity there. Harry E. Burroughs, Latin. ’05, a Senior at Dartmouth, is also a member of that fra- ternity. The youth, Lawrence Bowlby, Latin, 07, lias been found. At present he is in Somerville, but will very soon return to Fort W ashakie, W’yom., where lie is working on the United States Irriga- tion Survey on W ind River. 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Dieges and Clust IF WE MADE IT IT’S RIGHT Class Pins Fraternity Pins Medals, Cups MAKERS S. E. H. S. PINS Winter Street, Boston, 129 Tremont Street TABLE OE COMTENTS Frontispiece................................ Editorial Staff............................. Editorials.................................. His First Quarter, by Lillian B. Treadwell, L., ’09 Out in the Storm, by Lois M. Xcwhall, E., TO The Minister’s Ghost, by Edytlic Miller, L., ’12 . The Story of a Gold Watch, by Carl L. Hartshorn, E., ’09 A Matter of Steam Pressure, by William Hunncwcll, L., '09 Fifty Years Hence, by Ruth Tyter, E., TO . The Letter Box.............................. Latin Notes................................. English Notes............................... Exchanges .................................. Alumni Notes ......... Athletics................................... Suburban Coal Company WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ALL-RAIL COAL is WOOD and HAY We deal extensively in all grades of COKE All Orders Delivered Promptly --------0-- H. A. CRAWFORD - - - Manager ---o-- 29 DANE ST., SOMERVILLE, MASS. TELEPHONE 320 SO IERVILLE COMPLIMENTS OF 5obn fill. Woobs 154 155 156 158 159 160 161 162 163 165 167 169 172 173 174 COMPLIMENTS OF Jesse S. Newcomb J. A. Harsh Coal Company No. 38-40 Park Street Telephone 319 Somerville, Hass. WILLIAH S. HOWE DEALER IN Furnaces and Ranges FIRST-CLASS PLUMBING 51 Union Square, - - Somerville, Hass. For Your Library GUNN SECTIONAL BOOK-CASE Noted for its Simplicity and Convenience J. C. MCLEAN 33 Union Square, Somerville, Mass. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Vol. XVIII. Somerville, Boston, Massachusetts, April, 1909. No. 7 The Somkkvii.i.k ({Kill School Radiator is published by the Latin and English High Schools on the last Thursday of every month during the school year, and only important news matter can l e received after the 10th of the month. Matter for insertion ntny be left with any of the editorial staff or mailed to the editor at the English High School. In contributing, write on one side of the paper only and sign full name. 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 Entered as second class mail matter at Boston P. o. Single Copies, 10 Cents SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT £MtoriaI Staff associate Sbitor VIVIAN BEERS, L.. '09 BOitorsinsCbiet ERNEST W. CHAPIN, E„ ’09 business Ranager HOWARD A. MacLEAN, L., ’09 Exchange Ebitor LORENE A. WHITNEY. L., '09 assistant business Ranager STUART FOSTER, E.. '10 Sporting Ebitor PERCY G. WHITMAN. E.. 09 Second assistant business Ranager J. ELLIOT SLATER. L., '09 alumni Ebitors Crcasurcr L. ELIZABETH CHICKERING. L.. '09 GEORGE M. HOSMER (Faculty) EDNA F. TEELE. E.. '09 Statf artist M. ESTHER SHAPLEIGH, E., 10 Class £ tutors Xatin School ALLISON NEWTON, ’09 HARRY H. GREENWOOD, ’10 MELVIN J. MESSER. Jr., ’ll FRANCIS J. MAHONEY, ’12 English School LESTER C. GUSTIN. ’09 ANDREW F. HANDLEY, ’10 ARTHUR LEIGHTON, ’ll OLIVER CHURCHILL, ’12 156 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR This time of the year is when the “spring fever” epidemic sets in. One is apt to say: “Oh. what’s the use, anyway? I don’t feel like working.” Well, what is the use? What do the next two months signify in your life? If you throw them away, you will know less how to improve the two, and the dozen, and the many that follow them. Whereas, if you turn to with a will to conquer each day's work in its turn, you will presently realize that your progress is upward, and perhaps not so dishearteningly slow, after all. The last term is the most trying of the year. Hot weather makes persistence in one’s duty a cardinal virtue. A long year has left the mark of its inexorable grind on our patience. Thoughts of promotion or graduation—with a question-point—bring worry to the mind. Reflections of lost opportu- nities bring discouragement to the heart. But, cheer up! You’re not ready to surrender yet. No, indeed, you’re just about to win the fight. Remember, now is the time to get in the last blow on this year’s achievement. Take a breath, grit your teeth, and “go for him”! The baseball season is here again, with its “in- shoots,” and “three-baggers,” and all the rest so dear to the heart of every “fan.” Judging from the way the fellows responded to the call for can- didates, we may expect to develop a live, smart team this spring. The season ticket plan which has been agitated is in many respects a desirable way of supporting the team. To an economical person, the possibility of saving even a few cents on each of twelve or fifteen games is no mean con- sideration. Then, too, as in any other business enterprise, the management would be greatly aided by a definite sum in advance. Surely an advan- tage is appreciable on both sides. Another ques- tion that comes up now is that of organized cheer- ing. Just as soon as two or three of the many wide-awake fellows in the school—presumably Seniors, as the acknowledged leaders in such mat- ters—will forget their shyness and step forward to be directors, we can have mass meetings, practice the good old hair-raising Somerville cheers, and thus develop a trained chorus of “rooters.” The psychology of “rooting” would make an interest- ing study. Oftentimes a thunderous volley of “S. H. and L.! at the right moment serves to spur the players on to that final effort that starts the avalanche of victory, while indiscriminate, scat- tered yells, or a nerve-racking silence, however attentive, may ruin one of those bold, smashing plays that require an atmosphere of wild enthusi- asm for their perfect success. Come out in the beautiful spring weather, then. Show our nine that every follower of the red and blue is intensely eager for clean, snappy sport. Keep mind and body on the alert every minute. Get your lungs SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 157 full of fresh air. How do you expect to have any kind of a voice if you never pull out the ‘‘forte” stops? r at . a The Junior dance is to take place at Anthoinc Academy Tuesday evening, May 11. The effort this year is to make it as informal as possible. All friends of the Junior class arc invited to come and make themselves at home. Of course every Junior is expected to be present. This dance is a good custom, offering as it does an opportunity for the two Junior classes to form an acquaint- anceship before becoming Seniors. The best way to improve and promote it is by loyal support. An efficient committee have been elected, who hope to make the affair a social and financial suc- cess. Tickets for couple may be obtained from them for $1.25. v Friday evening. April 9, the Harvard-Somerville Latin Club entertained the sub-Freshmen from Somerville. About thirty-five Seniors and Juniors, together with several instructors and the presidents of the lower classes, gathered at the apartments of Mr. Hill, a club member. The short business meeting, during which President Smith explained the purposes of the club, Secretary Doyle read an amusing report of the previous meeting, and one or two committeemen reported, or failed to re- port, was much enjoyed by the visitors, judging from the laughter and applause. Pleasant and in- teresting, though short, talks were given by Dr. Baxter and Messrs. Murray. Hosmcr. Wilkins, and Sprague. Light refreshments were served, and a short period of general sociability closed the even- ing. The fellows left with a charming picture of college good-fellowship in their minds, and a warm sense of the hospitality of the Harvard-Somerville Latin Club in their hearts. tft We wish to correct an error in last month’s edi- torial column. We stated that Miss Lambert comes from the Emerson School of Oratory. She is really from the Leland Powers School. r ith the co-operation of the schools, we hope to make the June issue of the Radiator a souvenir number to be proud of. I his is the best chance for the writers to make known their worth, for an abundance of stories is desired. The June number is the place for a most varied assortment of lit- erary matter. Narration,—fictional or otherwise,— description, exposition, argument, poetry,—nar- rative. descriptive, dramatic, or contemplative,— and statistics; all may hope to find a place. For the Seniors this is the last chance to blossom out as a writer, to take advantage of the Letter Box for a final declaration of opinion. The class editors and other writers of the staff will be given more space for their several departments. Owing to the great amount of editorial work involved in producing this number, we must have ALL MATERIAL IX BY MAY 20. For the same reason we intend to hold the election of next year’s staff shortly after that date. Thus they can be “broken in by the present officers before resign- ing. A suggestion has been made of having the associate editor a Junior instead of a Senior, as at present. The idea is the same as that in the case of the first assistant business manager. If, as the leading candidate, he is elected to the head of his department for the following year, he enters upon bis task with some experience. Personally we arc inclined to favor this scheme, as it would greatly facilitate the work of starting the publica- tion each autumn. We offer it for your serious consideration, hoping to have some action, or at least discussion, made at the coming election. We would also remind class presidents that each class is supposed to be represented in Radiator elec- tions by two elected voters. We believe no such provision has been made as yet this year. If our readers desire a voice in Radiator matters, kindly see that your representatives arc elected in time. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 158 ID is .first Quarter 36 Xtllian JS. TTreadweU, X., ’09 RIGHT, shining, new, his first quarter lay in his hand. He was only a small boy, although his pride would have received a shattering blow if one had said so. Curly locks of dark brown hair clustered confidingly around his forehead: bright blue eyes, filled with pride, lighted up his smiling face; roguish dimples ap- peared and disappeared in his chubby checks. Altogether lie was a dear little fellow, just the kind that ladies would designate as cute. Just now he was standing very still, contemplat- ing his quarter. Santa Claus had brought that quarter ; it was away down in the very toe of his stocking, and when found, had caused a shout of joy. For was not this his first quarter? Many times some one of his adoring relatives had added pennies, nickels, and, more rarely, dimes to his accumulation of wealth, but never before a •quarter! And now, standing there gazing at the beauty of his treasure, his heart was filled with a pride the equal of which he had never before ex- perienced. This was a day in February: and yet the quarter was still unspent. More than once he had made up his mind to part with it. Once it was to buy a sled; again it was a pair of skates; the next time it was a watch, a real watch. Anything and every- thing from a toy horse to an automobile, from a top to a bicycle, in his fond sight, could that quar- ter purchase. Once, spurred on by a feeling of generosity, he had been tempted to put it in a Salvation Army box: but when lie had pulled it out of his pocket and looked at it. shining in all its glory, his generosity had abated; and once more the quarter had been returned to its hiding- place in the very depths of his pocket. Another time he had been tempted to spend it all for candy. Just think how many of those long red sticks he could have purchased for a quarter! But this fancy had passed off, too, and still the quarter was in his possession on this cold February day. Finally he ceased to look at it. put it in his pocket, and got ready to go out and play. His mother had an errand to be done, so first he had to do that. After running along two or three streets, he reached his destination, a small store on one of the main streets. And what did he see? One window was filled, completely filled with valentines! Every kind and description of valentine met his bewildered gaze, and for a moment lie could not tell which one he liked best. At length, however, by the process of elimination, lie picked out one as his choice. Large, imposing, and magnificent, covered with quantities of lace paper and with in- numerable gilt stars, it caught his eye, and held him entranced. It was long before he thought of his mother's errand: but at length he thought of it, and went slowly into the store. When the errand was done, he hesitated, stammered a few words, turned a fiery red, and finally succeeded in asking the saleswoman the price of that valentine, which had so enraptured him. Smilingly she an- swered: it was just twenty-five cents! All the way home his thoughts were in a whirl, lie knew that valentine would be the very thing for a certain young miss who sat beside him in school. He knew how well he liked this young miss: and he knew equally well that her affections were turned in the direction of another boy, his senior and a year beyond him in school. Had he not seen them together often? Had not his en- vious eyes time and time again watched his rival walk boldly up to the lady of his heart with the present of an apple or a piece of candy? And now might not this be his opportunity? Surely she could not resist the graces of such a valentine f That night his sleep was fitful, and his dreams a strange mixture of bright quarters and coquettish little maids, joined together by lace paper and gilt stars. The next morning when he awakened, his mind was made up. Come what would, lie had deter- mined to part with his cherished quarter. Imme- diately after school he started for the store, and as he neared it his heart went pit-a-pat for fear the valentine was not there. But there it was, re- splendent in all its glory; and. as before, it held his gaze captive. When at length he went into the store, held out his quarter, and asked for the valen- tine, the saleswoman had no need to inquire which SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 159 one. Without a word she went to the window, se- lected (he valentine, and a minute afterwards it was in his possession. The next day was Valentine’s Day. He could hardly wait until the morning came, and it was still very early when he sprang from bed. Of course he was up to school before the doors were open, but he was the first one in when they finally swung on their hinges. Trembling all over, and with a fluttering heart, lie entered the school- room. Nobody was there, and in a moment he had slipped the precious envelope into her desk and was out of the room again. Now, what should he do? Should he be present when she opened it? He decided that he would; and when he saw her coming, he was right at his desk, mak- ing a great commotion with books and papers. At last she reached her desk, and, surrounded by a group of admiring friends, looked into it. There lay. not one, but four white envelopes, each a token of its sender’s esteem. Laughing with de- light, she opened the top one. Small, insignifi- cant, devoid of lace paper and gilt stars, the valen- tine appeared. He looked at it with the scornful eyes of a connoisseur; surely that could not please her! Rut it did: and it was long before she could bring herself to lay it down and open the second one. The second was like the first; the third was like the second; but the fourth had no equal. Slowly she drew it from its envelope; and a smothered exclamation of delight broke from her lips. Was ever anything so beautiful? Who could have sent it? Her eyes wandered around in uncertainty until they rested on him. Then she knew: and with a pretty gesture of surprise, she slipped away from1 her mates and drew near his desk. At first he pretended not to see her, but at last lie looked up. bashful, half afraid. Leaning over, she whispered: “It was you. Thank you. I like you best.” He could not answer, for just then the bell rang; but after school, when he walked off with her. right before the very eyes of his rival, he looked so proud and happy that there was no answer needed, and nobody could say that his quarter had been spent in vain. ZT ©ul in tbc Storm Bg Xois ll . IRcwball, E., '10 LIPPING on a raincoat, I rushed from the house, in order not to lose the beautiful picture of the coming storm as it played with the river. I stood on a rock which projected far over the water. I heard the rush and roar of the river below me, as it tumbled and whirled over and around the stones. The trees shook and trembled, as if eager to play their part. Some even stooped to touch the rushing river with their branches. Above, the clouds grew dark and threatening. I heard peal after peal of thunder, and the lightning flashed its golden streak over the angry waters. Oh, the beautiful mountain-ash berries, how brightly they gleamed against the wooded foliage, like signals of danger! Presently the rain came down in torrents. The river gladly welcomed it, and together they rushed on their mad course. A young tree, uprooted from its soft bed, was carried proudly away by the stream. The storm grew fiercer; the river went swirling by me as if bent upon destruction. As the lightning flashed again, I gave one more look at the dark, angry waters, and the swaying trees , and the river, which seemed to say: “How strong I am!“ And then I turned my steps re- luctantly toward the house, where, long after I should have been asleep, I lay listening to the storm still raging and the rushing waters in the distance. i6o SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR £bc fllbtmster’s iSbOst JBv? jeCa? tbe liMller, X., T2 T was the first Monday afternoon of the month, and the Ladies Aid So- ciety of the First Congregational Church in Mannasau was holding its monthly meeting. The ladies had been looking forward to this meeting for two weeks, ever since the new minister and his family had moved into the parsonage, and now they were all gathered together talking as fast as their tongues would allow. The new minister was the all-absorbing topic in the sleepy old town of Mannasau, quite as excit- ing as a wedding or a funeral. In their conversa- tion the ladies went back to the time when the last occupant of the parsonage had come to town, and traced all the events prior to his death. For six years the parsonage had been closed, but now it was opened, and seemed to be filled with people. To be sure, there was only the minister and his wife, the twins, a maid, and a parrot: but reports had been circulated that he had five children, vari- ous servants, and almost a menagerie of pets. Everybody had a different story to tell. Consequently, when Mrs. Sheldon, the minister’s wife, arrived at the meeting, the talk instantly ceased, and an embarrassing silence ensued. It gradually wore off. and the talk drifted to the par- sonage : how they liked it. Was the furnace sat- isfactory? How did the children like school? etc. Then one timid old lady asked if she had seen the late minister’s ghost; and when Mrs. Sheldon asked eagerly if there was one, she looked at her in astonishment. “Oh!” said Mrs. Sheldon, laughing, I am sure I do not want to see it. but Natalie and Jack will be so pleased to think there is some mystery about the place. They have been rather lonely since we came here, and will hail anything new with de- light ’ Two ladies in one corner of the room looked up anxiously at the mention of the children's names, and then looked shamefacedly at each other, as they heard Mrs. Sheldon reply, in answer to a question: “Yes. there arc only two of them, Natalie and Jack. They had been quarreling all of the afternoon about the name of the girl, one insisting that it was Arabella, and the other equally positive that it was Eliza. Later they found out that Eliza was the name of the maid, and the par- rot was called Arabella. So the afternoon passed away pleasantly. That evening Mrs. Sheldon related the proceed- ings of the afternoon to her assembled family. As she expected, the twins were vastly delighted at the thought of a real live ghost. “It gives one such a delightfully creepy feeling,” said Natalie. Phooh ! answered Jack, “it doesn’t do anything of the sort. I’d just as soon meet it anywhere, but if I caught it in the pantry stealing any of Eliza’s doughnuts, I would give it a whack.’’ I'd like to sec you. retorted Natalie. “You would be so scared that you would come sprinting out of the pantry as fast as your legs could carry you. Resides,” added their mother, “you must be careful how you act in his presence, for it is a minister's ghost, and must be treated with meet re- spect. And the conversation ended in a laugh. “Oh, me, thought Natalie, as she climbed into bed, it would be lots of fun to dress up as a ghost and scare Jack to-night. I could rig up in a sheet and pillow-case. I believe I’ll do it! Yes. sir, I will! And with this she sank back onto the pil- lows. laughing. At about 10 o’clock up she got. and began to array herself in her spectral garb. Opening the sash, she scraped the snow from the window-sill and made two snowballs. “To heighten the effect,” she said. “I’ll clutch him with my icy fingers. Oh! what fun!” Meanwhile in the room across the hall a similar scene was being acted. Jack had thought of this scheme the minute his mother had mentioned a ghost, and he now was preparing to put it into exe- cution. Arrayed similarly to Natalie, but omitting the snowballs, he stole warily from his room at the same minute that Natalie emerged from hers. Both crept softly towards each other’s room, and what was their surprise and dismay to meet half- SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR i6r way between! Each thought the other the min- ister’s ghost in their excitement, and both turned and lied in the direction of their rooms. Natalie, however, threw her snowballs wildly away, and had a faint recollection of hitting something. When the twins met next morning at breakfast, they looked sheepishly at each other; but when Natalie saw a black and blue spot on Jack’s fore- head, she burst out laughing, and between them they told the story of their adventure. Since then, whenever mention'of ghosts is made, Jack invol- untarily puts his hand to his forehead, and Natalie blushes to think that she was such a vigorous ghost. Zbc Storv of a Solt Match JQy Carl %. Ibartsborn, IE., 09 ET your watch run down again, have ye? How many times have I got to tell ye it spoils a watch to let it run down? Why, when I was a boy, if I let that yere watch run down, my father would have made me do double chores for a week, jist to show me how to take care of it ’ This was the third time had allowed the old timekeeper to run down, and it was the third time grandfather had scolded me severely for being so careless. My curiosity was aroused, and I asked him to tell me why he thought so much of the old watch. He took it out of my hand, wound it, set it, fingered it for a few moments, and proceeded to relate the following story:— “When I was eighteen years old, my father se- cured a position for me on the railroad between Boston and Provincetown. After several runs, I felt the need of a watch so much that I sent home asking him to allow me to borrow his until I had enough money of my own to buy one for myself. Now, father was much opposed to lending or bor- rowing, and consequently he searched among the household treasures and brought to light an old timepiece, which he gave to me. The week after I received it, our train was wrecked, and I was picked up severely injured. I was carried to a little stone house; that is, when I opened my eyes I concluded it to be such. Here I was tenderly cared for. until one day a quilt was thrown over my head, and I felt my bed being lifted up and carried out. I was too weak to remove the cover- ing from my face. It seemed as if my bearers walked miles and miles before they finally set me down. When they removed the quilt, it was pitch dark, and being almost exhausted by the journey, I immediately went to sleep. When 1 awoke, it was broad daylight. I was in a little room, with a tiny round window near the ceiling. My clothes were neatly hung around on the wall, and my great watch was ticking merrily from the hook where it hung, just above my head. 1 soon became aware of a slow, even, rocking motion, and then it sud- denly dawned upon me I was aboard ship—I had been kidnapped! I speedily recovered from my injuries in the salt sea air, and joined the crew. 1 was set to work in the galley as cook’s mate, and such work! When I wasn’t peeling onions or scraping tin pans, I was being knocked around for the amusement of the crew. But the days passed quickly, and we soon reached the port of Morocco. “Once in the harbor, my captors put me in irons and threw me into my bunk. I lay there, I don't know how long, but when I came to I heard sharp orders above me; the old anchor was flung over, a skiff was lowered, and then they came after me. They threw me on the bottom of the boat with my bag of clothes, and rowed to a kind of slave market. “Here I was chained to a long line of slaves to wait my turn to be sold. When the time did come, I was stripped of most of my clothing and pushed upon a platform in front of a fat old Arab, who was wildly gesticulating to a crowd of merchants— pointing out my merits, T suppose. A queer little wine merchant bought me. •’We were carried to his house and set to work under guard. 1 speedily made friends among the SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 162 ten or twelve other slaves with whon I was placed. As soon as I received my bag, we exchanged arti- cles of clothing. You can imagine my joy at find- ing in the pocket of one of my coats my old watch. As the days passed, the old timepiece became my dearest friend, and it was with the greatest difficulty that I kept it from the guards. “One day, after we had finished work and the watchers were locking us in irons. I motioned to my keeper and made him understand that if he would take me down to the wharves I would give him my watch. He was evidently pleased at the proposition, for that night he came in and un- chained me. I followed him through the little window into the guard room, and from there to the custom house wharf. My guide found a skiff belonging to one of the English men-o’-war in the harbor, and rowed me out to her. After securing passage to London, I gave him my watch. It certainly was hard to part with my treasure, but I kept my promise. On my arrival at London, I was fortunate enough to get a berth on a New Bedford brig, and before long I was safely landed at Boston. The loss of my watch so impressed me that I could not content myself with the new one I had bought, and often I wandered about the wharves hoping to find some trace of my old friend. I knew that the Arab would not keep it long, for he was so sure that any Englishman would pay him a fortune for it. “One day I was hailed from an Oriental ship that had just been warped in. I boarded her, and to my greatest surprise and delight, my fellow- slave came forward and handed me the dear old watch I am holding now. He had attempted to escape, and in doing so he overthrew one of the guards in a hand-to-hand encounter. He saw something fall to the ground, and, picking it up, he recognized my watch. “Now, my boy, do you understand why your grandfather wants you to take good care of his old friend?” H flatter of Steam flbressnre 36 ? Xtlilliam tmnnewell '09 OU arc all right when you start, and you explain to the one by your side the merits of the car, the hill-climbing qualities, the power, and so on. Then you come to that long stretch of lonely road that leads from Some- where to Nowhere. You begin to wax eloquent on the beautiful scenery, that hill over there, when you suddenly glance at the steam gauge. All the afternoon you have been doing your best to entertain her, trying to make everything go smoothly. You promised her mother before starting that you would be home early. Suddenly you stop talking and become pensive. You take another look at the gauge and gasp. Then you try to keep the conversation a-going, but it comes in fits and starts, like the motion of the car, which has become noticeable by now. How do you feel? Why, you feel as if you had been playing her false; you feel hopelessly lost in her good graces, and also on that endless road. You feel like a defeated warrior, and that beast under you has won. You want to explain, but your heart is in your mouth as you take a last look at the steam gauge. At last you get out. She, also. You are gradually getting a spirit of re- venge. You arc mad. She, also. You com- mence to feel about the engine. You feel harder and harder, and at last you discover that broken pipe. Then you feel better. But she has detected your grief, and she begins to make sarcastic re- marks about the car. The broken pipe is replaced quickly, and you both jump in. And now how do you feel? You arc a hero. You've done the impossible. You are simply great in her estimation. Then you take courage and make up for lost time, both in speed and words. Enough to say, the ride is a great suc- cess. Could you feel better? No! Never! SOMERVILLE IIIGII SCHOOL RADIATOR 163 jfifty |}ears IBcnce TRutb t:v?tcr, to ARLY to-day I left San Francisco on the new Airship Express Line for Boston, to visit Somerville and see the clear old English High School again. As I sat in the airship look- ing downward, I thought of all the inventions which had been made in the years since I had graduated. 1 Maced beside the present means of travel, the steam trains and electric cars seemed like snails. The Rocky Mountains were already far behind: a few minutes later Chicago flitted past: and now Boston itself appeared on the dis- tant horizon. After a ride of two hours. I alighted on the Common, and took the subway to Central Hill. At first glance I failed to recognize the school of my youth. From the public library down to where was once the city hall annex rose a gigantic granite structure. Thirty stories high, it towered in the air. Before the great front entrance stood two bronze statues, one of Mr. Baxter and the other of Mr. Avery, the two men who by their ceaseless efforts made the first additions which have raised the school to its present proud place in the land. After going up and ringing the bell, I was ushered into the presence of one of the masters, of whom there were now ten. lie begged me to be seated, and sent a wireless telephone message to the head master. Two minutes later there was a honk. honk. A small automobile drew up before the office door, and the head master alighted! And behold! who should it be but Harry Stewart, one of my old classmates! He knew me, and came forward with both hands extended. ‘T am very glad to see you. Miss Tyter, he said, smiling. “How has everything gone since you left High School? But wait, come over the build- ing with me in my automobile. We can talk while we are riding. The main floor of the building consisted almost entirely of offices. At the end of one of the cor- ridors was a large staircase, towards which we headed at full speed. “Look out or we will be wrecked! I cried out in fright. Mr. Stewart only smiled and went still faster. The next instant we struck the stairs, and, to my surprise, the automobile began to walk up them! Each wheel was moving as though it was a separate leg! The second floor contained recitation rooms. I glanced at one of the doors as we went past. It was numbered 982. My head began to swirl, but 1 said nothing. I could not, however, help pitying the poor Freshmen on the first few days of their high school life. It was hard enough with me, I remembered, to find the rooms when the numbers did not go above forty. Think of having to find a room when they were numbered into the thousands! Yc stopped at one of the rooms and went in. The old dream of some of the teachers had been realized. All the classes were self-governing. In- stead of by teachers, the knowledge was given by phonographs and moving picture machines. The class in the room which I entered were having his- tory. On a white screen in the front of the room was being enacted the battle of Salamis. The Greek and Persian ships were engaged in a mighty conflict: the phonograph was keeping pace by re- citing the important features of the event. “Not much like the old days ’ said Harry. “Wouldn't some of our teachers be surprised if they could come here now? Then we went up to the next floor. This, also, was filled with recitation rooms, as were the five above it. The ninth, tenth, and eleventh floors were taken up by an immense athletic field. Here the boys in red and blue waged the battles which were once fought on Broadway field. All around the place rose tiers and tiers of seats. My com- panion told me the place would scat 20,000. Above this were more recitation rooms and laboratories. One of the floors held a large drill hall, where a regiment of school cadets were drill- ing. We stood a while watching them. “We have cavalry drill on one of the lower floors. remarked the head master: “we can sec them when we go down. On the top floor was a large room in which plays and debating contests could be held. Next SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 164 we went on to the roof. This was level, so that the scholars coming to school could land there in their airships. There were scores of these ships resting on the roof now. waiting for the departure of their owners homeward. “We will leave the automobile here and travel as the scholars do now ’ said Mr. Stewart. We then walked to what looked like a long shed on one side of the roof. As we approached, I could see that it was filled with elevators. We stepped into one marked “Express to lower floor.” The next minute we shot downward with the speed of light- ning. 1 saw the offices on the first floor flash by, but still we did not stop! After what seemed an age, we came to a stand- still with a soft thud and stepped out. “We are now fifteen stories below the surface,” said my companion, smiling. Let 11s first go and see the machinery that lights and heats the build- ing.” One end of the place was filled with whirling dynamos. “Everything here is done by elec- tricity.” he explained. After watching the machinery a while, we went up to the next floor in one of the local elevators. Here were the manual training rooms. Above these were a gymnasium and kitchens, and sewing rooms for girls. On the level with Gilman square was the riding hall. We watched some of the cadets while stand- ing on their horses’ backs leap over hurdles and perform other feats of skill and daring. The first floor below the street was taken up by an immense restaurant. Here the pupils, at al- most 110 cost, could be served by colored waiters in red and blue livery. The head master told me that during the lunch hour music was played by the school orchestra, now a mighty band of 500 pieces. We next ascended to the first floor, and after promising that I would visit the school again, I went out. I wished to see the building from the rear before I left, so I walked down to Gilman square. Erom here the place looked even larger than from in front. All of what used to be the hill was now covered, down to the very railroad station itself. But I had little time left to contemplate the growth of the institution if I wished to get home before supper time. I hurried to the Central Hill station, and was soon at Boston Common again. Here I entered an airship and started for home. Just after we crossed the Mississippi, a great storm came up. and our airship became unmanageable, the propeller broke, and we were soon falling downward at a terrific speed. The next instant we struck ground, there was a terrible crash—and I awoke! OMm Hlpba Bance The annual dance given by the Phi Alpha Sorority was held this year on the evening of April � 5 in Anthoine Hall. The hall was well deco- rated with chrysanthemums, laurel, hemlock, and palms. From the centre hung a huge ball of the flowers, and from this six streamers of laurel, interwoven with chrysanthemums, crossed to the balconies. Around the sides of the balconies branches of hemlock and pine, decorated with flowers, were twined, and from the railing six green and white Phi Alpha banners hung down. A background of palms added to the effectiveness of the platform arrangement. As usual, the Bellevue Orchestra made tilings lively with its music. A pleasant feature of the evening was the moon dances, and since the moon outside as well as in had reached its full, the scene was very natural. Beth Chickcring, the president, acted as floor director, and was well aided by the other mem- bers : Amy Barker, Helen French, Lorenc Whit- ney, Marian Hallett, and Marion Corliss. Harry Brown, Harold Melzar, Alger Bunten, Carl Harts- horn. Herbert Jarvis, and George Elwell acted as ushers. The mothers of the members, Mrs. Chickcring, Mrs. Corliss, Mrs. Barker, Mrs. Whitney, Mrs. Hallett, and Mrs. French, were the matrons of the affair. It is thought by the members, from the consid- erable talk and many compliments which they have heard since that night, that the dance was a success, and that the evening will be remembered with pleasure. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 165 THe Letter Box H Cafcet Battalion Within the last months a number of boys in the two schools have been agitating a military organi- zation. Their efforts, we fear, have met with but a small response to this call, which should appeal most strongly to the American youth. A certain apathy prevails, and from the first insufficient pro- tests were raised by those in authoritative standing. It is quite true that many a fond mother would probably object to “her boy” being made to carry a great heavy gun in drill, but Somerville High School has more than enough robust, spirited boys and young men to form a battalion of cadets. Moreover, these cadets would be a source of just pride, not only to the High Schools, but to the city, as well. The writer has discovered no deeply-founded nor statute reasoning in the opposition immedi- ately raised as soon as the project was launched. It is claimed that there has not been one in recent years, therefore there is no need of one at the present time. Must such an organization be needed before attempted? To be sure, it would be a radical step in its way, but a student who has passed out from the doors of Somerville High alone knows how much good such a radical change would effect. Where is the intense, wholesome rivalry that would be awak- ened by such a battalion? In such a body, could and would the pupils display the unanimity of en- deavor and the zealous desire for perfection that voices the pride of every manly youth of to-day? You may say it would take time from lessons. You wouldn’t think so were you privileged to know how many of the High School boys spend their time. As to municipal opposition, we have the approval of those highest in authorin' in the city. Look at the battalions of cadets in the neigh- boring cities and towns! Even girls have their companies! Back of everything to-day must be financial sup- port. All we have to say is this: Chelsea sup- ported a battalion of cadets that would have brought honor to any city. Cannot Somerville? Our pen might write on interminably, but you have heard some of the points we wish to bring out. Somerville has the proudest record in ath- letics of any high school, she has a high standing in classics: now for the height of the schoolboy’s ambitions,—the High School Cadet Battalion. S. L. S. Alumnus. ----------------------------- IDebatimi Debating should be made a part of the high school course. The ancients recognized the value of debating, and there are some strong reasons why we may well follow their example. The lan- guage of the debater must not be vague, ambigu- ous. or composed of glittering generalities. De- bating requires good, pointed, simple English, the kind one business man uses to another in trying to convince him concerning a proposition. For this reason alone debating should have a place in the school. Debating trains one to see quickly a flaw in an opponent’s argument, and also quickly to formulate counter arguments. In this the debater uses not borrowed logic, but his own. We study history in order to become liberal-minded, and we do. to a certain extent. But in debating one is often on that side of a question with which he does not agree, and still he defends his position. Is there anything more liberal? The debater also comes to see that there are two sides to every question, and that the defender of the other side is not to be despised just because he is on the other side. A debater, because of the range of subjects on which he may argue, acquires a great deal of general knowledge. The very looking up of authorities is an education in itself, besides giving the debater perseverance and patience. Civics can be effectively taught through the debate, as well as the desire for clean politics. One of the rea- sons for our study of mathematics is that it leads to logical reasoning, and in this debating would develop the student. Debating is not confined to 166 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR boys; indeed, girls arc very clever debaters. They are usually quicker at rebuttal than boys. Through public debating with other high schools, the school may gain a name for intellectual prowess, as well as for athletic. The usefulnessrtof debating does not end with school; it practically begins then. In the outside world debating or some form of it. as exposition or persuasion, is used continuously. One can use his acquired ability the very day after graduation. As, for instance, you apply for a de- sirable position. There are many other appli- cants. and the employer gives three minutes to each. You must convince him in that time that you arc better than any of the other applicants. This one instance may be multiplied by hundreds, but I think that 1 have shown how important de- bating really is. and that it should have a place in school. Debating could effective}- be united with elocution, for does not the one go with the other in the matter of speaking before audiences? Hymen Lipshires. E., TO. --------------------------- Ibanw SomenTlle Xatin fl la$ The annual play of the Harvard-Somervillc Latin Club will be given in Unitarian Hall. High- land avenue, April 30 at 8 o’clock. The play chosen this year is by Robert Marshall, and is called His Excellency, the Governor,” the leading part being taken by P. A. Harrison, Latin. 04. It has been decided to combine the club's annual dance with the play this year, so that dancing will begin after the play, with a short inter- mission. As a further attraction, the Quadrangle quar- tette. composed of members of the Harvard Glee Club, will sing between the acts, while the Veritas Orchestra, composed of members of the Pierian Sodality, under the leadership of E. R. Brown, Harvard, '09. will present an excellent musical programme. The play itself is an excellent one, being one of those in which Miss Ethel Barrymore lias ap- peared. It is noteworthy that special permission had to be obtained for its performance, which was generously granted by Mr. Marshall, to whom great thanks are due. 'flic play will be produced under the direction of Franklin Phillips. Latin, ’00, Harvard, ?04, and the management of J. M. Wright, Harvard. ’09. The arrangements for the whole affair are in the hands of the following committee: L. L. Win- ship. S. C. Foss, R. S. Tucker, and A. F. McLean. Tickets arc fifty and seventy-five cents, obtain- able of members of the club, at many drug stores, and of S. C. Foss. 249 Highland avenue. All pupils of the High Schools are welcome, as it is especially for their benefit that the dance is given. Heard at a lecture: Gentlemen, please do not sit down until all the seats are occupied by ladies.” —Ex. Flo was fond of Ebenezer; Eb. for short, she called her beau; Talk of tides of love”! Great Caesar! You should see ’em, Eb and Flo.—Ex. A Freshman, when asked to write a theme upon what lie saw out of a window, composed the fol- lowing: I see some cows eating grass and also a few houses.”—Ex. Mother: Jimmie, how is it that you stand so much lower in January than in December?” Jimmie: Oh. everything is marked down after the holidays!”—Ex. Father: “Johnny, why arc you making all that racket?” Johnny: “So I can go and play tennis with it.” Father: Then you’ll need a bawl, too. Bring me that trunk strap, young man.”—Ex. Look pleasant, even if you don’t feel so. Keep your temper; no one else has any use for it.—Ex. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 167 ’00 Class Editor. Allison Newton. The advent of the baseball season reminds us that some of our classmates will figure prominently in it. We should take no little pride in the ath- letes of our class, but at the same time we should not forget our brilliant scholars or those who manage and run the various teams and enterprises of the school. It is not our athletes alone nor our scholars, either, who make the class a good, well- rounded class, but it is the combination of both, and those who while fair in all things arc excellent in some. This inscription was discovered at the end of the Greek Reader:— Finis—Feb. 21. 1907. Nunc, gratias Deis Immortalibus, venit vacatio. Teacher: What was Johnson's religion?” J. M—Id—n : He was a Tory.” We have seriously considered framing the above note, as it is the first passed to us from the other room this year. Miss Clough wants to know if Chronos had in- digestion when he swallowed the rock. Teacher: When shall we have prose?” Sh—r—d—n: “Sunday.” The following sketch will give some idea of Mac- Lean’s new tragedy:— DON’T DOTE ON ANECDOTES.” Dramatis Personae. Henderson—A dispenser of anecdotes and chestnuts. McCarthy—A young man disguised as a young miss of sixteen summers, more or less (presum- ably less). Muldoon—A messenger boy with a copy of “Diamond Dick” in his pocket. Sheridan—A recess bell making a noise. Milliken—The point of the joke (absent). Chorus of pupils, teachers, etc. Time—Between recess bells. Place—The Latin School. The action is exceedingly tragic. Milliken never appearing, and McCarthy perishing as a result of his non-appearance. This delicate little verse was found on the fly- leaf of a text-book:— O useful, good, and noble book. To thee I pen an ode, In hope that knowledge from you gleaned Will help me on life’s road. Under it in a somewhat irreverent strain was this:— O foolish, vain, and useless hope, To thee I pen an epic. When this book helps you make the dough, “Bill” Taft will be dyspeptic. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 168 TO Class Editor. H. H. Greenwood. Do not forget that the Junior dance takes place Tuesday. May 11. and that you must get your tickets from the committee. You are sure of a fine time. Miss Chapman (translating): “He aimed his eyes at the wall. McKinnon and Reed are to he lifelong com- panions during the May vacation. Barron says Cyrus died at the age of 300. The spring fever is here for fair by appearances. June is approaching. Russell. Take notice. Merrill and Mike have separated. It must have indeed been a very sad parting. Frisky is undecided whether to buy a Dutch collar or not. YVe think he would look real cute in one. They didn't make much difference, Grainger. You are still one of the giants of the class. We are anxiously awaiting those afternoon his- tory exams. Anticipation is anything but bliss in this case. Miss C—1—d’s leisure hours arc mostly “Sunny” ones. What care we for the tariff or political economy? f what importance to us arc bucket hats and such superficialities of the period? Give us news of the Junior dance. There is a youth in our class, And he is wondrous wise; He wears the hottest stockings, And likewise hottest tics; While walking up and down the hall, By girls he is beset. For T—1—on is a ladies’ man, And is the Jun—iors pet. That class meeting last Tuesday in Room 25 was a dandy. Such a crowd attended that the room was too small. When counted up, the total attendance was thirteen. “Chub” has favored us with his smiling counte- nance lately. What do you know about Saturnia Juno, any- way? The Junior class has organized a ball team, and hopes to have a good team. We should like to arrange games with any of the class teams of either school. Arrange with the editor. Tl Class Editor, M. J. Messer, Jr. Our eminent professor (Hodge) says: “Was there ever a fool who wasn’t a fool on All Fools’ Day?” There was a suspicious generosity in the candy line around April 1. Our class president seems to have difficulty in keeping away from the seat on the platform. Ph—1—s is in the book business now (turning over new leaves). Where did the erasers go? Only on the gas jet. The members of German 4 have gone back to their childhood days, for they now read The House That Jack Built.” Ha—k—11 is gaining proficiency in hitting the waste basket. Br----e is becoming so heavy that the chairs in 11 will not hold him. Miss Skilton is an adept at playing dolls. Have you seen Lucilia? According to a teacher, R—b—n whispers so much that lie won’t live long. He’s long enough now. We wonder what attraction the English School holds for the girls of Room 12? Miss M—Is and Miss H—k—s are enjoying (?) front scat privileges. Loud hosiery of all colors of the rainbow will be given away by M—t—n, who has a burdensome supply. Miss R—c—w—1 wears a Highland pin and at- tends the class meetings of the Hodgkins School. Puzzle: Of which school is she a member? The author (Miss H—1) of the following mis- sive. in order to show how the editor spends his time, asks that it be printed:— ()ur editor in Room 11 is always tapping some one on the back to get him to write notes for his column, while he sits blinking his eyes and with a Quaker Oats smile writes and receives notes. Are they Radiator notes? Yes? No?” Miss Mills was recently admitted to the Sigma Alpha Gamma. In the class prophecy we had Barnes stationed at a Western army post. Was he the cook or the captain? Freshman Notes on page 171. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 1C9 ’09 Class Editor, Lester Gustin. Congratulations to those whose names were on the eligible list, and to the others, remember, “Let- ter late than never.' Mildred wants to know if------is illegible. Sammy Rich is a terror when he is aroused. Why, only the other day he licked six postage stamps in two minutes. Come on. fellows! All get together and sup- port the baseball team this spring. A game is half won if there is a good crowd to back up the team by cheering. Blanchard (in French): You must have under- stood something of what you know.” Heard in German: The wedding present hit everybody in the eye. Overheard in a classroom:— Pupil: I haven’t my lesson.’’ Teacher: Why not? Pupil: I was doing Radiator work. Teacher: “Were you gilding them or fixing the pipes? Yes, Spring is here. Xo longer the trees are Bent by Snow. The Russell of awakening nature is on Hill and Moore, yea, on every Littlefield. That King of Bird(s), the Swallow, flits gaily over the Moore (the other one this time). The Wilder deer. Atwater, aroused by the Hunt, flees, only to fall by a Spear in the hands of a Smart Potter. Yes, Spring is here. The class track team is ready. Here are the entries:— High jump—“Peanut Holmes. Mile run— Long John Geddcs. Relay race—“Baby Jones and Kid Miner. Broad jump— Pern Chapin. Shotput— Sanitarium Dohanian. Marathon run—“Fat Gustin. “Every knock’s a boost. —Josh Billings. HO Class Editor. Andrew F. Handley. Xicknames of Division A:— Cooper—The old lady. Ross— Measly Ross. Foster—Seriousosity. One of our divisions is studying graph(t)s. In French : II me donne impeau de mouton. “He gave me a leg of mutton. Don’t forget our Junior dance. How to know our classmates:— Hen—son: By what he doesn’t say. Arn—d: By those long legs. Hod—n: By the gentle smile. Sull---: By his reserved manner. Copith—ne: Same as Sullivan. McCar—y: By those funny stories. Miss R—ce: By that gentle voice. Miss Don—an: By the smile she smiles. Miss Sav—ge: By her gentle manner. Mus—ve : By the woolly hair. Ah—n: By the hosiery he wears. Tis Henderson’s duty to keep the books in order in 28. Just see who’s here! Scat 11. Room 28. Once more dear home. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 170 Heard in History E.: “Hallam died all of a sudden once. ‘‘Tennyson went to college only three years. He left in the middle of the third year.” Mus—ve must have taken advanced mathematics. Q.: What bird sings prettily in air? A.: A crow. A Freshman's pronunciation of ‘‘fibres” is fi' breeze. Sull—van asks where H 2 O may be found. Will some one put him wise? Ahern says he can’t do the intermediate (in- determinate) equations. Winn’s teachers say his name ought to be lose. Henderson is exhibiting a curiosity to himself, at least: a five-cent piece. Read the latest books published:— “What I Don’t Know.” by that distinguished writer, C. E. Rodway. This magnificent work is in thirty-one volumes. ‘‘Why Doughnuts Have Holes, by the learned John F. Knight, the most up-to-date chemist. ■Office. Room 28. NOTICE. Don’t eat any candy until you have consulted Arnold. He is a pharmacist, and will analyze the sweets and tell you how they taste. Bennett (in elocution): “I come to speak what I did know.” Morse speaks of beautiful feasts. After hearing ten pupils repeat. ‘‘Lend me your cars.” Jones was so excited that he volunteered to give his ears to the mob. Golden (in elocution): “I have a cold. I was excused. Jones: “Can you look me in the eyes and say that?” 'll Class Editor, Arthur Leighton. C—d—11 and I’—c—. the “infants” of Division D, take great delight in making faces like human scarecrows at each other. Corridor gossip:— First young lady: ‘‘Don’t you think Mc- C—ffr—y is cute?” Second young lady: “Oh. yes, more so since he graduated into long trousers.” T—n—r has a new ring, but, strangely, the ini- tials do not resemble his own. The following puzzling note was received as a class contribution:— “An excursion to East Boston is being planned by E—ton. A pleasant trip, as well as instructive. Round trip, fifteen cents. Lunch served on board.” What is lunch served on board of? A trolley, a train, a ferry, East Boston, or simply on a board? Information desired. In German : “Der Rhein fleiss auf den Xordsee.” “The Rhine flies into the North sea.” E—t—n (translating Deutsch): “And she was so angry that her husband broke in two.” There was a young songster named Rich, Who simply wouldn’t sing the right pitch; When asked if he tried, He simply replied:— “My voice is certainly bewitch(ed)t.” R-----(to Macdougal, of French division B): “Are you a rose among many thorns, or a thorn among many roses?” Macdougal: “A rose among many thorns.” Miss S—g—t (in elocution): “Hills rose and fled.” How much do T—f—d— and F-----------d and T—cr pay for their reserved seats in elocution? If B—n—n’s, H—1—y’s, and Ber—s—n’s laughs were properly applied, they would furnish abundant power for the theatre thunder scene. We arc informed that some of the girls from Room 18 are very “vane”; excuse me, “vain.” ( ' ) This represents the class editor’s smile when a few class notes were passed in. T2 Class Editor, Oliver Churchill. Spring is here! The president has been elected, and only two more months of school, so every- body come out and root for the ball team. Some handles affixed to Freshman names:— “Willy Boy Parks. “Nick” Carter. “Dippv” Raymond. “Leads” Cunningham. “Jake” Cohen. “Goo-Goo” Cribby. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 171 “Puffs” Sanborn. “Loose-Jointed Little. “Bashful ’ Stock-well received a “O' for not be- ing familiar enough with love for the scene in “Lady of the Lake.” The latest songs:— “Don’t Take Me Home. Parks. “Shine On, Harvest Moon,” O’Connell. “I Saw Washington, etc., “Seedy” Phinney. People may say they are light, but it is true that seat “? , Room il X, broke from overweight. Miss Lav’s favorite question: “Well, how’s Gladys?” Kitchen has a “fence ticket” to the “Gate of Caesar.” Proudfoot” Cosgrove Went on a Hunt with a Stevens air ride to shoot Savages, but got lost in a Wood and was captured. His captors tied his Little feet, and he was Bourne to a Cliff, where he Lay by a Rowe of Lyons. Just then some one called Flora. and he awoke, to find himself with a book entitled “How to Make Love to Some- body.” Dempsey and Metcalf help to hold down the platform in IX. Dempsey wants to know if we will injure his derby if he wears it to school. Oh, will we?! We appreciate the good work done on the piano by Master Evans. The latest punishment seems to be to give a “long” boy a “short’’ seat. In English Anderson used a diet., An extremely smart bov was he; But, alas! one day the book he forgot, And now he is making up a D.” Can Nuts work in a pencil store? Won’t some one in 1 X be a Romeo for Juliet? You're certainly freezing onto a good thing, Gardner. Dig hard, boys, we want a good representation on the ball field. Poor O’Brion, Apply, and that Ruff boy have the worst of the woman suffrage question. Tragic! We are informed that Miss C—i—by is in love (with her class pin). Tee! hee! Xattn, 12 Class Editor, Francis J. Mahoney. The girls’ baseball team is fast rounding into shape. This is due to the excellent coaching of Miss S—v—ge. Did anybody hear a noise that shook the city for miles around? Don’t be alarmed. It was only Miss McX—1 coughing. That hot weather is not an incentive for hard study is very evident. Miss Louise Marie Clevenger is the joke of Room 31. She will be the he of the new comedy, “When Maria Comes to Town, to be produced in that room. Didn't Brod—1 look cute doing the second part of his stunt on April 1? “Guess that’s right, but I don't know one word you say.” R—msey says it's tough when a fellow can’t spend a peaceful day in school just because he wears a derby. Hear about the duel in Room 32:— They stood with their weapons, the boy and the girl: And then of a sudden things were all awhirl. Miss Owler and Olsen the combatants were r In the course of the combat ill fared it with her; The victor was Olsen, by three wounds to two. The scene of the duel was Room 32: The weapons were pencils, the wounds were black marks, So that during the combat no one saw any sparks. Miss Co—m—ns’s laugh is almost as good as Mildred’s. Miss D—t—n has had her pictures taken. Very- fine. Given away on request. Algebra Teacher: “We will skip that page.” Miss Cr—g—n: “Good!” The April Fool jokes were numerous in Room 31. The pupils of that room work afternoons during April, taking stock. Q.: “What Latin word is Miss F—g—s—11 most familiar with?” A.: “Nihil.” 72 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR One of the most interesting exchanges we have received this month is the Yellow Dragon, of Hong Kong. China. The article on “China and the American Fleet shows us how much its recent visit to China will mean for the East. Some of the stories are written in Chinese, with the English version. “The Wreck of the Amazon,” in the Oracle, of Bangor, is a well-written story of saving the crew of a sinking vessel. Those who do not know much about our mail service would find The United States Railway Mail Service very inter- esting. The Chandelier, of South Boston, has some very original stories. Have you not more literary talent. Clarion? What stories you have are interesting and well- written. One can surely read with great pleasure the Lowell High School Review. The stories are good, and there is much that is bright and amus- ing. In one of our new exchanges, Now and Then, of the St. Paul Academy, there is an exciting ac- count of the collision between the Republic and the Florida. It was taken from a letter written by a lady who was on board the Republic to her sis- ter in St. Paul. Any one wishing to look over the exchanges which have been received may obtain them from the exchange editor. Room 21, Latin School. We acknowledge with our heartiest thanks the following exchanges received this month :— High Si 1.1 Bulletin. Lawrence. Mass.: the Megaphone. Dean Academy. Franklin. Mass.: the Advance. Salem, Mass.: the High School Recorder. Winchester. Mass.: the Enterprise. Roxbury. Mass.: the Artisan, Mechanic Arts High school. Boston. Mass.: High School (ileaner. Pawtucket. It. I.: Jabberwock. SIris’ Latin school. Bos- ton: the Oracle. Bangor. Me.: the Acadeinian. Evanston, III.: the Maine Campus, Bangor. Me.: the Item. Dor- chester. Mass.: the Review. Lowell. Mass.: the Chande- lier. South Boston. Mass.: the Quarterly Taller. New York. N. Y.: the Cue. Albany. X. Y.: the Academe, Albany. X. Y.: the Clarion. West Roxbury. Mass.: the College Signal. Amherst, Mass.: Brown Herald. Provi- dence. R. I.: tlu- Red and Black. Claremont, X. II.: High School Panorama. Binghamton. X. Y.: the Yellow Dragon. Hong Kong. China: the Tiltonian. Tilton. X. 1L: the Academy Bell. Pryeburg. Me.: the Megunticook. Camden. Me.: the Spectator. Johnstown. Pa.: the Po- laris, Freeport. III.; Crimson and White. Gloucester, Mass.: the Echo. Turners Falls. Mass.: the Mascot. Hood River. Ore.: High School Beacon. Chelsea. Mass.; the Institute. Cohoes. X. Y.: the Minor. Waltham. Mass.; tln Oak. Lily, and Ivy. Milford. Mass.: the Key. Battle Creek. Midi.: the Pennant. Haverhill. Mass.; Commer- cial School Quarterly. Salem. Mass.: the Argonaut. Manstield. Mass.: the Dome. Sheffield. Mass.: the IIol- ten. Danvers. Mass.: the Messenger. Westbrook Semi- nary. Portland. Me.: the Invincible. Enlield. III.; the Olympian. Biddeford. Me.: Now and Then. St. Paul. Minn.: the Co-Efficient. Ligonier, Ind.: the Pioneer. Reading, Mass. Can you translate this:— In pine taris, In oaknone is, In mudcels are, Insand none are, Mares eathay. —Ex. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 173 The English class of 1904 held a very pleasant reunion Tuesday, March 30, at Newcomb Hall. About ninety members were present, with former Head Master C. T. C. Whitcomb, now of Brock- ton, Mr. Avery, and Mr. Abbott as guests. A very pleasing entertainment consisted of songs by Miss Bertha Pilsbury, readings by Misss Gladys Libbey, and the class history by Miss Bessie Whit- ing. Interesting remarks were made by the guests. Greetings and regrets were read from Miss Merrill, who was unable to be present. The class organized for the ensuing year, with James E. Frost, president; Marion Loring, secretary; and Edward Fallon, treasurer. Albert L. Hart, English, '06, is employed by the General Electric Company of Lynn. Mabel Fish, English, '08, is teaching in South Dakota. Thornton Snow, English, ‘07, is completing his Sophomore year at Dartmouth He made the trip from Hanover to Somerville recently in his new automobile. Mabel Wells and Merle Kibby, English, '08, are attending the Normal Art School, Boston. Ruth Derby, English, is working for the Har- vard Co-operative Society. Mabel Chapman and Alice Savage, English, '08, are studying in the New England Hospital, Roxbury. The class of 1900 of the English School have also fallen in line, and are planning for a reunion and banquet Friday evening, April 30, at the Riverbank Court Hotel, Cambridge. It is hoped that every member will endeavor to be present. Tickets may be obtained of Mr. Safford. Howard Hall Crosby, English, ’05, Naval Acad- emy. Annapolis, '08, is on a brief furlough after ac- companying the fleet on its recent trip around the world. Mr. Crosby is enthusiastic over the naval service, and proposes to continue in it till re- tired.” C. Ashton R. Sanborn, Latin, ’01, Harvard. A. B., 05, A. M., ‘08, Charles Haven Goodwin scholar in second-year graduate school, has been ap- pointed to the Charles Eliot Norton Fellowship, to spend the year 1909-T0 at the American School, Athens. James J. Hepburn, Latin, '02, Harvard, '06, has been chosen class secretary of the fourth-year class of Harvard Medical School. Gay Gleason, Latin, 0G. in the Junior class of Dartmouth College, is a member of the Webster Debating Club there. The marriage of Miss Clara E. Story and Dean G. Edwards, Latin, ‘00, Harvard, '03, took place Saturday evening, April 3, at Ipswich, Mass., the home of the bride. Jacob Cohen, Latin. ’08. a Freshman at Har- vard, has been awarded a Price Grccnlcaf scholar- ship. Anna E. McCarthy. Latin. ’07, Ruth Bryant, Latin, '08. Marian Fay, Latin, ’08, and Julia Freed- man. Latin, '08, are Freshmen at Radclifife College. The engagement of Edith G. Carleton, Latin, ’03, to James A. Potter, of this city, has recently been announced. Irene Kimball, Latin, ‘07, is in the Sophomore class of Simmons College. Paula Clough, Latin, '0S, is now living in Green- wood, Mass. Tenney Davis, Latin, '07, is a Sophomore at Dartmouth. F. Stuart Dean, Latin, ’04, Harvard, ’OS, is teaching in the Berkshire School, Sheffield, Mass. Lawrence Winship, Latin, ’07, is a member of the Sophomore class at Harvard. Josephine Briggs. Latin, ’03, is working at the city hall. Albert F. McLean, Latin, 0S, is a Freshman at Harvard. 17 4 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Somerville, 24; Ifcelrose, 24 Somerville met Melrose in the Y. M. C. A. to decide the championship of Greater Boston, but the game ended in a tie. 24 to 21. Instead of play- ing an extra period. Captain Stantial insisted on another game on a neutral floor. O'Brien, of Danvers, was the referee, and he lost his control of the players at the start by his leniency. The game was very rough: checking and tripping were done freely. Milliken, the husky centre of Melrose, ploughed down the floor as if playing football, and even taking three or four steps while holding the ball, without being penal- ized. At the very end of the game Pierce, who had played a fine game against Milliken, was sent to the sidelines for body checking his man. The Melrose man rolled around on the floor for about five minutes, and then got up and played harder than ever. Very little clever basket ball was shown. Som- erville took the lead at the very beginning, and held it to the last minute, when Stantial threw a foul, tying the score. Taylor and Duggan played a great game for Somerville, both shooting difficult goals. For Melrose, Milliken and Stantial played a strong game. The summarv:— SOMERVILLE. ' MELROSE. Duggan (Fisher), r.f............l.b., Wentworth Taylor, l.f.....................r.b., R. Winship Pierce (Duggan), c..................c., Milliken Hurley, r.b.....................l.f., K. Winship Forg (Parks), l.b...................r.f., Stantial Score—Somerville, 24; Melrose, 24. Goals from floor—Taylor (6), Duggan (4), Milliken (5), K. inship, Stantial. Goals from fouls—Stantial (?). Milliken (3), Duggan (4). Referee—O’Brien. Timer—Lusk. Time—20-minute halves. ------------------------------------- Somerville, 13 ; Melrose, U Somerville won the basket ball championship of Greater Boston by defeating Melrose on the neutral floor at Winthrop by the score of 13 to 11. The play was fast and clean, except at times. Harold, the referee, was strictly against any rough play, and he kept the players within bounds. Somerville won because she had better team work, while Melrose relied on her strength. Milliken, who showed up so strongly in the other game, was more than outplayed by Hurley, who was centre for Somerville. Captain Duggan was the star man. His shots saved the game twice, and finally won it. He also shot fouls well. At the end of the first half the score stood 6 to 5, in Melrose’s favor. In the second half, by fast work, we were able to come out ahead. In the last few minutes of play, with the score 11 to 11, “Mat” Duggan made a beautiful goal at quite a distance one-handed, which won the game. After the game Somerville cheered the team, and all the way home cheers for S. II. and L. could be heard. The summary:— SOM ERYILLE. MELROSE. Duggan, r.f...................l.b., R. Winship Taylor, l.f...................r.b., Wentworth Hurley, c..........................c., Milliken SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 175 College Clothes With just the Dash and Style required by well dressed young men. Parks, r.b.....................l.f., W. Winship Forg, l.b.........................r.f., Stantial Score—Somerville, 13; Melrose, 11. Goals from the floor—Duggan (3), Taylor, R. Winship, Wentworth, Stantial. Goals from fouls—Duggan (5), Stantial (5). Referee—Harold. Timer— Cooke. Time—20-minute halves. Attendance— 000. The class of 1012 tender their classmate. Miss Miriam Libby, their heartfelt sympathy on the sad death of her beloved father. R. M. Garland, President. Agnes N. Cameron, Secretary. 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E.. ’10..................................185 “They ’ by Irene Kibbe, L., ’09..............................................................187 Football as She Is Played, by Louis Hippo, E., ’09...........................................188 An Incident, by Meyrie Rogers, L., '12.......................................................189 English Notes................................................................................190 Latin Notes..................................................................................192 Exchanges....................................................................................195 Alumni Notes.................................................................................196 Athletics....................................................................................197 Suburban Coal Company WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ALL-RAIL GOAL WOOD and HAY Wc deal extensively in all grades of COKE All Orders Delivered Promptly --------0-- H. A. 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In contributing, write on one side of the paper only and sign full name. Communications, according to their nature, should lie addressed to the editor, business manager, or exchange editor. Manuscript must l� e accompanied by necessary postage to insure its return. Terms, 75 Cents per Year Entered as second class mail matter at Itoston P. O. Single Copies, 10 Cents SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT JENtonal Staff ]SDitor=tn=cbief ERNEST W. CHAPIN, E., '09 associate £Mtor VIVIAN BEERS. L.. '09 JGusincss ibanafler HOWARD A. MacLEAN, L., '09 Exchange £bitor LORENE A. WHITNEY. L.. '09 • assistant Business flbanaoer STUART FOSTER. E.. '10 Sporting fibitor PERCY G. WHITMAN. E.. '09 Second assistant .IGusiness fcanaoer J. ELLIOT SLATER. L.. '09 alumni Editors L. ELIZABETH CHICKERING. L., '09 EDNA F. TEELE. E.. '09 Statt artist treasurer GEORGE M. HOSMER (Faculty) M. ESTHER SHAPLEIGH, E., '10 Class B3 tutors Xatin School ALLISON NEWTON. '09 HARRY H. GREENWOOD, '10 MELVIN J. MESSER. Jr.. '11 FRANCIS J. MAHONEY, M2 JEnfllisb School LESTER C. CUSTIN. '09 ANDREW F. HANDLEY, '10 ARTHUR LEIGHTON, 'll OLIVER CHURCHILL. M2 i8o SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR We regret to announce the resignation of Miss Miriam Thayer, who for several years was a teacher in the English department of the Latin School. She was the friend of all her pupils, who arc sorry to lose her. She is now studying in Dr. Sargent's School of Gymnastics, Cambridge. v r. The fifty-seventh anniversary of the Somerville Latin School was celebrated with appropriate exer- cises in the lecture hall on April 23. All the pupils were present in a body, and had as visitors Mr. Clark, superintendent of schools, and members of the school committee. The exercises were opened by Mr. Baxter, who read an interesting report from the school board of 1867. Miss Caro- lyn Weeks, Latin, '08, now a student at the New England Conservatory of Music, played a violin solo very artistically. Sam Walter Loss then read his famous poem, The House by the Side of the Road.” 1 Ie was loudly applauded, and gave as an encore Lessons from the Cat.” Robert Luce, a graduate of the class of 1877, gave an interesting lecture, interspersed with good advice to the pupils. The music was under the direction of Henry S. Hadley. The Star-Spangled Banner” and America” were sung. Katharine S. Kelley, Latin, T2, read “Buying Theatre Tickets.” Mr. Foss then read “The Man Who Comes Up from the Crowd.” Hazel 1'. Bacchus, Latin, TO, sang very sweetly Largo, with violin accompaniment. Miss Kelley was requested to read again, and gave Cy 1’nilgai's Detective Experience.” Mr. Clark then spoke briefly, and the exercises concluded with three cheers for Mr. Baxter. Matthew Dug- gan. president of the Senior class, then led them in- cheering for each of the three lower classes in turn.. 91 9. 9 9 1IM. Baxter’s deception The Senior class was entertained, as is the cus- tom yearly, by Mr. and Mrs. Baxter at their home. Nearly all of the class and most of the teachers- were present. After refreshments were served, Miss Vivian Beers rendered a selection on the piano, and a; humorous piece was recited by Miss Bodge. The class history was then read by Miss Marion Cor- liss and Howard McLean. This was made very interesting and unique by the fact that it was writ- ten in the diction and style of the Old English. Miss Edith Jones then sang, after which Miss Kibbe recited the class poem. Although short,, this was especially artistic. The class prophecies were given by Miss Lena Moore and Richard Bennett. This was done in a very original and natural way. Bennett is sup- posed to call on Miss Moore in 3929, and the en- suing conversation shows what their schoolmates are doing. Not only did this manner of prophecy prove exceedingly pleasing, but the witty way in which it was developed brought gales of laughter from beginning to end. W hen these exercises were concluded, Dr. Bax- ter called on Duggan, the president, to speak- SOM ERVI LLH HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 18 r _ic responded, thanking the teachers in the name of the class, and expressing the appreciation of the class for their help during the preceding four years. He also briefly thanked the class for the honor they had conferred on him. His remarks were concluded by a call for cheers, and Mr. and Mrs. Laxter and all the teachers were then sepa- rately cheered. All agreed to having a fine time, and when it was over gathered outside the house and cheered Mr. and Mrs. Baxter. Der IRecompense H £ ton? of the IReconstruction S a ?5 36 } Xcstcr C. Gustin. £., '0? T was the afternoon of a midsummer’s day in 18( (i. A year ago the great Civil War had ended, and now the South lay weak and submissive be- neath the colored legions of the North. Everywhere could be seen the results of the mighty conflict; the grass- grown highways, the barren fields, the fire-black- ened buildings, all told the tale of a mighty struggle fought and lost. A short distance back from one of the dusty roads of Virginia stood an old mansion house, once an imposing structure, but now fast falling to decay. About the porch a few vines straggled, their scanty foliage trying in vain to hide the grim traces of war. In a garden close by the house a middle-aged woman was working. Mrs. Singleton had been one of the society leaders in the old days before the war. When the South rebelled, she sent her three sons to fight for the cause she believed right. Two had fallen at Fredericksburg. The third, wounded at second Bull Run, now sat on the porch, powerless to move without the aid of crutches, and then only with the greatest difficulty. He still wore his Confederate uniform; faded and worn though it was. it was the uniform for which he had fought and for which his brothers had died. The captain's bars glittered on his shoulder straps, and the sabre and holster hung from his belt just as they had on the day he marched away. Many and terrible had been the threats uttered against him for wearing it. but the heart that had faced death on a score of battle- fields knew no fear, and the uniform did not vanish. Mrs. Singleton was working rapidly, for there was still much to be done before supper-time. Suddenly she heard a burst of coarse laughter. Looking tip. she beheld a squad of colored soldiers coming through the gate. Their leader, a huge negro, she recognized as Jake, a former slave of the plantation with whom she had often had trouble. What do you wish?” she asked as she hurried towards them, a nameless fear clutching at her heart. We's alter food. the leader replied with a leer- ing grin: “hurry up, ’cause we’s in a hurry.” But we have nothing,” replied Mrs. Singleton. “Ycr lie! he responded brutally. I knows wliar ycr keeps it. an' I'sc goin’ atter it.” Mrs. Singleton flushed with indignation, but she knew it was useless to resist, and she went towards the house, followed by the jeering soldiery. At the door she paused. Wait, she said. 1 will bring you what I have.” Jake leered in her face. ‘T’se goin' in,” he said. Mrs. Singleton drew herself up. All the pride of her Southern nature rebelled against the humiliation she was undergoing. You will wait here.” she said firmly, barring the doorway. As an answer, Jake lurched forward and brutally struck her aside. leaving a livid mark across her cheek. Bang! The burly form of the leader went reel- ing down the steps, his right hand clutching wildly at his brain-spattered forehead. Ten paces away, his eyes blazing with wrath, one hand grasping the porch railing for support, and the other hold- ing a still smoking revolver, stood Captain Single- ton ! With one accord the negroes rushed toward him. Halt!” The command cut the air like a knife. 'Hie soldiers paused. They were not of the blood of the black heroes who stormed Fort Wagner, and they faltered before the defiant cripple. Again they started forward, but he raised the re- 2 82 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR volvcr and they fell back. I will give you one minute to get out through that gate ’ came the command in firm tones. For an instant there was rebellion, but the flashing eyes behind the revolver did not waver, and the men retreated sullenly towards the entrance and disappeared, leaving their leader a silent heap on the ground. When they had gone Mrs. Singleton hurried to her son's side. “Oh. my boy. my boy! she cried, what have you done? They will kill you now, and how can I ever live without you?” Never fear, mother.” he replied, although his voice faltered. They cannot kill me for defend- ing you. There must be some men in the Union army that will do me justice.” Ilis mother, how- ever, could not be comforted, and stayed by him. sobbing. An hour later a squad of white soldiers marched up the road and turned in the gate. The leader came up to the steps and respectfully saluted. These men had faced the Confederates on many a bloody battlefield, and they had nought but re- spect for the soldiers of the South. I have had orders to come and get your son.” he explained. As a reply. Mrs. Singleton again burst out crying, but her son. without a murmur, got ready to accompany them. Never mind, mother, it will all come out right,” he said as he started. Then, surrounded bv the soldiers, who walked slowly to keep beside him, lie moved pain- fully down the walk and along the road. A week later they held the court-martial. The judge was a brutal negro, a common field slave in the days before the war: the jury, privates from the same company whose leader had been killed. The courtroom was crowded with officers and privates from the colored regiments; scarcely thirty white men were in the building. At a given signal the prisoner entered, between two white guards, his faded gray uniform contrasting strangely with the blue uniforms in the room. With head erect, his eyes looking fearlessly about him. he moved slowly up the aisle and took his seat in the front of the room beside his mother. First a few colored witnesses were called. They told how, without any reason, he had brutally shot their comrade, how he had cursed the flag, and defied law and order, while the black fiends in the courtroom yelled and jeered. Then Captain Singleton was asked if he had any- thing to say. He started to rise, but one glance about him showed him the uselessness of speaking, and he again sat down. The judge turned to the jury. Kill him ? Hang him! Shoot him!” they cried in savage de- light. The judge arose and rapped for order. I’se prononc’ der prisoner guilty ob murder in dc firs’ degree.” he said with a grin. In an instant the room was filled with wild veils and cheers. A burly ruffian sprang forward and started to tear off the Confederate uniform. Stop! The command rang loud and clear above the uproar in the house. The black villain paused. ()n to the platform in the front of the room sprang a white soldier in the uniform of a United States colonel. Almost with a glance he quelled the savage mob. Then he turned to the white men and commenced to speak. “You know this trial has been a farce!” he cried. You know that no man could be convicted by such a jury! Yet you sit dumb and listen to this mockery.” He paused for an instant, eyeing them scornfully. Then he continued: Before this man is condemned. I wish to tell you a story, a brief account of an incident in my life. When the war broke out 1 enlisted, and was- soon at the front. On that terrible day when Longstreet hurled his regiments down upon our army at second Bull Run. 1 was one of the many who fell. Close beside me lay a wounded rebel, his leg shattered by a bursting shell. While the oattlc raged all about us. we huddled together, our pain making us forget we were enemies. When the fighting had ceased and night had fallen, two rebel soldiers came past as if in search of some one. One of them saw my companion, and uttered a sharp exclamation. The next in- stant they were bending over him. and from their conversation I learned they were his brothers. They took him up and started away, but lie refused to go unless they also assisted me to a place of safety. For a while they demurred, but finally, after much urging, they consented. Thereupon I was taken to a farmhouse a short distance back from the rebel lines. The two brothers went to rejoin their regiment, while my new-found friend and I hovered between life and death. “When I finally regained consciousness, I heard discouraging news. The Union army had re- treated across the Rappahannock, followed by Lee and his victorious'legions. Then came the rumors of a mighty battle. Two days later the house was plunged in gloom. Both of the sons at the front had been killed at Fredericksburg. ‘‘On the afternoon on which the news came. I was lying on my bed. exhausted, with closed eves.. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR .83 Their mother thought I was asleep, and stepped into tlie room. ‘I hate you.' she whispered as she leaned over me, 'hate you and your murdering soldiers, who come here to slay us and to destroy our homes.’ Then, bursting into tears, she hur- ried from the room. “Yet. in spite of the fact that one of her sons was a cripple for life, in spite of the fact that her other two boys had been killed by my comrades, she was as kind and gentle to me as ever. One day a squad of Confederate soldiers came to the house, led by a neighbor of my hostess. The window was open, and 1 could, hear the con- versation plainly. “ Mrs. Singleton,’ the leader began, ‘there have been rumors that you are shielding a Northern soldier at your house. I have been sent to search for him. I have always known you to be a truth- ful woman, and if you tell me he is not here, 1 will take your word and go.' After a minute’s pause, the answer came. ‘He is not here,’ she said, al- though her voice trembled. When they had gone, she ran sobbing to her room. She said nothing to me. but I knew the anguish she was enduring. “Finally the day came when I was well enough to go. She did not object to my departure, al- though she knew I was returning to fight against her people. She had sacrificed her honor, had endured the pain of having two of her sons killed and the third a cripple for life, while 1 escaped unharmed, and all for the sake of hospitality and her pity for a wounded man! Yet to-day you repay her with slurs and insults, to-day you kill her only remaining son for shield- ing her! For shame!” He paused. The courtroom was silent. Suddenly a white soldier leaped to his feet. “I make a motion the sentence be repealed.” he cried. The colonel turned to the judge. “1 think it will be for your best interests to free that man.” he said in a low voice. The judge rose to his feet. I)e prisoner is rc- quitted. he said in trembling tones. In an instant the mother and son were in each other’s arms. The crowd began slowly to file from the room. 11ere and there there were attempts by the negroes to create a disturbance, but they were quickly quelled by the white soldiers. Finally the colonel was left alone with Captain Singleton and his mother. He took a step towards them, hesitated, and then turned and went out, leaving them alone in their great jov. lResolutions. Whereas, by the divine will of God. our instruc- tor, Miss Follansbee, has been bereaved of her be- loved father: be it Resolved, that we, the class of 1909 of the Eng- lish High School, having learned with sincere sor- row of his death, tender to her our heartfelt sym- pathy. Edvv. Donahue. President. Eleanor Dunning, Secretary. S. U. The second annual dancing party of the S. V. was held in Xewtownc Hall, Cambridge, .Monday evening, April 12. The hall was prettily deco- rated in the club colors, green and white, the S. V. shield illuminating the hall. The matrons were Mrs. J. F. Manning and Mrs. 11. K. Potter. Ruth S. Manning, Secretary. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 184 mo Greater Xore J6£ flDtlftred X. Hngell, X., ’ll J T was the evening of the tenth of Janu- ary, 19—. and most of the members � � 1 of the Kappa Psi were gathered around the fireplace in the reading room of the fraternity house. There was a silence over all the room. Roys,” began Keeting, president of the frater- nity. “boys, what can I say? What is there to say? We all know that two years ago to-night our club- house was burned to the ground, and so many fel- lows were burned to death. Some of you fellows weren't here then, but you surely read about it. Most of 11s were here and saw it burn. Webster, and Keith, and Milard. and half of us here had nar- row escapes, and most of 11s carry the scars. I,” he put his hand to his hair, which glistened like silver in the light. I, well, you can see what it did to me. If I were to go through another such fire, I'd—I’d die for sure.” “How did the fire start, Keet?” asked Rockwell, a Sophomore. “Don’t know. Xo one ever knew. I was the first to wake, and it seemed to have started on the first floor somewhere. I sincerely hope you fel- lows will never have to go through such an experi- ence. Come here, Bud.” Bud” Westmoreland, a Freshman, came over to Kceting’s chair and sank down at his feet. The other fellows exchanged glances. Ever since that fire, in which their president lost his chum, Lee Carter, he had never had one until Westmoreland had entered college. And since he had made the Freshman his chum. Keeting never could bear to have the fellow out of his sight for long. “It was an awful night, boys, and pray God we will never have to go through another such,” said Keith, drawing his hand across his eyes. Well, boys, what’s the use of moping? Jt can’t be helped, can it? So let us forget it to-night and have some fun. Milard, go and turn on the lights. Keith, get your banjo. Webster, play the piano. To-night of all nights we must forget that terrible disaster, and we will. Sing, boys, sing! Gather around the piano. Xo, Bud. stay here beside me and tell me about your latest, scrape.” Keeting leaned back in his chair and watched the boys scatter to do as he asked. Bud looked up at Keeting and sighed. J le loved this popular Senior as he loved no one else, and it always hurt him to look at his chum’s pure white hair. hire ahead. Bud.” “Xothing to-day, Web, nothing to-day. I was awful good. I only skipped Trig.” Why 'frig.?” Because old Cotton threatened to drop me if I went to class without my lesson. So I didn’t go. I was awful good. Regular sissy.” Keeting smiled, and joined the fellows in sing- ing the latest popular song. Finally they rose and: sauntered out to the billiard room for a game be- fore they parted for the night. The others watched them depart, and then broke up into little groups to talk over the great disaster of two years before. I say, Bud, I think you’d better sleep on the couch in my room to-night,” said Keeting, as they finished their game. Sorry, Webster, but I can't. Am awful sorry,” and Westmoreland put his hand on Keeting’s arm. It’s all right. Bud, I only thought it would be- company, that’s all. Good night.” Keeting didn’t wish to appear nervous and babyish, so he ran up the stairs. But as soon as- lie was alone the old fear came back. Suppose that disaster should be repeated? He turned! around, half deciding to go back and ask Bud to come, anyway. I le turned on the light with a dis- gusted exclamation and got ready for bed. For an hour or two he lay wide awake. He- went over the fire, every bit of it. and sleep was im- possible. Finally he became drowsy, and fell into a troubled sleep. About two he awoke and sat up in bed. Was it his imagination, or could he smell smoke? Did he see flames creeping along the floor near the door? Keeting sprang out of bed and threw his robe on. He threw open the door, and gasped for breath as a thick cloud of smoke rolled in. Im- mediately he gave the alarm. Bud! Where was Bud.' 1 he third floor! The stairs were all ablaze, and Keeting stood irresolute. Was there a way?' There must be. He rushed to the window and! SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 185 threw it open. I le could sec the crowd below and fellows rushing about. Vaguely he saw a fellow jump into the blanket held by some of the crowd. Where is Bud? How can I reach him?” asked Keeting, moistening his dry lips. He was conscious of a burn on his arm, but he paid no attention to it. Suddenly lie remembered a staircase that led from the end of the hall to the floor above near I bid’s room. Without hesitating a moment, he sprang through the door to his living room, and on through Milard’s room. It was empty apparently, and Keeting ran on to the stair- case. It was hot, infernally hot. but lie ran on. “Bud! Bud! cried Keeting. throwing open the door to Bud’s room. There came no answer, and Keeting started in. The smoke was terribly thick, and lie could see the flames burst out all around him. But he rushed on. He tossed off his robe and groped to the bed, which the flames had not reached, l ie felt a body, and without wasting a moment drew it into his arms and gathered courage to spring to the win- dow. He knew the room by heart, and swiftly made his way to the only chance of escape. He carefully shielded the body from the flames, and at last reached the window. It was closed, but lie smashed it open instantly. He gasped and leaned out. “A ladder, for God’s sake!” he cried. Instantly one was shoved up to him, and he stepped out and carefully made his way down with his heavy burden. As he reached the ground he swayed, and was caught by some of the fellows. l ake Bud,” he gasped, and leaned on the lad- der for a moment. The fellows pulled off his burning pajamas and threw a long coat over him. He pushed his way through the crowd after Bud to the nearest frater- nity house. As he appeared on the threshold, the fellows sprang to his side. T'or heaven’s sake, Keeting, is it you?” cried one of them. Yes, it's I, Martin,” answered Keeting. “Where’s Bud?” Here on the lounge. The doctor is tending him now. Come here and let us help you. Go away,” and Keeting went to the doctor’s side. Will he live?” he asked, almost in a whisper, his eyes fastened on the blackened face. I don’t know yet. Without a word Keeting fell in a heap on the lloor. The fellows cared for him until the doctor could leave Bud. But he never opened his eyes again. I Ie sighed once and fell back—dead. jflag IFltgbt at jfranhlin College B ? Pauline Merrill, IE., ’10 N a cold night in November the campus of Kranklin College lay de- serted. Here and there a solitary light in a dormitory window gave evi- dence of an upper classman busily studying. These lights were few, however, for the whole college was interested that night in the annual flag contest between the Fresh- men and Sophomores. All the Ercshics” had left the hill in the afternoon in order to be sure of not being kidnapped bv the Sophs.” Six flags had been stealthily distributed to honored mem- bers of the Freshman class, under care of the Juniors. If on the following morning at least one of the flags should be flying on any part of the hill, from eight o’clock until the ringing of the chapel bell, the Freshmen would be acknowl- edged victorious and would win two points thereby. The door of the gym opened, and a tall, ath- letic figure appeared on the threshold. So long, Dick. some one called from within. ‘‘So long.” he replied, and walked quickly across the campus. He was a star on the football team, and a Fresh- man. too. To him. also, had one of the six flags been given. In his mind he was forming a plan to fly his flag on the reservoir. He had reached the campus gate, when suddenly five or six dark figures sprang up before him. Resistance was useless, but he kicked and bit the hands which were binding his wrists and ankles with rope. Lift him up. tellers! commanded one of them, 186 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR “and we’ll take him to North Hall. The rest were obeying, when the sound of running was heard. “Cut that out!” cried a loud voice, and the cap- tain of the football team appeared. That Ereshman you have is Dick Strong, of the ’Varsity. He’s got to play to-morrow, too ’ W hy, so it is,” the Sophomores drew back sur- prised, “but it's so dark we didn't know him. It was one of the customs of Hag night not to kidnap ’Varsity men. but if a Freshman on the ’Varsity chose to take part in the flying and de- fence of a flag, he, as well as any other Freshman, could be attacked by the Sophomores, and pre- vented. if possible. That is. he could enter the struggle on his own responsibility. You ought to be careful, Dick. We can't afford to have you out of the game to-morrow,” said the captain on the way to the latter’s house, which was near by. You stay home to-night. Now. remember! Dick laughed as he replied: Don't worry, old man. A Ereshman named Shaw is taking refuge in my house to-night, and we arc going to bed early. So long, captain. and he entered the house. Dick kept his word and retired early, but his friend Shaw stayed down stairs until a late hour. What have you been doing?” growled Dick sleepily, as Shaw finally retired. Oh. nothing. was the reply. “Your cousin Less and I were just keeping the fire burning down in the parlor.” In the meantime another Freshman named Dan- forth was on his way to the theatre in the next city. As lie entered the lobby, he noticed two fel- lows watching him, and although their hats were pulled low over their eyes, he recognized them. They were two Sophomores of Franklin. Dan- forth entered his box, which had no other occu- pants, and glancing hastily around, noticed two other Sophomores in the gallery opposite. They, too. were watching him. He was a little discon- certed when he remembered the two in the lobby. But Dan forth was a loyal member of his class. He had been entrusted with one of the flags, and lie must surely not be kidnapped. The curtain rose. He could see that the two “Sophs” were intensely interested in the play. Suddenly a thought came to him. An usher was passing the door of the box. Danforth beckoned to him. and. slipping a coin into the fellow’s hand, whispered: “Where does that lead to?” pointing to a small door in the back of the box. It connects with the stage entrance, sir,” was the reply. I've got the key.” “Good! Now you wait outside this box. When I give the signal, you unlock that door and lead me out. See? and he gave him another coin. ()h. yes, sir. The climax of the act was approaching. Dan- forth gave the signal. The door was softly un- locked. and the two disappeared, unnoticed by the audience. The rest was easy, for as the passage was seldom used, they met no one. Saved! breathed Danforth, as he reached the street at last. The next morning Dick and Shaw approached the banks of the reservoir, carrying a small, light raft upon which a light pole had been erected. They had made a circuitous route through fields and over fences to evade the “Sophs.” They had been successful, and now began to climb the steep bank. You are sure you’ve got that flag, Tom?” said Dick. Sure. Say, here’s a good rock for an anchor. Let’s tie it on this string.” They fastened the flag to the pole, and tied the- rock to the string, and then continued the climb. Some Sophomores started to run towards them, but the flag was out of reach. The raft floated out into the deep water, and the flag fluttered in the wind. Then Dick threw the rock far out after the raft. Two or three times the craft tipped, but soon righted itself. It was safe from the “Sophs.”' Tom looked at his watch. Eight o’clock.” he an- nounced. and turned towards the “Sophs.” I’d like to see them get it now,” he said. This was one victory for the Freshmen, and in the meantime their friends on another part of the- hill were having an exciting time. Some of the Freshmen had been kidnapped the previous night,, but a great number of them were at large.” A crowd of them entered the campus gate a little be- fore eight o’clock. This drew the attention of the Sophs” to that part of the hill, while Danforth and another Freshman, Smith, scaled the campus fence on the other side of the hill. By means of climbing irons fastened to their shoes, they climbed a great elm tree and flew their flag from the top branch. By that time the “Sophs” had' surrounded the foot of the tree. Smith began to descend to keep them back, but they were raising a ladder. Look out. Smith. warned Danforth. but it was too late. The ladder struck Smith, and he fell to- the ground. He was on his feet in an instant, but SOM ICR VILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR the “Sophs were too many for him. Iiis ankles ■and wrists were bound, and then some of the “Sophs” ran up the ladder. Danforth, high in the tree, was losing hope. Just then, however. Smith, by a supreme effort, rolled himself heavily against the foot of the lad- der. which was unevenly placed on the ground, and •down it came!—also the “Sophs.” They were furious! “Two or three of you fellows sit on that Fresh- man !'” commanded one of them, and his order was promptly obeyed. Once more the “Sophs” «87 ascended the ladder. This time Danforth was ready for them. Unfastening one of the irons from his shoe, he tied it to a long string. Leaning down from the tree, he swung it vigorously. “If one of you fellers comes up any further, you'll get a good taste of this! he cried, swinging the iron. The Sophs” drew back disheartened. Just then a sound was heard. The chapel bell was ring- ing! 'I'lte contest was over, and the Freshmen had won! A great shout rose all over the hill: H 10-1!H0! ’Rah! ’Rah!” ft By? IIrate Uubbe, X., '09 ICK was awful good to me. My! he’d let me salt the sheep (he said that’s what they called it), and nights I’d help him chase the hens out of the barn! They didn’t like to go, and They had five calves down in the orchard, and Dick, he’d let me pat their heads. Dick, he gave me the kittens. Then there was Prince, he liked me, too. lie was Their dog. My. but he knew tricks! They had some turkeys; one was a turkey gobbler. His feathers were pretty, but he wasn’t very nice. After I got the kittens I played with them all the time. Sometimes they were sheep, and I’d salt them, then they were lions, and I’d shoot them, but mostly they were kittens, and I'd love them. They were kittens that last morning, all but one. and lie was a dog, so of course he wasn’t in the basket, but when lie got into the road, I was afraid he’d get run over, so I went out to get him. It was then that the horrid old turkey gobbler chased me. He frightened me awful, and Prince, when he came running out to see why was screamin’ so. he frightened me worse, ’cause he jumped up on me and knocked me over. It was mean of 1 hem to laugh when They came out to see what was the matter. Then that poor kitten! He got killed, anyway, so he might just as well have been run over and saved all that bother. Prob’ly when I sat on him he couldn’t breathe. That’s what I hey said, anyhow. There was a big lump in my throat when 1 buried him in the flower pot, but I didn’t cry. Then that afternoon They made me take a nap. I didn't want to, for fear the rest of the kittens would get killed, but They made me. They said the kittens would be there, but they weren't. The basket was there, but there wasn't anything in it. I was awful sad. I knew I’d never have anything I'd love half so well. Then I knew They did it, and I wasn't sad any more, I was mad, and I went out into the barnyard and chased two old liens down underneath the shed where it’s dark, then I went down into the orchard and climbed a big apple tree, and when They called I didn’t answer Them. Finally They all started out to hunt for me. Some of Them went up to the sheep pasture, 188 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR but Dick came and called: “Come on down. Roy. you’ve punished Them enough.” (Dick knew all about Them. They weren’t owners, you know, and it’s hard not to be owned.) So I came down, and he carried me to bed on his back. That night I cried till I went to sleep. jfootball as Sbe ITs flMa eb JG XOUiS Ibippo, 31 .t ’09 S r was cycling through the rising me- tropolis of Oakum one pleasant after- noon in October, my eye was at- tracted by a flaring poster announc- ing a free exhibition game between the Oakum football team and their long-standing rivals from Soakum. It being my custom to accept all gifts with a happy smile, 1 quickly made my way to the field. As I entered the gate, I saw the two elevens, with their substi- tutes. come streaming out of the dressing rooms, and. leaving such paraphernalia as the blankets, subs, and water boys on the sidelines, proceed to line up for a few minutes practice just to limber up,—also to show off. As soon as the preliminaries had been arranged, the teams took their positions, Oakum defending their goal, Soakum in a tense, expectant line wait- ing for the ball to be kicked. The whistle sounded, the ball went rocketing in a graceful curve into the midst of the sturdy Oakums, whose opponents came tearing down upon them with the clamor and grace of a herd of sportive elephants. At this thrilling moment the visiting supporters rose to their feet with one accord, and uttered a mighty shout: Soakum!’’ Dear me! thought I, ignorant of the ways of football enthusiasts, how brutal! What a heart- less exhortation ! The ball had nestled into the grasp of a young gentleman, who, as it seemed to me, at once threw himself on the ground in order that the other ten men of his team and ten of the other team—not counting the stout lad who could only lumber down the field with ponderous gravity—might pile them- selves with reckless abandon upon him. As soon as 1 could untangle my gaze from the whirl of ()akum arms, uniformed in green and black, and Soakum legs in fiery red, I saw the umpire fiercely wrenching players from the pile, in order, I thought, to save the life of him at the bottom. But I soon realized that his object was merely to disin- tegrate the assembly and locate the ball. At the raucous direction of a youth who stood erect in the midst of Oakum’s green backs, bend- ing as though for leap frog, a flying wedge hurled itself in triple onslaught at the stubborn wall of Soakum. But in vain,—they recoiled into the arms of their fellows. Again they tried, this time gaining possibly six inches. Now for a trick play!! The indications of a trick play arc always in the way the captain whispers to his trick players. ()nce more the green and red backs bent, once more the fog-horn youth wailed forth his agony,, and from out the flashing green behind the line the ball sailed up and forward, to settle again in the arms of the hero of the first mixup, who in some occult way had broken through the enemy’s- line. lie. not at all disconcerted by the terrible cries of Soakum! Oakum! Soakum!” has- tened away from the crowd, who were now promis- cuously entangling themselves behind him. Not far from the Soakum goal line a demon in red rose from the kneeling position in which he had been- watching developments, and dove at the runner’s knees. So terrific was the impact that green-and- black turned a somersault and spun round several times on the back of his neck. Of course lie dropped the ball, and Redncy ran off with it, only to be dropped in his tracks immediately. It was now Soakum’s chance to show her worth in rushing, 'flic first try was a failure. On the second the rusher accidentally collided’ with:“Tub,” SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 189 the stout lad. who naturally stopped his progress like a stone wall. The third try was the most brutal encounter yet. The swaying mass was an indiscriminate confusion of red and green. Roth crowds of supporters were on their feet yelling, when suddenly emerged from the rainbow maze Rednev. who tore for the goal, a scarlet streak. At this instant my attention was distracted by a blood-curdling scream of “Ki! Vi! !” from a sedate gentleman at my right, who had hitherto remained perfectly quiet. I turned to remonstrate with him for this rude conduct, and woke up. to find my brother shaking me mercilessly. “Breakfast is. nearly ready! Bn Uncibent J v lDc ?vic TRooers, X., '12 [The following narrative was found among tin papsrs of a London lawyer, in a sealed pac kage thai was not io lie opened until after the owner's decease. It in ty I� . considered in one sense as a confession, as the author was never known to relate the story to any of his nu- merous friends and to scoff at all such instances.] HE lawyer is generally considered by the public to be a hard-headed man of the world, who believes in nothing but circumstantial evidence. In one way that is true, as it is his business not to be easily meshed by a plausible or pitiful story, but to follow the law and that which can be proved. I was all that, and more, but my scepticism was entirely overthrown one night by an incident that had powerful effects on the whole of my after- career. It was a dreary, wet night in the early part oi December. I had been working late on account of the conclusion of an important case in court, and the fire was nearly out when I laid my pen aside and prepared to leave the office. I was just putting my papers away, when the bell gave a vio- lent peal. Wondering who could want to see me at such a late hour, I went to the door, flung it open, and was confronted by a tall figure in a long raincoat, with a slouch hat that entirely concealed his features. I invited him to step into my office. He did so. and flung aside his coat and hat. when, to my astonishment. I recognized the face of a Mr. Browning, with whose affairs I had been entrusted for the last fifteen years. He was a rather eccentric individual, and some- what of a recluse, so his visit at such a time would not have amazed me so much, had it not been for the fact that we had not seen each other for nearly five years, although we had had several arguments by correspondence on various mystic phenomena, in which he was an ardent believer. “I want to make my will.” These, his first word's-, somewhat surprised me, but. repressing my aston- ishment. I made the necessary preparations. He then dictated his wishes to me, with the re- quest that I should date the will three days back. Knowing his eccentricities. 1 did not object. The document, having been duly signed and witnessed by two late workers called in from a neighboring office for that purpose, was stowed away in its little black box. and I began a conversation, but it soon flagged, for my visitor sat in a moody silence, gazing fixedly into the heart of the fire. Soon I began to grow restless and uneasy at his behavior, but suddenly a lotul knock roused me; I walked to the door, opened it. and with a loud shout of “Tel'gram!’’ an orange-colored envelope was thrust into my hands, and the messenger was gone. Returning ‘o the room. 1 closed the door and slit open the envelope, took out the message, and Continued on page umj. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR i go NOTES '09 Class Editor, Lester C. Gustin. Here’s one that was roped in while wandering about the corridors:— “Why is a pancake like the sun? “Because it rises in de yeast and sets behind de vest.” Information from the chemical laboratory:— “Phenol is a power used in dyeing Congo red!” “Phenol is a liquid!” “Phenol will produce death if taken eter- nally!!!! No, Gladys, we are not the heaviest person in existence. M e have absolute proof that Presi- dent Taft outweighs us by one and three-quarters pounds. 'I'he officers for the class exercises are: Orator, Mr. Hartshorn: prophets, Miss Sargent and Mr. Chapin; and historian, Mr. Gustin. Plain Ernest he was when he first entered school, Then Master was called the young bairn; As Junior, ’twas Mister the title he wore, But now it’s Monsieur Chapairn. Not Guilty. Our class is represented on the diamond this year by Donahue and Rich. Here’s luck to them both, and to the team, as well. We hear that Jones and Miner are going to Africa to hunt wild animals, 'flic other day we saw them buying a box of animal crackers and a bean blower to practice shooting. According to a conversation overheard between Whitman and Mr. Poor. Percy must be a “terror when he is away from home. Beware, Percy, dear, beware!!!! WATCH IT!!!!! Marvelous! Chapin does not use slang!!! We hear that Blanchard is going to print a book on “Modern Military Science as Applied to Air- ships and Submarine Boats.” A noted scientist has come to the conclusion that laughter is caused by the unexpected. Yes, it would be rather humorous if Adelbcrt went to “Lawrence.” Even if the man in the moon is sometimes “full,” it is no sign that lie can be arrested in his course. No, Ralph, flying machines are not made of fly paper. First came the “Merry Widows,” And then the Bucket” hats, And soon ’twill be tea-kettles, ()r rolled-up front-door mats. So how can mere man take them, Except to grin and bear? Perhaps some days his styles will change, So such things he may wear. According to Geddes, the writer’s point of view is the writer’s point of view. Appropriate expressions from some of the Seniors:— Miille: “Please go away and let me slumber.” Miss Drinkwater: “Oh, dry up.” Rich : “Ain’t it---to be poor?” SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR TO Class Editor, Andrew F. Handley. Pike wants to know if Socrates suffered when he took the drink of poison. “The building went strutting along by the boy.” This was heard in English. Barlow says when he is angry his temperature rises to 103 or 104 degrees. This seems pretty high, but it may be so. Hall would gladly compete with A. Conan Doyle for literary honors. Did you sec Golden with that Rosetta Stone? Three does not equal two. according to a Junior who knows. Our friend B------ow was seen in the Latin School window with a lady friend. Miss C-----(in history): “Has the king a right to dissolve prime ministers?” Gordon's version of L'Allegro”: And every shepherd tells his tale, under the shade of the nut- brown ale. A few ambitions of IV.-III. French (1):— Dun—an: To become a French teacher. Flint: To be funny. Hop—ins: To drop French and to have his sneeze patented. Lounsbury: To take French examinations. Mix—r: To be a real, true Parlez-vous.” Thompson: To translate at sight. Chandler: To get into recitations on time. Are you one of the twenty-two? Musgrave is back again, after a short illness. Glad to see you. Mush. More socks of brilliant colors are seen each day. If you don’t think so, just take notice. Did you smell that chlorine and bromine? John-----is now seated among a few good little boys, and is therefore on the road to “A” in de- portment. Her—ce docs not want her name in this issue, so we will utilize this space to her benefit. We may sec Gordon in the pulpit yet. Hodgdon is very fond of chlorine. We hear Musgrave plays baseball. If he plays as well as he recites in chemistry, he ought to make good on Somerville. 191 Any one wishing to know ANYTHING about geometry, apply to Wayne M. Hodgdon, Room 23. Hop—ins says he spent fifty cents last week. Be careful, Clarence, don't get extravagant. Aren’t you glad you went to the Junior dance? Begin to-day your eyes to close, Anticipate some louder hose. ’ll Class Editor, Arthur Leighton. Teacher (in English): Give a definition of the word husband. Miss W-----d: ‘T haven't any.” Heard in 11. French (2) B.: Le bcaupere.” The beautiful father. What some of us may be ten years hence:— C—d—11: The ardent and persistent suitor of Miss B—d—y. IT—t: A lawyer ready to argue any case. B1—ch—d: Ein Deutsch Proffessor.” Miss Ch—f—e: Teacher of French and geom- etry in a young ladies’ seminary. Be—n—n: Fat man in The Greatest Show on Earth. Regan: We cannot think of anything Regan may be except a swell. Willie Mag—n: An instructor in physics. Baker: A freezer of ice cream and other ices. Rich: A multi-millionaire. Bla—k—t: A grocer. Ben—n: A policeman. Pierce and Hurley: Comedians in the great act, We Like to Laugh. Ha! Ha! Far—w: An African explorer. Kn—x: Clown in B. and B.'s circus. R—g—n wishes the public to observe 1 —s—’s new head gear. Did any one know that:— Miss Lo—g had a sad voice? Co—e was dignified? Miss Spra—tie was ein komische Kind”? Came—n was very good looking when he sat up straight? Miss Sa—g—t had a solemn face once upon a time? Miss C—p—11 was growing wings and finds its profit is an A ? i English Notes continued on page l'.'-J, 192 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR B.O.W. '«v '09 Class Editor, Allison Newton. It seems impossible that Mr. Baxter's reception is a thing of the past. It seems impossible that there is but one small month between us and graduation. It cannot but cause us a pang to think that those who have been our daily com- panions for four happy years will soon be scat- tered to the four corners of the earth, and that after one short month only at rare intervals shall we meet with our friends of high-school days. Teacher: “How would you attack this original?” II—nn—w—11: “With a pair of compasses and :a ruler.” Let ’(b). at least, have school spirit enough to support the baseball team. Teacher: “Do you think it’s a joke because N—ble doesn’t know?” Adc—ck: Yes; but a terribly stale one.” Usually before the French period is very far along Miss C—rl—s and Miss Chick— (printer’s error) are chanting that classic selection, “Alone, alone, all. all alone.” Teacher (handing back one of our French themes): “Count your mistakes, Newton, when you have time. By the way, we put it all over Slater the other day: he had only fifty-four mis- takes, while we had fifty-nine. Teacher: “Who has fewer topics?” K—n—1: I have.” Teacher: How many have you?” K—n—1: None.” We are advised to preserve our song sheets carefully. Now what’s the matter with pickling some of our voices! 'I’eacher (translating difficult passage): “And sally forth-----” Sh—r—d—n (finishing): Susan sixth.” The apostle of the why and wherefore—Miss Corliss. In Latin: “I swear by that which my father was accustomed to.” SI—t—r: What a profane race!” Teacher: “Considering that you don’t know what that means, you got it just right.” Brown informs us that the pathos of Sohrab and Rustum” is pathetic. Teacher: “What's a synonym for incor- ruptible?” McC------y: “Ingraftable.” We hear that “Dick has written a little parody on The Eve of Waterloo,” entitled The Adam of Brandywine.” Sawyer (in French): John approached and em- braced her with all his heart on both cheeks.” Will Sawyer be so kind as to inform us exactly how this manoeuvre is performed? The low voice with which some of the girls re- cite invites an encore. A translation a la Brown: He has went already yet. Heard in geometry: 1.000 pies divided by 9. A slight idea of Merry's appetite at lunch. Teacher: What does cogitatione mean?” Dick: I-dea? H—d—s—n: “No; U-dea.” Sh—r— 1—n wants to know if French hens say Coupez! coupez!” Teacher (asking the Greek names for the pri- mary colors): ‘ What is green? Br—n : Blue and yellow.” M Id—n has been quite stuck up since Sh-----n emptied the glue pot in his pocket. Modern slang:— Mac------: Is a lemon’s aid any good?” Rob------: It’s a cold day when it isn’t.” SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 93 It is rumored that an idea struck C—1—n the other day. He hasn't fully recovered yet. McC—thy. we understand, is now prepared to give lessons in a new branch of science known as phy si ca 1 geom et ry. A recent interpretation of Virgil had Euryalu., swallowing wax writing tablets. PUZZLE. On a certain French theme Slater did not have a single mistake, but notwithstanding that he did not have a single sentence correct. Any one that can explain this apparent contradiction will obtain a June Radiator by paying the class editor the enormous sum of twenty-five cents. Seriously, though, we expect every one in the class who has not already a yearly subscription to subscribe tor the June number. TO Class Editor, H. H. Greenwood. Warm weather is here, and school is almost fin- ished. Everybody seems to be studying hard for the exams. It won’t be very long before the exams begin at Harvard; I am sure the class wishes all who go over the best of luck. One of the teachers claims that G—d—s—d’s smile is one of the best exhibited this year. Reed and Welch have acquired the name of the twin jumping jacks. I know you, I know your name, I know you’re For the very, very latest style in russet shoes, see Tellier, and he will explain fully. The Junior dance, if signs go for anything, had a bad effect on Pearson, and on a few other mem- bers of the class. The fact that “Skceter Trafton is somewhat of a wireless operator has been called to our atten- tion. R----d has come out with the information that Lynn is one of the nicest places in Massachusetts. “Slim” Pry—t is at present a very busy man. Ii you wish an appointment with him you will have to arrange ahead of time. The Junior class wants to turn out and root hard for the baseball team. Somerville is repre- sented by a good team, so go up and show them that vou are behind them. Reed and McKinnon had a very enjoyable trip to Washington. Reed took some very fine pic- tures. which arc on exhibition to all who wish to see them. The Junior class is represented by a fast base- ball team. They have won six out of eight games so far. They were defeated by the Seniors of the English School in a close score. 5-4, but hope to make the score different next time. Tl Class Editor, M. J. Messer, Jr. A number of girls in the Latin High School have been recognized as contributors to a certain column in a daily newspaper. One. in frequent and recent letters, has complained of a lack of school spirit. This seems to be the school’s chief fault. “A word to the wise is sufficient.” The city is becoming generous by the size of the blocks. Nothing is too good to be true. It seems as though some teachers were never so popular before. I wonder why! 'I'he latest discovery in geometry: A triangle is a quadrilateral with three sides. Pall playing is now a favorite sport at recess. It is strange what a lot of people come to see the teachers lately. Perhaps it’s because of the cards. Miss V—t—n’s reading of “Oh. My Lord,” was very amusing. G—r—k informed English I. that the Ancient Mariner's ship struck the horizon. If you haven’t had the mumps you are behind the times. Animal crackers seem to be good for sore throats and hoarseness. We now have a solution of J—ns—’s fooleries. He is trying to get his name in the Radiator. Ask Jerry to talk German for you. It's a treat. P—n—s says II—k—1 isn’t foolish all the time —in the remainder he is crazy. Indefinite clauses = indefinite knowledge. Powlby’s definition of terra cotta’ during a Latin period: Firm hand.” Didst thou have a note in thy report card? Oh, such clean floors in 14! 194 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Notes arc scarce this month: a certain person would be very thankful if “local color would he canned for this column. The janitor will have to chain down the waste baskets, or the girls, with the aid of some carrots and celery, will make them into spring hats. Great times have been planned by the Kappa Kappa girls. Some of the clubs are so in need of yells that they have to borrow from others. '12 Class Editor. Francis J. Mahoney. From the sayings of the white-haired patriarch, G. Olsen:— “Blessed is he that sitteth on a tack; for he shall rise again. (He must have seen Healey.) Teacher: “How many went to hear------------?” X—les right wing shot into the air. Teacher: “Well. Xiles. did he sa------ Xilcs: “I saw his picture in a magazine.” We hope to hear more of Miss Kelley's readings soon. Excellent! Miss Rush does not wish her name to appear in this column. ()therwise it would have appeared. Teacher: “Lam—t. please don’t punctuate your studying. l iider a seat in Room 35 was found a paper bearing the lines :— “A seat in our room is vacant. Where Israel sate of late. He's gone, but we must bear it. For such are the ways of fate.” A certain student who received several U’s, P’s, and F’s on his report card explained to a stranger that F” means fine”; “l perfect ; and LI,” ■'unsurpassable.” If you wish to ride home on stormy days, apply to Miss Kyes. Room 32, for car fare. Lam— . keep off the f ras.t. Dutelle also requests that his name not appear in the column. W. Lewis handed in this note. He wants to know if it’s not a good one. Miss I)—er's laugh is about as good as Mil- dred's. 'I’llis is the season for “that tired feeling. A good way to keep your brain from getting rusty is to write notes for this column. Remember that next month’s Radiator will be the last number this year: that others are making every effort to make it one to be proud of: and that you are ex- pected to do the same. It will require but a slight effort on the part of each to make the June Radiator a great success. Other classes are do- ing their best, and we should not own that we are behind them. ---------- J£n0lisb, ’ll (Continued from page 191.' Teacher (in history on Thursday): And what did the Congress of Vienna do with Denmark?” Freeto: I—er—I was—er—absent Monday.” (General applause.) It is reported that Miss B—d—y has had some very severe heartaches lately. Our history instructor has informed us that she used to be very impressed by the dignified way in which C—d—11 attempts to recite his history. Imaginary conversation :— Teacher: “Stop working at once, Bernson.” Bernson: Who? Me? I wasn't doing any- thing ! McC—y was grieved to find his name was not in the April Radiator. The best we can do is to put in his name, as we know of nothing that he has done in the last month. ’12 Class Editor, Oliver Churchill. l eacher: In this excuse for absence the date is omitted.” Pupil: Oh, yes! I forgot it. but I'll write you another. Leads went to Revere Beach, and it is said he brought home some souvenir post cards. Does lie wear rats? Xo. but she does. Miss Simpson, in 4-X, doesn’t like everybody. In Elocution I) (for the seventh time in succes- sion): Breathes there a man with soul so dead? ’ Kill it! O.: Can there be a girls’ club in 1-X? At last Cosgrove is black-listed. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR «95 The Exchange column of the Artisan is original. “A Trip to the Taft Inaugural Celebration at Washington is very interesting. The stories in the Triangle are well written, and “The Summer Boarder’' has an especially pretty setting. Why don't you criticise your exchanges, the Dome? It would be of more interest to your read- ers than just the names of the exchanges. “Old Hank ami His Wager” is a clever story. The cover of the Par-Sem is artistic and neat. The literary department is very good, and the poem. Skees. is bright. The exchange column could be developed. “Our Trip to the State House, in the Mirror, gives a good account of a trip to our state house. The other stories, “His Own Choice” and Buck- Buck: An Explanation,” are certainly worth men- tioning. Can't you find some one to write a few stories for you. Pennant? The article on “Tech,” written by one of the alumni, is well worth reading. The Crimson and White have many good stories this month. Among them are “How I Saved the Czar’s Life, which received honorable mention in the contest, and Big Sisters, Little Brothers, and Others.” The exchange column could be im- proved. The literary department in the Lakonian is ex- cellent. one of tlu- best we have received this month. We always enjoy reading School Life. The stories and exchange column are interesting, and the athletic notes arc fine. Yes. father, when I am graduated 1 am going to follow my literary bent and write for money. Humph, John, you ought to be successful. That's all you did the four years you spent in col- lege. —Ex. I'eacher: If Xellie had six eggs and used half of them to make a cake, what part would she have left?” Anton: “The egg shells. —Ex. What are pauses?” asked a teacher of an infant class. Things that grow on catses, piped the small boy at the bottom.—Ex. Tiie teacher was giving a geography lesson, and the class, having traveled from Thessaly to Tim- buctoo. was thoroughly worn out. “And now. said the teacher, we come to Ger- many. that important country governed by the Kaiser. Tommy Jones, what is a kaiser?” Please, ’in. yawned Tommy, a stream of hot water springin' up an’ disturbin' the earth. —Ex. “There is nothing like settling down,” said a re- tired merchant confidently to his neighbor. When I gave up business I settled down, and found I had quite a comfortable fortune. If I had settled up I should not have had a cent.”—Ex. 196 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR ALUMNI NOTES Percy Harrison. Latin. '04, Harvard, ’OS, Ivan Smith, Joseph Wright. Latin, ’05, Harvard, ’09, Charles Merrill. Latin, '00, Harvard, ’JO, Harold Williams. Latin. ’ )?, Harvard ‘11. Henry Doyle, Walter Merrill. Rufus Tucker, Lawrence Winship, of the same class, Albert McLean and William Blackett. Latin, ’OS. Harvard, M2, took part in the play, His Excellency, the Governor,” given by the 1 larvard-Somervillc Latin Club a short time ago at Unitarian Hall. Isabel Hallett and Elizabeth Kimpton. Latin, ’07. are Sophomores at Boston University. Walter Kchcw, Frederick Skilton, and Ray- mond Wiley. Latin. ’OS, are studying at the Low- ell Textile School. Ethel Cole. Maud Emit, Lester Ellis, Ray Mc- Donald. and Ernest Moore. Latin, ’05, are in the Senior class at Tufts College. Thornton Snow, Latin, '07, is a Sophomore at Dartmouth. The engagement has recently been announced of George Garcelon. Latin. ‘99. Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology. ’03, now living in Pittsburg, Pa., to Miss Frances M. Baab, of Wilkesbarrc, Pa. Arthur Doe and George York, Latin, ’05, are Seniors at Dartmouth. Cecile Giroux and Bertha Stone, both of last year’s class at the Latin School, arc at Radcliffe this year. William E. Barton, English. ’01, is assistant in the engineering department of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, Boston. Sydney L. Cole, English, ’01, is with the North Shore Consolidated. Gas Company, Waukegan, 111. 'Hie first reunion and banquet of the English class of 190(5 was held at Riverbank Court Hotel April 30, 1909. About seventy-five members were present, with Mr. Avery and Miss Marvel as guests. After an informal reception, dinner was served, the tables being prettily decorated with white car- nations. Toastmaster A. Leland Hart then intro- duced Mr. Avery, who spoke for a few moments. Miss Marvel also spoke, giving many interesting incidents relating to the members of the class. Other speakers were Richard Fernandez, Carl Safford. Augustus Tripp, and Alfred DeNoyer. A pleasing entertainment was given, consisting of songs by Miss Lillie McLean. Miss Mildred Cowan, and John Lakin. also violin and mandolin solos by Minot Brown and Elmer Whitney, ac- companied bv Miss Irene Osborne. The class ode was then sung. A short business meeting was held, and the class unanimously re-elected the fol- lowing officers: President. Richard Fernandez; vice-president. Alice Rice: treasurer, Mildred Young; secretary, Carl Safford. Bn Unctoent (Continued from page 1S9.) turned to my client to ask his pardon, when, to my amazement, he rose from his chair to his full height, and. with ;; triumphant smile curling his lips, stretched his arm toward the telegram, and—I was alone! The form of my visitor had utterly disappeared. I glanced at the message, and sank into a chair, dazed and bewildered, with my mind a blank, for the contents read as follows: Mr. Browning died suddenly last night from heart dis- ease. 'Phe inquest will be held to-morrow. Come if possible.” Then 1 realized that my late client had, as it were, killed two birds with one stone: for. if he had died intestate, his immense fortune would have gone to his brother, whom he cordially hated, and his adopted son would have been left nearly desti- tute. He had also put absolute and undeniable proof before me of the correctness of his spiritual- istic theories, at which I had so often scoffed. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 197 XI be Xleam In answer to Captain Donahue's call, a large number of candidates reported for baseball prac- tice. Somerville has five of last year's team back, Donahue, Pike, Mixer. Nolan, and Garland, and with such a large squad to pick from a champion- ship team should be had. The team is being coached by Dickinson, who was coach last year. He attended the Latin School, and played end on the football team and second on the baseball team. After graduating he entered Brown, where he played four years at sec- ond base. Some of the new men who are showing up well arc: Parks. Norton, Millmore, Rich, Bob” Gar- land. Hurley, and Lewis. ---------—------------------ Somerville, 3 ; Mechanic Hrts, 2 With Mixer in the box for Somerville, the first game was won from Mechanic Arts, 3 to 2. Many errors were made, Millmore being the worst offen- der. but nevertheless the game was quite well played for the opening one. All of Somerville's runs came in the sixth. Donahue started with a single, was advanced by Parks' sacrifice, but on an error he got over- anxious and failed to touch third. P. McDonald reached first by this error, and came home on Mixer's two-bagger. Garland and Millmore drew passes, and both came home on a hit by Rich, who had replaced 11. McDonald. Norton at shortstop put up a fine game, and fielded his position in good form. The score:— Innings..................1 2 3 4 5 G 7 8 9 Somerville High............0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 —3 Mechanic Arts..............1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0—2 Two-base hits—Mixer. Sacrifice hits—Parks,. Rollcy. Stolen bases—Garland. Millmore, Cum- mings. Mower. Fitzpatrick. Henry (3), Rolley.. liases on balls—Mixer, Hebb (2), Brown (2). Struck out—Mixer (5), Hebb (0). Umpire—Fitz- gerald. Donahue out in sixth for not touching third.. 1R. M. XT. 5. 6; Somerville, 2 On Broadway field April 19 Rindge defeated’ Somerville, 6 to 2, in a very long-drawn-out game. Little started in as pitcher, but Rindge took kindly to his curves, and Mixer took his place in the middle of the second. He pitched good ball,, and made one of Somerville's two hits. Fritz pitched five innings for Rindge. when he was re- placed by Stevenson, who had Somerville com- pletely fooled. Somerville made her scores in the third. Rich reached first on an error. Donahue and- Parks were both hit by the pitcher, and on McDonald's two-bagger both Rich and Donahue scored. iqS SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR All of Kludge's runs were caused by Somerville’s poor work. The score:— Innings.................I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R. l. T. S...............2 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0—6 Somerville High...........0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0—2 Two-base hits—McDonald. Stolen bases—V il- son (4), Murphy (2), Fairbanks (2), McDonald (3), Hayes (2). First base on balls—Little. Mixer (3), Fritz (2), Stephenson (2). Hit by pitched ball— Donahue. Parks. Fairbanks. Passed balls—Dona- hue. Wild pitches—Little. Struck out—Mixer (?), Fritz (2), Stephenson (8). Umpire—Ed. Fitz- gerald. Time—2 hour, 15 minutes. Attendance —1,100. Somerville, 1; lEvcrett, 2 Wednesday. April 21, Somerville met the Ever- ett team, and lost by one run in ten innings of very exciting play. Hurley pitched for Somerville, and did very good work, compared with Rosenthal, of Everett. Lively doings started in the first inning. Parks reached first on an error, second on another, but was out at third. McDonald also reached first on an error, and scored on Mixer’s three-bagger. In the third, with two men out and a man on third, Garland muffed an easy fiv, letting in the tying run. There were men on bases in almost every inning, and a timely hit would have won the game for either side, but the pitchers held the batters well in hand. In the ninth Xolan made a three-bagger, with two out. but died there. Lansing opened the tenth with a hit, and scored on errors bv Parks and Mill- more. Somerville died tamely in her half of the tenth, 'fhc score:— Innings ............1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Somerville High.......1 0 0000000 0—1 Everett High..........0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1—2 Three-base hits—Nolan. Mixer. Two-base hits —McDonald, Yincluse. Sacrifice hits—Donahue, Thomson. Stolen bases—McDonald, Lan- sing. First base on balls—By Hurley. Hit by pitched ball—Brown and Brickley by Hurley. Struck out—By Hurley (10), by Rosenthal (9). Double plays—Norton to Parks to McDonald. Umpire—Fitzgerald. Time—1 hour, 45 minutes. Rich batted for Norton in the tenth. Rosenthal out for not touching first base. Somerville, 3; St. -John's, 0 Saturday, April 24, Somerville met the St. John’s Preparatory School team and defeated them, 3 to 0. The visitors did some heavy kicking, and once they were about to leave the field, but were held back by their manager. Pike was in the box, and pitched a good game for six innings, when Hurley succeeded him. Nor- ton played a fine game at shortstop, and did good work with the stick. Somerville got two runs in the first on a base hit by Parks, a sacrifice by McDonald, and singles by Mixer and Nolan. In the fifth Mixer scored on two singles and a stolen base. St. John’s tried hard to overcome the lead, but Somerville held them down. In the ninth McLaughlin reached third on an error. Geary hit a hot one to Norton, who made a great stop, and by pretending to throw to first and really throwing home, easily caught Mc- Laughlin. The score:— Innings.................1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Somerville High............2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 —3 St. John’s.................0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—0 Two-base hits—Norton, Murphy. Sacrifice hits—Millmore. McDonald. Stolen bases—Mixer (2), Donahue. McLaughlin (2). Lynch. First base on balls—Off Donahue (2). Hit by pitched ball— Donahue by Donovan. Passed balls—Garland, Geary. Wild pitches—Pike. Struck out—By Pike (0). by Hurley (3). by Donovan (0). Double plays—Norton to McDonald. Umpire — Fitz- gerald. Time—1 hour, -10 minutes. Joyce out. hit by batted ball. ---------------------------- Somerville, l; Maltham, 3 In an exciting game on Broadway field April 28. Waltham defeated Somerville High, 3 to 1. Pike pitched a steady game, and also batted well. Somerville should have got a run in the third, when Millmore started with a double, and Pike fol- lowed with a single, but Barry struck out two men, and Parks finished it by stopping half way to first to see if his hit was fair or foul. The score came in the fifth, when Millmore reached first on Carleton’s error, second on Pike’s sacrifice, third on Garland's out, and home on Parks’ single. altham’s first score came in the fourth, when SOM HR VILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Smith readied first and came home on Leary’s two-bagger. A little later Leary would have scored, but for Norton’s fine throw to the plate. in the eighth, with two out. Stankard made a hit, and Everett, who had been passed, scored. Stank- ard stole two bases, and scored on Norton’s muff of an easy fly. The score:— Innings.................1 2 3 4 5 (� 7 8 9 Somerville High...........0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0—1 Waltham High..............0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0—3 Two-base hits—Millmore, Leary. Sacrifice hits —Like. Smith, Wilson. Stolen bases—Pike, Stankard (2). First base on balls—By Pike (2), by Barry (3). Wild pitches—Pike. Struck out—By Pike (6), by Barry (5). Double plays—Barry to Smith. Smith to Wilson, Barry to Smith. Umpire —Fitzgerald. Time—1 hour, 40 minutes. Rich batted for Norton in the ninth. Barry out in the seventh for not touching third base. IResolutlons. The class of 1912 tenders its classmates, Frank and Theodore Anderson, its heartfelt sympathy on the sad and sudden death of their beloved father. Robert M. Garland, President. Agnes N. Cameron, Secretary. 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I expect soon to finish my public school course, and then—what shall I do? I cannot afford to begin work at $4.00 a week and “grow up with the business,”—that was the old way of starting out. The business man of today will not hire an office assistant who is not a good penman, quick at figures, good at book-keeping, able to TPrite shorthand and handle the typewriter with speed and accuracy. I cannot say that I am really competent in any one of these points; in fact, my educa- tion along these lines is sadly lacking. Something must be done. It must be done quickly. A large number of my friends have been studying at WINTER HILL BUSINESS COLLEGE - the school that has the reputation of doing only high-grade work, and of giving satisfaction to pupils. It is a well known fact that the principals of this institution are not able to supply the demand for well qualified busi- ness students, and that all of last year's graduates are earning from ten to twelve dollars a week. If I know anything about arithmetic,that is a good investment, for they are able to earn more than two dollars to my one. WINTER HILL BUSINESS COLLEGE is a home school of ideal location, splendid equipment, and unquestioned moral surroundings. The proprietors are teachers of long and varied ex- perience, and the faculty are specialists. The students are universally successful and speak in the highest terms both of the instructors and of the school management. A recent visit to this institution revealed the fact that it occupies three entire floors and uses in the typewriting department 120 of the latest model machines. This school must be doing more for its pupils than any other similar institution from the fact that its pupils are more widely sought and its graduates seldom out of employment. I am looking for a training of this kind. I am going to investigate TABLE OF CONTENTS Frontispiece, Editorial Staff, 1908-’09................................201 Editorial Staff........................................................205 Editorials.............................................................206 Lines, by Bertha Phillips Marvel, Faculty .............................209 Graduating Class, Latin High School....................................210 The Sacred Fire, by E. Hazel Macy, L., '09.............................211 Ivy Oration. The Call of the Future, by Carl L. Hartshorn, E., ’09.....212 Class Day Officers, S. E. H. S., ’09...................................213 A Little Bit of Country, by Lillian B. Treadwell, L., ’09..............214 The Compact of Death, by Lester C. Gustin, E., ’09.....................215 Writing a Composition, by Richard Bennett, L., '09.....................219 Class Poem, Life's Battle, by Lester C. Gustin, E., ’09 220 The Subconscious Terror, by Allison Newton, L., ’09 221 After the Storm, by Mabel W. Wilber, L., '09 223 Graduating Class, English High School..................................224 Class Ode, S. E. H. S., '09, by Ruth E. Kingman........................225 Sonnets, by Ellen A. Smallwood, L., ’09 225 Class Poem, S. L. H. S., ’09, by Irene Kibbe...........................226 Class Day Officers, S. L. H. S., ’09 227 Peri en Mer, par Paul Emile Laurent, E., '09 228 All Because of a Dog and Some Cats, by Stella Marie Shepard, L., '09 230 Head Masters...........................................................231 An Impersonation, by Anna M. Ayres, formerly E.. ’0’9..................233 Talbot Co., by J. E. Slater, L., ’09 235 Alvarez, by Cecil M. Barlow, E., ’10...................................238 Fowler’s Investment, by Herbert F. Cooper, E., ’10 . . . . . . . 240 The Letter Box.........................................................242 Public Occurrences.....................................................249 Class Editors, 1908-’09 .............................................. 251 Latin Class Notes......................................................252 Class Presidents, 1908-’09 .............. 255 English Class Notes....................................................256 Exchanges..............................................................260 Twice Told Tales ................ 262 Alumni Notes...........................................................263 Somerville Football Team .............. 265 Athletics..............................................................266 Somerville Basket Ball Team............................................267 Somerville Baseball Team...............................................269 Latin School Directory.................................................271 English School Directory ..............................................275 EDITORIAL STAFF, 1‘)08-’09 Standing: Slater, Mr. llosmer, Mac-Lean, Whitman. Sitting: Miss Chickering, Miss Beers, Chapin, Miss Whitney, Miss Teelc, Loner Row: Foster, Miss Shaplcigh. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Vol. XVIII. Somerville, Boston. Massachusetts, June, 1909. No. 9 The Sombrvjllf. Hioii School Radiator is published by the Latin and English High Schools on the last 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 be left with any of the editorial staff or mailed to the editor at the English High School. In contributing, write on one side of the paper only and sign full name. 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 Entered as second class mail matter at Boston P. O. Single Copies, JO Cents SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT Editorial Staff Editorsin Cbief ERNEST W. CHAPIN, E., associate Editor VIVIAN BEERS. L.. ’09 Exchange Editor LORENE A. WHITNEY. L., '09 Sporting Editor PERCY G. WHITMAN, E.. '09 •09 Business Manager HOWARD A. MacLEAN, L., ’09 Bssistant Business Manager STUART FOSTER, E., ’10 Second assistant Business Manager J. ELLIOT SLATER, L., ’09 alumni Editors {Treasurer L. ELIZABETH CHICKERING, L., 'C9 GEORGE M. HOSMER (Faculty) EDNA F. TEELE, E., ’09 Staff artist M. ESTHER SHAPLEIGH, E., ‘10 Class Editors Xatin School ALLISON NEWTON, ’09 HARRY H. GREENWOOD, ‘10 MELVIN J. MESSER, Jr., ’ll FRANCIS J. MAHONEY, M2 English School LESTER C. GUSTIN, ’09 ANDREW F. HANDLEY, MO ARTHUR LEIGHTON, Ml OLIVER CHURCHILL, M2 206 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Did you ever stop to think: “What does high school mean to 1116?” Now, at the close of the year, is a good time to do so. Many of the gradu- ating class are now considering this question in a little different form: What has high, school meant to me? Some remember four years of thoughtless indo- lence. You entered the school an unknown quantity. Your reputation, your accomplish- ments—four years of high school life—lav before you. Did you settle right down to work with an earnest purpose? No. Freedom, privileges, some apparent leisure, alluring prospects of gaiety, all the new conditions of a different school sys- tem deceived you. You merely worried along on the brink of failure. Duties that seemed hard to you, you shirked: work that was easy, you didn't give the attention due it. So now at the end of the four years you find yourself no better off than when you started, possibly worse. You are gradu- ating on sufferance,” not because you arc a credit to your school, but because you have managed to pass in the work that was absolutely required. You have really learned little, and you have fixed numerous bad habits of carelessness, laziness, and perhaps slipshod honesty, that will work against you for many years. Other Seniors—happily in the great majority— are leaving High School with a proud record. You are the ones who appreciated your oppor- tunities. You are not necessarily “sharks” or “grinds,” you may be very mediocre, but if you have lived up to the best that is in you, you know yourselves vastly nearer manhood and woman- hood than four years ago. You have culti- vated persevcrence. To set yourself at work on a task and not flinch until it is done is one magnificent power you have gained. In the broadening of mind and intellect you have ma- tured rapidly, you have gained dignity and clear judgment. Your heart is bigger, too. You can understand character better. Simply by doing your little best all the time to grow in mind and heart as well as in body, you have come to be worthy of your Alma Mater. As we leave her portals, then, let us think what High School has meant to us. And whatever the decision, let us resolve to set our faces steadfastly forward, to make our struggles lead us ever up- ward. After all. our aim is not graduation from this High School, not to get a higher education in some college, not to attain mere material success in this little world of men, but to approach an ideal far nobler than we can fully realize. The grandeur of this ideal is akin to the majesty of the ocean, to the vastness of night’s starry vault; its spirit is felt in those inspiring lines:— Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast. 'Pill thou at length art free. Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!” SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 207 An optimist must be a happy person. Always cheerful, gay, full of hope, he has a smile for everyone and a song in his heart. The shadows of disappointment and misfortune gather about him as they must about every one in turn, but he is not dismayed. lie knows how to take the inevi- table philosophically, with a buoyancy of faith, a pure gladness of being alive, that keep him smiling until the clouds vanish. He has the happy faculty of living in the present or in the future as one or the other seems brighter. He secs a ray of light on the darkest day; he knows there’ll be a rain- bow after the heaviest shower. He is so busy finding and enjoying new sources of pleasure, he is so appreciative of the manifold blessings that surround him—how can he be anything but happy? Let's all be optimists. On May 28 Mr. Colgate, one of the G. A. R., ad- dressed the students of the Latin School in the assembly hall. He told, in a most interesting manner, his experiences in Libby prison during the Civil war. After the address, a statue of Mercury was pre- sented to the school by the Senior class. President Duggan making the presentation speech. Robert Davis, a representative of the Junior class, spoke in behalf of the school on receiving it. It will be placed in the school library. � . v r The Senior and Junior classes of the English School together held Memorial Day exercises Fri- day morning, May 28. Mr. Clark, of the Kinsley post, G. A. R., favored us with a most interesting address, relating incidents of the war and com- menting on the moral effect of such a struggle. Another feature of the programme was a poem, based on Sherman’s march to the sea, recited with telling effect by Mr. Rosborough and Miss Gun- senhiscr, of the Junior class. The meeting was marked by a spirit of patriotism throughout, being opened with the singing of “The Star-Spangled •Banner’' and closed with America.” We learn with sorrow of the sudden death of Mrs. Henrietta P . H. Attwood. She was for eleven years the only woman member of the school board. She led a long and useful life, being closely interested in various benevolent and social enterprises of Somerville. It is with sincere sym- pathy that the High Schools condole with her many friends and relatives. r r � The heart of every member of the Latin High School is filled with sorrow at the departure of Miss Gertrude M. Hall, of the faculty. She has been at the head of the English department for several years and is worthy of great praise. She was conscientious in her work, and had the inter- est of each of her pupils at heart. A Senior divi- sion presented her a set of six books, Tennyson’s Poems,” and a club in the Junior class a bouquet of flowers. A Sophomore division gave her a foun- tain pen. and the Freshmen a fancy bar pin. She leaves for a position in the Mechanic Arts High School in Boston, where we hope she will prosper, and have as great success as she has had here. Miss Natalie Smith, who will take her classes for the rest of the year, is a graduate of Wellesley College, and has taught in the Reading High School for four years. r. r r. r. We regret to announce the resignation of Miss Caroline A. Marsh, for many years teacher of Eng- lish and Latin in the English High School. She was one of those pleasant, friendly teachers who take a personal interest in each pupil’s work. She was not one to drive her classes, bound to cover a certain ground. Her method was rather tc arouse a voluntary eagerness to pursue the study. She pointed the way to new discoveries; she di- rected the efforts of the individual worker. As- suredly it was a pleasure as well as a profit to study with her. Her loss is one the school can ill afford, but the good will of teachers and pupils goes with her in leaving. 208 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR The Senior class of the English School may justly be proud of their Ivy Day. The morning of June 2 was enough overclouded to make an out- door exhibition comfortable. About half-past nine the entire school gathered outside the build- ing, the Senior class seated before the front steps, on which stood the speakers. Mr. Avery opened the exercises by remarking that this custom was especially pleasing, as affording the only oppor- tunity of meeting the entire school at once. He then introduced President Edward Donahue. 1909, who took charge of the programme in a short, but graceful, speech, expressing the sentiment of Ivy Day. First the school joined in singing the “Pilgrims' Chorus.” The oration, by Carl L. Hartshorn, was on “The Call of the Future.” It was a well-written discussion, delivered with con- vincing forcefulness. The hearty applause stamped it “Good work!” Roland Pease, chair- man of the presentation committee, next presented two pictures to the school from the class of '09. He also stated that a framed copy of the class pic- ture would be given at a later date, as the institu- tion of a custom to be perpetuated by future classes. Mr. Avery accepted the gifts with regret, for he said no gift and no class could wholly take the place of those who are departing. Lester C. Gustin, class poet, recited “Life’s Battles” with great dignity. The poem was excellent, well worthy the author and the class. Edward Little- field stepped forward with the ivy plant, and spoke briefly on this token which each class leaves behind. He explained that this vine was planted by the class through the kindness of Miss Harriet Tucll, head of the history department, who had brought it from Bell Tower, Windsor Castle, England. The plant was then imbedded by the ivy commit- tee: Edward Littlefield, Eleanor Dunning, Mildred Joiner, and Henry Cheetham. To close the ex- ercises, the Senior class stood upon the steps and sang the class ode. written by Miss Ruth King- man. Mr. Hadley played the piano, while Miss Marian Sargent led with her cornet. The gather- ing broke up with cheering by the various classes for Mr. Avery, Mr. Tuttle, the faculty, the school, and each class. r v It is sad to think that a scheme which started with such enthusiasm in March as did our wireless telegraph station plans should be an ignoble “fiz- zle” before June. We don’t pretend to place the blame where it belongs. We can't, for each one that has had any connection with the affair claims to have done his utmost. Nevertheless, the fact remains that no apparent work has been accom- plished. The instruments may be reposing in some unknown retreat ready for use; the material for an antenna may be secreted in the cellar of some leading spirit, but we have seen no poles erected on the school building; we have not even scented the approach of the much-promised ap- paratus. If we might be allowed a word of criti- cism. we would say that Somerville High School spirit scorns a surrender like that. When first proposed, the idea aroused wide-spread interest,— many of the fellows were glad to support it, sev- eral instructors offered their aid; it even went out- side the school and gained the approval of certain “city fathers.” Really, we cannot understand why someone hasn’t had the energy to push a good movement to completion. K Through an unfortunate error, our printers is- sued the May Radiator with the same cover de- sign as in April. This was not intended by the Radiator management. Our plan for electing the incoming staff was to place the responsibility of nominations on the classes from which the officers are to come. For instance, the editor-in-chief next year is to be a Latin School Senior. Hence we requested the Latin School class of 1910 to see that at least one eligible candidate was nominated for that position from their number. So the person nominated for each office is recommended by his own class as suitable. In this plan the final choice of election still remains in the hands of the electoral board. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 209 composed of the present staff, the class editors, and two representatives from each class. This seemed to us the best way of electing a staff whose worth is known and vouched for by their class- mates. Owing to the slowness of class meetings and pressure of other Radiator business, we cannot at the time of this writing announce our successors' names. We feel sure, however, that they will prove to be reliable and worthy of the great re- sponsibility which they assume. In relinquishing our duties as editor-in-chief we wish to explain our attitude. We have tried to use impartial judgment in selecting the material to make up each month's issue. We have arranged the component parts in the most convenient and attractive form possible. In our editorials we have aimed to treat only matters of immediate in- terest to the school. Anything not directly con- nected with the student body we have avoided as not being in the province of a school paper. Thus our effort has been to issue a Radiator each month that shall be worthy of its name and its school. If we have been successful in giving our readers interesting material, we are happy. We extend most cordial and sincere thanks to our staff for the conscientious and efficient work they have willingly done for the paper. They have shown a fine loyalty, to which we are proud to acknowledge ourself indebted. We also wish to thank the instructors for their ready counsel and lively interest in the work. We believe the stu- dents as a whole have supported the paper to the best of their ability. Surely they have contributed a great number of excellent articles, and the fact that tlie paper is financially a success shows that they really have their school paper closely at heart, which is indeed the most important consideration of all. Hines Wide ways illumed with wondrous light, And paths that lead one far afield,— These are the gifts that lie in wait, These are our living wands to wield. Perchance some fancy charms the will To wander from the morrow-thought, And then, alas, untrained we pass To plains whose heights we might have sought. Where Right commands, there Honor stands, There Duty feasts and bids her guests, While these with willing steps approach, Pride-filled to do her high behests. Bertha Phillips Marvel. GRADUATING CLASS, LATIN HIGH SCHOOL SOMICRVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 21 I XLhc Sacret� jfire 16 ? IE. 1ba.$el IDac , X.t ’09 HE dancing flames of Vesta’s sacred altar fire cast a weird light upon the virgins about it. upon the pillars and beautiful adornments of the temple, on the image of Vesta herself look- ing down on the group before her. The faces and the demeanor of the maidens ex- pressed the earnestness and solemnity of the rites that they were performing: and their soft chant, as they moved to and fro, echoed from column to column. Only one Vestal virgin allowed her eyes to stray from the altar to the bit of garden and blue Italian skv visible between the pillars: and when the long white veil slipped from her close-cut tresses, she. heedless, would have let it sweep the floor but for the motioned reminder of one of her sisters. At length, with ceremonies completed, the column of white-robed virgins moved away, fol- lowed by the priests, and left the maiden alone to watch the sacred fire in her turn. She stood with hands clasped until the low chant ceased; then with a sigh she took her place beside the altar and gazed thoughtfully into the flames. Could it be but five years since the Pontifex Maximus had taken her hand as she tremblingly realized the solemnity and honor, and had called her “amata,” repeating the simple rite which bound her to the service of Vesta for thirty years? Thirty years! Since that wonderful day a year ago it had seemed sixty. A blush, deepened by the glow of the fire, crept over the fair young face, and Licinia cast a guilty glance over her shoulder. Reassured, she allowed her thoughts to go even further, and leaned her cheek on her hand in an attitude of deepest reminiscence, until, startled by the cries of a bird lost among the marble columns, she arose suddenly. Licinia! a voice was whispering somewhere near the wide doorway. Drawing her veil more closely about her. the maiden answered: Lucius!” Then, in frightened tones: Oh. I pray you. go— go. and do not tempt me longer!” But, coming closer to her, the young Roman spoke earnestly, pleadingly, in a low, hushed voice, his dark eyes fixed upon the girlish figure before him. You must not! You must go!” she insisted, and her face was shadowed with fear. You know not the danger to us both—the punishment of my broken vow—if anyone—oh, Lucius! Sec, I kneel to you! Go!” “Only a moment. he pleaded, lifting her gently to her feet. All is safe, I have ascertained well. Xo one can ever know, and I will stay but a mo- ment. You should not have come,” Licinia re- proached softly, half convinced by his words. I wanted you. Come out with me into the garden—just for a moment—while 1 show you the most marvelous flower, which makes me think al- ways of you. Just a moment. Licinia. It is but a moment before the sun will have sunk beyond Virinal. and the garden wall is high. Come.” Undecided, hesitating, Licinia glanced back at the altar and the sacred flame. It cannot waver in so short a time,” Lucius as- sured her quickly, and led her half-unwilling into the cool, secluded shade of the trees and shrubs. The lights were twinkling in the city and on the river below, when a voice beyond the wall brought Lucius quickly to his feet, and sent Licinia like an arrow from the bow back into the temple of Vesta, a pale bluish flower clasped in her hand. A sud- den fear held her heart as she groped her way among the well-known columns, for no flickering light guided her. And as she reached the altar, Licinia found a priest bending over the cold ashes of the sacred fire. Once more the white-robed virgins stood with bowed heads and tearful faces before Vesta’s altar, where now no fire danced. In the shadows of the pillars were gathered the stern-faced priests, mur- muring a monotonous prayer that echoed weirdly among the marble columns, and directly before the altar were Licinia and the Pontifex Maximus, lie was speaking to her now in a low. troubled voice, but she seemed wholly unconscious of him. as she knelt, a wretched figure, at his feet. Again the sun was sinking behind Virinal, but now its splendor was hidden by a quickly-gathering storm. The priest turned, drew a dagger from its jeweled sheath at his side, and bent to raise Licinia. 212 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR “Amata—sister,” and the tones seemed to fill the temple, “the penalty is death—death on the altar of Vesta,” and he lifted the dagger above her uncovered head. Out from behind the nearest pillar sprang a youth, Lucius, with ghastly face, and seized the up- raised arm. “'Twas I!” he cried, “I who tempted her. Mine the blame, let me suffer!” The priest paused. The heavy rumbling of the great storm shook the skies. Then he pushed Lucius aside. “She must die; it is the law,” he answered. Suddenly there came a crash; the temple was filled with vivid light, the marble columns seemed to totter. And when again their blinded eyes sought the altar, a flame shot up from the sacred fuel upon it, dancing joyously and growing steadily brighter. “A miracle! breathed the priest, looking upon the awed faces around him, a miracle from Jupiter! His hand_destroyed the sacred flame; he hath kindled it again with his thunder-bolt!” As the virgins and priests gathered marveling, heedless before the altar, Lucius drew Licinia un- resisting through the garden toward the city. To- gether they fled through the storm to safety and happiness. Zhc Call of tbe jfuture 1lv$ ©ration Carl X. 1.wtsborn,'J£., ’09 We are met, in this happy hour, to listen to the call of the future. Hope and joy are in that call, but deeper and more insistent still is the demand the future makes upon the youth of to-day. The demand varies, as time passes; once it was for heroism, sacrifice; again, and in more recent times, it has succeeded to be for special preparation along single lines. That demand still sends forth its clarion note to the ear of the youth of to-day, but with a new note, a deeper tone—the call for broad, all-round preparation for specialization. This broader view of specialization—this necessity of broad, all-round development in fields hitherto un- developed, even unthought of. yet in most cases close at hand—1 ask you to consider with me now. Take as an illustration the comparatively new science of forestry. Forestry is the preservation of our existing forests, the planting of our future forests, the increase in our mercantile timber, the restoration and the preservation of enormous water supply. This is the purpose of forestry. With the exception of China, all civilized countries care for their forests. Ilut until recently the United States ranked nearlv with China in this re- spect and still remains far behind progressive countries in all that relates to the preservation, planting, and conservation of forests. According to the statement of the chief forester of the United States, every person in this country uses six times more lumber than he would if he were living in Europe, and the nation as a whole consumes every year four times more wood than its forests produce in the meantime. All in all, the question of American forestry is of mighty im- port, and at the present moment the men to take care of it is not the least of its many responsible features. Some day the American novelist will write a book which will be entitled “With Fire and Axe. and that title will be a true title, for it will describe the havoc and the desolation that is be- ing wrought by lumbermen who are felling the greatest forests of the world. Many of our colleges have introduced courses- to prepare their graduates to aid in solving this great national question. The forester must be master of the knowledge of the botany of the trees, the chemistry of the soil, the physical conditions of the atmosphere, the biological advantages and dis- advantages of the regions in which he works, and the geographical conditions of the country. Sur- veying plays an important part in his life! and all his work is carried out on a mathematical basis. I bus specialization in forestry requires not merely- lContinued on page 214.; SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOJ 213 LESTER C. OUSTIN’. Historian and Poet RUTH E. KINGMAN, Odist. MARIAN H. SARGENT, Prophetess. ERNEST W. CHAPIN, Prophet. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ CARL L. HARTSHORN, Orator. 214 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR XT be Call of tbe future (Continued from page 212.) the study of the single subject, but a thorough, all- round training. Another example of the same sort is found in the case of Professor Todd, of the chair of astron- omy. Amherst College. For years he has been sent by the government and by his college to ob- serve the eclipses of the sun and to make observa- tion of the planet Mars. Professor Todd's latest project is to ascend several miles in a balloon, and, protected from atmospheric disturbances by an aluminum covering, possibly to endeavor to es- tablish wireless communication with the planet Mars. Whatever opinion we may hold as to the practicability of this plan, we have learned not to be too hasty in saying anything is impossible to sci- ence. But 1 call to your attention the breadth of knowledge demanded by it. The power of a general education is apparent in our very midst. Since the days of Archimedes, scientists and inventors have labored in vain to in- vent some means of concentrating the sun’s rays for working purposes. The invention of such a machine, belonging to the Somerville man, George S. Cone by name, has achieved in its short existence more promise of success than all its predecessors. His invention is not one of those mere chance discoveries that we hear so much about, but is the result of years of thoughtful study and careful labor, requiring a thorough knowledge of mechanical, physical, and electrical principles. The application, friends and classmates, is easily made, the moral readily pointed. The world to- day needs and calls for men and women who can do. as we have often been told, a single thing ex- actly right: who have developed that ability by the most thorough investigation of the necessary kindred subjects, and have brought from it the re- quired power of concentration of mind. Find your task, make up your mind what you will do. and stick to it. All your school education will come to vour aid; opportunities to attain your end will start forth, like buds at the touch of spring, for all the world aids one who has a purpose and who is determined to carry it out. Classmates, in our high school course we have learned as one of our best lessons how to obtain information—how to acquire knowledge. This ability we may take with us. and. like the tool in the hand of the cunning workman, it will Drove our greatest aid whatever the field in which we labor. In closing, as in beginning, I urge upon your attention, one and all, the importance of all-round development, that we may prove ourselves workers who need not to be ashamed, and that our Alma Mater, who seems to smile on us as we are about to go forth, may in the future, as from time to time we return hither, give us the same smile—of welcome, aye, of approval. H Xfttle Bit of Country By? Xtlllan B. TTreafcwell, X., '09 It was only a little bit of country; but, oh, such a pretty bit! Far ahead, winding capriciously in and out, over hill and dale, and finally vanishing into the horizon, stretched a typical country road. One side of the road was hedged in with woods. Gnarled oaks, shady maples, bristling pipes, and white-trunked birches, mingled in friendly con- fusion. murmuring songs of love to one another whenever the wind drew them closer together. ()n the ground moss, grass, and the sweet wild flowers of the woods vied with the trees in attract- ing the attention of the passer-by. The other side of the road presented quite a different scene. Field upon field of waving grain rustled to the tune of the summer breeze. Here and there a patch of buckwheat, with its sweet-smelling blossoms, broke in on the view. Beyond the grain, in the hollow of a little dale, the sparkling waters of a small lake could just be seen, while far off, beyond the lake, stretched hills, and beyond them mountains, tier upon tier. Above all lay a cloudless blue sky; the whole scene was one of calm, of soothing peace. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 21 C ZEbe Compact of Ocatb H Stor of the Great Civil Ufflar JS ? Xester C. Gusttn, i£., ’00 [Illustrations by Author.] and Harry, light- Harry, the life of HERE were five of them, five care-free and reckless boys: Frank and George, brothers : Carl, the student; Walter, the artist; hearted, laughing them all. As they sat there on that stormy March evening in ?61, the firelight flickering on their bright, eager faces, the conversation turned, as conversa- tion always will, to the all-absorbing topic of the day—the secession of the Southern states. That there would be war was now certain. Already the North was preparing itself for the call to arms, already the world thrilled in expectation of the greatest Civil War in all history! Of the fact that the five would go there could be no doubt. It was not for them to remain at home when the Union was in danger, when their country's flag had been trampled in the dust by the feet of traitors, and the broad-barred banner of the rebellious states raised in its stead! Better a mil- lion men should die than have Old Glory lowered from its staff by hostile hands! “And when we go,” said George, “we’ll show them how New England boys can fight.” “That’s right, our country will never be ashamed of us,” seconded his brother. “Let us always be where we are needed the most,” Carl began; whenever a man is called for to do some dangerous work, let one of us volun- teer.” The five were sober now. Before them rose the visions of bloody battlefields, of mighty struggles yet to be won. “In the coming conflict we will probably be separated.” he went on. “Be- fore we leave here to-night let us make a vow al- ways to stand by the flag, to give our lives, if need be. to Old Glory and the Union!” They were on their feet now. Carl raised his hand. I swear always to be loyal to my coun- try.” he said, always to do what I think is mv duty.” Slowly they repeated the vow after him. Then, in the semi-darkness of the room, lit only by the dancing firelight, they silently clasped hands. A month later war was declared. The morning sun of July 21. 1S( 1. shone peace- fully down on the wide-spreading fields and grass- grown highways of Northern Virginia. Down one of the dusty turnpikes swung a long column of marching men. It was the vanguard of the Union, going to outflank the rebel forces at Bull Run. Near the front of the line, his head erect, his whole body thrilling with excitement, as the ever-increasing roars of the rebel artillery broke upon his ears, rode a young soldier. It was Gebfgc, now a captain in command of a company of Union volunteers. All through the long, hot afternoon the battle raged, first in favor of the boys in blue, and then of the boys in gray. Many a raw recruit fell in that terrible conflict, many a future veteran re- ceived his baptism of fire on those death-swept, blood-soaked fields about Bull Run. At the close of the day, when the triumphant Confederates were pouring down on the wavering Union lines, George tried in vain to rally his disheartened men. Even above the roar of battle his voice rose, now pleading, now commanding, trying to instill them with his own dauntless courage. “Come on. fellows, hold your ground. Make 216 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR t s x sr st vr ypt every shot count now, don’t give up! Kill the officers first! Don’t run. they’ll be retreating in a minute! Steady up. boys, take your time. Here they come now. Aim! All together! Eire! Hut it was all in vain. Unnerved by the sights of blood, nonplussed by the wild Confederate cheers, they joined the others in that awful retreat to Washington. George fell where he stood, refusing to turn his back to the triumphant enemy. Far out on the fighting line, alone with the wounded and the dead, he died ; one had fulfilled his vow in the compact of death. On December HI, 1862, the Union troops held possession of the little town of Fredericksburg, at the foot of Maryc’s Heights. Walter, looking backward for an instant over the Rappahannock, recalled the scene of the past few days. Again he saw the pontoon bridges slowly work their way over the river of death, again he heard the wild yells as the men clashed across in the overloaded boats. Rut his reverie was rudely interrupted by the sound of a bugle. There was yet sterner work to be done, for to-day they were to storm the heights themselves, held by the pick of all Lee's army! Already his regiment was forming behind a slight screen of houses. Quickly he took his place in the fast-filling ranks. Then came the command to advance. Silently they stepped forward, work- ing their way through the yards and hedges towards the heights. “Double time!” A thrill ran down the line in answer to the command. “Charge!’’ With a wild cheer they sprang for- ward. The next instant they swept into the open, and now, through great gaps torn in the ranks of the regiments in front, they saw their goal, a long, low line of earthworks, the blue-black smoke hanging over it, the ceaseless flashes of red fire coming through. A mighty cheer rose from the charging lines as they breasted the storm of lead. The color- bearer dashed forward, waving his flag. The next instant he fell, pierced by a dozen bullets. Walter is right behind him. He seizes the fallen standard, raises it. and turns to cheer on his comrades. Hut where are the solid lines of blue, where are the deep-breasted Northern cheers that but a moment before shook the hillsides? Here and there little bands of desperate men dash for- ward, only to wither away before the leaden hail. Rehind him come the remnants of his own regi- ment. Crying out to them to follow him, Walter runs on. A death volley crashes from the frown- ing earthworks. He staggers and falls, rises to his feet, still clasping the tattered banner. Again the storm of lead sweeps from the rebel lines. He is on his knees now, still trying to keep his coun- try's flag flying. Around him the boys in blue are falling by the score. He strives to rise, but can- not. Slowlv the starrv banner sinks to the SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 217 ground, its proud folds draping the motionless form of the one who tried in vain to keep it aloft. it Frank and Carl were in the cavalry. On scores of white-tented fields, through dozens of skir- mishes. they had been together, each bearing the other's hardships and troubles, and doing his best to cheer up his discouraged comrades. Now they were standing together near a camp- fire talking. About them lay encamped the troopers of one of Sheridan’s cavalry regiments, resting after a day of weary marching. Suddenly an orderly galloped up, dismounted, and hurried towards Carl. “Orders from head- quarters to carry this dispatch to General-------■” he said, handing Carl an envelope. You may choose one man to accompany you. Go at once.” His heels clicked together, his hand flew to his cap in a quick salute, and he was gone. Scarcely had the orderly vanished in the dark- ness. when Carl and Frank were saddling their horses. A hasty mouthful of food, a quick glance at their firearms, and they were on their way. All night long they galloped, urging their pant- ing steeds to their greatest effort. At dawn they stopped a moment at a Federal outpost to get fresh horses, and again they were off. Now they rode through the territory held by the Confederates. Mile after mile passed, but no sign of the enemy. ‘‘We will be there in an hour now,” said Carl, turning to Frank. But fate willed otherwise. Scarcely had he uttered the words, when a troop of rebel cavalry swept around a turn of the road and came after them. The messengers struck their spurs deep into their horses’ sides: eagerly the beasts responded with fresh bursts of speed. For a time they held their distance, then slowly the pursuers began to gain. Frank glanced about. Already the Con- federates were beginning to fire. Ride!” he cried out to Carl, “ride! Ride for Old Glory and the Union! Then, wheeling his horse across the road, he drew his revolvers. Bang! The leader fell! Bang! Bang! Two more horsemen rolled in the dust! A puff of smoke came from the rebels. With a shrill shriek of pain, his own horse collapsed under him. Bang! Bang! He kept it up, firing as he fell. Why didn’t they stop? Was lie losing his nerve? Couldn't he hold them back for another two min- utes? His revolvers were empty now. He drew his carbine. Crack! Ah. another one’s down. Oh, for a chance to re-load! He tore a cartridge inf 33� cf ftlt Tftltl from his belt, and jammed it into the empty fire- arm. It stuck and refused to move! Desperately he seized a revolver and re-loaded it. They were upon him now! Bang! Bang! lie laughed to see the rebels go down. He'd show them how New England boys could fight! His right arm dropped uselessly to his side. Hastily he shifted his revolver to his left hand. A rebel rider spurred towards him. He fired into the dark mass as it reared above his head. Then every- thing went black before his eyes. The next in- stant the iron-shod hoofs came crashing down, there was a rip of tearing flesh, the downward flash of a thrusting sabre—and Frank went to join George and Walter. After the death of his comrade, Carl left the cavalry in order to be with Harry. The sight of a strange face in his friend’s place was more than he could stand. The thought that Frank—Frank, who had so nobly given up his life that the mes- sage might be delivered—would never again ride beside him. was too much to be endured. « Harry was the pride of his regiment. When everything seemed hopeless, it was he that cheered up the men; when they were unhappy, he was there with a song to make them merry; never disheartened or downcast, lie was always ready with a smile or joke to help them forget their troubles. When Grant began the final campaign that was to crush the last stronghold of the Confederacy, the two friends were with him. During the ter- 218 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR rible days in the wilderness they stood shoulder to shoulder, charging and repelling the desperate rebels. Then came the day of the battle of Spott- syl vania. The Confederates had built a gigantic angle in their fortifications in the woods. Against this were directed the charges of the Union troops. Again and again the boys in blue tried to carry the works; again and again they were driven back with terrible slaughter. Bodies lay piled two and three deep in the blood-spattered forest glades. During one of these desperate charges Carl fell. Close up under the works he lay. his face still turned towards the foe. But he was not dead; his time had not yet come. Harry, standing in the shelter of the trees, saw Carl's plight. Without hesitation, he stepped forth from cover and ran towards his friend. Bul- lets whistled past him, bursting shells spread death and disaster all about him, but he did not falter. A'ar’ry Jnriny !■ JB etJy nS ytra n la. Tenderly lie bent over his wounded chum, gently lie lifted him in his arms and started towards safety. A stinging pain shot through his side. He faltered, but with gritted teeth still kept on. A streak of fire darted through his right leg. How far away the friendly forest seemed! He could not fail now! A minute more and he would be safe. A crash like thunder sounded behind him. Harry staggered on a few steps, and then pitched forward------- He was dead when they lifted him into the forest to safety, his light brown hair matted thick with the blood that had flowed forth in response to the death blow. Carl, unable to rise, saw him dimly through a mist of tears. Greater love hath no- man than this, that he lay down his life for a friend. $ The war was nearly over now. In the South Sherman and his 50,000 dashing Yankee boys had defeated Johnston at Atlanta, and had continued their triumphant march to the sea. In Virginia Grant was slowly, but surely, tightening his encircling lines of blue about Richmond. In the last desperate fighting about Appomattox Carl was acting as an orderly. On the morning of April If he stood beside his horse, resting. A strange silence hung over everything. The mists,, just rising from the fields, disclosed the long lines of troops, leaning inactive on their weapons. An orderly dashed up. “Ride at once to Colonel-----he cried. Tell him that Lee has surrendered and to cease firing! In an instant Carl was in his saddle and away with his message of peace. War was over. The North and South would never again face each other on the battlefield. These thoughts kept swirling through his brain as he sped along. He,, he alone of all the five, was left alive,—he who had been the one to suggest the vow. And yet,” he thought, would it have made any difference if there had been no compact, if there had been no promise to spur them on?” And without hesita- tion his whole heart answered, No!” Now the picture of the bloody field of Bull Run rose before him. lie saw George try in vain to rally his frightened soldiers. Poor George, he never knew that afterwards those same soldiers faced the deadly volleys of Antietam and Gettys- burg with desperate bravery! He saw, too, the frowning heights at Fredericksburg, where Walter had fallen in a vain effort to keep his country’s flag aloft. Then came the vision of a dusty turnpike. A single blue-coated horseman was holding back a troop of Confederate cavalry, deliberately sacrific- ing his life that an order might be carried out. Finally the bloody angle at Spottsylvania ap- peared before him. Again he dashed forward with his comrades towards the smoke-hidden Confed- erate works: again he felt the strong arms of I larry about him, carrying him back to the safety of the forest. Dear, tender-hearted, laughing Harry, it could not be that lie was dead. But what is that skulking behind the trees? A SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 219 Tcbcl deserter, thirsting for revenge on the Union troops for destroying his home, has seen the soli- tary horseman. The sharp crack of a rifle breaks the stillness, then the startled plunge of a fright- ened horse, the dull thud of a falling body—and the five are again united in the great beyond. yY r tKHriting a Composition Bp IRicbarb Bennett, ’09 ELL. it's all off with me. I can’t think of a subject to save my life, and I must have the composition in to- morrow morning the first thing.” This was the conversation I carried on with myself as I rode in town on the elevated train. It haunted me. I started to read a paper, but my thoughts wandered away, and there came upon me a ghastly chill as I saw it (the thought of what 1 was going to write) stand- ing in front of me, staring me in the eyes. The car gave a lurch going around a curve, causing somebody to fall rather unexpectedly and rudely to the floor. I laughed: but not for long, as my thought loomed up again larger than ever. I left the car quickly, thinking I might leave it behind in the car; still it followed. I dodged in and out among the teams on Washington street, trying to skip it: even went into Raymond’s, where I thought it would be too proud to follow. Of course it didn’t mind that. So I kept on through town: all the while it was at my heels: when I turned around it was “dogging” me. grimly look- ing in my face. By the time I reached home I was on fighting terms with my new friend. I went into my room to study: he followed. I was trying to do my other lessons; still he insisted on staring at me and making me nervous. Finally I was so ner- vous that I slammed my Greek book down, and said: If you don’t cut that out, I’ll throw you out the window. All the reply I received was a sickly grin. Wearied, I took the book up again, and at- tempted to study, while all I could make out of the translation was something about the godlike Achilles.” Added to all this, I could hear the fel- lows yelling and shouting outside, coasting. Next door a young lady was playing some of the latest pieces of music, which made me forget what 1 was doing, and led me off into thoughts of theatres, and so on. Thus when I came to I found myself trying to puzzle out faces on the wall paper. I turned around. My friend was with me yet. My mother called me to supper. I went, mut- tering to myself that when she saw me studying she might let me keep the- good work up. At the supper table my friend came, too, but did not eat (a regular Monte Cristo). I asked my mother in what way I might get rid of him. She suggested that 1 might write about my vacation. 1 told her that it was old and dry. My friend agreed with me. Well,” she said, “you'll have to think for yourself: I’m not going to write your compositions.” This was the final word. I ate the rest of the meal in silence. After supper T crept back to my room (not alone). I leaned back in mv chair, thinking of the miser- able day I had gone through. Suddenly I had a bright idea. I would write about writing a com- position. and this is my composition, also the way 1 and my friend parted. 220 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Xife’s JSattle Glass Q oem, by Xester C. Gustin, J£., ’09 At night, as I sat in the dusk of the evening, Forgetful of trial and cares of the day, A vision came o’er me, seen dim in the firelight, A soul-stirring picture of martial array. Once more, by the edge of a field for the conflict, I stood with a host all prepared for the war. Hut altered were they who were gathered before me, The forms of my classmates about me I saw. I stood by the edge of a wide-spreading prairie, Before me, displayed, was a war armed band, Awaiting the word that should send them, to com- bat, To strengthening a nation and aiding a land. With earnest expression and eager commotion, All restless to feel the embrace of the fight, Impatient they stood, for they were unwearied, Not yet had they tested the enemy’s might. Before lay the field of the fast-nearing contest. Now bordered with trenches and «lotted with mines, And swept by the trained of the hostile array To cast into havoc the on-coming lines. Afar, dimly seen through the mists of the sunrise, Its fortified battlements piercing the sky, Rose a mountain, whose heights thundering volleys would sound Ere conquering banners were lifted on high. The leader advanced from the ranks of his soldiers, With higii hopes of vict’ry to rally them on— When, quickly, the shadow of battle-smoke hid them, And, for a brief instant, the vision was gone. The flames flickered low in the story-charmed fire- place, But soon in full splendor again they now burned, The shadows danced wild in the darkness about me, Ah! then to my spirit the vision returned. The field, leading far to the distant horizon, So soon to be filled with the tumult of strife, Was the World, worn by footsteps of heroes un- numbered. The name of the fast-nearing struggle was Life. The mines and the trenches that figured the hill- sides, The shell to be faced in the fierce battle heat, Were trials and failures that come in life’s battle, With power to check, yes, but not to defeat! The mount, dimly seen through the mists of the sunrise, Whose heights but a few of us mortals may tread,. Was Success, hard to gain, but worthy the effort. Ambition the name of the chieftain who led. Now. hurriedly, signal for battle was given, With wild exaltation they sprang to the fray, Ah, could I have watched—but again smoke con- cealed them. The scene from my eager gaze faded away. Rise! On to the strife: in the heat of the conflict, In clashing of arms on the world’s battle field, Stand true to your colors, fight—die if there need be. But never recede, perish rather than yield! When dark lower clouds of depression about you, When bright shines the sun of success in your day. Forget not, though sorrow or pleasure surround you, That God’s in His heaven, all’s well on your way- SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 221 “XLhc Subconscious terror” HUtson Wewton, X., 00 ND they say when he woke up next morning he went right to the scene of the murder, and found his father dead, as he had dreamed,” said I, laying down the paper. “What do you make of that, doctor?’’ “Why, there was some good reason for his imagining the murder as he did ’ he affirmed with a slightly sceptical air. But,” said 1, “he claims he never was conscious of any such forebodings previous to the dream.” That might all be so, but it doesn't gainsay what I’ve stated, he replied. “How, though,’’ asked I. “could he have good reasons without being conscious of them? Sub-conscious,” he said shortly. He took three long pulls of his pipe, and then, pointing at me in a most didactic way, proceeded to explain. Xow, you certainly have noticed at times how a certain observation of yours will puzzle you,— somebody llatters you, or something of that kind. Well, at first you’ll try to find out the why and wherefore, and then long after you’ve apparently forgotten all about it, the whole solution will sud- denly come to you. Well, you’ve reasoned sub- consciously. Now, oftentimes you do both the observing and the reasoning sub-consciously—as was the case in that account you were reading— and these sub-conscious conclusions often far sur- pass your conscious thoughts, predicting events far in advance of their fulfillment. But the trouble is to get at them. Xow this man's came in a dream. I have often used hypnotism for that purpose.” Why. I didn’t know you ever used hypnotism in your practice,” said I. considerably surprised. Oh. yes,” answered he, I’ve cured hundreds of nervous cases and come across more than one curious fact in that way,—the Blackwell case, for instance.” “What was that?” I inquired, my interest aroused. Ha.” he chuckled, “there’s a story to make your blood run cold.” After the usual coaxing, he condescended to tell his story—for the least of the doctor’s faults was taciturnity—and when he had taken his three cus- tomary pulls, he began:— ’Twas near the end of my office hours, when the maid ushered in a dark, thin, nervous-looking sort of a man. lie was apparently a great deal distressed over some worry, and I could easily perceive that he was one of those morbid men who- worry a great deal over nothing, and come to a doctor, specialist, or quack on the least provoca- tion. lie had. however, some serious nervous trouble, as 1 could see at a glance. The muscles of his face twitched incessantly, and I should say he opened his watch ten times before he even started to explain why he had come to me. Sud- denly I turned on him and asked him what time it was. He looked at his watch again, and then corrected himself twice before he finally gave me the right time. “ ‘Xow,’ said I' to him, ‘you collect yourself be- fore you tell me your trouble, and then give me the whole history and anything whatever that re- lates to it.’ ‘Well.’ said he, with bewildered expression, ‘there are some things, but I don’t know whether they have anything to do with it or not.’ ‘Xever mind,’ I reassured him, ‘tell everything right from the beginning.’ “‘Well, all right.’ said he. ‘I'll begin from where I think the trouble dates. I am a lawyer, of the firm of Sargent Blackwell. I have prac- ticed law for a good many years, and in the course of my experience have come in touch with all sorts of cases, with one exception, however. I have never conducted any criminal case, my partner always having attended to that part of the busi- ness. It may seem queer, but 1 have seldom known any more of the details of these cases than outsiders—they made me nervous. ‘About a year ago, though, I was obliged to take up and finish a case for my partner, who was sick, and I haven’t had a cussed moment’s peace since!’ The last was said with some heat, and he had to calm himself before he could proceed ‘To be brief, it was the case of a most brutal murder. The accused had not much in his char- acter or record to favor him. That he was quite capable of it my partner fully believed, but that he 222 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR didn't do it lie was just as firmly convinced. So when he was taken sick he begged me to continue the case, and I in an unlucky moment yielded to his request. “ ‘It was a very commonplace case, from a law- yer's standpoint. They could show it was pos- sible. and I could show it wasn't probable. But two days before the trial the case took a suddenly different aspect. “T had just finished my work for the day. and was gathering up my papers, when I heard a rap at the door. I said. Come in.” without looking up. and when I did look up I saw the worst look- ing character you ever set eyes on. Say, doctor, upon my word I think it was the worst specimen that ever existed.’ he shuddered. ‘Face all scars and wrinkles—truly, you couldn't tell which were scars and which were wrinkles; a funny shaped head, and little round ears that stuck right out from it—honest, doctor, there were little hairs growing in them that stuck right up like bristles. ‘Oh. I didn’t notice all this at first, oh. no! Really I had to turn around to get hold of myself. He had the worst expression. Doctor, he looked as if used to murder as you do to talking. As I live. I never wish to see a worse face this side of hell. There, there.’ he murmured, wiping the sweat from his forehead. I'll have to get along with the story. ‘ ‘Well, from what I could make out of his talk at first, he wanted to tell me that my client was guilty. At length he grew more confidential, and told me the whole story of the murder, word for word, as I am convinced it happened. He tried to make it out that he saw my client do it. but it was woefully apparent to me that he was the real culprit. Through all his talk there was a half- confidential. half-threatening air. Continually he seemed to harp on the fact that it would be wrong, as well as unwise, for me to clear my client, and he laid more emphasis on the unwise part. Neither was it at all reassuring when lie gave me a parting glance with, “I hope yc’s sec things my way.” ‘‘‘Now. doctor. I don’t think I’m a coward, but although I knew that man was the murderer, I didn’t dare to stop him. Of course. I 'phoned the police and district attorney, but they thought it was some bluff of mine, and never paid any seri- ous attention to it—that’s the way with district at- torneys. you know, they’re firm believers in the bird-in-the-hand proverb, and their chief concern is to convict some one. Now. I don’t know as this whole story’s got anything to do with my trouble, but it certainly dated from this time, and you've told me to tell everything. “ ‘To proceed. When the case was tried, the district attorney had a hypothetical account of the case which he tried to prove, but I. knowing the real facts, was able to anticipate him and disprove hypothetical ones, and so won the case. I have never seen either my client or the man who called at my office since the trial, but that trial got on my nerves, and since then I’ve had the worst time mortal could. ‘‘‘Every time I come to a dark place a terrible childish fear overtakes me. I shudder, terrible pains shoot through my ribs, as if something sharp had struck there: I am unnerved and an absolute gibbering coward, and not only in the dark, but at all times I have a terrible nervousness—a con- tinual fear. My condition is awful, terrible, fear- ful. unmerciful. I shall go crazy if it keeps on. I'll go stark mad. I swear I will, T swear I will! Oh. Lord!’ he groaned, wringing his hands and swaying back and forth. ‘“Conie. come!’ said T sharply, ‘brace up and be a man: this is no way to act. Now answer my questions carefully and calmly. You cannot de- scribe the pains any more definitely than you have?’ “'No. except that they’re terrible and seem to tear me.’ ‘You say they come on you in dark places?’ “ ‘Yes.’ ‘And only in dark places?’ “ Yes. although the fear of these attacks makes me nervous and afraid at all times “ ‘And is there nothing else that worries you?’ “ ‘Practically nothing else.’ ” ‘You don't ever think of the man that came to your office?’ “‘Well—er—yes: but only when I try to find out the cause of all this, and then I lay it to that confounded case!’ “ ‘Then it is not a constant and nervous fear like the other?’ “ ‘ No. it really isn't a fear at all. but somehow I lav my troubles to that “T had my theory now as to what the trouble might be. and thought the best way of proving it was by hypnotism, for I was convinced that the fear was of sub-conscious origin. I was little pre- pared. though, for the startling disclosure that was brought to light, used as T was to queer cases. “I soon persuaded him to submit to the treat- SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 223 mcnt, and after a few passes he was entirely under my control. I now bethought myself of what I should do. and I decided that instead of putting him through another catechism, I would make him think he was in the dark, and sec how he would act sub-consciouslv, for I did not know what premonition of danger he might disclose.. In a calm and soothing voice I began to put my plan into execution. • ' ‘Come on, now, we'll go down in the cellar. The lights arc out. It is perfectly dark. It is black. You can’t sec. It is gloomy, dismal. You are alone in the cellar—alone. It is dark as pitch. All is darkness. All is blackness—black— black—very black—dark—dark—dark!’ “I saw now that my words were beginning to take effect on him: the sweat was starting from every pore: his countenance was contorted into the most horrible shapes, with the most frightful expressions of fear written on every one of them, lie gripped the arms of the chair as if held there by an electric current: he kept writhing and squirming, as if trying to escape something, when suddenlv he let out a terrific shriek. ••Help!' he yelled. ‘Help—help! Murder! Oh—O—O—O come! Come! Help!—help! Come!’ “And now he began to hang on to his side and groan in a most agonized fashion, moaning: ()h— Oh—Oh, come! Do come! I shall die if they don’t come! Oh!—Oh!’ “The sight appalled me. I was at my wits’ end. It was evident there was some deep meaning in this counterfeit disaster. I was at my wits’ end to find it, when I stopped to listen to him. “’Oh!—Oh!’ he kept groaning, ‘why don’t they come? What was the matter? Oh. I shall die! What was the matter with it?—Oh—Oh, that cat!’ Suddenly the solution came to me. I tore his hand from his side, ripped open his vest and shirt, and there were three great livid scars. I brought him to. “ ’What are those?’ I demanded. “ ‘Those—those,’ said he, rubbing his eves, ‘those? Why, those are where a cat scratched me when I was a child. Went down cellar one night, and she was mad. or something, and scratched me terribly—almost died of fright. But, doc,' he said, with a bewildered expression, ‘that isn’t what makes me scared of the dark, is it?’ ‘Yes,’ said I. ‘the sub-conscious terror of a cat.’ ” And here the doctor let out a cackle. “Xow, how’s that for a curious case?” Mighty queer, said I, “but where did the mur- derer come in? He didn’t come in at all.” chuckled the doctor, “only a case of sifting the facts. Although the trial probably brought on Blackwell’s hysterical fear of the dark which he contracted in childhood.”' “Did he ever have any more trouble?” I in- quired. Xo; of course, after it was explained, he didn’t fear a cat. the doctor answered, and started to re- sume his pipe. Hfter the Storm Bp IDabcl XU. XU i I her, X., ’00 Drip, drip. drip. Every tree and every leaf added its quota to the dismal sound. Earth and skv were in unison. The hurried footsteps of a belated passer-by sounded on the pavement. Wagons rattled noisily through the muddy streets. In the dreary-looking house opposite a forlorn lit- tle girl pressed her cheek against the window, watching the rain, as it slowly, oh, so slowly, les- sened. The atmosphere was heavy, and each and every sound re-echoed dismally. The sky above bent down its gloomy countenance as if to approve the empty and oppressive mood of Xature. and then it changed. Low in the west th.e dingy clouds lightened and broke. A rosy glow shone through, touching the myriads of drops into so many diamonds, and changing the grim old world to fairyland. GRADUATING CLASS, ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 225 Class ©be, 5. BE. 1b. S., ’09 36 ? iRutb TRinoman “The Old Oaken Bucket,” omitting the second repeat.] [Tune: To thee, our dear school, we would sing now our praises. While swiftly the hour of departure draws near. To thee we have looked as our friend through all changes, And ever we'll cherish thy memory dear. For always our wishes so many and varied, Thou ever wast able and ready to fill. A counselor, too, if we came to a crisis, And one who could guide us and keep us from ill. The lessons we learned were not simply from text- books. Although those were needed to teach 11s the rest; But far and beyond this, you bade 11s be upright, Whatever our station, to stand for the best. Then as we developed in years and in reason. We learned to be ready to meet the great strife. To do heavy tasks with a will that should conquer, To be true and faithful throughout our whole life. And now for this kindness we feel deeply grateful. And wish to return it the best that we may. We now can but feebly attain to this purpose. And. with steps that falter, we enter the way. But let us resolve that in vears which shall follow Our lives shall be such that they merit no blame. So thus we may show our sinccrest devotion. And offer our tribute unto thy dear name. Sonnets Ellen H. Smallwood 00 TO MY BOOKS. Oh. ye are fair and beautiful to see! E’en as the fairies with their cloaks of sheen. Bound in your covers trimmed with gold and green. What wondrous tales of life you bring to me! Tales of a people, who, themselves to free. Shot at the British on Lexington Green, Of Revolutions French, and. too, 1 ween, German and English, far across the sea! Then, tales of knights and ladies, too, you tell. Of waters out of which strange swords immerge, Of Arthur’s Table Round, and Druids old, Of tournaments and duels, and the dell. herein the fairies ring their knell and dirge,—• Ah. friends, ye are to me as mines of gold! TO A PORTRAIT. Oh, face so fair, with brow as white as snow! Aurora surely had thy lips impressed! How dear the words to me by you addressed, No one save you and me can ever know! Those eyes of brown, which care should never know. How oft thy love for me have they expressed! Those hands so soft, by few vears' work op- pressed. Thy gentle soul has left 'neath winter's snow! Thou art not dead. but. sleeping, stav'st the day. When, locked in love's embrace, we meet once more. Oh. speak, shall't be on shore or far or near? Or. when life's cares have wholly passed away. And memory is but a faint dream of vorc. May we not stand together, mother dear? 226 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Class Ipoem, S. %. 5., ’00 Bp Irene IRibbe ’Tis sunrise! O’er the eastern hills The breath of morning sweetness thrills, The fragrant clouds in rifted banks Are shot with a chill crimson hue; 'Hie very skies are giving thanks, The nodding buds weighted with dew. The fresh’ning breezes dancing by, The leaves that, waking, look on high, Arc teeming with the life of spring; The skylarks in their noisy flight The songs of joy and gladness sing. Flickering high in misty light, Flowers sway in the tall grass, Answering the winds that pass, Daffodils and cowslips lift Their yellow heads, like stray sunbeams. All nature in these morning hours Is full of hope as gay with flowers; Now the rich, unfolding morn Drives away the night with scorn, And the great sun in state array Ushers in the new-born day. From the hills fire answers fire, Shadows sport until they tire In the flower-embroidered fields, Everything in nature yields To the thrilling power of dawn ; All the flowers their strength have drawn From her bounteous, brimming cup. The smallest violet in the shade Dares to lift her wee head up, Never dreaming it will fade, ()nly knowing she must live, C )nlv knowing she must give All her fragrant beauteous power To enhance spring’s dawning hour. As with earth’s birds and flowers, so ’tis with! youth. The glorious dawning of a life begun, Courageous, fanned by hope’s high soaring wings,. In throbbing nature round youth sees but truth. Secure, he dreams of battles to be won; And all his pulsing life with music rings, For overwhelming joy that he may give His portion to make up the whole, and live. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIA'I OR 227 MARION CORLISS, Historian. HOWARD A. MacLICAN, Historian. RICHARD W. me NX KIT, Prophet. LENA R. MOORE. Prophetess. 228 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR PERI EN MER. Par Paul-Emile Laurent, K. ’09. ('ixg hcures sonnaient a Phorlogc du village lorsque Stalphase s’cveilla. Tout boulevcrse par les cauchemars (I’une longue nuit, il s’assil sur son lit. Les traits altdrds, ct les yeux hagards, lui donnaient 1’apparence d’un ca- davre. C’etait une dc ces matinees dc juin, ou Pair est si pur ct embaumt du parfum des tleurs. Les rayons du soleil levant commenjaient a faire sentir leur bienfaisantc cha- leur ct glissaient a travers la fenetre. Aprils quelques instants dc reflexion, Stalphase sauta hors de ’on lit et s’appr x:ha de la fenetre. “Quel beau matin!” s’dcria-t-il. La journec s’annon ait belle. — Son projet allait done se realiser. II s’etait endormi la vcillc cn chcrchant les moyens de satisfaire un projet qui occupait sa penscc depuis plusieurs semaines. Stalphase etait un jeunc homme dc dix-huit ans: dc taille moyenne, au teint brim, et aux yeux d’un bleu pro- fond. 11 etait 1c fils unique d’un riche marchand de Toulon, demeurant dans le petit village d’Ollioules, it peu pres ii six milles de la ville. Stalphase, etant le fils unique, avail et ? eleve suivant ses caprices, et ils Itaicnt nombreux. Son pere 1’avait envoyd ii l’academic militaire de Toulon; mais, malheu- reusement, Stalphase n’avait aucun gout pour l’dtude. Pour lui l’acadcmic etait une prison. Que tie fois il avail supplie son pfere de Pen faire sortir, mais cn vain; son pere insistait |x ur qu’il linit son cours. Apres les dcr- nicres vacances de janvier, Stalphase refusa de retourner, donnant pour excuse que sa sant 5 declinait. Il s’abste- nait meme dc plusieurs repas, pour mieux tromper ses bons parents. Apres quelques semaines de repos, son pfere lui conseilla dc reprendre ses dtudes, mais tous ses conseils ne changerent j oint ses idccs obstinees. Deux longs mois s’etaient ccoules et Stalphase n’etait pas encore decide quel parti prendre. L’ennui occas- sione par Poisivete lui devint plus penible qu’il ne Pavait 616 ii 1’dcolc. Il aurait presque souhaite d’etre ii l’aca- demie, mais il ne se sentait aucun courage pour etudier. Quel triste sort pour le fils d’un pere qui aurait tant desire voir son enfant se complaire dans les jouissances dc 1’dtudc! Mais non. pour Stalphase la joie ne se trouvait point dans le travail, mais au contraire, dans des choses bien differentes. Sa sculc pen see etait de Voyager, mais sans travailler. Cette pensdc avait toujours haute son esprit. Presque tous les jours il se rendait ii Pentrcpot ct par- courait les quais jxmdant de longues heures. II devint plus ou moins familier avee plusieurs matclots dc dif ferents batiments. Un matin pendant qu’il examinait un des vaisseaux, il rencontra deux matelots Grangers et leur posa plusieurs questions du genre suivant: Quand le bateau part-il? Comment pourrait-il s’engager? et ainsi de suite. Ils lui donnerent toutes les informations desirees. Stalphase monta rapidement Pescalier et se fit conduire a la cabine du capitaine, II s’assit prfcs dc la porte avec autant de (lignite qu’il en possddait. Sou- dainement, une cloche sonna, et la pensde lui vint que peut-ctrc le batiment allait partir. Il voulut fuir, mais au meme moment le capitaine arriva, et le fit arreter. “Est-ce que le bateau part?” demanda Stalphase avec inquietude. “Mais non,” repondit le capitaine. “Que voulez- vous?” Stalphase lui raconta toute son histoire, et le capitaine ne put s’cmpecher de rire. “ Il me semble que vous vous cn fatigucrcz avant peu de temps mon garfon,” lui dit-il. Mais Stalphase lui lit comprendre que ce flit toujours son idee de sc faire matclot. L’ayant interroge sur quel- ques points, le capitaine se d cida a I’engager. Stal[)hase quitta I’ofiice, traversa le pont, ct s’en retourna chez-lui le cieur content. Le seul obstacle ji son projet tait de quitter la maison sans que ses parents le sussent, car il dtait certain que son j c re ne le laisscrait jamais partir. Mais il lui fallait lieaucoup de choses: d’abord, un peu d’argent, et aussi quelques habits. II avait une semainc |M ur se preparer. Le bateau levait l’ancre le quinze juin, a dix heures du matin pour Constantinople, et aprfcs avoir ddcharg quelques marchandiscs, il se rendait cn Austra- lie, voyage tres long et jierilleux. Ce fut la plus longue semainc que Stalphase cut jamais passde. Le lendemain il fit sa malle. C’dtait 11 peu pres toute son occupation. Il ne lui restait plus qu’a attendre le depart du bateau. Pour trom])er ses parents, il leur disait qu’il etait decide de retourner ii l ?cole, et son jx re 1’cncourageait dans ses bonnes iddes. Enfin la veillc du depart arriva, et Stalphase sc coucha de bonne heurc. Le lendemain matin il se nSveilla des 1’aurore, et regardant par la fenetre, admirait la journde magnilique que la Providence lui avait reservee pour son depart. ( e matin-la il prit son dejeuner a la hate. Ses adieux furent bien courts: un baiser bien tendre a sa bonne mire,, toute inconscicnte dc son projet, csjx rant le revoir a la fin de juillet, au commencement des vacances. Son f)l re, si devout . I’cncouragea en lui souhaitant succVs dans. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 229 ses Etudes. Sans doute, sa conscience le troublait, mais Staiphase n’avait pas encore cu 1c temps de rdfldchir. II ne rdalisait pas la gravity de sa faute. Quel malheur! Le bateau partait a dix heures prdcises. Staiphase sc rendit a Pcntrcpot a huit heures, ct de lit au vaisseau. II descendit immddiatement dans sa cabine et mil son habit de matelot. Le signal du depart fut donnd sans qu’il I’entendit. II dtait tout absorbd par le va-et-vient dcs matelots executant les difYdrcntes ordres. II resta sur le premier pont jusqu’ft ce que le batiment fut compRtement surti du port. Une fois dans sa vie Staiphase dtait heu- reux. II s’dtait toujours dit qu’il aimerait la vie de marin, et qu’un jour, ft son tour, il deviendrait capitaine d’un vaisseau. II dtait certain que cctte vie lui plairait. Ccjxmdant, n’v dtant pas encore accoutumd, le voyage de Constantinople fut pour lui une traversde bien longue et ennuveuse, et pourtant la partie la plus longue restait encore ft faire. Le vaisseau ddehargea une partie de sa cargaison, et le lendemain (23) vingt-trois, leva Pancre et se mit en route pour le canal de Suez. De Ift il traversa la mcr Rouge qui conduit ft I’Ocdan Indicn, le plus dangcreux de tous. Lnfin arrivd en pleine mer, le navire prit la direction de Melbourne. Staiphase se ddcoura- geait, pensant qu'il n'arriverait jamais a destination. Plusicurs fois il souhaita de pouvoir retourner, mais il dtait trop tard. Et ses parents, — quand apprendraient- ils sa ddsobdissance?— Peut-etre ne reverrait-il plus jamais sa tendre mere. Tous les soirs il s’endormait en pleurant sa faute. A Pexemple de Penfant prodigue, il commen ait ddjft ft e. |)ier son pdchd. Il etait oblige de travailler, et cela lui coutait. Chaque jour Staiphase se couchait ft peu pres ft la memc heure, entre huit et neuf. Se rdveillant un soir apres un Idger repos, il s’apenjut que la tempete faisait rage autourde lui. Il preta Poreille et en tendit un cra- quement sinistre. II etait seul dans sa cabine. Avec un frisson d’horreur, il sc leva, et ft moitid habilld, il sortit en courant sur le pont. La pluie tombait ft torrents, ct le vent silllait dans la mature. La mer etait tcllcment houleuse que les lames balayaient tout sur le pont. Les coups de tonnerre se suivaient sans interruption, et les dclairs dtaient si frequents que le ciel etait de feu. Les cris de ddsespoir des matelots ajoutaient encore ft l’hor- reur de la sedne. Il dtait deux heures du matin, et dans Pobscuritd profonde de la nuit ils n’avaient pour toute lumiere que celle de la foudre. La sirene appelant au secours, mclait sa voix lugubre ft celle de la tempete; mais pour toute rdponse on n’entendait que le mugissc- ment des Ilots et l’dclat du tonnerre. Le navire mena ait ft chaque instant de disparaltrc dans Pabime. Au milieu de Pcffroi general, une voix se fit entendre,. — c’dtait celle d’un officier: ‘ Xous sommes perdus!” Une voie d’eau s’dtait ddclardc, ct le navire s’enfon ait rapidement. Staiphase courut ft sa chambre, et se jetant ft genoux il implora le ciel de lui epargner une telle mort. Les matelots avaient ddjft jetd pardessus bord plusieures tonnes de la cargaison, afin d’alldger le navire. Staiphase entendit les blasphemes et les imprecations des homines effrayds, et il sentit son cceur se glacer dans sa poitrine. Sa pensde se porta vers sa bonne mere qui avail peut-etre ddjft appris sa fuite, et il se rappela les derniers avis de son j ere. La tempetc mugissait toujours, bien qu’on n’entendit plus que le roulcment lointain du tonnerre. La cloche dans un dern ier appel, sembla tinter plus lugubrc- ment: — clle annon ait les derniers moments de leur existence. Tout ft coup, une lame s’abattit sur le pont,. et lentement le navire disparut sous les Ilots, et empor- tant avec lui Staiphase et tout Pdquipage. Ce ne fut qu’au mois d’avril que ses parents apprirent sa ddsobdissance, et la terrible catastrophe qui en fut le resultat. 230 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Hll Because of a tDog ant� Some Oats Stella iDarie Sbeparfc, %.t ’09 ISS ALMIRA SILSBY was very fond of cats; in fact, she adored them. Site always had ten cats, ten, she said, because every one expected an old maid to have nine, and she liked to be odd, even in small matters. Each of the ten had his own house in the old- fashioned garden. Adjoining Miss Almira’s estate was that of Cyrus Gray. Mr. Gray had known Miss Almira ever since they went to school together the first day, and they had always been good friends until six months ago. Mr. Gray’s daughter had been given a French poodle, which, being neighborly, had liked nothing better than to play tag with Miss Almira’s precious kittens. The kittens didn’t see things this way. however: neither did their mis- tress. After the harmless game had continued for two weeks, and the stately trees of her estate had served as goals a great many times a day. Miss Almira, dressed in her most imposing gown, and wearing .her most severe expression, called upon her neighbor, and demanded firmly that he do away with his savage nuisance. Mr. Gray in a friendly manner explained that the six-pound dog belonged to his daughter, and that she would no more think of parting with it than Miss Almira would give up one of her cats. Anyway, he said the dog didn’t injure the cats any, and it was good for them to exercise daily. When he had finished. Miss Amira arose with great dignity, and after a stiff “Good morning ” departed. Now Cyrus Gray was a good-natured man. and he thought his old friend would soon forget the little episode. But Miss Almira could not forgive easily any one who did anything to disturb her pets in tiic slightest way. Love me, love my cats.” was her idea of friendship. As it happened, in a little while the poor little despised dog fell sick and died, but that made no difference to Miss Almira concerning her friendship with the Grays. The point was that Cyrus Gray had allowed to live an animal that disturbed her cats. To-day she sat in her morning room awaiting the arrival of her niece and ward from Europe, where she had been traveling for a year. After what seemed a long time to her anxious aunt. Alice came in. a vision of happiness. After the greet- ings were over, she gave a brief account of the past year and its good times, and ended by saying: Ami the best of all. auntie, is that Jack Gray and 1 became engaged in Glengarriff, where we met accidentally. You see. he went abroad unexpect- edly on business, and as he was in Cork, ran down to Glengarriff for a few days to see the place. Jack says it's too funny to think that, after living next door for ten years, he should have to cross the ocean to------why, auntie, dear! you look awfully cross and unhappy! Has something gone wrong?” Yes, Alice, something has gone very wrong. Cyrus has been most unfriendly toward my cats, and therefore is no longer my friend. As for John Gray, 1 always observed that he was not thought- ful of the comfort of the cats. Why, I saw him actually rub Jessie’s fur the wrong way the last time he was here.” “But, auntie, that was five years ago, and you haven’t seen him since. He was a young fcliow in college then, and I am sure that he has grown more considerate of cats in five years.” Nothing more need be said, Alice. You must break your engagement with this young man at once. I don’t approve of him nor his family, and that is sufficient. Please tell Nellie to serve lunch.” Alice Montague was a sensible young woman, and she knew her aunt well enough to know that when her mind was made up it never could be changed by argument, especially if the subject dealt with cats. Therefore the matter was dropped, and Miss Almira, happy to be with her niece again, immediately brought forth plans for a sun-house, where the kittens might spend their mornings. Two days later Miss Almira’s gardener, who had been with her several years, told her he was going to leave. 'This was sad news for his mis- tress. because her gardener a ways cared for her cats, and she disliked her pets to be handled by (Continued on page 232.) 232 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR ail Because of a Boo an Some Cats (Continued from page 230.) different people. Xo attempt at persuasion could prevail upon him, however; his reply to every pro- posal was: “Shure. ma’am, an’ Oi tell yese it’s Oi as has a foine job of gard’ning promised, wit'out a nursing uv any furry bastes what pricks and digs with their thorny feet ivery time youse doos thim inny good. Much as she considered the welfare of her cats. Miss Almira never urged her servants to remain, and so she accepted Peter’s decision with calm composure. That same morning Alice came running in. say- ing: “Auntie, there is a man outside whom Peter told about his leaving. He wishes to take Peter’s place as gardener, and promises to cherish the cats as his own. He looks young, but I think you may safely trust him to do what you wish.” Aunt Almira was glad to find so desirable a sub- stitute for Peter so quickly, and told Alice to en- gage him on trial. She added, however, that he was not to touch the cats until she had seen him. Her first impression was very favorable, and Adams became gardener and attendant for the cats. For three weeks he fed. petted, washed, rubbed, warmed milk, and dangled strings for ten cats, while Miss Almira watched him from a win- dow overlooking the garden. Each time she saw him give Molly an extra pat, or heard him coo over Julia in a soft voice, she nodded approvingly, and liked him better for it. She had just decided to double his salary, when one bright morning Alice came in with the distressing news that Adams was going to leave. Her aunt burst into mournful sympathy with the cats. Here was a young man who satisfied their every need, who played with them, and whom they had grown to love. She liked him. also, be- cause he was so kind to dumb animals. She knew his family must be good because of his appearance, and lie certainly was well educated. All these things were an advantage. And now he was go- ing! Alice must think of some way of keeping him. Suddenly Alice’s face brightened, and she ex- claimed : “Auntie, you love your cats, don’t you, and you know that it will just about kill Julia to have another new caretaker? You are fully con- vinced that Adams is willing to do anything for cats, are you not?” Why, certainly, Alice,” her aunt answered won- dcringly. Xow the only way of keeping your gardener that I can think of is for you to let me marry him.” Why. Alice. I didn’t know you loved cats as well as that. However, we must look him up well, and see if his family and education are satisfac- tory.” Auntie, you have never asked him his full name, but I have. He is John Adams Gray, and his father lives next door. Now please don’t look cross, for you know you aren’t. When I told him what your objections were, he decided on this plan to convince you of his regard for your cats, and I think he has succeeded. Don’t you think it would be the best thing for the cats if you were to let tnc marry him now? You see. Mr. Grav and his daugh- ter wish to travel, and he has only been waiting for his son to return and take charge of his affairs before he started on an extended tour. Jack and I will live next door, and he will be near enough to run over and care for the dear kitties every day, just as lie has been doing. Shall I tell him that you won’t accept his resignation?” When Miss Almira recovered her breath, which she had lost in her astonishment, she replied, with a twinkle in her kind eyes: Why. yes, I guess you may. Alice, because I hate to have Julia disap- pointed again, she is so sensitive. By the way, ask John to tell his father that he hasn’t discussed the last two novels with me yet.” SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 233 Bn Impersonation 36v? Buna ID. H res, jformerlg ’09 ARLIAVE! Marliave!” stormed An- drus, as he brought his clenched fist down with a thud on the library table. Oh, if 1 had him----!” “A lot that helps, Andrus,” ob- served one of the group wearily. “The question is, what are we going to do?” “Do! Why, postpone the whole affair, of course! What else is there to do?” “The play can't be postponed,” stated the “man- ager decidedly. “The tickets arc all out, and the special train hired, and by established rule the Senior play is given the week before Commence- ment. Oh, well. Andrus, costume or no costume, the play goes on to-morrow night! “If you hadn’t been so confounded insolent when Mr. Temple offered to let you have his wife’s maid's rig, Leo,” began another, “we-----” “Temple’s wife’s maid’s rig!” shrieked the en- raged Andrus, “what do you think I am? I-------” “Oh, here comes Hamilton : he wrote the play; we'll put it up to him,” suggested a peacemaker as the hall door opened, and a tall figure, with frock coat, iron-gray hair, flowing beard, and heavy “specs,” strode across the room with the bearing of a king, and, turning, solemnly charged: “Gentlemen of the jury!” “Perfect! Perfect!” shouted the audience in unison, while the “judge,” having been fully in- spected and approved, proceeded to remove wig, beard, and goggles, and inquired: “What was the racket in here?” “Marliave didn’t send my rig,” replied Andrus a trifle chokily, whereupon, with many interruptions, corrections, and additions, lie recited his tale of woe. “Well, it does look pretty bad for us,” agreed Hamilton, after a long pause. “I guess you've mentioned every possible scheme. I could tele- phone my mother to go down to the costomer’s after it and bring it up to-night, but the city tele- phones are all disconnected. Some one will have to go to Chicago and get it, that’s all, and since Mr. Temple won’t give his consent to the trip, we’ve got to manage it without the faculty’s ‘getting wise.’ We can’t blame him for refusing to let one of us go down to the city, you know, because of course he’s acting under strict orders while Mr. Grevatt’s awav. It’s on account of the strike— they say the city’s a fright—and no one at Morgan wants to get mixed up in it. Put the maid must have his gown. Who’s got a time-table? “We can make it, fellows, we can make it!” he cried excitedly, after a few moments of calculation. “Look! There's a ‘jump’ express going through Morgan to Evergreen Park at 5.15 in the morning. It reaches the Park Junction at G.30. Then we can connect with Chicago on that 6.45 from the Junction, and get in town at 7.15. “We can skin up to Marliave’s and get Leo’s rig. for of course it’s ready, then catch the 9 o’clock train back!” “Say! That would get us back in time for first recitation to-morrow—11.15!” broke in one of the boys. “Good for you, Lawrence; that'll be easy! What's the matter. Andrus?” for Leo continued to look disconsolate. “Hamilton can say to Mr. Temple that his mother brought it up.” “Don’t you realize that Mr. Grcvatt is coming in from Chicago on the 6 A. M. train in the morn- ing, and he’ll be at Evergreen Park for the stop- over from 6.30 to 6.45?” “Ye gods!” ejaculated Hamilton. “You know we couldn’t dodge him at the Junc- tion.” continued Andrus, “a fly couldn’t get by him. Xo, it’s all off. The show can go without a maid.” Lor a few moments there was deep silence. “How would it be,” Hamilton suggested sud- denly. “how would it be for me to wear that rig?” designating the costume on the table. “Would I pass? When 1 saw Mr. Grcvatt at the station I’d dodge, of course, and after I got on the city train I could pull off the make-up.” “Pass? The rig is perfect!” So the plan was laid. •• “What luck!” Hamilton glanced at his fellow- passengers as he seated himself on the express. “All asleep, eh?” Put the sound of sobbing in his immediate vicinity altered that decision, and again he looked about. Directly opposite, a girl in deep mourning sat with deep-bent head. A rush of sympathy ruled considerations of ap- pearance or circumstances into oblivion, and, crossing the aisle. “Isn't there something I can do for you?” he burst out sympathetically. 234 SOMHR VILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR The sobbing ceased, and in the moment that fol- lowed, Lawrence wondered whether it was her heavy veil or the tears that dimmed her large gray eyes that concealed from her notice his fast- becoming-hideous make-up. Thank you, but—I don’t see how you can.” There was an appeal in the tone that struck his heart. “Not unless you tell me in what way you need help. You have lost a relative—a near rela- tive—is it that? Tell me your trouble—at least I can sympathize with you.” She was looking at him rather oddly. It was his voice, of course. He had forgotten the deep tones of the judge.” He had better tell her now----- You are very kind. she was saying, “and what 1 need is sympathy—and advice. You are old— you know the world—-you can advise me.” “My dear Miss Ixnvc, since it was your father’s desire that you should live with this cousin,” he advised, after she had completed her long story, “surely you should abide by that wish. Illinois is not so different from Oregon; you will be happy here. Don't worry about finding your guardian at the Junction, for I'll sec that you arc safely on the train with him, bound for---” The university town, Morgan,” she supplied. “He is president of the college; his name is Grcvatt.” Something seemed to snap inside Lawrence’s head. Do you think that can be he?” she asked al- most hysterically, after an exhaustive search of the station. Lawrence looked out. to see Mr. Grevatt pacing excitedly back and forth on the Junction platform, after an interview with the conductor of the ex- press. Quick action was necessary. “That man! That one rushing madly back and forth on the platform? See, he is talking to every one, poor fellow! He is a—maniac—oh, no, not violently insane,” he plunged on desperately, “he is quite harmless. He used to be a—book agent— and was hurt in a train accident years ago. He suffers under the queer delusion that—his wife is coming to meet him—she died of the shock, I be- lieve.” Hut his companion was not listening to the yarn. “Come,” he urged, “we arc wasting time. If you will wait here, I will see if the train from Chi- cago. for he must have come in from the city, has not been delayed.” “He did not come on it !” she cried upon his re- turn. “Oh, do you suppose he didn’t receive my letter? I was to have come last night, you know,, but I wrote and changed the time.” So it would seem,” he accepted evenly, while he breathed a prayer of thanks for the knowledge. Now, my dear, I must take the city train that is going out. and I can’t leave you here alone. It is evident that Mr. Grevatt did not receive your let- ter. and now the Morgan train has gone. I must ask you to come to my home, and I will have my— wife—take you up to Morgan by motor this after- noon. Come!” “How can I ever repay you!” she murmured, as they boarded the Chicago train. “Lawrence—Hamilton!” “Oh, mother!” Where—what—when—oh, Lawrence!” His mother drew him into her room. “I’ll leave it all to you, mother,” he at last con- cluded, “you must make her forgive me. Go down to her—I left her alone in the reception room. Oh. I wouldn’t go through this again for all the plays ever written!” “You poor boy!” His mother turned so that he could not see her smiling. “I’ll take your charge up to Mr. Grevatt as soon as she is rested, for he must be worried to death. Change your clothes now. Lawrence, and hurry down to Mar- liave’s; you’ll miss your train. You can leave the rest to mother.” “The author! The judge!” demanded the audi- ence. “Where on earth is he—where’s Hamilton?” I can’t ever face her, Leo!” the author-actor was saying to his chum down in the dressing-room, as he removed his costume. “Oh, those eyes! Leo, I felt them on me all through the play—it was like a nightmare! And Mr. Grevatt! Do you suppose I’ll lose my diploma for the trip?' Rut what can she think! Oh, what a fool I made of myself!” “Lawrence!” “It’s Mr. Grevatt,” whispered Andrus. “Let him in.” I don’t know what my mother has told you,” Lawrence said abruptly, as the president entered. I've earned a censure, and I’m willing to take the consequences.” Your mother has told me the whole story.”' The older man grasped his hand. “Let's forgive SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 235 and forget, my boy!” lie said heartily. ‘‘Your work to-night was remarkable! I congratulate you!” There was a slight pause, and Lawrence pressed the president's hand firmly. “Mr. Grevatt,” lie said humbly, “some time I can thank you. But now. where is Miss Lowe? May I see her? Marie is outside the hall. She wanted to go home, 1 believe, but I must see some of the alumni, and if you like----” Lawrence had taken the hint. Leo! She actually forgave me!” he cried, as he shook the arm of his slumbering chum some two hours later. Let me alone! Who?” gasped Andrus, in the same breath. Why, Marie! Isn’t she a dream? What do you think----?” Think?” Andrus opened his eyes for a short moment. Think that you’d better get out next week and look for more—er—remunerative—work than writing plays and—impersonating—judges !” tlalbot (To. 3-. IE. Slater, %, '09 HE gentlemen will please come to order.” This curt command, with a sharp rap of a gavel to accompany it, effectually silenced the whispering about the board room of the alder- men of Somerton. “This meeting has been called to consider the application for a permit to be given to Sharplcigh Co., packers, to build a slaughter house within the limits of this city. Motions are now in order.” Following this announcement, several gentlemen of the board spoke in favor of granting the said permit. Finally, after a particularly brilliant speech, a gentleman heretofore unheard rose slowly to his feet. His very presence commanded respect. He was tall and straight, with iron-gray hair and mustache, beautiful gray eyes, a nose slightly hooked, suggesting the fighter in the man, and a mouth and chin decidedly firm. He spoke clearly and distinctly, and the hall was silent with his first words. His argument was forceful and strong, with none of the oratorical effects of the former speaker. Slowly, but steadily, he piled fact upon fact against the granting of such a per- mit. He showed the results of such permits in other cities, lie showed the curses of the slaughter house, he demonstrated strongly its many evils. His knowledge of his subject was very thorough, and his arguments were indisputable. There was a deathly silence after this speech, broken finally by the voice of the president of the board. He ordered that the first ballot be taken. This was done, and the permit was granted by a vote of twenty to eight. Ah, money always ac- complishes its purpose, and it did here. Sharp- leigh was too old a hand in the game not to have had his agents at work among the members. Only Mr. Talbot, who had spoken against it. and a few of his adherents voted Xo. After the meeting he walked quietly from the room and out of the city hall. As he was making his way home, he was overtaken by Sharplcigh. who said, as lie passed: You will rue the day that you spoke against me, Talbot. I will ruin him who stands in my way.” I care nothing for you nor your threats, Sharp- lcigh,” said Talbot quietly, and continued on his way. It was twenty years later, and the slaughter house of Sharplcigh 8c Co. was in flourishing con- dition. but Talbot Co., what of it? It had passed out of existence, and Talbot—why, who is that bent-over, gray-haired man on that vegetable cart going through Somerton square? Why, it is—yes, it is Talbot himself, but how changed! His form, once so straight, is now bent; his head, once carried so high, is bowed with grief and sor- row. Even now. as we sec him, lie is soliloquiz- ing:— Twenty years,—twenty years. Ah! how much 236 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR can happen in that short time! Wife, home, busi- ness gone, gone,—my only son far away from his father. Why did he run away? He had a home, a loving father and mother, and all they could give him. Well, I must stop thinking this way, but a righteous God will take vengeance on Sharpleigh, or I—I—” He stopped, sighed deeply, and spoke to his horse. He must think of his business, even if it was only to drive a vegetable cart. It earned a meagre living, and that was enough for one who had lost all hope and ambition. In quite another part of the city, within a beau- tifully-furnished office, two men were speaking gravely together. It was the office of Sawyer Cummings, packers, who had several years before built a slaughter house near that of Sharpleigh Co., and ever since had constantly gained business, to the great annoyance of Mr. Sharpleigh. “How shall we deal with Sharpleigh, John?” asked the older man. I have always left the financial work in your hands, but this, I confess, worries me. There is no doubt that he is trying to run us out of business, and if he docs we will not be the first he has ruined.” lie cannot do a thing as far as the firm of Sawyer Cummings is concerned, for we have fifty-five per cent, of the stock.” said Cummings. Let him try to bulldoze us, if he wishes; it will make no difference to me. I can handle him.” Cummings' teeth at the moment were shut very tight, and his aggressive chin boded ill for him to whom he referred. At that moment there was a knock, and a clerk entered. Mr. Sharpleigh to sec you, sir.” “All right, show him in,” said Cummings. “Leave him to me, Jim,” he said to Sawyer. I am afraid you might lose your temper, and that might make trouble for us all.” “Very well, I'll go into my office, but if you need any help press the button and I’ll be here at once. I’d like to lay my hands on him, just once,” and Sawyer left the office. Mr. Sharpleigh, sir,” said the clerk, and the great man entered. Cummings nodded curtly, and asked Sharpleigh the reason for the honor of this visit. Sharpleigh said nothing for a moment, but gazed keenly at the young man, who, although but thirty-five years of age. was known as one of the smartest financiers in the city. Then he spoke: “I have come, Mr. Cummings, to advise you to cither sell out or go out of busi- ness.” Cummings nodded, and said: “ And therefore I, of course, will give up the business which I have worked ten years to build up, or sell out to your honorable self. That is logic, that is common sense, is it not, Mr. Sharpleigh?” Sharpleigh reddened with anger. “Young man, I have heard other people speak to me in that tone before, and they always regretted it,” he snapped. “Then I am afraid am different from most peo- ple. for 1 am sure that I will not regret it,” said Cummings, smiling. I will buy you out for one hundred thousand dollars, or inside of five years I will ruin you!” cried Sharpleigh angrily. I suppose that one hundred thousand will come out of the fortunes of men you have formerly ruined,” Cummings said, still smiling, but now the smile was a little grim. There was a glint in the steel-gray eyes, and the lips were shut firmly to- gether. It is no use, Sharpleigh,” he added. “I know you and your means, but they do not frighten me one bit. Good day.” You will be sorry for this, Mr. John Cum- mings.” said Sharpleigh, his voice trembling slightly in his rage. I will fix yon as I did Talbot,, and it won’t take long, either.” 'I hen he was gone. At the name Talbot, coupled with ruin, Cum- mings’ face went white, his hands gripped the arms of his chair until the nails were purple, and the lines about his mouth tightened quickly, as if in pain. Then the feeling passed apparently, and he went into Sawyer’s office. About two weeks later a friend of Cummings- took him aside at the club, and told him that Sharpleigh was buying up shares of stock of Saw- yer Cummings, Incorporated. Cummings laughed and thanked his friend for the news, and then dropped the subject. Later he said to his partner: Jim, we have got old Sharpleigh about where we want him. We will let him buy about two hundred thousand dollars' worth of our stock, which will be about forty per cent., and then de- clare the dividends off. I guess that will teach him a lesson when he has that amount doing him no good.” Again we are in Cummings’ office, and in there are Cummings, Sawyer, and—why, it is old man Talbot. Cummings was talking. Yes. Mr. Talbot, we will capitalize it for five hundred thousand dollars, and you shall be its head. Hut under no conditions shall you tell the- backers of the firm.” The old man's face was transfixed with joy and’. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 237 surprise. “I cannot thank you, sir,” he said, “but I will do my best. Thus it was arranged, and a few days later the building of Talbot Co. was under construction. It was a magnificent structure, and contained all the latest means for cattle slaughtering. The firm was widely advertised, and much interest was aroused, especially as Talbot was its head. Sharp- leigh laughed at first, but when he looked the building over and saw its wonderful facilities, he began secretly to plan how again he might ruin the man whom lu had never forgiven. 'Fhe building was finished and business was started. It increased rapidly, with the help—secret, of course—of Sawyer Cummings. Then at last Sharpleigh began to buy up stock. His plan was this: He would buy up the majority of the stock, so that he could control all the votes, then he could displace Talbot and force him to sell out. Gradu- ally lie bought at first, but as the stock rose above par. he bought more rapidly, until at last he held in his possession stock amounting to some millions of dollars. Then he was ready. It had taken him five years to get it all, and it had been six years since the firm of Talbot Co. came into existence. Then came the meeting of the directors to elect the officers. Immediately Sharpleigh voted Talbot out of the presidency, but at that moment the treasurer arose. Gravely he began to speak, and before lie finished Sharpleigh's face went white. The treasurer stated that the firm of Talbot Co. owed Sawyer Cummings a sum amounting to six hundred thousand dollars, and. what is more, that money was due at once. It was very unfortunate, but unless that money could be raised among the directors immediately, the firm would be forced into bankruptcy or assignment. Sharpleigh was thunderstruck. He had never dreamed that affairs were in such a state. But. to make it worse, the firm of Sawy er Cummings had declared divi- dends off the day before, and thus he was shut off from almost all sources of revenue. The directors were terrified, the room in an uproar. Finally Talbot was asked to see Cummings and ask for a renewal of thirty days. Sharpleigh said that if Talbot failed in his mission he would go himself. Talbot went, and for the second time sat in the spacious office. “Sir, that money which is due you at nine a. in. to-morrow is not at hand, and I came to ask for a renewal of thirty days. I feel confident of paying in that time.” Cummings replied: ‘T knew that it would be im- possible. and, what is more. I—I—er—oh, Mr. Talbot, don’t you know who I am?” Talbot turned in surprise, and said: “Why, yes, Mr. Cummings------” Don’t call me that, look at me again,” inter- rupted Cummings. Talbot looked at him fixedly a moment, and Cummings framed the one word with his lips, f-a-t-h-e-r.” Wonder, surprise, joy, doubt, unbelief, all showed in the face of the old man. You, my son whom I lost and have found again?” “Father, father, call me ‘son’ for the sake of my mother, your wile. Don't you remember her last words. ‘Take cate of John, William, for my sake and for yours’?” Tears sprang to the old man's eyes, and, no longer doubting, he clasped his son in his arms, only murmuring: My son, my son, at last, after all these years, you have come back.” After the first moments of his joy, he asked: John, why didn't you come to me before? Why have you kept away so long?” Listen, father. Ever since I was a bov and re- membered your failure and that man who caused it. 1 have sworn to have a revenge. I have planned, plotted, and now I have him, and---” ‘‘Mr. Sharpleigh to sec you, sir, was the inter- ruption. Show him in.” Cummings' jaw seemed more aggressive than ever as he heard the name of his enemy, but his face remained composed. You look as if you had succeeded. Mr. Talbot. Sit down.” was the stern command of Mr. Cum- mings. Now, Mr. Sharpleigh, I have a little tale to tell you, and don't interrupt me while I am speaking. About twenty-eight years ago you ruined William Talbot, deliberatelv ruined him be- cause lie crossed your path. His son ran away soon after, and nothing was ever heard from him. I happen to know what became of him. He went to Chicago, and then got work in the slaughter houses. He worked up, step by step, through all the stages of the work. At last he became one of the managers, and it was then he was invited into a firm which had established a slaughter house in this city. I Ic accepted, and now, now. Mr. Michael Sharpleigh. the firm of Sawyer Cummings, or. rather, Sawyer Talbot, has you at its mercy. You grow pale. Well, you may well do so, for I am John Talbot, the son of the man you ruined, and now I am revenged for my father’s sake. es,”—his voice, shrill with anger, cut through Sharpleigh like a knife as he sat there, dumb with surprise and terror, before his judge.—“ves. after all these years I have you. I will make you fall to- 238 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR morrow, and you will fall so that you can never, never rise again. My work is done, and. my father, you are revenged. I formed and capitalized the firm of Talbot Co. to entice him into it, cause it to fail, and thus ruin him. I made you the head of the firm to be a bait to him, and the head of it you shall be when he is ruined. Now, get out, you cur, and if I ever see you here again I will help you out.” Sharpleigh slunk out of the office and blindly went his way. He was stunned with the mis- fortune of it all. He knew he would fail, he knew he was beaten. And he was. The next day, when Talbot Co. failed, it was swiftly followed by the announcement that Sharpleigh Co. had failed. For Sharp- leigh 's money, mostly invested in Talbot Co., was lost, and this caused him to fail, too. Thus Cummings, or rather Talbot, won back his father’s fortune and revenged himself on his enemy. Hlvarcs Cecil ID. 36arlo v, JE., ’10 ROM the moment of his entering the school we took a strong dislike to Alvarez Casccrcs, called in his own country Viscount de Sadiz. To tell the truth, we had heard of his coming, and were prepared to dislike him in advance, which was, of course, hardly fair. It was not his title that antagonized us, although we did look with suspicion on any one who was entitled to more than Mr.” before his name. That is. we were suspicious of titles before Dicky” came. Dicky’s full name was Richard Ilolworthy Chatterton, and amid the pleasant Kentish hop fields, where Dicky’s home was, lie was entitled to much respect, and would some day be called “my lord. As I have said, we were suspicious of him; but only for a short time. After we had shown Dicky tlie difference between a baseball bat and the home plate and taught him to say “I guess” in- stead of I expect.” and “store” instead of shop.” we discovered that lie was human, and treated him accordingly. Hut Alvarez,—lie was different; he was of a different race, and lie didn’t seem to want to be received into our midst at all. Alvarez was tall and quite thin. He was very dark of complexion, and. in spite of our predic- tions. he was not at all “stuck up.” In fact. Al- varez was quite an ordinary boy. He gave offence to no one. and was certainly a gentleman; yet he made very few friends, and Dicky was the only one who took much of an interest in him. Indeed, Dicky really neglected us to spend his time with Alvarez, which annoyed us considerably. All the boys wondered how Dicky and Alvarez spent their time, until, by comparing notes be- tween fellows who had interrupted them at differ- ent times, it came out that they took turns in telling stories about their native countries. Of course, being boys, we were blind, and it never oc- curred to us that they were both homesick, and that this meeting with a kindred spirit helped to make life bearable for them. As we did not understand in the least, we were perhaps some- what unkind, and used to ask each other: “Whose turn is it to-night?” or “Spain's turn to talk to- night?” when they were within hearing distance. ()nc day Alvarez left suddenly, and we received Dicky back into favor. Time sped on, and we graduated and separated, as school friends are bound to do. Of course, in the general separation, I lost track of Dickv, and did not hear of him again for a long while. You may think I am paying too much attention to Dicky and his doings, but I )icky has an important part to play in this story. It was about twelve years after 1 had left school, and I was in London transacting some business for a New York firm, of which my father was manager. I knew no one in London, and as the English arc not the people to allow their business relations to extend into their private life, I was very lonely. It was a pleasant evening toward the close of the season, and I walked up Piccadilly, looking for some amusement. Hansom cabs flashed by with their burden of ladies and gentlemen on their way SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 239 to the theatre. I turned into Oxford street, and a cab approached me. All I could sec was a large expanse of white shirt front and the intermittent glow f a cigar above it, so I knew that it was a gentleman, and in evening dress. “What! You here ’ shouted a voice, mentioning my name. In an instant 1 was standing there in the middle of the street, shaking hands with Dicky. Well, what luck! he shouted. I just met one of our fellows. Howarth, remember Howarth? Of course you do. He’s waiting for me in the ante-room of the Savoy now, so you must come along, too, and we’ll have a regular alumni party. I protested that I was not in evening dress, and would be. thrown out of the hotel. Dicky would hear no excuses, however, and bundled me into the waiting cab. and away we went. About fifteen minutes later we were seated in a secluded corner of the cafe of the Savoy. Howarth had not changed much, and he recognized me instantly. I was reallv happy. I should have enjoyed Dicky’s company even if sur- rounded by acquaintances; but to be with him when I was practically alone meant the highest en- joyment. We were discussing the coincidence of Dicky’s meeting two of us the same day when I asked if either of them had seen any others from the old school. Dicky at once grew grave, and set down his glass. Boys.” he said. I want to tell you a story: afterwards I am going to lick you, and you’ll want to be licked if you listen.” As he told the story, the lights and music, the gay uniforms and beautifully-gowned women faded away, and I heard only Dicky's voice. After 1 left school I got a commission in a regi- ment. and served a year in India. The governor thought I ought to get some diplomatic service, so he had me sent to Arcua, one of those little ‘no- account’ island republics off the South American coast, as aide to the consul. It is an awfully pretty place; an island about five miles long, coral forma- tion. you know. At one end there is a sort of rocky ledge, on which the government buildings, fortress, and cathedral stand. Well, the second night 1 was there they had a military ball at the President’s palace, and of course I went. To tell the truth. I expected to be the lion of the evening, but '1:011 my word, the ballroom was chock full of Spanish nobility, older than mine, too. I soon got tired of dancing, however, and went to the gallery, where I could smoke and watch the crowd. The gallery was unoccupied except for a small, dark man, whose black cassock and leather gaiters pro- claimed him some church dignitary. He passed me his cigarette case with a bow; I thanked him, and we fell into conversation. I talked very little Spanish, but he spoke excellent French, so we got along together all right. Suddenly I saw a man amid the throng that I thought looked familiar, and yet I could not place him. He was very tall, and wore the uniform of an officer of the Presi- dent's guard. I turned to my companion and asked him the name of the man. L thought a faint sneer crossed his face as he answered: ()h, that is Alvarez Casceres, son of the President, you know.’ Then it all came back to me, the old times at school, and all that, and I longed to go down and shake his hand then and there. At the end of that dance I took leave of my acquaintance and tried to find Alvarez, but 1 couldn’t. I saw him once again making his way toward the con- servatory. iiis cheeks flushed with pleasure, but L lost him again. I intended to look him up on the next day. however. The night was so fine that I dismissed my car- riage and resolved to walk home. The embassy where 1 was to stay was on the citadel, and I lin- gered as I climbed the steep stone steps. The palm trees were silhouetted black against the bright moonlight, and I could hear the sea wash gently against the sands a hundred feet below; the air. filled with the heavy scent of the tropics, was undisturbed by any sound louder than the gentle swish of the tices and water. Suddenly I heard shots on the citadel, and I hurried my pace. Oir the hill was a small, compact body of men who- were making a fair stand against a mob that had evidently scaled the heights from the land side. 1 hesitated, as I was armed only with a dress sword; besides, the quarrel was no.t mine, and I had no business to interfere. I knew these people had revolutions every month or so without much damage, so I stood there in the shadow of the cathedral listening. Then 1 heard a rush of many feet, and about two hundred soldiers ran past me, towards the scene of action. They were landing government troops from the warships, and I knew it would go hard with the revolutionists, as they were hemmed in on both sides by soldiers. I tell you I’m a soldier and I’ve seen such things before, but I never saw such deliberate massacre. As revolutionists ran toward me it seemed as if they were making for the cathedral, but they were closely pursued, so that many fell near the door. A man fell at my feet with a groan. I stooped and saw that he was merely a boy. I raised him with the intention of dragging him into the church, when a bullet struck me in the knee joint. The pain was intense, and I fell, unable to move, al- 240 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR though the government troops were charging, and in the dark they could not be expected to dis- tinguish between me and the rebels. I had a small chance for life, and I knew it. Just then a tall man in uniform stooped to lift me up, when a rebel, tak- ing me for a rebel, too. and thinking the tall officer was about to throw me over the ledge into the sea, turned and stabbed the officer. The officer groaned a little, but kept his hold on me. He staggered with me into the cathedral, where there were other wounded: then, exhausted, he sank down beside me, his head across my chest. I was half fainting from loss of blood and pain, and lav there, not knowing what to do. Outside the shots grew fainter and fainter, and gradually ceased. “When a little of my scattered senses came back to me I realized that I was uncomfortable, and that something warm was dripping on to me and soaking my clothes. I put my hand to my chest and touched the soft skin of a man’s face. I re- membered then, and moved my hand to lift the man off me; as I did so I felt something warm and sticky on my fingers: I shuddered. I succeeded in getting the man off me and arose. I looked at the man. It was Alvarez! lie was not dead, and he opened his eyes. ‘You treated me white, Dicky,’ he murmured. His eyelids fluttered. ‘Get me a priest. Dicky; I think I am going to-----------’ Here the voice ceased, and his body stiffened in my arms. I knelt there by him all night with no light except the sanctuary lamps on the altars. At last dawn came, and the early sun rose and shone through the stained-glass windows, and threw great splotches of light—purple, green, and gold— on the white marble floor of the chancel; then I got up and staggered out into the early morning, to go and tell his father, feeling as if there was nothing more to live for.” As Dicky finished speaking, the vision of the scene he was describing faded away, and the bril- liant after-theatre throng came back; but we had little eyes for it. Without speaking, yet with one accord, we arose from our seats and left. Dicky dropped us at our hotels, and, with an invita- tion to sec him on the following day, said good- night. It was very late, so I went to bed at once, but only to toss around in sleepless remorse until I heard busy London stir herself for another day’s work. jfowler’s ITnvestment By? Herbert jf. Cooper, IE., ’10 j OWLER sank into a chair and buried ._A P his face in his hands. At last the blow had fallen. He perused the legal letter once more. There was no mistake. In one month he would be a pauper and his wife and child would be in the street. George Fowler was a clerk in the office of a grain merchant in the Boston Chamber of Com- merce. His father was thought to be well-to-do, but when he died he left to his son only the legacy of a multitude of debts, which George by faithful labor for several years had canceled, with the ex- ception of a mortgage of $5,000 on the house in which he now lived. Two years ago sickness had come to his family, making it impossible for him to keep the interest on the mortgage paid, and now he had just received a notice from a lawyer stating that the mortgage would be foreclosed in thirty days. That afternoon, as Fowler boarded the car at the corner of State and Washington streets, a run- away came dashing down Court street. The car was directly in the path of the runaway, and was hemmed in by the traffic. Warned by the shout- ing crowd, the passengers hurried off the car. But one old gentleman was slower than the others. Fowler saw the danger he was in, and instantly sprang to the car, dragged him from it, and placed him safely on the sidewalk just as the maddened horse crashed into the car, smashing seats, and half demolishing it. Fowler started up Court street to the subway, when some one grasped his arm, and, turning, he SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 241 saw the old gentleman. “Don't try to run off like that,” he said, while his voice trembled with ex- citement and emotion. ‘T must not let my res- cuer get away without even seeing him.” The two men entered the subway together, and when they parted at Dudley street they had be- come well acquainted. Fowler learned that the old gentleman was a State-street broker, Mr. Wil- liams by name, and Mr. Williams had gleaned from Fowler something of the straits lie was in. “I wonder if 1 can't help him some way. mused the broker, as they parted. Anyway, I will look into his case. The next afternoon Fowler called at Mr. Wil- liams’ office, as he had reluctantly promised to do. In time the conversation drifted to the subject of Fowler’s trouble. “ I have given the matter care- ful thought, and I think I have the solution of your difficulty. “Oh, if you only have!” cried Fowler. My plan is this,” continued Mr. Williams. “I think Tom Lawson is going to boom Bay State Gas in a very short time, and 1 propose that you buy a number of shares now while it is low, and when the stock rises, which I feel sure it will do in a short time, you can sell out. Then all you will have to do will be to pay off the mortgage.” “A very good idea, Mr. Williams, replied Fowler bitterly, “but where am I to get the neces- sary ready money to buy Bay State Gas?” That point is easily settled,” was the cheerful reply. I will advance you the money, and when the stock rises you can pay me back. Think it over, and give me an answer in the morning.” The more Fowler thought of the plan, the better it seemed. For $(500 I can buy about . ,000 shares, for I will buy on margin. Then when the stock rises I can pay Mr. Williams and the mort- gage. and still have something left. That is a chance that I can’t afford to let pass,” so in the morning he telephoned his decision to Mr. Wil- liams. “I am glad to hear that.” came back the cheer- ful reply of the broker. “I know you have a good thing.” A week passed, and Bay State seemed dead as before, and then, to Fowler’s dismay, it dropped four points. This caused the payment of more margin. But Mr. Williams was not disturbed. It will rise very soon now.” he said. “Yes, it might,” replied Fowler, “but remember, I have only until the first of August.” Three days later Bay State Gas rose to its origi- nal figure. Fowler's spirits rose accordingly. Perhaps Williams was right,” he thought, but I am afraid it is too late. During the next two weeks Bay State made the phenomenal leap of fifty-two points. Williams then strongly advised Fowler to sell. “Sell! ejaculated Fowler, well, hardly; after Bay State has risen so, do you think for a moment it will drop so suddenly? It will not drop yet, perhaps, but, mark my words, when it does start no one will buy, so you will find it on your hands at the same price you bought it.” I'll risk keeping it a few days, anyway. replied Fowler. “Now wouldn’t I be a fool to sell when I will have a fortune if I keep it a little longer; I still have a week's grace.” The next week Bay State Gas continued to rise, and Thursday it reached 105. Mr. Williams was beginning to feel anxious. He telephoned to howler, begging him to sell, but Fowler refused. The broker decided to take matters into his own hands. “I will sell his stock with or without an order, for the crash will come in two or three days now. When it does come he will be safe, but I’ll warrant he will get such a fright that he won't go speculating on his own hook.” howler called that afternoon. Do you sec what a fool I would have been if I had sold my Bay State? he said. To-day it closed at 109, and to-morrow it will go higher.” Fowler was right: it did go higher. When Wil- liams offered his for sale it was bought at once, and the crowd clamored for more. Thursday the crash came. The market opened strong, but there was little trading. Then Bay State dropped a point, then another, then three points, and then came the downpour. Bedlam seemed let loose. Everybody was shouting at once. Buy Bay State! “One thousand Bay State at a hundred and ten!—at 10G!—at 100!” And so it fell. Everybody trying to sell and no- body willing to buy. Fowler heard of what was taking place, and feverishly telephoned to Mr. Williams: “Sell that Bay State for what you can get! Sell it at eighty, seventy-five, anything!” Very doubtful if I can get anything,” came back slowly the answer from the broker. “No- body wants Bay State now.” But I must sell!” shouted Fowler. (Continued on page 248.) 242 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR H jfcw Ittcas about School papers HAT is the use of a school paper? I )oes it supply anuisement or in- struction? Does it provide suffi- cient recompense to justify its exist- ence? If so. what are its prospects of continuance, its opportunities for enlarging its sphere of action? These arc a few of the questions which it may be advisable to at- tempt to answer; first, in regard to school organs in general, then in the case of our own little paper, the Radiator. There arc in the neighborhood of 15,000,000 public school children in the United States. Their education is the greatest task that the public is forced to attend to. 'I'he other expenditures are insignificant compared with the money laid out every year in the instruction of one-sixth of the total population of the country. 'I'he labor of pro- viding buildings, suitable materials, proper instruc- tors. and means of amusement in the shape of gymnasiums and playgrounds furnishes problems second to few others in complexity, and to none in importance. One would naturally suppose that an undertak- ing so stupendous would have countless periodi- cals dealing with it exclusively, numbers of official bulletins designing to show parents the conditions, and inviting them to express their own sentiments; but one looks in vain for any such publications. There are plenty of magazines that deal with lit- erature and art. and hence call themselves valuable organs of instruction, and a few that investigate college affairs; but there arc none which aim to place the outside public in touch with school life and spirit, with the real atmosphere of the class- room. with the latest methods of instruction, and with the individual teachers and scholars. '1'herc are none which officially distribute school informa- tion, which carry the news from teachers to parents, from teachers to students, and from pupil to pupil. And yet instructors complain year after year of the ignorance of parents, and of their un- willingness to co-operate, and parents accuse the teachers of obstinacy and prejudice. riius there seems urgent need of some organ which will enter this field, which has been so in- excusably neglected. What will the instrument be which will assume so important a duty? Can it be a private periodical? It seems impossible.. At the most, an ordinary magazine could only cover the subject in a general way. To get deep down from the surface it would have to station a reporter in every school or even classroom, a thing which would send the most prosperous journal to- bankruptcy in short order. Can it be a daily newspaper? It would experience the same diffi- culty as the magazine. Since neither magazine nor newspaper can properly perform this function, there remains only the school papers. These have all the advantages- which the former classes have not; they have un- rivaled opportunity for reporting not only the- main events, but also all the little details which show clearer than anything else the true essence of school life. If the system of exchanges be more widely developed, there will be a chance for one school to communicate with another on all matters of general interest; the difficulties and problems of each may be commonly reflected upon for their mutual benefit: all can quickly become acquainted with new experiments, and act in their own school in accordance with their success or failure. Having tried to show that there is a great field for some periodical as an educational medium, and that the system of school papers is the proper in- strument in such a line, the question naturally rises as to why the school papers have been so slow in grasping their opportunities. Why have they not proven their effectiveness before now? The best way to discover this indisputable fact is to ex- amine the condition of the Radiator, which will serve as a sample of the rest. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 243 The chief obstacles to the growth of the Radiator appear to be three in number,—its financial basis; the attitude of pupils in regard to it; and the standing taken by teachers concern- ing it. First, as to money matters. According to the treasurer’s report for last year, which was a fairly successful period, the bills from the pi inters and the engraving company amounted to a sum of about $720. The other expenses were so slight that they can be left out of consideration. The proceeds from yearly and June subscriptions and from cash sales were $560. This leaves thus far an excess of $160 of expenditure over income. Hence it is left to the business manager to hustle round and obtain enough “ads” to balance this enormous deficit. This is all right,” some may say. This is the way with all newspapers and magazines; they depend on their advertising •department for their profit. And they struggle to increase their circulation only in order to further the efficiency of their advertisements, and there- fore the number of profitable ‘ads.’ ” Here is just the root of the question. Has the Radiator the same chance for advertising? Would increasing its circulation multiply correspondingly its adver- tising capabilities? The chances are that it would not. With the exception of one or two picture firms and a business college now and then, there are practically none who expect to derive any ad- vantage or return from their investments. Nearly all give merely because of a desire to help the paper along. Naturally the number of these be- nevolent friends is rather limited: there are a few who give year in and year out. but by far the ma- jority are the friends and relations of the business and editorial staffs. These persons would give, anyway, be the circulation large or small, and there seems no ground for supposing that doub- ling the circulation would double the number of business patrons. So. the more the paper increases, the less im- portant comparatively advertising grows, and the more necessary a large revenue from subscrip- tions. It becomes, therefore, a vital question as to whether the present poor return from subscrip- tions is because the price is too low. or simply on account of lack of subscribers. It costs eight cents to publish an ordinary copy, and fifteen cents the June number. Consequently it costs seventy- nine cents to supply the yearly subscriber with his nine copies. This is a very slight loss—four cents. A fair percentage is made on June subscriptions. but they average in number only a third of yearly subscriptions. Hence it is proper to estimate all subscriptions, both yearly and monthly, as cover- ing the cost of production. Now let us look for a moment at cash sales. Two cents is, as you see. made on every com- mon sale, and ten on that of each June number. Rut cash sales arc always very uncertain. Last year the receipts from them came to hardly more than a fourth of that from subscriptions. Then there is no telling how great the loss may be. Every copy left over is a total loss, and thus can- cels the gain on every four that are purchased. Cash sales (in the school, at least), as well as ad- vertisements. cannot play a chief part in the finan- cial expansion of the paper. And so. as the subscription end of the finances alone rests on a sound basis, it is necessary to ob- tain an abundance of subscribers. This leads 11s to the second main cause of the present unsuccess —the attitude of the scholars. Even if the subscription end were conducted on a theoretically unsound foundation, there need be little fear at present that the Radiator is on the quick road to ruin on account of being overrun with patrons. I11 fact, the reverse is the case, and it looks as though the paper might die a natural death from want of interest. Out of 1.700 pupils in the two schools, there are hardly 400 sub- scribers. What is the use of the business man- ager spending most of his days tramping around soliciting ads.” the editor-in-chief most of his nights cudgeling his brains for editorials, and all the rest of the staff having their own respective difficulties, when three-fourths of the entire stu- dent body are entirely indifferent? Nay. more— when they are only too ready to knock those in charge and to criticise their work. If the pupils believe that the paper is not worth the money, let them subscribe, and it will soon be possible to use the money received from advertising in enlarging and improving the issues. Rut. unfortunate as is the sentiment of scholars in respect to the paper, the position of most of the teachers is no less regrettable. They seem to regard it as simply a little incidental—a kind of outlet for their pupils’ superfluous energy. As things stand, they (with the exception of the few who come into immediate contact with it as fac- ulty supervisors) arc rather apathetic toward it. Ry affirming this, it is not meant to insinuate that they are in any way hostile to it, or, for the most 244 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR part, neglectful of it. They do not have a per- sonal concern in its contents; they do not in any way consider it an institution which belongs to themselves, as well as to the scholars. They never think of it as aii essential part of school life, and, as such, one which should deal with the inter- ests of both scholars and instructors, and all phases of local education. There is one other point besides their apathy which it may do no harm to speak of here. This is their conserva- tism. It is, perhaps, natural for pupils unjustly to think their masters too stationary. Rut, with all effort at fairness, it does seem as though the paper was kept in too narrow a boundary. While the teachers without doubt declare and intend .that the scholars shall exercise their own genius and origi- nality in its management, there is, nevertheless, an atmosphere which is apt to stifle anything out of the ordinary. A prominent inhabitant of Somer- ville. and one well versed in newspaper manage- ment. has said that it is “too much of a teachers’ paper. We do not think this hasty saying cpiitc fair. In this matter of conservatism alone is the supervision too rigorous; in all other respects it is a personal indifference that must be feared on the part of instructors rather than too active par- ticipation. The three causes outlined above arc without doubt the chief of those which hinder the progress of the Radiator. They have this effect because they tend to produce narrowness. It is impossible for any publication to grow, or inspire interest, or inculcate knowledge, or do any practical good whatever which depends for almost its entire lit- erary material on English compositions that would be written if it never existed, and on class notes. 'Hie latter are excellent so far as they go. They must furnish the life of any school paper. But they have become confined to a certain hackneyed form. They are the same old thing over and over. This, however, is not by any means the fault of the class editors. The students refuse to help. They not only leave it wholly with the editors to compose the notes, but they have grown to de- mand nothing except the witty kind. There is not, of course, a whole chapter of humorous epi- sodes made to order in every recitation, so the editors arc obliged to make laborious efforts to be funny by manufacturing imaginary incidents and bv working trite and worn-out subjects and ex- pressions to the limit. Let there be more class notes, but let them more correctly portray class- room spirit. Let there be some one from each division who will chronicle all the interesting hap- penings and remarks. There arc plenty of them that deserve notice, even if they do not cause their readers to go into convulsions. Rut, important and necessary as are the class notes, they should not be considered the whole show. There should be stories, the same as now, and plenty of exchange and alumni notes. Rut, above all. the paper must become of more prac- tical use. Let the teachers regard it as their own organ, as well as that of the scholars. If they would occasionally write an article themselves, it would place it on a much more dignified footing. If all important school notices, such, for example, as the time and place of college examinations, in- stead of being inscribed upon a piece of paper which is hung up on some obscure bulletin board,, were printed in the Radiator, it would boom the paper considerably. Let the instructors give their advice to students in regard to choosing a college or vocation through the Radiator. It would be a great advantage if even the various courses of study of the schools themselves be thus set forth. Certainly there is, in the English School, at least, such a variety of courses that the average pupil never learns what he can or cannot take until it: is too late. Even in the Latin School there have been those who, by taking the wrong study, im- posed conditions upon themselves which they were- forced to make up at college. Let prominent alumni, who have gained a reputation after leaving school, be asked to write an article on their own special line of achievement. Let all strong rec- ommendations of teachers and students in respect to additional space, lighting, heating, playgrounds, etc., reach the tax-payers, and incidentally the- school committee and board of aldermen, through the Radiator. Let the new plan of.the editor-in- chief for a “Letter Rox Department be extent sively employed. Let the paper be the court of last appeal and information bureau on athletic contests and school statistics. To repeat it all in a few words, let it be the bridge over the chasm between the school and the general public, and the organ in which all educational matters not con- sidered in the common recitation room arc re- ported and discussed. Our paper must broaden if it is to grow. It must grow, or it will perish. There is no such thing as standing still. It must not wait too long. 'Hie coming year is a favorable time for new enter- prises. There is a new staff taking up the work,, one which has every opportunity for trying inno- SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 245 vations. Let it launch out, and if both teachers and scholars strenuously co-operate, it will be suc- cessful, serve as an inspiration to its contempo- raries, and so play a leading part in the developing of that great field which is sure to be opened up in the future. W. Stuart Howe. ----------------------------- IReconimenfcations for Class Editors It is with the hope that others may profit by the experience of myself and my class that 1 will venture a few suggestions and recommendations to class editors and their classes. The class editor should be, above all things, one who likes his work, and is willing to do it. His class, however, should help him out. for he cannot be expected to be everywhere and observe every- thing. In this connection, however. I wish to say that I do not believe the class columns will ever be made a success unless the class editor has some official assistance. It is very well to talk of the members of the class passing in notes; it would be all right if they did; the fact is they do not. While talking with another class editor about this matter a short time ago. lie confessed to having had seven notes at the most passed to him during the year, while I could count all of mine on the fingers of one hand. Since the condition is thus, there is, of course, only one division represented. This is almost al- ways a cause of complaint, or if not that, it at least docs not cause a good column. The fact remains that the class editor has no way of getting notes from divisions other than his own. I will not attempt to explain why notes arc not passed in. but this I will say, that before I became class editor I didn't average passing in two notes a year, and now I average from one and a half to two columns of notes a month, which, worthless as they may be. are the pick of twice that number. Also, practically all the assistance I have received has been from members of the staff. This merely goes to show the difference between official con- nection and responsibility and mere friendly in- terest. Now as this seems to me an indication. I point out as the remedy for this, that an assistant editor from some other division than that of the editor be chosen in the same manner, and officially recognized in the same way as the class editor himself. If this recommendation is carried out, I feel that the average person with a sense of humor may with a little diligence creditably fill the office of class editor, provided he goes about it in the right way. And so the rest of my suggestions will be to the class editors themselves. I confess that when I was elected to the position 1 was much at loss as to how to begin. I first pur- chased a notebook, and I wish to say to all class editors that there is no more useful tool—or weapon if you wish—than a little five-cent note- book and a pencil. After this paraphernalia has been purchased, all that is needed is vigilance and a sense of humor to obtain material. I said material and not the notes themselves, for before we have a note there usually has to be some revision to make an incident sound as funny on paper as it does in the classroom. It is here that some skill is needed, and there are various ways of doing this. The most common and one of the best ways is to use the form of the common conversational joke of the newspaper. To bring out a joke in this way it is often necessary to invent one and some- times both parts of the conversation. And right here let me say, don't be afraid to invent a few jokes. Jokes are just as funny if imaginary as true, and sometimes funnier: and a class column isn't supposed to be gospel truth. But going on to illustrate this method, say. for instance, that a fellow remarked there was about twenty vears' dif- ference between Goldsmith's first and second visit to France. Xow this would sound perfectly flat as it is, but revising it a little, let us see what we have:— Teacher: “What was the difference between Goldsmith’s first and second visit to France? Boy: “Twenty years.” There are other humorous things, though, which it is impossible to bring out in this wav. Sup- pose. for instance, there is a notice on the bulletin board whose possibilities you perceive at once. It is, however, obvious that the form-of joke used milst bring out the substance of the notice in order to make it apparent. So sum up the notice and comment on it thus:— We see the high school orchestra is in need of wind instruments. What's the matter with H-----?” One of the most difficult things the class editor is called upon to do is the reporting of various af- fairs. lie. as well as other members of the staff, is continually besieged by different people to put in a report of this and that social affair. And while I do not think that the class column is the proper place for social news, I do think that the class meetings should be reported there. 246 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR At the same time, however, this news ought to be reported somewhere, and 1 do not think the proper place for it is in spare space or among the editorials. And so 1 think that in order to do away with the trouble this makes for class editors, and to have everybody satisfied, that it would be well to revive the old Public Occurrence column, which is meant, of course, only to contain public occurrences directly connected with the school. It should, however, have the addition of an editor from each school, and be managed in the same way as the Alumni column. I do not think it amiss for class editors at rare intervals to write editorials. While these should not be preaching, and are good in proportion as they are brief, i think a serious thought should underlie them. It is often well. also, to have a much-needed truth hiding behind the smiles of a joke. Ridicule is the best weapon I know of with which to re- form. One of the features which add to the class column is the grouping of names and qualifica- tions under such a heading as “Nicknames” or “Recent Publications. But there is one precau- tion to be observed in connection with these. Let the heading be original—something new. Xo class editor, no matter how witty, can now make anything sound funny under any such threadbare and worn-out heading as “Following Ambitions.” Also let your jokes be new. I mean by that, not on worn-out topics. Remarks about hosiery and neckties have been worked so long that unless such a remark is made under some new heading or in some entirely new way, it is enough to spoil a whole column. Neither do the duties of a class editor end with his column. He should be an assistant to the business manager in all matters pertaining to the class, such as subscriptions; he should be an as- sistant for the editor in getting literarv material; for English compositions as a method of supply will always prove inadequate, and class editors have the opportunity of finding out the abilities of their classmates better than others can; in all. the class editor should be a general all-round repre- sentative from the staff of the paper to the class, and from the class to the staff. And if the class editors arc given assistants, and if they follow with any degree of ingenuitv and dili- gence some of these recommendations, and if the classes support them as they should. I sec no rea- son why the class columns, assuredly the widest read parts of the paper, should not be a success, and the position of class editor should not be a pleasure, rather than a burden. An ex-Class Editor. —--------------- Cbe proposes iRetnston of tbe Constitution of tbe Somerville ibicjb School Htbletic association This year the Somerville High School Athletic Association, feeling the need of a new constitution, or rather, the need of having certain parts of the old constitution changed, appointed Mr. Avery, Mr. Baxter. Mr. Jones, Mr. Foster, and Mr. Gus- tin to make the desired changes. After several meetings the following revision was decided upon:— Somerville Ibtflb School Stbletlc association I Latest Revision of the Constitution.] ARTICLE I. Name. The name of this association shall be the Somer- ville High School Athletic Association. ARTICLE II. Object. The object of this association shall be to en- courage manly sports and to promote a close re- lationship between the athletic teams and the schools. ARTICLE III. Membership. 1. All pupils and all teachers of the Somerville High Schools shall be eligible to active member- ship in this association. 2. Graduates, past members, or friends of the schools shall be eligible to honorary membership in this association. •'{. Persons as enumerated in Sections 1 and 2 of this article shall be eligible to life membership in this association. •1. Honorary or life members cannot hold office or vote at meetings, except as stated in Article III.. Section 1. and Article VI., Section 2, of this constitution. ARTICLE IV. Meetings. 1. The regular meetings of this association shall be held on the second Wednesday of January and June. The January meeting shall be held for SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 247 the purpose of reading the treasurer's annual re- port. 2. Special meetings shall be called by the presi- dent at vote of the executive committee or upon the written request of ten members. ARTICLE V. Quorum. A quorum shall consist of twenty-one active members. ARTICLE VI. Officers. 1. The officers of this association shall be a president, a vice-president, a secretary, a treas- urer (a teacher), a manager, and an assistant man- ager of each athletic team, and an executive com- mittee. 2. The executive committee shall consist of the president, the vice-president, the secretary, the treasurer, a teacher, two faculty members, and a graduate of each school, and of the captains and the managers of the various teams in matters re- lating to their respective teams only, and of a member of the school board. ARTICLE VII. Duties of Officers. 1. The president shall preside at all meetings of the association and of the executive committee, lie shall call meetings of the association as author- ized in Article IV., Section 2, and of the executive committee when the business of the association demands it. 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 every meeting of the association and of the execu- tive committee. He shall conduct all correspon- dence, except as may be in the hands of the man- agers or other officers, and shall have charge oi and be responsible for all the books and papers of the association, except those belonging to the treasurer and his assistants. The books and papers of the secretary shall be kept in the school office except when in use at the association and executive meetings. 4. The treasurer shall be appointed by the head masters. He shall have charge of all money be- longing to the association, shall make all con- tracts. pay all bills, purchase and be responsible for all supplies. He shall submit a written report of his transactions at the annual meeting of the association, or whenever called upon to do so by the executive committee. He shall have his books audited at the end of the financial year, and report of the same shall be printed in at least one Somerville paper and in the Radiator. 5. It shall be the duty of the managers and the assistant managers to collect moneys and pur- chase supplies under the direction of the treasurer, and to prepare a schedule of games, subject to the approval of the executive committee. I� y virtue of their office they shall be assistant treasurers. (� . All schedules of games, awards of contracts,, and expenditures of money shall be submitted to- the executive committee for ratification. They shall also have general supervision of all other matters relating to the association, not otherwise provided for in the constitution, and shall have power to remove captains and managers by a two- thirds vote of the full committee. 7. 'Hie executive committee shall hold meet- ings as the needs of the association require. S. The executive committee shall hold a special meeting at the request of three of its members. ! . A quorum of the executive committee shall consist of five voting members, one of whom must be a teacher. ARTICLE VIII. Elections. 1. The president, the vice-president, the secre- tary. the graduate members of the executive com- mittee. the baseball and track managers, the foot- ball and basket-ball assistant managers, and any other officers necessary shall be elected by ballot at the regular meeting in June. 'Hie football and basket-ball managers and the baseball and hockey assistant managers shall be elected bv ballot at the regular January meeting. All elections must be made from signed nominations posted at least four school days previous to the meeting, and all nomi- nations must be submitted to the head masters for approval before being posted. The faculty mem- bers shall be appointed in June by the head mas- ters. 2. Captains shall be elected bv ballot at the end of the season by their respective teams. 3. The election of captains shall be confirmed by the executive committee. I. All vacancies occurring among the officers of the Somerville High School Athletic Associa- tion. except captains, shall be filled by the execu- tive committee. 248 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR ARTICLE IX. Fees. 1. The membership clues of this association shall be twenty-five cents, payable oiu or before September I. 2. The clues for honorary members shall be the same as for active members. Life members shall pay an admission fee of five dollars ($5), 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 of the executive committee. ARTICLE XL Suspension and Expulsion. 1. The association shall have the power to punish any member by suspension or expulsion for any failure to comply with the articles of this constitu- tion or by-laws, or for any conduct that shall bring discredit upoiuthe association. 2. A vote for suspension or expulsion shall be by ballot. A two-thirds vote of the members present at a (monthly) 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 members of the association pres- ent and voting, provided notice of the amendment shall have been posted on the bulletins four school days before the meeting at which said amendment is considered. BY-LAWS. 1. This constitution and these by-laws shall be printed in the first number of every volume of the Radiator. 2. Xo member of the schools shall be a candi- date for office in this association or shall be allowed to play on a school team unless he is a member of this association, and is in good and regular stand- ing in at least eleven periods of prepared work, and is approved by the head masters. 3. Members who have played in a league game and managers of the various teams shall be allowed to wear an S,” and this shall be at the option of, and provided by. the executive committee. The executive committee shall, however, have power at its own discretion to award “S’s” to those mem- bers of teams who have represented the school, but in whose sports no league has been formed. 4. Each manager shall have the right of voting on matters brought before the executive commit- tee which pertain to his particular team only. 5. Only members who have been awarded an S” shall be allowed to vote for next captain in their sport. ( . Xo manager of a team shall be a player on the same team. ?. The managers of the respective teams shall keep a written account of all moneys received and of all expenses during their respective seasons, and shall be ready to turn the completed accounts over to the treasurer in at least one month after their season closes. ------------------------------ jfowlet'$ Investment (Continued from page 241.) “I'll sec what I can do, replied Mr. Williams, and hung up the receiver. It can't be true,” groaned Fowler. ‘‘Here I have had a fortune and have let it slip through my fingers!” At noon Fowler hurried down to the broker’s office. I expected you,” said Mr. Williams. “I want to give you what you made on Bay State Gas.” “What I made!” ejaculated Fowler. “Yes. you cleaned up a little item of about $3,000.” and Mr. Williams told what he had done. For a moment Fowler was speechless. Then he broke down completely. If that is speculating.” he finally managed to say, I have had enough.” See the accident ?” What accident?” That cowslip on the lawn.”—Ex. An Irishman got out of the car at a railway sta- tion for refreshments. Unfortunately, the train left before he finished his lunch. Mould on!” he cried, as he ran madly after the car. hould on. ye ould stliame ingin. ye’ve got a passenger aboard that’s left behind.”—Ex. SOMERVILLE IIIGII SCHOOL RADIATOR 249 H bt Hlpba Another school year has rolled away, and the Phi Alpha girls are beginning to realize that they will soon be has-beens.” 'Phis year, however, has been most successful and satisfactory. Last fall the girls started in with good spirit, and a series of pleasant times has followed. Early in the winter they began a set of luncheons at the different members' homes, and these proved so pleasant that they have been continued at ir- regular intervals throughout the year. At Christmas recess the active members of the sorority entertained the last year's girls at a theatre party. Fortunately the girls were all able to be present, and spent an enjoyable afternoon together. Toward the first of March work grew more strenuous, and on April ( the Phi Alpha sorority gave its annual dance. Many of the former mem- bers of the sorority, together with a large number of the older High School set who are now away at college, and as many of the younger set. made up a company who enjoyed themselves to the full. No sooner was the dance a thing of the past, than the all-important question came: Who shall they be?” A month of planning, a week of invita- tion and acceptance, two weeks of initiation, and now they are: President, Leslie Hooper; secre- tary. Eleanor Sibley: treasurer. Alice Laxter: and the other three. Ethel Colcord, Pauline Conant. and Marie Johnston. They take the places of P.etli ( bickering. Marion Corliss, Ann Parker. Helen French, Marian Hallctt, and Lorcnc Whitney. We old girls wish them all possible success and pleasure, and hope that they may cnjov as well as we have a year of work and play as Phi Alphas. Second Hnnual jpia of the 6. ID. G. of Somerville The three-act drama. Green Arches.” by Dora Shoemaker, was very successfully given on May II in I'nitarian Hall, Somerville, by the Girls’ Dramatic Club, under the direction of Miss Bertha Raymond. The scene of the play is a girls' school in the South, in 18(52. Eleanor Hamilton, one of the girls, has been sent here with her father’s orders that she shall have no mail or callers. Mile. For- det. the French teacher, immediately suspects Eleanor of being a spy. The girls in the school discover that Eleanor has in her trunk a Yankee suit, and they have obtained a picture belonging to Eleanor. Mile, recognizes the picture as that of the coachman who drove Eleanor to the school. Her suspicions are increased. Eleanor tells Madame Mavburne that her father is a Southern man. but her mother sympathized with the North. When Eleanor's brother went to war. he fought and died for the North. This was his suit. Madame tells Eleanor her father’s commands, and warns her not to try to escape. When the curtain goes up for Act II. Eleanor is awaiting a letter from her accomplice. Juliet, a colored servant, is the messenger, and as she has given the letter to Ruth. Eleanor’s friend. Ruth now gives it to Eleanor. Mile, tries to get the let- ter. but Eleanor tears it up. and Mile, has lost her evidence that Eleanor is a spy. The curtain falls as Eleanor is reading her last letter from her ac- complice. In the first of Act III. Eleanor appears in the Yankee suit. She takes leave of Ruth and flees. 250 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR The rest of the girls have a feast, which is inter- rupted by the discovery that Eleanor has disap- peared, and also the army suit. Cecil, the leader of the clique, prevents any one giving Madame the alarm. Madame enters and starts to tell the girls that she has sent for Colonel Hamilton, when Mile, comes in, greatly excited, and tells Madame of Eleanor’s disappearance. From the first, Ruth was suspected of helping Eleanor to escape, and now Madame gets from her the fact that Eleanor has gone to join her lover. At first Madame would send after Eleanor, but her great love for her stops her. Ruth detains Madame, and pleads in Eleanor’s behalf. While they are talking Eleanor returns and begs Madame to direct her, as she has lost her way. Madame hesitates to answer, and Eleanor gives up all as lost, but sud- denly Madame rouses and gives Eleanor the necessary directions, and our heroine escapes to her lover. This is a play that affords much opportunity for enlarging the parts, and all who took part did credit to their club and school. The cast is as follows: Madame Mayburne (the principal of the school), Miss Elsie Macdonald; Mile. Fordet (French teacher). Miss Lillian Gun- serihiser; Eleanor Hamilton (the new arrival), Miss Beatrice Bowditch: Cecil Hotspur (a true Southerner), Miss Elizabeth Chipman; Ruth Mor- ton (a Quakeress), Miss Annie Hums; Helen Hastings, Mabel Bratton; Mabel Davis, Annie Benjamin: Lulu Jefferson. Alice Duncan; Made- line Burgson. Wilhelmina Heilman; Juliet John- son (a colored servant.), Deborah Waranow; Rosy Harrigan (an Irish servant girl), Ethel Sampson. The ushers were as follows : Head usher, Miss Eveline Banks: Misses Potter, Mitchell. Clark, McLean, Foley. Markel. Mann. Wheeler, Lufkin. Knight. Conte, Long. Baird. Morrison. The patrons were Mr. and Mrs. John A. Avery, Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Clark. Mr. and Mrs. Gor- don A. Southworth, Mr. and Mrs. H. IT. Folsom, and Mr. and Mrs. F. A. P. Fiske. 'I lie music for the occasion was furnished by the Sargent orchestra. Those who took part in the play were awarded bouquets from friends. After the play was over the hall was cleared for dancing, which lasted till 11 o’clock. ttau TQpeilon 2 clta As the present school year has quickly ebbed away, the Tail Upsilon Delta has rapidly achieved untold success. The membership now is of many alumni, as well as present students of both schools. The fraternity has held many enjoyable and pro- gressive evenings during the past season. The first annual dance given by the fraternity April 22 at Anthoinc Hall was a grand success, so- cially and financially. With the plans all laid for next year, the coming season promises to be a great stop in advance. ------------.«.+•••+••.+-« ------ The Senior bookkeeping class enjoyed a pleas- ant outing at Waverley Oaks Wednesday, June 2, accompanied by Misses E. Campbell and A. C. Woodward. After lunch, eaten on the banks of the pond, bean bag and racing were enjoyed. One of tlie most interesting features of the afternoon was a scrub-baseball game, in which some of the girls showed up as star players. Singing of vari- ous school songs and enthusiastic cheering took place on the car coming home. -------------------------- IResolutfons Whereas, by the divine will of Providence, our respected friend, Mrs. Henrietta B. IT. Attwood, who served so faithfully on our school board, has been taken from our midst, be it Resolved, that we, the Senior classes of the Somerville High Schools, having learned with sorrow of her death, express our appreciation of her devotion to the interests of our schools, and be it further Resolved, that we tender our heartfelt sympathy to Mr. Attwood in his bereavement, and also to the many friends who mourn her loss. Matthew C. Duggan, President. Edward A. Donahue, President. ---------o---- Whereas, by the divine will of God, our class- mate. Beatrice F. Waugh, has been bereaved of her beloved father, be it Resolved, that we, the members of the class of 1910 of the English High School, tender to her our heartfelt sympathy. Clarence M. Mixer, President, Joseph S. Pike, Jr., Secretary. ----o---- Resolved, that we. the class of .1912, of the Latin High School, extend our deepest sympathy to our classmate. Bertha McNeill, on the death of her be- loved mother. Thomas R. Aldrich, President, Elizabeth Burns, Secretary. CLASS EDITORS Sitting: Messer, Mahoney, Newton, Gust in, Leighton. Standing: Greenwood, Churchill, Handley. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 252 '00 Class Editor, Allison Newton. The presenting of that statuette is probably the last thing that we. as a class, will do before graduation, and on that night we will all be to- gether for the last time. Next year we shall be scattered in various places and different pursuits, and. as a class, we shall be no more, but as a memory let 11s hope we shall be always. And no matter in what country, clime, or condition let the ‘'Open Sesame” to the gates of friendship of one of us to another be: I am of Somerville Latin School, '09.” James M—Id—n (to Division ;l): There’s a big bug on the ceiling. 'Peacher (busy): Step on it. and don’t bother me again.” Substootin, substootin, side AB for AC.” went on Richard. Put an ing on the end of your toot,” Dick. Teacher: What can you tell me about the de- velopment of the English drama? Adc—ck: It didn’t start in the time of Shakes- peare.’' Miss AY—r— (in French): What’s almost dead ?” Voice (in rear): “You arc.” If Macd-----Id would spend as much time look- ing at his French books as he does at his pocket mirror, he would have a Magna cum laude on his diploma. , Teacher: Answer that.” Miss Smallwood: I have heard what it is.” Teacher: Well, then. Duggan, answer it your- self.” OUR SICK LIST. Til—y—r has contracted paralysis from lugging too many books. Rob—rts—11, burned trying to put out his neck- tie with some of his hose. M—cl—n. tickled to death in the class picture. (I—1—nd, pining for a diploma. R—ss—11. rigor terroris in his pompadour. Merry has split his sides laughing at himself. It is said that soiree means during the evening,, but Junior dance means during the morning. Teacher: Now what would you be interested in in seeing ‘Cornus' performed?” N—ble: I11 getting out.” Bennett's epitaph: Done for by er-r tense. Teacher (to Henderson, disturbed at crackle be- neath his feet): Look here. 1 lenderson, you are al- together too used to matches to let those trouble you.” We sadly fear Dan Merrill is going to the bad. ()nly the other day he was heard to use slang, and he has twice attempted to hit Benner with a ruler. Teacher: Who wrote that sentence?” M—llik—n : Miss Wentworth and I.” Lives of great men all remind us, We may make our lives sublime, And. like Coleman, when we’re called on. Contrive to fail most every time. Heard at the monument:— Kid (seeing statue swathed in cloth): Say, 111a, has that got mumps, too?” Foreman 'shouting to workman): Hey, Dela- ware. get that rope.” Hunncy: “Gee! He must be a peach.” I eacher (in English): What arc some of the joys in ‘II Penseroso’?” SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 253 Richard: “Going up in towers to watch bears. No; 1 mean dippers.'' They say McC—thy was off his trolley when he hurt his hand. Teacher (perceiving Henderson whispering to Muldoon): “What do you want to find out? Henderson: “Nothing. Teacher: “Then continue your conversation. We’ll bet Brown will never paint the town red. Garland’s grin rocks Room 2 even day. and at times threatens to knock the plastering from the walls. Teacher: “What kind of an accent should that have ?’’ Miss Corliss: An obtuse accent. While the class picture gives no idea of Mac- Lean's physiognomy, it gives a great idea of his activity. There are about ten of him. Teacher (trying to bring out meaning of difficult passage): Others went bv foot, but Caesar went by-----? Henderson (finishing): Train.” I never will understand French,” says Slater. “They call a mother-in-law a belle mere: how droll! And a grand pere has a petit fils.” No need to fear Professor Lowell’s nrediction as long as Sheridan is alive. H—nn—w—11 (defining): “That means a dip in the landscape. Sh—r—d—n: No. it don’t; it means a lid on the fire-scape. A teacher thinks the man in the moon looks quite jolly when he’s full. Well, so do a good many people. Why didn't Miss Macy take Henderson along to the dentist’s if she wanted gas? Howe (translating): Like a tower with a vast upward look. Voice: H’m! Coleman. Thayer says he doesn’t blame them for putting Milton in prison if they thought he was going to write those Minor Poems. Brown could hardly be restrained when Miss Corliss translated: Darling, come to my arms. The school starts with expectation when Gar- land makes a recitation. Teacher: Why. don't you know what an agger is? Girls (in chorus): “We’ve never been to war. Boys( together): You can do that when you get votes.” Why shouldn't girls go to graduation in a cab? Because they can have a train just as well as not. Miss Cushing: 1 don’t see that word there. Teacher: Well. I wouldn't have mentioned it if it had been there. McCarthy's version of the last verse of “The Star-Spangled Banner : Oh, thus be it ever by the dawn's early light. An expression frequently on the lips of the teachers: McCarthy isn’t here, but, never mind, Millikcn is : and as for us. we chant: You Used to Come at Pen O’clock, but Now You Come at One. Sheridan wants to know if Ulysses was trying to massage the Cyclop’s eye. Dick (reciting geometry): AB equals AC. Is that right? Teacher: Yes; but why? Dick: “ 'Cause you said so.” We make our editorial bow with a great deal of regret, and you probably have a great deal of re- gret that we didn't make it before. If. though, we have made rather free use—that is. abuse—of your names, rest content in the fact that we didn’t do half as bad as we could, and that this is proba- bly the only way you will ever get your name in print, anyhow. You see what we think of you, and so it is only fair that you gaze below and sec what some think of us:— WHAT WE THINK OF THE CLASS EDITOR. The class editor is no respecter of persons, the truth, or me.—Coleman. The class editor is an inventor of obscure jokes, with classical allusions to such things as Nemesis, which take me half the year to understand and the other half ti see the joke.—Henderson. If the class editor came to school with his les- sons. he wouldn't need to complain of our voices.— Miss Macy and Miss Wentworth. The class editor is no lady.—Sheridan. '10 Class Editor. II. H. Greenwood. In another month we will be full-fledged Seniors. Our class should try to make the best class that ever graduated from the school. One more year, and we will not see each other so often, so let everybody join in and make next year the best of the four vears. 254 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 1 f a laddie meets a lassie Coming down the walk. Miss Taft. Miss Taylor, and Miss Urmston arc prohibited from floating around the halls. Yc have been greatly entertained lately by some very amusing incidents which have occurred at recess. We have been escorted across the street by young ladies. It is, Indeed, a great pleasure to have an escort. Currie thinks the mavis and the “merle” are high fliers, as well as sweet singers. He must be an ornithologist. (Irainger is small. But knows it all: In history you cannot faze him; In Latin and Greek, 'I'hosc tongues so antique, Xot one of the teachers can daze him. Bennett greatly amused the second division last week by talking of the functuaries of ancient Athens. Perhaps he knew what he meant. We welcome back Arthur Hatch after a short illness. Miss Cleveland adores her new name, Betty. Davis, translating: “Cyrus brought back all the dead from exile.’’ I guess that was going some. T-----ton is just about tickled to death be- cause June has come. It is very pleasing to sec him taken in so. but we don’t wonder much. This is a very beautiful month, indeed. Green. Grain------.and Daw-------for three years have held the conspicuous position of class giants, and at the end of the third year are still holding their own. That is a record to be very proud of. “Orful” Reed is entirely tied up in Lynn. He even wants to live down there, say nothing of working the mail overtime. Sanborn has expressed a wish that we would put his name in the June issue of the Radiator. We always like to be accommodating to our class- mates. “Skitter” Trafton has commenced taking swim- ming lessons. He did a very difficult feat the other day—diving into the fountain after a ball which had been thrown in. It was a noble act, and “Skitter” deserves great praise. The Junior baseball team traveled to Wal- tham to be beaten by the score of (5-5 by La Salle I ligh School. Currie pitched a good game for the Juniors, and K illam played one of his fastest games at short. Teacher: “Explain the three different classes of Roman citizenship.” Doyle: “First, second, and third.” Teacher: “What was the emblem Gareth had on his shield?” 1)----: “Skull and cross bones.” Bryant has at last found a suitable occupation. He lias decided to cultivate his voice and give concerts. We wish him great success in his new occupation. McCauley tells us the circus is just fine. Well, “Mac” ought to know. We arc very sorry that Putney has been sick lately. He has just come back from a recent ill- ness. We wish everybody a very pleasant summer, and when you come back next year remember it is the last year, and our last chance. '11 Class Editor, M. J. Messer, Jr. Young M—s—r tried bravely to edit His class notes with honor and credit, But the notes were so few, He said: Glad I am through,” And he looked mighty glad when he said it. Boys, this is the end of your Sophomore year. Next year is the hardest year of your course; a year in which you show your sticking power. You will then be upper classmen, with the re- sponsibilities and privileges which come with it, so let’s give a cheer for 1911, and vote to do our best. One of Ira’s latest: “They jumped themselves into the river.” Who holds the patent on the wireless system in 12? Lost anything? Go to W—1—d’s Detective Agency. M—k—1 says lie adores Joan of Arc. Brown, the unconquered orator of 13, with plenty of motions. Who’s the Kandy Kid in 13? Information desired as to whether Miss R—d—n s centre name is Dexter or not. Are we soon to be Juniors or Sophomores? (Continued on page 2u0. CLASS PRESIDENTS. Standing: Aldrich, L., '12; Millniorc, L., TI; Coldwcll, E.. Tl: Garland, E., T2. Sitting: Davis, L., TO; Duggan, L., '09; Donahue, E., ’09; Mixer, E., TO. 256 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR '09 Class Editor, Lester C. Gustin. Seniors, our high school life is practically over; four years of work and enjoyment are drawing to a close. If you have been satisfied with vour work in school, well and good: if not. forget it. A larger field is open to you, the world, where suc- cess gained will make success in high school sink into insignificance when compared with it: but a world in which one must depend entirelv on him- self and not on teachers. Brace up! If dis- couraged. others before you have been dis- couraged. Remember. Man can do what man has done. Eight and win as they preceding you have. Over the telephone:— Girl's voice: Hello. Percy: “Hello.” Girl’s voice: Oh, Percy, dear. I just love your hair-comb—just like a clothes-brush! Percy dear: ” ??!!! !! ♦ ??!! Telephone bell: Ting-a-ling-a-ling. Poor Henry, the sympathies of the entire '0!) class accompany him. He. alas, has not even the advantages of a woman, for lie can never vote, as he will always be a Miner (minor). Where some of the Seniors are going:- Holmes. Harlow, and Chapin to Harvard; Parker, Freeman. Whitman. Flint, and Gustin to Tech”; Miss Greenberg. Miss Lovejov. Hogan, Miille. Holm, Atwater. Hazeltine. Lloyd, Harts- horn. Walter Jones. Snow. Blanchard, and Geddcs to Tufts: Miss Granger and Palmer to Boston University; and Rich to the University of Maine. Ambitions of some of the class:— Rowe will paddle his own canoe, Palmer on love is Bent, Laurent has simply decided to grow. And Russell seems quite content. Some Swallow (s) are looking for more than they Merritt, When Snow comes they’ll be at a loss. While others are dreaming of being Rich, But Handley will gather no Morse. ()t all our boys, both great and small, Morse is the most polite. Me always keeps his seat in class So the ladies may recite. A brief review of the English, ’09, class his- tory :— The number who entered in the class the first year was 378. The officers this year were Wil- lard Davis, president: Clayton Sawyer, vice-presi- dent : Rachel Whitcomb, secretary: and Frank Plimpton, class editor. During the winter Miss Marvel gave a party to the Freshman “Tech’' di- vision. I’he event was a grand success. At the close of this year Mr. Whitcomb left us to take charge of the Brockton High School, and Mr. Avery was elected to fill his place. The class organization for the second year was Willard Davis, president; Clayton Sawyer, vice- president; Miss Carrie Nelson, treasurer; Miss Eleanor Dunning, secretary; and Walter Pilcher, class editor. During the year Mr. Pilcher left school, and Ernest Chapin was appointed class edi- tor for the remaining four months. For the Junior year Percy Kirkpatrick was made president: Harry Cheetham, vice-president: Miss Eleanor Dunning, secretary: Austin Palmer, treasurer; and Ernest Chapin, class editor. On May ? the Junior dance was held at Anthoine hall. I hose on the committee from our school were: Miss Bent. Miss Merritt. Kirkpatrick, Smart, and Gustin. The officers for the last year are: Edward Dona- hnc. president: Harry Cheetham, vice-president; Miss Eleanor Dunning, secretary; Samuel Rich. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 257 treasurer; and Lester Gustin, class editor. The annual Senior soiree was held February 23. Our class elected Miss Manning. Miss Potter, Donahue, Chapin, and Gustin for the dance com- mittee. The officers elected for class exercises were: Cail Hartshorn, orator; Miss Sargent and Mr. Chapin, prophets; Lester Gustin, historian and poet; and Miss Kingman, odist. Ivy Day exercises were held on June 2, and Class Day exercises on June 11. On June 24 we will graduate. Heard in IV. Elocution P : Miss Lambert: “Imagine Blanchard out with his baseball team.” Just imagine it! Heard in civics: Miss Love-----: “The members in the lower branch of Congress had a row.” STUNG!!!! Keep on watching it! CLASS JINGLES. Half a step, half a step, half a step onward, On to the laboratory strode the two hundred Through rain and shine, the same, Still moved this cloud of fame, In through the door it came, Sanborn’s two hundred! Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, So the rhymes of the nursery say, And with great surprise we find in our class A Lamb that has gone astray. A girl in our class by lessons is bored In a way that would take your breath, And unless some hero should change her fate, She will be Born (s) to death. “What made him Smart?” did I hear you say? “Did he scratch his hand or study all day?” Oh, no, my friend, he was born that way. How much sweeter sounds the breeze, As through the trees we hear it rustic, Ah, the blowing of the wind With its rushing and its bustle. So our class has moved along, Not with rushing, but a Russell. We wish to thank Miss Edith Xorthrup through this column for the help she has given us in pre- paring the notes for June. Heard during the taking of the class picture: Mr. Avery: There is a large gap here. Will you come down, Miss Ham, and fill it?” Heard during the Junior dance: May I have the pleasure of tripping on your light, fantastic toes?” Have you noticed how Eleanor has been Dun- ning people lately for class dues? Chapin in physics: Is that story true about peo- ple in the far north, speaking and having their words freeze and then having a thaw come a week or so later, and melting the words so that they might be heard ?” JUST NONSENSE. Twas on a sweltering summer’s night There came to my mind a vision bright. The mists of the future were torn away, I stood in the dawn of a distant day In the village defunct of Somerville, By schools that arc resting on Central Hill. Before me, with many a jest and song, A mighty procession wound along. Brave Hartshorn’s voice I first did hear, For he was a happy auctioneer ; Al. Jones was taking a ragman's part, And Miner was pushing an orange cart. Then Holm came driving an auto past Of three-mouse power when on full blast; And Chapin, who great renown had won As editor of the Daily Sun, A paper whose rooms were a leaky tent. And which sold per week for a half a cent: Then Rich, who had published a book, alas, O11 unity, clearness, coherence, and mass. Continued on page 2S2.) TO Class Editor, Andrew F. Handley. Arnold suddenly springs into the limelight. News comes that arouses the whole student body to the fact that Sliver” Arnold is a poet. I f you have any mathematical problems to be solved, just consult Rodway. Did you see that joyous smile on Ross’ face? Another year gone, classmates, and still two hundred strong. Let's graduate every one. Hodgdon thinks that instead of letting Somer- ville be dead this Fourth we should use Room 30 on that day. 258 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Rosborough says votes were taken in the House of Commons according to the number of eyes and nose (ays and nays). Heard in English: Thrice the brindled cock hath mewed.” Miss Mo—c was seen reading a newspaper one morning, and upon investigation it was found that the column was headed “Advice to the Lovelorn.” Too bad. “Ted.” John Knight is now bent toward a long vaca- tion. Have you heard our tenor singer, E. E. Adams? When we go into the Senior class next ve'ar let’s remember the spirit of these lines of Ralph Waldo Emerson:— So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man: When duty whispers low: ‘Thou must,’ The youth replies: T can. ” Teacher in French: Pronounce ‘que ” Voice: “Chinaman.” Teacher: Hunt, tell us about Demosthenes, the admiral.” Hunt: He is the same man as the other Demos- thenes.” Did you see those lavender socks on Rod—y? Some more recent publications:— The Long Looked-for Vacation.” bv W. M. Hodgdon. This is a pathetic scene in a small town just after school closed for the summer. Tears came to the reader on first sight. A poem, entitled The Girl Who Dresses in Black.” written by our new find. Sliver” Arnold. One hundred verses comprise the whole theme, which is based on fact. “ I he Odors of the Chemical Lab” is a very wide subject of discussion. So well arc the odors de- scribed that imagination is not necessarv. The Rising and Sinking of the Sun,” by Chand- ler. is a very figurative piece of description, based on the high school term. Anyone knowing the significance of a wink is hereby requested to make known the meaning to the Misses Ch-----and Do------. I wish to personally thank all who have con- tributed to this column at any time during the school year. I also wish to ask that offence be taken from nothing that might have gone into print. I he knocks were all harmless, and the jokes all friendly. Tl Class Editor, Arthur Leighton. ‘Rah! ‘Rah! ’Rah! After two years of hard and sober study, we are about to enter into Juniorisin (this word was coined for the occasion), and to have the title of upper classmen bestowed upon us. Let 11s cheer and yell until our throats are parched (but not in school) upon this grand occasion. But let us also hope that we may have more than thirty at a class meeting when we are Juniors. (This is not an attempt at a eulogy, elegy, ora ser- mon. No, it is simply facts.) ----was recently making an extremely brilliant recitation in geometry, and had stopped a moment to grease the cog wheels of his brain, when through the open window the breeze wafted the gentle tones of an irate parent: “And I told my boy to come right straight home.” L—rie and M—r—1 recently discovered a new species of bug on the floor during elocution. They are wonderful young naturalists. We hear that a club called the Tip Club has been formed in this class. Although we have not heard of any tips being given away we desire to say that we would be grateful for a few stray nickels or dimes. Miss McC—tv (who speaks in very low tone): Please, may I have the windows closed?” Teacher (not understanding): I am afraid you- did not make them all understand.” One on ourself:— Recently W—re. R—ch, and a few others were pushing us playfully back from the window. Sud- denly a teacher appeared. Teacher: Well, well, what is all this excitement? I thought they were pulling a goat through the- window.” Notice M-----‘s socks! Teacher: Establishment of dual monarchy,” etc.. I)—1)—n: Did you say a pure monarchy?” Class: “Ha! ha!” Molcn: “When one man runs over another.” R—ch wishes us to correct the popular impres- sion that he is rich. As far as he knows, he has but fifty cents between himself and the wolves. I11 English:— Teacher: With what did Goldsmith leap to celebrity?” Regan: His feet, of course.” SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 259 Translated from Latin by Clough:— “Why is a lemon?” “Because no matter how hard the glass around it is you can break it with a hammer.” With great thanks to those who have patiently borne the knocks against them (especially “The Big Three, “Ware,” Rich.” etc.), we take a last look at this column and expire. '12 Class Editor, Oliver Churchill. At last, only a few more days before vacation. Au revoir, Seniors, we wish you all good luck. It is a good thing to remember that our class has been the largest yet. Here is something (seldom quoted?): “What is so rare as a day in June?” In severing his connection with the Radiator, the editor wishes to thank those who have passed him notes; and if any of his little “parcels of fool- ishness” have fallen on any one too heavily they must be pardoned in the spirit they were given. Finally, receive this thanks for the pleasure derived from making the life of some miserable. Buz-z-z-z-z-z—it's only a W. A. S. P. T is for Time, which has been so short. W stands for We who have failed a lot. E is the Excellent, meaning cards we brought home. L for the Lessons the teachers have taught. V is the Vigilance with which we have (loafed). E is for Everybody who’s had a good time. The class motto has been STICK. Isn’t Cosgrove a big boy for his age? Is “Pickle” a sour, mixed, or sweet one? It’s a shame that Maiden's hair-comb is going out of style, for he has just got it tamed. Some boys never say: I don’t know.” They say: I can’t recite,” though. Algebra seems to have been an elective, instead of a required, subject in Division D. Oh. dear, who hit your face. Weinberg? What’s the attraction at Revere, “Leads”? Ro—e—s is just as happy as if he was all there. Xatin, 'll (Continue ! from page 254.) At Miss Hall’s last recitation J. Henry Marshall, in the name of II. English V.. presented her with a fountain pen as a token of their appreciation and good-will. An appropriate poem was read by its author. Miss Heckbert. Timid, toddling Freshmen, Flippant Soph-o-mores, Make the dashing Juniors And the reverend Se-ni-ores. Teacher to class in the absence of the room teacher: Arc vou allowed to talk before the third bell?” Honest Abe (Clough) (in deep and solemn tones): Nope; quietness should prevail.” Y c can manage Greek and Latin On a pinch. We love both, but. oh, you German! You’re a cinch. Young Spoopendykc purchased a yacht, And himself a fine sailor he thacht. But she capsized one day In the midst of the bay, And he “drownded” right there on the spacht. •Nit. '12 Class Editor. Francis J. Mahoney. McDonald had ten cents the other day. Next morning he had a hot pair of stockings, but couldn’t show the ten. I wonder------ There’s a wireless station in Room 31. Opera- tors. Hopkins, Bacon, and Hall. Reciting in history. R—s—n—r said that in the contests of the gladiators the whole audience was often thrown to the wild beasts. We are all glad that we’ll soon have finished climbing three flights,—especially Miss Commins. The hearty thanks of the editor arc due to those few who have supported him; as for the others—let it pass. Three more years arc com- ing. in which they may wake up. We wish to thank especially Parker and H. Lewis, who have contributed jointly one note. We arc all glad to welcome a new teacher, how- ever keenly we may feel the loss of Miss Hall. Teacher: “On the whole, was Nero a good or bad emperor?” ----(emphatically): “Yes.” . . . “No.” 2(3o SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR As the time for the closing of the school year draws near, we must bid farewell to our friends and exchanges. It has been a pleasure to read the numerous papers, which represent schools north, south, east, and west, and we hope they will return again next fall. If the exchanges have not received a copy every month, do not think that you have been slighted, for our exchange list has grown so large now that different papers have had to be omitted each month. It may be interesting to our readers to know just how our own school paper stands among others:— A fair exchange is no robbery.” The Radiator (from Somerville High School): Your cover design is appropriate. What a cheerful paper you are! We are sure that if a person were sitting in a cold room reading a copy of the Radia- tor lie would not mind the cold in the least, be- cause your paper is itself a radiator in every sense of the word. Xcatness, taste, and precision play an important part throughout your columns. You have a fine assortment of good, long stories. This is a good example to set to other school magazines. In short. Radiator, you are an ideal paper.—The Argonaut. The Somerville Radiator is one of the most in- teresting exchanges received. The stories are ex- ceptionally good, and the cuts of the various de- partments add greatly to its attractiveness.—Law- rence High School Bulletin. The excellent grade of paper, Somerville Radia- tor, and the frontispiece make your publication extremely attractive.—The School Life, Melrose. Probably the best exchange that we have re- ceived is the Radi a You. It is a quiet and sensible publication, yet there is enough life in it to hold the reader’s attention. The initial cut on the title page is quite appropriate, for it is characteristic of the conditions existing in Somerville; two schools united in action.—'1 he Artisan. Mechanic Arts High. The Radiator is to be complimented upon the quality and quantity of its stories. You also have an ample exchange column.—The Institute. The Somerville Radiator is an excellent paper, and should be congratulated upon the number of interesting stories it contains.—The High School Recorder, Winchester. ()ur old friend, the Radiator, comes to us this month in a new cover. The contents in every way live up to its attractive attire, while the literary department is far in advance of any other exchange we have yet received.—The Sagamore, Brookline. You are to be congratulated, Radiator, on the literary part of your paper, especially, although the whole edition is well gotten up.—Crimson and White. The Somerville Radiator—a radiator of breezy news.—The M egunticook. There is good, sound advice in the Letters to a Freshman,” published in the Somerville Radiator. —The Dean Megaphone. ()ther papers please take notice. The Somerville Radiator, December number, has eight long stories, and good ones, too.—The Advance, Salem. The Alumni column of the Somerville High School Radiator is very complete, and the ex- change notes arc also good. The stories are- above the average, A Night’s Rest” being very enjoyable because of its humor.—Oak, Lily, and' Ivy. Radiator, you have our best regards as being one of the finest high school papers issued.—Med- ford High School Review. The Somerville Radiator, Somerville, Mass., has a new and very attractive cover. The paper is well edited, and is one of the best received this month.—The Tiltonian. The Somerville High School Radiator is un- doubtedly the best exchange we have received’ SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR since the last issue of the Stylus. In no other ex- change have we found such an excellent bunch of stories.—The Stylus. Westfield, X. Y. Stories of school life written by prep, school students as a rule do not find favor with us. There is almost always a certain sameness about them which makes them the very reverse of inter- esting. Once in a while, however, there is an ex- ception to this rule. The Raimatok. Somerville. Mass., for December, has among its contents a number of good stories, and. strangely enough, four of these are strictly school stories. IIol- worth’s Vote,” The Winning Gift,” The Part- ner.” and Will’s Christmas Eve.” A story of school that is written properly is as interesting to the average student as any other sort of story, more so. perhaps, for the fact that the theme is of the life he himself is a part of secures his interest at the very start. ’Tis up to the school boy author to sustain this natural interest, and Somerville High students in the work which its Radiator publishes have succeeded admirably in this re- gard.—The Pinkerton Critic. The Radiator displays fine literary talent. fts stories are right to the point.—The Clarion, West Roxburv. In the Radiator of Somerville Latin and Eng- lish Schools the Exchange, Alumni, and Athletic Notes arc well written. The poem, The Christ- mas Angel.” is good. A little more poetry might be an improvement. The treasurer’s statement strikes us dumb with admiration. Getting into the thousands almost seems like Frenzied Finance.” —The Chandelier. The Radiator. Somerville, has a fine literary de- partment. Your stories are well worth the read- ing.—The Lowell High School Review. Radiator, we appreciate your hint concerning our exchange column. You have a paper you might well be proud of. Your literarv depart- ment is good. The frontispiece idea is very good. —The Echo, Dubuque, Iowa. Some toast to their dear old school; Some toast to their colors fine, But here’s the toast I love the most, It’s to good old 1909. —Ex. The evening sky with sunset glowed; McAdam strolled from his abode; The wild chauffeur, With skilful eye, McAdamized the country road.—Ex. 261 Patient: “What should I do for water on my knee? The just graduate doctor: Wear pumps.”—Ex. .My cocoa’s cold.” sternly announced the gruff old gentleman to his fair waitress. Put on your hat.” she sweetly suggested.—Ex. Generally speaking, women are-----” Yes. they are----” Are what?” Generally speaking.— Ex. She: Have you seen my rat? He: Do you mean that thing you wear in your hair?” She (irritably): Yes, of course.” He: Well, why don't you call it rarebit? ‘Twould sound more like real hare.”—Ex. How I do miss those at home,” said the centre- fielder. as lie threw wild to the plate.—Ex. Fifty miles an hour. Arc you brave?” She (swallowing another pint of dust): Yes, dear. I’m full of grit. —Ex. It is a wonderful school, ()n a beautiful site ; Its girls are the nicest: Its boys arc all right.—Ex. Teacher (to student who has said that Rome was built at night): Can you prove this statement?” Student: Yes. Don’t all the books say that Rome was not built in a day?”—Ex. Professor: All those who arc absent will please come to my desk at once.”—Ex. A fly and a flea in a flue Were imprisoned. Now what should they do? Said the fly: Let us flee! Let us fly,” said the flea. So they flew, through a flaw in the flue.—Ex. Chauffeur, chauffeur. I have a dinner engage- ment in Mars in a few minutes. Why this delay?” Chauffeur: Very sorry, sir. but I have struck the milky way, and the propeller is fogged with butter.—Ex. , lorn: Pa. what is a board of education?” Pa: When I went to school it was a pine shin- gle.”—Ex. Lady of the House: I am so sorry little Fido died.” Bridget: “So am I. mum, many’s the dish he saved me washin’.”—Ex. Do you think raw oysters are healthy?” asked a lady of her physician. Yes,” he replied, I never knew one to com- plain.”—Ex. 262 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Two little neighbor boys were beating rugs for their respective mothers. One little fellow had been promised ten cents, and was a little boastful. Tm getting more out of this than you. he re- marked. “Why you are not. indignantly replied the other. “I'm getting twice as much dust. —Ex. First Student: “What’s the ’Icctridan doin' over to the schoolhouse? Second Student: Puttin' in a 'lectric switch. First Student: Gee mully! If they arc goin’ to do the licking by electricity. I quit. —Ex. Johnny: “Paw. what’s the rest of the quotation, 'Truth is mighty'? Father: Scarce, I reckon. —Ex. Sir. I want your daughter's hand. You may have it with pleasure, dear boy, if vou’ll take the one that's alwavs in mv pocket.”— Ex. I hope they don't give my little boy any naughty nicknames in school?” Yes, ma, they call me “Corns ” “How dreadful. And why do they call you that?” ’Cause ifi our class, you know, I'm always at the foot.”—Ex. Citizen—“Have you any letters for Mike Howe?” Postmaster: We haven't any mail for anybody's cow.”—Ex. “ Lives of Seniors all remind us, We can strive to do our best. And. departing, leave behind us Notebooks that will help the rest. —Ex. Professor: What makes the tower of Pisa lean ?” Student: Perhaps it was built in a year of famine. —Ex. Teacher: ‘Ts there anything you can do better than anybody else?” Pupil: “Yes, I can read my own handwriting.”—■ Ex. Professor: What are you doing! Are you learning anything?” Pupil: No. sir; I’m listening to you.”—Ex. Teacher: Now, Willie, what month has twenty- eight days.” Willie: All of ’em.”—Ex. How they say it:— Freshman: I beg your pardon, sir, but I fear that 1 did not understand you correctly.” Sophomore: I didn't hear the question.” 1 unior: What did you say?” Senior: “Huh?”—Ex. ALL RIGHT. A right-handed writer, named Wright, In writing ““write always wrote “rite.” Where he meant to write “right” If he’d written right” right, Wright ’twould not have wrought rot writing vrite.” —Ex. Teacher (to reciting pupil): “Sit down. Some one prompted you.” Pupil (pointing to prompter): “I didn’t hear him speak. —Ex. ““When has a mill pond no energy?” Pupil: When it’s empty.”—Ex. There is one sign that should be placed over everv letter box in this city.” What is it ?” Post no bills.”—Ex. SOMERViLLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 263 NOILS or The ALVMNI CAi'nr.ELL-os Water H. Sanborn, English, ‘02, M. I. T.. '03, is employed by W. T. Sanborn Co., engineers and machinists, Birmingham. Ala. Bessie G. Fuller, English, '03, is a Senior at Smith College. Charlotte A. Norton. English. 0(5, Marion R. Henry, English, '08, Hattie X. Baker. English. '02. and Nina Gilley, English, 08, are all students at Boston University. Leroy G. Fitzherbert, English. 07, Clarence D. Maynard, English. '05, and Paul H. Pearson. Eng- lish, '07, are taking special courses at Massachu- setts Institute of Technology. Henry D. Jouett, English, ‘9(5, M. I. T., '01, is assistant engineer of the New York Central Hudson River Railroad at New York city. The engagement is announced of Miss Luella M. St rout, English, '07, to Stanley Cobb. John M. McMillin, English, '03, M. I. T., '07, is with the Denver Gas Electric Company, Den- ver. Colo. The following are students at Tufts: Senior, Winthrop Sears, English, '05; Juniors, Benjamin L. Dolbear. English, '0(5, Carleton P. Jones, Eng- lish. '01. Sidney L. Savage, English, '0(5, Elmer II. Whitney. English. '06; Sophomores, Minot J. Brown, English. '06, Everett W. Ireland, English, '07, James B. Lowell, English. '03, Aaron B. Noyes. English. '05. Augustus B. Tripp. English, ‘06. Carrol X. Whitney. English, '06; Freshmen, Harry A. Atwater, English, '06. Aimer E. Blunt, English, 07, Harry Cohen, English. '08, Frank W. Merrill. English. 08, Effic M. Ritchie, English, '08. Roscoe M. Waterhouse. English, '0(5, is a Sopho- more at the Medical School. Among our graduates studying at Technology are: Seniors. Alonzo Ware, Chester Jacobs, Eng- lish, '05; Juniors. Richard (). Fernandez. English, 06, Floyd Jacob Pitcher, English, '06; Sopho- mores, Emmons J. Whitcomb, English, '07, Mer- ton Hopkins. Harold Babbitt. Leroy Fitzherbert; Freshmen. Arthur Campbell, English, '08, Ralph H. Riddell. English. '08. Rupen Eksergian, Eng- lish. '08, William Roy (Hidden, English, '08, Archibald W. Laurie, English, '08. Arthur L. Wallon, English, '00, M. I. T.. '04, is with the engineering department, Seattle Electric Company. Seattle. Wash. Leslie S. Wiggin. English, '05, is now a Junior at Dartmouth. Raymond F. Tift, English, '03, is a Senior at Brown University. James A. Murray. English. '06, is completing his second year at the Lowell Textile School. Pierce P. McGann. English. 07, is a Freshman at Tufts Medical School, Boston. William E. Denvir, English. '05, is a Sophomore at Tufts Dental School. Boston. Mabel Easton. English, '01, Mt. Holyoke, 07, has. after a three-months' course at the Chicago Institute, which is a training school for Christian workers, accepted a position in Newark, X. J., as extension secretary of the Y. W. C. A. Florence E. Adams, English, '07, is now com- pleting her second year at Radcliffe. Leslie R. Grant, English, '00. M. I. T., '02, is employed by the Seattle Electric Company, Seattle. Wash. Edward 1. Chase. English. '04, is a Senior, and Herman A. Pauly, English. '07. is a Sophomore at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Philip E. Hinkley, English. '03, M. 1. T., '05, is with S. A. Warren Co., paper manufacturers, Cumberland Mills, Me. Ethel W. Brown. English. '05, has since leaving school studied vocal music. She is considered a very promising soprano singer. 264 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Ralph S. Loring, English, ’97, M. I. T., '01, is with J. E. Tourtello Co., architects, Lewiston, Idaho. Guy E. Brown. English, ’OS, is a Freshman at Tufts Dental School. Merton Y. Hopkins, English, ’07, is taking a special course at Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology. Ernest L. Nichols. English, ’99, is manager of the Worcester plant of A. Mugford. He also has charge of the Boston office, which has entire con- trol of northern New England. Mr. Nichols has recently moved to Worcester. Miss Florence J. Derby, Latin, ’07. is training for a nurse in the Trull Hospital at Biddeford, Me. Louise Thiery. Latin. ’05, will graduate from Wellesley College this June. Rhodes Robertson, Latin, ’01, Harvard. '08. has received the Hilton scholarship in the Graduate School of Applied Science, Harvard University. Irving Colman, Latin. ’05, is a Senior at Tufts College. Lura Elliott, Latin. ’04. is working at the State House, Boston, as typewriter and stenographer. Bergen Reynolds, Latin, ’00. is a member of the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity at Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology. William Dolan, Latin, ’06, is a Junior at Har- vard this year. Charles L. McCrossan. Latin, ’03, Harvard, '06, is a third-year man at Harvard Medical School. Harriet Wedgwood, Latin, 0?. is in the Sopho- more class at Radcliffe, as is Florence Adams, of the same class at the Latin School. Richard Bell, Latin, ’04, Harvard, '0S, is now in the Harvard Medical School. Alexander Blyth. Latin, ’05, and Fred Skillin, Latin, ’07, are Sophomores at Tufts College. Bessie G. Fuller. Latin, ’05, graduates from Smith College this June. Myrtle Merrill. Latin, ’05, is an assistant at the Somerville Public Library. Ralph Whitman, commonly known as “Dutch,” Latin. ’( 7, is a Sophomore at Dartmouth. Margaret Sargent. Latin, ’or. and Helen John- son. Latin. 08, took up music this winter with Mrs. Grover, of Canton. Arthur Soule. Latin. ’04. Dartmouth. ’08. is in business with his father in New York city. Leslie V iggin, Latin, ’05, who graduates from Dartmouth this June, composed part of the music for the Prom Show. Lucie Kramer, Latin, ’OS, is a Freshman at Rad- cliffe. Ethel M. Cole, Latin, '05, Tufts, ’09, was on the committee for the annual reception to the Seniors, given by the All Round Club, which took place last Friday evening. Seward Jarvis, Latin, '06, is a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity at Brown. Prescott Wild, Latin, '07, is a Sophomore at Harvard College. Ruth Martin. Latin. '08. is taking a post-gradu- ate course at the Somerville Latin School. Marion Cousens, Latin, ’04, Radcliffe, ’08, and Enid J. Cutter. Latin, ’06, recently visited the high school. Miss Cousens is teaching Latin and Eng- lish at the Bourne High School on Cape Cod. Katherine Bradbury, Latin, ’08, is in the Fresh- man class at Smith College. Winifred Bruce, Latin. ’06, is working at the Massachusetts Accident Company's on Devon- shire street, Boston. Gertrude Baxter, Latin, ’06, is a member of the Junior class at Radcliffe. Allen Elliott. Latin, ’05, and William Elliott, Latin. ’07, are both members of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity at the University of Maine. Kenneth P. Hill, Latin, ’07, is a Sophomore at Harvard. The double-page drawing of Arthur C. Gow, Latin. ’06, Dartmouth, ’10. in the Prom number of the Jack-o’-Lantern was one of the features of the publication. May Sharkey. Latin, ’08, is now at Dr. Sargent’s Physical Culture School, Cambridge. ■Resolutions I lie class of 1912 tender their classmate, Miss Catherine Allen, their heartfelt sympathy on the sad death of her beloved brother. R. M. Garland. President, Agnes X. Cameron, Secretary. The class of 1912 tender their classmate, Miss Anna Johnson, their heartfelt sympathy on the sad bereavement of her beloved brother. R. M. Garland, President, Agnes X. Cameron, Secretary. The class of 1912 express their deepest sympa- thy to their classmate. Miss Kathleen Calnan, on the very sad and sudden death of her beloved brother. R. M. Garland, President, Agnes X. Cameron. Secretary. SOMERVILLE FOOTBALL TEAM, 1908. Top Row. Dickcrman, Baldwin (Coach), Hurley. Second Row, Chcctham (Manager), E. Garland, Woodman, Coleman, llunncwcll, R. Garland, Mr. Jones (Treasurer). Third Row, MacDonald, Nolan, Russell, Forg (Captain), Coldwcll, Cousens, Pease. Bottom Row, Howard, Gustin, Donahue. 266 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR IRln oe, 6; Somerville, i Somerville played her first league game with Kludge and lost, 6-1, although it took ten innings to do it. Like was in the box and pitched well ex- cept in the second and tenth innings. Norton played a great game at short. Rindge started in the first inning and had three men on base with none out. Murphy fanned, and on a grounder Norton fielded perfectly to Garland, who nailed O’Brien at the plate. The next man struck out. In the second the first man was passed, and went to third on a wild pitch and then stole home. The bases were full again this inning, but Pike steadied and struck out two men. There was little doing on either side until Somer- ville’s part of the eighth. Parks was hit. Gar- land bunted fair, and they were advanced by Pike’s sacrifice. Donahue then lined out a fine hit. Parks came in, but Garland took too much time, and was out at the plate when the run would have won the game. The ninth passed quickly, but the tenth was terrible. Rindge landed on Pike’s curves, and when the smoke cleared away five runs had been added to their score. Somerville in her half died tamely. The score:— SOMERVILLE HIGH. r. b.h. p.o. a. c. Norton, s.s 1 1 5 0 Donahue. 2b 1 2 4 1 McDonald, lb 0 1 12 0 1 Mixer, r.f 0 0 1 0 0 Nolan, c.f 0 1 1 0 Parks, 3b 0 0 4 1 E. Garland, l.f 0 2 1 0 1 Pike, p 0 0 1 0 R. Garland, c................. 0 0 12 1 1 Totals..................... 1 5 30 16 5 R. M. T. S. r. b.h. p.o. a. e. O’Brien, s.s.................. 0 3 0 2 0 Wilson, c.f................... 0 0 2 0 0 Fritz, p...................... 1 1 0 6 0 Murphy, lb.....................1 1 18 0 1 Metivier, 2b.................. 1 0 2 6 0 Fairbanks, l.f................ 0 1 3 1 0 Aitchison. r.f................ 2 0 0 1 0- Haves, 3b..................... 1 3 1 0 0 Cummings, c................... 0 1 4 2 0 Totals ..................... 6 10 30 18 1 Innings ..............1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Somerville High.........0 0 0 000010 0—1 R. M. T. S..............0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5—6: Two-base hits—Fritz. Sacrifice hits—Pike (2), Metivier. Stolen bases—R. Garland, O Brien (3), Wilson. Murphy, Metivier, Aitchison, Hayes (2), Cummings. First base on balls—By Pike (5), by- Fritz (4). Struck out—By Pike (12), by Fritz (3). Double plays—Norton to Donahue, Norton to Donahue to McDonald. Passed balls—Garland. Wild pitches—Pike. Flit by pitched ball—Parks by Fritz. Time—2 hours, 20 minutes. Umpire— Smith. Attendance—550. ---------------------------- Somerville, 9; Groton, S Somerville won her annual game at Groton on Wednesday, May 12. in the ninth inning by the score of 9-8. With the score 8-5 in favor of ( Cont inued on page 268.) SOMERVILLK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 267 SOMERVILLE BASKET BALL TEAM Standing: Mr. Jones. Dickinson (Coach). Cheetham. Manager). McCarthy. Sitting: Hurley. Duggan (Captain). Parks. Pierce. Lower How: Taylor. Porg. 268 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR athletics (Continued from page 266.' Groton, Somerville came to the hat determined to do something. With the bases full, Mixer made a beauty two-bagger, clearing the bases and tying the score. A moment later Parks hit the ball for what looked like a home run, but the winning run came in as he turned first, and he was only credited with a single. The score:— Innings ................1 2 3 4 5 6 7 S 9 Somerville High...........4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4—9 Groton ...................2 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0—8 Three-base hits—Mixer, Hardwick (2). Two- base hits—Mixer. Sacrifice hits—Donahue, Bryce, Sturgis. Stolen bases—Donahue. Pike, Webb. First base on balls—Off Lewis, off Hurley (2), off Bryce (2), off Sturgis (4). Hit bv pitched ball—Norton. Passed balls—Colt. WHd pitches—Sturgis. Struck out—By Lewis (2), by Bryce (3), by Hurley (2). Double plays—Baker to Alsop. Umpire—McGrail. ----------------------------- Somerville, l; Bnollsb iblob, 6 Somerville lost her second league game to Eng- lish high because of the poor support given the pitchers. Captain Donahue had an off day and made some bad errors. In the first he tossed the ball to the gate, letting the man go to third, where he scored on a single. The third inning was one which made Somerville's fielding look bad. Green made a single and was advanced by Mc- Naught's safe bunt. Klein bunted to Pike, who could have easily thrown him out. only no one cov- ered first. Kelly rolled to Pike, who caught Green at the plate. Errors by McDonald and Norton and a single and two stolen bases brought in four runs. Hurley took Pike's place, and fin- ished the game. Somerville batted feebly all through except in the ninth, when on an error and two timely hits she scored her only run. Hurley held the opponents from scoring except in the fifth, when errors by Donahue, Nolan, and Ned Garland and a single al- lowed Roberts to cross the plate. The score:— SOMERVILLE HIGH. r. b.h. p.o. a. c. Norton, s.s 1 0 2 0 1 Donahue, 2b 0 1 3 3 3 Pike, p 0 0 0 1 0 Hurlcv, p 0 1 1 2 0 Nolan, c.f 0 2 2 0 1 Mixer, r.f 0 0 1 0 0 McDonald, lb................ 0 1 8 0 1 Parks, 3b................... 0 0 0 2 0 R. Garland, c............... 0 0 9 3 1 E. Garland, l.f............. 0 0 1 0 0 Totals..................... 1 5 27 11 7 ENGLISH HIGH. r. b.h. p.o. a. e_ McNaught, c.f................ 1 1 0 0 0- Klein, l.f....................2 1 0 0 0 Kelly, 3b.................... 1 1 0 0 O Siney, 2b.................... 0 0 1 0 1 Janvrin, s.s., 3b............ 1 0 2 1 0 Kinney, lb................... 0 2 12 0 0- Roberts, 2b., s.s............ 1 2 3 5 0 Whiteley, r.f................ 0 1 0 0 0 Nelson, c.................... 0 0 9 1 0 Green, p..................... 0 3 0 1 0 Totals..................... 6 11 27 8 1 Innings ................1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Somerville High...........0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1—1 English High..............1 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0—6- Three-base hits—Green. Two-base hits—Kelly. Sacrifice hits—McNaught, Hurley. Stolen bases —Kelly, Janvrin (2). Roberts. First base on balls—By Hurley. Hit by pitched ball—Nelson by Hurley. Struck out—By Pike (4), by Hurley (4), by Green (8). Double plays—Roberts to Jan- vrin. Umpire—Tom Murphy. ----------------------------- Somerville, 2; iDefcforfc, 10 Somerville managed to give the game to Med- ford on May 19 by making many errors, and quite a few points were stretched to make the number ten. Pike pitched well considering his support. Evcr run of Medford's was the result of Som- erville’s punk fielding. In the first they scored on Donahue's error and a base hit. In the next inning Donahue showed his throwing ability by heaving the ball to the fence, but fast playing barely prevented a score. The rest of the scoring resulted from similar faults. “Pep” Cousins played well, making two hits, one put-out, and no errors. The score:— Innings ................1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Somerville High...........0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0— 2 Medford High..............1 0 0 1 1 0 4 1 2—10 Stolen bases—Hurley. McKeown, Munroe, Bar- rows (2), Blakeley (2), Early. First base on balls —By Mixer (2), by Fahey (2). Passed balls— Fahey. Struck out—By Pike (8), by Mixer, by Fahey (12), by Hamilton (2). Umpire—Fitz- gerald. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 269 SOMERVILLE BASEBALL TEAM, 1909 Top Bow: Rich. Dickinson (CojicIi), Lewis, Hurley. Second Row: Slater (Manager), l ike. Barks. R. Girland. Mr. Jones (Treasurer). Third Row: Cousens, Mixer. Donahue (Captain). Nolan, E. Garland. Bottom Row: Norton, Miles. 270 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Somerville, 1; Brockton, 2 On Wednesday, May 26, Somerville lost to Brockton in an exciting game, the score being 2-1. Somerville’s team was all changed about, and they would have won but for their customary errors, making only nine. Hurley pitched well and did great work at the bat. making two singles out of four times at bat. In the second Cousens walked, stole second, went to third on a hard throw, and came home on Hurley’s base hit. In the next inning a score looked probable when Donahue started with a scratch hit. went to second on Pike’s sacrifice, reached third on a pass ball, but died there. In the sixth and eighth men were on base, but inability to hit failed to bring them in. Brockton’s two runs would not have been scored but for Somerville’s errors. In the fourth a man knocked a two-bagger, with two out. and scored on a muffed fly by Pike. In the sixth Reilly made a hit, and had reached third on an error, where Donahue threw to Parks and had him nicely caught, only Parks dropped the throw, and another run came in. In the ninth Somerville showed some fine playing. Norton dug a fierce grounder out of the ground, tossed the ball to Garland, who snapped it to Nolan for a pretty double. The score:— Innings ...............123456789 Somerville High..........01 0 00000 0—1 Brockton High............0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0—2 Two-base hits—Nolan, Roland. Sacrifice hits —Pike (2), Roland. Stolen bases—Cousens, Hurley. Swanson. First base on balls—By Ward- well (2). Hit by pitched ball—Cousens by Ward- well, Swanson by Hurley. Passed balls—Egan. Struck out—By Hurley (4), by Wardwell (9). Double plays—Norton to Garland to Nolan. Umpire—Fitzgerald. Time—1 hour. 40 minutes. ----------------------------------- Somerville, 3; Borcbester, 7 Somerville lost her third league game to Dor- chester on Monday. May 31. in an interesting game, by the score of 7-3. Somerville played in good form, and but for a few errors might have won. Norton played a snappy fielding game at short, although some of his throws were a second late to reach the bag. Garland played well at second, and Donahue, as catcher, played a great game, throwing perfectly to second. Both pitch- ers did well, although Hurley was hit harder. Dorchester scored in the first, when Boles, who had been hit by a pitched ball, scored on Pike’s artistic muff of an easy fly. In the fifth and eighth three runs were scored in each on account of errors and timely hits. In the fourth Mixer made a hit. and a little later scored on a dandy hit by Garland. In the seventh Somerville made two more on hits bv Norton and Donahue, and a pretty sacrifice by Pike. Mixer played a fine game in the field for Somer- ville. and Cruikshank, of Dorchester, was as fast as lightning, three or four times robbing Somer- ville of would-be hits. The score:— DORCHESTER HIGH. b.h. p.o. a. e. Boles, r.f....................... 2 1 0 0 Cruikshank, c.f.................. 2 3 0 0 Fraser, 2b....................... 1 3 4 0 Sullivan, lb..................... 1 12 0 0 Abbott, l.f...................... 1 0 0 0 Hoernle. s.s..................... 1 1 4 1 C. Conley, 3b.................... 3 0 2 0 Cunningham, c.................... 0 6 4 1 J. Conley, p..................... 1 1 1 0 Hardy, p........................ if 0 0 0 Totals ........................12 27 15 2 SOMERVILLE HIGH. b.h. p.o. a. e. Donahue, c....................... 2 6 3 0 Pike, c.f........................ 0 0 0 1 Nolan, lb........................ 1 9 1 0 Hurley, p........................ 0 0 3 0 Mixer, r.f....................... 1 3 0 0 Lewis, l.f....................... 0 1 1 0 Parks, 3b........................ 0 2 1 1 Garland, 2b...................... 1 6 3 0 Norton, s.s...................... 1 0 3 2 Totals......................... 6 27 15 4 Innings ..................1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Dorchester High.............1 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0—7 Somerville High............0 0010020 0—3 Runs made bv—Boles, Fraser, Abbott. Hoernle, C. Conley, Cunningham. J. Conley. Donahue, Mixer, Norton. Sacrifice hits—Cruikshank, Cun- ingham, Pike (2). Stolen bases—Boles, Hoernle, Nolan. First base on balls—By Conley (3). Hits —Off Conley, 5 in 7 innings. Struck out—By Conley (4), by Hardy (1), by Hurley (5). Double play—Norton to Garland to Nolan. Passed balls —Cunningham, Donahue. Hit by pitched ball— Boles, Lewis (2). Time—1 hour, 48 minutes. Umpire—Tom Murphy, Harvard. Attendance—- 1,400. SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 271 Hoad Blaste George B. Baxter.................. Masters. Frank M. Hawes..................... Charles T. Murray................. Sub-Masters. George M. Hosmer.................. William D. Sprague................. Frank H. Wilkins.................. 27 Warren Avenue •. • 257 School Street • -8 Franklin Street • 12 Arlington Street lb Pleasant Avenue .. «51 Boston Street Frances W. Kuan... End ora Morey ...... Mrs. Lena Gilbert... Mabel G. Curtis..... F. Gertrude Perkins. Gertrude M. Hall... Mabel E. Bowker______ Mary Cliff........... Grace E. W. Sprague Natalie A. Smith.. . Teachers. ...............122 Central Street ........2«; Batavia Street. Boston ............‘ 1 Elmwood Street ...49 Trowbridge Street. Cambridge ...........15 Grand View Avenue ................2!) Walnut Street ....88 Hancock Street, Cambridge ....127 Shawmut Avenue. Boston .22a Massachusetts Avenue. Boston ................«50 Albion Street Teacher of Music. Owler. Isabella G........... Perry. Emma A............... Puffer. Marion B............ Raymond. Laura F............ Reed, Mabelle M............. Rice. Florence W............ Sawyer, Marlon W............ Seinfger. Fanny I........... Shaw. La.irette M........... Shepard. Stella M........... Sldcbottom. Lillian 1� ...... Smallwood, Ellen A.......... Smith. Helen I’............. Sprague. Beatrice M......... Stevens. Mabel E............ Taylor. Gladys F............ Taylor. Lucy H.............. Treadwell. Lillian B........ Wentworth. Josephine........ Whitney, Lorcne A........... Wilber, Mabel W............. Wiley. Alma G............... Wyman. Helen L.............. S. Henry Hadley.................. .Janitor. Joseph Young..................... Seniors Andrews. Ruth E.................. Beers, Vivian.................... Belt. Ada L...................... Bodge. Gladys.................... Chamberlain, Alice M............. Cheney. Mary L................... Chickering, L. Elizabeth......... Clough, Gertrude G............... Clough, Portia E................. Cohen. Ernestine V............... Coogan, Elizabeth F.............. Coogan. Louise C................ Cook. Elizabeth H................ Corliss. Marion.................. Corwin. Clyda A.................. Cushing. Hazel M................. Delaney. Alice L................. Dickson. Maude E................. Elston. Elizabeth I.............. Eksergian. Nectar M.............. Fales. Dorothy D................ French. Helen C.............. --- Graves. Gertrude A............... Hallett. Marian I................ Hammond. Alice W................. Hatch. Mabel F................... Hight. Blanche E................. Hirst. Elizabeth................. Hopkins, Dorothy S............... Hopkins, Mabel M................. Howard. May G.................... Jones. Edith Read................ Kibbe. Irene..................... Macy. E. Hazel................... Martin. Ruth M................... Mitchell. Gertrude S............. Mead. Marion .................... Moore. Lena ..................... Oakes, Bernice M.................. 46 Pearl Street ....51 Oxford Street '09 ....24 Albion Street .......41!� Broadway ...in� Rromlleld Road 247 Highland Avenue .......27 Bow Street ...11 Oakland Avenue 15 Evergreen Avenue ....l«i Curtis Sti-eet .....Hi Curtis Street .121 Sycamore Street ---:{ � Putnam Street ---2«� Putnam Street 225-D Highland Avenue ..2fl Greenville Street 195 Highland Avenue Thurston Street ..271 Med ford St reet ..7 Bay State Avenue ....25 Preston Road ....9 Madison Street .Hi Monmouth Street ....«50 Adams Street ..1!� Cottage Avenue .. .5 Westwood Road ...35 Ibbetson Street .....79 Benton Road ..41 Brastow Avenue ..l«i Kingston Street ..12 Sanborn Avenue .72 Columbus Avenue . .4«� Houghton Street ..163 College Avenue .......11 Lee Street ......3 Miner Street ...s Thurston Street .20 Pleasant Avenue ...71 Chandler Street .....1« Grant Street ...100 Walnut Street Benner, Herma� C........ Bennett. Ralph W........ Bennett. Richard W.... Brown. William J........ Bunton, Alger T......... Cabecelras. Henry J.... Col man. Roger A........ Cook. Chester S......... Crenncr. Robert A....... Dodge, George E......... Duggan. Matthew C.... Garland. Edwin 1'....... Gunter. Fred C.......... Henderson. Raymond F Howe. William S......... Hunnewell. William...... Hutchison. Robert R----- Jarvis. Herbert P....... Kendall, Alfred F....... Macdonald. Herbert A.. Mac Loan. Howard A.... McCarthy, Francis J... Merrill. Daniel C....... Merry. Ralph E.......... Milliken. John C........ Mukloon. James I........ Muldoon, Miles J........ Newton. Allison L. H... Nolan. Walter H......... Robertson. Emil M....... Russell. Edmond.......... Sawyer, Spencer I........ Sheridan. Georg© V....... Slater. John E........... SUUivan. Matthew G....... Thayer. Nathaniel S...... Wilber. Clarence B....... Dow. Hazel P............. Keeler. Helen M.......... McDonald. Isabel M....... Ware. laivlnin L......... Adcock. Eugene L......... Earle. Fred R............ Noble. Arthur W.......... 39 .........20 Browning Road .........18 Everett Avenue .......14 Dartmouth Street ...........45 Bromfleld Road ...........20 Forest Street ...........32 Giant Street .........381 Medford Sti-eet .........172 Medford Street ...........92 Central Sti-eet .........162 Sycamore Street .........21 Dartmouth Street ...........53 Chester Street ..........34 Browning Road ..........438 Medford Street .........16 Brastow Avenue .........9 Sycamore Street ...........15 Howe Street ..........39 Hancock Street ..........120 Pearl Sti-eet ...........38 Wallace Sti-eet ..........42 Franklin Street ..............446 Broadway ..........515 Bartlett Sti-eet ..........242 Willow Avenue ............3 Hawkins Sti-eet ........._;49 Putnam Street .......257-R Beacon Street ..............-32 Cedar Street ............7 Joseph Street .........151 Central Street Langdon Avenue. Watertown ...........«51 Adams Street ...........15 Grove Street ...........6 Nevada Avenue ...........70 Porter Sti-eet ..........141 Walnut Street ..........242 Summer Street ...........II Wesley Park ...........23 Milton Street .........18 Sewall Street ...........231 Pearl Street ..........349 Summer Street .........5 Norwood Avenue .........20 Wesley Park ...........20 Linden Street ...........IS Irving Street ...........41 Dover Street ...........15 Winter Street .........4o Crescent Street ..........4o Crescent Street .......147 Highland Avenuo .......15 Mountain Avenue ...........S Linden Avenue ...........57 Dane Street .........1«) B� owning Road ...........22 Perry Street .........22 Montrose Street ...........42 Trull Street .......7 Fairview Terrace ..............SO Elm Street ..........377 Medford Street ..........128 Central Street ...........18 Greene Street .......54 Dartmouth Street .......205 Highland Avenuo ...........48 Hanks Street ...........16 Sewall Street 272 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Junior Backus, Hazel li..... Baker. Emma M......... Baxter, Alice XI..... Behnke. Edith M...... Brine. .Marie B...... Burt. Helen F........ •Butman, Helen XI... Cameron. Isabella..... Chapman. Lula E....... Cleveland. Ethel F---- Clifford, Elsie P.... Conant. Pauline....... Colcord. Ethel........ Conway. Frances XI.. Crankshaw, Ruth...... Curtis. Susan V...... De Muris. Olive E----- Dooling, Rita 1....... Doran, Alice M........ Dow, Ben la O......... Evans, Winefred C... Kales, Ruth S......... Ferguson. Mary E------ Harrington. Alice K.. Haskell. Ruth E....... Hawes. Sally G........ Hepburn, Corinne XI... Hodge. Annie XI....... Hooper. J.eslie....... Hunter, Ruth F........ Hutchins, Marguerite I Hyde. Estella P....... Johnston, Marie A..... Lamont, Ruth A........ Little. Frances....... McCarthy, Lillian A... XIcGann, Frances L... Xlilleson, Lois A..... Monahan. Margaret E. Newhall. Harriet....... Nickerson. Bertha..... Patten. Cornelia H..... Perkins. Agnes E...... Priest. Miriam E...... Roberts, Marion A...... Roosa. Aloerta H...... Ryan. May G........... Scoboria, Eleanor XI... Slble . Elinor H...... Sprague. Marjorie E... Stevens. Marguerite---- Stone. Grace C........ Taft. Hazel C......... Taylor. Xlildred H..... Truesdale, Marion V... IJrmston, Mary G....... XVaugh, Mabel K........ Weld, Gladys L........ Whitaker. Mabel C.... Whitney, Louise........ Wilson. Laura J........ TO .............15 Curtis Avenue ................ Windom Street ..............75 Boston Street .............79 I.owden Avenue .........3S Columbus Avenue .............2b Appleton Street ........438 Broadway • 9 Xft. Vernon Street. Arlington .................00 Glen Street .............“I Oxford Street ............. 1 _Bonair Street ............ .....70S Broadway ...........178 Morrison Avenue .............35 lvaloo Street ...........28 Sycamore Street ■.........14. � Perkins Street .............90 School Street .................82 Beaton Roid ...........17 Knowlton Street .............377 Medford Street ...........37 Claremon Street .............7G Irving Street .................58 Main Street .............47 Cedar Street ............212 Holland Street ............257 School Street .........220 Somerville Avenue .........8 Grand View Avenue ..........124 Professors Row .............34 Newbury Street .............19-A Morton Street .............28 Holyoke Hoad .............15 Madison Street .............13 Conwell Avenue ............lit Spring Street .............51 Liberty Avenue .............45 Putnam Street .............30 Irving Street .............72 Central Street .............25 Warren Avenue .............30 Fran kiln Sti eet .............4 Highland Avenue .............00 Fremont Street .........9 Willoughby Street .............130 Holland Street .............1 Dickinson Street ..................40 XI in Street .............10 XIaple Avenue ............3 Westwood Road .............428 Medford Street ............ .00 Church Street .........!...7 Central Street .............31 Fenwick Street .............01 Glen Street .............174 Albion Street .............19 Aldrich Street .........12 Lexington Avenue .........322 Highland Avenue .............75 Walnut Street ....Merriam Street. Lexington .............SO Glemvood Road Barron. Maurice E..... Bennett. Daniel C...... Boardman. Herbert R.. Bryant. Howard B....... Cousins, l.ee Roy...... Currie, Edward C....... Davis. Robert T........ Dawson. George I....... Doyle. Arthur H........ Fales. John H.......... Goodspeed, Harold N... Grainger. Gordon....... Green. Harold R........ Greenwood. Harry H_____ Gron. Azel H........... Hatch. Arthur S........ Howard. Alvan W........ Janjigian. Shavash B... Killam. Franklin H..... Kingman, Stanley R.... 02 Webster Avenue .355-R Washington Street ....33 Bromlield Road ........11 Xfadlson Street ....47 Elmwood Street ----_•..15 Perry Street ....50 Mt. Vernon Street ....03 Sycamore Street ........20 Berkeley Street ....10 Monmouth Street ........37 Rush Street .......7 Henry Avenue ........1105 Broadway ........09 School Street ......16 Campbell Park ........79 Benton Road ........89 Cedar Street ....25 Brastow Avenue ........01 Albion Street ....14 Kenwood Street McCauley, John K........ McKinnon. D. Brooke----- Maulsby. Francis A...... Mead. Sumner A.......... Merrill. Herbert W...... Xlolineaux. Walter M.... Noble. Edwin I.......... Pearson. Philip K....... Putney, William H....... Reed. C. Orville....'... Rice, Perle.v A......... Sanborn. Arthur H....... Sharp, William A........ Stewart. George O....... Tarleton. Russell B..... Tellier. Arthur J....... Trafton. Harold A....... Welch. Louis H.......... Wing. John G............ Woodman. Harold G....... ...........• 11 Fremont a venuo .......17 Grand View Avenue .............80 Curtis Street ............74 Chandler Street ............H Lincoln Street ............43 Kingston Street ............10 Sewall Street .........38 Bay State Avenue ............120 Bartlett Street ............120 Bartlett Street .............10 Mead Street ...........183 Central Street .............6 Centre Street .............58 Irving Street ............81 Willow Avenue ..............2 Curtis Street ............50 Boston Street ........12 Spencer Avenue ............14 Oxford Street ............24 Cherry Street Sopbomorca Abbott. Frances W.... Anderson, Sylvia U. XI Angel!. Mildred L..... Atkins. Evelyn F...... Barnaby, Elizabeth M. Bean. Flora I......... Blaser, Mabelle L..... Bonney. Dorothy G----- Bowen, Florence C.... Brown. .Mildred G..... (’ann. Charlotte XI... Carpenter, .Marion H... Carr, Ethel N......... Chisholm. Ethel V..... Clough. Marlon E...... Cobh, Hazel R......... Cohen. Bessie S....... Cohen. Xlabc-1 G...... Conway, Sadie E......... Cummings, Alice E----- Cummings. Ruth........ Currier. Julia F...... Davis. Xlarlon H...... De Avellar, Anna L.... Derby, Dorothy........ Dooley. Ethel XI........ Doolittle. Mary E..... Dunbar. Ruth P.......... Estec. .Marion F...... Evarts, Christine E..... Field. Helen T........ Fox. Florence E....... Gardner. Edith Xf....... Glllis. Ruth A.......... Golden, Mary E.......... Griffin. Katherine E---- Bullion. Annie I........ Hastings. Gladys B...... Heckbert. Beatrice A. . Hill. Xlargarctta....... Hooper, Gertrude XI---- Hopkins. Ellen G...... Kaula. Helen M........ Kingman. Xllrlam R.... Leavitt. Mildred R..... homos. Palmyra Xt...... Lincoln. XIargaret.... XlcComhle, F. Alfreda.. McDonald. Margaret E. Merrill. Julia E....... Merrill. Ruth A........ Mills. Irene P......... Moore. Lillian S....... XLuldoon, Agnes C...... Muldoon. Mary T........ Niles. Genevieve G..... Paris. Hazel V......... Peabody. Ethel T....... Pearson, Sve.-t XI..... Peirce. Ruth B........... Perry, Elizabeth S-----'.. T1 ....100 Belmont Street 390-A Washington Street ............03 Xlarshall Street ............73 Curtis Street • ....00 I exington Avenuo lo Granville Avenue, Xledford ............S9 Porter Street ......30 Bay State Avenuo ............52 School Street ........19-R Aklcrsey Street ............38 Cralgle Street ............5S Central Street ............18 Benton Road ........43 Franklin Street ............148 Albion Street ............22 Mead Street ..........44 Chandler Street .........103 Sycamore Street ...............24 Otis Street .............38 Vinal Avenuo ..........19 Robinson Street ..........10 XIontroso Street .............94 Pearl Street ...........11 Arthur Street .........15 Westwood Road ............81 Bartlett Street .........38 XIadison Street ...............5 Eliot Street ........3S-A XIorcland Street .............09 School Street ............21 XLilton Street ..........24 Campbell Park ...328-A Highland Avenue ..........27 Willow Avenuo .............62 Trull Street .........249 Willow Avenue ........95 Glen wood Road .........17 Pleasant Avenuo .........74 Fremont Street .............71 Heath Street ........124 Professors Row ............234 Pearl Street ........38 Riclulale Avenue ..........14 Westwood Road ..........14 Cutter Avenue ...........39 Quincy Street ...........40 Laurel Street ..........38 Mystic Avonuo .......11 Sartwell Avenuo .........3S Electric Avenuo ..........40 Harvard Street ............45 Vinal Avenuo .........50 Brastow Avenuo .........40 Crescent Street .........40 Crescent Street .........70 Pearson Avenue ........'...20 Waldo Street .........SO Wallace Street .......75-A Fremont Street .......29 Francesca Avenue .........48 Everett Avenue SOMKRVILLE HIGH SCHOOI RADIATOR 273 Perry, Grace I-.............................70 Cedar Street Reynolds. Alice.......................231 Morrison Avenue Rich, Margaret I............................34 Grant Street Richardson, («aura D......................S Benedict Street Rockwell. Grace M..............133 Powder-house Boulevard Sargent. Henrietta 15....................S Sanborn Avenue Skilton. Pauline A.......................14 Rogers Avenue Stackpole. Edith C........................no Preston Road Stone. Ruth P..............................7 Central Street Strout. Velma B.......................3(5 Francesca Avenue Tarleton. Rosamond.......................SI Willow Avenue Turner. Fleanor P...........................21 Dana Street Twombly. l.eila M.........................43 Hudson Street Vinton. Mildred H......................21 St. James Avenue W cokes, Helen..............................22 Dana Street AVhitehouse. Ruth L.......................70 Central Street Wlnshlp. Mildred L........................74 Perkins Street Arnold. Oliver P....... Barker. Wlnthrop D... Barnes. Max F.......... Beers. Douglas M....... Beers. Norman 1,....... Bennett, Harold 15..... Bernson. Mitchell L.... Bowlby, Stanley II..... Bridges. Olll ert E.... Brown. James L.. Jr... Burke. Richard A....... Carpenter. Ernest A .... Clough. Earl 15........ Cole. Willard 1........ Coogan, Russell J...... Cowan. Robert C........ Dalryir.ple. Earl...... Donahue, Arthur I...... Epstein. Nathan........ Fitzpatrick. Thomas F. Garrick. John W........ Giles. Harold 15......... Graves. WaIter E...... Groombrldgc, Elton N. Hager. Clayton M....... Harding. George I...... Harrington. Ralph D... Hartwell. Herford Haskell. G. Alexander.. Hodge. Roy W........... Hoyt. Clarence E....... Hurley. James.......... Hyde. Harold G......... Johnson. George O...... Kolscth, Karl D........ McKenney. Malcolm R. Marshall. Francis W---- Marshall. John H....... Martell. Charles A..... Martin. George H....... Mesklll. William J..... Messer. Melvin J.. Jr... Middlemas. Lawrence M Miers. Louis A......... Miller. Carl W......... Mllmore. Norville 1.... Montgomery. Robert H Muldoon. Edward J .... Murphy. Leo T ......... Newhall. Parker........ Newton. Frank II....... Nickerson. Harold W... Nowell. Ralph «5....... O'Donoghue. John F. .. Phillips. Ralph O...... Ralph. Earle K......... Rideout. Alfred M...... Ring. Matthew L........ Robinson. Edward M... Russ, Ira A............ Sargent. Homer A....... Sheerin. John B ....... Taylor. Irving P....... Tend. Phillips......... Tucker. Horace P....... Whitney. Donald H------ Wlggln. Harrison S.... .. .91 Partridge Avenue .....149 School Street . .77 Lexington Avenue ........419 Broadway ........419 Broadway .....3 Hawkins Street .....47 Highland Road .....3 Harvard Place .....(5. � Church Street ....89 Morrison Avenue .....322 Jewell Street .....58 Central Street ........724 Broadway .....Homer Square ... .29 Houghton Street .....232 Summer Street ... .2 � 1 loughton Street _____42 Moreland Street _____ion Willow Avenue .....4s Dimick Street .....29 � Lowell Street .177 Washington Street .....19 Cottage Avenue .....17 Dimick Street .....27 Walter Street .....20 Benedict Street ........2(5 Oak Street .....(� 1 Highland Road .......120 Cedar street ...2(5 Billingham Street .....27 Willow Avenue .....2 � Sydney Street .....5 Madison Street .....43(5 Medford Street .....lio Belmont Street .......11 Cedar Street .....34 Fellsway West ..153-A Willow Avenue .....07 Rogers Avenue .....S Thurston Street ...53 Partridge Avenue .....27 Franklin Street .......28 Ware Street ...3 Washington Street .....87 Glen wood Road .....2 Rogers Avenue Josephine Avenue .....24 Putnam Street . ,2x Mt. Vernon Street .....25 Warren Avenue ...145 Highland Avenue ........17 Ossipce Road ..10-A Pinckney Street .....20 Windom Street 10 Prospect-hill Avenue .....12s lx� well Street ..(57 Lexington Avenue ..12 Hinckley Street ...22 Vlnal Avenue ..28 Montrose Street ...2 Sargent Avenue ...72 Dana Street ‘......15� Howe Street .8 A Mersey Street ...50 Dartmouth Street .....28 Wallace Street .....77 Belmont Street Willard. Charles A.........................07 Oxford Street Williams. Arthur P........................2s Rogers Avenue Young. Ralph J.............................5 Laurel Avenue ffreabnien Ashton. Helen R........ Baker. Ada J........... Baldwin. Lena M........ Barker. Paulino........ Benner. Thelmer C...... Bentley. Grace 15...... Blake. Marlon I........ Bowen, Louise I........ Burns. Elizabeth....... Bush. Helen M.......... Butters. Gertrude F... . Butters. Marion B...... Chamberlin. Erma F... Chequer. Dorothy 15.... Clevenger. I .ouise M Cohen. Annie........... Coker. Evelyn M........ Cummins, Lillian F.... Conway. Ernestine T... Cragin. Margaret....... Cummings. Marion 15... Davis. Laura P......... Dewire. Louise F....... Doten, Marlon.......... Etheridge. Alice L..... Fall. Helen G.......... Ferguson. Margaret R. Fraz.ee. Ruth A........ Gillmore. Mary i5...... Gridin. Ethel M........ Grimes, Edith J........ Hambiet. Alta 11....... Hanlon. Marlon 15...... Harrington. Mary O.... Hilton. Mary O......... 1 lodges. Edith S...... Hurley. Ruth E......... Irwin. Myrtle M........ Kane. Collette A....... Kellev. Katharone L... Kycs. Ivey J........... Lay. G. Gwendolyn...... Levy. Etta F........... Lovering. Hath E....... Mae Adams. Hester...... MacPherson, Elsie...... McMillan. Hazel R...... McNeill. Bertha L...... Miller. Edytl.e I...... Morrison. Gertrude..... Mullei. Lilia M........ Nickerson. Madalene.... Owler. Elizabeth 15.... Parker. Gladys M....... Patten. Lezlle A....... Patterson. Lois B......... Paz. Eliza F........... Pearson. Hazel H....... Randall. Margaret A... Richardson. Isamay T. Richardson. Jeanette V Roberts. Reena......... Roosa. Eva 15.......... Rugglos, Ethel M....... Salford, Grace C....... Savage. Dorothv B...... Savary. Edna I......... Shanney, Mary 15. J.... Slincy, Grace G........ Smith. Ruth 15......... Sprague. Clara ‘ M..... Stephens. Pearl L...... Tufts. Dorothy W....... Turnbull. Ellen C......... Tytcr. Grace W......... Walker. Ruth M......... Weaver. Elizabeth K... W'bltaker. Helen II.--- Whitcomb, Lillian R... '12 ............S3 Columbus Avenue .................20 Grove Street .............ion Sycamore Street .............8-A Tennyson Street ..............20 Cottage Avenue ................19 Adams Street .................19 Banks Street ............9(5 Packard Avenue ■..............27 Thurston Street ...............47 Meacham Road ................81 Hudson Street ............„..81 Hudson Street ............75 Mt. Vernon Street ................18 Oxford Street .............48 Brastow Avenue ..............44 Chandler Street .................. o Flint Street ...............24 Hanson Street ...................24 Otis Street ..............is Meacham Road ................11 Cutter Avenue ..................91 Pearl Street ...........-'599 Washington Street ..............115 Glenwood Road ...............14 A Mersey Street ............73 Mt. Vernon Street ..................58 Main Street .................15 Oxford Street .................43 Heath Street ..................7 Thorpe Place ..................175 Elm Street ...............374 Oxford Street .............17 Morrison Avenue ....................2(5 Oak Street ................-'58 Bradley Street .................83 Bonair Street ..........38 YVigglesworth Street 1 Igtwson Terrace, Putnam Street .............1«! Hinckley Street ...................: i� 2 Broadway .................84 Jaques Street ..................(� � Pearl Street ................15 Bartlett Street ..................27 Flint Street .............110 Concord Avenuo ...................1 Park Place .............7 Columbus Avenuo ................23 Conwell Street ................91 Perkins Street ...................85 Glen Street ..................5 Union Street ...............41 Franklin Street ...............30 Browning Road .................17 Gilman Street ..............I Highland Avenue ....................454 Broadway ................108 Beicon Street ................13(5 lx� well Street ...............29 Lincoln Avenue ..............30 W:arrcn Avenue ...............114 Bartlett Street ...........1(5-A Norwood Avenuo ...............7 Dickinson Street ..................11 Dana Street .................14 Wesley ParK ..............107 Colle re Avenue .................7 Landers Street ...........(533 Somerville Avenue ..............13 Knowlton Street .............204 Morrison Avenue ..............15 Bowers Avenue ................4 Benedict Street ..............13 Sanborn Avenuo ...............184 Summer Street ............14 Columbus Avenuo ..............109 Summer Street ................133 Central Street ...........14(5 Sycamore Street .....3(50 Highland Avenuo 274 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Woodman, Helen A Young, Carolyn 26 Bay State Avenue Aldrich, Thomas R Bacon. Ernest W 262 School Street Blumsaek. Israel ir. c-,,...... Branagan, James A Brodil, Joseph L Carpenter. Martin F 32 Aldersey Street Cliff, Fred J Cohen. Leon S 29 Powder-house Terrace Cohen. Zelman Colbert. John N Coleman. Philip F Costa. Frederick W Crowe. John F Currie. Harold V DeCelles, Leander T Dicker-man, Charles A Dooling, George S Dutelle, Jesse A Farrington, Lester F Fitzpatrick. James C Giles. Harold B Glines, George H Hall, Gordon Hanlon, Cornelius P., Jr Harney, Edward J Healey, Maurice. Jr Hoffernan. Roy J Henderson. Harold A Holden, Dudley F Holt. Willis W Hopkins, Laurence T Johnson, Ralph A Kedian, Harold F Keegan. John F Lamont. Lindlcy a Landers. Thornton A Lewis. Harold E 23 Boston Street 29 Falrmount Avenue Lewis. Willard R.......... Lewis, William A.......... Lyncli. Alvin B........... Macdonald. Raymond L.... Mahoney. Damon W.......... Mahoney. Francis J........ Marks. Harold E........... McLean. Herbert C......... Mitchell. Norman J........ Niles. Charles L.......... O'Donoghue. Timothy W... Olson. Cordon W........... Olson, Wallace B.......... Rage. Arthur E............ Palmer, Harold C.......... Parker. Walter E.......... Pearson. Earle F.......... Phillips, Arthur W........ Plumer. Ellsworth H....... Prout. James G............ Prout. Joseph A........... Ramsey. Harry J., Jr...... Rice. Leonard A........... Richards. Robert G........ Richardson. Arthur I...... Rogers. Meyrlc R.......... Rosinauer. Moses B........ Rupert, Frederick 11...... Sault, Raymond G.......... Smith, Albert F........... Steele. Howard D.......... Thayer. William W......... Vlnal. Dexter O........... Waitt. Laurence 1......... Warsowe, Sidney A......... Waterhouse. Charles N..... Webb. l-Iarold L.......... Whipple. Guy B............ Whittaker. Walter E....... Wilson. Stanley W......... Woodman. Earle K.......... York, Walter R............ ....73 Cross Street 10 Westwood Road ....88 Avon Street ...... .80% Heath Street .437 Winter-hill Terraco ........Id Parker Street ....48 Highland Avenue ....12 Pinckney Street ....13 Kingston Street .......Pearson Avenue ....26 Wlndom Street ........741 Broadway ........741 Broadway ....452 Medford Street ...IS Bay State Avenue ........55 Main Street ...20S Morrison Avenue 10 Prospect-hill Avenue ..197 Washington Street ........53 Park Street ........53 Park Street ........66 Myrtle Street ........51 Avon Street ........44 Day Street .......68 Bonair Street ....22-A Wesley Park ----100 Pearson Avenue ....100 Rogers Avenue .......23 Pearson Road ....117 Prospect Street ....54 Mystic Avenue ----7 Fair View Terrace- ........6 Warner Street ----22 Norwood Avenue ....22 Everett Avenue ....193 Summer Street ........400 Broadway ....20 Wesley Street ........11 Mystic Street ....10 Dresden Circle- ....39 Chester Street ...22 Dartmouth Street SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Head Mnntor. John A. Avery...........................22 Dartmouth Street Master. Everett W. Tuttle.......................02 Highland Avenue Sub-M asters. Harry L. Jones................127 Powder-house Boulevard Howard W. Poor..............27 Mt. Vernon Street. Reading George W. Earle..........................9 Pleasant Avenue Charles F. Abbott........................49 Boston Street Harry F. Sears...........44 Orris Street. Melrose Highlands Frederick O. Smith.............135 Powder-house Boulevard William W. Obear.........................CO Walnut Street Laurence A. Sprague......17 Perkins Street, West Newton John M. Jaynes...........................29 Putnam Street Archibald S. Bennett................12 Grand View Avenue Teachers. A. Marion Merrill.................................CO Highland Avenue Helen B. Follansbee.....................40 VInal Avenue Airs. Mary C. Thurston..................271 Medford Street Harriet E. Tuell........................10 Harvard Place Elizabeth Campbell................................15 Pleasant Avenue Airs. Jessamine D. Wolcott........5 Swan Street, Arlington A. Laura Batt.........................60 Highland Avenue M. Helen Teele.................11 Jason Street, Arlington Clara A. Johnson........................177 Central Street Bertha P. Marvel.........................60 Vinal Avenue Elizabeth H. Hunt...........05 Langdon Street. Cambridge Bessie D. Davis.......................13 Mt. Vernon Street Ella D. Gray............................147 Walnut Street Nina A. Cummings........................47 Wallace Street Nellie H. Swift.........................T9 Boston Street Ruth Tousey....................................106 Professors Row Anna Pushee.............................10 Harvard Plaeo Bessie L. Forbes........................92 Orchard Street Bertha A. Raymond.......................85 Central Street Blanche S. Bradford.....................101 Summer Street Grace K. Burroughs......................83 Munroe Street Alabel Butman......................15 Prospect-hill Avenue Alary E. Hadley. .10 Westminster Avenue. Arlington Heights Grace Gatehell...........................60 Vinal Avenue Winifred K. Howe........................ � Vinal Avenue Flora E. Anderson.................................8-A Hancock Street A. Alarguerite Browne.... 5 Concord Avenue. Cambridge Annie C. Woodward..........................150 School Street Ala boil M. Ham............................� 1 Boston Street Janitor. Lewis G. Keen...........................30 Berkeley Street Seniors Anderson. Helen G.. Barnett. Ida....... Benson. Blanche M. Bent. Winifred H... Benthall. Mildred... Bird. Ethel M...... Bolton. Alarion L. .. Borns. Marguerite K Bowdltch, Beatrice L ’00 .......21 Perry Street .......30 Alpine Street ....142 Holland Street .......On Hall Avenue ....36 Highland Road .......01 Hall Avenue ....10 Crescent Street ....401 Medford Street .. .84 Lexington Avenue Bowman. Ruth...............................153 Willow Avenue Boyd. Bertha M............................16 Berkeley Street Briggs, Florence 1...........................21 Pearl Street Brine. Loretto «;.....................2« Columbus Avenue Brown ville, Beatrice 1......................20 Had Street Burke, Hazel G.......................227 Washington Street Burke. Rose A.....................................222 Lowell Street Burns, Annie 1.....................................15 Thorpe Place Byrnes. Anna V........................50 I-exington Avenue Cabot. Edith M........................22 Burnside Avenue Caless. Helen.............................22 Pitman Street Campbell. Aline D.......................414 Medford Street Chapman. Bertha i.........................64 Church Street Clark. Elsie M.........................25-A Prescott Street Clark. Mary E...........................11 Kingston Street Graft. Elsie M............................67 Fremont Street Delay. Martha V..........................is Beacon Street Donovan. Frances M........................41 Beacon Street Drinkwater. Ethel S..........................872 Broadway Duncan. Alice C.........................10 Tennyson Street Dunning. Eleanor......................28 Billingham Street Emerson. Marion L.........................9 Bradley Street Esdale. Florida............................12 Thorpe Place Farrell. Elizabeth C......................22 Berkeley Street Farrell, Gertrude V.......................27 Austin Street Farrell. Mary L...........................22 Berkeley Street Feltus. Myrtle A...........................126 Cedar Street rrisher. Bessie L.........................nr Gilman Street Fitzgerald. May E.....................89 Partridge Avenue Fleming. Jeanle S..................202-A Highland Avenue Follett. Jean E.............................48 Summer Street Gillard. Ruth E...........................415 Medford Street Coudey, Clara A.............................si Walnut Street Grainger. Louise.............................29 Windsor Road Greenberg. Rose.............................18 Rogers Avenue Haradon. Ethel C..........................142 Orchard Street Hatch. Mildred 1..........................482 Medford Street Haynes. Inna..............................10 Austin Street Healy. Margaret R........................11 Dlmick Street Healy. May G.............................11 Dimick Street Heath, Margaret 1.........................19 Eastman Road Ilemeon. Kathleen W.......................10 Fellsway West Hill. Alice AI............................14 Thorpe Place Holt, Elizabeth AI......................28 Houghton Street Horton. Bessie C..........................22 Everett Avenue Hunt. Caroline I..........................28 Brook Street Hurley. Margaret J........................1J� Campbell Park Joiner. Edith E...........................48 Hudson Street Joiner. Mildred 1.........................48 Hudson Street Kenneson. Mabel F............................274 Broadway King. Lillie E............................94 Bartlett Street Kingman. Ruth E.........................14 Westwood Road Kingsley, Gladys A........................88 Belmont Street Knowles. Carrie R.....................10 Wigglesworth Street Lamb. Lillian K ......................21 St. James Avenue I citch. Eudora D.........................29 Hudson Street Linfield. Hilda M.........................11 Fosket Street Jyovejoy. Esther L........................62 Rogers Avenue Lowe. F. Crvstal......................26 Rlchdale Avenue Hint. Lillian L...........................19 Harvard Street MacDonald. J. Elsie..........................11 Trull Street Aladden, Grace E..........................61 Marion Street 276 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Mcfntosh RCraoJ..................................v1� Medfort Street m t «°S ’ ...................... Partridge Avenue •S Sa rr 1................................. I-owell Street Mein ft ............................30 Ha,,ks Street -u«.ii ut. .Maiy s....................... • « i).lV o, %t!iSellEd!f� ryFW’ D....................I? Kingston Street l!rUh 1 22 Robinson Street }} '• J..........................21 School Street .A'V e, V...................... 2 Sunnyside Avenue Mullen. Katharine A......................41 Franklin Street Nason, Rertha J......................... . . . ..12 H™th Street Nelson. Carrie A..................................77 Hancock Street Nicholson xivmn.....................:{,w Highland Avenue v Li ‘I; rUe.........................30s Highland Avenue v!1 ?°®1-.............................70 Pearson Avenue niLi Vi!1 U M.........................1® College Avenue ofin ’ Dorothi’4 A......................0 Elmwood Street Jvv«nP0,imV ................................ Cellar Street P v-i ’ |;,izaboth -• ...................99 Pearson Avenue ,MoIKart;t. M.................;{47 Washington Street I edttsen. Dora C.......................x Mountain Avenue I edersen, Jennie M.....................8 Mountain Avenue Potter' hvifnf S.............................CroQker Street 1 Svr......................... Arthur Street ’ x.?“rL.V.....................,:7 l xlngton Avenue Ronan. Alice M . .......................373 Medford Street Sampson, Ethel I) .......................-n Beacon Street Sander. Josephine M.........................31 Grove Street Sargent. .Marian 11.............. ■„ MeaJ o. Simmons. Isabelle K....................!« Hancock Street Skinner. Maude ........................ a ivo„ 0,....... Smart. Helen U...........................Pi Boston Avenue Spear. Helen. .............................. Gibbens Street Stevens Kva G............................13 Iaivell Avenue !' .....................•'« Wallace Street Thnmn8 Maude K .........................!«5 Munroe Street Thompson. I- lorencc M...............1:54 Highland Avenue -I'1 il i‘V' .....................10 I-incoln Avenue Irlckey, Gertrude M....................in Auburn Avenue Ir.cent. Alice M.........................11 i vcl| Street aldmn. tloanor h...........................0x2 Broadway Mara now Deborah........................40 Gorham Street Ktlie! M.........................33 Belmont Street ja ler-«aS?ce,.M...........................17 Cl ant Street Ullder. Emily II..............................as Rim Street Worcester. Helen........................24 Rrasto.w Avenue Atwater, Ralph W........ Bagster. William K...... Bezanson. Roland II.... Blanchard. Frank N------ Blois, Irving G......... Brennan. Stephen G------ Brigham. Chester A...... Cavanaugh. Arthur L... Chambers. Walter II... Chapin. Ernest W........ Chcotham. Henry R....... Clarke. J. Gerard....... Dohanian. Senekerlm M Donahue. Edward A.... Flint. Fred W.......... Freeman. Harris II...... Geddes. John W......... Gillooly. Arthur J..... Gurvin. John E.......... Gustln, Lester C........ Handley. Otis L......... Harlow. Leslie K........ Harrington, James J... Hartshorn, Cari I....... Haskell. Arthur C...... Hazel tine. Burt A...... Hogan. Francis C....... Holm. Ix� uls F.......... Holmes. Charles E....... Honnors. Oscar L........ Hughes. Charles T....... Jones, Adelbert I...... Jones. Walter T......... Kathan. Earl 11........ Jguirent. Paul E........ Littlefield. Edward L.. Millie. Herman. Jr...... Miner. Henry A.......... ............1 Avon Street ............0 Porter Avenue ............47 laurel Street ............2 Curtis Avenue .........8 Sartwell Avenue .......... 0 Gibbens Street ...........20 Bartlett Street ........27 Springfield Street ............10 Perry Street ...........41 Walnut Street ............33 Avon Street ...........12 Summer Street ..........232 Summer Street ...........42 Moreland Street ............22 Dover Street .......231 Washington Street ............Ss Munroe Street .........33 Winslow Avenue .........Wilson Avenue ........27 Columbus Avenue ............010 Broadway ...........17 Crocker Street .............1 Carver Street ............30 Irving Street 17 Parker Street. Charlestown ............20 Day Street ............32 Hall Avenue ............71 Hall Avenue ............2G3 Beacon Street .........313 Summer Street ............13 Morton Street .........104 Highland Avenue .........S Pleasant Avenue ............27 Cherry Street ...........14 Thorndike Street ............13 Park Street ...........IS Eastman Road ............30 Avon Street Moore. William H...................11 Morse. Guy E......................... Nixon. Francis H...................... Nowlin. Dudley R..................... Palmer. D. Austin.................... Parker. I.. Wright.................... Pease, Roland F...................... Peterson. Arthur C. W................. Pinto. AIvah M........................ Rich. Samuel T....................... Rowe. Frederick R.................... Russell. Cyrus J..................... Sanborn. Carl H...................... Smart. Harold I...................... Snow. Harvey E....................... St rout. Arthur...................... Swallow. George C..................... Tar box. Harold A..................... Taylor. Harold S...................... Tracy. Bliss E....................... True. Frederick II................... Whitman. Percy G..................... Wigglesworth Street .... 13 Church Street ---141 Hudson Street ...IP Hinckley Street . IS Bay State Avenue .43 Dartmouth Street loo Josephine Avenue- ....68 Sydney Street ......11 Pearl Place ......84 Grant Street .....11 Elston Street .......1007 Broadway ........361 Broadway ....04 Boston Avenue .....22 School Street ........37 Day Street .....29 Banks Street .....30 Austin Street , .41) Dartmouth Street ---10 Lincoln Avenue- .....23 Austin Street .. 12 Dartmouth Street juniors TO Aker. Sigrld B............ Ash, Charlotte E.......... Baldwin. Vila L........... Banks. Eveline............ Barney. Mildred D......... Beacham. Gertrude A------- Hearse. Marion F.......... Benjamin. Anna B.......... Bcnthall. Alma............ Blsbee. Edith E........... Black. Nellie F........... Bowler. Claire A.......... Bowler. Ruth I............ Hoyden. Laura E........... Bradford. Gladys E........ Bratton. Mabel R.......... Bryan, Martha A........... Carpenter. Mildred H.... Chipman. Elizabeth A------ Crosby. Gladys M.......... Curran. Carrie P.......... Cutler. Grace N........... Davis. Mary E............. Delay. Irene K........... Dexter. Rennie M......... Dillon. May C............. Dillon. Teresa M.......... Dolllver, Gladys W....... Dondule. Marlon F......... Donovan. Frances.......... Earle. Marlon C........... Eastman. Florence G------ Edwards. Mabel E......... Kills. Emily J........... Flaherty. May L. R....... Foley. Hilda E........... Gilley. Olivia 5......... Googlns. Florence E...... Grant. Mabel F........... Griffiths. Alice E....... Gunsenhlser. Lillian J---- Haines. II. Evanel....... Haves. Elizabeth R....... I lellmann. Wllhelmina N Henderson. Helen G....... Henderson. Mabelle E... Hennings. Alfrcda B----- Hickey. Grace M.......... Higgins. Helen M......... Hollis. Louise S......... Hooper. Ethel F.......... Jesson. Loretta M....... Johnson. Anna N.......... Jones. Alice C........... Judge. Mary M............ Keating. Catherine K... Kimpton, Anna C......... Kingston. Mabel G....... Igiurle. Inez S......... La vert v. Mary C....... ....34 Beacon Street ......20 Ash Avenue- .....'44 Spring Street .......94 Bioudway .. .20 Delaware Street .......196 Broadway ....43 Cutter Street ....8N J a ques Street. ....36 Highland Road ...341 Summer Street .....9 Wesley Street .....87 Porter Street .....87 Porter Street ....13 Gorham Sticet ...272 Summer Street .......13 Oak Street. .....22 Irving Street ....9 Webster Street .....160 North Street ... .35 Willow Avenue .......62 Otis Street . .34-A Madison Street .. .54 Moreland Street ........32 Line Street ---200 Central Street ....29 Adrian Street ....29 Adrian Street .124 Morrison Avenue ....79 Newton Street ...126 College Avenue ......59 Avon Street ......31 Ash Avenue .....10 James Street ... .62 Meacham Road _’ ;i Washington Street ....210 Summer Street .....II Walter Street . .. .32 Madison Street ... .94 Moreland Street ......39 Ames Street .....104 North Street ...... 7 Cedar Street ...:J4 Houghton Street ......27 Bolton Street ---242 Summer Street .......6S Avon Street ....26 Gorham Street .....11 Knapp Street .....29 Linden Street ... .27 Marshall Street .....166 Lowell Street ...251 Summer Street ........39 Joy Street ....306 Beacon Street: ......7 .Record Place .......5 Clyde Street ....40 Gilman Street ......45 Banks Street ...149 College Avenue. ...11 Houghton Street. SOMERV-LLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 277 LoGallee. Dorothy F...... Lewi� , Ada M............. Lipsett, Eleanor......... MacEoan. M. Ethel........ .Maddisoti. Emily B...... Magoon. Gladys M......... Mahoney. M. Theresa.... Mann. Geneva G........... Market. Florence E....... McCarthy. Eleanor M... MeGoldrlck. Mary A....... McNeill. i-ouise W....... Merrill. Pauline......... Miller. Mary E.......... Mollenhauer. Pearl....... Moore. Marion A......... Moore. Theodora C........ Morgan. Evelyn ('........ Morrison. Edith M....... Murray, Mary E........... Nevins, Pauline F........ Newcomb. Evelyn B.... Newhouse. Mabel.......... Northrop. Florence M . .. O'Connell. Margaret E.. O'Nell. Grace K......... O'Neil. Harriet M....... Orcutt. Ethel M.......... Paterson. Helen R....... Perron. Annie E.......... Peterson. Agnes C. E... Pierson. Rose E......... Pollack. Etta A......... Porter. Helen N......... Reid. Gladys E.......... Rice. Bernice 1!........ Rinaldi. Francesca F. E Rogers, Helen E......... Rupert. Marguerite D... Ryder. Ruth I.......... Savage. Alice G......... Sawyer. Marjorie F...... St riven. Lillian C..... Scriven. Marguerite M., Shaplelgh, Mary E....... Sias. Eulal� N......... Skelton. Blanche D...... Smart. Alice E.......... Snell. Ellen H.......... Spinney, Eydla J........ Sprague. Eva E......... Stacy. Doris I.......... Starkey, Gertrude A... Stevens. Ruth.......... Swallow Eottlc M....... Swanson. Ruth E......... Taylor. Beulah 1....... Thompson. Hazel I — Tyter. Ruth M........... Waugh. Beatrice F.... Welch. Josephine A----- Welch. Mary H.......... Wheeler. Ella K........ Whitcomb, Eucy E.... William. Sadie O....... Woodward. Bessie E... Yavner. Sadie P........ -----IS Summer Street .....202 School Street -----33! 1 Beacon Street .....'51 Quincy Street . .3U Charnwood Road ... .38 Madison Sti eet .......01 Oak Street ...30 Summit Avenue .. .'.17 Sycamore Street .....52 Park Street ..34 Houghton Street • 23b Highland Avenue .....90 Curtis Street .......3 Royce Place .....8 Bigelow Street -----20 Mossland Street .....1 Kenwood Street .12 Sunnyslde Avenue ..«57 Church Street ...12 Murray Street ....51 Flint St ee. ...37 Heith St re ft .. .01 Bonair Street 10� College Avenue ....33 Ei n wood S. re • t 347 Washington Street .....1!)7 Pearl Street .....I I Summer Street .....10 Einden ( ircle .....21) Crocker Street .....OS Sydney Street .....23 Wesley Park .....5� : S'ydney Street .....31 Hudson StrCft ........is Hall Street .....17 Aklersev Street .....21b Pearl Street ..410 Highlmd Avenue .....11 Parker Street ...207 Morrison Avenue .....10 Dane Avenue ....IS Sanborn Avenue .....108 Summer Street ....108 Summer Street .....44 Quincy Street .....«',7 Central Street ....10 Burnside Avenue .....3S Willow Avenue -----30 Dickinson Street .....bb Jaques Street .301 Washington Street .....14 Madison Street ........101 Kim Street ...7 Francesca Avenue .......29 Banks Street .....03 Einden Avenue ........14 Hall Avenue .....12 Parker Street ...14 Columbus Avenue .....92 Perkins Street ...303 Highland Avenue ...303 H'ghland Avenue .......7-A Trull Street .....19 Crocker Street .....8 Rlchdale Avenue .....49 Einden Avenue .....152 Einwood Street Abbott. Porter S..... Adams. Edward E.... Ahern. Frank E....... Arnold. Franklin E... Baker. Warren I,..... Barlow. Cecil M...... Beaudet, Clement J.. Bennett. Mason E----- Berg. Charles E...... Chandler, Oscar W... Conte. Joseph ...... Cooper, Herbert F... Coplthorne, Arthur N Cragin, Arthur B.. Jr Crispin. Russell M... Crocker, David W----- Dewire, Thomas A... ......85 Cross Street ....22 Highland Road ....20 Robinson Street ..91 Partridge Avenue ......45 White Street ..70 Columbus Avenue ....I Chester Avenue ......71 School Street ....71 Holland Street . .� 59 Mt. Vernon Street 403 Somerville Avenue ....30 Berkeley Street ......si School Street ......122 Cross Street .....31 Chandler Street .......42 Curtis Street .399 Washington Street Duncan. Walter H........ Flint, Herman C......... Forg. Fred.............. Foster, Stuart B........ Gardner. Chester R...... Gardner, Herbert W...... Golden. Jacob........... Goodell. Albert M....... Goodwin. William B...... Gordon, Roger . E....... Grady. Henry W.......... Handley. Andrew F....... Hart. James M........... Hayward. Alfred W....... Henderson. Charles D... Higgins. Miles C........ Hodgdon. Wayne M........ Hopkins. Clarence R..... Hughes. Frank A......... Hunt. Willis K.......... Jones. Walter S......... Jones. Willard E........ Knight. John F.......... Knox. Walter A.......... handers. Norman H....... Lane. Stanley W........ I ewis. James A........ Eipshires. Hymen....... Eounsbury, W. I.eRoy.. Maguire. Frederick J--- Marchant. Harry A...... Marsh. Osmon T......... Marshall. Chester IE... Mason. Otis E.......... Maxim. Myles S......... McCarthy. Jeremiah F.. McCarthy. William J.... McGinn. J. Earle....... McKinley. Ernest H----- Miles, Harold F........ Mixer. Clarence M...... Morse. Raymond E....... Musgrave. Harold E----- Pike. Joseph S.. Jr.... Pitcher, Raphael C..... Rodway. Charles E.... Rosborough, R. W....... Ross. Frank D.......... Scott. Everett F....... Skilling. John M....... Smith. Stanley A....... Sullivan. Daniel....... Taylor. Ralph W........ Thompson. Dwight N... Trahcy. James B........ VVaranow. 'harles.... Washburn. W. Blaine.. Wilkins. Harold S...... Winn. Frederic......... Winton. Rufus B........ -----2 Brastow Avenue ...54 Montrose Street ... .50 Metebam Road .....5b Curtis Street 11 Spring-hill Terrace .....135 i.'owell Street .....9 Crown Street .92 Eexington Avenue .09 Raymond Avenue .....58 Beech Street .....38 Marion Street .......010 Broadway .....19 Adrian Street .....5 Wlndom Street .....43 Hudson Street -----27 Prospect Street .....1 Pe traon Road .....59 Craiglo Street .....290 4 Broadway ... .40 Franklin Street .....11 Belmont Place .50 Francesca Avenue .....42'� Norfolk Street .....92 Hudson Street .....48 School Street ....23 Everett Avenue .........9 Hall Street .... 11 Mortimer Place ...lb Houghton Street .....29 Qu ncy Street .....102 Jaques Street .......35Vi Day Street .....84 Hudson Street .....4 Sargent Avenue .....59 Boston Street .....24 Preston Road . ...22o Summer Street .....01 Hancock Street .......05 Grove Street -----3 . Robinson Street .....11!) Central Street .....21 Maple Avenue- .......9 Hillside Park .....53 Preston Road .......20 Albion Street ....is Princeton Street .....17 Crocker Street .....33 Adrian Street .....41 Bartlett Street .....13 Fosket Street .......30 Rush Street .....4 Partridge Avenue .......15 Howe Street .....01 Walnut Street .....52 Beacon Street .....40 Gorham Street .....is Kidder Avenue .....9.8 Central Street .....35 Bradley Street .....104 Summer Street Sopbom 'ra? Adler. Emma E............... Anderson. Harrictte G....... Anderson. Mildred E......... Atwood. Eillian M.......... Baird. Helen G.............. Baker. Hazel I� ............. Baker. Ixn-etta M........... Baldridge. Florence A....... Ball. Carrie E............. Blackett. Annie E........... Blair. Marion I............ Blanchard. Charlotte E...... Boss. Marjorie E............ Bowman. Susie .............. Bradbury. Claudia P......... Bradley, Maizle K........... r.rccn. Margaret M......... Bryne. May C............... Burns. Ruth................ Calkin. Susie M............. Cameron, Gladys A........... Campbell, Zillah........... '1! ..........53 Eowden Avenue ........42 Francesca Avenua ........33 Josephine Avenue • 130 Powder-house Boulevard .............03 Avon Street ............45 White Street ........... 22 Iceland Street ..........15 Sycamore Street .........122 Holland Street .........19-A Con well S root ......... .54 Gilman Street ........17 Mt. Vernon Street ...........24 Maple Avenue ..........50 Elmwood Street ............42 Adams Street .............7 Parker Street .......401 Somerville Avenue ........84 Wheatland Street .............15 Thorpe Placi ........330 Highland Avenue ........328-A Slimmer Street ............31 Jaques Street SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 278 Chaffee, Lillian C.... Chase. Laura B........ Chipman. Gladys E... Clark, E. Lena........ Cole, F. Regina....... Conti. Stella E....... Conway. May A......... Corkhill, Helen E..... Cronin. Agnes V........ Cudmore. Eleanor V... Currie, Elizabeth A---- Cutler. Mary E........ Deady, Louise F........ J)ean. Ethel M........ Dewire. Mary .1....... DeWolf. Sara E......... Dillon. Ruth H......... Dlx. M. Gladys......... Dixon. Jennie F. 1.... Doctoroff. Bessie 1� --- Doe, Florence H....... Donnelly. Mary G....... Donnelly. Ruth A...... Eisenhauer. Meta P.... Eld red ge. Winifred M. Farnsworth, Mabel E. Ferguson. Annie L...... Fiske. Helen I......... Fltzmaurlec, Annie A.. Fitzpatrick. Irene K... Frlsbee. May T......... Fuller. Maude S........ Gallagher. Mary L...... Gannon. Ellen T........ Gardner. Geneva IK — Giragoslan. Eliza K---- Glynn. Catherine E----- Golden. Ida............ Graves. Elsie F........ Grieve. Janet M. A..... 3 lagan. Edith E....... TIaliborton. Emma...... Dallett. Emily N....... Hainan. Nellie F....... Harrison. Inez U....... Heath. Marlon L....... 3 llckev. Katherine 1--- Ilogan. Florence I..... Holden. Mary J.......... Hopkins. Edith B........ Hopkins. Gladys E...... Howland, Ina R......... Hughes. Mae A........... Hunt. Ix)ttle L........ Hunt. Selina A......... Unit. Ethel M.......... Hyde. Ruth E........... Jnnls. Gertrude I....... Jacobs. Bessie.......... Janjiglan. Sophia B..... Johnson. Esther M....... Jones. Mildred H...----- Kilgrove. Rachel E...... Knight. E. Florence..... 3,amb. Helen T.......... 3,andon. Helen S........ Lane. Mildred P......... Llnnell. Helen H........ Lomasney. Alice I...... I Ong. Olive E.......... Macdonald. A. Lulu...... Macdougal. Vera L....... Madigan. Mary G......... Magnuson. Theresc..----- Mazonl. Elizabeth S..... McCarragher. Emily 1. • McCarthy. Marguerite M McCarthy. Marie M....... McDonough. K. E......... McNeill. Agnes I........ Meagher. Catherine F... Merrill. Amy F.......... Miller. Helen K....;----- Mitchell. Florence E.... Morgan, Dorothy R....... ........100 Pearl Street ............11 Giles Park ........IDS Pearl Street —25-A Prescott Street .12 Grand View Avenue ...87 Lexington Avenue ........24 Otis Street .....29 Autumn Street ,.....49 Montrose Street ........07 Trull Street ........15 Perry Street ......62 Bonair Street ...84 Bay State Avenue .....20 Aldrich Street .881 Washington Street ...2.8 Charnwood Road .11 Grand View Avenue ......17 Union Street ......58 Myrtle Street .....13 Mortimer Place .....20 Gorham Street .....54 Hanson Street _____31 Franklin Avenue .....98 Oxford Street .....89 I.owell Street ........288 Broad wav .....150 Perkins Street .....44 Cherry Street ....104 Summer Street .....21 Vlnal Avenue .....12 Claremon Street ..159 Highland Avenue .....19 Beacon Place .....345 Lowell Street .....43 Willow Avenue .....53 Cedar Street ..18 Dartmouth Street .....9 Crown Street ...27 Winslow Avenue _____228 Medford Street ,303 Washington Street .......2 Glover Circle 153 Washington Street .....12 Holyoke Road _____15 Cottage Avenue .....19 Eastman Road .....11 Knapp Street .....44 Berkeley Street .....12 Morgan Street .....11 Lester Terrace ......23 Tower Street .....183 School Street .....13 Morton Street .....28 Brook Street _____74U Oxford Street .....24 Ossipeo Road _____10 Dynamo Street _____18 Kingston Street ......21� Derby Street .....27 Porter Street .....107 School Street .138 Morrison Avenue _____30 Cambria Street .....61 Putnam Street .....195 School Street ......179 Pearl Street _____53 Berkeley Street ... .3 Everett Avenue . .47 Partridge Avenue _____1« Highland Road .....S Virginia Street ... 107 Willow Avenue ....23 Glenwood Road _____315 Beacon Street 95 Sacramento Street .....4 Lincoln Place .....23 Vernon Street ......52 Park Street _____20 Prospect Street 239 Highland Avenue .....11 Linden Place . .8 Wesley Street 216-B Medford Street .158 Morrison Avenue .....SS Cross Street Morris. Irene F....... Morris. Mary L........ Morrison. Lucinda M. Morton. Emily P....... Mulholland. Winifred Munday. olive i ...... Nason. Beatrice A----- Nichols. Idine M ..... Nickerson. Killian M. Niekles, Esther....... Nolan. Sara M......... O'Donnell. Minnie 5!.. Patten. Nettle 1...... Pecheur. M. Frances.. Rich. Vivian G........ Ritchie. Ilene C...... Robertson. Mary B. II Ronan. Marlon K....... Russell. Florence B... Russell, Ida F........ Sargent, Ruth E....... Saunders. Gertrude A. Scott. Bernice C...... Seely. Bessie M....... Sherman. Ethel M...... Snow. Gertrude E...... Somes. Marion G....... Sprague. Beulah E----- Sterling. Elsie M..... Stetlield. Marguerite C Stevenson. Rachael A. Stoekford. Helena W.. Stone. winnifred M... Stowers, Julia K...... Strom, Ethel F........ Thomas, Jane A........ Tomfohrde. Edna C... Tracy. Alice L........ Trie key. Edith E..... Turnbull. Mary J...... Wade. Maude E......... Waugh. Winnifred C.. Weinberg. Fannie A... Wells. Gladys E....... Wilson. Marlon F...... Wood. Amy B............ Wyman. Elsie L......... Young. Ruth L.......... it .7.7.7.7.7.7. ...............24 .....14 Glenwood Road .......79 Derby Street .....67 Church Street .....•“ Bradley Street .....53 Madison Street .....60 Fellsway West 18 Wigglesworth Street .....99 Wallace Street .......4 Fosket Street .... 14 Williams Street .......27 Quincy Stre t .....22 Crescent Street .....4$ Church Street .....7 Merrlam Street .....2G4 Willow Avenue .......39 Trull Street ......41 Porter Street -----373 Medford Street .....25 Hancock Street .....100 School Street .......40 Mead Street Powder-house Terraco .....75 Munroe Street .....15 Benedict Street ..144 Highland Avertue .......42 Curtis Street .....S Eastman Road .....17 Winter Street 360 Somerville Avenue .....263-A Broadway .....64 Marlon Street -----69 Berkeley Street .....12 Lincoln Street -----3SS Medford Street .......53 Ash Street .....91 Cedar Street .......329 Broadway .....223 Penrl Street -----10 Auburn Avenue ...18-1 Summer Street .....24 Laurel Street .....5 Appleton Street .....11 Cedar Avenue ..28 Monmouth Street .....9 Irving Street .....7 Bigelow Street .....28 Avon Street . .52 Burnside Avenue Anderson. Chester S Atwood, Norman S Baker. Percy W Ball. Lester W Benson. Harry B 7.V.-.V 54 Derby Street 38 Prichard Avenue 21 Melvin Street Berqulst, John C Berry, Frank C 81 Yorktown Street Bickford. Lawrence W.... Blnney. Edward S Blackett. Alexander H Blanchard. Raymond W... Boothby, Everett J 19-A Conwel! Street 2 Curtis Avenue 95 Pearl Street Bridges. Leroy C Burnham. Walter A Butters, Joseph H Cadario, Attilio J 62 Church Street 51 Church Street Cameron. Roderick A ( andage. Solon J Chandler, George E Chandler. Wilfred W Clarks, Charles M ... .345 Somerville Avenue 72 Wheatland Street 156 Glen Street 149 College Avenue 12 Summer Street Cohlwell. I iwrence E Cole. Edward H Coleman, Robert V Cushing, Raymond A Cutler. S. Ernest Davis. Frank B 29 Pearson Road Dearborn. Lester W SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 279 geXoyer. Perry L.. Hickson. R. Karl Driscoll, William' jj ' Dunton, Fro l F Du telle. Paul r...... Eaton, Howard w Eaton. Paul |„ . .... Kdson. j. Hervey.'.... pre ierick:::: lallis. Prank h..... •an'. Raymond H....... Fieid°'u-m- ”a™on” ilel‘1. Wilbert D. . I’ isher. Fi nest M... ogarty, Joseph s ] o. . Ervlng . arry A..... I’.'fe. John s ««� re. Wlnthrop if... Galwuy, Albert W. uerrior. Joseph B... . Gifford, Clinton B. Glover. John W Graves. Edward L...... Mamann, C. Emory..”’ Hamilton. Walter S.. ’ Hanlon. Edward f. . Jianscom, Warren K Hasson. John F Heath. S. F .......... Holmes. Carl X........ Holmes. Lester X..7 Howland. Joseoh (J Humphrey. Philip a Hurley, Frank A I nox, Leslie F ...... Laurie. John v ...... Leighton. Arthur v ’ ’ Leonard. Frank L. Lewis. Minott W_____ Lynch. James J. Lynch. John K ........ Macdougai, rov 7 Magoon. William l“ McCalTrey. Kdward j.7 McCarthy. John J.... Medina. John........ MoJon. George R.’ Morlson. Fred S Morrell. Irvin____7.7. Morrison. James Morrison. Ray C Murdock. Robert's”” Nelson, Edwin W..7. Nichols, Raymond L. . Parker, Howard B. Patterson. Adrian r Penney. William G. . .7 Pierce. John A.. Prior. Otis R. QuImby. Ralph H..7.7. Reave ley. Howard... Reed. Everett L Regan. Frank W......... Rich. Herbert F. Rose. George F....’.7.7. Rourke, Francis W Sargent. Harry B.. SIdebottom. Walter F Smith. Harrv B. Snow. Earl F. Stack pole. Frank C Stetson. Frederick w Sullivan. Alfred B. Sullivan. Walter I). Tattan. William J.... 1‘omfohrde, Andreas H Tori-ey. Fred J.. Turner. Harold S.. Vincent. J. Edmund...'. Waldron. Arthur S. Waldron. Harry R_____7 Ward, Benjamin A..... Ware, Preston..... ■Wellington. Maitland S ........35 Hudson Street ........02 Wallace Street ..........2S Otis Street .....396 Medford Street .....82 School Street ........22 Wesley Street ......45-A Tufts Stiect .........0 Dana Street ......ill Prospect Street ---242 Highland Avenue .......24 Oliver Street ........S3 Hudson Street ......-m. .0 Sellon Place .....47 Linden Avenue .....118 Bartlett Street ......122 College Avenue ......(50 Franklin Street .......-'mi Oxford Street ...38 Dartmouth Street .......15 Hillside Park ........22 Vernon Street ..........782 Broadway ......27 Winslow Avenue ......277 Summer Street ........02 Cross Street ........20 Madison Stree: .....02 Franklin Street ......02 Franklin Street .......li Eastman Road ......20 Moreland Street .......21(5 He icon Street ...1(50 Highland Avenue 3S Wigglcsworth Street ....02 Hudson Street ----14!) College Avenue ....85 Central Streot ........27 Wyatt Street ....44 Kidder Avenue ....28-A Laurel Street ----! 5 Caldwell Avenue ....1 57 Willow Avenue ....28 Madison Street ....6 Florence Street ....22 Vernon Street ........257 Elm Street ....28 Prichard Avenue ....2 Blllingham Street ........75o Broadway ....07 Rogers Avenue ....67 Church Street ....(50 Franklin Street ....05 Temple Street ----52 Dickinson Street __454 Broadway 15 Lesley Avenue 14 Conwell Street .22 Greene Street .........30 Tower Street .....I 1 ) Jaques Street -------14 Stone Avenue ---3 Kensington Avenue ......15 Brastow Avenue .....11 Electric Avenue ..........1081 Broadway ...21 Dartmouth Street ......«57 Adams Street ........53 Sydney Street ...........37 Oliver Street .....13 Brown’ng Road ......8 Summer Street ... .0 Spring-hill Terraco C3S-A Somerville Avenue ...21(5 Highland Avenue ..........20 Cedar Street ......15 Highland Road ........II Lovell Street .........082 Broadway ..........3 Pearl Street ........22 Milton Street ....54 Dartmouth Street ......1 5 Cottage Avenue Wood. James F.................. Woods. Thomas J................ Wright. Iadgh W................ 40 Tower Street ...(55 Joy Street 7 Vinal Avenue jrresbmcn ’12 Abbott, Alberta I.... Allen. Catherine B... Andrews, Gladys F... Arrington. Flora I___ Ashman. Helen G...... Bailey. Dorothy M... Baker. Edith B....... Baker. Mabelle O..... Baker. Mildred 1).... Barker. Elizabeth M. Barry. Grace B....... Bateman. Flormee R Beattie. Margaret.... Bennett. Ellen H..... Bent. Florence R..... Blmiin. Anna M........... Bohlln. Ruth R........... Bond. Emily R............ Bowers, Ramah S.......... Hoyden. Florence M....... Brady. Annie R........... Brookes. Blanche W....... Brown. Elizabeth L....... Butters. Amber M......... Byrnes, Alice M.......... Cabot. Kate L............ Calnan. Kathleen G....... Cameron. Agnes X......... Candago. Nira A.......... Canfield. Anna R......... Carlin. Jennie........... Carroll. Mary E.......... Chandler. Fannie B....... Chapin. Dorothv A........ (Mark. Hazel M........... Clarke. Helen G.......... Colbert. Mary T............ Collins. Rose F.......... Cook. Helen M............ Copland. Margaret M.... Cragin, Dorothy.......... Crib by, Elva............ Dean. Bertha M........... Dearborn. Edna J......... Dix, M. Goldcr........... Donahue. Margaret E------ Downey. Nora 'I'......... Driscoll. Florence E..... Duncan. Beatrice......... Dunham. Carol F.......... Dunning. Florence M...... Earle. Florence W........ Emerson. Marguerite E... Emery. Mina L............ Erb. Gladys A............ Farr. Florence F......... Ferpioyle. Winifred R.... Field. Mildred I!........ Fish. Ethel L............ Fish, Marlon G.............. Fitzpatrick. Mae E ...... Fitzpatrick. Mary E...... Flnhive. Helen G......... Foley. B. Veronica....... Foss, Mary I,............ Foster, Minerva C........ Freeman. Mabel A......... Frost, Almira W.......... Fuller. Florence E....... Glragoslan, Araxla K..... Given. Eleanor........... Godfrey. Ruth I.......... Goldenberg. Minnie E.... Goodwin. Harriet II...... Googins. Ethel M......... Graffam. Mildred E....... Granner. Avis M.......... Grant, Edna E............ Grlfilth. Florence M..... ..-4«; St. James Avenue .....3 5 Warwick Street .....29 Robinson Street .....18 Atherton Street .....2«! Walter Street ...88 Josephine Avenue ...226-A Summer Street .....92 Munroo Street -----51 Prichard Avenue .....5 Mossland Street .....G Campbell Park ........1228 Broadway .401 Washington Street ........71 School Street ........GO Hall Avenue .... 112 Concord Avenue .....40 Spnicer Avenue ........44 Quincy Street .....254 Summer Street .....15 Gorham Street .. .118 Morrison Avenue .....2 5 Wesley street .....7 Berkeley Street ........oo Cedar Street ... .28 Thorndike Street ....22 Burnside Avenue .....74 Franklin Street ..242 Highland Avenue ,...74 Whoitiand Street .....2 5 Cedar Street .....21 Adrian Street .....(5 Summer Street ........15(5 Glen Street .....11 Mystic Avenue .....8 Spencer Avenuo .....12 Summer Street _____21 Springfield Street ........54 Maple Street .....87 Moreland Street .....11 I owden Avenue .....48 Meacham Road .....2 Newbury Street .....20 Aldrich Street .....105 Willow Avenuo ........17 Union Street ........22 Perry Street .....24G Summer Street .........28 Otis Stieet ........58 Bow Street .....12 Cottage Avenuo .....12 Belmont Street ........59 Avon Street . .225 Highland Avenuo ... .45 Sargent Avenuo .....22 Quincy Street ........24 Oliver Street .....G Pembroke Place ........100 Flint Street .....24 Boston Street ........24 Boston Street ........00 Line Street .....36 Harrison Street _____111 Linwood St-cet .....18 Skehan Street ..249 Highland Avenuo .....25 Kingston Street .....8 Sargent Avenuo ...72 Partridge Avenuo .....22 Belmont Street ........52 Cedar Street 18 Wigglesworth Street ...59 Columbus Avenuo .........542 Broadway _____245 Medford Street .....22 Madison Street .....96 Summer Street .....40 Quincy Street .....141 Perkins Street .....28 Hancock Street 28o SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Groves. Gertrude J.... Groves, Helen M......... Gurnham. 1.11 llan E---- Hadley. Beatrice M------ Hall. Marlon............ Hallett. Mary B......... Hally. Katharine V------ Hamblett. Helen 10------ Hammett. Eunice L------- Hardy, Lucy S........... Harmon. M. Gladys.... Harrington. Margaret G Hatch. Pauline.......... JIatcliell. Frances C.... Haug, Agnes I........... Hawn. Grace M........... Haynes. Gladys.......... Herlihy. Marie A........ Hewlns. Agnes F......... Holman. Pauline M------- Hughes. Caroline K.... Hull. Della M........... Hunter. Nellie J........ Jsbestcr. Evelyn K...... Johnson, Anna E......... Johnson. Christine A... Jones. Alice 1)......... Jones. Laura V.......... Jones. Mildred P........ Judge. Kathleen J....... Kearney. Helen P........ Keefe. Alice I.......... Kelllher, Catherine M.. Kendall, Beimice A...... Kennedy. Mary F......... Kiley, Marguerite F----- King. Vera J............ La I iua. LoiS C........ Lander. Helen W......... Lannon. Mildred H....... Luverty. Esther L....... Lay. Martha S........... Leahy, Marlon it........ Leslie. Louise P........ Libby. Miriam B......... I«omux. Bessie M........ Luce. Gertrude R........ Lufkin. Ruth............ Lundgren. Eleanor M... Lutz. Charlotte M....... Lynch. Helen G.......... Lyons. Emma E........... Lyons. Winifred M....... Macdougal. Helen M.... MacKinnon. A. Florence Mardon. Estelle E....... May. Hattie K........... Mayer. M. Josephine----- Me. leer. Edna G........ Me Ewan. Bessie H....... McEwan. Gladys W........ McFarland. Marguerite.. McKlnnell. Marguerite.. McMaster, Helena I...... McMullen. Sarah V....... McNamee. Beatrice M... Mellett. Bertha C....... Mltchem. Rebecca M------ Moody. Bertha A......... Moore. Mildred 1........ Morris, Alice V......... Morrison. Mabel 11...... Mountford. Helen........ Nangle. May F........... Nash. Martha............ Nason. Vera M........... Neilon. Louise F. ....... Nelson. Gwendolyn N... Nelson. Mabel E. J...... Nevelson. Celia J........ Noyes-. Phyllis.......... Nye. Ruth A-----......... O'Donnell. Dorothy H... Oliver. Mabel M.......... O'Neill. Ellen C......... .....255 Highland Avenue .....255 Highland Avenue ........30 Hancock Street ........22 Appleton Street .....2«. Dartmouth Street ....... '11 Madison Street .....-15 Partridge Avenue ........Mb Lowell Street ........8 Ianvdon Avenue ........10 Clifton Stree: ........10 Hancock Street .........1 Carver Stree: .......483 Medlord Street ...........K Dana Stree; ........22 Ivaloo Stree; ........52 Oxford Stree: ........10 Austin Stree: .....54 Burnside Avenue .....83 Josephine Avenue ........14 lbbetson Street ........13 Morton Street -----300 Somerville Avenue ............4 Milk Street ■..........1 West Street ........1) McGregor Avenue ........15 Hancock Street .....HW College Avenue .......1 4 Holland Street .....104 Highland Avenue ..........7 Record Place .....21 Webster Avenue ............7 Park Place .......28S Cedar Street ...781 Somerville Avenue ...........10 Kent Court ........41 Dane Avenue .....38 Lexington Avenue .....50 Montrose Street ......7. School Street .....3(12 Highland Avenue ........5$ Newbury Street .....10 Moreland Street .....25 Spencer Avenue .....-'IS Springfield Street ........17 Appleton Street .........7 Miller Street .........S Walter Terrace .......240 Willow Avenue .....50 Harrison Street .....SI Mt. Vernon Street .....28-A Laurel Street ........83 Newton Street .........M Russell Road .....107 Willow Avenue .........1 Falrlee Street .....73 Sycamore Street .........0 Walter Terrace ........3 Windsor Road ........in Nashua Street .........85 Porter Street ........8“ Porter Street ........21 Cedar Street .........5 Porter Avenue ........12 Park Street .........4 Glen wood Road ........24 Thorpe Place ........24 Linden Avenue ........5!� Cedar Street ........20 Henry Avenue ........70 Derby Street ........31 Central Square -----13 Lexington Avenue ..... 2 Richdalo Avenue .....77 Sycamore Street ........12 Heath Street .....M Cambria Street .....143-A Hudson Street .....37 Morrison Avenue ........53 Derby Street ... .21 Raymond Avenue ........51 Cedar Street .....25 Prichard Avenue .....180 Holland Street 133-A Somerville Avenue O’Riley. Christine E.. Owens. Catherine Owens. Mabel F........ Page. Ardelle L....... Patterson, Harriet 1 . Petrie. Gertrude E... Pettes, Madeline M... Plekcring. June E_____ Pinto. Laura o........ Quarnstrom. Ruth C. Quirk. Mary I......... Reardon. Florence A. Record. Marjorie I.... Richardson, Anna H.. Richmond. Louise N. Riley. Louise C....... Riordnn. Julia M...... Robinson. Clendlne M Roche, Irene I........ Ross. Annie L......... Ross. Edna M.......... Ross. Estelle E....... Rowe. Etta F.......... Rowe. Grace G......... Bundle, Mary A........ Ryan. Mary A.......... Sanborn. Lois M....... Savage. Elizabeth M.. Scigllano, Silvia M___ Shaplelgh. Maude...... Shaw. Elizabeth....... Sheridan. Beatrice I,. Simpson. Josephine C Sinclair. Jessie M.... Small. Ethel M........ Smith, E. Marion...... Smith. Katharyn A... Souther. M. Hazel. .. . Stacy, Juliette F..... Stacy. Mabel M........ Stanley. Mabel C...... Stay. Gladys F........ Sterling, Mabel I..... Sterling. Ruth E...... Sternburg. Pearl...... Stevens, Flora E...... Sullivan. Lucy F...... Teakles. M. Gertrude. Teele. Gladys E....... Thompson. Verna E... Thorpe. Laura......... Torrey. Mildred A.... Towle. Marion E....... Townsend. Grace II... Truesdale, Anna B_____ Tucker. Lillian M..... 1’pton Hazel C........ Vlano. Emma R......... Vinal. Lulu M......... Walker, Hazel E....... Wallace, C. Jennie.... Walsh. Annie R........ Waters, Gladys M.. . Weinberg. Minnie R. Weisborg. Rose A... Welch, Anna F......... Welch. Eliza M........ Whelpley, Viola G... Whitaker. Isabel...... White. Hilda.......... Woodman. Solluce M Workman. Ruth 10... Young. Margaret R.. ...........78 Prospect Street ........5 Spring-hill Terrace ..........105 Lin wood Street ..........._-84 Albion Stieet ...........7 Bowdoin Street ..........51 Marshall Street ...........74 Franklin Street ............‘14 Church Street ..............II Pearl Place .............12 Wyatt Circle ......202 Somerville Avenue ..........29 Glen wood Road ............53 Gorham Street .........._...! 130 Broad way .........171 Willow Avenue ..........i Bowdoin Street ............105 Albion Street ............15 Quincy Street .........12 Mondamin Court .......17 St. James Avenue ........42 Highland Avenue ...........90 Gilman Street ............11 Elston Street ............II Elston Street .............43 Derby Street ........7 Richardson Street ...............301 Broadway .............237 Cedar Street .............11 South Street ........10 Farragut Avenue ............241 Pearl Street ............22 Pearl Street ..........13 Lesley Avenue ........li Cameron Avenue ...........8 Autumn Street ............81 Pearl Street ..............7 Dane Avenue .........18 Pearson Avenue .........18 Edmunds Street .......40 Partridge Avenue ...........19 Walter Street ............10 I'pland Park ........339-A Beacon Street ......300 Somerville Avenue .............34 Bond Street ..........45 Kidder Avenue ........10 Harrison Avenue .....447 Somerville Avenue ..........33 Wallace Street ........54 Prichard Avenue ..............10 Park Place ............20 Cedar Street .............18 Main Street ..........S3 Wallace Street ..........174 Albion Street 120 Powder-house Boulevard .........45 Florence Street .........140 Holland Street .........155-B Pearl Street .......17 Wheatland Street .........35 Harrispn Street .............27 Avon Street ........11 Sanborn Avenue ........4 Florence Terrace .............00 Pearl Street ......303 Highland Avenge ........444 Medford Stree. .......213 Highland Avenue ......70 Lexington Avenue ............50 Curtis Street ...........10 Preston Road .......34 Partridge Avenue ...........5 Laurel Avenue Anderson. Frank A.. Anderson. George I) Anderson. Theodore. Apploy, Gifford O... Atwater. Roy M......... Baker. Edward A... Baker. Harry E........ Barnard. Carl M........ Berry. Fred A.......... Bird. Willis F........ Bourne. Robert C... .273 Highland Avenue ..14 Cleveland Street 273 Highland Avenue ..40 Brastow Avenue .......I Avon Street ...235 Tremont Street ,320-A Summer Street ....88 Bartlett Street ....32 Crescept Street .....01 Hall Avenue ---42 Hudson Street SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 281 Brackett, Lerov g...... Brennan. Daniel F.. Brennan. William It.. Brigand!. Santo........ Brine. Clarence M.. Bryne. Andrew M........ Byron. Chester B_______ Cameron. Daniel C... Cann. Robert C......... Carpenter. C. Clinton.!’ Carr. Ernest c......... Carter. Maurice G...... Cavanaugh. Francis . Chase. Jonathan... . Churchill, oliver C...!.’! CHIT. Percy G.......... Cohn. Harry............ Coleman. Thomas C..’j’r’ Colony. Murray S....... Conway. Roger W.. Cook. Walter M......... Corey, Frank J.. Jr..... Cosgrove, Chauncey..... Coveil. Freeman E...... Cunningham. Joseph F. Dalton. George A_______ Danner. sVilllam a... Dardis. John F......... Day, George T.......... Dearborn. Burton M Del jtncey. Carleton A Dempsey. William J_____ Doane. Erllng E........ Donahue. Jolm S........ Eustis. Stanton It..... Evans. Gardner C....... Fisher. Earl........... Fitch. Royal C........... Fountain. Frank 1...... Frazec. Hazen C........ Gardner. Nelson M______ Garland. Robert M...... George. Harold I....... Gillies. Harry II...... Gray. a. George........ Greenleaf. Norman S... Hall. Arthur D......... Halpln, Henry E........ Harrington, Chester D. Hart. Clarence D....... Hart. Frank W.......... Harvie. Ernest W....... Holmes. Frank W........ Holmes, Louis C........ Horton. Arthur B....... Howard, Sherman P. . . Hunnewell. Paul F...... Hunt. Everett c........ Jameson. Robert T...... Johnson, Frank G....... Jones. Harold M........ Jordan. C. Lawrence... Naula. Edgar I......... Kendall. Clifton W..... Kendall. Richard F_____ Kitchen. Albert H...... Lantz. Percy W......... La rsen, Einar T....... Baverty. John E........ Libby. W. Addison...... Little, Andrew D....... I ocke, R. Douglas..... Lord, Harold a......... Lutz. Victor E......... Lutz. V. Edmund A... Lynch. Cornelius E...... 202-A Highland Avenue ......0 Gibbens Street ......121 Central Street ......28 Murdock Street ......... 2 Craigle Street .....84 Wheatland Street .....125 Josephine Avenue .........302 Summer Street .........3$ Craigle Street ........... • 13 Albion Street .........27 Concord Avenue .........• () Boston Street .....27 Springfield Street .............11 Giles Park --- ------CG Irving Street ...2!) Powder-house Terrace .........5 Florence Terrace ..........29 Chandler Street .........33 Bowden Avenue ...........21C Pearl Street ........9 Waterhouse Street .....30 Richardson Street .....22 Westminster Street ...........1091 Broadway .........CO Beacon Street .........SC Bromtield Road .....307 Washington Street .............34 Bow Street .........01 Munroe Street ............191 Pearl Street .......11 Mossland Street .....021 Somerville Avenue ...........25 Greene Street .............04 Park Street .........2G Hancock Street .............48 Ware Street ......11C Pearson Avenue ...........10 Oxford Street ...........2G Cambria Street ...........7G Porter Street ...........1100 Broadway .........36 Shawmut Street .........1C Willow Avenue .............14 West Street ...........09 Albion Street ............1 Carver Street .......35 Charnwood Road ...........19 Adrian Street .........11 Rogers Avenue .........40 Thurston Street .........dlC Beacon Street .........27 William Street .............330 Broadway .........18 Holyoke Road .........40 Franklin Street .........22 Bowdoin Street .........5-A Belmont Street ......374 Highland Avenue .............37 Avon Street .......38 Rielulalc Avenue .....7S1 Somerville Avenue .............33S Broadway .........52 Highland Road .........00 Hudson Street .........6 Mossland Street .........11 Houghton Street .............13 Jay Street .........93 Hudson Street ...........14 Arthur Street .............4 Pearl Street .........102 Prospect Street .........73 I«awrence Street Maty. Philip A.......... Maiden. Ralph B......... McDonald. Francis....... McGann. Charles I....... McGoUirick. James F----- McQuinn. Walter E....... Merrill. Herbert C...... Messervey, Clement H... Metcalf. James C........ Miller. Stewart N....... Mitchell. John J........ Morgan. Russell J....... Morlson. Norman .... Morrell. Kenneth R...... Mulhollnnd. William..... Nelson. Francis O....... Norton. John J.......... Nugent. Robert R........ o'Brlon. Edwin F........ O'Connell. J0I111 M..... O'Connell. William F.... O'Day. Francis E........ Parks. William M........ Paul, Ixuhrop G......... Pedersen, Peder T....... Pellegrini, lands....... Perkins. Paul E......... Plui leu. Harold O...... Phillips. Harold F...... Phinney, Willard I...... Pineo. Edward E......... Pitman. Carl B.......... Porter. Everett R....... Porter. Herbert W....... Proudfoot. Harold W... Quimby. Arthur E........ Rand. Howard C.......... Raymond. Clifford M.... Reddon. Edward J........ Riley, Arthur A......... Robertson. Willis B..... Rogers. E. Stuart....... Ross. John W............ Ruff. Edward I.......... Schaefer. I«eonard C---- Sellon. Clayton A....... Shaffer, Howard M....... Shaw. Walter E.......... Shedd. James A.......... Siegel. Hyman........... Sinclair. Edward B...... Skinner. Perley E....... Smith. Eugene F......... Snow. William A......... Stevenson. John A....... Stiglicli. Stewart A.... Stork well. Howard A---- Stout. Howard T......... Sullivan. Edward M...... Sullivan. Thomas E...... Sweeney, Eugene F....... Thibodeau. Frank G...... Thomas, Harold W........ Towne. Clifford P....... Tweedle. Arthur J....... I'pton. Charles H....... Watson. Ralph W......... Weinberg. Jacob II...... Wentworth. Andrew . Westhaver. David E------ Whltehouse. William L, Williams. I .ester A.... Witherspoon. W. Elwyn Yavner, Max............. Young. E. Elliott....... ''.‘ Y Street . .25 Francesca Avenue • ••.II Sartwell Avenue .....4- Putnam Street ••.19 Henderson Street Somerville Avenue ....W®?f Curtis street • • •14 I ,athorn Street ... 1� Stlckncy Avenuo 'o! , r «'‘ tt Street • 242 Somerville Avenuo j-;: 1 Bark Street • ..� 8 Raymond Avenuo ........750 Broadway ....33 Madison Street ..... Hancock Street ........... Oak Place ..... • ■1,1 Knapp Street ---220 Summer Street .....20 Hudson Street .....20 Hudson Street ....-134 Bo well Street ....40 Prichard Avenue -.23 Monmouth Street ... .8 Mountain Avenue ........14 Mead Street ....... -30 Glen Street .12 Dickson Street --- 1 Winslow Avenue ......9 Gorham Street ........24 Glen Street ...... • ••;-9 Bee Street ..... 8 Holyoke Road ....18 Chandler Street ...30 Thorndike Street ....28 Electric Avenue •“••••24 Austin Street ..-3.5 Highland Avenue .... IS Hancock Street —m Josephine Avenue .......41 Porter Street --- ----si Rim Street • • • •' Stickney Avenue ---; Houghby Street ...21 Highland Avenue ....lOI Hancock Street .....23 Gorham Street .....• ■'43 Ossipee Road ....4j Bromtield Road ....472 Medford Street ......14 Bradley Street .........3 Avon Street ........7 Cutter Street .......33 Sydney Street ......04 Marion Street ...10 Josephine Avenue ......9 Kidder Avenue ......99 Hudson Street .......8 Summer Street ....4 Partridge Avenue ....01 Webster Avenuo ....-33 Meacham Road ... .23 Stick ney Avenue ........83 Pearl Street ...... .3 Cottage Clrelo .... 102 Glenwood Road ......1 Wesley Street ......14 Cedar Avenue ......05 Perkins Street .....0 Sanborn Avenuo ......81 Jaoucs Street .........98 Elm Street ---1«� Cameron Avenuo ....132 1.in wood Street .....98 Belmont Street 282 SC MERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR JEnOltSb, ’09 (Continued from page 257.) Now Russell came swinging along the line, A bunco man with a salted mine. John Gecldcs' form I next did sec, With a smiling wife and children three; Then Atwater, long, and Harvey Snow, Who were running a Punch and Judy show; And Hint, who had gone abroad with Moore, To France, to study literature. Now sounds of a sermon came to me From I). Austin Palmer. Rev., 1). D.; Next Roland Bezanson hove in view. The leader, bold, of a pirate crew; Then Captain Smart of the horse marines. And Blanchard, maker of flying machines, With Morse, who discovered the great north pole. Where the mighty streams of the Congo roll; Brennan and Brigham and Chectham and True, Who went with the army in suits of blue. With Taylor and Haskell and Earl Kathan, To fight the soldiers of old Japan. Next who should come limping along but Strout, Who walked with a cane ‘cause he had the gout; Now Deacon Harlow came pacing past, He was sneezing away like an organ blast; 'I he next who followed along the line Was a pool-room tender, called Hazcltine. Then Pinto, a cowboy, bold indeed. With a broken-down, balky mule for a steed; And Freeman a searcher after the stars (stage ones). And Whitman, dealer in “bum” cigars. Next Swallow, with pistols stuck in his vest, A gambler sharp, from the woolly” West, With Tracy, an outlaw, fierce and quick, An intimate friend of Diamond Dick. Now Hughes and Hogan my eyes next greet, They were fakirs, with stands on 'Fremont street. Then Walter Jones, so cunning and kind. Who was married to—well, never mind. Next Rowe, who was holding an ash man’s job, And Monitors, leading a dusty mob Of Eyetalians going to fix a road, And Nixon, a naturalist, chasing a toad. Then Sanborn, the mighty, who filled three thrones On a steel-built stage at Austin and Stone's. Now swinging in line came Harry Lougce, A pcdler of books I could plainly see: And Parker was there with his smile of yore. He was running a second-hand clothing store. A. Peterson past on a freight car rode. A weary and ragged “knight of the road,” With Tarbox, and Bagster, and Robbins, and Clarke His closest companions through daylight and dark. Now the ghost of Gillooly rushed past pell-mell, He did at present in Ipswich dwell. Then Littlefield came, a policeman proud, With a big night stick to disperse the crowd. James Harrington was a teacher of French; Ed Donahue, he was warming the bench As one of the Boston American team; Charlie Holmes was trying to sell a scheme ()f a way to communicate with Mars By electrifying all the stars. Next Chambers and Gurvin and Gould I sec, With Googins and Nowlin and brave Miille; The six had endeavored to make their “pile” By finding some unknown treasure isle, Where gold had been buried and safely hid By Morgan bold, or by Captain Kidd, But the vessel in which they had put to sea Was just as leaky as it could be; It sank, and we ne’er should have seen them more If they hadn’t stepped off and walked ashore! Next Blois came waltzing along the line, He was bearing an advertising sign ; And following him, with a happy grin, Came Lloyd, fitted out as a pedler of tin. For Laurent and Handley I sought in vain; 'I he absence of Cavanaugh gave me pain: For the face of Dohanian my eyes vainly roll; 'I he four were in other climes—shoveling coal. We hope that the class has. as a whole, been- pleased with this column this year. We acknowl- edge that the “Tech division has been “knocked” the most frequently, but this has been the fault of the class. It would be ideal, of course, to have an editor that could be in every division at the same time, but this is plainly impossible, even though- we have enough material, physically, in our make-up to be more than one. And now. befoie this column closes for the year, let us consider a few serious subjects. Soon we shall be separated, possibly never again to meet as a class. Each of us will enter his own chosen line of work in an effort to carve out his future successfully. We do not think it will be out of place to here quote two lines of the class poem:— “Stand true to your colors, fight—die if there need be. But never recede, perish rather than yield.” And now we wish every member of the class suc- cess. not necessarily financial success, but the real success that makes life worth while. 'zt ■ ' i ® ®s' BOSTON Reopens Sept. 7th Persons desirous of becoming: compe- tent and successful Bookkeepers, Sten- ographers, Secretaries, or Commercial Teachers, with assurance of employ- ment when qualified, will find in the Bryant Stratton Commercial School BOSTON Now Located in its New School Building, 334 Boylston Street. A most desirable opportunity for study and practice under the direction and supervision of a large corps of Well Known and Experienced Teachers COURSES OF STUDY: General Commercial Course Secretarial Course Stenographic Course Civil Service Course Special Course Every possible requisite for personal safe- ty, rapid progress, with cheerful and healthful surroundings, is afforded. 1 Persons who cannot call for personal interview (v may have printed information of terms and con- ditions of admission by mail. Address C Secretary, Bryant StrattorTSchool 334 Boylston Street, Boston College Clothes With just the Dash and Style requir cd by well dressed young men. You need Exercise! WHY NOT TAKE IT AT THE Somerville Y. M. C. A. GYMNASIUM AND SWIMMING POOL? CALL FOR PROSPECTUS Was Rood s milk on your table this morning? DAILY LIVING “The book is well named. It is a hook the average housekeeper will want, and won’t loan after she gets it. There is aid for the house- keeper who can’t cook, and there is co-operation for the housekeeper who can. ''—Charlestown Enterprise. Price $1.50 Net. Sent Postpaid, $1.66. Published and Sold By H. P. HOOD SONS Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Milk, Cream and all Dairy Products 494 Rutherford Avenue, Charlestown, Hass. 70 Huntington Ave., Boston, Mass Also on Sale at Bookstores and News Stands Compliments of DR. DAVID L. FLANNERY DENTIST 59 Union Square Somerville MARTIN K.VORCE SPORTING GOODS Magazines and School Supplies Tel. 21135 SO UNION SQUARE THE TEACHERS’ EXCHANGE Of Boston 120 BOYLSTON ST. Recommends Teachers, Tutors and Schools Plenty of little Country School for High School Graduates OSCAR PERRY HAIR DRESSER The Latest Styles and the Best Work. Children’s hair cutting a specialty. 36 SUMMER STREET. SOMERVILLE Compliments of T. D. MITCHELL Baker Union Square Somerville A BEAUTIFUL LAWN HOW TO SECURE ONE AND KEEP IT SO JAMES MEGGIE, GARDENER Residence 102 Flint Street, Somerville. Telephone Connection Compliments of W. M. Armstrong Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. BOARD OF TRADE BUILDING 131 STATE STREET BOSTON THE LITCHFIELD STUDIO ARLINGTON ---o-- Photographers to people who know about pictures TELEPHONE CONNECTION J. E. Gustin, President S. K. Aknold, Secretary- J. McCormick,Treasurer ESTABLISHED 1X93 INCORPORATED 1008 GUSTIN SAUNDERS CO. Commission Merchants and Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Vegetables 90 Clinton St., 8 Mercantile St., 1,3, 5, 7 Concord Ave.,. BOSTON, MASS. Telephone Richmond 1700-1701 H. C. SPILLER CO. BANK JZllS 27 State Street, Rost on HIGH GRADE POSITIONS FOR Wide Awake Young Men BANKING-MERCANTILE-MANUFACTURING Mercantile Reference and Bond Association 387 WASHINGTON STREET BOSTON, MASS.. T iln, i Oftlce, Somerville 1405-1 Telephones. , Residence, Somerville HI-3 Compliments of Albert E. Hughes Attorney and Counsellor at Law 5 Bow Street Somerville, Mass. S. E. H. S.. 1902. I . WHITING A SONS Wholesale . Retail Milk and Cream Dealers and Proprietors of WHITING W CREAMERY BUTTER 570 RUTHERFORD AVE., BOSTON, MASS. Telephone X'o. 2-15 ClinrlcNtovvn. ODA everything on this VACATION Correct outfits to suit Pocket and Pocket- book, from $1.00 up at PLUMER CO.’S 52 Union Square ALFRED E. MANN Undertaker No. 64 Union Square Somerville, Mass. TELEPHONE COMPLIMENTS OF Belden Snow HATTERS AND FURNISHERS UNION SQUARE Compliments of HARRY VAN 1DERSTINE PHILIP J. FITZPATRICK Furniture Upholstered and Repaired A full line of sample coverings always on liancf Residence 21 VINAL AVE. CONNOR BLDO., BOW ST, SOMERVILLE. MASS. Signs and Show Cards Telephone Connection A. C. GORDON House and Sign Painter Graining, Glazing. Hardwood Finishing, Signs on Glass, Cloth, Wood or Iron 10 1-2 Union Square, Somerville, Mass. BROOKS Hair Dresser CHILDREN A SPECIALTY 63 Union Square PHILIP J. FITZPATRICK, Jr. Fish, Oysters, Clams, Fruit, Vegetables 27 Bow Street, Somerville TELEPHONE 1963-1 ’Phone, Somerville Five Two O O. L. HILL GARAGE Locomobile and Cadillac Cars Medford and Walnut Streets GEO. O. GUST1N .� .Jm Wholesale Commission Dealer in FRUIT and PRODUCE I 10 Clinton Street and 7 Essex Avenue BOSTON, MASS. TELEPHONES: jp RICHMOND CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED EDW. A. BINNEY Insurance and Real Estate AUCTIONEER Special attention given to Renting and Care of Property MORTGAGES AND BONDS 5 Bow Street, Union Square SOHERVILLE WHITNEY SNOW HARDWARE, CUTLERY, PAINTERS’ SUPPLIES, WOODENWARE SHERWIX WILLIAMS’ OIL AND MIXED PAINTS 21 Union Square, Somerville, Mass D. E. WATSON Groceries and Provisions Suburban Coal Company WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ALL-RAIL COAL WOOD and HAY We deal extensively in all grades of COKE All Orders Delivered Promptly --------0-- H. A. CRAWFORD - - - Manager ---o--- 29 DANE ST., SOMERVILLE, MASS. TELEPHONE 320 SOHERVILLE F. K. CIIENEV Ac C O. Groceries and Provisions Address, 308 Broadway Telephone 16S-2 COMPLIMENTS OF Jesse S. Newcomb J. A. Harsh Coal Company COR. MEDFORD and school streets No. 38 - 40 Park Street When You Next Buy FANCY CRACKERS TRY SLATER BROS. 420 Medford Street, - - Somerville COMPLIMENTS OF To bn fin. TKHoobs Telephone 319 Somerville, Hass'. WILLIAH S. HOWE DEALER IN Furnaces and Ranges FIRST-CLASS PLUMBING 51 Union Square, - - Somerville, Hass For Your Library GUNN SECTIONAL BOOK = CASE Noted for its Simplicity and Convenience J. C. MCLEAN 33 Union Square, Somerville, Mass. Ibavvarb Dental School A DEPARTMENT OP HARVARD UNIVERSITY A g raduatc of the feur-ytar course In this school admitted without examinatior s. Unusual facilities for practical work. A three years’ course, leading to the degree. Doctor Dental Medicine. New buildings. Modern equipment. 1-argc clinic. Write for catalogue. EUGENE H. SMITH. D. M.'D., Dean, 262 'Dartmouth St.. Boston, Mass. COAL T ALU Coal talk, personally or in print, is well enough, but a trial order will talk louder and more con- vincingly for your future trade than my tongue or pen. Try some and see. Frank A. Teele Davis Square Hello 54 and 55 Moving Pictures - Illustrated Songs At Odd Fellows Hall Every Monday, Thursday and Saturday Entire change of program each night Two-Hour Show 8 P. M, John Bryant’s Sons UNDERTAKERS ae Telephone 123-2. 353 Medford St. JAMES C. TAYLOR Merchant Tailor 294 Broadway, Winter Hill Tel 51SJ 204 Highland Avenue Tel 10iil SOMERVILLE FRANCIS M. WILSON ■Undertaker Telephone 330 X 03 Cross Street F. L. CARD ... Groceries and Provisions. . . Gilman Square Somerville Get Your Prescriptions Filled ... AT ... H. D. PADELFORD’S Oilman Square, Somerville -------- TREMONT TREMONT” The style of the season A —it’s an Arrow ± COLLAR 15 cents each — a for 5 cents ▼ Cluett, Peabody Company, Makers EDWARDS DRUGGIST 25 UNION SQUARE Telephone 62 Somerville BAY STATE OIL COMPANY Wholesale Dealers In Illuminating Oil, Motor Gasoline, Naphtha and Benzine Roland St., near Waverley St.. Somerville Satisfactory Eyeglasses When a fellow gets a thing there’s a satisfaction in knowing that it’s right —just right. When you get them from us you're satisfied. C. E. J. WILSON, OPTOMETRIST 259 ELM STREET, Davis Sq., WEST SOMERVILLE GEORGE L JANVR1N JEWELER 60 Cross Street, Somerville, Mass. A. L. HASKELL Fine Job Printing; 424 Somerville Avenue Near Union Sq. SOMERVILLE TELEPHONE The NEW STORE FANCY GOODS and SMALL WARES niss C. A. Meald 420 Medford Street Original Spoclal Designs Furnished for Medals, Badges, Class Pins. etc. All rights reserved to manufacture these designe. JOHN HARRIOTT 3 WINTER STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Est. 1800 No connection with Harriott C . FletcKer’s Studio 324 BROADWAY, WINTER HILL PHOTOGRAPHS Of All Kinds TELEPHONE - 186-2 FOR BEST RESULTS .. USE .. Hampden Cream IN YOUR COFFEE CEREALS PUDDINGS Ask Your Dealer ICE CREAM, Etc. .. Somerville Furniture Repairers.. James Harper Co. UPHOLSTERING riattresses and Cushions Renovated Carpets Cleaned, Fitted and Laid 79 — 81 Bow Street Somarvllle, Has . 50,000 FEET OP OLASS THREE TELEPHONES J. W. HOWARD Florist 330 BROADWAY Branch: 1353 BEACON ST. Somerville Coolldge Corner, Brookline Reee and Carnatlen Farm, Ruaaeil Street, Webara, Maas. YOUNG SMALL APOTHECARIES Headquarters for Y. S. Cold Cream, Stationery, Etc. TEELE SQUARE 1852 1909 TUFTS COLLEGE (Accepted by the Carnegie Foundation) FREDERICK W. HAMILTON, D.D., LL.D. PRESIDENT DEPARTflENTS The College of Letters (Degrees A. B. and B. 8.) The Crane Theological School (Degree B. D.) The Engineering Department (Degree B. S.) The Bromfield-Pearson School, a technical school con- nected with the Engineering Department. The Medical School (Degree M. D.) The Dental School (Degree D. M. D.) The Graduate Department (Degrees M. S. and A. M.) Young Men aad Young Women are admitted on equal term to all Departments of tha College. For Catalogue, address PHILIP M. HAYDEN, Secretary Tufts College P. O., Mass. E. PURDY CO PHOTOGRAPHERS .. AND ARTISTS.. IN NEW AND ENLARGED STUDIOS 145 TREMONT STREET BOSTON Photographers to Somerville Latin School and Somerville English High School, 1909 . ja 6 16 g Hp; S-s A odueCVov- V. V8 i © -‘Stone W