Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 259 '13 Stanley V. Lane, Class Editor. Ellsworth T. Simpson, Assistant. When Miss M-------go—y is feeling kind of sour, she merely says don't know” when called upon to recite. We all sympathize. In algebra: X equals the unknown quantity; therefore x equals the number of minutes Mcr—I sleeps during study periods. Miss Lo—d says she waited nearly an hour for a car one morning recently. Do we believe her? McCray spends the whole night on his lessons. (He puts the books under his pillow.) La—ty is a poet of the first rank. His poetry is rank at any rate. We are tired of our high life. There are too many flights of stairs leading up to it. Teacher: Give the pluperfect of moneo, Mathews.” Mathews: Oh. er—er.” Teacher: That will do. Miss Lewis.” Miss Lewis: Shall I give the same? Please remove that candy from your mouth, and put vour feet in. Heard at Harry’s:— Freshman: (Jive me a little bit of everything.” Harry: What do you mean?” Freshman: Why. a chicken pie. For trio choir work apply to Pearson, Robin- son. and Phelps, of Room 35. Our chance is gone, we study now; Arc to our books devoted. We weep and erv, and wonder why We didn't get promoted. As you look back upon your books. After these classic walls you leave. Think of the lessons you might have learned, And the E’s that you did not receive. When reading these verses don’t shed tears on the Radiator, as the ink is not warranted not to run. Scanncll and Miss St. Ongc have seats in the ex- change. Watch them during a test. The editors wish to beg in this last edition of the Radiator that if any notes have hit too heavily let them be forgotten: if notes were poor and in- complete. think, one and all, how many notes you, individually, have contributed. Teacher (calling on Miss II----to recite): “Did you look in your l)ook? Miss H------: Xo. I er—er—was just go— ing to. To those in need :— If you want to be well informed, take a paper. Even a paper of pins will give you some points. May I see you home?” inquired Sharkey. Certainly. replied she. Here's a pair of field glasses.” Did you ever notice that the minutes are a great deal longer between half-past one and two than between half-past eleven and twelve? Can anyone explain the whichness of the wherefore? J stands for James (Pranagan) A rah-rah doth wear; If he ever recites. It is very rare. R is for Ralph (Slinev) With voice very loud; The most attentive Of all the crowd. W is for Williams, His first name is Fred; He alwavs is neat, And that’s enough said. Walker wants but little here below,— So he tells us o'er and o'er; Put the little that he really wants. Is just a little more. Xcver propose to a girl by letter. Whv not? ----- did it once, and she stuck the letter in a book she was reading, and then lent it to his other girl.” It is best not to mention any names and what happened. Little lines of Latin, Little lines to scan. Make a most tremendous book. And a crazy man. Dictionary words as defined by certain small people to be added to your vocabulary:— Dust—mud with the juice squeezed out. Ice—water that stayed out in the cold and went to sleep. Wakefulness—eyes all the time coming un- buttoned. A secret—something worth telling. A friend—one who won't lend money. Woman—a figure of speech.” Almost everyone’s fortune—$000,000,000.

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258 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Why didn't M—s—r know his physics lesson? Must have been looking for Halley’s comet. Oh, you Harvard exams! Didn’t the Juniors' infant initiates look cute their hair down their backs? Great victory. Jerry has conquered square root. Halley's comet was a sort of fake after all. It reminds you of one of the captions in the Bing- ville Bugle: “Everybody wants somethink, and what do they get? They get nothink.” Well, classmates, does it seem possible that the hardest year of our course is completed; that when we again take up our students' robes we shall be Seniors? Nevertheless, possible or other- wise. it is true. Next year we shall prance along the home stretch of our course, and after that “Quien Sabe!’ But in the meantime, ten weeks of glorious vacation, so let us give a cheer for 1911, and wish a pleasant vacation to every one. '12 Francis J. Mahoney, Class Editor. Meyrie R. Rogers, Assistant. Another year gone! Soon we’ll be what they call upper classmen. Next year will be the busi- est of our course. So let’s give a cheer for 1912, and vote to do our best. “Generally speaking, girls are---” “Yes, thev are----” “Are what?” “Generally speaking.” The class was reading “Silas Mainer.” Teacher: “Who came to Silas at New Year’s?” Giles: “Eppie.” Hanlon: “Eppie who?” Landers: ersom ojjas York, the centre-fielder of our class team, made a wild throw to the plate one daw Soon after he was heard to say to himself: How I do miss those at home!” The teacher asked if any of the girls had left a pocketbook in the dressing-room, and Aldrich said yes, he did. This kid. Hall, is some wireless operator, so they say. Hopkins says that masculine polygons ending in e add n. “How much time did you give to this. Whitta- ker?” At the sound of his name, Whit woke up. and yelled: I know it All!!!” Xorman Mitchell took part in a minstrel show the other night. Ice cream served between periods on the sec- ond floor. L. Hopkins is getting up a new German gram- mar in which he has many polygon” words. Who’s Cole? The German Demosthenes. Sings Kedian: I like my rubber doll, but O you paper doll.” Responds Lynch: “Me, too!” Dardis picked up a walking stick in the dress- ing-room. and then had to stay after school for raising cane. We would like to have it understood that the fellow who could publish a paper or a column to suit everybody fell out of Noah’s ark and was drowned. Teacher: Niles, how many times have I told you not to do that?” Niles (reflecting): “Seven.” Teacher: “Who was Minerva?” Pupil: “The goddess of wisdom—she never married.” W—r—’s definition of repugnant: One who re- pvtgs. MarTin Carpenter Harold Marks LEonard Rice Joseph Gardner ElswOrth Plummer RoY Hodge Robert Bourne Earl PearsOn “Bill’ ThaYer Arthur PhillipS Kedian has a new doll. Miss Owler looks “awful” funny in a front seat. What happened to the derby? What happened to Miss Kelly’s chair? A teacher told Marks that she was tired of hav- ing him do the same things all the time, and she wished he’d get some new tricks. The hearty thanks of the editor are due to those few who have supported him; as for the others—let it pass. Two more years are coming, in which they may wake up. We wish to thank especially Miss Savary and Miss Bush, who have contributed jointly one note.

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26o SOMKRVILLK HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR CLASS PRESIDENTS. Standing—Ahlrich, I... T2; Harlow. I'... ’Ll; Kaula, I'... TJ Sitting .Mi) more. 1... 11; Davis, L., '10; McAlpine, L., II; A horn. E.. lo; Fisher,