Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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} XC 337 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 134298 Vol. XX. Somerville, Boston. Massachusetts, October, 1910. No. 1 The SOMF.KVIM.K IIioii School Radiator is published by the Latin and English High Schools on the third Thursday of every month during the school year, and only important news matter can be received after the 5th of the month. Matter for insertion may be left with any of the editorial stall 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. Single Copies, JO Cents SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT Editorial Staff fiDitorsinsCbiet ARTHUR W. LEIGHTON. E.. ’ll associate Editor Business Aanager MIRIAM R. KINGMAN, L.. ’ll PARKER NEWHALL. L. ’ll Exchange Ebitor MILDRED L. ANGELL. L., '11 assistant Business Manager HOWARD M. SHAFFER. E.. 12 Sporting EOitor ARTHUR S. WALDRON. E., ’II Second assistant Business manager DONALD H. WHITNEY. L.. ’ll alumni Editors treasurer HAZEL V. PARIS, L.. 'll GEORGE M. HOSMER (Faculty) BERNICE V. SCOTT. E.. ’ll Statf artist BEULAH SPRAGUE. E., ’ll Class Editors Xatin School ANDREAS H. TOMFOHRDE, '11 FRANCIS J. MAHONEY. ’12 STANLEY V. LANE. ’13 GORDON MITCHELL, M4 Enfllisb School WILFRED W. CHANDLER, ’ll ARTHUR RILEY, ’12 G. CARLTON WISWELL, ’13 • '14 • Not elected

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SOME OF OUR NEW TEACHERS (See page C)

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It is with mixed feelings of pleasure and mis- giving that the members of the Radiator staff of 1010-Tl make their official editorial debut. Owing to the high standard of Volume XIX. set by our predecessors in office, we feel that we must each and all do our level best to shoulder success- fully the burdens of the previous staff. It is our earnest desire to make Volume XX. a publication which shall be as worthy of merit as the work of our esteemed predecessors. e hope to produce a paper which shall prove of interest to the stu- dents of both schools, and which may also be of some literary value. We call the attention of the members of both schools to the necessity of supporting the Radiator. Let the class editors rejoice in an abundance of notes and of real jokes. While we realize that not every member of a class has the ability to create witticisms, yet a large proportion of students are able to furnish the class editors with material. The Radiator requires, also, stories, alumni notes, club notes, and other mat- ters of interest to the schools at large, which we feel sure our readers can readily furnish. Con- tributions for the Letter-Box. established two years ago, are much desired. In the past, mat- ters of vital importance to both schools have been discussed by this method, open to all; and it is our earnest wish that these discussions may be extended in the present volume. k® 'I'he Somerville High Schools have opened this year with radical changes in both. These changes have not been made without difficulty; results show already the wisdom of the School Board in instituting them. In the Knglish School the three upper classes are in session from 8 to 12 o’clock, a short recess following the third period. The number of pe- riods has been shortened to five, necessitating fewer study periods in school. The freshman class is in session from 12.30 to 4.15 in the after- noon. under a corps of teachers in charge for the afternoon only. All double desks have been removed, except in the lecture hall, and many of the smaller rooms, formerly filled with desks, have been converted into recitation rooms. The physics department has been newly equipped. The typewriting department has been given adequate quarters, and modern business desks have been installed in the bookkeeping room. Bubble fountains have been placed in the cor- ridors. and the sanitary condition of the school has been improved. I'he changes in the Latin School have been less radical. All students attend from 8 until 1 o’clock, except the members of the first-year class, some of whom are present from 8 until 12. and others from 10 to 2. The English School has given up two of the annex rooms to the Latin School. As a whole, conditions in both schools arc