Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 5 E ttor’s note I). Brooke McKinnon, Latin, 11)10, graduated from Harvard in June, 1014. Just before the close of school lie visited some of his former teachers and bade them good-bye before leaving for the Ear-East. Two weeks ago Mr. Hosmcr received the following letter, telling of his new life in Japan :— Kanaya-machi, Chofu, Yamaguchi Ken, Japan. September 13, 1011. Dear Teachers and Students:— There is at least one place where European customs are not being rapidly adopted, where factories, industrial wear and tear, and modern cities are not pleasing and that's Yamaguchi Ken. the most westerly province of Japan, a quaint, beautiful place with waterfalls, hills, valleys, mountains, peaks, and caves. Chofu is the Gib- raltar of the East; from my Japanese house I sec hundreds of Japanese fishing boats, many brown-skin bathers, many big trans-Pacific steam- ers cn route, many thatched roofs, and I need not look over my fence for pines, orange trees, flowers, and a Japanese dog. l»ut the malady which is especially mine now is the Chu Gakko, or Middle School. My life is as busy as novel. Out of bed early. I visit the Chofu Bay which comes to my garden wall, think- ing what new words and phrases to give the eager boys. Breakfast is brought by a very will- ing. intelligent native cook, then I go to meet the students. There are five grades of two or three classes each. I meet each class once or twice a week; each period is fifty minutes. The brown walls on each side of the road may be five hundred years old, and all along the way every man stands at attention, removes cap. and bows as a teacher passes him. l he boys dress in uniform and have daily drill in army tactics. The school is for most part one storied, so covers much ground. In the central building arc offices and library, also teachers' room where the foreign teacher has his desk. Scattered around are the assembly room, the dormitories, the different classrooms, the soft-matted jiujitsu room where wrestling and fencing is taught. On entering the teachers’ room you bow very low: at a bugle call the students assemble in a double line in front of respective rooms; the teacher takes his books, the attendance record, and key and goes to class. As soon as the head boy sees you approach he shouts, Ki wo tsuke!'r And every man is as still and straight as a statue. As you pass to open the door they bow very low. After assembling in room there is another Ki wo tsuke, then ” Kei !’ at which the men form a level at waist line: you return the bow and pro- ceed. At close of lesson another Ki wo tsuke’' and Rci and they quietly file out. Each boy has a desk: on the side is a hook and a bottle of ink cn a string. He takes off ink and puts cap there. hen meeting on street, boys come to atten- tion. remove cap and bow before they are within six feet of you. An American boy doesn’t often know what study is. Here a bov studies and grows all the time: lie develops his mind and body. 1 do not think a Japanese boy is as happy as an American; if he can develop his spirit, a thing which Christianity may do. and it is the right kind f spirit, he will be a better rounded boy than the average American-boy. Here the men study to serve, and let me say that I don't care what vice you may ever have heard of Japan,, there arc two things missing in their tongue: there is absolutely no profanity and no terms of endearment. A Japanese rarely gets mad, but the madder he may get. the tighter lie shuts his teeth. A Japanese student never smokes. Out- side of school hours on the street he must wear over his kimono, a pantaloon effect called haku- ma. so he is always designated, dignified, and alert. In closing I wish to express my best wishes for the Somerville Football Team. Don't be satisfied with winning, but only with highest scores. Foot- ball is just coining into Japan, and by the way. Japan is a wonderful field for an American boy to look forward to. Then. I will be glad to hear from anyone at school. There are some very enthusiastic English scholars here who would enjoy exchanging letters with an American. It takes a letter about two months to go and come, but if you write every week, soon you'll be receiv- ing every week, and many a helpful word might lead many a Japanese into the brighter, more happy ways of Clirist-followers. Lastly, always think with profound respect of Japan, for it is a wonderful country, where people are not existing, but living, having little, and needing little else than Christ. Sincerely. D. BROOKE McKIXXON.

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 4 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR AOTFS OF THE A LVMNI CAMTOELL-03 Hazel Bourne, S. H. S.. M3. is at Wheaton Col- lege. Among the Freshmen at Harvard, are Frank McGregor, George Starbird. John Kiley. and Ray- mond Thiery, all S. H. S.. '14. Raymond Chaffee, S. H. S., T3, is at Harvard. Thelma Cummings, S. H. S., '14, is at the Sea- Pines. Martin Carpenter. S. II. S., M3, is a Sophomore at Wesleyan. Verne Wright. S. H. S., 13. is employed in Ward’s paper store. Pauline Ray, S. II. S., '14, is at Lasell Semin- ary. Mabel Bourne. S. H. S.. M3, is at Burdett’s Business College. Alice Patterson, S. II. S.. M l, is at Salem Nor- mal. Miss Ruth Walker. M2, was married to Hugh Robinson, a teacher of Languages in the Wilkes- burg High School in Pennsylvania. June 22, 1014. Douglas Beers, MO, will be graduated from Harvard next spring. Miss Helen Pall. M2, graduated from the Bos- ton School of Domestic Science in June. 1014. Miss Eiiabeth Burns is a Senior at Miss Whec- lock’s Kindergarten School. Miss Elsie Walker, M3, enters Geneva College this fall. Miss Hazel Macey, 00, Jackson, M4, is taking a special course at Smith. Irving G. Hall. Harold Wells, Garland Lufkin, Robert Means. Roy Simpson. John T. Kiley, Ar- thur Quimby. and Sumner Wiley are entered in the Freshman class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Miss Marion Corliss. Latin. '09, will resume her teaching of Biology at Reading High School. The engagement is announced of Miss Susan II. Pilsbury, Latin. 08; Mt. Holyoke, 12, and Mr. Ralph Bonney. instructor at Dean Academy. Lawrence Hopkins, M3, is a Sophomore at 'Tufts Medical School. Donald Whiting, 10, is at present a member of the Tufts Varsity Football squad. ‘‘Bill Parks, M2, is a Junior at Tufts Dental School, and plays quarterback on the Varsity Football eleven. Frank Robinson, M l, is taking a course at Chan- dler Normal School. Frank Lincoln, M l. is at Moses Brown Prepara- tory School. Providence. R. I. Miss Mary Cheney, '09. Mt. Holyoke, M3, has taken a position in Springfield as a teacher of Sciences. Among those who entered the Freshman class at Tufts College this year are. James Geddes, Philip Lewis, and Thomas J. Moore, of '14. James Scanlon. Raymond Thiery. Edwin Ben- nett. Frank McGregor. Raymond Chaffee. Allan Hasty. Eugene McCarthy, and George Starbird, all of 1914. enter Harvard this fall. Russell Nason of Ml. is a Freshman at St. Mary’s College. Baltimore. Emily Damery, Gladys Evans, Bernice Mar- chant. Irene Parker. Rhoda Stone, and Anne Ced- des of M l. enter Radcliffe this fall. Marguerite Wallace. Mildred Farquharson, and Dorothy Cook are studying at the Massachusetts Normal Art School. ‘‘Jim and Harry Robertson arc taking a ‘‘prep” course for college at Worcester Academy. Thelma Knight and Elizabeth Talbot, of '14, arc to enter Simmons College, this fall. Harold Anderson, '14. has entered Boston Col- lege. J. Herbert MacIntyre, '14. is on the advertis- ing department of Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co. [Continui-d on page 2'-’,]

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16 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Gbe football ttcam l 'or the last month. Coach Morey, a Malden High. Dartmouth College, and All-American star on the field, has had the candidates hard at work every week-day .afternoon. The number of men out for the team was in the vicinity of fifty, about thirty of whom arc still at it. A number of last year's men arc back including Captain Ellis, Bianchi. John and Joe Murphy. Doughty. Hayden, Baxter. Pratt. Elliott and Magno. 'Phc first real taste of football was on Tuesday, October .“ . when the picked eleven, lined up against Arlington. Somerville gained several touchdowns on their neighbors across the brook, but since it was not a scheduled game, there was no audience or referee. The Somerville line-up was as follows: Joe Murphy, r.e.: Flynn, r.t.; Bax- ter. r.g.: Cushing, c.: John Murphy, l.g.: Shepard- son. l.t.; Doughty, l.e.; Bianchi. q.b.: Pratt and Giroux, r.h.b.; Ellis and Johansen, l.h.b.; Hay- den and Thornton, f.b. 'Phe schedule of nine games, arranged by the management, is as follows:— ♦October : —Melrose at Somerville. October 1 2—Cambridge Latin at Somerville. October IT—M. I. T.. IT. at Somerville. October ‘M—Waltham at Waltham. October 1 Xewton at Somerville. ♦November T—Medford at Medford. ♦November M—Malden at Somerville. ♦November 21—Everett at Everett. November 2(5—Rindgc at Somerville. ♦Suburban League games. With the support of the whole school, who we hope have got season tickets, also the cheering, led by Pillsbury and Scanlan. we hope to get not only the football championship, but hockey and another baseball. «umes Somerville Xoscs ©peiUno Game to iDcU rose On Saturday, October :i. owing to a little hard luck in the arrangement of the schedule. Somer- ville dropped her opening game to Melrose with a score of ?- . 'Phe game was won, when Little, picking the ball from Bianchi. on a forward pass, carried it seventy-five yards for a touchdown, the only one in the game. It was a very poor day for football, and there were very few exciting minutes when the school could give their new ho! ho! ho! ho! ho! cheer. Bianchi s last year’s hard luck returned, when he tore the ligaments in his right leg by the blocking of a punt. Elliott and Fitz who replaced him. in turn, made very good showings for their first game. Phe lineup was:— S )M ERVII .LIC. M ELR( )SE. Joe Murphy, r.e l.e.. Diman Cushing, c John Murphy, l.g r.g., Chisholm Shepardson. l.t r.t.. Ross Doughty, l.e r.e.. Little Bianchi. q.b Fitz. q.b Elliott, q.b Pratt, r.h.b lohansen. r.h.b r.h.b.. Nowell Ellis, l.h.b f.b.. Phillips Hayden, f.b. Havden and Ellis get better results from the line by patting them gentlv on the back. Whv doesn’t 'Pom Scanlan get on his togs rather than learn to play a megaphone? M e expect to have a re gular Moose” Engle- horn or a Bricklcv in Keating and Thornton. Elliott and Bianchi will soon be back on the field rather than limping around on one foot. £bc Srach £cam Captain Carpenter’s cross-country team made a good showing during the halves of the Melrose game. A squad of about ten men circled the field twice, then a trip around the Reservoir at Tufts College, resulted in a win for Lannigan, and a second for French.