Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 9 Student of the S. II. S.: Keep your mind on college. Have that for your ultimate goal, livery pupil should strive f »r a college education, not only for the value of the studies alone, but for the associations and friendships he will form there. Think of it! You will touch elbows with men from all parts of the country, and even from outside our country. You will get their ideas and viewpoints, exchange opinions with them, which will be of inestimable value to you both. Take the best from every man you meet and give your best in return. College will broaden your mind and enlarge your viewpoint of life, and in every way it will equip you to meet and overcome the problems of the world. Get to college if it is a possible thing, and it is possible for anyone who honestly desires it and is determined to get it. r r join the debating societies! Harry Moore and Miss Haskell will welcome all newcomers to the ranks of their respective societies. It is, of course, needless to say that Harry Moore leads the boys’ contingency, while Miss Haskell does the same thing in respect to the girls' society. Last year, both the boys’ and the girls’ team brought home the shield to Somerville, denoting, of course, championship teams. Now. students, we’re going to duplicate that performance again this year. To do that, every- one who can talk above a whisper must come out and support the team. Freshmen! Don't lag behind, saying to your- self that you can never make the team. Of course you can’t if you never come out. Simi- larly, of course you can. if you will come out. Perhaps not the first year, but that year will lay the foundation for future years, and bear this in mind: You will get a place on any team by hon- est. persistent effort, backed up. of course, by a certain amount of skill. Remember: Ability -f- YYork = Certain Results. r i r Students! e have a football team in this school. Do you realize it? A football team! Moreover, it is composed of a bunch of workers. Understand? Workers! If you don’t believe it. ask Captain Ned Keating or Coach Dicker- man. Now comes the momentous question— Arc you working? The plain, bald facts point to the contrary. Over half of this great school is not working in support of the football team. A listener in the hall after school at the mass meeting before the Waltham game would un- doubtedly have gone away thinking what fine school spirit there'was at Somerville High. But the greater part of that volume of cheering was mere wind. One of our instructors said as much to the editor and it is true. Mere wind! As the above-mentioned instructor said, only those should be allowed to cheer who had already pur- chased tickets, or who were intending to do so. Why don’t you support the team—our team— your team? I know that you all hear a great deal about school spirit and supporting things these days, but it is necessary, or it would not be mentioned. When you entered this school, you became a member of one of the finest high schools in the United States. Therefore, to be a faithful mem- ber, it is your bounden duty to support every organization of the school that you possibly can. Above all remember this: “If you can’t ‘boost don’t ‘knock.’ ”

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8 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR A Dream MARJORIE J. BEERS, T7-B HER I', was every possible reason to make me believe I should enjoy a long- night’s sleep when 1 went to bed last night. There was nothing to worry me and I never was in bet- ter health. But still 1 lay hour upon hour thinking of a certain book I had just read in which the Rome of Augustus, about which he said: “I found Rome a city of brick. I left it a city of marble. was minutely described. I al- ways did like such things, but this book im- pressed me especial!). I think a distant clock struck three just as I finally dropped into slumberland. I dreamed a strange dream then. I was a child—a happy, gay child—and I sat swinging on a iow apple tree branch. The tree was a glorious mass of soft pink blossoms and the grass beneath was green and dotted with dandelions. The spring sun shone warm and bright in the dear blue sky of heaven. Suddenly a bird flew by—close by me. Twas a beautiful bird. It’s plumage was as varied as a rainbow and as it passed it uttered a strange, weird cry. that thrilled me and compelled me to follow. I skipped away, ever pursuing that low. skimming bird and my eyes saw naught but it. Ever and anon it uttered its call. Then, as suddenly as it had appeared, it disap- peared in a fleecy cloud floating just above. T bethought me of my apple tree and turned to run back, but as I raised my eyes I saw a fountain. Peering into its crystal depths 1 beheld a woman and not a child. Had I in those few min- utes passed half a life-time? 1 wondered where I was and then I began to wander about. A familiar object greeted me here, another there. Suddenly it all came to me. 1 was in Rome—that wonderful city of my de- sires. It was just as it had been when Augustus left it in fourteen A. I). I wandered on—the Temple of Jupiter greeted me as a friend. The Eorum seemed a life-long acquaintance and the Temple of Janus and the Pantheon loomed up as familiar as the mountains that overshadowed mv childhood home. I strayed down to the Tiber—that fast flowing stream. My feet were weary and sore and 1 climbed upon a rock and dipped them in the water's cool depths, and as I leaned over, the image there reflected was that of an old woman, gray-haired and stooped. Suddenly the rock on which I sat moved and floated as it were to mid-stream and then down the river. A voice somewhere murmured: “Life is o’er! Life is o’er.” Rome faded from my eager eyes and then the rock sank lower and the waters rushed over my head. The sun rising awoke me from my dream, and I whispered: Life is not yet ended! It has just begun.” -------------- The Earnest Efforts of an Elderly Lady to Make the Old Horse Go ELL. David, this is a lovely morning and we can go right along, can’t we ?” “Come bov. giddapA'luck. cluck.” “Go ’long. David, now, you must go long, cluck, cluck.” “David, if you don’t go along I’ll scold you, you old slow poke.” “Go ’long now. cluck, cluck.” And David plodded on. “Now. David, this is down hill and you must go ’long.” “David, you’re the most foolish old horse I ever knew. “Why don’t you trot down this hill instead of holding the carriage back?” “Come, giddap.” And David plodded on. “Now. David, please go along, if you don’t I -am going to whip you.” “Come. now. David. please go ’long.” “There. I’ve got to do it.” Tap. tap, tap. tap. “Giddap. David.” “David, if you don’t go along I—I—I don’t know what I’ll do.” I law-w-w-w-w-ruck!” “There, maybe that unaccustomed noise will make him trot. Giddap. David.” “David, if you don’t go along I’ll poke you with the butt end of this whip.” Poke, poke, poke. And David plodded on. “Mary, will vou hold these reins while I try to hit him under the stomach?” Tap. tap. tap. “C’ome bov. cluck..cluck.” “Well. Mary, you’ll have to take the reins again. I’m all tired out.” “I guess we’ll let him walk.” And David plodded on.

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10 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR On October VI. the Seniors voted for their class officers at tin- polling booth on School Street. The results were as follows: Harry Moore, president: Dorothy Haskell, vice-presi- dent; YVilda Chipman. secretary: Harold Koib, treasurer. Harry Moore is also president of our justly famous Debating Society, and was one of the stars on the victorious debating teams which, for two vears past, have won the championship of the Triangular Debating League. r r » r Seniors: It is all very well, quite admirable in fact. t say in a declamatory manner: “Now that we are Seniors, let us conduct ourselves as such and show our instructors that we can be- have as becomes boys and girls in that exalted state.” That, as is stated above, is undeniably worthy of emulation, but—unfortunately for all concerned.—Seniors, as well as the more common run of students, have been known to fail to live up to that high ideal. Now to get down to serious business. Seniors, we really ought to be able to see by this time the folly of some of the petty childish actions that are wont to occur too often in some of our class- rooms. Of course, some laughable incidents arc bound to come up in the course of a period’s work, and the students all know that no teacher objects to the class enjoying such occurrence, provided it be under the right conditions. Childishness does not belong to a school like ours. Seniors. It may be all right in the little red schoolhouse on the hill, but it is entirely out of place here. We have a record to live up to. Seniors. The under classmen look to us for guidance. Are we giving them the right sort? Think it over. Now. fellow classmates, this is not a sermon— merely plain facts, and the editor sincerely hopes that you will take it in the spirit in which it is given, and practice it with him. Remember: Actions speak louder than words. r w Freshmen: You arc welcome to the joys and trials of the S. II. S. 'Hie joys are many and the trials are few. unless you yourself choose to make them otherwise. It’s a good old school. Freshmen, and it will use you right if you use it right, and one of the few things you are re- quested to do in that direction is to support your school paper, the Radiator. The Radiator costs seventy-five cents per year, ten cents per copy, and is issued monthly. Furthermore, please remember this: Nothing will give you more pleasure in future years than to look back over four profitably-spent years in the S. II. S. with the cvcr-ready assistance of your Radiators for those years. Think of it. Freshmen! All the jokes, joys, achievements and accom- plishments of your four high school years pre- pared in a condensed form awaiting your pleas- ure. The editor will not tell you how easy it would be for you to save a dime from your pocket money once a month, or to go without so much lunch as you are accustomed to have for a day or so in order to purchase your monthly copy of the school paper. He will not tell you of all these little helps toward getting your Radiator, because he feels positive that the class of 1JMJ0, your class, is go- ing to do things and be somebody in the old school, and to do that the class must back up the Radiator, not only by purchasing every num- ber. but by writing stories, handing in class jokes and assisting your class editor. The editor and your class editor will be pleased and gratified to receive any literary efforts from all. » r r» Students: In any walk of life and in all phases of human experience, success is the re- sult of persistent effort. Real success—and that is what we all should strive for—can be accom- plished in no other way. If you attain any ideal for which you have striven, you have succeeded and are a success. In all probability, you regard a wealthy or influential man as a success. In one interpretation of the word, and in the eyes of the world, he undoubtedly is: but—here is where you must stop and consider—is that sort of success the real kind? That self-same man. in the innermost recesses of his heart, may know himself for a miserable failure, because the inner man has failed to over- come something which he has striven to con- quer. That’s a point worth thinking over, and it is also worth acting upon. (Contimti'd «» | age IR