Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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Who Am I? I can be trusted with life’s most solemn secrets I am a zealous defender of the Faith I study to help all and hinder none I reverence the things sacred and supreme I frown down slander and encourage praise I condone rather than condemn I protect the good name of my friends 1 decline to encourage caustic criticism I speak the word of warning in love I am faithful to friends absent or present I am uninfluenced by wealth or poverty I hold my promise as sacred as life I stand by my convictions though alone 1 reject mere rumor as a basis of judgment I live in the realm of religious reality I am not affected by threats or applause 1 seek to make every life a success I make governments possible and progressive I stand with pillar-purpose under great Causes I am the bulwark of human progress My name is—LOYALTY.

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186584 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Vol. XXVII. SOMERVILLE. BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, OCTOBER. 1917. No. 1. The Somerville High School Radiator Is published by the High School on the third Thursday of every month during the school year, and only important news matter can be received after the first Thursday of the month. Matter for insertion may be left with any of the editorial staff or mailed to the editor at the High School. In contributing, write on one side of the paper only, and sign full name. Communications, according to their nature, should be mailed 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 PRESS PRINT EDITORIAL STAFF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DUDLEY MOORE. T9 A ASSOCIATE EDITOR ELEANOR HALL, T8-B EXCHANGE EDITOR MARY B. ROBSON, T8-B SPORTING EDITOR MAURICE F. GARRETT, T8-B ALUMNI EDITORS RUTH E. BOOTH BY. T9-A MARGARET D. HAILWOOD.18-B BUSINESS MANAGER RAYMON W. ELDRIDGE, T8-B ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS J. CARLETON KNOX. T9-B CHARLES R. KOLB. T9-B TREASURER GEORGE M. HOSMER. (Faculty) ADVISER A. MARION MERRILL (Faculty) STAFF ARTIST ELIZABETH D. TAY, 18-B CLASS EDITORS FEB -i ;?.I3 DAVID HILL, '18-A (Pro Tem) CHESTER MOORE, T8-B NORMAN EDDY, '19-A FRANKLIN F. DOTEN. 19-B WINTHROP ROOT, 20-A JAMES MURRAY, '20-B

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Dear Pupils and Friends: Having arrived by the favor of Providence safely through another year to the season when, according to the custom of our predecessors, we should introduce ourselves, and lay before you an outline of our task, we beg to offer, in behalf of our predecessors, thanks for past favors, and express, in behalf of ourselves, the hope that in spite of universal war, the high cost of living, and other great world events which have made the past year one of extraordinary vicissitude, all the friends who have supported this publication in the past, will continue their patronage with this, the twenty-seventh volume of the Somerville High School RADIATOR. Improving on conventional forms and habits is almost an impossibility, and it little matters to what degree one sustains his efforts in the attempt, for the odds multiply rapidly against him with the flight of time, and eventually he is no nearer than when he started. Notwithstanding this, we hope in a measure to eliminate some of the often repeated platitudes of the past, and have in mind some new and novel features which we trust will prove both interest- ing and unique. We contemplate the reorganization of the Class Notes. Within the past few years, this depart- ment has lost much of the exclusive quality for which it was institued and for which it had so long been noted among the RADIATOR’S many exchanges. The chief cause for this decline has been the lack of co-operation between the pupil and the Class Editor. The seeming remedy for this defect is to appoint a competent assistant in each room whose duty will be to look after the magazine’s interests in that room. We will en- deavor to elevate the tone of the jokes, and to add to the quality of the column by inserting brief, interesting accounts concerning the individua! pupil, both in and out of school. This system, we hope, will not only swell the bulk of material, but will reach every department of the school. The Alumni department will also be affected by this new arrangement. More items concern- ing our graduates, in whom we are all interested, can be easily obtained through the room as- sistants. The idea of awarding a medal to the author of the best original story published in the RADI- ATOR during the coming year is being carefully considered by the members of the staff, hoping that this will create a keen competition among the students, and insure a greater variety of excel- lent fiction and reading matter. To stimulate the support and interest of all organizations connected with the school, with the possible exceptions of those of class and athletics, we heartily invite them to publish a summary each month under Public Occurrences. With such a wide range of societies, clubs, fraternities, and the like, these reports should prove of great in- terest to the reader. Reports of class meetings and athletic societies will of course appear under their respective columns. Likewise, do we place at the disposal of the student and all others immediately concerned with the welfare of the school, the Letter Box- which each month should contain information valuable to the reader, or criticism, even more valuable to the success of the paper. Thus it is with mingled feelings of pleasure and misgivings that we make our debut, and the high standard set by our predecessors convinces us that we must exert ourselves to the utmost to maintain it. Schoolmates, give us your heartiest support and co-operation to make this twenty-seventh volume of the RADIATOR, dedicated to you, to your interests, and to your purposes, one which will be a model to all succeeding volumes. THE EDITORIAL STAFF