Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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16 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 7VOTFS OF THE ALVMNI CA2 ?BELL-08 The following graduates of S. H. S. are enrolled in the freshman classes of various colleges and schools: 1917-A Wellesley: Madeline Stockwell. Simmons: Ruth Cunningham, Margaret Sy- monds. Mt. Holyoke: Ruth Jones. Salem Normal School: Eunice Higgins, Helen Honnors, Josephine McCarthy, Marguerite Shea. Lowell Normal School: Grace Driscoll. Bridgewater Normal School: Doris Barber. M. I. T.: Frederick Brittain, Walter Clapp, John Grimmons, Lambert Weston, Francis Whitworth. Tufts: Stanley Cliff, Malcolm Pratt, Eldridge Stowell, Lewis Weinberg. Jackson: Inez Atwater. M. A. C.: Clarence Wood. Dartmouth: Alexander Youngerman. 1917-B Radcliffe: Madeline Brine, Amy Stone. Wellesley: Esther Miller, Helen Jackson. Wheaton: Enid and Winnifred Kenny, Alice Padelford, Marjorie Stevens, Francis Watson. Simmons: Gertrude Casey, Florence Parker. Mary Roberts. Sargent: Dorothy Atwood, Dorothy Dooling, Helen Jones. Jackson: Eleanor Geiger, Mary McHugh, Mary Shields, Mildred Steere. Salem Normal School: Helen Ahlner, Doris Hicks, Jeanette McLaughlin, Katherine Roche, Dorothy Ryder, Dorothea Shay. Framingham Normal School: Esther McPhee. Trinity: Margaret Desmond. Lowell Normal School: Elizabeth Sullivan. Harvard: Edward Derby, John Martin, Harry Moore, Arnold Whittle. M. I. T.: Merritt Farren, Donald Hatheway, Allen Higgins, Paul Howe, Albert Kiley, John Vaupel. Dartmouth: Leon Bateman, John Herbert, Raphael Murray, Phillips Noyes. Tufts: George Hall, Arthur Harrington, Wil- liam Hanold, George Jones, Paul Keating, John Leland, Ernest Peakes, William Perry, Roland Pillsbury, Chester Reynolds, Brooks Peakes. Boston University: Dorothy Haskell, Wilda Chipman, Arnold Benson, Chester Prothero, Anna Peterson, Ernest Dickey. Holy Cross: John Bennett, Charles Gallagher. Boston College: John O’Neil, Edward Smith. William Bigely. M. A. C.: Walter Cronin, Henry Rice. Ernest Gilman had charge of the Boys’ Play- ground at Broadway Park during the summer. Clifford Trefry has a position at Stone Web- ster. James Foley has joined the navy. H. Maxwell Robson is in France with Battery C, 101st Field Artillery. Walter Love and John Hopkins, both of ’17-A, are in the navy. James Sawyer is employed in the office of Shraafts. Doris Ordway is attending Radio school. Theresa Cameron is employed in the office of the B. M., at the North Station. 1916 Arthur Burnett, Dean Academy ’17, is em- ployed in the Exchange Trust Co. Marion F. Hersey and Claire Treat are sopho- mores at Wellesley. Ruth and Winnifred Arrington, Mildred Fitz

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 15 With an enrollment this year of more than a hundred less than last, the school is no longer handicapped with an excess of pupils. The de- crease is due largely to the Junior High schools, and therefore it is the Freshmen who are in the minority this term. The greatest effects of this diminished enrollment are that it tends to make many of the classes smaller, and to abandon the back rows of many of the recitation rooms as study seats. With the smaller classes recitation may become much less formal, and greater in- terest centered on the work. The lack of study pupils in recitation rooms will lengthen the time devoted to class work, and will lessen the amount of distraction. How often history repeats itself! This is a truth that is borne in on us the more carefully we study the narratives of past events, and the rela- tive facts concerning the nations and empires of the past and present. How much we of the twentieth century enjoy, that is believed to be comparatively new and novel but is really the survival of an ancient custom or idea in a modern disguise, we seldom realize. Perhaps the greatest illustration can be found in the present war. Every age seems to have been rolled into one along the battlefronts of Europe; past, present, and future seem to have been realized at one and the same time. Never- theless, all branches of the struggle have been executed more or less successfully in the past with the exceptions of the submarine and aerial warfare. The barbarous Vandals and Huns of old are recalled by the spiteful spirit of the Teutonic warfare, and the struggles in the passes and gaps of the towering Alps revive the days of Hannibal. Only a short time ago, a French soldier helped to “clean out” an enemy trench with a primitive mace-head which he had picked up in his own dugout, before going into action. Archaeologists who commented on the incident are of the opinion that the weapon dates back 20,000 years, and one of them mentioned that “under the feet of the belligerents, embedded in the gravels of the Somme valley, lie the oldest implements of com- bat known to humanity.” After the battle of the Marne, it was considered an innovation that the Germans began to “dig in,” but trench warfare was practiced by Ver- cingetorix against Caesar before Alesia in 51 13. C. The modern machine gun is but an en- croachment on the clumsy, multi-barreled held pieces of the Swiss of the sixteenth century. Cities are no longer defended by streams of burning pitch, but modern warriors do not hesitate to ply their enemy with liquid tire and poison gases. The modern “mass formation” was used with the in- stitution of the Greek phalanx, and the giant British “tanks” are scarcely less formidable today, than the “turtle formation” of Caesar’s day, or the Persian scythe-bearing chariots of Alex- ander. The grenadiers of the past few centuries which gave way to the more modern infantry have made their appearance in the present war as bomb throwers. [It is said that ball players make the best bomb-throwers. Ball players take notice!] The armor of our modern knights recalls the days of chivalry and the later warfare so vivedly depicted by Shakespeare. The shield is again doing good service, and likewise it is with the face-mask, the protecting eye lunettes, and other details of mediaeval armor in the days before gunpowder. Soft hats and caps which were once the soldier's headdress, no longer top the ranks of our lighting men. Once more the up-to-date warrior dons the long discarded metal helmet, all of which goes to prove the truth of another old adage, “there is nothing new under the sun!” Our predecessor on this paper, Phillips A. Noyes, has already won distinction. He received an “A” on his first English theme, the first one to be granted to a freshman first theme since 1910. Congratulations, Noyes. In consideration of the method in which the Athletic Association took the entire school un- awares on September 25, the general opinion is “They did us two bits” instead of “We did our two bits.”

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 17 and Dorothy Rankin are sophomores at Radcliffe. Archie Giroux is in France with the Ambulance Corps. Roscoe Elliot, a sophomore at Dartmouth, has joined the Naval Reserve Corps. 1915 John Chipman, Dartmouth ’19, is in France with the Ambulance Service, where he expects to remain for the duration of the war. Ernest Giroux has joined the Aviation Corps in France and has received a commission of sec ond lieutenant. Philip Watson ’15, Dartmouth ’19, is some- where in France with the Dartmouth Unit of the Ambulance Corps. James Geddes, Tufts ’18, is studying for a com- mission at Plattsburg. Clifford Harris has joined the U. S. Signal Corps. Beatrice Wilson and Bessie Perry are employed in the office of the John Hancock Life Insurance Company. Gladys De Wolfe was married to C. L. Ricker, M. I. T. ’14, on September 4, 1917. 1913 Harold Leland, Tufts ’17, has enlisted as a wireless operator in the Naval Reserves. John Kelley is with the Railroad Engineers in France. Ruth Alexander has a private kindergarten at Atlantic. 1912 Announcement has been made of the engage- ment of Marion Hall, Normal Art ’16, and Miss Sackers School ’17, to Theodore Main, Dart- mouth ’14. Mr. Main is in the Quartermaster’s Corps of the 26th Division. Carl Holmes, Dartmouth ’16, received a commission of second lieutenant at Plattsburg. Martin Carpenter, Wesleyan College ’ 16, is sec- retary of the Y. M. C. A. at Mt. Holyoke. Walter York and Frank Holmes are in the Avia- tion Corps in France. 1911 Mrs. Arthur H. Ward, formerly Elizabeth Chip- man, is making her home in Ackron, Ohio. 1907 Everett W. Ireland, Tufts ’ll, has accepted the position of instructor of Steam Engineering at Wentworth Institute. Rupen Eksergian, S. H. S., M. I. T., and re- cently instructor in Harvard, is doing government work in special lines of communication at the Engineers Officers’ Reserve Training Corps of the American University, Washington, D. C. The Manufacture of Chocolate [Continued from Page 13] the hopper, and the next cup comes under the valve. This releases the valve and another one- half pound enters the cup. In the meantime the previous cup empties into the tin can which is pushed out of the machine to be covered and labelled. For the purpose of wrapping chocolate and co- coa, very complicated machines are used, which would be entirely impossible for anyone other than an expert to explain. All persons personally interested are welcome at the Walter Baker Plant, by first receiving a permit at the Boston Office, 45 Broad Street. An Ashmont-Milton or Milton car from Dudley Street, takes you right there.