Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR VOL. XXX SOMERVILLE. BOSTON. MASSACHUSETTS. OCTOBER. 1920 • No. 1 The Somerville High School Hndlntor 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 stalY 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, 91.00 per Year Entered as second class mail matter at Boston P. O. Single Numbers, 15 Cents SOMEKYI I.LE JOURNAL PRINT EDITORIAL STAFF Editor in-Chief JOHN C. DUNBAR,’ 21 Associate Editor Business Manager BEATRICE SWEET. 21 DONALD H. MILLER, ’21 Exchange Editor Assistant Business Managers HAZEL FREEMAN. '21 HOMER ROWE. ’22 LINCOLN HIGGINS, ’22 Library Editor RUTH ROOD. ’21 Sporting Editor WALTER HOLM BERG. ’21 Alumni Editors LAURA CRUWYS, ’21 Staff Artist KATHARYN BUCK, ’21 L PHYLLIS BROWNELL, ’21 Faculty Adviser Faculty Treasurer A. MARION MERRILL GEORGE M. HOSMER Class Editors Assistant Class Editors LEONARD MILANO. 21 WILBUR STANLEY. '22 GEOROE MEGATHLIN. ’21 JOHN HOLMES. ’23 (Pro tern)

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 5 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR EDITORIALS Three hundred years ago, on a December day. The Radiator welcomes the teachers and pu- a group of 100 men and women landed on the pils who are new to the school this year, and shores of Plymouth. Fatigued and cold, they hopes that the year will be a happy and a pros- gazed on their land of promise. They saw a perous one for all. desolate shore washed with the chill waters of 1 the ocean. They saw forests and perhaps a Seniors, the year that remains will prove curious Indian or two. This was all. and yet to what you can do for your school. Express your these weary Pilgrims this barren land seemed enthusiasm, your gratitude, by supporting each the land of promise. The strong-willed fathers undertaking of the school. Do not waste your had determined to build homes for their families time grumbling over conditions you do not like, where they could freely worship God and edu- Remember it is your school, your class, your cate their children, and so they established their schoolmates! Remember, too, above all, that homes, resisted the savages, enduring hunger the school is working absolutely for your good, and cold that we of today might enjoy freedom Do not grumble at military drill. Put your in religion and a fair government. best foot forward and make a success of it. By Three hundred years ago it was when the your enthusiasm compel the Y. D. boys and their Pilgrims laid the foundations of this New Eng- officers to throng to see the High School Army land of ours. Three hundred years! Today we on parade! are aided by civilization, education, and the mar- Do not be afraid to work for the debating vcls ot invention in doing our work for a nation, clubs. So work that the debating clubs will be Our forefathers had to contend with barbar- not good, but wonderful this year, ism. ignorance, and the crudeness of their sim- Make the High School Orchestra famous, and ] le tools. And yet they succeeded! What great et the glee club’s success this year be a com- things can we of this generation not accomplish mon topic among Somerville people, aided by the wonders of civilization. We have Help to make Somerville High School send a task, that of making a country of citizens, ot out more college students, more efficient busi- patriotic enthusiasts, whose one thought will be ness men and women than in any year, and at the good of their country — the country our the end of the term let the records prove to the forefathers worked to found. citizens of Somerville the ability of its students. Let us, too, even as our forefathers, have a Let us bring honor and recognition to the school, vision, cling to our purpose and succeed! Three Seniors, this is your year! Improve it, en- hundred years from now let it be said that we joy it! established a monument for the whole world. Every person a citizen—a genuine, real citizen, The class of 1920 has an admirable represen- workmg for a pure government, and the perfec- tation in college circles. Seventy-six students tion ot our country! entered at twenty-one different colleges.