Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR Vol. XXXII Somerville, Boston, Massachusetts, November, 1922 No. 2 The Somerville High School Hmlintor 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, $1,041 per Tear Single Numbers, 13 Cents Entered as second class mail matter at Boston P. O. SOMERVILLE JOURNAL PRINT. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief STANLEY TEELE, '23. Associate Editor DOROTHY LAWSON, '23 Business Manager REGINALD WENTWORTH, '23 Exchange Editor DOROTHY OBEAR, '23 Library Editor GRACE FIGVED, '23 Alumni Editors FAYETTE HASKELL, '23 LILLIAN LEIGHTON, '23 Joke Editor BERTRAM GUSTIN, '23 Assistant Business Manager HARRIS NEIL, '24 Sporting Editor JOHN HAYWARD, '23 Staff Artists BEATRICE LORD, '23 DE LANCEY CLEVELAND, '23 Joke Editor GRANT KENT, '24 Student Council Representative HARRY HURLEY, '23 Faculty Adviser A. MARION MERRILL Class Editors WILLIAM STEVENS, '23 KENNETH CAMPBELL, '24 Faculty Treasurer GEORGE M. HOSMER Assistant Class Editors MIRIAM GORDON, '23 HESTER SMITH, '24

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THANKSGIVING GAME, TWENTY YEARS AGO, AT THE OLD BROADWAY FIELD

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR SO This current issue of the Radiator is an ath- letic number, featuring the athletic activities of the school. We delve to some large degree into the past. Somerville has had a long and glorious record, both as a power in school ath- letics and as a producer of famous athletes. But let us not gaze too long at the past, es- pecially the immediate past, but rather as a school, go out undiscouraged and determined to regain our former “place in the sun. The recent election came as a startling shock to the Republican party. While it left them with nominal majorities in House and Senate it practically reversed the sweep of 1920. Polit- ical critics claim that this election and that of 1920 open a new era in American politics, the era of the unattached, shifting voter. Great questions have superseded parties. The people are more interested in prohibition and unem- ployment than in Republican and Democratic parties. So say the critics. And figures ap- parently bear them out. In New York, for example, there was a shift from a 1,100,000 Republican majority in 1920 to a 300,000 Dem- ocratic majority in 1922. Perhaps the new era, if there is one, will be for good, perhaps for the bad. Time alone can tell. Whatever the interpretation of the vote it shows dis- satisfaction, intense dissatisfaction. May those in power take time from their petty personal squabbles to find a way to remove the causes of dissatisfaction. Athletics may play too prominent a part in college life. The heads of the “Big Three and various other colleges say so and they may be right. But regardless of the situation in colleges, athletics, do not and can not play too large a part in High School activity. High School athletics are the unifying, co-ordinating force in the school. They bring a sense of be- longing to an organization. “Our orchestra or “our debating society may do it for some few, but it is “our team that strikes home to the majority. Unity and co-operation are nec- essary to successfully run a school. A college may obtain these by the constant contact and intercourse of its student, but a High School can only secure them through athletics. There- fore let us cherish our athletic teams. Thanksgiving has come and gone. Each one doubtless celebrated in a different way, but each one should have thought a moment at least of the day’s significance and resolved to keep the true Thanksgiving spirit through the year. This year debating has come back into its own. The recent drive resulted in over four hundred members for the two societies. The meetings have not yet been overcrowded, how- ever. If the new members keep their pledges the year should be highly successful. We sin- cerely hope so.