Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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..... SOMERVILLE Hi£h School Radiator Vol. XXXIII Somerville, Boston, Massachusetts, October, 1923 No. 1 The Somerville Hitch School Itadintor is published by the Hitch 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, Sl.no per Year Single Numbers, 15 Cents Entered as second class mail matter at Boston P. O. SOM EK VILLE JOURNAL PRINT. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief KENNETH G. CAMPBELL, ’24 Library Editors GRETTA HEDLUND, ’24 MARION GRIMES, ’24 Alumni Editors CONSTANCE GARROD, ’24 ELIZABETH MADISON, ’24 Exchange Editor ALLENE ROWE, ’24 Business Manager HARRIS F. NEIL, ’24 Assistant Business Managers ROBERT PRIDE, ’25 LAWRENCE HESSE, ’25 Sporting Editor ROBERT HOLMES, ’24 Staff Artists BESSIE SMITH, ’24 EDWARD FABER, ’24 Humor Editor DOROTHY FORD, ’24 Faculty Adviser MISS GRACE GATCHELL Class Editor MARSTON SARGENT, ’24 Radiator Typist ESTHER TUCKER, ’24 Faculty Treasurer GEORGE M. HOSMER Assistant Class Editor HESTER SMITH, ’24

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 brhr V.-53 II 225294 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 5 EDITORIALS The Radiator welcomes to the Somerville High School both the new teachers and the new sophomore class, and hopes this year will be a happy and prosperous one. President Calvin Coolidge! We honor and respect you. We love you and we pray for you. We put our trust in you. What an inspiration you afford to every Massachusetts youth! Your mighty influence guides us in our paths of life. We look up to you for help. On September 10 the Somerville High School opened with a membership of nearly two thou- sand pupils. The classes from the Junior High Schools were larger than usual, the class from the Western being the largest. This causes our school to be rather crowded. On account of this fact, the girls’ gymnasium has been made into two rooms, 21 and 29. Room 308, which had formerly been used as a teachers’ room, is now used as a classroom. The assembly hall, which is said to hold 1,800, cannot hold nearly all the pupils. Even the ranks of our teachers have been enlarged. We have nine new teachers, and they, with the help of our standing faculty, will try to take care of this multitude. Two of our faculty, Mrs. Topliff and Miss Ryan, were late in returning. Mrs. Topliff was traveling in England and France and she brings us many accounts of the situation of matters in Europe. Miss Ryan has been ill, and her illness prevented her from being here the first of the year. We miss our dear old friend and teacher. Miss Merrill, who did so much for the school, pupils and the Radiator. Although she is ab- sent in person, we will always retain many- kind thoughts of her. Sophomores! You are the largest class in the school. You are at the head of the school in activities so far. Keep up the good work. Juniors! Where are you? We expect a good showing from you this year. You did well last year. Seniors! We have at last come into our own. We are seniors in the true sense of the word, but we must prove this fact to the faculty and the undergraduates. We no longer must respect the ‘‘upper” classmen, but must demand respect ourselves. We must look on our school life from a dif- ferent point of view. We must take a differ- ent attitude toward Somerville High School and show more genuine school spirit. Drop those petty junior habits and mould your ways to those of a senior. Summon all the class spirit possible and make 1924 full of worth- while activities. Now is the time to live up to that resolu- tion to do better in studies, sports, and the social life of the school. Make 1924 “the” year of your school life. Fill it full of work so that when the last restraint of 1924 gives way we can look back with the joy of a battle hard fought—and won. (Continued on Page 9) SEP 20 ,324