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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
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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR ‘ The Tie That Binds By .Mildred N. Smith, 1924 ASHING dishes was a dreadfully commonplace thing. Margaret de- tested it. Making beds was a lowly job, likewise, and dusting she considered the worst of them all. Yet these things, with their associate du- ties, were in the daily round of Margaret’s life. How she hated that monotonous routine! “It’s the same thing all the time, since I left school, Father,” she complained one morning. “It’s all work—and the same work—and I hate it! I had a letter from Dorothy Williams yes- terday,” she continued. “She has a maid to wait on her. She doesn’t have to wash dishes, and think of the clothes she has!” “You shouldn’t speak so, child,” remon- strated her father. “If I could, I’d gladly hire a maid and let you do whatever you wish, but I’m not rich like Mr. Williams, and you know it.” Margaret knew it only too well. She hadn’t had a new dress for weeks. Mr. Phillips was troubled by his daughter’s dissatisfaction, and he pondered over it on his way to work. Since the death of his wife sev- eral years before, he had tried to fill her place as well as his own in bringing up the daugh- ter whom he idolized. All the morning he thought about her unhappiness, iuid at length a solution presented itself. That evening he unfolded his plan to Margaret. “I’ve been talking with Mr. Williams this afternoon,” he said, as they were sitting at the supper table. “He has just decided to send Mrs. Williams and Dorothy to Europe.” “Dorothy Williams is the most fortunate girl in the world,” said Margaret in an envious tone. “I know someone else who is fortunate, Margie. Mr. Williams has offered to take you with them.” “Take me to Europe? Me? Oh, Dad!” Mar- garet’s face flushed and her eyes were radiant with expectation. “Tell me all about it.” Mr. Phillips explained that she was to go as a companion for Dorothy, and that they were to sail in about three weeks. He did not tell her, however, that he had had to use all his powers of persuasion before Mr. Williams had made the offer, nor that a considerable part of his carefully saved earnings must be sacrificed to pay her traveling expenses in Europe. He wanted her to be happy, no matter how much it might cost him. It seemed to Margaret that the next three weeks were the happiest she had ever known. There were clothes to be fixed over, and new clothes to be purchased, and Margaret loved clothes. Her father did not murmur at the ex- penditure, although he was quiet and thought- ful as he listened to her lively chatter about her preparations. He said nothing which might lead her to believe that the arrangement was not satisfactory to him. He did not complain because the furniture was dusty and the beds roughly made, but he sighed as he thought how lonely he would be without her, and won- dered if she felt at all sorry about leaving her home. (Continued on Page 8)
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