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20 SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR THE LIBRARY DEPARTMENT Doris Houghton Seniors! Juniors! Sophomores! Do you know that Somerville High School possesses two ex- cellent libraries? The East library with books dealing with history, and the West library with books on miscellaneous subjects. I feel confi- dent that everyone knows how to find the two libraries, but is everyone equally familiar with the interior of the two? Have you stepped inside the West library to see the pictures our new librarian, Miss Hastings, has posted? It seems to me unfortunate, first, that so many of us do not use the library: and second, that those of us who do, regard it as a place to obtain only required information. Perhaps we have been asked to look into the life of Robert Browning, and we at once reach for the encyclopedia and jot down a few bare facts. -—date of his birth and death and a list of his famous works. Having done this we feel very noble and virtuous. Yet the story of the court- ship and marriage of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett is a beautiful and perfect romance in itself. Some phase of every great man’s life is interesting, because great men are never commonplace. Thus, you will find in the West library, not a collection of good, bad, and indifferent works, but books which have risen above those classi- fied as ordinary. The library shelves are lined with these books which look very little read. An optimist would attribute this to the excel- lent care taken of the books by the pupils in the past. Perhaps I am pessimistic when I say they are in such good condition because many of those books are read only by the minority, and not because the pupils of Somerville High School have refrained from maltreating them. I hardly expect the readers of this page to rush immediately to the school libraries, but let us all make an earnest effort to get well acquainted with a few good books, for:— “There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. “This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll: How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul!” —Emily Dickinson. PLAYERS’ CLUB The Players’ Club has begun its third year in the Somerville High School, under the direct supervision of Miss Hariet M. Bell. Friday, September 19, 1924, an informal meeting was held in Room 10 for all students interested. After the tryouts, the club held its first formal meeting with the officers of 1924-1925 as follows: President, Albert Irving; vice-presi- dent, Gertrude Murphy; secretary, Catherine Heiser; treasurer, Eugene Le Sieur. Miss Bell, Miss Sprague and representatives of the Players’ Club attended a meeting at the Arlington Theatre, where it was decided that the Somerville High School Players’ Club will present a play later in the year. The club is at work on two plays which will be presented to the student body. The date is not settled as yet. Both of these plays have been written especially for the Players’ Club by Miss Mildred N. Smith, a graduate of the Class of 1924.
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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL RADIATOR 21 Have you heard about the millionaire in Toronto, who is so wealthy he rides on “dia- mond tires” and has his dishes washed with “gold dust”? Stewed One—“Wash a hammer for?” Stewed Two—“In case of attack!” —Brown Jug. G. B. Shaw says we should speak English so correctly that an educated foreigner can under- stand it. But when we get to that point will the natives understand it? —Judge. • Jerry: “Rosie, I love you.” Rosie (blushing): “Jerry, you wax brilliant.” Jerry (in offended dignity): “Rosie! No, I wax floors.” —Yale Record. ¥ “How didja hurt your eye?” “Aw, a lid fell on it.” —Michigan Gargoyle. “You can’t hang a man with a wooden leg, know it?” “That so? How come?” “Have to use a rope!” —Wesleyan Wasp. “QUITE SO.” “One day as I chanced to pass, A beaver was damming a river: And a man who had run out of gas Was doing the same to his flivver.” —Automobilist. Judge—“Twenty days for vagrancy. Lock him up, Dan.” Prisoner—“But, your honor, I’m not as cor- rupt as Poe, as depraved as Swift, as dissipated as Byron, or as-” Judge—“That will do. Get the names of those other fellows, Dan, and bring them in. They’re a bad lot.” —Jack O’Lantern. “Why did she call him a dumb-bell?” “’Cause she couldn’t get a ring out of him!” —Utah Humbug. “I believe,” said the impatient man, as he put aside the telephone, “that I’ll go fishing.” “Didn't know you cared for fishing.” “I don’t, ordinarily, but it’s the only chance I have of finding myself at the other end of a line that isn’t busy.” —Selected. Father (upstairs)—“It is time for that young man to go home.” Young Man—“Your father is a crank.” Father (overhearing)—“Well, when you don’t have a self-starter, a crank comes in handy.” Fresh—“Who is the smallest man in his- tory ?” Soph—“I give up!” Fresh—“Why, the Roman soldier who fell asleep on his watch.” —Punch Bowl. Doctor—“I’ll have to go back. I forgot my kit.” Willy—“Never mind. I’ll get the one down cellar that the plumber left to-day.” —Judge. Dumb—“Well, I’ve passed chemistry at last.” Dumber—“Honestly ?” Dumb—“What difference does that make?” —Stevens Stone Mill. ANI) DON’T SLAM IT. Applicant—“Have you an opening here?” Boss—“Yes. Be sure to close it when you go out.” —Life. She— What cute little caps the Freshmen wear. But how do they keep them on?” He—“Vacuum pressure, my dear.” —Louisville Courier.
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