South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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•--• Ttte ftDftMS -- HIGH -School Observer. VOL. 1. Minneapolis. Minn., November, 1891. No. 2. TKaivks tviiv . Selected. COME one, cohichII! come home, come home! From desert sands, from ocean foam. Beneath the honored home roof-tree. Join hands and hearts and you shall see. Sweet thoughts, pure love and honest living, Flow from the keeping of Thanksgiving. ’Tis then the dead become most dear: 'Tts then the living bring most cheer; ’Tis then the best within us seems Aspiring toward our youthful dreams. And life looks really worth the living. In the old homestead at Thanksgiving. Thanks, grim old Puritans, to you, Who “builded better than ye knew! True, ye were hard and stern, ’tis said, Intolerant and bigoted. But one sweet gift is of your giving— Thanks, sad old pilgrims, for Thanksgiving! Society Work. — THKKE is a disposition on tin part of some of the members of the Junior and Senior societies, to regard the rhetorical parts in the society work as a task which is to 1m shirked whenever possible. Now this is a mistaken idea. The society is made a part of the school work so as to increase our power of composition, declaring etc. and it is put in the form of a society to make it more pleasant. Now to make a literary society a success, the co-operation of all the meml ers is necessary. Let each member take hold of the rhetorical part assigned him with vigor and prepare it to the best of his ability. When a student gets as far as the .Junior or Senior year in High School, he is supposed to know considerable, and his aid is often solicited in getting up outside entertainments. In order to be of sendee on such occasions he should be well up in society work in school. The Senior society have before them as an incentive to good work, the fact that theirs is the first Senior Soeietv of this school and the first should be as gcxxl as any. Before the Junior Society as a like incentive, there is the fact that theirs is the first Junior Society in this school that has had a Senior Society as a rival. A It ho’ this rival appears quite formidable, t he Junior Society should In so conducted as to be as good as if not better than any Junior Society which has gone before. Now let each one strive to make the societies of 1891-2 inferior to none in the Minneapolis high schools, and if each member wHl do his jiest tomakehis art an acceptable part of the sclioflf1 work, I fun sure this objevt will 1m accomplished. — ' S. HT S. ------- -——— Seixior Locals. ON the morning of Oct. 28th 1891 the Seniors, on trying to look at the merry faced Juniors, found the side of the room ablaze with light. What looked to be a portion of gold or brass armor attached to the left side. As soon as their eyes became accustomed to the glare it turned out to l e their badges seeming chosen from quantity rather than quality. They confessed themselves that they were rather surprised at the size. We all think the desigu very pretty. All acknowledge that the reception given by the young gentlemen of the Senior class to the young ladies was most enjoyable. The refresh-ments were excellent. Wit and humor were plentiful. The brilliancy of the occasion will long be remembered by all who were present. Please do not scatter any articles of food on the floor as it is very tempting to the mice,