South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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26 THE CLASS A N X U A L 0 6 O F ABC FOR FRESHMEN A is for Ardence, a quality found In freshmen and others quite as unsound. B is for Brains, brimming over with knowledge; You think you know more than a man just from college. C is for Carefulness, loaded with which You fear being found asleep at the switch. D is for Digging in books you’d best wave; Or, the first thing you know, they’ll be digging your grave. E is for Easy. You do all they say, You’ll die of brain-soft’ning some not distant day. F is for Freshmen; remember you’re it; The nerve of you all almost gives me a fit. G is for Goodness and Greenness and Gawk. To see you are these takes no eye of a hawk. Let us stop here and say, with hearty good will. We wish you success in your climb up the hill; For, though, like Macaulay, we patronize those Whom we see trying hard to improve on our prose. We, also, in truth to the justice we own, Must admit that we’re not like the Pope on his throne; But just human beings, no more and no less. And, as such, we all wish you the height of success.

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THE CLASS A N N U A L OF ’06 25 YE EDITORS’ EXPLANATION N RESPONSE to a demand, a loud and thundering demand for the “Class of ’06“ to appear in print, we, the editors, launch this, our attempt, upon the troubled seas of literary merit and contemporary criticism. Certain set principles, fixed by the Fates, in the early ages of the whining school-boy, we suspect, and subsequently sanctioned, since the days of Demosthenes, by every class, senior or otherwise, that has dared to submit to cold type and glaring publicity, its inmost thots and most solemn secrets; certain set principles, we sav, demand that such a chronicle as we now intrust to the gentle treatment of our coldly sympathetic victims must contain a class poem, a class will, a class history, a class prophecy and perchance a few class jokes. Altho we have a will, yet we cannot, nay, considering the lands thru which we have gone in the course of preparation for this volume, we dare not ignore such worthy precedent and here you find recorded to the best of our prose and poetical ability all these necessary requisites of a truly classical and eminently successful class annual. We beg you to remember when an impulse and a few stray words that have slipped in between these covers leads you to clench your metaphorical fists at us, that “he who laughs last laughs best” and that it was all well spoken and must be well taken, according to some ancient doctor’s prescription. And now, lest we forget, we thank all of our friends who have so kindly and trustfully aided us in the enterprise ; we remember with special gratitude our advertisers. (May they never regret their patronage.) We ask forgiveness from all whom it may concern; and with shaking knees, quivering pen and a queer, undiagnosible palpitation of the heart, we submit this tome to thee. Be thou gentle with it, we pray. The Editors.

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THE CLASS ANNUAL OF ’06 27 GIRLS’ BASKET BALL TEAM FTER one of the most successful seasons in South High Basket Ball history, the girls' quintet brought the season to a fitting close with a banquet to their coach, Miss Frank. A most enjoyable evening was spent and there were many clever responses to the toastmistress. The season opened the last of October with about thirty girls out to practice, confident that Miss Frank would bring Girls Basket Hall Team out the best team possible. Altho the majority of the girls knew nothing whatever of the game, under the able tutelage of their coach, they soon were able to make a creditable showing. The girls went immediately into training and practiced twice a week at the Y. W. C. A. gymnasium. After two months’ strenuous training the first team was chosen, consisting of Myrtle Anderson and Nellie Loberg, forwards, Signe Larson, center, and Myrtle Stenning and Grace Law, guards. Miss Law was chosen captain and under her able leadership the girls learned to play together very well. On January 22, the team was defeated by the crack University five. But altho the score was large, the girls were