South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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The Senior as the Junior Sees Him Senior! could you but see yourself as thru the rose-colored spectacles of a Junior! Three years have caused the rosy tint to fade so that we see you almost as you are. We do not think of you as our senior in learning nor yet in age, (for it is hard to admit) there are many elderly Juniors and also many young seniors. We consider you superior to us in the ability to hold your high and respected position with as little application as possible. To study is very childish for a Senior. Not to study is a sort of malady which comes with seniority, the first symptoms of which, we Juniors are beginning to feel already. But it is entirely beyond our comprehension how you manage to brazen it thru on your reputation which is really no better than ours. Books to you are but a dream, while to us they possess the unpleasantness of reality. For you there exists no rules; you tread upon us heartlessly and we bear it, knowing that we will soon rise to fill your place and can then taste the forbidden fruit of the all-powerful Senior. Then here’s to the Senior lad and lass. Who do all others by far surpass ! WINIFRED C. SWIFT. Call • Pa e twenty-four

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necessary expenses were met, and on a beautiful moonlight evening when the grass was wet with fragrant dew, a grand informal hop was given in honor of the departing Seniors. It was the crowning event of the social aspirations of the class, well attended and particularly enjoyed by the Junior maids, the majority of whom through no fault of their own, found it necessary to hold individual fetes on their own lawns. However, while in this stage, the chrysalids are becoming not only socially but educationly transformed. They have dwarfed Shakespere and Scott by their world-startling works, ranging from the deepest prose to the grandest poetry, and they have produced athletes who deem it only recreation to break the records of great world champions. These ascensions, both of body and mind, are chiefly due to the absolutism of the good and wise paternal despots who are carefully preparing the beautiful Junior cocoons for the final transformation. Then when the dignified beautiful and renowned Senior butterflies have flown out into the great world garden to gather nectar and eat the fruit of their toil, these worthy successors shall fill the vacancy, and strive with all the combined originality and mimicry of their natures to live up to the standards of such an excellent criterion as the present Senior class has proved to be. When they shall reach this highest and perfect stage in their development, only one great sorrow will mar their happiness;—the loss of their beloved guardian angel—but unselfishly they will consent to his doing a little missionary work among the heathen in the West, and will graciously accept the new guardian. Then the gay butterflies will flit about the big sunny halls, while the more sombre moths will seek the light of the reference table, and for one, short, happy year all will dwell in that Eldorado which always makes good the dear, old South High. ETHEL KEATLEY Page twenty-three

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