St Lukes School - Oak Yearbook (Wayne, PA)

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by polishing the floor with Dick, and throwing out the latter's empty medicine bottles. In revenge, Dick cut Squaw dead in Broad Street Station, when he was in the company of his society friends. Dick's only com- fort in life was his weekly trips to town to attend the Dancing Class. Squaw begged in vain for just one chance to see young Philadelphia Society trip the light fantastic, but Dick was obdurate and Squaw polished him off ad libitum. Thus the merry war continued till Christmas, then Ben Tilley arrived. Alle gute Dinge sind drei, our Teutonic neighbors say. But in this case the matter was debatable. The Upper Sixth was now a triangular form. Dick contributed the social side, Ben, the wise, and Squaw, the foolish. From a mathematical standpoint, we leave it to the gentle reader to determine which sides of the isosceles triangle were equal. In the words of the fair Bedelia, get busy ! get busy ! It is impos- sible to mention the different girls the triangle rushed between New Year's and Closing Day. I am a historian, not a writer for the Smart Set, and besides ce ne sont pas la mes affairesf' In a general way, if she were of good family and rich, Dick was epris till another candidate for his regard put in her claim. Family and wealth were poor passports to SquaW's favor, but he was always a great stickler for form. It mattered little whether she worked in the Telephone Exchange, or was a chorus lady, as long as she was tall and stately, sweet tempered, and did not have a hare-lip. Squaw and Dick used to argue daily over their Gwendolin de Veres, and Kitty Swifts, but no matter how eloquent Dick was, Squaw always floored him inside of ten minutes. Ben solved the ewige weibliche question on its merits. He took no man into his confidence, but dined regularly with his friends at League Island. This explains why Ben composed the wise side of the Upper Sixth Triangle. Before leaving the subject of the fair sex, due credit should be given to Squaw for the noble manner in which he discharged the trust reposed in him by Turk. It was hard for Turk to leave St. Luke's, where he had grown up, and go out into the cold, cold world, but it was harder to put his hands behind him and face the future alone. Turk was not the man to ring his hands in despair of escaping his fate. All that he I8

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Upper Sixth History f tl h we doubt itj Harvard conservatism or lack of T may have been the survival of the ittest C ioug 4 , , . . , pull at Annapolisg in any event, when school opened in September, Squaw and Dick com- posed the Form. 1 D ' The History of the Upper Sixth, for the first half of the year, would be the incomings and outgoings Cnot to mention the shortcomingsj of two shining specimens of the jeunesse doree of ' t is concerned. When Philadelphia and Lebanon, but this history is not biography, except where 'tsocle y k d th u ust Fditorial Board of THF OAK how many yards of literary tapestry he your modest historian as e e a g . . U n V was supposed to weave, he was told: Dick has chewed the rag Cguaranteed all silkj and Squaw has posed fin repertoire, ranging from St. Anthony to The Telephone Girlj, in No. 1 I2 Crawford House, the entire year. Weave fact into fiction or vice versa, and your question will be answered. But facts were difficult to secure. S h d licked Dick into apprehensive silence. Dick dared not tell. Squaw would not. Up till Christ- . quaw a mas, Dick read Town Topics, inside the cover of The Sunday School Times, dreamed about his estate in Italy, ' s busy 1 n ed occasionally at his trigonometry scrapped with d'Artagnan, and played football. Squaw wa. D g a c I . , . all the autumn arranging fights, talking Princeton, and making touchdowns. Sometimes he opened a text' ' ' ' ' T A h'm lide book, but the mistake was soon discovered. All bells, except for meals, grated on his nery es. o ste 1 g into the dining-room after the cereal was served each morning was sport for the gods. ' ' ' h bl' med it If Dick got a tardy, it was always Squaws fault. If the latter was the delinquent, e a all on Dick. The unity in which they dwelt was that of the famous Kilkenny cats. Dick cribbed his algebra e ' f ' 1 d house from Squaw, the latter swiped the former's tooth-powder. At stated lnterx als, Squaw ceane I7

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left behind he committed to the Semper Vigilans of Squaw. Nobly did he accept his trust. Whatever may be his other faults fand rumor says they are quite numerousj, he was not the man to let one hand know what the other one does. He needs the sympathy accorded Turk, but he did not lack encouragement. The day he left for Annapolis, he placed his hands in Fox Kelly's and told Gillis to hit the trail. After Squaw's departure Ben moved over to Crawford House and roorned with Dick. Life ran so smoothly that there is nothing for the historian to recount which would look well in print. Adieu Dick, auf Wiedersehen Squaw, so long Ben! may good luck follow you in the years to come! We hate to lose you, but the larger world wants you, and it's up to you to go. Upper Sixth Form President Jos. D. PATCH Secretary and Treasurer Athletic Representative J. lj.lESTEl B. F. TILLEY 19