St Thomas High School - Thomist Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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ON GETTING ADS There is really nothing I enjoy much more than getting ads for the Annual. One may start out on a beautiful rainy day, and tramp up one side of the street and down the other from morning till night, and have his efforts greatly rewarded by a few dollars, worth of ads. Going into a smaller sized store is not so bad, but when one approaches a large factory or depart- ment store the knees have a queer tendency to tremble, and rightly so, because an advertising manager for a huge company usually knows what hels talking about, and doesn't sign up for an ad unless he's feeling in extra high spirits. Another thing that makes one feel very light hearted is to go from place to place and receive the same, rubber stamp sob story. After an ad solicitor has gone all day and heard the same thing in eighty per cent of the stores, he will have it pretty well memorizedg it usually runs something like this: fWVell, you see we're cutting down on all our advertising this year. Last year we spent alto- gether too much on ads, and so we're cutting out all of the annuals, church reports, etc. If we do it for one theylll all be after us, so you see how it is. Come around next year and maybe we'll give you one. And then again, one will hit a few places, where he gets nothing but the cold shoulder, and is shown the door. But scattered here and there between these places are the stores that take an ad. There is nothing that gives you much more of a thrill than to go from place to place and be turned out, and finally hit an ad. I myself feel as if I were being ceded the Wool- worth building when I see a contract being signed for a four dollar ad-to say nothing of the big ones. Clifford Hyland, '27, IMAGINATION Imagination is the ability to believe that which is not so. It is forever misrepresenting something to me. If I expect to have a good time at some party, my anticipation of it so greatly outweighs any pleasure I receive while there, that I never have as good a time as I ex- pect, and am, therefore, disappointed or dis- satished. And eventually, it follows, that the only things that I enjoy are surprises. It makes me spend many uncomfortable hours wor- rying about something, that, in reality, is not bad enough to waste any thought on at all. It makes mountains out of mole hills, and fosters suspicion. It gives some little, foolish incident a mighty crushing significance, and offers up ridiculously impossible solutions to a problem- and I accept them. Philip McDonald, '27. EXAMS Exams -that dreaded word! I don't be- lieve there is another word more feared and hated by pupils than that little word of five let- ters. As soon as you are old enough to know anything in school you become acquainted with it. It follows you all through your school days -popping up just at the wrong time. just at the time when you feel the least like studying, you'1l hear, Exams tomorrow. And then the grind of sitting up the greater part of the night trying to learn everything you've forgotten or never did know. Your brain becomes one con- fused mass of a little of everything and by the time you decide to close your books for the night, you know less than when you began. Such is the idea that almost everyone has when she hears Exams Laurena Kirane, 'Z7. THE LONG PERIOD A broken watch lay on the desk, It was crippled by a fallg sun began to travel west, the watch told not at all. The But The time for the gong had passed and gone, But typing on went the class, For no one knew the hour of the day, As the watch was losing fast. And Lawyer Gill talked on and on About Commercial Law, And thought this hour of the day IfVas the longest he ever saw. But to our rescue came at length The owner of an Ingersoll, And proved to the owner of the Watch The damage of that fall. Mark Martegani. Stz aiiiii: trt ifti- lS0ll

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4-vrf' i 1, go nu: LT Pkrggl JU' Pro Fide Et Patria Upon our Bishop's coat-of-arms, Are noble words whose beauty charms. 'fPro Fido et Patriof' A royal champion of the Faith A loyal citizen of the State! Pro Fido et Patriaf' To Rockford diocese he camo To spread the honor of God's name. Pro Fido et Patriaf' With light of Faith and Wi5d01M, too, Our school he's ever guided true. Pro Fido et Patriaf' On' battle-field tivixt life and death, He struggled while we prayed and wept Pro Fido et Patriaf' The King of Kings, he lives to servo And still his rnotto is the word. Pro Fido ot Patriaf' Lot siloer bells his triuniph ring, Our voices join his praise to sing. Pro Fido et Patriaf' To Prince of Church onr tribute giffn, lVho points the way from earth to Hoaffn Pro Fido ot Patriaf' Richard LaForge '30.

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