Standish High School - Crimson Rambler Yearbook (Standish, ME)

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THE Seca-aQEaaaU1LQ1Na v The Science Buildlngmwhlcn was added'to the Standish High School last year is used by the Physics Class two days a week while the Biology Class has it's use three days a week. The Physics Class is provided with all kinds of mechanical gadgets and weights covering one lab table and the Biology Class has pails of preserved specimens, dissecting sets, textbooks, and flowers are on the other lab table. This year the school bought thirty-two commercial chairs for the lab so classes and quizzes can be given when there are no experiments to do. The Biology Class' day in the lab is as good as a circus. They have had to dissect worms, starfishes crayfishes, mussels, frogs, hydra and sponges. They each had to take a specimen and draw it. The girls would come to the pail of preserves and daintily try to pick out a nice limber worm while they squirmed and shrieked and finally they have to call some great big boy to get it for them. They are getting an ant colony started and while one of the fair- er sex was drawing she noticed that about five ants had escaped. It seems that she doesn't mind snakes and worms but ants and spiders make her fairly shudder. She called to her frrend while she stood shivering to see five harmless little ants running about. nYeo-Hoo, call out the army! The ants are outln Miss Murray came to the rescue and put the ants back while half of the class was doubled up with laughter. As I said once before, they have to draw specimens and pictures from their text UProb1ems in Biology.H These drawings are both good and funny. The funniest I ever saw were the sketches of the human skeleton. In some the legs would be uneven and one would think that the skeleton had just had infantile paralysis. Others would be one- sided and still others, plainly speaking, would be a mess. Mine was a victim of the latter diagnosis. Some were very good. This year the Biology Class should be learning more than any class, for we have a good teacher in Miss Murray and a brand new modern laboratory. ' Marlon Gould '41 ' ' , : aff' ' Y ,, ,-, Hey Santa Claus! Hey Santa Claus, Be good to me, And place a Buick 'Neath my tree, And fill my stocking To the knee With jewels and a coat of fur. A pair of skis, Some binders too, A skating skirt Q Of red and blue, Then, if 1t's not Too much to do, Please give me Robert Taylor. Miriam Dolloff '41