Terrill Preparatory School - Terrillian Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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QE Eswis - E'-DU I , 1 Let's Hear You Talk. CC HE. greatest thing that ever happened to me, Mr. Terrill was once heard to say, was the coming of a good woman into my life. We can't enlarge upon that, but we can say that one of the greatest influences that has come into many a house boy's life has been Mrs. Terrill. For the greater part of the year, she is a mother to some seventy boys, and she comes just as close to filling that difficult position as is humanly possible. Mrs. Terrill is ever ready to help a boy, to counsel him, and to put in a good word for him. Besides being a mother of seventy, Mrs. Terrill is a teacher of teachers. Although not actively teaching this year as much as in former years, she has made herself felt in whatever work she has put her hand to. l-ler classes have only themselves to blame if they do not learn anything under such a teacher. To hear Mrs. Terrill instructing the house boys in the books of the Bible is in itself a revelation. There has been no little said about the part Mrs. Terrill has played in the management of the school. It is generally thought that whereas Mr. Terrill is the guiding hand of the school, Mrs. Terrill is the guiding spirit. It is certainly true that this school owes much of its success to her. With Mrs. Terrill's departure from it, there will go one of the most cultured, refined and lovable characters in the educational world. We will-always have a warm spot in our hearts for Mrs. Terrill. 13 E .Q1a15Q, .EQ

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Es 1915 cs-EE E69 U Read Your Directions HE person who has taken a course under Mr. Farrar never fails to realize that he has had no sinecure. If there are any four things in the school which are hard, those things are, Chemistry, Trig., Second Form Algebra and Physics. Of these four, two are Mr. Farrar's-Chemistry and Physics. The man who has that sort of record in the Terrill school can claim to have all prep schools and many colleges backed off the boards in that line. Mr. Farrar teaches about every other thing in school, and with the same result: Each class must know its lessons or it won't get by. So much for Mr. Farrar's teaching. , A very entertaining person in class, Mr. Farrar surpasses him- self out of class. He always was equal to any pasage'at repartee, and so far as we know never came off the vanquished. Not long since, Corn Morgan was insisting to Mr. Farrar that he was a hard worker. You don't ever catch me idle, do you? he concluded. Well, no: you are pretty slick about that, all right, came back the reply. With such a tongue, adapted ideally to sarcasm, he could turn litmus paper red. Mr. Farrar has been in the school so long that the place would be unrecognizable should' he not be here. 15