Terrill Preparatory School - Terrillian Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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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

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UL 561515 GE' Q Take Your Seats at the Board, Please IBERNIAN and Highbrowian, that's Mr. Ferguson. He's theman who, 'when in charge of study hall for a period, works trig, for one boy, scans Virgil for another, sees to Ligon's Greek, conjugates a French irregular verb for the asking, talks German without being asked, and reads proof for the News, the while giving Slaughter his English UD. But the trait upon which his more enduring fame rests and will rest is the way he can remain perfectly oblivious to his surround- ings for an indefinite period of time. Hence, his well-earned soubriquet, Most alert of all the faculty. He is the absent- minded professor of song and story. For instance, the time he met Twin outside of school and asked him where he thought he'd spend the summer and Twin replied he dicln't know, to which Mr. Ferguson rasped: Don't know! Don't know! Zero! Which is also an index to his classroom methods. Last year, after Mr. Ferguson had conducted his first recitation, Paxton came out of his English class and gave utterance to a con- viction. Ain't he a peach! Thus showing what he had learned in that class besides English. Ain't he a peach! has said every- body else who has ever known Mr. Ferguson. 16 1915 I w il