Terrill Preparatory School - Terrillian Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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UQE 'EQDIHISCBE' Less Responsive Reading-Please. F l9l5-I 6 is memorable for anything at Terrill School, it is the advent of Mr. Bogarte, first as the head of the Mathematics Department, and second, as the future head of the school. After many disappointments in teachers of mathematics, we at last have a man to teach us who is bigger than his position. And what holds for his professional ability, holds as well for his gentlemanly qualities. He's so gentlemanly that he makes us feel like a bunch of thugs when we don't get up his work as well as we might. ln this way he gets the same, if not better, results than he would by driving and browbeating. l-le is certainly no less a scholar and instructor than a gentleman. His information is very far-reaching, not only in his special line, mathematics, but also on any subject you might hit upon in loaflng over the pages of the Sxy-Zyxomma volume of the Britannica. I-le added a great deal to the interest of his mathematics classes by once in a while lecturing on such things as Vocational Fitness, The Fourth Dimension and Digestion in Its Relation to Grading Papers. We know that with Mr. Bogarte in charge next year the school will keep right on in its steady, progressive march. One thing that might make us seniors willing to trade places with the Third Formers is that that would give us another year with lVlr. Bogarte. 17

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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

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-il '-'--- ---- F: . ' TiE3Ci?1. X 'L 1531.164 I-J -9 Q UI ll Number Ones, Your Sentence Wasn't as Long as Number Twos'g Grade One-Half. HE above is not really Mr. Bassett's favorite saying, although he did say it once. It is simply a character study in two words. For several years Mr. Bassett has been teaching and studying French and German in the school. He mastered the grammars of those languages at the University of Michigan, and the pronunciation of them through the l. C. S., or so some sayl Mr. Bassett's renown as an athlete even eclipses his reputation as an instructor. In the faculty basket-ball game he was quite a stumbling block to the 'varsity team. Since last year Mr. Bassett has joined the ranks of the benedicts. He is now a changed man. just witness- Scene-French Prose Class. Time-Before. See here now, l've told you about enough that that word is spelled 'v-i-e-i-l-l-e.' What's the matter with you fellows? No, you don't get anything on that sentence. Scene-Same. Time-After. Well, let's see now. You had everything right but that 'vieille.' I know it's hard but we'll get it before long. That's good. Count three-fourthsf' Chorus of hopeful voices: More marriages, please. HJ egg 18