Terrill Preparatory School - Terrillian Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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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

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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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Q SEE EQ 12115 GSE' E A Little More Pep There! nearly lost Mr. Davis this year, or so the campers all say. lt seems he cooked up a whole bucket-full of beans by a process which makers of kiln-dried bricks would give the very bonds out of their desks to know. Furthermore, when everyone else declined them, saying that they personally preferred to live, the pride of the man made him pelt his internal workings with that entire mass of bean ore. It didn't take him long to realize that it would have been better for him to swallow his pride rather than those legumes. Mr. Davis isn't always so indiscreet. About the only indiscre- tion he indulges in these days is attempting to teach l..igon Greek right on top of trying to make a basket-ball player of Wine. If any one could have done either, Mr. Davis would have been the man. Last year he developed a champ basket-ball team from fel- lows who, with few exceptions, hadn't played more than one year. This year's championship team is some more of his handiwork. He deserves all the credit in the world for his coaching of these teams. Track work is also in his province and he has done good work with the material in hand. All in all, we couldn't get along without Mr. Davis. The fact is, we're pretty glad he got the decision over those beans. 19 C, 655 EQ 1911? QJEE EEQ O