Terrill Preparatory School - Terrillian Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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Q ku: 515515113 FE-E1 E+-jf..-Z-'QUE Q HERE YOU ! ! HERE are more ways than one to skin a cat. Did you know that? Well, it's so. Also, did you know a potato could fall out of a wagon in different ways? If you have any doubts about these profound axioms, perhaps Mr. Adkisson could dispel them. Now these weighty subjects really have a practical application-proof-both mathematics and baseball. According to Coach joshua, if you can't get a hit, get hitg in either case the result is the same, the cat is skinned, and a man is on first. lf you can't teach quadratics, inject them: again the result is obtained and the potato is out of the wagon. Mr. Adkisson is a University of Virginia man. While in college, one out of his many sports was gym work. At this, he and his teammates became so proficient that they made a tour of the coast putting on exhibitions before interested audiences. It is conserva- tive to say that Mr. Adkisson was the star until his bold daring led him to heights too precipitous and an untimely fall resulted in his breaking both shoulders. This, of course, ended his career as a gymnast, but soon his versatile genius sought other fields of action and we next hear of him on the diamond. Mr. Adkisson is one of those rare beings called a. character. His fearlessness and intrepidity are well known throughout the school and woe to the boy who misbehaves in his presence, for Mr. Adkisson evidently believes that action is more effective than words. S. L. R. 20 ,,, C,-5.5. 551.9 1915 Q Q ,

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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

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UQ' 'EQIBIECQE' Say, 'A-a-a-h' ! HE. name of Mrs. Walling stands for music in the Terrill School. It is Mrs. Walling who annually turns out a credit- able Glee Club and Little Boys' Chorus from some of the most unpromising material imaginable. It is Mrs. W'alling who leads the orchestra in chapel and who thumps that resounding chord on the piano which brings every body to his feet in one big surge. Although she conducts no regular classes, Mrs. Walling is as busy during the day as the next one, giving private lessons in piano, mandolin, guitar and violin. Her efforts in making the voices of a bunch of huskies who originally couldn't sing but did sound plausible, are nothing short of heroic. For a while, in the early part of this year it looked as if Mrs. Walling was going to be the captain of a new kind of ball team, only this one would have a W where the first ul usually is. By infinite patience she got her proteges into a condition bordering on the vocally possible and impressed them with the fact that there's nearly as much difference between A and D on the scale as on the bi-weekly report slip. ln a remarkably short space of time, Mrs. Walling has reduced the num- ber of separate voices from about twenty to the regular four. That's achievement enough for- any one. 21