Tomah High School - Hamot Yearbook (Tomah, WI)

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Soliloquy of a Teacher IAS Seen lxy :i Senionl To scold, or not to scold, Kthat is the question, Whether 'tis easier for a teacher to burn The mid-night oil in marking extra papers, Or to glare and threaten, And by scolding end them. To scold, -fto work, - No more, and by an order to say they end The work of the thousand extra papers That they are heir to, -'tis an achievement Devoutly to be wished. To groan, fto scold, f To scoldl Perchance to workl Aye, there's the ru For even if they scold what students may come XVho will not work or study? This makes them pause. This is the thing That brings calamity to their school like: For who would stand the many extra papers, The pupil's looks, their bored indifference, That feeling of disgust, those old reviews The laziness of students, and the wrongs That patient teachers ol' the student take XVhen they might their salvation make NVith many threats? YYho would these burdens lhea To work all through a weary lilie, f But that the dread ol' something soon to come, f The insecure position which all Teachers hold puzzles the will, And makes them rather bear those ills they have Than lly to others that they know not of? Thus conscience doth make cowards ol' them all, And thus the happy lives of teachers Are threatened lay this thought ol' liailurc'-f A matter which often tortures and torments-f Because ol' this their school lives turn awry, And lose the name ol' joy. IO

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Board of Education C. B. IDROXYATZI-XX A. W. NICNIKLLENI Secretary Trcusurcr L. B. SQUIER President U

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Faculty ROSA DROWATZKY ELIZABETH CCLLORD Ass't. Prin. Geometry and English IV. HELEN HULL BLAKE ELLEN GURNEH' English History II