University High School - Bisbila Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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 '. wagon tongue speaks little wisdom. 3Fr?slfiitan (Class Last fall the new building: beheld many strangers, but the Freshmen were easily distinguishable. They trooped down upon us in a great mob and have continued to run wild until very recently, when they organized with Clarence Olson as their leader. We, the upper classmen, feel all the customary pity for them because of their bovine antics, but we feel sure that in time they will achieve largely, and we hasten to express the hope that they will be wise enough to take their predecessors as their models. On April 23rd the Freshman students met and organized the Freshman Class. They elected officers as follows: Clarence Olson, president: Richard White, vice president: Uernice Fee, secretary and treasurer. die Nut Squirrels are famed as nutters. Their teeth are the sharpest of cutters, 1’hey can cut through a door in a half hour’s time. They can chew on a rock and think it’s sublime. To them the toughest of hickory gives no trouble, '1'he thickest of trees seem to them as a bubble. . Hut one of them lit on a freshman’s head. Ancl he chewed and he chewed, till he finally fell dead. Another one came and his fate was the same. Then two of them came together. From far away in the heather. They gnawed and gnawed from early till late. Hut couldn’t make a dent in the freshman’s pate. After chewing a week without advancing at all. One said to the other, Td rather chew on a billiard ball.” No wonder the teachers with all their “Conivory.” Can’t pound any sense into such solid ivory. —John Jerome.

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(Die Scipljomore (Class The Sophomore Class met May 4th and organized, electing officers as follows: Chester Betcher, president: John Keefe, vice president, and Aaron Rosenblatt. secretary and treasurer. Although the class is small in numbers, it has always contributed its share in the activities of the school. In athletics Bernard Brown, John Keefe and Mike Silverman are quite prominent. Mike was chosen manager of the baseball team, and Bernard Brown was elected captain, and he was also elected marshall of the Literary Society. Bonnie Hanson, the only girl in the Sophomore Class, had the honor of being the first president of the Literary Society. (To the IConjj Old-fashioned songs. And old-fashioned weather: Old-fashioned books. And old-fashioned leather; Old-fashioned girls. And mothers and boys; •J 7 A toast, each and all. to old-fashioned joys. John Proctor, Class of ’12. Miss Vella Schwister, champion llirter. possessor of rare beauty and indescribable charm, was busily engaged in the drawing of a certain picture in which she seemed to be very much engrossed. In fact, she was so engrossed that she attracted the attention of Miss Bovce who. with a bewildering look, glided softly to her side and inquired the meaning of her sudden quietude, to which the great and only Vella replied: “I am drawing a picture of Neptune. “But, mv sweet Vella, answered Miss Boyce, no one knows what Neptune looks like.” I know it. reiterated this same Vella of great and famous renown, “but thev'U know when I get through. (( lass to her) : ()h, mercy, but isn't she the clever child? I bet she figured that all out. Be careful. Vella, say we. or you’re apt to hurt yourself thinking. Goodness, but she's the keen old thing.

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It is with a deep sense of loss that we today record the passing of one of the most popular, courageous, honorable and loyal students that ever attended the University High School—Herbert Riley. Herbert Riley, who was called suddenly while on an outing late in the fall, entered our school in September of the year 1914. Although a member of the school only a brief time he had many warm friends among the students and faculty, and his death was a very sad and heartfelt loss to every member of the school. Herbert was very active in social affairs, in the school, and was a highly qualified athlete. 11 is loss is especially mourned by the football team of which he was a member. We shall mourn the sad death of our dear, respected, loyal friend forever, and in this way in behalf of every member of the University High School. I wish to honor his memorv. W. S. Garry.