University School of Milwaukee - Trident Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Eighteen THE ACADEMY Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder. A One Aa Play. NOTE : The regular teacher of the Beginners Latin Class of M. U. S. was visiting schools in Chicago so Doctor Pratt was planning to take the class. LIST OF CHARACTERS Dr. Pratt, Dean of M. U. S., Gonser, Bliedung, Frankfurth, Baerwald, Mem- bers of the Beginners ' Latin Class. ACT I Place— Room C — M. U. S. Time— A Latin period of the 1920 school year. (Room deserted. — A bell rings. — En- ter Dr. Pratt, closing door after him. — Noises, off stage, of boys running down stairs and talking loudly. — Boys run by glass panel in door. — Someone slides across floor in hall and bumps into door with a thud. Gonser opens door and rushes in followed by Bliedung, Frank- furth and Baerwald. ' Dr. P.: WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY SUCH DISORDERLY CON- DUCT? GO OUTSIDE AND COME IN RESPECTABLY! (Students obey and then take seats.) What was your lesson for today? — What page are you on? WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU HAD? GONSER, WHERE IS YOUR LESSON? Gon. : I-I-I don ' t know. Dr. P.: Huh! If you don ' t know where the lesson is you couldn ' t have studied very hard. Sit down ! Baer- wald, what was your lesson? Baer. : We didn ' t have any. Dr. P.: Huh! Well, we ' ll see what you know. Class, recite hic-haec-hoc! Class : Hic-huius-huic — Dr. P.: What? Recite it across! Baer., Frank., Blie., Gon., together: Hic-haec-hunc, Hic-hoc-hos, Hoc-hanc- his, Has-hos-his. Dr. P. : Didn ' t I tell you to recite it across? Then do it! Frank., Class together: Hic-haec-his, Hic-haec-hoc. Dr. P. : Who said his? Frank. : I did. Dr. P. : Then you may recite it alone. Frank. : Hic-hic-hic. Dr. P.: WHAT? Don ' t you know what the nominative forms are? I just gave them to you ! If you had been pay- ing attention you would have known it. (The rest of the class quickly look in their books.) Bearwald, what are the nominative forms? Baer.: (After another look in his book) : Hic-hacc-hos. Dr. P. : What is the matter with this class? You can ' t even read straight. The forms are hic-haec-hoc. Frank- furth, you may go on. Frank. : Hic-haec-etc. Dr. P. : Don ' t put an .y on the neuter accusative ! You may study it now and I will have you recite it before the end of the period. We will go through the review on page 130 now. Gonser, you may answer the first question, (reads) Give an example of the comparative with a comparison — Well, don ' t you remember the one the teacher gave you? Gons. : Oh! Yes! In order to get down the stairs quicker, he fell down. Dr. P.: Wha— . Yes, that ' s right! Now, Bliedung may give me an example of the relative clause of purpose. I pre- fer one of your own but if you can ' t think of any give me the one the teacher gave you for that too. Blied. : The one she gave us was, The Ambassador, who came to seek peace, fell in the lake. Dr. P.: We ' ll skip the rest of the grammar ! What words are formed with the Latin word post, such as post-mor- tem. Baer. : Postscript. Frank. : Postpone. Blied.: P. M. stands for post meri-

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THE ACADEMY Seventeen Nobody had spoken or moved since I began. At the termination of my story, there was a moment ' s silence, and then the most uproarious laughter imaginable. What I was finally able to gather be- tween periods of laughing, was that the whole night ' s experience had been a frame from beginning to end. It was the initiation that a city boy must take before he can be received in good fel- lowship with the rest. —Russell U ' lrth, ' 24 Thrown Away. A figure moved along the river bank, moved slowly on towards the splashing waters of the dam; the dam whose waters furnished power to light the big city nearby in its gayety. To the east the moon rose, small and cold, and looked upon the city, upon the waters of the river, frozen, except at the dam, and upon the lonely figure painfully making its way beneath the ice-clad boughs of the trees that hugged the river ' s bank. Had one seen the face of the traveler he might have been startled. For it was not the face of a man, but that of a boy, a boy with the responsibilities of a man thrust upon his shoulders. It was war ! He had been just a doughboy. He had run away from home, lied about his age, and enlisted. His stay in camp had been short and he had left with his regiment, one of the first. Now a wooden crutch tried to take the place of a leg, shot away in France. Back in America again, he had found himself without work. And why should people help him ? There were many others worse off than he. The moon was high in the cold, star- less heaven by the time the figure had reached the center of the narrow planks that bridged the roaring waters of the dam. The moon looked down and won- dered why the figure paused. And in the spring, when the ice broke up, men on the magnificently arched con- crete bridge in the city below paused, and wondered at the wooden crutch that slowly passed beneath them. W. H. S.

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THE ACADEMY Nineteen dian or something of the sort. (Pause.) Dr. P. : Can ' t you think of any more ? Gons. : Post oflfice. Dr. P.: Don ' t try to be funny! Gons. : I wasn ' t. Dr. P. : Keep quiet ! Class, translate the sentence at the bottom of the page. — JVake up! Class! TRANSLATE! Frank.: The Helvetians et the Se- quanians — . Baer. : Ate who ? Dr. P.: KEEP QUIET! What ' s the case of Caesar? Gons. : Dative ? Dr. P. : No. Blied. : Genitive? Dr. P. : No. Frank. : Plural ? Dr. P.: No! Baer. : Accusative? Dr. P.: NO! Blied.: Ablative? Dr. P.: NO! Gons. : Oh, nominative. Dr. P. : Now the gender. Blied., Baer., Frank., together: Neu- ter ' Feminine? Masculine? Dr. P. : It ' s masculine. Decline t ' wo in Latin. Gons.: Dous-doa-doum. Dr. P. : Sit down. Frankfurth, de- cline -anus. Frank. : U niis-xina-imum — etc. — uni- unae-una. Dr. P. : NO ! What does filiiis mean ? Well, what is son in Latin ? Baer. : Filius-fiiia-filium. Dr. P.: NO! Translate bonae leges Cae saris. Blied. : The bony legs of Ceasar. Dr. P.: Do any of you know any- thing? Frankfurth, if you ' re ready now vou may recite hic-haec-hoc for me. Frank. : Hic-haec-etc. Dr. P.: DIDN ' T I TELL YOU NOT TO PUT AN S ON THE NEU- TER ACCUSATIVE? (A bell rings and students exit hur- riedly, followed by Dr. Pratt, shaking his head with an air of disgust. CURTAIN. — U ' m. Halstead. Caught in the Fog on Lake Superior. We left Gargantua, a little Canadian town on the north shore of Lake Supe- rior, early one September morning. There was a high sea rolling, but the lit- tle staunch steamer Manitoa weathered it bravely. The barometer was falling and the captain said we were in for a real equinoctial storm. We certainly were. This storm acted very much like a hur- ricane. It blew very hard for about a half hour and then stopped; after this period of thirty minutes it was absolutely windstill ; there wasn ' t a breath of air stirring. But during that half hour the wind blew so hard that the entire lake was a seething mass of foam. It was now about seven o ' clock in the evening. We ate supper and an hour afterward went to bed. At five o ' clock that morning I was awakened by the cry of Everybody on Deck. I dressed in a hurry and when I got on deck discovered a very heavy fog. One of the deckhands told me we were totally lost. How very nice. Suddenly like a thunderbolt out of a blue sky we heard a voice come out of the fog. Reverse, you ' re running right on the rocks ! Then we saw the rocks loom up in the fog like phantoms veiled in white. The entire boat shook as we reversed. In a few minutes the fog lifted, not entirely, but enough for us to see shore. We were but a quarter of a mile from the rocks and the rocks were the same distance from shore. Who was it who called so mysterious- ly out of the fog? Who was it who saved the Manitoa and probably every- body aboard from destruction. We don ' t know and we never will. — Joseph Uihlein.