Urbana High School - Tower Yearbook (Urbana, OH)

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Ethel Ewing can hold a German discourse in Dutch Company. That's hobby. Hagenbuch can call a class meeting and forget the business propositions. That's failure. A Besse Nutt can skate and skate and never eat. That's privilege. I Burt Talbott would rather play basket ball than study. That's preference. Miss Carmony can call one back when his dinner is getting cold. Tihatls authority. I Professor Collett can look over a test paper and make a mark on it the shape of a zero. Thatls a flunk. Corinne Lewis can give arhetorical production with- out looking at herupaper. K That's O. K. - The author of this could write a check for 50,000.00 dollars and it wouldn't be worth a dime. That's tough. Miss Mast talks about Paradise Lost rather than predestination and Christian Science. That's choice. Lola Williams can play two good hands. That's on the piano. ' A , Crowl can studyand read, and then talk like A Man Without a Country. That's adaptation. Nellie Bailey can read fast and talk likewise. That's rapidity. , Weller thinks Hamlet's friendg the ghost, has not yet been killed. That's superstition. Nellie Carson leaves her native haunts to attend school at Urbana. That's attraction. ' Professor Merrill can sketch the horizon and the mid- night sun with a piece of charcoal. That's invention. Lillian Weiser can use her fingers in unison with her thoughts. That's practise. Y Miss Joslyn can lead a chorus class and carry a tune at the same time. That's cultivation. L Hattie Williams can put a crystal of salt in a test tube, add water and acid, and heat is produced. That's action. x We Seniors can give a Farce and some Wax Works. That's US. g

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REPARTEE 'A , Mary' Leonard could take a worthless sheet of paper, write a poem on it, and 'make it worth remembering. That's genius. Professor Keyser can write a few words on a sheet of paper and make it worth 915500. That's capital. Ella Wood can take material worth thirty cents and make it into a doilie worth thirtyseven and onehalf cents. That's skill. 4 ' The United. States cn take an ounce and a quarter of gold, stamp an eagle on it and make it worth 520. That's money. I . ' Ida Neer can purchase a hat for twentyfive cents, but prefers one for 325. That's nonsense. - Seibert can take a yard of gingham costing three cents and sell it for live cents. b That's business. Besse Poffenberger can get ninetyeight in deportment, while the rest fall far below. That's superiority. Mr. Martin can tell the first thing you get when you fall in the pond. That's experience. , iElla Brand can all but read the hierglyphics along the Nile. That's knowledge. Murphey' can tell the difference' between an Early Ohio and ia HLate Rose. That's wisdom. , A Fan McCray can put hand writing on the v: it with her left hand. That's ability. Berg can tell whether literature makes his tory make literature. That's judgment. A pg. L-. Jen Hubbard can laugh, watch Ruth Balivf laugh. That's habit. Cramer can unite the symbols for one part tassium and io.dine, together with two parts Blanche West still thinks all the John dead. Thatls foolish. Blake can crack a joke and never feel an That's wit. Mattie Muzzy can get into school before in That's ambition. Mazie Snyder can blush and show red che cosmetics. That's natural. Guthridge can live to be eighty and be sl world. That's inherited. Rosa Richwine can tell where the north st time. That's acquisition. Given could carry water all day and ea. teen cents. That's labor. X iii Of and no girl will read it KISS. That's hard lue' Ala.: C4 bu pri 'Ph ,Lfvt zu in out doll: prwl they

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SENIOB ALPHABET A is for Annual, which the Class. of '02 Paid for by giving the play 'cWho is Who. B is fortBailey, who thinks books so nice That for them s ' B is for Baldwin, who to laughter is prone, But she never, no never, laughs all alone. B is for Banta, whose dignified grace Ne'er from our memory shall we erase. B is for Berg, so icy and cold, '- Who Latin doth read like the wise men of old. B is for Blake, whose deportment is H fair, His only regret is his brilliant red hair. B is for Brand, an autocratsurely, Who sets forth her' opinions so very demurely. C is for Carson, who ever doth speak The saying so beauteous Blest are the Meek? C islfor Crowl, our talented friend, Whose. genius for impersonating is without end. C is for Cramer, whose frame is not stout, But whose jumping on field day puts rivals to rout. D is for H Darlingsf' as such we are known By parents and teachers in this good old town. r he'd take not the pearl of great price. E is for Ewing, who lives in the woods. And' whose recitations are surely the ' goods. F is for Foot Ball, a team we possess Which many have tried to, but none can surp G is for Given, as Runt,' known by all. The minutest of molecules are, compared to G is for Guthridge, H Skeetsw don't you kno The same as those insects which bother us s H is for Hagenbuch, so debonair. Who spends all the school hours smoothing H is for Hubbard, Jennie by name. Who for laughter stands second to Baldwin I is for H Idiots. as such they are known. Who turned over and over our beautiful sto .T is for Johnson a dear little boy. Whose felicitous heart ishderflowing with f K is Kids, Katzenjammer, you know. Our models, and we, like them. are not slo L is for Leonard. a most noted seer. 'Who, in her studies. is without a compeer. L is for Lewis. a fortunate child. Her fondness for German is not very mild. TT 1. It T1 L L- O 'N