Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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20 HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL. Gaius Iulius Caesar. (ORIGINAL.) G aius iulius caesar, aiius Romani praetoris, centesimo anno ante Christum natum natus est. Cumque Sulla, dictator, audivisset Cor- neliam, filiam Cinnae, sui inimici, uxorem Caesaris esse, ira tarn tanta fuit ut Caesar fugare cogeretur. Ad Asiam ivit, sed Sulla mortuo, Ro- man properavit. Deinde Rhodum seces- sit ut Appolonium Molonem magistrum dicendi audiret. Caesar, primum quaes- tor, ulteriorem Hispaniam accepit. Pro- fectus Roman, consul cum Marco Cal- purnio Bibulo, creatus est. Pacem inter Crassum et Pompeium fecit; quoque societatem coniunxit. Consul atu perfecto, provinciam Gal- liam Cisalpinam et Illvricum recepit. Nunc occasionem coegendi nagnurn ex- ercitum circum se habuit. Primo Helvetios superavit, post anno Caesar Suessiones Bellovacos, Am- bianosque Nervias qui socii fuerunt. fug, avit. Cum 1 itterae Caesaris receptae essen t, supplicatio quindecim dierum ab senatu decreta est. Venetos et alias Gallicas gentes omnino superavit. Gallis super- atis, Germanos, qui in Galliam inibant, adgressus eosque trans Rhenum repulit. Proxime Britannos qui incogniti tunc fuerunt, vicit et in Galliam rediit. In Italium ivit, sed compertus Gallos re- bellantes esse, eo revertit ducemque eorum, Vercingetorigem, superavit. Gal- licis gentibus victis, Caesar Roman rediit. Interim Pompeius Romae potens factus erat senatusque hortatus ab eo Caesarem iussit ut exercitum relinqueret Caesari denegandi bellum declaratum est. Caesar cum exercitu Rubiconem qui inter suam provinciam et Italiam erat, transiit et celeriter Roman properavit. Pompeius persecutus ab Ctesare Brun- disium fugit autern ad Graecian transiit. Caesar, dominus Romae, copias Pompei in Hispaniam evertit. Rediens, se dicta- torem rei publicae factum esse comperit. Pompeius ex Aegypto, Graecia, Asia potentem exercitum coegit. Subito Caesar superius mare transiit. - Dyrachium iit. Pompeius ab Caesare Pharsalica pugna victus, ad Aegyptum fugit. Ibi ab Ptolemaeo, rege Aegypti necatusest. QuareCaesar compertusPom- peium mortuum esse, Ptolemaeum ad- fecit. Proxime fllium Mithradatis Ponti- co prolio evertit. In Africa, Scipionem et Catonem, ami- cos Pompei superavit. Mala urbis cor- rexit quoque annus ad cursum solis ac- commodatus est. Ea etlicere voluit; bibliothecas publicare; impetus bar- barorutn superare; paludes Pomptinas siccare; magnitudinem portus augere. Potestas eius odium excivit. Sexaginta homines Bruto et Cassio ducibus con- fodere eum senatu Idibus Martibus con- iuraverunt. Ab Calpurnia uxore et Spurinna haruspice monitus est ut ab curia abstineret. Eo die ab coniuratis factum est. Casca, unus ex coniuratis eum confossit. Reliqui impetus, quos Caesar repulit, fecereunt. Cum Caesar Marcum Brutum videret, exelamans, “Et, tu, Brute,” caput texit vulneribusque mortuus est. Carrie Whitlock, ’07. At High School Hall, Saturday evening, February 17th, the Latin de- partment of the High School presented an original farce, “Our Graduation Day.” Following is the Cast of Characters : Superintendent, Valedictorian, Salutatorian, Members of Class Gordon DuRand Jane Dalrymple Neil Arvin Anna Comstock, Judith Lindwall, Mabel Ray, Byron Smith, Wallace Wilson A Junior, Bess Parks Musicians, .... Geraldine McNiece, Ray Marine Distinguished Citizens, - DeForest Eva ns, Dow Johnson, Irving Jones John D. Rockefeller, Roscoe Spencer

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL. 19 girl’s ribbon fluttering as she walks down the aisle, she has another spasm. Anyone or anything may be the cause. They say there is a funny side to everything if people could see it. Our giggling girl finds it all right, for no matter how serious affairs may be, she is apt to break out with the giggles at any moment. The studious girl never gets the giggles, or stops to whisper or to do any of those things which most girls consider some of the essentials to happiness. She studies. She always has her lesson, and remembers all we have gone over. She never says, “ That wasn’t in my book,” or she “ couldn’t find anything on that ” for she hunts high and low until she does get it. All the teachers can depend on her, and when the rest fail, she ean answer. She belongs to the reliable kind. In contrast to our studious maid is the society girl. She rarely has her lesson, and if she does it is usually not her fault, for she borrowed it from a classmate or there was nothing going on that she could attend. If there is a play or a supper, reception or a dance, our society lassie is there, and had no time and was too tired to get her lessons afterwards. Many like her for she is sweet and sociable, but my, how she does flunk on “ exams!” She has a good time but she pays for it all at the end of the credit. Alas! The boy-struck girl — we all know her so well, that there is no need of describing her here. Needless to say, there are a few specimens of this type in our High School. Most of us feel very sorry for her because she is thus afflicted, but we live in hope that she will recover before long and be her own true self. In all classes of society there is always someone who believes that their presence, advice, and management is necessary for the advancement of the human race, or that affairs could not go on unless they were there to take part. The High School is no exception to this. We have a few who wonder how things move on so smoothly if they ' are absent a short time. It makes no difference whether the rest are getting up an entertainment, electing some officer’s, or merely attending the regular classes, they truly believe that things move along much more smoothly when they are there to oversee it all. For- tunately we have a very few of this kind, and little by little these learn that they are not so essential. But the best of them all is the all round girl, the one who is a friend to everyone. She is the girl who usually has her lesson, and will help a fellow sufferer if he needs help; she can laugh when anything funny happens but is not afflicted with the giggles continually: she always does her share wherever she is though sometimes others impose upon her good nature. In fact she is the kind of a girl we all like, and enjoy being with. There are many others among us; these are but a few of the kinds, but taken all together we have a very fine assortment. MABLE RAY.

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL. 21 Stenography Department. IIE value to be derived from the study of Shortland is, perhaps, less understood and less appreciated than that of any other subject included in the II. S. course. In the past, two lines of study have been pursued, one for cul- ture, the other for vocation ; today educators are seeking those sub- jects which are practical and at the same time educative. Aristotle forced himself to look for hours in succession, at a peg driven in the floor, in order to cultivate the powers of concentration ; but in this practical age it behooves us to concentrate on something which will more effectually prepare us for the battles of life. Shorthand is practical. Success comes to the one who can do some one thing well ; not to the one who knows a little of everything and nothing thoroughly. The young person who has mastered phonography has not the means of earning a livelihood, only; he holds the entrance key to the entire world of vocations and professions. “ The great commercial interest of the country ” says the School Board Journal, “ is at this time suffering materially from the lack of dependable office assistants, and in view of the opportunities that are offered through these openings, students in our schools should consider this matter very carefully; particularly the young men, as they will soon be called upon to take the burdens of those now in charge of the different bus- inesses of the country wffiich will doubtless continue to increase as time passes. ’ ’ Shorthand is more than practical. It is educative. It does not follow that a student who takes up this line of work must of necessity become a stenog- rapher any more than because he studies mathematices must he become a math- ematician; or Physics, a physicist; or the languages, a linguist. In the acquir- ing of his art the stenographer has developed an unusual alertness of mind ; a greater power of application, memory, concentration and accuracy; he has also improved his orthography, orthoepy and composition. These, with many minor benefits, are in themselves sufficient to repay him for time and energy expended. The V. H. S. Phonography Department is the youngest in the school. It was established in the autumn of 1903, during the exile of the II. S. in the Armory. In the new building special quarters were provided for it, but its work is becoming daily more popular and the department has now outgrown its equipment. During the past year a wave of room decorating passed over the school. The other departments were beautifying their recitation rooms and in order to keep pace with the others the Stenographers joined the movement. On