Vergennes Union High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Vergennes, VT)

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12 THE BLUE AND WHITE. There is a young man, our big full-back Whose hair is a terrible pull-back. He can hurdle the line, His tackling is fine, And next year he’ll captain at full-back. Said Newton— “I’d rather be living than dead, I’d rather be single than wed; I’ve a good appetite And I sleep well at night”— Could anything better be said There lives a young banker named Young; An unkindly joke he once sprung. When he starts to write verse All the Juniors disperse; For than praise them he’d rather be hung. Woodman spare that tree, That on the fair-grounds you can see. For if that tree you once did hit With all your speed, you would, Oh nit! Tear up the roots of the grand old tree. One day Freund Sinon lay down for a snooze, He dreampt he had on some seven league shoes, So he started to trot And caught up with Miss Yott And his heart he proceeded to lose. Pratt once had a very fat cow. As fat quite as butter, I vow, Tie had the cow slain— It became fat again, And the fat is the fat on Pratt now. If you will just notice When Mack’s at the dance, You cannot help seeing He has on long pants. And now there’s another Whom you all will want to see Who has followed his example And that is Cecil B. The moral of this rhyme Is plain to all who dauee, If you want the girls to Like you, put on long pants. Once there was a little boy, Who loved to fishing go; It was his very highest joy, As every one did know. Once more his little boat he took, And rowed out on the bay ; Then blithelv did he cast his hook, With spirits light and gay. But then a monstrous fish did tug, And pulled him in the lake, And straight across the waters broad The luckless youth did snake. As we have never seen him since, Nor news of him have met, For all of anything we know, He may be going yet. —Composed by a Junior. N. B.—One of her classmates spent a day at Long Point last summer. He didn’t get back till band concert was nearly over. I think that our rest we have earned. For much here this term we have learned. Our school is a go, So let’s keep it so, The V. II. S. now stands adjourned. Problems for Students of Advancd Mathematics. If Woodman, in translating Caesar, speaks at the rate of fifty words a second (including attact and attacted) and Harris at the rate of one word in two minutes (including the “remaining Gauls”), find the mean proportional between the two. Note

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TIIE BLUE ANI) WHITE. 11 Grinds. Limericks. Our Teachers. There’s gladness in their gladness when they’re glad, And there’s sadness in their sadness when they’re sad, . But the gladness in their gladness And the sadness in their sadness Are nothing to their madness when they’re mad.— Ex. To make a small limerick Isn’t hard; for most any old stick Can grind out a few In a minute or two. No indeed, it’s not much of a trick. “Miss Evelyn!” Cried Alden: “Oh, that to love me you’ll learn For you ever I languish and yearn. Of you I’d ne’er tire My heart is afire.” Said she : “Then you must have heart-burn.” “Mr. Alden!” Said Miss Gough, “Dear, how well you propose. How e’er did you do it? I wish you’d disclose. Oh please now, do tell!” Said Alden then, “Well I’ve had practice and know how it goes.” Our editor surely’s a peach He works us a limerick each Though with Tib he do spoon By the light of the moon, Other pebbles there are on the beach. There was once a fellow7 named Slack, Whose hair was decidedly black; He thought he was fine Playing back of the line, But on a school team to gain he hadn’t the knack. Haven, ’OS, is a cute little boy. His map, “Ellen’s Isle,” is a toy. Ilis poor heart will break He’s been oft heard to state For his Ellen, so sweet and so coy. The quarter, ’05, is named Stone, At tackling he’s game to the bone; And when he gets through We’ll feel mighty blue For he’s certainly in a class all alone. There was once a brave Indian, a Sioux Who had a pappose, aged tioux. Its name wras Amusin, Being plain English Susan— A name among Indians quite nioux. There w7as a young man, so we’ve heard Who could sprint like the flight of a bird. His end runs were fine. But his bucking the line Against the “school team” was abstlrd.

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THE BLUE AND WHITE. 13 —disregard Woodman’s gesticulations, gyrations and frequent pauses for breath and also Harris’ pauses for refreshments from the tip of his pencil. If Alden reaches the land of day-dreams within 5 minutes after entering Latin class how long will it be after the Geometry class is called before he is wide awake enough to correctly pronounce “respectively.” (Take into account the fact that Field, who sits next him, is of a sociable turn of mind.) If the habit which Davies has contracted early in life—that of eating at all hours, especially when the teacher’s back is turned—continues, at what age will he become a confirmed dyspeptic ? (Find out how often Julia Woodman intends to bring fudge to school, and let this be considered in working out the answer.) If David and Jonathan should be allowed to sit side by side, how much eye-strain per day would be avoided ? Recipes. Into one pint of Romanticisms, stir two cups of frality, and half a cup of sweetness, then add two thoroughly beaten goose eggs, an ounce of sociability, a pinch of seriousness, and a dram of common sense. Flavor with a teaspoonful of good looks, stir to a stiff mixture, and bake in a quick oven. —(Julia) Carter Biscuits. The other day in (Fair) Haven 1 picked up this receipe for boiled fresh (Mack)erel. First see that it is wrapped up in something beside itself. In preparing take one fresh (Mack)erel, cover with a coat of contentiousness, pour over a cupful of overweening vanity, add a teaspoonful of diluted knowledge, also a pinch of borrowed talent or perhaps a good quantity of barbarous ruralization. Then salt for two years and it will be all done. (Alden.) I also learned of another dish called (Fair) Haven cod (cad.) To prepare, take a large lump of bumtiousness, peel off. several soft layers bombast and coxcomberry and stew with extract of pretty maids. While boiling, add several pinches of rascality, opprobrious scurrility and poltroonery. The result will be a cad. Bright Things in the Class Rooms. Caesar remained sober in order that he might turn the Republic upside down. In Harris’new, revised Greek grammar, coward is an adverb. Harris when reading this in the paper says; “Why I never saw that before !” One of the Virgil class has noticed Cassandra’s “disleveled locks,” also her “countryland.” Principal parts of ardeo are, ardeo, ardere, arsi, arsus. Meaning is to be in love. Willard, ’08, is becoming so fond of Greek that he even letters his geometry figures by use of the Greek alphabet. In English, Miss Reed, “Who invented the cotton gin V” Stone, “1 know, it was Abraham Lincoln.” Principal Parts of verbs. Go, gone, went, set, set, seted. One day in Latin one .Miss Heald remarked thus: “Alden,—when will you learn that everything is not dear ?” Ambitious Freshmen. (By a member of ’09.) The freshmen class of ’09 have high ambitions to rise in the world. We shall not be surprised to find Fisher located as President of a Life Insurance Company, salary $100,000, also Field a celebrated Doctor, standing at the head of his profession. Taft, who is quick and sweet tempered, will be a great lawyer. Miss Marshall has already shown