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

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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

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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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14 THE BLUE AND WHITE. a small part of her unusual ability in writing poetry. Since the rising generation will need a new history, Miss Roscoe will travel abroad while preparing it. The whole world will honor Richard Miller when he plants his foot within an inch of the north pole. A vacant position in the Boston Conservatory of Music will be filled by Miss Hoffnagle. All the wealthy ladies of Chicago will wish to purchase their hats of Miss Tatro, a milliner in that city. Bristol will find the secret of perpetual motion, and we will all be glad to know that Miss Porter is stenographer for the President. When we visit Washington we call at the leading dry goods store, which bears the name of Robert Miller Co. Miss Grandy will be a dean in a great western college, and Miss Bristol will be a disappointed creature with all hopes vanished. Stories, Humerous and Otherwise. Metrical Translation from Virgil. The Festive Evening. Now, when the feast is done, and quiet reigns in in the dwelling. They bring out the golden bowls and fill them full to overflowing; Then, through the length of the halls, comes the clanior of many voices, And the lamps from the fretted ceiling, conquer the night with their brightness. The jewelled wine-bowl of Belus, heavy with golden carving, A bowl the descendants of Belus were wont to use at their revels, Dido, to honor the strangers, has brought to its place at the table. Holding the bowl aloft, she speaks in the silence that follows, Grant that this day to the Tyrians, Trojans alike be auspicious. Bacchus, thou giver of gladness, be present, and good mother Juno; And you, my Trojan subjects, rejoicing, throng the assembly.” She speaks, and into the bowl, she pours an ample libatii ai. With the tiiis of her rosy lips she sips from the brimming wine-cup And passes it on with a challenge, to Bitias sitting beside her, Eagerly takes he the bowl, and drinking deeply and freely, Passes it on to the others. The crested Iopas comes forth And plays sweet songs on the lyre; Iopas whom Atlas had taught. He sings of the wandering moon, of the course of the sun through the heavens ; Of whence came the race of men and of beasts, of the rain storm and fires ; He sings of the shining Arcturus, of the stars, of the rain, of the twin-bears, He tells why in winter the sun e’er hastens to touch the blue ocean, And why the nights are so long. The Trojans and Tyrians applaud him. Dido, far into the night, still talks of various subjects And drinks long draughts of love. She asks of Priam and Hector; Of how the son of Aurora had come, what arms he had carried: She asks of the great Diomedes, his horses, and mighty Achilles “Nay, rather, O strangers, disclose the treacherous plot of the Grecians. Tell from the very beginning your labors and wanderings endless, For seven long winters and summers you have roved o’er the face of the waters.” Julia M. Woodman, ’u6.