Wakefield High School - Oracle Yearbook (Wakefield, MA)

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1 1 I ' HE DEBATER. WAKEFIELD HIGH DEBATER. Editor, Wiixiam H. Murphy. Assistant Editors, Miss Gladys W. Whitten and Max E. Eaton. Associate Editors, Miss Mildred Parker (G. D. S.), Ernest A. Daland (Y. M. D. S.), Chari.es Jordan, (Battalion), Ralph A. Coombs (Athletics), Miss Reba Eaton (Exchange), Harry E. Foster, (Alumni). Business Manager, Howard W. Spear. Assistants, Miss Ruth Farmer and Miss Marjorie O. Hawkes. Advertising Manager, Marcus Beebe. Assistants, Harold G. Watkins and Albert E. Foster Published ou the 15th of the month by the Young Men ' s and Young Ladies ' Debating Societies of the W. H S. 5 cts. per Copy. MAY, 1907. 25 cts per Year. The grass and foliage are so beautiful now that it helps to compensate for the backwardness of the season, and we be- gin to think we may see summer after all. It is interesting to note that the year 1816 is said to have had no sum- mer. All over New England the ponds were covered with ice as late as June 5, and frosts were common throughout July and August. It was a fearful year for farmers : corn sold at five dollars a bushel. We trust the year without a summer will never be repeated. Next December the centenary of Whittier will be celebrated at his old home at Amesbury. Mrs. Harriet Pres- cott Spofford, one of Whittier ' s closest friends, has been chosen poetess of the occasion. We hear that Dartmouth has had the grace to name her new dormitory after our own state, Massachusetts. Massa- chusetts keenly appreciates the courtesy for very many of her sons are sent to Dartmouth, while Dartmouth supplies to Massachusetts an even larger number of men who are prominent in every pro- fession. We believe that our school is to be congratulated upon the fact that it con- tains no fraternities, or secret societies of any kind. During the past month our neighboring town has presented to us most forcibly the evils to which fra- ternities lead, even though it is said they be not the fault of the fraternities themselves. A recent Lowell paper states that the Lowell high school base ball team will doubtless be the winner of the Merri- mac Vallej championship. They boast that they have defeated all the strongest teams in the state. Well, perhaps they think so, but what was the score when we played Lowell ? At last our work on The Debater is ended. And are we glad? It is a hard

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THE DEBATER. to was made of 2d Sergt. John Barton, B company. In the junior drill the first prize, the Russell medal, Was won by private Benjamin Anthony, B company. The second prize, the South worth medal, was awarded to Private Donald White, A company, and honorable mention was made of Private Maddock Stearns, B company. The Flanders medal for care- ful attention to duty and general im- provement went to Private lycarned, A company. Commissions were awarded to the fol- lowing : Major William A. Stewart, Capt. Max E- Eaton, A company, Capt. Charles Jordan, B company. Adj. Lawrence Eaton, ist. L,ieut. Adelbert C. Purrington, A company, ist. Lieut. Howard W. Spear, B company, 2d Lieut. Ralph R. Coombs, A company, and 2d. Lieut. George C. MacGregor, B company. On Memorial Day at 12.30 o ' clock the cadets assembled at the armory for the march to the cemetery, which started about an hour later. Short exercises were held at the Soldiers ' Monument and the other duties were performed as usual, after which refreshments were served to all in the G. A. R. Hall by the ladies of the Woman ' s Relief Corps and the Sons of Veterans Auxiliary. • Friday, June 7, Capt. Jordan and Adj. Eaton of the W. H. S. battahon at- tended the annual field day of the sec- ond Mass. school ' regiment at Chelsea as honorary members respectively of Col. Snow ' s and Maj. Dykman ' s staffs. A parade was held in the morning in which there were about 1000 cadets in line rep- resenting the battalions of Chelsea, Lynn, and Gloucester. The march ended with the regimental ])assing in review before the mayors of the three cities. Regimental and battalion drills took up the afternoon, the final evening regimental parade, which included twelve large companies, making a grand spectacle. In the evening the annual military hop of the regiment was held in the new state armory from eight until one o ' clock, Poole ' s orchestra furnishing the music. The out of town guests were royally en- tertained and the day was one of great pleasure and enjoyment to all. The Bi hop and the Druggist. One day a Bishop chanced into the shop of a druggist who was very fond of a joke — on somebody else. The drug- gist, wishing to have a joke at the Bishop ' s expense, asked : Bishop, can you tell me the differ- ence between an ass and a bishop ? The Bishop could not. Well, said the druggist, smiling all over, an ass carries its cross (bur- den) upon its back, but a bishop carries his cross (of gold) on his breast. Very good, replied the Bishop, and then continued: Now then, my friend, can you tell the difference be- tween an ass and a druggist? After some hesitation the druggist answered : No, sir, I can ' t. Neither can I, retorted the Bishop as he walked out. Revised Quote tion. ' . Lives of great men all remind us We imist make our lives a bluff- Cover u]) the tracks behind us — • If we go out for tlie stuff.

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THE DEBATER. 12 question to answer. While we are glad to feel that all our work is over for the year, that we have no more to worry to find material to fill its pages or to pub- lish it on the regular date, still our work has in many ways been a pleasure to us and we can say that, after all, it was worth while. We have done our best to edit a paper that would fairly represent the ability of the school and we hope we have succeeded, at least, in some meas- ure. The school undoubtedly has good literary talent, and the chief difficulty the editors of The Debater must wres- tle with is to discover just where it lies and bring it to notice. As a final word we wish to thank all who in any way have contributed to our support, — the teachers who furnished us with literary matter, the debating socie- ties whose gifts ena])led us to start the paper unencumbered by any burden- some debt, our advertisers by whose generosity alone we are enabled to run the paper, all our subscribers ; and we hope that next year The Debater will receive the full support and considera- tion from the meml)ers of the school that it should receive. If it does there can be no question as to its success. assistant editors and the advertising manager with his assistants is due spe- cial thanks. The assistant editors have shared equally with the editor-in-chief the work of securing material and com- posing the paper, and the advertising manager, overcoming many ' difficulties, has succeeded in bringing the financial side of The Debater to a successful end. May the future editors of The Debater have no more cause for com- plaint than there has been this year. Wakefield high school should be, and is, proud of her base ball team. Vic- tory after victory has gone down in the score book with clock-like regularity, man} ' of them won from schools larger and more important than Wakefield high. But the games we look at with the most pleasure are those in which the desperate rally in the final inning has changed defeat into victory. Let the good work go on when we are done playing base ball. Fight it out to the end. Never sav die. The editor wishes to thank person- ally the associate members of The Debater staff. Never has it been his good for- tune to work with a body more congenial, earnest, and hard working. Every member of the staff has done his or her work faith- fully and well, and what- ever success the paper has obtained is due equallyto everyone of them. To the We hope we have not tired our readers this year witli the length of our edito- rial column. In every issue we have extended it to two pages, and through it the editorial staff has expressed its opinion on all school su])jects. If it has been uninteresting we are sorry, but many of tlie papers con- tained so much lev- ity in some of the articles that we were fain to bal- ance matters by the editorial col- innn.