Wakefield High School - Oracle Yearbook (Wakefield, MA)

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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.

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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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13 THE DEBATER. THK VVAKKKIELD HIGH SCHOOL NINli. ATHLETIC NOTES. The Wakefield High School base ball team for 1907 has made a record which has been equalled by few teams in the state this year. Out of the 18 games already played we have won 17, having been beaten only once and that, by Winchester High whom we afterward easily defeated on their home grounds. Therefore, we have really not been beaten by any team. The team this year while not possess- ing as many individual stars as some of the past teams have had, is made up of nine ball players and not three or four good men with the balance worse than useless. Every man has fielded his po- sition well, and all have contributed their share of hits and runs. Time and again the team has pulled out a hard- earned victory, over older and more ex- ' perienced teams by all playing together and supporting each other. The team has been finely managed by Lester Harte who made up a .schedule which has been very satisfactory to all. Among the games, are two quite long trips, one to Derry, N. H., and one to Gloucester. The trip to Derry has al- ready been made and as seen by the list of victories we had an easy win. This trip was much enjoyed by all the team and we were treated very courte- ousl} ' by the Pinkerton Academy boys. They showed that they knew how to treat a visiting team even though it had beaten them. The trip to Glou-