Waltham High School - Mirror Yearbook (Waltham, MA)

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2 WATCH CITY BULLETIN. ,.,--, . .-.W L.-. A-.Jvl-4 Y Y. . ,.-L..V ---.. --A-.--.n-.-. Y, .... SALUTATORY Friends of the class of nineteen hundred and four, in behalf of my fellow graduates, I extend to you a most cordial Welcome to these the final exercises of the year. Each one of us is here for an especial purpose. VVe cannot but feel impressed by the solemnity of the occasion, yet, at the same time, the pleasure of anticipation is ours. We have our lives before us, and with the admirable preparation for the future which we have had, we should not utterly fail. The interest which you, our friends, the people of VValtham have taken in us throughout our school life, has been unfailing. W'hen wie have taken upon ourselves the responsibility of helping to bear the expense of the pulflie schools, 'i'11EN, we shall more fully appreciate your constant, unsellish support. You have assured the success of our iinancial under- takings. To whatever call we have made upon you, in the past, you have responded willingly and gener- ously, and have given us, at all times, the encourage- ment which we most needed. You are all most sincerely welcome. Some are here, to whom these exercises have as much signilicance as they do to us. Mothers and fathers, who have taught us our life lessons, who have made many a sacrifice that we might gain thereby, you are the ones who, by your presence here, give us inspiration to begin our new life well. The experiences which are just opening before us, have already been yours. You know the seriousness of life, while we see only its bright side, and can be- come wise only by our own experience. May your watchful, loving care of us continue through many years to come. To our speaker, to Dr. Henson, whom we have in- vited to be with us, We would give a welcome, warm and sincere. You, our honored guest, have won success. Can you not tell us how it may be found? Will you not grant us some encouragement for the future? We all welcome you with renewed ex- pressions of cordiality. Members of the school-committee, We greet you, to whom we owe a debt of gratitute for the thirteen sunny years of study and pleasure which we have had. Under your management, We have had pro- vided for us, the best advantages for the highest education. You have given us our conscientious teachers, Who, by their personal interest and good will, have had such a marked influence upon our lives. You have made it possible for us to be here and say, 4' It is a privilege to be a pupil of the Wal- tham public schools. Once more, in the name of the class of 1904, of the High School, and of our teachers, I welcome to these graduation exercises, with cordial and sincere greeting, all who have gathered here.

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THE TCH CITY B LLETI raouation tliumber LEON G. CHASE, Editor and Manager. Associate Editors : E. WINSLOW FISKE, '04 GEORGE BRENNAN, '06 JAMES MCKENNA, '05 ALBERT WETHERBEE, '07 Vol. VIII No. 7. MAY - QUNE, l904 Price I0 Cents. XT seems justly fitting at the close of the year to ex- 'T' tend some words of thanks to the many people who have helped to make the BUL1,1c'r1N a success. It has been a year of success. From every side we have received encouragement, by word, deed, and with the Hsinews of war, financial support. NVith untried hands we assumed the management and edi- torial work of the paper, but with the determination to succeed at whatever cost of strength and time, taking the watch-word of Waltham's great citizen, soldier and statesman, Nathaniel Banks, as our guide, - Success is a duty? To prove our estimate at the first, we present to our patrons this enlarged Gradu- ation number, in honor of the Senior class, Whose departure from school life we regret, yet feel their entrance upon the H arena of life to be a goal well gained. And While we are extending general thanks, we wish to specify our special word to those who have extended a helping hand on many occasions. For this number his Honor Mayor Harvey should receive almost the lion's share, as he stepped aside from a busy professional and public life to give us 'Words from his fund of experience and good Will. To our former honored and beloved teacher, Oliver P. Watts, We extend congratulations. His timely Words from his new home will be read by pupils, alumni and public, With great pleasure. There is an old saving well said 't YVhen 'ou want a thing done ,, ., 7 , M 7 go to a busy person for it. So out of the golden moments of a busy life Mrs. Ida Louise Gibbs has never been tt too busy T' to give our readers of her store of choice thoughts. Genial sub-master, Mr. Burke, gave usaleader in his 4' Birth of an lee Berg, etrrying his readers through l1HT3l'lC1'l lands o'er untried seas to the world of the midnight sun. There are others to whom we owe our thanks for pen productions, as follows: Mr. Archie Noble, Mr. Lewis Smith, Mr. E. XVinslow Fiske, Mr. Harry Frost, Mr. W. ltoyce Taylor, Miss Grace Seabury, Miss Harriet Williams, Miss Evelyn Spring, Mr. Chas. Boyd, Mr. John Roy Gilbert, Mr. Raymond Taylor and the able board of editors, E. TVinsloW Fiske '04, James Melfenna '05, George Brennan '06 and Al- bert XVetherbee '07, to the TValtham Evening Times and Free- Press Tribune for use of cuts, and last but not least to those who have borne the brunt of the battle, U our advertisersf' The good wishes of the remaining classes go with the Seniors in their new field of work. I On every occasion we have found our Principal, Mr. Eaton, ever ready to aid us by tt smoothing the thorny path of the manager and editors of rFHE Wxrwii CITY BU1,Lm'iN.

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WATCH CITY BULLETIN. P3 Pl LETTER FROM WISCONSIN DEAR F1111-:Nns: I will gladly give the school through the columns of the VVATFII CITY BULLETIN a glimpse of my little corner in the University of Wisconsin. If you visit the Exposition at St. Louis this summer you can see the whole university there, in miniature. It may perhaps surprise you to learn that this heretofore unheard of institution is one of the great universities of the country, with nearly three thous- and students. ' Madison is about the size of XValtham, and is situated on a narrow strip of land between two lakes. The university grounds are upon an eleva- tion on the shore-of the larger lake, and so are very pleasantly located. There are iifteen large buildings not including the farm buildings of the college of agriculture. The iinest of these is the library build- ing, which is the best that I have yet seen at any institution of learning. My work here consists mainly of that newest of the sciences, electrochemistry. It is ditiicult to tell in a few words the scope of electrochemistry. It includes the principles involved in the manufacture and use of electric batteries, both primary and secondary, the theory of electroplating, and the electro-deposition of metals, this production by elec- trolysis of such substances as caustic soda, bleaching powder, potassium chlorate, aluminium, gold, and sodium, the purification of copper and gold, and the production in the electric furnace of phosphorus, manganese, calciufn carbide, carbarundum, graphite, artificial corundum, silicon and silicon alloys. It is a remarkable fact that silicon, the most abundant of all the elements, with the single exception of oxygen, an element which constitutes by weight one-fourth of the known earth, should have remained a chemical curiosity, seen only by a few even among chemists, until electrical methods made its isolation possible on a large scale. The next ten years will undoubt- edly see valuable applications of it. It is already 'finding a use in the casting of steel and copper. Al- tnougn the science of electrochemistry is scarcely fifteen years old, about high school age, it has already displaced the older, purely chemical Inethods in cer- tain industries, as the manufacture of phosphorus aluminium and potassium chlorate. Three fourths of the world's production of copper is now purilied by electroylsis, i.e. just electro-plating it out of solu- tion, with an annual saving of twenty million dollars in the gold and silver extracted, besides a great im- provement iii the copper by the removal of these impurities. The superior purity of electrolytic cop- per has greatly increased the etliciency of dynamos, motors, and all electrical machinery. Electrochemistry, besides producing some well known substances more cheaply and in greater purity than by any other means, has given us new substan- ces, like calcium, carbide and carborundum, which as far as we know, had never existed until made in the electric furnace. All important piece of experi- mental work has recently been completed here in the electro-chemical laboratory, in the production of pure iron by electrolysis. The properties of pure iron are unknown, for, if it has ever been obtained before, the amount has been too small to learn much about it. Prof. Burgess has made about five hun- dred pounds of it in the three years that he has been experimenting. There are two different principles involved in the manufacture of chemicals by means of electricity, that of electrolysis, in which materials are decom- posed by the agency of an electric current passed through them, just as when you send a current through salt dissolved in water, and secondly, that of the electric furnace, in which the only use of the electricity is to produce a higher temperature tabout 3800 C or 69700 FJ than can be obtained by any other means. At this great heat new combinations of the chemical elements take place, and several series of new compounds have been made. You would probably like to know what sort of thing this wonder- working electric furnace is. Those that I have been using are very simple in construc- tion. Imagine a box built of fire-brick with two large carbons projecting into it to carry the current. An electric furnace is only a magnified electric light shut up in the box to keep in the heat, and just as there are arc and incandescant lights, there are arc and resistance furnaces. In the former an arc is formed between the ends of the large carbons, and in the latter a rod of carbon several inches long and a quarter of an inch in diameter is set between the lai'ge carbons. VVhen a current of about two hun- di'ed amperes is turned on, this rod is heated until