Waukegan High School - Annual W Yearbook (Waukegan, IL)

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.r Now we see a healthy, sound-minded class giving brilliant promise for the last act and the curtain drops. Act V. The final polish and crystalizatiou of twelve years of study. Now the main characters appear unshadowed by any minor ones. Their number is forty, no more, no less. Those who in preceding acts have taken their parts with little work, now find that they have a hai der part to play. A Senior is never seen without books. Debates! and essays! and declamations! by the Seniors inspire silent enthusiasm in every audience. I say silent because applause was prohibited. Athletics as before are successful. The Senior boys hold the inter-class basket ball championship. Good sense is a prominent characteristic of this class. No class ever graduated with such good management and so few difficulties. The class has become what every class should be, not an over worked crammed company, but a robust one with a general prac- tical store of knowledge destined to be of the greatest use on the great stage of the world. The last scene you have before you: the play of high school life is now ended. What has actually taken place is as far as I can go, and it re- mains for thc prophet to take you on to the future. E1 ..5..

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rooms. Cheruses take a prominent part: Some of the catchy pro- ductions being: Quid tibi vis, tecum ambulare velim, Let x equal the unknown quantity, The earth is round as proved by--. In this way and many others the necessary preliminary work is drilled into the minds of the Freshmen. Each Freshman ahvays plays his little part just rightg stage fright dies a natural death. Examinations pass smoothly and the curtain drops for the second time. - Act III. The 'drst deep study. By the beginning of this act the cast has been cut down from nearly a hundred to eighty playersg most of the supers'i have been dropped out. For some time the scene is the same as before, but it suddenly shifts and the Sophomores appear in Room 7. When thus put off by themselves the Sophomores deviate some- what from their usual studious GJ habits. Peanut and fudge par- ties and the consequent suspension are a favorite avocation. Who can forget the frequent uproars caused by the mice that were in- terested in the Iliad? But the Sophomores grow out of such friv- olities Q31 and really proceed with greater proficiency. Now they are no longer told that they are wise foolsg they are wise alone now. However they betake themselves off the stage about as fast as they go at the first word of dismissal. Act IV. The year of systematic cramming. The Freshmen of two years ago are next to the Seniors now and take their places west of the middle aisle. As Juniors, the class feel themselves capable of giving a farceg costumes are borrowed and rehearsals go on smoothly. Suddenly the teachers step in and announce that enough time has not been put on the production, Later another farce meets the same fate, so then and there the class of 1902 decides that its energies are not to be Wasted in that way. They know when to stopg it is one secret of success. In the winter the whole school plunges into Athleticsg every afternoon Athletics of all sorts are practiced by both boys and girlsg co-work with lessons brings manifold good results. Clubs and societies innumerable arise to counteract any dis- eases caused by overstudy. What became of the Baker's Dozen and Lucky Thirteen is a mystery left unsolved. -4- l

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C Ia-.snr Prophecy. ETHEL DUNN. 3 mates, have imposed upon me, is a very hard one. jg How I, who was not a prophetess or who had made .SSE no study of the mystic sciences, could raise the veil of the future and peer into the darkness of the beyond, I could not conceive. The hopelessness of my task filled me with terror, it haunted me sleeping and waking, I could not get away from it. While in this state of mind, I received an invitation to attend a meeting of wise men, men who had dug deeply into the mys- teries of the knowledge of the East. Among those present was a man of majestic mien and presence. All bowed in deference to him, and they called him master. My Hxed gaze drew his attention, and the mysterious man approached me. I felt a feeling of awe, of reverence, come over me. My daughter, he said in a deep, musical voice, U you are unhappy. What cloud has come over one so young? 'l hen almost unconsciously I told him of my task. U Rash youths, he exclaimed, 44 that they should seek to know what the future has in store for them. Sorrow, as well as happiness, comes to all. It is better not to know, yet, as they have appointed you to this task, follow me, and fear not. He led me away into an apartment so strange that for a moment I hesitated to enter. Its walls and ceilings were seem- ingly an entire representation of the heavens, yet the moon, planets and stars seemed to stand out as if nothing supported them. My mysterious guide motioned me to a luxurious couch. Mechanically I obeyed. No sooner had I sunk into its soft embrace than a dreamy feeling possessed me. The Whole room, moon. planets and stars, seemed to revolve with incredible swiftness, carrying me with it. Then as if possessed of some mysterious clairvoyant power, a if' wig HE task of writing this prophecy which you, my class- il ..5-