Wells High School - Crimson and Gray Yearbook (Southbridge, MA)

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THE CRIMSON AND GRAY Margaret Connolly. When shall I paint the rocks? Miss Eager : When the sea is dry. Miss Crocker : Cheney, what are you talk- ing for? Cheney: You spelled ' Clarke ' wrong on the board. Miss Crocker: Of course you had to tell Cole all about it. Cheney : No, ma ' am, I didn ' t have time. Miss Crocker : When you know what you don ' t know, it ' s almost as good as knowing it. McGilvray: Laurie, what ' s your record for making town? (while ri ding in Cheney ' s Ford). Cheney : I don ' t make any records. West : No, he breaks them. Mr. Clement: The Nervii were a very bold, fearless tribe. Connie Grant: Is that why they were called Nerv ' -ii? In English Class Miss O ' Keefe: What are the characters in fables? Constance Grant: Donkeys. 1922 Mr. Goodreau (in General Science) : In what three states is substance found? Bright pupil: Massachusetts, Rhode Is- land and Connecticut. Miss O ' Keefe : Curtis, your hands will be all dirty. Curtis: There ' s water downstairs. Miss O ' Keefe : But it ' s cold. Curtis: May I buy a pencil, Miss O ' Keefe? Miss O ' Keefe : Yes ; here ' s one I just shar- pened. Curtis : Looks it ! Paul (signing slip) : What am I sup- posed to write? Miss Sheehan: The time you leave and the time that you come back. Paul: I don ' t know what time I ' m com- ing back. Mr. Clement, translating Latin very rap- idly— Paul : Is all that in the book ? In geometry Miss Grant takes many things for granted, remarked Miss Crocker. Marjorie Curtis: Some one is always picking on Mildred Apte. Irene Proulx: I ' d like to have seen her before they started picking. Mr. Forbes : I want you boys to put your papers on your drawing-boards straight, and take your thumb-tacks out with a tack puller. Cameron Shaw : What will we push them in with? Mr. Forbes : Use your heel, or your head. Miss Crocker : What are you doing? Thecla Fitzgerald : An original. Miss Crocker : Certainly very original. Miss O ' Keefe: Miss Hall, what kind of adjectives are there? Dot: Proper. Miss O ' Keefe : Yes, and the other kind ? Dot: Improper. What Impertinence! Miss Earls: What is your name? John Casey. Miss Earls : And yours ? Paul. Miss Earls : And yours ? Jones. Miss Earls : John Paul Jones, leave this room. Miss Grant (translating Latin) : These tribes being subdued and — er — Mr. Corbin : Where is that ' and ' ? I have- n ' t an ' and ' in my book. Miss Grant: Oh! Mr. Clement always says that ! T. Fitzgerald : Isn ' t it just as well to say the triangles are equal as to say they are congruent? Miss Crocker : Yes, it ' s merely fashion to say they are congruent. Miss O ' Keefe : What is the moral of ' Sir Roger in Love ' ? LePain : Beware of widows. Miss O ' Keefe : Don ' t you play some mus- ical instrument? Curtis : Oh, yes ! the Victrola.

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20 THE CRIMSON AND GRAY How many inches in a foot? Mr. Goodreau (in Physics) : Reducing four feet nine inches you have forty-four inches. Louise Rowley (in Review Geom.) : Four quantities are in proportion by alteration (alternation). Miss Crocker: This isn ' t a dressmaking establishment. Lem (in American History) : I don ' t know the name of the Lord who came over here. 1921 McGilvray: Did you ever take chloro- form? Green : No, who teaches it ? Wanted in Room 5 — A Cat. Miss O ' Keefe: The Ancient Mariner was swooning on the deck. West: The Ancient Mariner was spoon- ing on the deck. Mr. Goodreau (waxing eloquent) : The man is fifty-five years old, going on sixty- five. Miss O ' Keefe (talking about dumpcarts) : The dumpcarts I have seen have two high heels on the side. Cheney : Do you believe in palmistry ? Fair Junior: Only on summer evenings when there is nothing else to do. Mr. Goodreau: What is a vacuum, Miller? Miller: I know but I can ' t tell you. I have it in my head. Sam Williams to Mr. Cheney : I received a letter from your son the other day, stating that he wished to have his Ford buried with him. Mr. Cheney (slightly mystified) : Well, Lawrence, what is the idea of having your Ford buried with you? Lawrence: Why, Pa! It has got me out of a good many holes, so I thought maybe it would get me out of that. Miss de Sloover is specializing in lectures, and we think that she has been taking a cor- respondence course. The juniors of the commercial department think it is about time that the pupils of the Mary E. Wells High School would take up a collection to send them flowers. Because they are being worked to DEATH. letter Miss Mack: Laviguer, write about a European tour. Part of the letter — I would like to know about the roads to Europe, roads in Europe and how much it would cost to go to San Francisco. Miss Mack : What does yd. stand for 5 S. Jordan : Yankee Division. Miss Sheehan: Miller, now can ' t you talk loud enough to wake up this class? Miller (translating) : I don ' t think so, etc. DorotHy Pratt AlicE DuPaul MorRin NEaler Julian W. CurtiS Louise Turner Ri ta RicHards IrEne Proulx TheCla Fitzgerald AlLard Paul Bob Allard DugaS Pat CaSey JOhn Day Florence Wixted Majory CurtiS LAriviere BoUcher RiChard O ' Neil Mary CheneY LouiSe Durgin COnstance Grant Beatrice Page Dorothy Hall Olive SpoOner Mildred Apte Peg ConOlly LawRence Curtis Evelyn PoEton LouiS Le Pain

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22 THE CRIMSON AND GRAY Miss Fitzgerald (translating Latin) : In order to do this Orgetoix assembled oxen and did much sowing. Mr. Clement: What did he sew? Mr. Clement : How do we get across low water ? M. Cheney: Ford! Miss O ' Keefe: What was Sir Eoger ' s af- fliction ? Irene Proulx: Why, he fell in love. Miss Crocker (after Paul had talked for a long time) : How are we going to know when you are finished ? Paul : When I stop talking. Miss Sheehan : Paul, take your s Paul: Where will I take it to? Mr. Corbin (after translating Latin) : Now can you see all those men on the wall laughing at you? Miss Grant (looking around the room) : No. 1923 Miss Mack: At the end of the period I will return your block to you, Kyan. (Don ' t bother; he never uses his head.) Freshman Composition: They stood like dead men and stared at the ball. English teacher: Report to me at three o ' clock, Lakzinsky. I can ' t, I ' m engaged to the algebra teach- er. Shaw : Do we use our head in standing? Mr. Gooclreau : It depends whether you stand on your head or your feet. Miss O ' Keefe: Give me the uses of the past tense, Miss Hughes. Miss Hughes : It expresses past definite time in the immediate future. Miss Smith : What is a mountain range? Irene Hughes : A kind of cooking stove used in high altitudes. Miss Smith : What is a Congressman at large? Mable Cutting: A Congressman whose term has expired. Mr. Goodreau: gastric juice? Babe Green : What is the office of the ' The stomach. A man — a maid — a look — a word, The maid afraid — the man absurd; A man — a maid — a smile— a kiss, The maid dismay ' d — the man — Oh, Bliss ! A Freshman note that was picked up — Are vou ready to ask my forgiveness? If so, call at 7.30. Miss Eager : If you make a wavy line, it will be water. (Watch your pencil or there ' ll be a flood.) Miss O ' Keefe : What would you give her on that, Pellow? Pellow : I ' d give her 50. Miss O ' Keefe: I wouldn ' t give her 10; vou see you are a little more generous than I. Pellow: I should hope so. Small boy: What is the word for chicken ? Miss Coderre: Le poulet. Small girl : Oh ! I always thought chicken was feminine. Mr. Clement: What does ' dementia ' mean ? F. Wixted: Shouting, or an uproar. Mr. Clement: I hope not. F. Wixted: Oh! Kindness or mildness. In Memoriam of the Freshman Class A RUDELY ENDED ROMANCE She was a pretty Freshman, Starting at High School. I ' ll never, never, fall in love, She made her stringent rule. But as she wandered down the hill, That maid so sweet and fair, A tall young fellow smiled on her, — She broke her rule right there. Her Latin came first period ; She called her heart from it ' s joy. But, oh ! the teacher of her class She found to be her darling boy ! — Exchange.