West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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(Our (Little op!i cultures West High has some Sophomores as cute as cute can be, Hut what can be the use of them is more than Seniors see: They are very like the Freshmen from the heels up to the head, And they’re just a grade above them I’m sure I’ve heard it said. The funniest thing about them is they think they know it all, Just as if they were the Seniors who are really awful tall. And they look with scorn at Juniors who’ll he Seniors pretty soon And if they speak to Freshmen they consider it a boon. They haven’t any notion of how Sophomores ought to act, And have no imaginations but only stick to fact. They stay so close beside their books they’re cowards one can see. I’d be ’shamed to let a Junior see a Sophomore speak to me. One morning very early when it was none too cool, The Sophomores heard that Seniors had left the West High School, And now they wish they’d known them and been to them polite For the Seniors will be graduating on a certain Tuesday night.

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lUltcre Avc (lhen 7 Ten little freshmen Standing in a line, One could not enter West, So there were nine. Nine little freshmen Came very late, Miss Chase sent one home, Then there were eight. Eight little freshmen Tried for the “eleven,” One got knocked out, Then there were seven. Five little freshmen Vowed to work no more, • One skipped chorus, Then there were four. Four little freshmen, Oh ! it’s sad you see, One heard of smallpox, Then there were three. Seven little freshmen In an awful fix, Big senior smiled at one, Then there were six. Three little freshmen, All very blue, One got vaccinated, Then there were two. Six little freshmen Very much alive, Harold Wood nabbed one, Then there were five. ■V Two little freshmen Talking in the hall, .Miss Kerr got them, There that s all. Marion White. Page Nine

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Jam. 0 1 - 1914- tlic Junior QLIass I IK organization of a class works, in a way, its beginning. You have been here almost three years, but since your election, March 19, you officers to represent you in the various activities school, in a way you did not previously have, well you chose your representatives will be shown ie success I believe you will have the remainder is year. From this time you will more and more ie standards of the school. Your predecessors, done a great deal in this respect, and we shall •t you to he fully ready to take their place when have left. There are many ways in which I think. West High has improved from year to year: without the students’ help this could not have been possible; for you are the school. Although we have made advance, there is still plenty of work for you in further raising the standards of the school. And so it is that I feel sure we may look forward to the coming year with the expectation that it will he the most successful we have had at West High. Sincerely your friend, Tuos. P. Gruwell. Pago Eleven