West Side High School - Legenda Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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LITERARY

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LESTER GLEN WILKINSON JANE WILLIAMS Pineapple Girls ' Club DORIS WILTSE Do Girls ' Club JENNIE WOLFGRAM Jean Girls ' Club VERA ZORN Buddy Girls ' Club

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The Evolutions of a High School Student E. Ewing, ' 22 To the minds of the High School students in general, the produc- tion of polished, full-fledged high school graduates is a slow, long, and tedious process. To elucidate this extremely serious matter for the benefit of those mortals who are inclined to disbelieve the statement, the following proof is given : The first step in the manufacture of this sturdy product is known only as the first stage, better expressed in classical high school language as The Freshman Knows That he Knows Not. About the greenest things on this green earth of ours are those small microbes of humanity, the Verdant Frosh. When on some bright morning in September they toddle uncertainly through those magnifi- cent portals, leading into the Halls of Education, and wend their bewildered way from one part of Pandemonium to another, they are oftimes mistaken for poor lost cribblings, and advised, by some well- meaning Senior (who has forgotten that he was at one time of similar color) , just where to find the nearest policeman to convey them safely home to mama. The first five days are the hardest, and if a Freshman is fortunate in surviving that fatal period, there are hopes that he may live. A Freshman ' s life is just one darned thing right after another, with hardly ten minutes for lunch in between. If the little rascal happens to have been born under a lucky star, he MAY escape that terrible abolution called ducking. Few are fortunate in this age, however. In the course of this stage of development the same old marve- lous busts and pictures are strewn about the halls, upon which each freshman must inevitably cut his eye teeth. There is the same matting on the stairs over which each student must trip in order to learn to look out for it next time. There are the same ponderous passages in the Odessy through which each must wade, (although the book is dry) in the footsteps of the preceding class; the same jokes at which he must bite, and choke hard, before he realizes that the Sophomore ' s sole mission in life is to catch the unwary little atom in the same traps into which the said Soph ' walked at the same time three hundred and sixty- five days previo ' is. Countless thousands of trials and tribulations of the new comers could be mentioned in connection with this first stage, but as there is scarce time and material with which to write the volume, it shall be left to be discussed at length, on some future date. The next step, or stage through which this waif of humanity must pass is the Doubtful Stage. The Sophomore Knows Not that he Knows Not. During this time in the production of a graduate, the Sophomore feels uncertain about himself — his brain — his nerve — his heart — his appearance — in fact,