Westville High School - Echo Yearbook (Westville, IN)

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Can you imagine: 1. Esther Davidson with a sour face? 2. Any one studying too hard? 3. Mr. Knoll teaching sewing? 4. A high deportment grade from Mr. Hyde? 5. A perfect recitation in Physics? 6. Earl Larsen without waves? 7. Alice with her hair parted? 8. Miss Cass not saying, Well, after answers in English? 9. Miss Smick skipping any point in a lesson? Teacher: QTO young missl Parse the word kiss. Y. M.: This word is a noun, but usually known as a conjunction. It is never declined and is more common than proper. It is not very regular in that it is usually used in the plural. It agrees with me. Prof.: What are two complementary colors ? William: Paint and powder. Teacher: Name the seasons. Pupil: Pepper, salt, vinegar and mustard. The only reason we have vacation is so the pupils may loaf around all the time instead of nearly all the time. M. E. H.: Ruth, what is the population of the Arizona province? Ruth: Three and one-third people to the square inch. Johnny with feet sprawled out into the isle, was sitting at his desk chewing gum. ' Teacher: Johnny, take that gum out and put your feet in. He: Will you have a little lobster? She: Oh, John, this is so sudden. Mary: Can you dance ? Oscar: I haven't quite mastered that graceful art. Teacher: Every day we breathe oxygen. People used to think we breathed something different at night. Edward what do we breathe? Edward: Nitrogen I spent nine hours on my Algebra last night. How's that ? I put it under my mattress and slept on it.

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Teacher: Give me a sentence illustrating the three tenses. William: Don't think of the future until the present is past. Vernon: Look out, Alice, Nat's eagle eye is upon thee. Teacher: When water changes to ice, what is the greatest change ? Pupil: The change in price. Teacher: Where is the Swanee River ? Pupil: Far, far away. Teacher: What is a kilometer ? Pupil: A hundred feet. Teacher: Oh, no, that would be a centipedef' There is meter in poetry, There is meter is tone, But the best place to meter is to meter alone. A school boy wrote an essay on cats. The chapter on breeds supplies the following information: Cats that's made for little boys and girls to maul and tease is called Maltese cats. Cats is known by their queer purrs. These are called Pursean cats. Cats with bad tempers is called Angorrie. Cats with deep feelins' is called Feline cats. Charlotte K.: Sit down, Walter. Kathryn: Say, who is the boss of him any way ? Prof. Qin funjz What time is it by your nose, Edward? Edward: Mine ain't running, is your's ?', Helen: Fm part Swiss. M. E. H.: I don't think so, Swiss are intelligent good looking people. Look here young man, said an old man with fire in his eyes. I have brought back this thermometer you have sold me. It ain't reliable at all. One time you look at it, it says one thing, and the next time it says another. Mr. Knoll: What is a demagogue? Ruth Kelly: A school teacher. Teacher: Why do leaves turn red in Autumn ? Pupil: They are blushing to think how green they were in the summer.

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IF- 1. Mr. Rhoade visited school would Maurice Hyde? 2. Spring came would Ralph Bluhm? 3. Scott C. was shorter would you call him a Knoll? 4. If Lloyd flew would he be a Miller? 5. Neva got a hundred would Florence Beahm? 6. Grace got a diamond would it be a Tiffany? 7. Bill was Fred's daughter was Esther Davidson? Teacher: Name the sexes. Pupil: Male sex, female sex, and insects. She: Does the moon affect the tide ? He: No, the untied. To prove that a piece of paper equals a lazy dog. Proof: A piece of paper equals an ink-lined plane. An inclined plane equals a slope up. A slow pup equals a lazy dog. Little Girl: Teacher said today that our ancestors away back were monkeys. Mother: You don't believe that, do you ? Girl: I don't know much about it, but I told the teacher maybe it wasn't so far away either, 'cause I heard dad say that you had made a monkey out of him. I've invented an aeroplane that combines the maximum of power with the minimum of weight. In fact it's perfect but for one fault. What's that? It won't fly. Dont's for Freshmen. 1. Don't think you know as much as the Seniors. 2. Don't think Miss Smick doesn't have eyes in the back of her head. 3. Don't try to be a teacher's pet. 4. Don't put pins in Mr. Hyde's chair. He might sit down on them. 5. Don't fight. Teacher: By accurate experiments we have come to the conclusion that heat expands a substance, while cold contracts it. In other words, heat makes a substance larger, cold shorter. Now who will give a definite example of this? Pupil: How's this? In summer when it is hot, the days are longer. In winter when it is cold the days are shorter.