William Chrisman High School - Gleam Yearbook (Independence, MO)

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20 THE GLEAVI. McDonald, the teacher, reminded all of geometry. She stood perpendicular to the floor. Her chatelaine, a parallelogram, hung vertically from her belt, the chains forming an eqilateral triangle. If she happened to wear a bunch of flowers, she always had the geometrical effect in their arrangement, and they were pinned at an angle of forty-five degrees. with her chin. She has been called Horiginali' but in her room we meet with other originals--the ones to be proved. Altogether the time spent in her room is very enjoyable, especially on every third TlI1l11'S4l2L-Y-THE TEST DAY. i Who thinks of our High School and not of Miss Brown? Who has passed through our High School and has not been under her influence? tVVe say very few. Who can takeher place? It seems as though no one can, for we remember well our holiday during her sickness. Of course we were glad to be with her again, but accompaning her was Milton and his poems. We welcomed her with poorly prepared lessons, but everyone knows how diiiicult it is to settle down to work after a few days of rest. Miss Brown understood thoroughly, for we ther Shakspearian studentsj acknowledge that had she and Shakespeare lived at the same time, they no doubt would have been rivals in the reading of human nature. Nevertheless we can count at least one of her mistakes. In our study of :'Comusl' we came across the expression duck and nod. She asked Meta what was meant. Meta made no 1'eply. Miss Brown then said she would ask someone who understood more of dancing. She then turned to Helen. Of course Helen knew, but being too surprised to think, she answered, I do' not know.'7 It seemed that no one understood the terms of dancing just then, so it fell upon Miss Brown to explain. She did so with great fullness and ease, much to the surprise of some of usjwho knew her wide reputation as an excellent Sunday School teacher. If there is any sound which the Seniors like to hear more than the tink- leing of the electric bell at the end of 45 minutes in Miss Phelps, room it is the summons t'You may take paper and pencil for a few questions on the lesson. This summons has various effects on the different members of the class. Some who are fortunate enough to be able to explain and understand the theories of Mr. Gage, look pleasedx Others, whose delight is to ask questions, look scared, while others grow deathly pale. This is but one of Miss Manserls delights. Another one is to make us study very hard in anticipation of a written lesson, and then with a smile of triumph on her face announce: You may take the same lesson we were to have for todayf' All the pupils begin to exchange hurried words and glances as to the meaning of this. But alas! we have not long to wait for the next summons: Those who are in the habit of changing their seats for tests may do so, reveals everything. We are to have a test, and one covering the very subject of which we know nothing. The rest of the story is short. A period d1'ags by, and at the end of the period a group of worried looking individuals file out one by one, and deliver up papers at the door,

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THE GLEAVII 19 GBM Irearhrra. I HE Eighth Wonder of the VVorld-our History Teacher. She is what you might call a living library, in which such histories as, Montgomery, Mc- Master, Ridpath, and above all Fiske and Green stand. Oh! how we missed her' familiar' voice when she was sick, and we especially missed her saying in her own peculiar way, 'This is a very important point, and t'You may take thief' or' Take this topic and do not wander' away from the point. Ar'en't you happy when you are expecting to get the next hard question, to have some one to say something yerylaughable for our History 'leacher can laugh a good old hearty laugh although she sometimes looks, when we do not know our les son, as rf she never had laughed and never expected to fhough we have had to worry ourselw es nearly to death on account of History debates, essays and tests, we now really do know that Alfred the Great was the hrst English King, that Lromws ell was a Puritan, and that George Washrngton was commander rn chref rn the Anrerrcan Revolutron, and that he chopped down hrs father s cherry tree, and we give Vlrss Phelps all the credit of our extraordinary knowledge Phe time passes quickly rn the Latin room Our meetings are not always of the Quaker kind Perhaps this rs caused by the srngrng class recently organized from the old senror Latin class wrth Professor Bryant as rnstructor and director VVe practice ever y day and some are getting on Just fine, whrle others are merely getting on VS e are srngrng Vrrgrl s 2:Enerd, occas ronally we have sore throats But Prof Bryant does not worry so much about the singing sometrmes called scanning the Latin lesson or reading rt with the Lae ura pause as he does about other things Prof Bryant's love for verbs and hrs anxiety for the derrvatron of all wor ds keep the class rn a rather alarmed condrtron We often become very weak and suddenly find ourselves unable to rrse from our chairs But we never go rn Pr of Bryant s room rn 'r really exhausted condrtron We walk frrnr and steady, for Prof Bryant rs our friend He does not grve us tests We thrnk he has abolrshed that old time method and rf he has, he rs about the m rst progressive teacher rn our burldrng, for we do not know another who rs able to appreciate the ralne of thrs very new system Then the questron 4 Is the world growing better W does not need our answer IF Pr of Bryant can get the other teachers to see the real wor th of the system he rs advancing What Senror rs there who does not remember how he always awaited with pleasure the comrng of the fourth per10d7 Why should he be so eager for rt to come? Because that was the time when he went to room No 9 to re cite geometry Everything rn that room savor ed of mathematrcs and Mrss I ' I ' I I 'I I 1 I , i- I - 7 ' ' I I D 7 D - I ' ',I I V , f . I 1 II I I I ', . ' 1 I I I I ' I' ' ' I 7 P3 WI I I' K I I ' .-' - , :I K ra I 'I I l I I, i' ' . I ' I' I ' I I I ' I L, I , , I I I I ' 1 I 1 I r. I D 4 ' I I 1 I .W Y I I A ' - ' I Z5 F' I ' I f ' I ' L ' I I. I I ' I I 'I I I ' I I ' 64 I 77 I I I X, H -. ' :I I I ' f I ' -' 'I ' ,NI CC ' .77 - 75 G l F5 rw ' I I I I II - I I I cc I I 7, ' L.. I I P D ' '1 77 I ' I I I S ' D I I f. , ' I I 'I ' I' ' I 1 I ' I I , I . ' ' l I -I Ilri ' I' I I ' I I ' I I 7 I ' LI I K 1. L I I I I I , . I I I I I r I I I ' I I - I I Z' V 1 I 'KI I ' I . I I I I ' I , I I 7 I ' I . . ' . , I 2: - , , I I I II I I . I I H I ' I ' Q ' I ' I I ' f I' I K I I ' , I ' . ' I ' I I ' ' I I ' . ' b I 1 E I

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THE GLEAYI. 21 papers which contain, not vast stores of knowledge, but in contrast to this, llttle or no knowledge, arranged in such a manner as to deceive an unknowing individual into thinking that we were required to write an Houtlinef' An Amzrhnte In day s of yoie theie was aTea4he1 by ye name of Mansei Now under Hel voice sate a band of nioitals beai mfr ve D1V1D6 appellation of bemois They gi ew acquainted with ye p11DC1pl8S of PhyS1CS, which conslsts of d1ve1 se .l3OlIJ'1l1laS and obscuie conceptions of ye Buslness Woi ld of Natuie Now ye T6aCh81 was a very good Teachei, but bhe was fond if that bianch of litem. tuie known as TESTS Qof which Hel pupils Weie not fondj and She 1ns1sted on g1V mfr them Now ye Sen1o1s wel e a Bufrht set and could Ofet ye Sclence of Natule without studying 01 thoufrhtthey could which was the same thlng so fal as they wele concei ned Now one day ye Temchex sald, VW e will have a test, whe1 eat ye Pupils smiled scoinfullv But 61610110 ye smlle faded foi ve test was a vely Difficult test And whatye b0I1101S d1dn't know they Slthel made up oi left out, and ye grades obtained W618 veiy P001 which teaches ve futuie Seniors not to try to 'woik 3 ye tcachex bv ye name of MRHS61 EARLF OWL 0 7 ' v 4 - i 1 1 J h . 21 .1 ' . I 1 I l ' l u . I - . I 1 u I. 1 ' 1 D ' n , P- 49 P . . . , ' ac 1 - . a 1. - 1 ' I ' . I l 1 .1 ' D . Lf ' 1' 51 . u . ' I 0 , . n I I ' I - . , U S . 7 1 . U . i A I fo 1 M5255 N' L !,.n-nv 111111