Woonsocket High School - Quiver Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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18 THE QUIVER EDITORIALS EDITORIAL STAFF LOUISE FEELY, ’17, Editor-in-Chief. EDWARD HUMMEL, '18, Business Manager. ZITA COOK, ’17. LAURA LA FOND, ’is. HELEN THAYER, ’18. DOROTHY BEECHER, ’1'J. BUELL HUDSON, ’20. EDITORIALS One more year lias slipped by. One more class is going confidently forth to represent Woonsocket High in the outside world. We are constantly learning of the success of. our graduates, and vve hope and trust that the members or 1917 will uphold the reputation made for our school by our former students. In the past year there have been but few changes in the faculty and courses. Miss Cass of the Commercial Department has given up teaching on account of ill health. We feel her loss keenly because she lias been a leading factor in so many school activities. Many entertainments under her energetic management have brought credit to the school. Her position has been filled this term by Miss Norton. Trigonometry, taught by Mr. Carroll, has been added to the curriculum. Girls’ athletics have progressed under the supervision of Miss Gilbert. Another addition to the High School course is organized debating, in charge of Miss Corey. This class is open to all boys in the school. Debates have been held during the year, and the best debaters were selected to represent oonsocket in the contests of the Triangular Debating League, consisting of Cranston, East Providence, and Woonsocket high schools. A yearly debate is to be held during the spring, the affirmative side debating at home and the negative at one of the other schools.

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THE QUIVER 17 FORWARD MARCH! In the hall of the High School building, some two hundred eager students sat on the edge of their seats, anxiously, impatiently awaiting the order to form the line which was to show the school’s appreciation and admiration of the fine work that the football team had done. If there were any in the city who had not heard of the wonderful victory. they were not going to be allowed to remain in a state of such deplorable ignorance. Woonsocket High School was out to tell them of it in a memorable fashion. Torches blazed, drums beat triumphantly, a band played. At Depot Square, the line of enthusiastic students halted to raise a mighty shout for city and school, while interested citizens watched from the sidewalks. Up Main Street to Market Square they went, and once more was heard the victorious yell. Then, still enthusiastic, singing and cheering, the paraders marched through the Social district, where children and grown-ups alike stepped their work or their play to watch the long line of excited young people. At length, weary, footsore, hoarse, but unfailingly joyful, they came to the Park Theatre. The generous manager of the theatre had placed the house at their disposal, and for the first half hour or more the crowd sang and cheered for the heroes of the day. The enthusiasm was especially great when pictures of the coach, team, and “Tech” game—pictures taken and given to the school by Mr. Joseph Brown — were shown on the screen. By this time, the crowd was almost exhausted, and so, when the photoplay appeared, nearly everyone leaned back with a contented sigh. A few of the more enterprising at first made comments on the actors and the plot, but even they were tired and soon subsided. When the program was over, a band of smiling, weary students, teachers, and friends of the school turned their steps homeward, and not one of the student body, at any rate, but must certainly have felt, with a little thrill of pride, “ ‘This is my own, my native land,’ my city, and my school.” RUTH SCHLIVEK, ’18.

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Til K QU1VEU U) Our school is now the proud possessor of a stereopticon. A curtain on which to throw pictures has been hung on the stage of the Assembly iiall, so that in the future speakers may entertain us with lantern slides. Wo all sincerely hope that next year there will be an athletic field djoining the school. 1 his field, the granolithic walks surrounding and 1 ading up to the building, and the lawn, which is being made, will all combine to aid our school in rivalling the appearance of any other in the state. 1 iie past year has been a successful one in many ways. Our entertainments, such as the Junior and Sophomore dances, have been plea.'ant affairs. Our athletic teams have won many games. The chief reason I or our victories was the splendid team work of our boys. It would be well for us to make these two words, team work, our motto tor every one of our school interests. So long as we “pull together”— ii our work as well as in our play—Woonsocket High School will stand for success. Since most people know of the fame Woonsocket High School has made fur herself in athletics, it may not be amiss to tell them about the spLndi 1 name she is acquiring in the various colleges through her graduates. She has representatives in practically every well-known college, . nd t' e reports of the good work done by these students are both interesting and gratifying to the present pupils of W. H. S. as well as to the teachers. During his three years at Harvard, Harry Leon has won schokir-ships amounting to $1100; this year he received the $tooo Sheldon I raveling Fellowship, which, if he accepts it, will mean that he must graduate in June and study for a year in any other university he may choose. Hour boys entered the State College at Kingston last fall. Samuel AlcKee and Dorald Beasley did so well that they were excused from all examinations at the end of the first semester. The four received 19 A’s, j4 B s, 8 C’s, and no D’s, although D is a passing mark. McKee took eleven courses and received eleven A’s. Two girls are upholding very well the honor of Woonsocket High at Brown University. Helen Kelley received the President’s collateral premium for the highest rank in a Latin examination given one month after the opening of college; she not only received a higher mark than any other girl, but one higher than any man in the Freshman class. Nellie Woolley is one of seven out of one hundred and two, whose names are on the honor list in mathematics.