Yeatman High School - Yeatman Life Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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1 J 5 .D . ,...2-W -Y - - . 0 - W :mlb F a. U I 4' li. t 5 I ' f'p'll::llf 1 . 'tell as The Local Editors have had great fun looking over the Locals of earlier issues of Life Since the rest of the magazine is a sort of historic survey of the school, why not have this department also cast an appre- ciative eye over the past and reproduce some historic wit? You will see that we have al- ways made our own jokes, and that the brand has been unvarying. 1905 howlers are much like those of 1926. 0:0 0:0 0:0 SEPTEMBER 1905 English teacher to New VVillie, your composition is very poorly written. I must tell your father about it. XVillie: I don't care. I-Ie wrote it. 0:0 0:0 0:0 On the first day of school the teacher asked all the New Juniors to rise. The Class 1Vit remarked: The rising generationf' 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 - APRIL 1906 Mr. E.: XVhy is the moon more attrac- tive than the sun P Because there is a man in it. 0:0 0:0 0:0 NOVEMBER 1906 XV hy were there so many 'Hunks' in Latin during the week of October S? Because all the ponies were at the Horse Show. 0:0 0:0 0:0 APRIL 1909 Boy's lunch superintendent Cto boy leav- ing roomj : Mr.-, there are some crumbs on your desk. Mr.--: Oh, that's all rightg I've had all I want. One Hundred Seventy-eight MARCH 1910 Spanish Translation: Then he began to devour a pie made of cartridges Cpar- tridgesl . English teacher Centhusiastically describ- ing The Pickwick Papersuj : If you read them, as the little girl said, you will simply die laughing. Now I hope you will all read them soon. ' 0 0 0 0,0 0.0 0.0 Mr. B.: The Empire of Sarasens ex- tended to the very walls of China. Pupil: Wonder if they ever got to Pak-in. ' 0:0 0:0 0:0 MAY 1912 English 1.: f'The preacher stood in the pulpit and stamped his feet on the altar. 0:0 0:0 0:0 Mr. Fuller: VVho cut the appendix out of this book ?U CVVe wish good luck and a speedy re- covery to the book.j 0:0 0:0 0:0 FEBRUARY 1914 In Latin: Over the bridge was.a river. In English: Achille's mother baptized him all but a heel. Q0 0:0 0.0 In English 4: On the spectre ship Death and Life in Death shot craps for the marinerf' 0:0 0:0 0:0 Teacher: 'lVVhat were the Crusades ? Pupil: Military exhibitions from all parts of the world.

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