Lincoln High School 1921 Yearbook

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Although in this book the staff has earnestly striven to excel any annual published previously by Lincoln high schoot it is not their wish that this shall excel any Links published in the future. They sin:cerely desire that the book shall g'row better year after year.

Lincoln High School

S .\R.\H THEODOSIA ~n; rn

The ideals and standards of a great school like Lincoln high are not the ideals and standards of any one individual or group of persons within it, or even of the entire faculty and student body of a single school year. It is true that all these contribute perhaps more than they know, to the development of the real institutional ideal. However, the ideal itself embraces not only the practice 3 of the present, but it also embodie the accomplishments and traditions of the past and anticipates with prophetic vision what may some day come to be.

The one man, perhaps, who is most responsible for the keeping up of the high ideals of the school this year, the one who heads the school system and superintendents its affairs is Millard C. Lefler, superintendent of the Lincoln schools. Mr. Lefler was born in Sarpy county, Nebraska, in 1882, where he lived on a farm the first tw~lve years of his life. Then moving to Murdock, Cass county, J ebraska, he completed the common schools there. He finished high school at Elmwood, :Nebraska. Mr. Lefler is a graduate of the advanced normal course from a Nebraska normal school, and holds an A. B. degree and an A. M. degree from the University of Nebraska. His teaching experience has included rural school, village school, high school, normal school and superintendency. For seven years prior to coming to Lincoln he was associated with the Peru State Normal School. His work there ,vas in the training department of the school and was especially concerned with the supervision of tea.chers in training. At the time he left Peru he had the rank of professor with the additional title of " ,assistant superintendent of training." Mr. Lefler came to Lincoln in the fall of 1917 as assistant principal of Lincoln high school. After one year he became assistant superintendent under the administration of Superintendent Jesse H. New Ion. In this capacity he had charge of the establishment and development of the department of measurement and research. He assumed the duties of superintendent of schools beginning the first of last October. He is an active member of the National Education Association, the National Association of -Education Research, and the ational Education Society of Phi Delta Ka.ppa.

Olivia m. "lJoun~

Under the principal hip of Mi s Olivin. Pound, Lincoln high chool ha had one of the most harmonious years in it hi tory . Not only ha a greater number of tudent b2en enrolled in the chool than eYer before, but al o the past year ha been note,Yorthy in scholarship and finance . )Iiss Pound mav be termed a 1 ':X ebrac:lrn product.'' ,Y11ile a • tudent at the Uni Yer ity of X ebraska, :he wa active in all class a:ffain, notablv . ehool intere t and dramatic ~ , and ,vas graduated in 1 95 with Phi Beta Kappa honors. l..;ater . he receiYed her A. :M. degree. ince then, ~Iiss Ponnd ha taken Q.Tadnate work in the snmmer • :,:;sion of the t"niYer ity of Chicago, Har-rnr l College, and the Teacher College of Columbia l;niYersity, and ha spent one nmmer trawling in Europe

w·hen :\Iis. Pound beo·an teaching in Lincoln high ·chool, he taught English, history and Latin. Later she taught only Latin, and during the years 1909-15 wa acting head of the La tin department. She ha sponsored the clas ·e3 of 1906, 190 , and 1912.

It i~ perhap the recent achievement of Miss Pound that intere t present day :-;tudent the mo t. It is as director of vocational guidance of girls in Lincoln school , as adviser of girl , a ~ a sistant principal, and finally, as act- ing principal that mo t students have b ec ome acquainted with her. ince 1914, the growth of the chool and the varied activities of Miss Pound have been clo elv interrelated

During 191G-17, when the time-worn -ways of doing things seemed out of place in the new building, a new course of study was organized by a com- mittee of which Mis Pound wa chairman. The fir t manual of administration of Lincoln hiD"h school wa publi-'lrnd last year with Miss Pound again chairman. The Girls Athletic A sociation and the All Girl League, two flouri ·hing and important high school organizations, were started by Mi 3s Pound. The formulation of a 9-efinite plan for handling account of stu- dent organizations through an auditing committee i one of the most impor- tant thing which have been accompli heel this year under Miss Pound's ad- mini tration.

The policy of placing all possible responsibility on student ha been extended thi year. The problem of helpino- ambitious boy and girl through school has been partially solved by proYiding fund for them. By finding employ:ri1ent for them, and by ecuring financial help in an emergency, Miss Pound has encouraged many student

Perhaps no other teacher in chool can claim to have o wide an ac- quaintance with students and alumni as Mis Pound. For twenty-one years she · ha been connected with the chool, and it is doubtful whether Lincoln high chool could have reached its present standing without Miss Pound.

<.tbarl~.s -( . <.tull~r

To be liked by many people i. a great priYilege, but to be liked by all i a still greater one. Mr. C L . Culler, assistant principal~ belong to the latter class. 1any of hi be t friends are tho e who haYe had to come before him under unfortunate circumstance . The boy ,Y ho are ent to him, lea Ye cmwinced that they were "Tong, but fortified ,Yith the fact that they receiYed a qnare deal and gained a true friend . To a keen intere:::;t in boys and an understanding of their problem:-; Mr. Culler adds a training that peculiarly fit. him to give them the right ·ort of counsel. Mr. Culler came to Lincoln high ·chool in 1917 as a teacher in the mechanical arts department. Upon the resignation of Mr. Lefler, the a sistant principalship fell partly upon hi s shou ld er::;. Th e deYelopment of the administratiYe organization of the chool i an accomplishment for "·hich )fr. Culler has been larg ely responsible. Mr. Culler re c-ei Yed his early college training at the wayn e tate Xormal at wayne, ~ebraska After being graduated from that institution he attended the tout In titute at Menominee, "'\Yi con in. He later took a course at the Bradley In titute located in Peoria , Illinoi s. He received his A. B. deo-ree at the University of Nebraska in 1917 and wa awarded the A. M degree at the same chool a year later.

The Two Assistant Principals

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT fiss

Miss Amy Armstrong

Mis Elizabeth Atkins

Mis Cecile Baldwin

Miss Elsie Cather

Miss Dorothy Colburn

Miss Frances Duncombe

Mis Len or FitzGera ld frs.

arah T. Muir, head

Miss Cecelia Foster

Miss Viola Gray

Miss Lucy G. Green

Mr. L. R. Hosford

Miss Louise Miller

Mrs. Ruth Newlon

Miss Nelie Putnev

Ro se B. Thomas

SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

Miss J n lia M. wort, head

)lis Uary Helen Allen worth

Miss Margaret Davis

),fr. T. S. Dunn

)Ir Grace G. Hyatt

:Miss Ada Kuhn

Mr. H. E. Alder

Miss Jennie Piper

Miss Ruth Price

Miss Birdie G. Scott

Mrs. Irene K. Smith

Miss Mary Tremain

SCIENCE DEPARTME IT

Mi s Mariel Gere, head

Mis Ellen Anderson

Miss May Bardwell

Mr. William Bruner

Miss Edna Bryan

Mrs. Rex Bailey

Miss Inez Cook

Mis Nellie E. Clark

Mr. Allard Fol om

Miss Helene chemel

Miss Mamie Short

fr. J. H. lothower

MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT

Miss Stella B. Kirker head

Mis Mary Jackson

Miss Gertrude Jones

Mr. J. C. Donaldson

Mr. J. V. Hayes

Miss Grace McMahon

Miss Margaret Proctor

Miss Josephine "\Vible - 12-

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PHYSICAL EDUCATI0 1T DEPARTME T

Mr. '\V; H. Browne

Mr. T. L. Mead , head

:Miss Emma Breit tadt

fi ss Irene Springer

LATIN DEPARTME T

l\Iis s Je ssie B. Jury, head

Mi s Goldie Applegate

Mi s Cecile Baldwin

Mis El sie Rokahr

Miss Ethel Beattie

Miss Olive Lehme1~

MODER LANGVAGE DEPARTMENT

Miss Annetta prung, head

Mi s Eunice Chapin

Mi s l\Iary Hullhorst

Miss Gertrude Kincaide

Miss Elsie Rokahr

Mrs. Bernice Tebbetts

COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT

Mr. Frank Kane, head

Mrs. Loretta G. Babich

Mi s Blodwen Beynon

Mr. M. F. Green

Miss Alice Hurnpe

Miss Esther Lefler

Miss Effie M. Noll

HOUSEHOLD ARTS DEPARTMENT

Mrs. Kate Kinyon, head

Miss ,Josephine Ballard

Miss Hulda Breitstadt

Mi s Mary Guthrie

Mi s Ruth Koch

Miss Glen E. Opie

Mrs. Max "\Vester mann

Miss Ella Wittie

Miss Helen Spirk, assistant

NORMAL TRAINING DEPAR'fMENT

Mr. Alberta B. Anderson, head

MUSIC DEPARTMENT

Mr. H. 0. Ferguson, supervisor

Miss Hazel Beckwith

Mis Elizabeth Hamann

Miss Gladys Dana

Miss Lucy Haywood

Mr. Charles Righter, Jr.

FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT

Miss Frieda Stuff

Miss Helen Wilson

MECHANIC ARTS DEPARTMENT

Mr. Ray F. Glenn

Mr. James ·wallace

STUDY ROOM

Mrs. T. A. Colburn

LIBRARY

Miss Jessie J. Glass

Miss Elizabeth Ricker, assistant

Miss Lillie Linke served part of the school year as teacher in the commercial department.

7ttnks A6vi.sory ~oar6

MISS ELIZ \BETH ATKL S

MR. FRANK KANE

MISS SARAH T. MUIR

WILLIAM BERTWELL

WALTER DOBBINS

HARRY CARSON

RUTH TA NER

Hugh Cox vVinifred Mayhew Ruth Virtue Lloyd Burt Douglass Orr Alta Loofe Marie Ray Easter Kellog John Major Helen Tomson Walter Dobbins Sarah Towne William Bertwell Ruth Tanner Wendell Berge Emma Westermann

Links Staff

WILLIA~! BERT"'ELL ................................................................. Editor

WALTER DonBrxs ......................................................... Managing Editor

HARRY CARSON .......................................................... Business Manager

RUTH TA NER Associate Editor

? Advertising Managers

HAROLD W ooD .......................................................... Circulation Manager

EASTER KELLOG. Girls Athletics

EMMA WESTERMANX ............................................................. Occasions

HELEN TOMSON ............................................................... Organizations

WINIFRED MA YHE\V ............................................................... Dramatics

LESLIE WELSH ...................................................................... Hu1n-0r

ALTA LooFE ........................................................................... A.rt

SARAH TOWNE ....................................................................... Mus ic

FREDERICK FUNKE ............................................................. Photographer

HUGH Cox ........................................................................ Calendar

MARIE RAY ................................................. Typewriter

JOHN MAJOR!................................ .................................... A.lumn i

WENDELL BERGE. ............................... Senior Editor

RUTH VIRTUE Junior Editor

DOUGLASS ORR .......................................................... Sophomore Edito,,.

OTHO DEVILBISS ........................................................... Freshman Editor

<t:la.ss Sponsors

"re cannot adequately expre our gratitude to our class spon ·or::; for their _ helpfulnes and o·uidance. It mean ngreat deal to a cla to have two guiding light who are ever ready to lend the~' pirit and advice to put ' ome das • event over the top, or to take the lead m ome new movement. To the pon or this mean work and drudgery of a ki :-:..d tha get very little notice from the chool at large, though we do cheri h th e hope that our spon sor n have deriYed ome plea ' Ure from their work with u .

In our fre hman year we elected M: Price and l\Ii. Frum to be our ponors. Mi Frum, though · he left at th ~ end of that y ar, won the hearty liking of everyone in the cla . he wa a cl •ver entertainer and appeared on everal cla s programs with reading and monologue fi Price has tood by u for four year , through rain and torm. he ha o-iven freely of her tim , and ha b Jen loyal to the cla ss More than one tudent now active in chool owe h ~s tart to Mis · Price, for he ha the happy faculty of finding n w or hither : o unknown ~tudent , and 0 ·etting them tarted in clas and other activitie

1i Kincaid , who ucceeded Mi ; Frum, " ·a • with u . a little more than a year. l\Ii Kincaide wa a loyal adviser, aggre sive, and alway ready to help to the utmo t to make each project uc ~eed It wa s with a great deal of regret that we accepted, early in our junior y ear, her re signation, made nece ary by other dutie

Her ucce or, Ii Ucl\1ahon, w-110 wa then new in Lincoln high chool, won almo t in tant favor in the cla ,. . Mi Mc:Mahon herelf had b ee n graduated from Lincoln high chool, and her good nature, practical judgment and ever pre ent optimi m explain v2ry well her popularity. Perhap ometime we were omewhat overbearing; maybe the e spon sor ;;; have wi hed ometime that thing were different in the cla ss; but now we think back and to u everything eem plea sant. To all of them, e ·pecially to Mi Price and Mi l\fol\fahon , belong s the greate s t hare of the credit that ha come to our cla - 17-

l\1iss Price

Miss McMahon

Mis Kincaide

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AHLE)L\ ..L T ~URIE

"The be t part of beauty i that which a picture cannot expre ." Vice-pre ident of Round Table, 7.

AIRY' AROLY .r

"Flame-colored hair i no more a ign of a fiery temper than are blue eye a ign of an indigo dis- po ition . "

From Wat on (Mo.) high chool, 191 ; tudent tandard Club; Meri tern lub • Mummer Chem- i try Club.

ALBRECHT, GEORGE

"In great aim and in mall, I have always been thoroughly in earne t.'

Cla ba ketball, 1, 3, 5; cap- tain of L. H. re erve , 5.

Al\IE' MARY

"Shall I compare thee to a .., um- mer' day?

Thou are more lovely and more temperate '

From Crete high chool, 191 ; Round Table.

A JDER o ,. , lI..\RION

'Ea y to look at, with a ready, plea ant mile."

From rete hio-h chool, 191 ; tudent tandard Club.

NOR ' FR-L E

"Be Yirtuou and you'll be happy."

High chool in 3½ year tudent tandar l lub.

A .. ,. TLE DoRI

'·To be o-ood i nough.

From anta Monica ( al.) high chool, 1919; high chool in 3½ year • Forum; tudent tandard Club; Art Club.

AR)I TRO..L:rG, ~IILDRED

"An embodiment of youth, 1m- plicity and joy."

From Green wood high chool, 1919.

..A )I"C ' ELIZABETH

'..A real girl, a friend to all. '

The C1 ·isi. ; Forum; tudent tandard lub; Art Club

..AsPEGRE..i.: , LILLIA ..i.:

"..A. eriou face and quiet manner."

BAECKEL, __.._--\JfELIA

"A true friend i forever a friend.''

Home room representative; pre 1dent of Round Table, 7.

BL<\.KER, lRETA

" he ha con iderable ability, and is quick to learn."

From Normal high chool, 1919 • high chool in 3½ year Mummers; Meristem Club; tudent tandard Club.

BARER, LILLIA .i:

' B to her virtue very kind, B to her fault s a little blind."

Th e Or i is; Mummer ; Meri s tem Club; tudent tandard Club.

BAKER, THEL)IA

"~ friend " orth having.''

BARKLEY , HOPE

"Charmmg and vivacious , gaily upto-date and frankly ..Ameri can.'' tudent coun cil, - '.) ; vice-pre ident of council, 7; 1d v ocat e , 7; editor of Ad v ocat e, • Links 6; Ali ce it-by-th e-Fire ; Th e Road to Yest erday; All Girl League council 5 6 • Orpheon Mummer ; "\Yriters C 1 u b; tudent tandard lub.

BARR, FRANCE

'H o n e t 1eye - and a friendly manner . ' Forum.

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B_\RR, Lrcn.LE

'·True to Your ''"or 1. your "·ork and your ~frier:cl.::-=. •• Fortun.

Il \ rER. GoLDL\ ,.... he wa • a form of lif and 1io-11t." Orpheons: Mummer.,;; , tu dent , ' tanclard Club: junior o-le ~ rlnh.

B.\Y ' BER -T ICE '•A cheerful, lio-ht-heartec.1 ~pirit. ,.

Ffr e Print e ; Jfikado,· Captain Crossbou es; min trel , 19, '20 '21: o·lee club, 3- Orpheons: tudent tandarcl Club: . enior double quartet.

BI .\('JT, l"LE- - -•·There 1,~ no wi~clom like frank- ne s."

Dim.FORD, FRA .J. ' CE

"A girl whom e, eryone like .; , and "·ho po s s ~e • tho ·e terling quali- tie: which enable one to mak good.·'

BEE ox. CL .\RE _TC'E

' "Th ere i delight in singing.

Ffre Prince ,· Jfikud o ; f'apt 1ti11

C1 ·os. uon e, ; min tr l-,, 'rn, 20, ·21: Orph ons : glee club, 3- ~

TIELL, LrnJORIE

"There i:· none like her,-none . ''

High chool in 31/~ year ; ·e Te- tar,v of cla . , 2: 111 e Clinging r in e ,· M u m m e r ; Orph on ; junior-:enior committee: chairman enior inYitation committee .

ni::xc TO _T , Pxc-u:

"I am not in the roll of common men. ·' hemi ~try lub.

BERGE, ,vE ~TDELL

'They are never alone that are accompanied by noble thought s." tudent council, 7, ; home room representa tfre , 3-6 ; cla vicepre ident, 6 ; cla pre ident, 5, 7 ; .Advocate, 3, 4 , 5; Links, ; cla 3 debate, 2 • chool debate, 4 6, pre ident of tudent council, ; pre ident of Forum , 4 • Mumm er s · Writer s Club; busine s manager of Alfre it-by-the-Fire.

BERTWELL, " T ILLIA ~1

"Clever, tactful, aggre ive, capabb of winning where other fail. "

tudent c o u n c i 1, ; editor of Linlcs, ; Advorate 7; You Ne1,er ran T ell ; B ehind th e cenes : llyacinth Hal vey ; Roma nce of Good English • Six Who Pa ss Whil e the L en tils Boil; Captain Crossbones; Fornm; pre ident of "Triter Club, ; Mummer ; Orpheons; glee club, 7, ; enior play committee; enior color day committee; min strel , '21; cla .·3 debate, 7.

BETZER, STANLEY

"On their own merit , mode t men are dumb."

BISHOP, JOSEPHINE

"Always 1 o v a bl e and full of charm."

BJORIDIAN' L.\ l.;RA

'A -friend i s the masterpiece of Nature.'

High chool in 3½ years; Chemi try Club; Meristem Club; enior play po ter committee.

BORGEN ' EDWARD

' He wa ever precise in prom1sekeeping.'

The Road to Y es t er day; Orpheon s ; orchec:tra; Mummer ; glee clnh, 5, 6; Th e Jf iltado.

BOWE .i. ' ARTH"CR

' Ju t ask me. I'll tell you how ."

High school in 3% year ; cla s debate~ second football team, 5 ; o-lee club, 3-8; Mummer • Orpheon .

BOYD . GRACE

"Thoughtful, con iderate, op enhearted."

From Ord high school, 1919; tndent tandard Club.

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BRACKETT, MARY

' ·Zealou , yet mode t.'

High chool in 311.> Year .· : , 'tu- dent tandard Club; • G. A: ~\..

DREDEXBERG, HELE_ -

'· 'Ti well to be merry and wi e, 'Ti well to be hone t an l true."

BROW.i:T, CARL

",Vho doe the be t hi ~ circnm, tance allow doe well, act::, nobly."

:rnrcE, Rc-BY

''.A keen-witted, plain- poken young woman."

From Jormal high chool, 1919.

DRY.A -T, LYLE

" I know thee for a man of many thought "

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UCKLI:X' CLARI A

'• A lip of a o-irl -n·ith a quiet little Yoice."

From ... u tin (Minn ) hio·h chool, 1919 • high chool in 3 year tu- dent tandard lub • .Art lub · ,Yrit er Club.

nccn:ux EYELL -

'' he ha th habit of being een and not heard.''

From Owen boro (Ky.), 1~20: Chemi try Club.

BcEcH ... -ER, MrLTox

"I'm ur he' ~ a talented man."

From preparatory, 191D.

BrRBAKK, KENT

' ·A man of fine ideal . '

BrRLEY, HELEN

"A merry heart goe • all the day.''

From McKinle)r Pre me a tional, 191 ; girl ba ketball team, 6.

B-cRT, LLOYD

• "Faithfnl and likable, alway to be tru ted '

Advertising manager of Links,

B TLER, HELEN

".J.. Tothing rarer than real goodness."

From Holbrook high chool. 1920; Chemi try Club.

BcTTOX, GERTRUDE

'A shy face is better than a forward heart. '

All Girl. League council, 7, .

CALLOWAY, ADELTXE

"Be good, weet maid, and let who will be clever.'

From .J.. ormal high school. 191 : Meristem Club.

CAXXELL. ~f.AUGARET

"A girli hne in voice and manner "

R omance of Good English; Orpheon : ""\Yrit er ~ Clnb: tndent Standard Club.

CAPR ON' LYDIA

"A teady, dependable per on."

• tu dent tandard lub; Merist m Club.

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CARLL TG FLORE.JC E

·A , :erv gentle heart, and of a good on cience. '

High chool in 3½ years; tu- dent tandard Club .

C.\RPEXDER, GER.\W ·'A fine pecimen of youth arnl energy.'

C.rn o T HARRY trong rea on make trong ac- tion , . "

From ,._ T orfolk high chool, 1919; pn~sident of tudent council, 7; trea urer senior cla , ; vice- pr2 ·ident 7; bu . ine manager of Links ; debate team, 6; Fonrn; junior- enior committee.

CA E, RrnIARD

"Big, troug, impetuou ." .._ TaYy

CHRISTL-\N LYN .JC

"A good heart i better than all the head in the world."

Conn, PA LI E

" 'Ti good to be merry and wi e."

High chool in 3½ year ; junior- ·enior committee, 5.

CoE. DEI.Jo ", omethinO' of eagerne · and firJ in hi face . '

From David City hi O'h chool, 191 ; home room repre entativ '-' , 5, 6; Fire Prinre; Jf{!cado; mintrel. '19, '20, '21 enior double quartet; president glee club, 7 vic 0 -pr ident Orpheon , The Lost ilk Hat; bu iness manaO' ~r Captain Oro sbone8

OFFL~, HARRIET "T\.,.ith a . mil on h r lip . and joy in her heart."

Ad1·ocate, 5

Cm.E, XEIL

"An amn ·ing compamon, a r ady friend."

From Peru Normal high chool, 1912; home room representative, ; The 01'isis; Orpheon • Ohemi.stry Club; chairman enior pi~ feed committee; enior banquet ommittee.

COLE, 1.""LYIA

'· Dignified, with every outward grace.''

Ffr e Prin ce ; .Jiikado; minstrel , ·19, 20, 21; senior double quartet; pre ident of Orpheon , pre ident of glee club, 7; tudent tandard Club.

Cmr:FORT, DONNELL '" 'Yl1at e ' er he did wa done ,Yith o much ease, In him alone 'twa natural to plea se ."

Orchestra, 3, 4; first lieutenant in band 2-8 • senior invitation co:nmittee.

COOLEY' COURTNEY

"Good manners are a part of goo.l morals."

CooPER, tT urns

"EYer ready to laugh, and a goou ·port."

High school in 3½ years.

CRAIG, ROBERT E.

''A clean-cut, likeable chap.'' tudent council.

CREEI{PA B')I, lVIARY

"To live i . the rarest thinrr in the world. Most people merely exis~ .''

From preparatory, 191 ; fiigh chool in 3 years; .Advocate, 7, ; Hyacinth Halv e y; All Girl:-; League council, 7, • Orpheon..;: " Triter · Club; theatre orchc tra.

DALY, MARGARET

"A capable girl with a sweet, unelfish di. po ition."

From v;'i ner high . chool, 1920; Orpheons.

D \n. CLYDE

"All ~houlcl cry, Be,rnre ! Beware. Hi fla hino· eves, hi · floatino- hair!" • Theatre orche tra, 7, pre ident of orche tra, 7 • lieutenant in band 7

D.\n , DonoTnY

"There i omething Yery gay and sweet and hone t-minded about her.''

Hio-h chool in 3 year •; hon1.e room rep re enta ti ve, 3, 4: cla .• ecretary, ; Th e Crisi ; All Girl League council, 7, ; !-Iummer Orpheon • w·riter Club.

D.\\'I. LEO TA

'A hard worker who get · re ults.''

From Murray high chool, 1920; tudent tandard Club.

DAW x, DOROTHY

"For who can ee and then forg t The glorie. of thi gay brunett ?" k tudent tandarcl Club.

Di:; .\x. Hr,o ·','i mple and traightforwarcl lll manner.''

Glee club, 1- t : Pinafor e ; Fire P, ·inre; Jffli_·ado; min st rel s, •rn, '20, '2 1.

D ~FFE.- BA"CGII, AxxE

·'~ he ha an air of wholesornen es' and health that i mo t refre-.h- ing."

Home room r epr e entative, 7, , : fre. ·hman ba~ketball team: pre iden t Art Club, 7, herni try Club; tudent tandarcl lub: chairman enior color committee.

DEL .-L ' D, TELL.\

'' weet face. quiet mien, Light of peech, of tature lean.'·

DILLOX, KATHERIXE

'·Xothing endure but personal q uali tie . "

From preparatory, 191 : Th e R ea l Thing,· Iurnmer ; Orphe011. ; Junior- ·enior committee aml 1: roo-ram, 6; enior color day com- mittee: Getty burg. V

DoBmxs, "\Y.\LTER

"Gentle in method, resolute rn action.'

._ tudent council, 7; Adl'Ocate, G: editor of ,Jd oocate, 7; managing editor of Links, ; e litor of R ed and H1arl.\ ; clas editor, writer Club; color day committ ee ; cla s day committee,

Dooo, loA

"Kindne: is Yirtue it elf.'

Hon1.e room repre se ntatiYe , 4; Orpheon ; tudent tandard Club; se nior candy sale committee,

DoT '):N, FLORE~CE

"She's all my fancy painted her."

From Balboa ( Canal Zone) high sc hool, 1919.

DrxKLE. GLEx J. T

" He ha a hearty laugh and a twinkling eye that ar e good to hear and ee .• ,

The Crisis; Olympics, 6; Ffr e P, ·ince; Jfikaclo; Captain Cros.'11.Jones; min s tr el.. '19, '20, '21; glee club, "1- ; Hi Y; Orpheon:-;.

EA ST::\L-\.:N EYELYX

"I: ·he not pa s .,ing faid"

From Columbu high chool, 1919; high chool in 3½ year ; Art Club; .._ tudent tandard Club.

EICH}j, BLATR

'·Health and intell ect ar e the two ble ::; ing of life."

From _.._ T annal high chool, 19L.

ELLER, HENRY

'·He who i. hone t i • noble.'

From pr paratory, 191 ; higl1 sc hool in 3 vear.s; home room r epre entatiYe,. 3; min trel , '21; Captain C'1·ossbones; glee club ; enior double quartet; Orpheon ,.

ELLSWORTH, FRANCIS

"Pleasure and action make th e hour ·eem . hort."

From Colnmbu high chool, 1919; high sc-hool in 3½ year ; band, 4-7; captain of band, 7; corporal in band, 6 • orche s tra, 4-7; Orpheon.

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EPPE.1. s, E THER

'"An attractiYe and sprightly n1anner.'

Better English week program, 5; Chemistry Club~ ::'Hummers.

ERICK ON' HELEX

"Mode t. weet and hy; "\Ve just realize her worth "'\Yhen school days have gone by.'~

EYAX ' CLAR_\. BELL

""'\Ve have been friends together m unshine and in shade."

EwixG, Don.oTHY

"A girl in the z 0 st of h er youth." Mummers.

FARLOW, BEATTA

"The . weetest kind of bashfulness." From Hastings high school, 1920 ; president of Round Table; tudent Standard Club.

FARRAR, LILLIAN

"I speak in a monstron little voice."

High sc hool in 3 years.

FELL, RUTH

" he has the kindest, most just dispo ition::

Student tandard Club; ecretary of Art Club; senior open night committee.

HAZEL

"X othing is impos ible to a willing heart."

High chool in 3 years; home rnom representative, 1, 2; Fire Prin ce; JI ikado; Captain Orossbories; min trels, '19, '20, '21; president of Orpheon , 5; presi- dent of glee club; Forum; Chemi try Club; tudent tandard Club cabinet, 5, 6; All Girl. League council, 5. 6.

FrscHER, E:i\uu

'Earth gaYe thee of her best.''

From Pania high school. mm.

FITZSL\U[ N ' DOROTHY

"Always roiling and good-natured.·· tudent council, 7, ; hom2 room repre entatiYe, -1:; All Girl~ LeaO'ue council. 5, 6; Meri tffn Club; tudent tandard Club: Forum.

FLYN J. T' ~!ADELINE

"To those "·ho know thee not, no words can paint, And those who know thee, know all words are faint."

From Columbus high school, mm.

Fo1.DEX, CHARLOTTE

'·Fair words neYer hurt the tongue.,·

Fe 'TER, ~fERRILL

" " Tith countenance demure aiul mode t ()'race.''

Ffre P,·inre; Orpheon ; glee cluh.

FR ,L\l 'TAD, ,J ULIA

"And thus he bore "·ithout abn:-;e The oT,md old name of gentleman."

FRANCI , RTnrn

"He ha. an air of intelligence and sel £-control.''

Hi Y; llyqcintli Ilalvey.

FRITZ, ...__ OPHL\

'\ he wa good as ::::he wa true."

From Enstis high school; Student Standard Club; Meristem lub: Round Table.

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GAR o JoHA ".r A '"True happine if under tood, on i ts alone in doing good."

GEORGE, ELTON

"A good natured young man Ba ketball, 7, • band.

GIBB ' L CILLE " o legacy i o Round Table; Club· Meri tern

GrnL, GRACE hone ty." tandard

"A loving heart i of all knowledge." the beginning

GILLE PIE I ABEL ' · ttractive and cleYer, a genume friend."

:rILLETTE, DOROTHY ''Ao-e cannot wither nor cu tom stal Her infinite variety.'' Owin to "JI aggie; pageant, 5; ~Iummer • Chemi try Club.

GILLILAND, ~IABEL

"A kind and gentle heart he had." From Swanton high chool, 1920; tudent tandard Club.

GILLE PIE, Lor

It i much harder to talk about a thing than to do it." tudent tandard Club.

GODDARD, p A UL

"He ha a jolly, irresitible manner."

From preparatory 1918; ophomore play 4; junior play committee, 6.

GRAY, ERIC

"Good-looking and thoroughly likable."

From College View high chool ; high chool in 3½ years; Hi Y; Chemistry Club .

GRIF FITH, JESSIE

"She' most attractive . '

High chool in 3½ year ; basketball team; Student Standard Club.

G ND, p A "CLINE

"'Why aren ' t they all contented like me?"

From Red Cloud high chool, 1920.

GuNTHORP, CECIL

"vVho mixed rea on with plea Ul' " and wi dom with mirth."

Home room repre entative, 3; Hi Y; band 5 6, 7 ; Chemi try lu b.

HAc, ANGE

"Happy and free and untroubled." Student tandard Club; Meristem Club.

H..-lc, )lARGUERITE

"Her eye are full of gay friendline ."

High school in 3½ year ; Orpheons; tu dent tandard Club.

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··XeYer idle a moment. but thrifty and thoughtful of other. ,:

From Rochester (Ind.) high schooL mm; basketball team, 6.

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ILL., L T' MILDRED

••Po ~ e eel of a mo t gentle and lornble and perp tnally happy disposition.''

From Bi marck (X. D . ) high s hool, 1919.

IL .· 'E X, ALI('E

"A cordial smile and a mo t friendly manner.''

} rom Cor<loYa high chool: Student tandard Club.

H.\RDER, ERNE T

• EYerybody like ~ and respect a se lf-made man.''

From Ru s ell high chool, mm; glee club, 6, 8; Jl i kado; Oaptain Cl'ossbone ; min s trel , '20, '21; Hi Y; Orpheon s

H.\RDI .i:T, LucExE

·' A witty woman i a trea Ieristem Club; tndent Club; Chemistry Clnb.

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HARDT HERl\fAN

"A man of co urage 1s al ·o full of faith."

As s i s tant bnsine nianager of Ad1·ocate ,.

HARDT, R TII

" he ha qualitie of mind anJ heart well worth admiring. , High _ chool in 3 year.:,; .Art Club.

H -UWREA YE ,. GEORGE

··An affable and courteous gentleman."

k tudent council, ; home room

r pre entativ e 7; clas • pr e ' ident, ; Ad1Jocate, 5; football, T; JI idJf arch D nmn; Forum; Hi Y pre ident , 7,

HARRI ' JACK

"Hand ~ome, mo le t, and capable.''

From Greeley high school, 1919; junior-senior committee.

HAYHURST' VIRGIE

"Maybe she' dignified, Maybe she demure, Maybe she i quiet, Bu we are not at all sure .'

From Rising City high chool, 1920; Round Table.

HEBBARD, :MARJORIE

"Inclined to be frank and extraordinarily honest."

Junior glee club, 5, 6; glee club, 7, ; min trel , '21 ; 0 aptain Crossbones; Orpheons; Student tandard Club.

HEINZ, RUBE :r

• "He was a man, take him all in all."

Orche tra, 1- ; band, 7, ; glee club, 8; min trel , '21; Captain Crossbones; sophomore orchestra, 3 ; Orpheons.

HENDERSHOT' GLADYS

"A quiet, decisive maiden with J. complacence di turbed by nothing.'

High school m 3½ year .

I--lERRMAN' MA RIEL

"Friendship is infinitely better than kindne s."

High chool in 3½ year

HILL, MYRETA

"There were fine feeling in her. he wa honest with· her elf."

From Edgar · high chool, 1920 ; Orpheons; Student tandard Club.

HILLIARD, FRA "CE

"From too much love of living, From hope and fear et free.'

Home room repre entative, 3; basketball team, 2; The Ori i8; enior candy sale committee.

HOAG, HELE~ T

''All that i ~ human and helpful."

Home room repre entative, 7 Advocate. 6 • junior glee club ; Alice it-by-the-Fire; You j Tev er Can Tell; The Ol-inging Vine; .Th~ Real Thing; Orpheon ; Mummers; Student tandard Club cabinet, 2-6 • senior color day committee.

HOFF R TH

"The two noblest thing , weetnes. and light."

Yi e-president of Round Table

HoLLE BECK, DoN

"I never do comm onplace thing ."

Band, 7, ; orche tra, 4- ; vicepresident of orchestra, 8; T !te (11,isis; Chemi try Club.

HOL::\IES, "'\VILLIAl'\I

'·He wears the rose of youth upon him."

Hio·h chool in 3½ year ; home room repre entative, 7 • class debate, 1, 3, 6; school debate team, 7; Th e Crisi ; Captain Crossbon es,· glee club, 6, 7; minstrels, '21; Hya cinth llalvey; Orpheons; Forum; color day committee 6.

HoY, DOROTHY

"Keenlv interested m all worthy activitie ."

Olympics committee, ; tudent tandard Club cabinet, 7,

Hro ON RALPH

'·A joyous, irre ponsible bo~r."

Hio·h chool in 3½ years.

H DEY' LESLIE

"The cautious eldom err.

From UniYer itv Place higle. school, 1910.

HFGHART, GERALD

' A level-headed ,Yell-balanced fellow."

HFNT, OP~L

' he liked whate'er he looked on, and her looks ,Yent everywher2."

Owin' to JI aggie; ecretary of tudent tandard Club; )Iummer.s • Orpheon ; Chemi ._ try Club; senior candy ale committee.

HuRLRCRT, ,JEWEL

'·Graceful to sight and elegant to thought.'

From Decatur high chool mm; · pre ident of junior glee club; Orpheon , ; Student Standard Cluh.

HUSSONG ALICE

"Tho e about her from her hall read the perfect way of honor .• ,

HYATT, JoH ~T

"A worthy gentleman."

From preparatory, 1919.

HYDE, DAYTO ~T

'· Punctuality i . the thief of time.·, Student council, 8 • treasm?r of cla , 7; Advorate, ; Row!, to Y estenlay; Forum; Mummers; Chemistry Club; ecretar,vtreasurer Hi Y, 7, 8; senior play committee, 7.

JACKSON' BEE

'Good, . en ible and considerate."

Hio-h chool in 3½ year

JELINEK, VIOLA

" he repre. ent an irnfailing combination - brain , efficiency an :l ze t."

JoHA~ o.i: , GLADY Io~ :rE

"A ma ter of the art of keeping ilent."

Chemi try Club; Student tandard Club.

,J OHX ' MILDRED

'· he look ~ what he i ,-a girl of action."

High chool in 3½ years; home room representatiYe, 1, 2, 3; Road to Ye terday; :Mummer.

J OIL - O.l, LICEZELLE

"X othing ruffled or depre sed her spirit '

Jon~ o~-, E THER

"Appreciation of humor 1 a preciou thing."

,T nnx TON, EoN A

"The hand that ha made you £air, ha made you good."

Student Standard Club; Orpheons; Chemi try Club.

J ORGENSEN, Y ERA

"A quiet girl with thoughtful eyes."

Student tandard Club.

JroGE, RuTH

" "When people talk to us abo1.1t others they are usually dull. When they talk about themselves they are nearly alway intere tinD"."

High chool in 3½ years; home room repre entative, 5, 6.

IC-\DE~ T' THEODORE

"Plain dealing 1 the easie t and be t."

From Herndon high chool; Rorn ance of Good English; The Crisis; ·writer Club; Chemi try Club; Hi Y.

K \RNE ' VITA E.

'·X ature I loYed and next to nature, art."

From University Place high chool, 1920; Round Table, 7,

KATTLER, HEXRY 0 .

·'A TI'i e man make more opportunitie than he find . '

High chool in 3½ year; Hi Y.

IC-\.Ul!'::\L-\.X, EDYTHE I.

:,Youth frequently miles "·ithont rea. on. It i , one 0£ its chid charm ."

)Ieri tem Club; Round Tab~c; tndent tanclarcl lub.

KELLOG, EA&rnR L.

" he ha a ze. t for life anc.l n, philocophy "·hich help her in eYery trial."

From Jeffer on (Ia.) high Nchool, 1919 • Links, ; basketball, c ; G. A. A . ; Chemistry Club; tHclent tandard Club.

KELLOG, JoH

"He i well paid that i well satisfied.''

From Jefferson (Ia.) high chool, HH9; hemi.try Club; Hi Y.

KER EY, Ao .,_ TEs

·'A girl with a jolly dispo. ition." Student tandard Club · Meristem Club.

KIF];"']~' ~IoXTFORD

'·Fine and loyal and hone t."

From Broken Bow high choo l 1919; Hi Y· band, 4-7; orche tn, 6, 7 ; Orpheon

KnrnALL, EYELYN

"Her nature is too mild for this world."

High school in 3 year ; tnclem k tandard Club.

Kr~o, GERTRU'DE

"Charm trike the eye but merit wins the oul."

From Vallev high chool, H)H); G . .A . A. •

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1=1 XGERL ARDI

"There' nothing o become • a woman a mode t tillne s and humility . '' Stud nt tandard Club; Meri tern Club.

J:::~rDSEX, HERBERT

• A pleasant and amu mg yonno· man.''

r xrosE~' ToRGNY A.

··To be a well-faYored man i th,~ gift of fortune . '' From preparatory; Captain Oro ,;;bones; Orpheons; glee club, 7, minstrels, '21.

KoePAL, JAY

" tf)adines , quietne s, ability,-hi. ~ Yirtues are 1nany."

Kn .-\TSXICK, DOROTHY

"She has a keen observation, a ready imagination ." High school in 3 year ..;; fummer

rrBAT, EDWARD J.

"Yon can haYe fun out of him."

From Crete high school, 191 ; business manager of Ad l'Ocate, 7; clas debate, 4; school debate team, -J., 6; cla s ba ketball 5; Owin' to Jfaggie; Road to Yesterday,· Behind the cenes; Rosalinda; The Crisi/j; Forum; Mummers; senior color day committee; senior play committee.

KrNs, lRL E .

"A 111.an he eem of cheerful yeterday and confident tomorrow _:, Home room rep re entati ve, 4: years; V{ orld ,var, 1 year; The Crisis; Chemi try · Club; Forum; ·ecretary :Mummer ,

L.DIBERT, McKINNEY

··~ tall, well-built, fit-looking young man.'

LARABEE, EL A

' A noble and generou nature.'

High school in 2 year ; Orpheon ; Chemistry Club.

LEACH EorTH

'A dim to be di cerned as is a pearl upon a ""-hite forehead."

LEB ACK, El\DL.\.

"The weete t lady that ever I looked on " Student tandard Club.

LEsH, Lour E

"A merry a the day i long. '

High school in 3 year ; _iJfikado; 0 aptain Crossbones; iw 1r ho Pass While the Lentils Boil; The Ori is; Orpheon ; Forum; Mummers; Student Standard Cluh; glee club, 6, 7, ; enior open night committee; min trel , '20, '21.

LrcHTENSTIGER, V{ ARD

"Easy of manners, elf-po e • ed under all circumstance ."

LINCH MARGERY

"Nature made her what he i , and never made another."

Alice it-by-the-Fire; The Real Thing; Mummers; Orpheon ; Forum; tudent Standard Club; enior color day committee.

LODER, ROLAND

' Tru bra very i quiet, undemonstrative.''

Orche tra, 6, 7, • Orpheon • glr:> club; Fire Prince; mm trel , '19 ; Writers Club.

LooFE ALTA

'·..A girl of much promi e.'

High chool in 3½ year • Link , ; -writer Club· tudent tandar<l Club.

LOWRY, DEA.1."

'"There' omething marvelou engaging in thi young man."

tudent council, 6, 7, ; vicepre ident Hi Y, , 9; Forum· Cherni try Club; chool color day committee.

Lrc1rn, R-coY

"A better fellow an l a finer friend i hard to find."

Lrowrn, VroL \

"Patience and persi . tence per om.fled."

LUNDQ"GI T HT:LDAH

"I'm a plea ant a I can be."

LYMAN, CAROLINE

"Her air, her manner, - all who aw admired "

~lcCLELLA.r o, HARRIET

'It wa impossible to resist the o·ood nature of her ."

High school in 3½ year ; Advocate, 6; cla ba ketball, 3, 5, 7; ,vriter Club; . G. A. A.; The Rornance of Good English.

McCoR::\L\CK, I Y A ~T

•' lway eao·er, miling, genial."

Th e C1·isis; Captain Crossbones; class debate, 5 • Forum; Orpheons; glee club; . enior double quartet; Hi Y.

~kEACHRAN' )!AR

"Graceful and amiabl "

High . chool in 3½ years; Student Standard Club; Chemi try Club; Meri tem Club.

~IcGREw .A TxA

':'I haYe immortal longing in me."

From X orth Platte high chool, 1919 • Round Table, 7

:UcXErL, GRA E

"Quiet manner s and a serene face.:'

From Plea ant View high chool, 1919; tndent tandard Club.

~IcPHERRO ..lT MERLE

"By hi work we know the \\'Ork1nan."

~L.\.JOR, J OH ..l

"Looming up in stature far.'

Links, ; Th e Crisis; Write1·3 Club; Forum; Chemistry Club; Hi Y; enior color day committee.

~lAPES, MARJORIE

"A delicate and sensitive girl.

:AIATCHETT, FOSTER

"He will succeed, all he ays."

From Cleveland high chool in 3 5; track, 6. for he believe~ (Ohio), mm; year ; football,

~L.\.'l'HIE O.r ' JEA ..l~..l TETTE

"She plea ed when di tant, and when near he charmed "

Captain C1 1 ossbones; min treL.;, 21; Orpheon. ; Forum; 1 tudeut tandard Club; glee club, 7

~lATOUSEK, ~fax

"Men of few Yrnrds are the b 2;-;t 1nen."

:UL\ TzxER, THEOPHILE

··I haYe rather tndied book tlrnn 1nen."

tage manager.

:MAXWELL, ROBERT

'Competent, ,Yilling and goodnatured, he i to be depended upon.'

President hemi try Club; Hi Y; a si tant stag manager.

~fay DOROTHY

"I'm ure happine s is meant to b~ shared.'

Home room representative, 5, 6; Pinafore; Fire P1'ince; 111ikado; 0 aptain Omssbone ; Orpheons; writers Club; glee club; tudent Standard Club; minstrel , '19, '20, '21.

:uA YHEw, WINIFRED

"'''ho will believe my .verse in time to come If it were filled with your most high de ert ~"

From an Antonio (Tex.) high school, 1919; !dvocat e , 6; Linlcs, ; The o , risis; Orpheons; tudent Standard Club.

foxzENDORF, Lo I E

''Grace wa in all her -teps; in every ge ture, dignity."

From preparatory, 191 ; Ji ikad o; 0 aptain Crossbones; Orpheons; tudent tanclard Club.

l'.IERRITT' GERALD

"The world know • nothing of it • greate t men.'

Home room representative, 1, 2; Links, ; cla s ba ketball, 1, 7; football, 7; basketball 7, olympics committee, .

~IERRITT' GERALDL TE

"Her only fault none."

lILL __, ADAH that she ha .

"Ilubblino· with good pirit and laughter."

Chemistry Club.

MITCHELL, LOYD

"Beware You be not wallo-n-ecl up in book v!"

Hi Y; enior color day committee.

l\lrTCHELL \ ERNON

·'A loyal nature and a noble mind."

Home room repre entative, 3, G; Forum; junior- enior committe 2

MORRISOX' lVL.\DGE

'·Both witty and wi e."

M :oRRrsoN, Y ERNO .1

"Hi · fault lie gently on him."

From Hickman high chool, mm: ,Yriter • Club.

l\IcLLADY, THmrAs

"A hand ome, good-natured young fellow."

M U LLIGAN, Eo

"There' hone ty, manhood, goo :-1fellow hip in you."

f-cRPIIY, FR L TCE •

·'Generou kind, and gay. 1 '

From Odell high school, 191!): Student tandard Club; editor of Art Clnb. •

MYERS MA.RY

'' o merry, s o free, o unr . 'trained.'

From Oakdale high school; hig:1 school in 3 years; Student tandard Club; Chemistry Club.

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X -UL\.GAWA, GEORGE

··Thither our path lie ~· ·wind we 11p the height .'

XEF KY, LEO

•• ...\n ingeniou young man. Th e CTisis; Meri tem Club .

~ TEL ox, )IA.RY

")Iy life hall be a it ha been, A weet variety of joy ."

Hio·h school in 3½ year ~ .

XEWTO .i:T ' FAE

"X eat, trim, di creet, alert. · ,

XICHOLLS, LEONARD

''Precise in manner, m dre , Ill speech."

From York high chool, rn1

ICHOLS, l\'fAYNARD

·•Up! Up. my friend, and quit your books."

XoAH, BnY 1s

"Intere ting and unu ·ual.' )

• Student tandard Club; Meritern Club

T ORTII R TH

"A light heart live long."

tu dent council 7 , • Advo cat e , 7; AUce it - by - th e - Fir e ; All Girls League council, 5, 6; Mummers; Orpheon ; tudent tandard Club; junior- enior committee; better English play committee.

T CTZ:\L\. .i.. T IxEz

'Very much ali Ye and very much a woman.'

From ·w·eepino· "\Vater high school, 1920; Romance of Good English; tudent Standard Club; Round Table.

OnERLrns, CoLO::\IBE ··I1wariably good-humored.'

Home room repre entative, 2- ; clas editor, 2; cla ecretary and trea urer, 3; Chinese L antan; sophomore play· better Engli h play, 3; vice-pre ident Mummer, 7.

OLDS, H RRY

".A wilful sunbeam of life."

' tudent council, 7, • home room repre entative, 1-4; cla secretary, 3 ; class president, 6 ; clas .• ba ketball, 7, 8; captain basketball team 7, ; sophomore play: olympics; Hi Y; cheer leadei'. 5- .

OL ON , BLE .i..T DA

"Thi • girl i s a person of chara _ ter , of will."

Ba sketball, 2- ; ba eball, 2, !, 6; track, 4; minstrels '21; gle :: club, 2, ; G. A. A.; olympic : tudent tandard Club· Orph eon.

OsBOR~rn, VEDIA

"F.ull of life and vivid vitality.''

From Beatrice high school, 191 : tudent tandard Club; Orph 0on.

0 HER0W , FERX

"Thy oul wa like a tar anll dwelt apart. ' Hio-h school in 3½ year

0 THOFF IYRTLE

"Genuine, un elfish, kind hearted.··

President Student Standard Club , 6, 7; Forum· Mummer

p ACKER, BLOYCE

'The picture of health anc1 trength."

rTavy; football, 3, 5 7; olympic. committee, 6,

p \Cin\'OOD " ILLLDI

··I troYe with none, for none wa worth my trife."

P.\L)IER, ALFRED

·'F~r I am nothing if not critical."

PARDEE, A)IORETTE

"I love tranquil olitude. And such society As i quiet, wi e, and good."

Orchestra, 6, 7, ; Orpheon .

P.\ Y:NE1 BLOSSOl\f

·'X ot steppino- o'er the bound of mode ty."

From Bancroft junior high chool, 1919 • better Engli h play committee, 6

P1rnmN, DELLA

'She make friend everywhere she o-oes."

From Tern ple high chool 1919 ; Art Club; Chemi try lub; 1rri tern Club.

PETER ' ELEANOR

'' 'Ti good-will make int lligence."

From Yutan high chool, 1919; tu lent tandarcl Club.

PETER o-'- , ,YILBUR

·'Frank and friendly."

Advocate, G.

PIERCE, FLORE..L CE

··Alway miling, alway jolly."

PoLicK, BE~

' He ha knowledge, ability an<l en rgy."

Football, 7; re. ene s, 1, 3.

Po KA, ELSIE

' mall in tatur e, but great m apiration. '

Ad i)o rat e , 5, 6; clas color committee; )I um mer s • hemi try Club; tudent tandard Club.

PRATT, :MARION

"Fairly ti n <Y 1 i n g with li£e an ~ l strength . '

Football reserye , 7; Th e Crisi ?; senior banquet committee

Qr ATTR o ccHr G

•His mind s re more than eye of other men . "

Qu-nrnY, Re SELL

"He wa s a cholar, exceedingly ·wi se , £air- pok en and per uading. 1

Alir e it-by-th e-Fir e ; better En 6li h play, 2; ~I eri tern Club.

R \.XDOLPH, Roy

" Ther e "'TT'a s a T es olute air ab :r..1 t him."

From n i Yer . it y Plac e hig\ chool , 191T; Th e Road to Y est e'r d a y; Th e C r is i s ; Georg e 1f'a shi n gt on 's Fortun e ; Mummer : ; Chemi s try Club· Art Club.

RA raH, KATHLEEX

••In her ther e " a . more untroubl'.1 d, radiant happine s than in a ny oth er <Yirl."

Horne room r epr e entative, 5, (' ; Ad v oca t e , .All Girl Leag :~!. coun il, 8; II yacinth H alo e y; :Jfummer s ; Orplwons; Art Clu b ; Student tanclard Club s eni a r play committee.

RAY, MARIE

Pretty and capable."

From :J-IcKinl ey prevocation :-:1 l • high ·chool in 3 year s ; Link s , orche s tra; tudent tandard Club; Orpheon

REICHERT, THERE L\

"Kind and generou Tho e who know her be t appreciate her mot. "'

Round Table.

TiuonE , CECIL

''There are a many Hamlet as there are melancholie '

IlrcHARDSON, HAZLE

"Full of light-hearted, 1rrepresible, essential youth."

From Broken Bow high chool, 1920.

IlICHE 0~, LOI

'Let open-mindedness grace and cheerfulnes be your di tincti ve charm "

High school in 3½ year ; home room representative; Student tandard Club; hemistry Club.

RICKER, ELIZABETH

"She doeth little kindnesses which mo t leave undone, or despise."

"\Yriter Club; Student tandard Club; Chemi try Club; library as istant,

RIDER, FRANK

'·"\Vas e'er a man o quiet and yet o active?"

IlonERT , VERA

".Around me I behold

The mighty mind of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I conver e day by day"

From Valentine hio-h chool, 1920; Student tandard Club.

ROHWER, p A UL

"He i wi e and fair and true."

From Blair high chool.

Ro E BERG. I RAEL

"Shrewd in judgment and tenacious of purpo e. '

Ba ketball re erve , cla • b1ketball, 7; Forum.

RGNDSTRO)I, R TH

' Rare i the union of beauty anll Yirtue.''

From preparatory, 191 ; Ad vocat e , ; Mikado; min trels, '19; glee club~ 3- ; Orpheon ; "Triter Club; Formn.

RYA ..1. G. EARL T.

"He ,Ya s the milde t-mannered man.''

From Anglo- Korean chool.

RYNE , KAmn

"Con s cientiou s, eriou , grave.'

From cotia high chool , 1919.

A L'XDER ' ELTRA

"Her face i glowing ,,ith health and hopefulnes . '

.._ coT'r, :MARVEL

"I have a heart with room for every joy."

From Liberty high ·chool, 191!); :'t tudent tandard Club.

COTT, ~1URIEL

"Thou wert a beautiful thought, and o:ftly bodied forth."

EELEY, A I

'·He who i good i happy."

Student council, 7; Orpheons; orchestra; band ; busine • manager of mid-year concert, 7.

' EJDELL, BER:X .-\RD ··He ha life and Yim enough L> enjoy both work and fun.''

'' }~IO )C-L T LILLIA -"Charming and agreeable.•·

SETF1''ERT, BERTHA --.Jolly, cleYer and charmino-, " ~e find her a pleasant companion ." ~Iumm er • Forum· tudent tandard Club; senior play committee; cla ·s color ommittee.

t'nARP lREXE "Pleasant a mu 1 n g. plea. ino- b look at.'~

SnIYELY, EcLA ·• I am wearv of day and hour:, BlO\Yn bud of barren flower. , De ire and dream and power • _,_ nd everything but leep. High school in 3½ years; tudent , tandard Club.

~('ffCLTZ, HAROLD ·'_,_\.. frank. genuin smile of ple:1sure on hi. face."

SKOLD (}rTO "Common sense i very uncommon. Fr0m preparatory 191 : high chool in 3 year • home room_ repre entative; 7, Adl'Ocat e 7; adYertising manager .,Jdvo<'afe~ l ; football 1~ ·erve-, 1920 • Chemi try Club; Hi Y; enior op n niO'ht committee.

~LA Y:\LUrnn. RoBERT "De 'Cribe him who can. n abridgment of all that wa • plea. ant in man .• , From preparator.r. 191 ; Road to Ye terday; band -t 5, 6: orche> tra, -!-7: glee club, 7. ; Captain Cros bone ; min treL. '21; trea:nrer of ~1ummer:, : . ecretar y of Orpheon . vi e-pr e ident of " Triter · Club, 7 • war work committe , 5 : junior- enior committee 6; bn ines ~ manager of Althon e concert, 0

8)IALLEY, ETHEL

"Simplicity is the last effort o 'f genius; the mot difficult thing t ) secure in this complex world .,

)IITH, EARL

·'In quietness and confidence . ha; l be thy trength."

From Rep u b 1 i c (Kan.) hig:1 school, 19~0; Forum; Orpheon:-;; Hi Y.

EhnTH, HAROLD

··Hi smile 1s sweetened by h: .• gravity " Olympics,

S:\IITH, RcTn E.

·'She has a well of constant goo:..1 humor."

Captain ba eball, 6; basketball, 8; secretar~r of G. A. A .. 6, 7, 8.

._ :\IITH, RrTH I.

"}I:v heart is like a . inging bird ,Yhose ne;:;t is in a watered shoot.: ' Orchestra; band; Orpheon

NAPP, Lo-c1sE

"Doing easily what other:; find di:ficult ''

Ronnd l'able; Orpheons ; '\Yrit?J' ; Club; tnclent Standard Clul): better English play committee.

:NOW, CLAYTOX B.

"Handsome and intelligent. wit'1 much charm of manner •,

From Ch ad r on State Xorn1:1l. H)20; The Crisis.

0:\DIERLAD, PHIL

"A merrier man I never :-:pent :1 :1 hour. talk ,vith."

' CRICK, ~lILDRED

' How ea v it is to b ? amiable in the mid 't of happin ? -'s and sn cce ·s.·'

From Murdock high school_ mm: Student tandard lub.

C' OlTTHWORTH, GRETA

\Ye know her to b e clever, capabl e and con scientiou ."

Captain baseball, 4; captain occer, 3: captain ba ketball, 4; president G. A. A._ 7, ; secretarytrea urer G. A. A., 5, 6; tudel1t Standard Club.

2 P \Rli: S, l\L\.RGARET

''Loyalty bind s me to my s chool. 1

From , alentine high chool, 1919: high school in 3½ years: ,vriter · Club; tud ent tandard Club.

STA C KHors , :MrLDRED

"A good fri e nd j g not to b e ,rnightecl again s t the je,,el s of a 11 the earth. "

\Yriter Club; B e hind th e ce n es

STIASTXY, ..A.I.l C E

" he i s CY enninelv intere s ted in her work.''

High school in 3½ y ear s ; hom e room repre se ntatiYe, 3, 4.

STONG. GERTRl'DE

"Attractive and demur .''

From yracuse high chool 1919; tudent Standard Club; Art Club.

fr.rOR C' II. l\foRITZ

'·Open, candid and generou ."

STR \DER, p A "CL

··There i s no wi ~dom like frankne s.''

Football, 7; football re ene , 5.

TRADER REX

"He mo t liYe who think mo t, feel the noble t, act the b 0 t.''

---.U THERLAND, BETTY

' One think of her in poetic term . . ,. From Creighton high chool, 1920; Romanc e of Good English; Student tandard Club; Mummer ;q .

WARTZ, FLETA

··Gentle of speech, beneficent of mind."

T AKA HARA , BERXERD

·'He i unaffected of manner and a mi er of hi thought ." Chemi stry Club.

TANNER, RUTH

"Thy power i on me, and I own thy thrall. "

tudent council 7, -8; home roo :11 repre entative, 5, 6; Ad v or at e, 7; a ss ociate editor Links, ; B ehinrl th e cen es; R ed and Black, 7, 8 ; All Girl League council, 5, H; '\Vriters Club; tudent tandar 1 Club; treasurer Orpheon 7 • Orpheons try-out judge, 7; serno :.· pie feed committee,

TAPP ' "\YALTER

"A moral , en ible, and " ·ell-bre.l man."

TAYLOR , EARL

"I never did repent good."

THA Y"ER, GEORGE for doiwr C,

"Hi peech, hi action, full of grace " From '\Vinter ·et high chool, 19 rn : Chemi try Club; Hi Y.

53-

TIIO)L.\ ~foRT<L--I hate noboclY. I am m charity with the worlcl.

Orpheons: Hi Y.

Tno:uP o T. FLORE TCE

'·The fairest garden in her look~ An l in her mind the "-i:est book ·.·· ,tucl ent tanc1ard Club.

T1 BBETT , LORETT.\. ··Quick, ingeniou:. forwanl. capable."

Tm1 ' OX. HELEX

"Pure and trne and lovable."

From preparatory, 191 ; tudent council, cla secretary, 7: clas. ' vice-pre iclent, : Links, ~llfre it-by-tlie-Ffre; The Re{fl Thing; Captain Crossbones· minstrel , '21; All Girl League council. 7: glee club, ; Orpheon. : l1"orum: pre , ident :Mummers, 7, c ; --. tudent tandar l Club; juniorenior committee.

Tom,. ~LrnGARET

•• A good heart i. worth gold.''

TcnEN, DOROTHY

··Is .·he not more than painting an express?''

Home room repre ·entative; Fire Princ e ; JI ikaclo; Captain Cro sbones; glee club, 4- ; min trel , '19, '20, '21; Orpheon • enior lonble quartet.

Tow .. - E, ARAH

" o ,Yell-knmvn and . o deserv dl;y popular.''

From preparatory, 191 ; -tudent council, 7, ; home room repre:enta ti ve 7 • Lin'/4 Fire Prince: Jfikado; Captain Orosbones; i lYho Pas While the Lentils Boil; All Girl Lea ne council, ; glee club· min trel '19, 20, 21 • Orpheon ; Mummer M ri tern Club; tuden tandard Club; school color lay committee, 7.

TowxER, R TH

'· he wa bright and quick of thought."

From Greeley hicrh chool, 1919; home room repr entativ , 7, The C?'isi ; Forum· tudent tandard Club: enior open night committee; tudent council nominating committee.

TRACY REID

'·..Ambition · , earnest. and full of fun.'

From Broken Bmv high ::;chool 1919; Formn • Hi Y: invitatio :1 committee.

TYLER, I YORY

"Go ,vhere he will, the wi e man l, at home.'

From rete high school, 1920 ; The Crisis; Captain Orossbone'i,' minstrel , '21 • Forum · Orph con ; Chemistry Club; glee club: Hi Y • writer s Club.

u LL~IA .i: , Ao .1. E

"Simple, mo t genuine and hon st.·

From Edgar high school, 1920 : Student Standard Club; Chemi stry Club.

LL TROM, EL:\lER

"A man of letter s, and of manner .;, too."

From Ashland high school, 1920.

U LL TRO:\I, JES IE

"Never elated when one man' oppre ed, Kever dejected while another':-, ble ed.''

From A shland high school, 191 : Student tandard Club; Art Club.

U XTHANK, PHYLLI

"It i to lo nothing that the elect exit.'

Th e Ori is; glee club; min trel.-, '21 ; Orpheon ; Mummers.

YA Es, MARIE

·' 'Tis pleasant sure, to ~ee one's name in print."

From j ._T orth Dakota, 191 • tndent tandard Club. ,

VANKLEECK, ALBERTA

"A talented and graciou

High chool in 3½ year ; Standard Club; Round Orpheons; glee club, 7. woman.·' tudent Table;

VOTAW. 0LIYE

··In youth and beauty w1 dom i but ~rar .·,

From preparatory 191 ; Mummer : Orpheon • vV riter lub • .. tudent tandard lub.

".,...:\GOO - ER FRANCE ' ·To loYe her wa a liberal duc:1tion."

From Firth high chool 1920 ; G.A.A.

,.,., \GGO:NER, \ E T

• A weet content Pa smg all wi dom or it faire ~t flower."

Home room re pre entati ve, 1, :2 ; tudent ..._ tandard lub.

\YALLACE Eo -A

''Learn the luxury of doing good.,: From Ha ting high chool, 1920; e retary 0£ Round Table,

\YALT, ER - E T

"Big, s trong, ·low to anger."

w ,.ATER ' ALICE

•• Tot to know me aro-ue your elves nnknm,n. ''

,YEL - BERGER, ~IA DIE

"The mirror of all courte y. '' ._ tudent tandard Club.

W"EL ' H LE LIE

·'Good humor i • alway a ucce ''

From O m ah a entral, 191 ° ; Links

vYE T, BErLAII

"A cheerful temper make beauty attractiYe , knowledge delightful, and wit o-ood-natured."

From yracuse high school , 19H); Ffr e Prin ce ; minstrel , '19; Orpheon.

"'\VESTERllIAX _ E~nu.

''All the end of the world haY c come upon her , and the corner of her eyelid are a little heavy."

Ad v ocat , 5, 6; Links, ; Th e Crisis; i x lVho Pass While th e L e ntils Boi'l; Orpheons; "'\i\Triter Club; Mummers; All Gir1::; League council, 7, 8; glee club; senior color day committee.

,vHITWORTH, ~lRTH R

"N" ature de igned u to be of gooJ cheer.'

,v IGGIN , DonoTHA GRACE

"Frank, bright, traightforward."

High . chool in 3½ years; home room repre entative, 1, 2; tudent Standard Club.

,vrnmN ' GLADY

"A girl of refinement and mor v than aYerage intelligence."

"'\YIGGIN ' HELE -

"Be gentle, o·enteel, genume an<l generou .. ·,

From preparatory, 191 ; Ffr a Prin ce ; min trel , '19 • glee club.

"'\Y1Lcox, Doms

"The glory of a firm, ca pac10n ; mind. '

"'\YrLDER, Reny C.

·'Unfailino·ly kind and courteou ·,

High school in 3 years; G . .A. A. ; Student Standard Club; Chemi ~-try Club.

l.HI

,Y JLKIX ox MILDRED

".An extremely pretty girl. nrnciou and happy.''

From Dunbar high :::::chooL 1919: Chemi trv Clnb; tuclent Standard Cltib; I eristem Club.

W ' 1LLLDI S. M rnGARET

•• o 'wi e, o yonng, they say, do ne'er liYe long."

High chool in 3 year.-; Meri stem Club; Orpheons; Forum: junior glee; tudent tandard Club.

W'°rLLLur , RosAN:XA B.

"I am happy becanse I can't be otherwi e."

High school in 31;~ years; minstrels, '21; Captain Crossbon e.·; junior-senior play, 6; Th e Crisi.·; Orpheons; glee club; Student Standard Club; jnnior- enior committee.

W'" ILLSOX' KEXX ETII

"He look eYery inch a nian.

Home room representatiYe, senior play committee, 8 .

,\,..LTELAND, FRA TCE

"Her Yery frowns are fairer than the smile of other maidens are .• ,

High chool in 3 year.:;; home room representati,•e; 3-6; Th e (iJ'i. is; Mummer

,Y.. ITTE, ERNEST F.

'·encompromisingly honest and outspoken."

:Minstrels, '21; writer : Club play; Bonianr: e of Good English; Tlu, Crisis; Forum; ,V riter::; lub; Orpheon ; glee club; enior inYitation committee

Ytooo, HAROLD E.

'".A tru ty, faithful fellow ."

Links,

,Yo oo, LEVrn:x

"Friendly, helpful. cleYer, she ha: · endeared herself to all who know her."

Orche tra; Orpheons; Student Standard Club.

,Yoon. LEL.\XD

··A gentlPrnan, well-rcacl and llttelligent. ., Orpheon:-;: orchestra, 1-7.

,Yoco, YEDL\

'·Gran'. 0Tac10ns, speaking b11 t ~eldom."

Orchestra . 1- • Orphcons.

,Yo ~ : ow .\RD. D.rnLEEx

·•If to her hare some f "mal._. error::; fall, Look on hE r fac e and You '11 forget them all.'' •

Art Clnb: )Ieristem Club: j1111io~·senior committee.

,YORI(, DOROTHY

'·Of manner .-; gentle, of affrctiolls mild.''

High school in 3½ year:-;; orche'->tra: Stnclent Standard Club.

"\YL-KOOP, ,Yiu ..\ E.

"Extremely friendly and amusing.'

Student council, H, 7, ; secretn ry of rlas1::, G; Th e Clinging r inc; Th e Road to Yest e rday; freshman ba ·ketball: swimming tenrn. 1. 2; girls cheer leader, 6; M11n1rner.:;; senior play committee.

,Y YTHER8. BEssrn

'' Her loYelines. • I neYer km,,Y Until ~he smiled on me.'

From Genern high chool, l!HS: ~1111111ner~ • I1"oru111; j u11ior- .'e 11 i or committee

Z OL.AT, SA:\I

'Although the last. not lea ~t.'' Olympic. G.

ILE, InnN ·\ peech i ~ilYer, :--ilen ·e i-.: golu.en."

GABEL, RoY

·'The ecret of sn 'ces 1. con tan cy to purpose : '

--rEOR E, JOH

'.A frank face and manly bearing.'

HASKELL, EvA

'· he wa " ·hat appeared lo be-a gentlewoma11:·

)!ILLER, "\V ILEY

"Yery clever and Yery much :t gentleman.'

)IITII' VIOLA

' · hy one . :3hy one. 'hy one of my heart, .. he moYe in the firelight Pem,ively apart •·

The fir t time the cla of '21 a embled in one homogeneon . group, the.v ,vere told by Mr. Pi kell that they were not the only recent addition to the chool. He "·as ju t a new a. they. He told the cla that he came from n school where hi entry and departur ~ had been made with the ame cla . He wondered if history would repeat iLelf. It did not, exactly. ir. Pickell left Lincoln high chool a year earlie!.' than ,Yill the class of '21. Could it be that when he made that openino- spre ch, he expected the entire cla s to mak e a year by weighted credit~ H so, he wa di appointed, becau e this clas chose to wait until it should have attained it majority, and might truthfully b e called ' '21."

It eemed to these £re hmen that they- had taken a mighty tride in intellectual growth when they entered high chool. A they tarted off to chool on the fir t day, they eemed to have acqnired a new and indefinable air of dis- tinction, noticeable at lea t to their parent if not to themselves. But they learned quickly, and although ·William Holme and one or two other did buy as embly ticket, a a whole the uppercla men found that '21 wa made up of £re hmen hard to deceive.

eYeral weeks elapsed before the fir.;t regular cla s meeting, giving the newcomer time to o-et better acquainted with one another, to di cover that ther ~ wa no elevator in the building, and to learn what "right ide up" and 'left ide down" meant. Then the meeting wa finally held. Mi Ruth E. Price and Mi s lice Frum were elected to ponsor the class. chell Harmon wa elected cla pre. ident, a con titution wa drawn up, and a new clas had et forth upon it official career.

The uppercla men forgot their natural animo i y toward freshmen one afternoon early in October, and gaye them a party. A plendid program of aesthetic dancing, music, and ren.ding , was given in the auditorium. A hurried exodu to the gymnasium followed, where a number were to enjo,v or endure their first dance. Everybody had a good time, and henceforth a kindlier feelino· existed for uppercla:' 3men.

During the fir t emester, the cla-.; it elf gave several afternoon parties and one eYening party. The fir t real dip into the ocial ea for many, thi: evening part~, wa thoroughly enjoyed by all.

Robert E. Craig wa made president for the econd semester. Inter- cla actiYitie now began to hum. The freshmen were Yictoriou oYer the

<.Cla ss of 1921

ophomores, both jn gjrls basketball ancl debate, bnt in both actiYities tlwy lost the final s to the se njor:;.

A.long jn :March came a smallpox scare and each student had either lo be rnccinated or to stand in line ever_v moming until he ,Yas looked OY cr and pronounced 'germle s. '' for the day. Our recollection now' is that nn case · of s mallpox were reported during this se a s on of temperature takincr, b 1 1t that the enforced shortening of cla;,s?s brought ab011t a great many c:.1ses of spring feyer.

About l\1ay fir t, opportunity wa . gfren to all pupils pa sing in their 'tu dies to bv excused for farm work, as the war wa s then at its height. The fre ' hmen responded most o-eneron ., l,v to their country' call and many laiJ clown their books and fountain pen for other battle weapon. · - hoe · and plow handle s perhap • .

X early everybody came back howen:'l'. in the fall, and many brought tanned face · and calloused hands with them. Joe Ziminerman wa s elected sophomore pre ident fir s t semester and Mi .:;s Kincaide replaced )Ii s Frum as cla • pon or .

Things were j nst nicely under w,ty when the influenza epidemic o,,e rwhelmed Lincoln and school wa fo1\: ? cl to close for three we eks. hortly after the re-openino- came that event, long to be remember ed by everybody who se heart wa wifo \ merica in the war-aru1istice day . At chool it wa celebrate rl -with a big as embly, arranged in le than an hours time, and of cour e with an abundance of noi e and firework "The war i • over,' wa s on everyone 's lip ..;;, and no other group of people in Lin r oln conld outdo the high chool tudent s in celebrating

Dayton Hyde Co l ombe Oberlies Harry Carson W alter Dobbins Dorothy Davis George Hargreave

l l e1en Tomson \Y endell Berge

The sophomore party followed clo ely. Lik e the evening party of the .'·ear before it proved a big succe:-.; -higger of conr .. e than the freshm n party because we were bigger now.

A cla • from preparatory, including Helen Toni~on, Katherine Dillon. and other of note, had joined the clas::; of ·21 at the beginning of the year, and a lded talent to their rank Earlv in the first seme ter these student · from pref:>aratory ga Ye one of the b ::- ' t clas::; pro 0 Tam of the year. • w·ith the approach of the ba.-ketb-1ll season enthu. ia m ran high for th e ophomore team. It wa all warrant ::' d, too, for this team, under the captaincy of Paul ougey: ,rnn the school champ~,rn ~hip.

Orr Goodson now became cla pre:::;ident. The ophomores decided that the time had come to how other cla:-.;se what thev could do in dramatic Th e Lost illc II at, the first play ever attempted by clas '21, wa given in a embl.v. Robert Craio- and Paul Goddard had k1cli1w part The play made a hit "·ith the re t of the chool and thereafter 110boclv doubted the dramatic abilitv of clas ·21. • •

.A new epo h began when the clas reached juniority. X ow they had an opportunity actually to rival the senior • . Cla pin acquired at this time did their part in binding the cla s tog ~ther. For the fir::;t semester ,v endel l Berge was elected class president. Agajn the school year ,, as interrupte l, this time by the coal shortage. OYer a month vacation "\\as mercilessly forcecl np01Y the students. Mo t of them finally became reconciled to their fat ~ , although a few unusual students like ,villiam Bertwell were heard to murmur, ·'Ala ! ,ve are the :port of de stiny."

About the middle of the first sem ~ster, Mis· Kincaide res igned as cla . :pon or and Mi s Grace McMahon b ec ame her successor. By her inclu -try and enthu iasm Miss McMahon quiddy became popular with the clas s . hortly after Christmas, a commitLe compo ed of Hope Barkley, Marger.'' Linch, and Paul Goddard et out to sel ect the class play. _ After reading every- thing from JI a cbe th to Jlutt a nd J e fl, the committee selected Alice it-by-th cFfr e, by Barrie. A ca t wa s chosen which, with the aid of Mr.s. Ne" lon, worked up the play in le s than thr !e week from the day the ca -t ha\l been cho en. Leading part were tilken by Ruth "S orth, Margery Linch, Robert E. Craig, Rn sell Quimby, and L0yal Bagley. On February 20, the play was pre ~ented to a full house, and both the story of the play and the manner of its presentation won the enthu s iastic approYal of the large andience.

Harry Olds b ecame pre ident the ~econd eme. ter. '"'/ith the approach of the olympics, clas spirit waxed warm. This year we were to ham the fir~t organized olympic s e, er held in Line :Jln high, and forebodings wer ., heard now and then that fighting might not b ~ confined altogether to the athletir field. But the junior and enior re£ 1 eel to reYert to type. The olympic · went off in splendid fashion and when it " ' a · oYer amicable feeling reigned again.

The senior. won the olympic Th) scor ·would haw been tied if in the color rush, the junior could have captured the colors which the eniors h,1<l nailed to the pole with such care that only a team derrick could have pulle::l them. down. ( This i s n ·t an a]ibi.) As an economic measure which ,vould have saYed both a pennant and a l)ackage of tacks, the seniors should haYe painted their colors on the pole. Incidentally thi would have rendered them quite afa from the juniors. A thrilling moment during the conte t was when the junior. ' o-oat ·wallowe l the enior color ..

1 he next week both cla e buried the hatchet, and in the last assembly of the year, a peace treaty wa signed. Harry Old and ".,..endell Berge repre se ntell the j uniot • in a sembly and humbly a ccepted the "fourteen spike . '' harshly impo ed by the victor::i. The junior-s ,nior was held the (;:ame ,,eek. A program was given at chool followed by dancing and refre hments at .Ant-elope park. The night was rainy and the cl:t .-:; displayed their ingenuity when inside

of fifteen or hYentv minute. . an arnff of taxie ~ wa headed tmYard .....\ntelope park, bearing the 111erry-make1" of ho ~h cla se

"'\Yhen the cla of '21 c:1me back for their c:::enior year, theY found that room 326, form rly known as enior home room, had been diYidecl into everal maller cla room .After a oj ourn of ·eyeral day in 226, the cla elected to have the auditorium a their ho:11e. It was a o-reat thing to have the "·hole cla together daily. The thrill of being enior N brought all their class patrioti m to the front. .After ..:ewral week , "'\Yen dell Berge was • again elected pre ident of the clas

The first eYent of importance ,Ya senior color day. .After con id rabl~ controver y it wa decided to have pink and lavender cap and pennant The relatiYe merit of white _ dres e and colored dre , es for the girl also brought forth a lively debate. The •·white -" won on a tanding Yote.

The important day at la t arri vecl. All the cla s came to school at :15 except Dayton Hyde, and each member wa giYen a pennant and cap. Dayton H:vde arrived at :45, but fonnd a pennant and cap waiting for him.

In a body they marched to as embly, where a musical program wa::; given by the now famou senior double quartet, and a play, Hyacinth Halz,ey, wa . taged by members of the cla . ~ The new enior ong, written by Emma ,,e termann and Eddie Borgen -, "·a uno- in public for the first tim('.

In the evening came the banquet. ,Yhat a merry time they had l A prominent writer aid that Engli h men and women ham no en e of humor. He was mistaken. Girls a well as b:::>ys, and teacher , too, all entered into the spirit of the clever, spicy toast that were presented. Dancing in the gymna ium followed. ,Vhen the orche tra played Home, weet Home at eleven o'clock, it was a tired, happy cla that made it way homeward

.._ enior open night wa held December ~- More than one hundred couple. attended the dance, and it was aid to be the largest and mo t ucce ~sful open night that any cla s has ever given.

Ju t before the Chri tmas vacation. the senior won the chool championship in interclass ha ketball, thu adding another laurel to their growing list.

On the last night of the semester the cla tried omething new, the enior pie feed. Thirty-fiye pie were con wned, and till the cla liYes on. Part of the time wa spent in dancing.

Georo·e Hargreave won the enior presidency for the la t seme ter. A committee headed by Dorothy Davi elected The Or·isis, a play ba ed upon the nowl by "'\Y.inston Churchill, for the enior play. Early in March a ca t was chosen and for OYer a month they worked hard. Two performance were given, one on April 15 and one the following night, and together they broke all records for attendance. Every part in the play was filled admirably, arnl especial credit i due Loui e Lesh and Clayton now, playing the leading parts of , irginia Carvel, and tephen Brice. The cla s i al o proud of ,Yilliam Holmt> , John Major, Erne t "'\Vitte, and Don Hollenbeck, all of whom presented difficult part excellently. "'"'.,.inifred ~fayhew a Pu Ru el al o won the admiration of the audience, e pecially tho e who knew that he entered the ca t les than a week before the play wa pre ented.

rnfortunately, accurate hi tory cannot be written before it is enacted, and the printer call time. "\Ve still think "·e have a few propitiou day left in Lincoln high, and ome of our tory remain to be told. These few page of hi tory haYe merely stated the record of an enterpri ino· cla . They cannot attempt to portray the sentiment. or emotion that the cla ha experienced at different tages of its career. The. e mu t be left to the memories o-f its member and to the imagination o-f all other who read thee lines. Cla • '21 leaye ~ Lincoln high with many plea ant memorie . ""'\Ve needn·t tell we liked you well. Good-bye-good luck to you."

<!:la.s.s of 1922

Once upon a time, long ago (191 to be exact) three hundred green young thing entered Lincoln high school. The clas o:f '99 ·we were b1g, strong, powerful. ,ve had talent. There were mu uicians, painter , actors, orators, and writers among us-and still ·we were called '':freshie ." ,ve were tea ed and abu ed, but we survived, and now "united we tand"-junior . ,vith the ophomore year came great plans, but they were thwarted by the coal- hortage vacation. Our meeting continued to be good. The program committee worked out enjoyable program for n • and afterward we often "rolled up the rug ." Those were happy day

Then a day dawned when we were juniors! Junior! That word means o much. It wa important ·to choo e a ne\\· pre ident ince a "time like thi demand " a real leader. We cho e "Bob'' tephens, and wJ have never regretted it.

The first thing on our program for the year was junior open night. The committee evidently worked well together, becau e evefyone of the hundred and fifty present had a plendid time.

Then came the play $1,B00 a Year. It wa carefully cho en, a comedy and till not "frivolous". On the twenty-eighth o:f January the' cast wa chosen. The leading parts, Paul Stoddard, profe sor of economic , and Jean, hi wife, were given to Frank Dinge and Ruth Virtue. The cla can't take all the honor :for it. More than half of it goe to Mrs. ~Tewlon. For :four whole week all of her pare time wa pent working on our 1,B00 a Year

.i:J ow another event looms before n . Our president, Ronald Button, is planning for the occa ion which will mark another epoch in our cla history, the olympics.

Roger Merritt

Harold Hutchison

Robert Stephens Ronald Button

Robert McCartney

Koby Sirin ky Blanche trader John 'Wilson

Frances Carrothers

Clyde Hardin

Pauline Prestegaard :',fargaret Hyde

Clark Richardson Loui e Van Sickle

(tla.ss of 1923

B ehold them . five hundr ed strong! . ophomor 2s ! A: the green of the spring time finally blo ss om s into the more brilliant hne , of th e summer, so the fre hman bncl of la t year liaYe unfold ed into the pre ·ent brilliant cla ~ . A ctivity i • their middle name. Ju::;t see w hat th y have accom.pli heel at the age of two! In the Mummer s play and in th e op ' ra the so phomor t>. · wer e well repre- :::e ntecl. In debate, in track, ancl in ba ketball, they al o took par t. They now

But th e cla s of '23 wish ed to how the sc hool in general what they were able to do. So, one mornino· dnring th e fir s t semester, they crave an entertain- ment for th e tndent body in a ·::;embly. The program consi t ed of two panto- mime , bo ~h written by sophomore After the entertainment even the enior:-; could b e heard to r emark that the ophomore saxophone oloi t wa one of the be t in sc hool and that talented dancers wer unusually numeron in the opho- mor e cla ~s. The sophomore did other mw thing s too They made a name for themsehes by being th e fir::;t clas ~ to m:mage a conce ion at a carnival.

For a large share of their . uccesses this year th e cophomores are indebted to their offic ~r::i and their pommr s , Mis ; Beynon and Mies Bardwell.

The officer 3 for the first ·eme ter wer e Clark Richard on, pr e ident; Dougla -, Orr, ,·ice-president, and Margaret Hyde, ~ec retary-trea urer . For the second . eme ter they wer Dougla s Orr president · Louise y ·an Sickle, vice-pre ident; Ruth Sunderland, secretary; Hel-=-n An.ch, treasurer; Pauline Prestegaard, edi- tor. and J e ie eacre t, sergeant-at-arm:5.

Ruth Sund~rhn,l Jessie eacrest

Helen Aach Doug las Orr

'1:las.s of 1924

' ·From th e north and the outh and th e ea st an<l. the \Ye ._ t, " .,.. e co me to do our -very, ,·ery, Yery, Yery best" no le s than the so ldier in Harry Laud er' · song . From Elliott choo L from Pr escott, from Capitol, from Ban croft, onr carcl. flowed into th e high schoo l la s t fall, flooding the office, and r educing th e fa c ulty to despair. ,vhat would th e~r do with o many of u s?

It i s •a trilmt e to our importan e tha t they immediately decided to take room B26 away from the pampered se nior and to cnt it up into clas rooms that we might be accomo lated . It i • a furth er tribnte to u , that wh en we on ce s tr eamed into the o-ver-crowd d b :1ilding, w·e soo n made e-veryo n e feel thi::i.t th e place would see m empty aml le olat e ·without u . .... ... o one can s ay that "e aren't loyal to Lincoln high. " Then th e carnival petition wa circulated, o-ver ix hundr ed ignature s ,Yere giYen, and over three hundr ed were tho e of fre hmen. Of course the higher student s contemptuou sly declared that this might be attributed to th e fact that we ,Yere i()'norant of the lifficnltie irn·olYed in uch a giganti nndertak:ing But our enemie have not ncceecled in belittling our greate t triumph. , 1T1en the interclass debates arri-ved, our team not only defeated the .-ophomore ·, but in the fre hmanjunior cup debate held in a embly January 5, they captured the cup from the juniors.

Our fir t semester officer were Ward Dudley, pr esi dent~ Keith Miller, vicepre s ident; Katherine Dean, secretary; Hazel Olds. tr ea . urer; Harold Peter on, sergeant-at-arm ; Melvin Turner, editor Th e sec ond se me ter officer were Hazel Old , president; , Yard Dudley, vi~e-pre ident :Margaret Mahaffey, ecretary; Helen Ander s on, trea urer; Marguerite Clark, editor . The r e turn · of our s econd seme ter election indicated that woman uffrage i . flourishing among u , for nearly all om officer · ar e O'irls. The explanation mav b e, however, that th e boy desir ~d to exalt beauty in preference to brilli:rncv.

In choosing our . pon sor s we gave a signal in tance of our O'OOd judgment, for they are Mi Lehmer and ~fi ·s Clark. -67-

Keith Miller Hazel Olds Margaret :?lfahaffey Glenn Turner HarolLl Peter on Katherine Dean Helen \n derson ::\larguerite lark Ward Dudley

Stu~~nt <.touncil

w·ith what rebellion of pirit would we return to the "o-ood old chool day " about which our parents like to talk! In tho e day , it eem , new rule::: foi· conduct prang up over night, as my teriou ly a toad tools and the pupils, feeling no re pon ibilit~· for the exi tence of the manifold regulation and having no share in their enforcement, looked upon them a wholly irrationn l evil which there wa ~ little moral harm but o-rave phy ical danger in di - reo-arding.

Grm,th away from thi point of view ha been gradual. Probably none o-f u can remember a tim when th re wa not more or le · cooperation between tndents and faculty in making n w rule , yet it wa only four years ao-o that Lincoln high chool tudent gra ped the real meaning of d mocracy, and realized that in chool, as in the world at laro- e, rea onable law and ord r are be t ..., nred throu o-h a democrati form of tr v rnment.

Tow almo t everything pertaining to tudent intere t , from matinee partie to order in lunch lines, has been taken in hand and controlled by the student ... or ha the tudent council of Lincoln for thi year stopped at the control of old in ~titutions. It ha reached out, ecured new idea and tried many new plan , which, it wa hoped, would in ome way rai the . tandard. and ideal of the chool. The council in it work ha aimed at permanent re ult and ha een that the new idea • have not only been sugge ted but have been worked out.

Th regular work for thi year began under the leader hip of Harry Caron, pr . ident; Hop Barkley, vice-pre ident; and Ronald Button, ecretary. t the beginning of the econd emester the work continued with ,vendeU Bero-e, pre ident; arah Towne, vice-pre ident; and Hugh Cox ecretary.

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George lJ' nderwood V.'i lla "'ynkoop Sam eeley

George Hargreave Ruth underland Harry Old

Dayton Hyde Blanch e trader Helen Tomson Wal ter Dobbin

Ruth Tanner V.7 i lliam Bertwell

Dorothy Fitz immon De a n Lowry

Dougla ~. Orr

Ruth Xorth V. 'e ndell Berg e Sarah Towne

Ruth Carpenter Hope Barkley Harry Car on Helen Oberlie Hugh Cox

Probably one of the most important project. of the council wa the Red and Black directory. Thi booklet will not only act as a reminder to the nppercla men, but al o, will give valuable information to a sist underclasmen to become more familiar with the different land mark and tradi- tions of the school. The book enumerate the Yarious organization of the chool, their office , their aim , and their actiYities. It contains the constitu- tions of both the tudent c01mcil and the athletic as ociation. In the back of the book are found ome of the school songs and yells. A small sum wa • charged to help pay for it, and the coancil i confident that the tudents will ee the benefit in the po se sion of u,ch a book.

Another important project was npervision of the halls by the council. During the fir t weeks of last fall the teacher stood in the corridors and as isted in keeping them as orderly a. po sible but the council worked out ct plan to relieve the teachers and to phce the responsibility wholly upon the students themselve The home room representativ•es were placed on duty in certain part of the building not only g rnrding crowded corridors but al o ee- ing that the regulation for goii1g up and down the stairway were observed. Although it took a little · time to m 1ke the plan effective, within a few week chaos gave way to order. o-;v the tudents are so accu tomed to the transformed aspect of the corridor that they would be appalled if they could ee in a motion picture how they raced and bumped and hoved during the first days of last September.

At the opening of the football ~:eason, the council conducted the annual Red and Black color day. Caps, str,3amers, and arm band were old through the home room representatives. The p::,,rade before the first game brought every- one out with his chool colors, showing all on-looker that Lincoln would hine brighter this year than ever before.

In previou years, it h as been necess iry to borrow pennants and -"L" blan~ets from the downtown stores for decorating the stage for athletic assemblies. But the council of this year presented to Lincoln high chool twelve red and black pennants and an "L" blanket. These were cleverly designed by a member of the student council, Ruth Carpenter.

The matinee parties proved unmnally popular, and everal time both gymnasium had to be opened in or.:ler to accomodate the students. The small sum of five cents was charged in order that better music for dancing could be secured. Matinee parties have been held every Friday in the high chool building unles they conflicted with otlnr all-school events .

The carnival this year was more u ~ces ful in many re pects than those of the past. A committee of council members in cooperation with the faculty, had charge. everal innovation were introduced which made the patrons of the carnival more comfortable than in previous year.3. Five entrance to the building were opened in order that there might b 0 no congestion at the doors. :No confetti was sold, lest someone he infected by <Yerms from confetti pickeu 11p off the floor. An efficient system of checking wrap enabled everyone to remain cool and unencumbered during the evcnmg.

After Miss Jeannette Rankin poke one morning in assembly asking the tndents to write to ,va shington urging the hon e rule committee to pa. s the Sheppard-Towner bill, the council se:it a letter to Hon. M. P. F. Campbeil of Kansas, who was the chairman of th3 committee, howing him the intere.st of the high chool tudent in the pa. -,age of the bill and asking that he do all in his power in the way of allowing it. pa sage.

For the first time the tudent coun~il conducted the selling of •the basket- ball tournament ticket , and again the council member proved their ability a good salesmen as well as good managers.

The e are probably the main acco·nplishments of the student council of Hl20-l921. Already the council has d ~monstrated beyond a doubt that the -

student of Lin coln high chool are worthy to as nme the ta k of selfgovernment. It ha a firm foundation and a la ting place in the chool. Each year the council wishe to a tiin something bigger for the school, and the council thi year desen'es to be congratulated on the progre s which ha been made. In thi connection the home room repre entatirn hould not be forgotten. The council thank them for their stron o- backing and cooperation in the work for the past year

Still there is a great deal to be done by cortnci l s of the future. It is not until eYery student in Lincoln high choo l takes his full share of re pons1bility for the makino- o-f jut law and for the fair enforcement of them, that we shall have a council that cannot be improYed upon. In the meantime, the student body is learning that progress come s not a the r esult o-f cen nring the pre ~ent work of the council, but a thP r 2s11lt of a whole-hearb~<l di po sition to cooperate in the work and to offer thoughtful suo-ge tion for it improwment.

RrTTI c \R?EXTER, '21.

''Representative" is a common word in our language, u ed over and over again, its meaning altered just a littfa by this perp etual nse. ,Ye are incline :l to think more of the indi , idnal "·ho b ,ars the title than of what he stands for. '\t "\Yashington when the new representative gather "·e think of them as tern, capable, bald-headed men "·ith high shining hat and knobbed canes.

At Lincoln high school, however, there i • no fixed appearance for a r epresentatin. He mu t be capable, but whether that capability i covered by a leek pompadour, two braid s . or puffs, r :> ally makes no differenc ~ Freckle-; and pug noses are also quite eligible. If ther e is any featnre that di tinguU1es alike the enior and the freshman repre entatives, it is perhaps an expre sion of great benignity, for the home room representatives have been called the "guardian angels' of the school. Every day they ma~r b" seen in the halls~ explaining gently to ome innocent Hew-comer that it i • not proper to run through the corridor or to go to the third floor during the fir t lunch period.

Our home room representative differ from those at ,Ya shinoton in another ,,Tay, for no home room in Lincoln high chool allows the public to forget for a moment what its repre entative ..;bnd . for as there i a growing "home room pirit" in the school.

The home room repre ·entatiYe body i .: a group of stndent , one from each home room in the building. Through this organization direct contact is made between the student council and the student body.

The home room representative receives his position after being elected by a majority vote over the other candidates selected by the members of his home room In ome home room a formidable list o:f "A candidate must be' " is written on the board to remind the representative that no backsliding by him i to be tolerated by hi home room.

Busine s that demand action on the part o:f the entire school goes through the hand of the home room repre entative, and matters that arise among individual student al o reach the student council by way of the representative. Not only does the repre entative carry news to the council, but he reports to his home room matters of importance which ha.Ye been discussed by the student counci l.

The representative body has been most actiYe this year in the care of the halls during lunch periods, the sale of arm bands and streamers for color day and the direction of the stairways to keep order as a s afeguard against accident3. The home room representatives, who de serw a large amount of credit for the success of democratic government in the high school this year, are as follows:

Helen Aach

Bernice Angle ,Jacob Beck

Lowell Belcher

Charles Bembrook

Sam Bignell

Pauline Bloom " Tard Brooks

Blanche Burt

Pauline Campb ell

Henry Clarke

Carroll Coffman ~eil Cole

Katherine Dean

Anne Deffenbaugh

Everett Duri sc h

Otho de Vilbi ss Archibald Eddv

Yiola Fairchild

Dexter Farrell

Martha Fieg enba um

Keith Folger

Fred Gardner

Marian Gardner

Hazel Handsacker

Harmon Heed

Ruth Heine

:Marie Hensley

Helen Hoag •

Richard Hon se

Glenn Jack s on

Irl Kuns

Ruth Lichtenstiger

Kenneth Loder

Ralph McGoogan

Palmer McGrew

Dor sev Mcln tvr e

Rob er't McKee·

Raymond McMahon

Dewitt Mosher

Katherine Mc ,Yhinnie

Marguerite X elson

Colombe Oberlie s

Don Olds •

Hazel Olds

Gladys Patterson

Robert Powell

Evelyn Reddig

Harold Reed

Calvin Robbins

Frederick Sanford

Farnum Seacre s t

Morris Sharp

Otto Skold

Perrv Slonio-er 0

Louise Spangler

Ruth Towner

Loui se Van Sickle

Howard V escili u s .r ohn "Til so n

Kenneth V/'ill son

EcMh Wood

~6vocat~ Staff

FIRST SEMESTER

WALTER Donn1:--s Editor

HOWARD HEBBARD Managing Editor

EDWARD J. KUBAT Business Manager

HERMAX HARDT Assistant Busin ess Manager

JoHN ALLISO~ Circulation Manager

JA CK MoonE Sports

MAuY CREEKPA UM E xc hanges

HOP E BARKLEY Organ izati ons

R UTH NORTH P ersona ls

HARfllET McCLELLAND Girls .Athl etics

R UTH TAN ;_,;.ER ......•.......... Specials

WILLIAM BERTWEJ.L Specials

OTTO SKOLD .• , •... Specials

ADVISORY BOARD

WALTER DOBBINS

How ARD HEBBARD

EDWARD J. Kt7BAT

MISS SARAH T. MUIR

MISS AMY ARMSTRO NG

MISS OLIVIA Po ux D

Ruth orth

John Allison Otto Skold Jack Moore

Ruth Tanner

Walter Dobbins

Harriet McClelland

Edward Kubat

William Bertwell Mary Creekpaum

Howard Hebbard Hope B arkley

Abvocat~ Staff

SECOND SEMESTER

1-IoPE BARKLE'\. .' Editor

HENRY BRAIXJ<:nD Managing Editor

MARY CREEKPAUJ\L ....................................................... Business Manager

OTTO SKOLD .......................................................... Advertising Manager

RONALD BUTTO X Assistant Advertising Manager

CLAiiE CE DRU I::\IOND. ...................................... Sports

MJLDRED AMES ............................................................... Girls Athletics

MARTHA FIEGENBAUJ\1 ........................... Personats

KATHLEEN RA UGH. Organizations

RUTH RUNDSTROM. .................................. Exchanges

JoHN ALLISON ..................................................................... Specials

DAYT0 - HYDE Specials

MAURICE WING Specials

ADVISORY BOARD

HOPE BARKLEY

HENRY BRAINERD

MARY CREEKPAUJ\f

Maurice Wing

Ruth Rundstrom

Doris Trott

Ben Gadd Clarence Drummond Mildred Ames Martha Fiegenbaum Isabel Campbell John Allison

D 2 yton Hyde Kathleen Ra ugh Hr nry Brainerd

Hope Barkley Mary Creekpaum Otto Skold Ronald Button

MIS SARAH T. Mum

MIS A _fY ARMSTRONG )!lrss OLIVIA POUND

Helen Toms o n Emma W(stermann

D oro thy Davis Bl a nche Burt Helen Voorhee s Sarah Towne

Hope Barkley Kathleen Raugh ~fary Creekpaum

All <6irl 's -{~agu~

··Didn·t oo bring oor dolly?"

I looked into the blue eyes of the little la· ·ie who met me at the gymnasium door. and pondere l. ·were the new fr=> s hmen a infantile a this '{ But as I gazed into the trns6ng eyes lifted to mine, their expre ion of innocence grew and grew till that of a nine-month5-okl baby would, in compari on, have seemed stained by hard worldly wisdo :n. Then I understood . Thi wa a "make beliern" five-year-old. In fact I had stumbled by accident into the annual "little girl" party of the All Girl · League.

Each semester a party is given by the All Girls League council to all the girl. of Lincoln high school. Both p :utie this year were co tume parties. To the first party everyone came dresse·d in her little sister' or brother's clothes. Punch and "all day ucker " were erved. The econd party wa a ma querade.

A. the name ugge t , every Lincoln high school g· 1 i a member of the ~\..11 Girl Leao-ue. The council of the league, however, i made up of ·ix enior girls, four junior girl , two sophomore girls and the girl that hold • the lughest office in the student council.

The aim of the organization is to create a feeling of good fellowship among the Lincoln high school girls and to forward all girl activities, giving mo t of the responsibility to the girls them elves. With the aid of a list of all girl in high school the council see that all girls become better acquainted.

Mi s Jones of the mathematic;, department wa chosen at the first of the year as sponsor of the club.

The following girls make up the All Girls League council: a rah Towne, pre ident Blanche Burt Pauline Tait

Mildred Tompkin Blo som Hilton Gertrude Button

Mary Creekpaum

Marion Gardner

Helen Voorhees

Dorothy Davis

Helen Sell - 74-

Emma "\Vestermann

Kathleen Raugh

Helen Sells Mildred Tompkins

pp.Ul JACO 9 S -

L SIDKS

U ers of poor Engli h scuttled i.nt o corner, on K ovember 1 , when onr annual better Engli h week tarted lik e a Dusenberg 16. .Although the campaign lasted only a week, it -n-a not a weak campaign. Posters, projects, and assemblie were hurled at the enemy of good speech in an heroic effort to loosen hi trangle hold upon the students of Lincoln high school. The poster display lent sanguinary coloring to the sce ne, class project aroused a fighting pirit, but it remained for the a semb lies, ,Yith their speeche and pageant , to give poor English the solar-plexar blow which . hook the teeth of thi s cur::;e of America.

The poster di. play wa all student work-mostly from the students of the art department. The posters were of e,,2ry hne and description. One showed a grfrliron warrior who advocated ''bet t~r English in our sports." A high school football player halted, pell-bound, in front of this poster, and when the dazed expression had partly left hi:-; face, he murmured weakly, "Can you feature that!" A po ter by Perkin s Hamley, depicting the :N"ebraska State Capitol that is to be, and advocating "b~tter English in our capitol city'' won fir t plac e Other students receiving prizes were ,Yeldon M elick, Alberta Saunders and Florence Thompson. The judges secured for the poster conte t wer e Mrs. A. R. Edmiston, Lin ::: oln artist. and Prof. ,v. F. Dann, teacher of ae thetics at the University of Xebraska.

X early every department in school took np better English in some kind of project. The household p.rts department had old-fashioned spelling bees. In a contest behrnen two classes twelYe girls went down on the word "buckram." Language classes studied the deriYation of many English words, tracing them to Latin, French, and Spanish source-5. They also made extensive lists o E foreign words introduced directly into English. In several departments es ays were written on the value of English to that department. The be t es ay from each department was printed in th e Ad·vora t e

The Nebraska State Journal and th e Lincoln 1-:. tar sent representatives to get an account of the progress of the week and to give it publicity by publi hing acconnts in the papers.

The English department, the eat of all operation , fr1rnished the student speakers for assembly. A number of English XI students wrote the pageant which wa.s produced in assembly. Each English VII, VIII, X, and XI cla s had a contest by which it elected its two best speakers. The speakers selected from each cla s met after school and tried out before judges who chose the best . five to speak in assembly. Margaret vVilliam , Ruth Carpenter, Hugh Cox, ·wendell Berge, and Frederick Fnnke were chosen. First place wa awarded to Frederick Funke, who compared our diction with that of boy athletes whom he met in England last summer. He declared, "Over here in America we abuse our languag3 so that Shakespeare could not read it. vVhen we read good English, we have to translate it word for word like a foreign language."

Philo M. Buck, Dean of the Fine Arts College in the University of Nebraska, was the main speaker in the first assembly. "Language," he stated, "is the basis, the only basis, of civilization " He went on to explain how the highest

point of ciYilization were reached wh:n language, Greek Latin, etc., reached it hicrhe t development. "The ma h-up of the Roman Empire,' he continued "brought a blank in hi tory. Th ~re was al o a break down in language . It was not until our European languag~s were somewhat fixed in the sixteenth centnry that civilization began to move ahead at a rapid rate. If yon want to think well, you mu t have good tools," he concluded.

The a embly on Friday wa the crowning feature of the week. The outline for the pageant was sugge ted by Mi. Emma Breit tadt, and the dialogu~ wa written by a committee of senior Eno-lish tudents. The pageant howecl Youth, with all hi friends and attr:butes, approaching Manhood. Careful tndy bring him the Classics, within which i . hidden Good Engli h • slovenly Poor Engli h enter , calls him back frJm his enterpri e , and entertain him with a dance by ome little bad Engli h gnomes. Youth then encounters Manhood, who bring with him Busine. s World. The latter inform Youth that he will never reach succe s until he find Good English. o Youth reject Poor Engli h, and Careful Study opens the Clas ics, which reYeal Good English. She comes forth and leads Youth along the road to success.

The cast of the masque wa as follows:

Youth ........................................

William Bertwell

Hope ............................................ Inez utzman

Faith ............................................. Ruth Virtue

Enthusiasm ...................................... Ernest Witte

Am bi ton ..................................... Kenneth Rystrom

Good Judgment ............................... Theodore Kaden

Careful Study ..................................... Henry Eller

Good English ................................ Margaret Cannell

Poor English ..................................... Leroy Abbott

Messenger .................................... Clarissa Bucklin

Beauty ................................... Elizabeth Sutherland

Fashion ....................................... Ruth Carpenter

Recreation .................................... Ralph McGoogan

School Spirit. .................................... John Allison

Manhood ............................................. Irl Kuns

Business World ...................... Lloyd Robinson

treamers of red and black, ribbons, cap , and arm bands; spirited ong-s and cheers, audible in the mo t distant part of the building; and a "red and black" auditorium proclaimed to the least observant that thi was chool color day. It was the only day of the year on which fre hmen had the sam13 opportunities as seniors, and they made the most of it. 'ome of the fre hmen girls hesitated to wear the cap until fired by the example of the holder spirits. Tall, ungainly boy wore caps which made them strongly resemble a certain Sunday supplement character. Ribbon ro ettes and arm bands decorated even the sternest members of the faculty.

The cheer leader with their gay red flannel shirt , in which they took a childish delight, were much in evidence during the assembly. Thomas Curran pre ented to the school in behalf of the class of '20, an album containing the pictures of the members of that clas:,. The album will be kept in the library where the re pectfnl hands of future frshmen will turn the leaves, and whisper, awestruck, the magic names of long ago.

An animated peech by Mr. Fergu on, a dignified one by Harry Car on, and two numbers by the boys' glee club, completed this part of the program.

The curtain fell, to rise again on a most startling one-act play, Behind the Scene , written and staged by th" ·writers Club. .A. faculty meeting,

called to discus the advi ability of ub titutino- aesthetic dancing for football, wa in · progres A very effective dance wa pre nted which indicated what the team could do under Mis Breit tadt management. However, out of con- ideration for ir. Mead, who had fainted during th di ens ion, it wa decided to permit football to continue

The average Lincoln citizen did not realize what chool color day was until the band and a number of enthusia tic students paraded to the univer ity fiel l in the afternoon. The entire band, from the tall enthu ia tic harmoni t in the front row to the fat little drummer boy beating his drum with ferociou energy in the rear rank, swung gayly and proudly down O street, followed by a cheering mob with color flying. One rather nervou young man was ure that the caps were the in ignia of a l1matic a ylum, and he made an e pecial effort to aYoid the line of · march. The rooter arrived at the field with un- abated enero-y, notwithstanding ome tragic incident , a ,,hen the leader lo t hi cap and was forced to give cha e through the .crowd, leaving the parade to progre N as be t it might.

\tarnlval

\.. hysterical nightmare, a raging bedlam, a grote que phanta y, a delirious rlream, are a few phra es which might be applied, by a sane onlooker to the carniYal. But it wa also a time 0f joy untrammeled and unre trained.

The high . chool was a blaze of light. A sea of people of every nationality and clime, with every imaginable style and shade of dre s, streamed uncea ingly around the corridors and up and down the stair . Barker cried every- where, trying to make one understand that the best how of the evening wa up on the third floor or down on the first.

Tantalizing odor of freshly baked cakes and cookie , of cider and pop- corn filled the air. The girl at the cider booth was counting the number of glasse of that beverage which were being gulped by the cowboy, "Nine-ten- eleven-twel ve ! You mu t be a perfect tank !"

It was evident from the program that the carnival committee had made special preparation for a hungry crowd, for among the attractions listed were Lirna Beans, Lemons, The Fish Pond, and The Cabbage Patch.

In the auditorium, Mr. Ferguson, with his minstrel and ma ked dancers, pre ented A. Nightmare in a Grotto. Behind the cene the mingled odors of cambric, cheese cloth, rouge crepe paper, cold cream, peanuts, and popcorn gave a fitting nightmari h atmo phere. The olfactory sense of the audience also was ti kled by the sparkling overtnre, which was full of red, r d pepper. The tear· thu brought to the eye of the listener mu t have put them into an agreeably lachrymal state of mind, ince the mournfully entitled numbers, "Home Again Blue ', a dance. by France Carrother , and "I've Got the Blue for Old Kentucky", a ong by Mr. Fergu. on, were favorite Most of the tear. hed during the program, however, were the result of helple laughter. The joke were if not new, at least repainted, and warranted unrecognizable.

The1:'e are several serious ca es of lost vanity in the school. The e were cau ed by The Looking Glass, a melodrama of school life presented by the faculty and guaranteed to how ome of the students themselves a others ee them. It i feared that to a. few of our leading citizen the shock of recognizing their own reflection was disastrous. There i hope that time will cure the re. t of us, however.

About the middle of the evening many who had inve ted monthly allowance in a yard of those pa teboard ticket , which, a if by magic, opened all door. and et all manner of food at one' di posal, were forced, with groans and prote t , to replenish their . upply -77-

Many casualtie ,Tere reported, several of them happening in the vicinity of the ,rnter fountain , where the cool, refreshing pooL inYited a ha ty plunge. By nine forty-five all of the show ~ \\ere oYer and dancing had tarted in 226 and both of the gymna ium nles one were a prize fighter or a football player, it "a u eles to think of c-lancing in 226. Both gymna ium had their qnota of fun maker , who overflowed and pushed and crambled in the hall out ide in their effort to gain an entrance.

All too soon came time for the horns to top blowino· and the calls of the ,Yikl to cea e, and at eleYen o'clock th~re "·as a mad stampede for the check room., a no one wi heel to be left j n the building when the lights "·ere turned out.

s~nior (Color -ir>ay

Like medieval knight · and ladies ,Yith high peaked cap ~ and wanng peunants, the seniors marched into the auditorium on senior color lay. The triumph of mind over matter wa in heated by the fact that not derision, but ga ps of respectful admiration met their spectac ~1lar entrance.

Tears of regret for a far away, c,irefr"e youth fell from the eyes of the fre hmen, as they watched hungrily the inverted ice cream cone: of pink ancl lavender, ,vhich adorned the- bro x of each decorou senior.

, "' ophomores. a: they looked dmvn from their . uperior height upon the pageant belo,Y, "·ere reminded of Y!lg 1e picture · of pyramid , and steeple . of Gothic cathedrals ynrnre had th ~y heard of nch things? Oh, ye ! It ,ms ~lis • Wort. and hi tory.

Dazzled juniors of a poetic turn of mind declared that the mas of senior;:; resembled the peaks of a mo mtain ra11ge, tinged with pink and lawnder by dawn, ,vith pink and laxender pennants like clond , drifting among them. Other junior , more mm1clane, thought of the fine irony worthy of Socrates, ,vhich "·a hown by the eniws' method of adwrti i1w their uperior intelligence by wearing hmce caps

The senior;:; them elve , however, oblivions to the opinion of their fellow men, watched the stage, where flames of pink and lavender tos ' eel and whirled fantastically 0Yer the footlights. °'Yho would recognize our solem1i Harry Olds in the super-natural goblin with w,md outstretched over his mate · below as though he were about to begin an incantation? The music of the senior song aro se, the sea of sound dim.bing to the triumphant S-E-N-I-O-R-S.

W' endell Berge pre i led. His dignity and the sonorou ne s of his utterance made :Mr. Lefler~ Miss Pound, ~fr. Culler, l\.fr. Ferguson, and other potentate in the habit of addres ing n. , seem to our recollection timid and un chooled.

The fir t number on the program ,ms a selection from. Floroclora by the enior double quartet, which naturall~ r <lrew loud applau. e, and received three encores.

The play, Hya cinth Ilalvey, by L:uly Gregory, was then presented. Po· ibly the eniors' consciousne s 0£ their own unshakable reputation led them to choo e this sto ry 0£ the good boy who o earnestly endeavors to ruin his reputation, succeeding only in exalting him elf in the eyes 0£ his new and ardent admirers. ome have goodne. s thrust upon them, and in the end, Hya cinth succumbs . although ungraciow;l:v, to hi lot. The ca ~t ,rn as follows:

Hyacinth Halvey . .. ... ..

Mrs. Delane

Mr. Quirke ...................................

Fardy Farrell

The Sergeant. ......... .. .......

Miss .Toyce

Arthur Francis

Kathleen Ra ugh

William Bertwell

William Holmes

Irl Kuns

Mary Creekpaum

All good thing must end and the a _ embly wa oon OYer. Pink and i' a vend er condescended to walk with mJre plebeian co lor s Fancy the surpri e when the underclas men were thu enabled to id en ify the e dwellers upon Olympus! Of eour e, from the beginning of the year, "\Yendell B rge had borne the hall-mark of his eniority in hi · stately bearing, "\Y alter Dobbin s in his paternal air of tolerance toward the chool at large, Cecil Rhode s in hi bla::;e attitude toward lif e, and Helen To:nson in her pectacled look of erudition. But a ro y blu::-:h snffu ed the face of a guilele fr as hman, who had inquirecl tomorrow Odyss ey les s on of Milton Buechner. And how could anyone haYe gues ed that Claris a Bucklin wa a s1.n ior? lfany are the le_;.: so n • learne l on rnior color claY.

The climax of the day for the enior . ,ms reached at the banquet in the evening. The cafeteria wa. decorated in pink and la vend er, and a pink anJ. hYender flo"·er of organdie wa at each plate.

"\Yendell Berge was toastma ter. The first toast, '' An O Id Fa ·hionecl Garden," wa: responded to by Harr y Caron. Mi s Pound surrounded the o·arden bv "The Fence." Colomb e Ob erlies and Dean Lowrv made it bloom gayly "·ith ' ·Pink '' and " ,Ye et LaYen,l er:' ~Iargery Linch ~npplied ··,Yeed , ' and Mr. L efl ?r provid ed 'The Gat e.'' The double quartet repeated it nccesfn 1 performance of the morning . \. fcer the hanqnet the se nior clan c~cl l ntil ·midnight.

•• ·"\Yhere are you going, my pretty maid r ·, "·rm going to high school, ir,' sh e . aid."

,Yher ~ else could s he have been go;ng. for it was semor open night, ancl e ,·eryone came. At eight o'clock enthu.~i 1 tic lnnd of s tudents b eg an to arriv e . Boy s with ,wll oiled pompadours u ed the halls for a ·kating rink, and girl . promenaded clecorou.-ly up and down arm in arm. "\111en lyde DaYi ' orche tra began to syncopate, there wa a rush for the door.:; of the gymnasium. " here music for dan ino- -wa furni hed until perilously near midnight. Punch ,ns furnished at a table in the hall in front of the cafeteria. At the end of the eYening only an a c~ iYe wimmer might hope to reach the table and the bowl. An alluring waste basket on the econd floor sened as a sea t for exhausted dancer .

~lis . McMahon and Mis Price, .·enior '})Onsor • . Mr . Lesh, and Mr. and :i\Ir::i. ,Yilliam Ghaperoned the party. It ,ms a great s u ccess financially and otherwise, mo tly otherwise, a anyone who attended coul l tell you.

The eniqr pie feed proved conclu irn'y that the cla s of '20 has no monopoly on the attribute of originality. The d 1ss of '21, treading gingerly in the foot -· steps of it illu strious predece sors, 111 determined, like them, to leaYe its imprint upon the school.

It has been decided by the afore::1icl clas , that this imprint can be t be made by the heraldic device of a pie co:.ichant and a ·enior rampant. Po ibly •in the light of ensuing events it will be found that the position of the prin- cipal might appropriately be rever ed, bowing the se nior couchant and the pie rampant.

The fifty attending couple , ho-wey nr, naturally lo t sight of pos ible ub-79-

eqnent ewnt: in the enjoymen entirely of hio-h chool tudent

of the moment. An orche 'tra compo ed furni:--hed mu ic for dancino- m the boys gymna nun

It i " e.-pected that the enior pie fo ..., d "·ill become an annual o ca 1011.

:Junior Op~n )?i~~t

Tramp, tramp, tramp! , Yay for the Grand larch! 1 p and down th' length of the o·ymna ium marche a motley crowd. Red ,vhite and blue cap:3 hano· precariou ly oYer th right ear · of the boys, and are perched dizzily, primly or jauntily, on the h ad of the girls. The confu ion and tumult is heightene l by the ra ping note of red and blue balloon quawker . Glady idle , and Robert tephen lead the mirch around, around, and around again.

The decoration committee deci led that junior open night wa worthy of their be -t effort · . The ruddy glow of the light, dimmed by red crepe paper, contra -tecl with the fe toon of black and white which formed a huge "22 ~' on the gymna ium wall . A laro-e J a pane e parasol "·ith eio·ht or ten maller one a ' pen lant from it, hung over the orche tra

The mm ual mu ical number Orfrntal of Cae ar Oui, played by Koby irin ky, and Pr elude in C ~ha1' p llf ino1' by Rachmaninoff, played by Iris Ludden, w re enthu ia tically applauded.

~.,. ear the 1niddle of the vening came the prize dance, which wa won by Panline Tait and Robert Farquhar . The prizes were a little celluloid boat and a cellnloid kewpie

Bernard Gradwohl' five-piece dan<>e orchestra wa exhau ted by 11 :30, ancl though all the persua ive power of the dancer were u ed, the party had to end.

The pon ors and chaperones were Mr. and Mrs. Culler, Mi lark, Mi s Jone , and fi Applegate. There were about fifty couple pre ent .

Everv Fridav afternoon abou 3 :10 there i a ru h to the gymna iums . You would a k the rea on. Then li ' ten and learn: "Aren't OU going to tay for the matin e party ' Oh I wouldn't mi a matinee party for a how/ "Remember, I ham the fir t dance." The crowd lowly jo tle into the gymna ·i um, laughter and the buzz of talk ri ino- from the rank Ticket taker at the door hold up braYely even the mo t dignified and irrc• proachable enior until with glowering look each urrender the talisman, pa , teboard ticket for which he ha paid five c nt ca h.

Among the elegant coiffure of the enior , the huo-e red bow of the £re. hmen bob gayly. But certain would-be ophi ticated little fre hmen have tretched their l ately bobbed hair until it ha ubmitted to a marcel wave that would do credit to a wither d hubitue of beauty parlor

French and work-a-day heel alike trip or huffie over the cement floors and tumble down the teps. ristocratic georgette and crepe de chine rub again t gingham and the indi pensable erge the red weaters of the football boy lending a gay note to the color cheme .

A quawk and a bang, and the mu ic begin for the fir t dance. Before the quawk ha turned to a queak the floor i crowded and couple are gayly bumping into each other and the wall. One dance follow another, and all too 0011 it i five o clock. The mu ic top the party break up, and the student di per e, making plan for the next Friday afternoon. -80-

EDlTORll!L

The staff credits to many peroons other than those included in its personn~l mnch of the snccess of this years Linfa. As in former years, a large portion of the credit belongs to the art department. The students have worked during class, after school, and at home on the designs for the numerous zinc etchings and other artistic matter included in the book. Miss ·Wilson and Mis Dana of the art department have giYen freely of their class time and made the <'onstruction of i11ustrations for the Links a part of the regular clas. work. Many schools with less student talent and with less progressive art departments are forced to hire commercial artists for their annuals. The only designs in the book not made by Lincoln high school students are the illustrations in the alumni section by Dwight Kfrsch and Oswald Black, and the heading for the literary department made by Dorothy Farmer,-and these persons are all graduates of the institution. The complete list of contributor~ to the art work, in addition to the art editor, includes Dwight Kirsch, Oswald Black, Dorothy Farmer, Harry Olds, ,.Tay Kou pal, Paul Jacobs, Marguerite Nelson, Jeannette Mirick, Harold Gish, Clarissa Bucklin, Theodore Ka den, "'\Valter Dobbins. Dagmar Sommer and vVeldon Melick.

tT ay Kou pal won the cover design contest. A second place was awarded to Paul J acoh;; for the excellence and variety of the designs submitted by him. Thirty-four tentative covers for the annual were submitted by the students of the art department, in all. A long process 0£ elimination was necessary in order to pick the best piece of work. Finally, howeYer, after nearly a week of waiting, Jay Kou pal was named the winner, ,-rith a prize identical ":'ith that given to the winner of the subscription contest.

The staff is also greatly indebted to students for much of the unsigned reading matter which appears in the Linlcs. The list of students contributing to the Links follows: Hope Barkley, Howard Hebbard, Clarence Drummond, I Yory Tyler, .Julius Ludlam, Archie Arenson, I srael Rosenberg, Harry Olds.

Other persons have aided the taff in many different ways toward the end of the work. Among them are Ebba orri. and Katherine Dillon, who have helped with the typewriting.

The H)21 Links staff followed established custom by in tituting a subscription contest in order to sell the book. One new i lea was made use of, however. J\fr. Kane's third period salesmanship class was appointed, in addition to the regular staff of the annual, to try its hand at selling. In the contest be.tween the two gronps a free copy of the Links wa offered as prize to the individual winner of the whole squad of se ller If the number of subscriptions secured by the winner exceeded 200 he was to receive a cloth-bound volume, if it exceeded 300, a leather-bound volume,-otherwise he was to receive the usual prize-a paper-bound copy. The salesmanship class won the contest with 927 subscription to the 618 of the staff . The indiYidual victor was George Underwood of the salesmanship class. His record "-as 122. With forty-four sellers in the field the task was made much more difficult than in previous years, and as a natural consequence the winning number was comparatively low. The percentage of students who subscribed was higher than ever before. -81-

As we streamed down the corridors tmrnrd assembly , on December 17, we were emphatically living in the year 1921_ our minds crowded with jumbled, happy plans for the fast approaching holidays. Suddenly, a we entered the auditorium doors, our fragmentary, ~xcited thoughts faded away like mist. ,ve had a strange sense of being no longer in the twentieth century, but in fl far, olemn region of the past, when Christmas was a time of absorption in ,-i high mystery.

Slowlv we became conscious that it was the voice of the orchestra which was lifting us to a vision of the first Christmas, when the heavens were opened, and the angels were singing from uncontrollable joy over the new wonder on earth. Adeste Fideles, the violins were playing, , their golden notes trembling, ,Yhile under them sounded the grave, untroubled note of the 'cellos. Venite Adoremus, the irresistible invitation sounded; Yenite Adoremus, in ever crescendic repetition, until it seemed that the strained, too-happy feeling in our throats must find relief in some way. At a signal, we surged up from our sea ts, and with full voices joined th3 orchestra in the cry, "0 Come All Ye Faithful."

As the vibrant echo of the music died away, we realized for the first time how much of our mood was the result of the transformed appe~rance of thing.3. In the darkened hall the rows of white-clad tudents which filled the stage might have been surpliced choir boys, and before them, as if on the altar of a great cathedral, thirty-three tall white candles were burning, one for every year in the life of Christ.

In the first song we had felt only exaltation, but when a single violin began the prelude of the next song, the fragile melody expressed simple tenderness. 0 Little Town of Bethlehem, sang Sylvia Cole, and we remembered that on the day when heaven and earth sang together, the cause of their joy was a newborn child, ,vho was to become a man of sorro"s and acquainted with grief.

The First Noel, and We Three Kings, two old, old carols, without which our Chrisbnas assemblies would lo se half their charm, were sung by the chorus. The three wi e men, the shepherds and the Christmas . star were kept before us throughout the next numbers, The Star of the Orient, sung by Bernice Bays, Brightest and Best, ung by the senior double quartet, and Oantique de Noel, beautifully interpreted by Mr. Compton with the glee clubs joining in the choruses .

Finally the quiet, brooding melody of another old Christmas hymn arose from the orchestra, and we sang soft ly , as if we aw the white midnight ·ky and feared to ,rnke the slumbering Child:

Holy night! Silent night! All is till; all is bright;

While the virgin mother and Child, Holy Infant, so tender and mild, Sleep in heavenly peace, ~leep in heavenly peace.

" 'Va sn't that the be t assembly ever?" an a,,e- truck freshman wa heard to murmur, as he shifted even large bo)ks to the other arm, and turned toward hi Latin class.

" I believe I could have stood a little more of that," drawled a senior, enthusiasm hining plainly through his blase ,eneer. - 83-

This admiration i easilY understood when we reveal the fact th!lt the occasion was the Orpheons annual mu ical assembly. It is gfren entirely by high school talent, and is always a source of keenest pleasure to those who hear the program.

The boys glee club put the audience in a good hnmor when they sang Liza Lady, a quaint darky melody by Carl Linders, followed by Lassie 0' ilfine, by Ed "Talt. Then the girls sang seYeral beautiful Indian song~ written by Mr. Lieurance. A ,iolin solo by Ruth Smith, a piano solo by Ruth Tanner and a whistling solo by Marie Cronley were encored again and again. Sam Seeley concluded the program with a cornet solo, Poet and Peasant 0 vm·ture, which, in the old vernacular, ·"brought down the house."

Having been received with such fa,or once, the Orpheons were encouraged to present another assembly. On March 30, Mr. Ferguson surprised the school with a finished prograµi by Mr. Beutel, a pianist who is at the head of the ·wesleyan Conservatory of Music. Mr. Beutel played Nocturne in B illajor, a beautiful tone picture of evening written by a Polish composer, and one of his own compositions, a minuet, which the students liked especially well.

Yet another surprise wa in store, and now a quartet, of which M:r. Ferguson was a member, and which had made a chautauqua circuit during the summer, sang several numbers. The memb"ers of the quartet are Mrs. Tullis, soprano; Mr . Wissler, alto; l\f!r. Compton, tenor; and Mr. Ferguson, bass.

It is a sight worth seeing when one's school-mate of the year before returns to Lincoln high to sing or play. He marches proudly to the exact center of the stage, clears his throat loudly, adjusts his collar with a sideward twist of his head, draws a long breath and begins. Aren't we proud of him then! Awe-inspired "oh's" and "ah's" from much impressed freshmen and sophomores, smiles of approval and the triumphant "I told you so" from juniors and seniors greet him. Such vvas the situation at the alumni assembly given February 22. Various notable representatives of the alumni, from Miss Dorothy Raymond of the class of 1910 to Joe Zimmerman, representing the class of 1920, appeared before the students.

It was a great treat when Mr. Charles E. Lutton entertained the school in assembly. He sang Scotch, Irish, English and negro folk songs to the great delight of everyone. After hi group of Scotch songs the students applauded so long and loud that it was necessary for Mr. Ferguson to explain that Mr. Lutton had not left the stage to stay, and therefore did not need to be encored, but that he did need to stop for a little breath.

Last, but not least, of the musical assemblies, was a unique and very charming one, in which the senior double quartet, artistically grouped about a piano in a drawing room, sang several numbers and then, in an informal way, brought up the subject of the Althou e concert, for which the assembly was given. The singers were required to repeat their final number, the Florodora sextette, four times, before the girls, in their quaint little oldfashioned poke bonnets, were allowed to be escorted to their home by the boys, who were resplendent in new straw hats.

Arml.stlc~ ~al' (t~t~bratlon

To pay tribute to those who died that such a day might be po sible, and to ?elebrate the victory of humanit~T: students of Lincoln high school came together m assembly X ovember 11, 1918. For _ the same reason we held an assembly November 11, 1920. Although both meetings were for the ame purpose, the spirit of the two was very different. _

On the day the armistice wa signed we came to school wild with enthusi-84-

asm. It wa a time of thank giving and joy, and Lincoln high chool tudentg showed their joy in their own particular way, b, making all the noi e po sible. 'When we ang the tar pang led Banner a thrill of exultation and delight wept over u , exultation in being a part of our victorious country and of a world at peace. Although we thought of those who had died in erving their country, we were not ad for we . were as. ured that no more :hould die in that ervice. "\Ye laughed and ang with tears in our eye , and chattered uncea ingly, not knowing what we aid. And o the first armistice clay passed, with chee ring, shouting, inging.

Last autumn we again celebrated armistice day. And this time we came to as embly feeling very differently. ·where we had been be icle our elve with <lelio·ht, our feeling wa • now quieter and deeper, for two year had pas ed. The thrill of inging the tar pang led B anne1' wa as great, and it will alway be the same, for we are proud to belong to a nation that ha fought for its principles a ha ours, that ha giYen its best cheerfully and has won the fight. It was in this spirit that we attended a. semb l y on November 11, 1920.

Mr. Chappell, commander of the Lincoln post of the American Legion, spoke on ''The Lesson "\V ervice Men Learn .• , Of these le on the first was obedience, then ervice, truth and loyalty. He related everal 0£ his experience in the service. He told of the excitement, the joy and the nois~ in the training camp when the armi tice "·a signed ''If it i noble and holy to die for your country, it is equally noble and and holy to live for your country." This wa the keynote of Dr. Stein's speech, in which he pointed out the indebtedne . • of the public school children to the city for their education . "The greate t achievement of the war was the prohibition of the liquor traffic. "\Vh en I say that, I mean, of course, in this country. More American were saved in the first year of prohibition in this country than were killed in the war, and more money wa. saved this year than we spent in the war," he stated

The boy glee club sang The Trail to Home ;. weet Hom e, Rose of i\To Jlrm's Land, and and Dnne Mr. Compton sang the solo part of Th e Rose of .Vo Jll em's Land.

• Two ciYil war veteran were gue;t. of the . choo l , and were eated on the tage during as ~embly.

The lecturers who have appeared on our a sembly programs thi year, have had the -rare merit of combining a thorough gra p of their subject with a gift for talking about it without burdenino· their hearer with a ma of technicalitie and dry abstractions.

Thi · remark applie • particularly to Dr. Pfeiffer, profes or of hi. tory in the 1 r:.versity of Xebraska, who . poke early in the fall. Her le ture dealt with the present political situation in Europe. a subject complicated enough, certainly, to excnse any amount of involved and incomprehensible rambling. Dr. Pfeiffer's lecture, however, was as ea y to foll°'v as an engrossing story, for she de cribed her travel through Europe la t ummer, and told of the sufferings and perplexitie of the French and German people , not a if the nations were imper onal units, but a made up of individual whom . he had met and nffered " ith onlv a few month ao-o.

In an as emhly held to celebrate the three-lrnndredth anniver ary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Mr. H. H. "\Vil son, Lincoln attorney, spoke on the subject, ''The Influence of the Pilgrims on world Demo cracy ' Although they are not the only influence which contributed to what America . is and means today, till Mr. "\Vil on think that the Pilgrim. are the most di.-tinct, power-85-

:ful and easily traced influence. They were the first to base their goyernment on the theory that every man i a sovereign, and after them, ahnost the entire world has come to believe that thi. is the correct principle of government. "America .," he said, "has waged a conquest, not by war, but by virtue uf an example."

Lincoln high school wa very proud to welcome Mis Jeanette Rankin , former congresswoman from Montana, on February 9. Ten years ago Miss Rankin began a work for the betterment of women and children. Her talk dealt largely with political issues affecting them. A great deal has been accomplished in this field in the last few years, she explained, but nmch remains to be done. "Though women have gained the vote, they are still a long way from attaining equal political recognition," Mi s Rankin declared, "but so soon as they attain this recognition women and children will be enabled to live in health and economic equality."

Dr. Walter Aitken, pastor of the St. Paul Methodist church of Lincoln, in an assembly held February 11, talked on the inspiration to be derived from a studv of the life of Abraham Lincoln. It is not onlv in America that Lincoh; is regarded as one of the world's greatest figures, Dr. Aitken declared. He told very · vividly of the pla.ce which Lincoln holds in the hearts of the Scotch people. • .

Mr. M. M. Fogg, profe sor of journalism in the University of Nebrasb, gave an illustrated lecture, April 22, on The Battle Fields of France. "The world went crazy !" was his opening sentence, and the many photographs thrown on the screen adequately illustrated it. Mr. Fogg was in France during the war and wa able to obtain photographs of unusual interest in General Pershing's quarters and along the battle line. One of the photographs was taken in the heat of battle by a man who was kilh,d a few minutes later. Many views were shown of Argonne Forest, Chateau Thierry, and Belleau '\Yood, where boys from Lincoln high school fought. The last picture showed the cemetery in France where thousands of American men lie, some of them from Nebraska. Never has Hie calamity of the war be-:m brought home more viYidly to Lincoln high school students than by this lecture.

·while the band played the traditional overture for football assemblies, the students streaming into the auditorium on December 4, burst out with snatches from the many stanzas of "Lincoln ·wm Shine," and otherwi e loosened up their throats for the vocal contest which they felt sure was coming Then, as the football boys filed to their seats on the , tage, boys and girls alike joined all at once and all together in a window-shaking yell for the team. In the calm that followed, Miss Pound introduced Bloyce Packer, who presided. everal of the more modest members of the first and second teams reviewed the seasons games. They all enjoyed looking into our bright and shining faces, and they were afraid they didn't know how to make speeches, since this was the first time they had appeared.

Two boys rushed from the wings when Coach Mead stood up, and the air was dense with yells. W. ·w. Curfman spoke next, emphasizing the fact that while the team had not '\"Von the championship, it was of championship calibre. The second team had an enthusiastic admirer in H. ·w. Browne, who spent several minutes in recounting their exploits.

Bloyce Packer presented a large "L" blanket to Harry Dinsmore in behalf of the two team . This i the first evidence Mr. Dinsmore has received of the chool' appreciation, although he has freely helped the boys in their training for seYeral year Mr. Hay es, who ha charge of the financial

affairs of the athletic department, tated that the season wa a greater uccess financially than in preYiou year At the clo e of the program, Mi Pound presented the "L" to the members of the team

Z5umbling "G~am

"'Vhen the curtain aro e at as embly on February 16, the eye of the student £ell upon £our boy balanced upside down ·on the bars, forming a pyramid . "'Vhen the boys had returned to a right side up position, they were recognizable as Cecil Rhode , Harry Old Elton George, and Don Coon , although they wore like blinder , tort.oi e hell glas e . Throughout the program the game seemed to be "follow the leader.'' ~- uddenly all the team £aile,1 to do their stunt; no one eemed to understand what the trouble wa , until one member of the team discovered that his glasse were dirty. He pulled off hi. spectacles and carefully pulled a towel through . the holes where the lenses should have been, and from then on· the athletic machine ran as smoothly a a new Ford. The parallel bar act ended in a great finale, with all the boys on the bars a.t once.

The other half of the circus wa given oYer to the tumbling team. They dived, rolled and turned somersaults until the ,vhole audience was dizzy. During this exhibition there wa a little excitement when one of the boys, attempting a difficult flip, lit wrong side up, hurting his neck, but he was able to be in school the next day. The members of the tumbling team were Marvin el on, Robert Powell, Henry Clark . Gerald "'Valker, Korman Anderson, Robert Davis, James Magee, George Phillip and Thomas Daugherty.

The se teams are new in Lincoln high school, being organized this year by Mr. Browne , teacher of the boys gymna s ium clas es

<!,irls <!,rmna.s i um A.s.s~mblr

The girl · gymna sium cla s e , determined to demon trate that the boy do not s urpa them in agility, gave an exhibition in a embly on March 29.

Here the tndents di covered that Nebraska girl · are supple enough to diport them elve after the fa hion of any country under the un. wedish, Iri. h, English, and Hungarian dance. were performed with equal e.a e.

In a solo dance Ruth North showed the coy coquetti hnes of a Japanes e damsel, whose dainty mincing tep contrasted oddly with the free tride and swing exhibited in the we tern dance .~. In another solo dance named "The Letter," Glady · Ramsdell united the lithe grace of a modern girl with the , tormy emotionali sm of a Victorian l:tcly, capable of going into tantrum of joy, grief, rage, and regret all in the course of r ading one love letter.

The Indian club drill which followed terrified beyond mea ure the enior boys in the front row. It eemed too much to a k that none of the dizzil • tw1rling pin s should whirl out of it owner' · hands and decapitate an innocent bv-sitter in the audience. No uch untoward event occurred, however, and the Indian club , in perfect uni . on, continirnd to inscribe hieroglyphic in the air till the legend, whatever it was, wa c0mplete.

The appearance of three ' French lnbies" "·ho danced the last number wa gr eeted by a chorus of "Oh aren't they adorable?", "Did you ever ee anything so sweet 1", and other remark equally feminine in nature. The boy , £or the mo t part, looked their admiration instead of rnicing it. The three tiniest fre hmen in chool, dre ed in the daintie s t of pale organdy frocks, entered, b a ring enormou band boxe , . In the cour e of their dance the boxe were opened, entrancing milinery creations were set on the dancers' heads, and in the end both hat and babie were ;-;wallmYed up. bodily, by the capaciou s band boxes.

D.Lf--rmer,

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t',~~ )\obin's .Spring .Song

Red-breasted robin: retnrned from the seeking of pleasure, Back to the north where the chill of the winter t-;till tinges the warm.th of the breezes;

Back to the trees that are shaking out pennants to please him; Comes once again the robin, the trailer of springtime,_ The robin who sings in the chill of the morning and evening A-swing on the topmost bough of the elm tree; Singing rnelodie echoing down through the ages, Singing of springtime and lovers and ma ting; Songs that outlive the songsters who sing them, ~ongs that are new with each springtime that brings them, Yet old as the spring is, old as the age , A old and as beantiful.

-CLARISSA BucKLIN, '21.

"JF'ragrant m~morl~s

FlmYer. for me, furnish mo t vivid memorie The mell of the oldfashioned tock, or gilli-fiower, invariably sends my thoughts racing back to the time when I lived in the warm sunny outhland. In our garden, pale pink tock formed a entinel guard along the path leading to our house. A in a dream I see flowers, like diminutive rose clustered on a stalk, nodding .a "elcome to me when I threw open the brown teakwood gate, and felt the crunching of the gravel through my thin shoes. The feeling of the warm, vweet-laden air again t my cheeks rushes np to me from the scent of the stock. I shall always love that flower for the memories it evokes ea-shells have a fascination for me. I love to put them to my ear and hear the strange murmur which the shell seem to cause. A huge fan . hell, found on a coral beach of an jsland in the Pacific, still ha a salty, tarry mell which instantly recalls to me the many day I have spent by the waves. In those days I loved to run along the andy hore, following the undulating imprint of each wave on the beach. Sometimes I would hunt for trea. ure. in the rocks, and would discover salt lying in the crevices. At low

tide I would peer oYer the j uttino- edge of the rock, and ·ee the ea anenomes, pink yellow green, red, blue, looking like a marine flower hop. At high tide. when the wind wa trong, the wave would reach enormou height , and would hurl them elves with malignant trength at the and ca tle and fort whicl1 I had o pain takingly built. And all the e re--olle tions oyerwhelm me at the mere whiff of a hell

There i a certain odor in book tores ". hich favor remini cence . A Yi itor u ually receive a quickening sen e of intellectual adventure from the mell of the new book , and the plea:-:;ing cent of real leather binding . When I wa a little girl, my mother u ed to take me to a queer little book tore in an c:mt-of-the-way reet. The owner of the place wa an educatecl man who loved h1 book , but who, unfortunately or fortunately, had no money- making en e. ""\Vhile my mother talked to him, I would lip away and read the title of the books. ometime I grew bold enough to neak a book out of it.• helf and read it. In thi erial fashion, I read and fini hed The Ambian Nights, Gulliver's Travels, The Vi car of Wakefield and a wild book called The Devils Dice, which fa cinated me inten ely and which I am ure had an evil effect on my intellect.

\ ery rarely, the aroma of a c rtain brand of tea, can e me to forget time, place, and conver ation, and tak e: my thoughts back to the time when I u ed to ip very affectedly, cambric tea, with a few drops of the real brown liquid.

""\1 e had a white circular ummer hou e. weet peas rambler ro e and weet aly um formed a little hedge around it, while Dorothy Perkin climbed in and out of the roof. I can hear even yet the chink of the ilver and china. Tho e face which I shall probably never ee again and the inflection of the different voices are as vivid to me a if I were once more among them. Over the top of the mimo a and pepper tree , I can glimp e the blue ea, here and there flecked with white. I remember my wishing at that time that I could live forever in the , ummer hou e, with the tea and cake alway ready, and the ound and ight of the ea ever before m . The whole overpowering delight of living and of outdoors which I felt o trongly at that time return to me again in th e year of 1921 a I ip my tea.

Memorie ! I love min -funny ad, happy, ludicrou . I do not have to cultivate the poppy to ee my vi ion

Instead,

·I ju t have to hut my eye

To go ailing through the kie "

All in a ~ar.s 'J'ourn~r

A dry and burning wind had been blowino- all da , exhau tino- it corching breath on the parched o-round, and withering every flower or weed that chanced aero it path. ·with the evening it abat d omewhat, b coming le furiou . and· contenting itself with occasional gu ts, a if giving vent to momentary outbur t of wrath. uddenly it cea ed completely pent, and an ea terly breeze took it place, gently blowing from the foothills and bearing on it coolino- breath a faint tinge of moi ture. It effect wa reviving, and with ome degree of pl asure we were again able to look upon the hill before u , always before u , eeming to move farther and farth r away like ome unreal vi ion or a mirage of the de ert.

Nevertheless, as we sped nearer, their hug bulks became dimly outlined, appearino- a dark cloud again t a clear ky. Th ir magnitude awed u and gave u the impres ion of a gathering torm, although the k:y above wa of a remarkably bright blue. The heat of the day had not yet di appeared when tired and trav lworn we turned from the main highway up a mall

by-road, eYidently eldom used and o thickly ...,haded with tree a to girn it a restful air of complete solitude. Follo"·ing its winding course "-e came in ight of the most delightful little dwelling I had ever seen. It wa humble enough in appearance, yet possessed a rn tic charm ,vhich fascinated me at first ight. Virginia creepers had twined them elYe about the doorway, ending in a profu ion o-f foliage about the low, wide windows. Beneath them, on the sills, tood row upon row of small geranium plant ta tefully disposed, and of almo t every hade, lending to the rather drab woodwork a brightne which it did not posses Behind them fluttered cri p curtain , as though . beckoning the weary traveler to enter and partake of a humble ho pitality.

The temptation to go in, or rather the appeal of this strange little house, ituated like an oa is in the heart of desert, was irre istible, and clambering out of the machine we unlocked the wicket gate, to find ourselves on a mall footpath which curved its way in and out among the flower bed Arriving at the door we he itated to knock, all wa o quiet and peaceful within. But pre ently a woman appeared, pleasant of face and smiling, wearing a blue apron from under which I observed two bright eyes peeping out timorou ly, as if the owner were too afraid eitlu~r of u or of the automobile, to venture from it protecting folds. ,ve made our wants known and the woman bade u be eated on the green benches which stood beneath two large trees. In an incredibly short time she reappeared, bearing on a huge tray seYeral glasse of cold milk and a plateful of golden cakes. She had the air of being well acquainted with thi impromptu manner of serving, and eemed rather to enjoy it, bustling about in a great flnrry and appearing bu ier than he reallv was.

After we had thu quenched our thir t and satisfied our hunger, my father ~o and offered to pay for the repa~t. T~e womai:i refnsed, but up~m tl~e 1tant of the apron folds a shining twenty-fl.ye cent piece which cau eel his eye to widen a if carcely daring to beli~Ye them. evertheles he clutched it m a grimy fist and miled his thanks.

Th sun wa now so low that we w ,'re obliged to start out immediately, as night-driving along Colorado canon is a difficult a well as a mo t perilous task. The engine whirred, the wheel threw up a cloud of dust, and we were whi keel away in a whirlwind, carrying w·ith n • one of the most delightfnl impression w·e had had for many a day.

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-C.-\THERI TE LA~L-\ TER, '21.

The morning wa uch a one a • j common along the northern coa t of thi. country. A heavy mi t wa hangino· low over the water.

It was about eight o clock when one of Germany's big "men of war" began to morn out of Bo ton harbor, and around the hook into the bay. Its flag were not flying and it deck were not adorned with cheering sailor , but now and then one could ee a olitary "gob" rn h aero the deck o-f the big battle crui er

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Her crew ·wa gone; they were in a prison camp, in thi country, and their pride was teaming out to ea to be torn to piece by the gun of two de_ troy~r , the U. . Perry and 1 1. . ._ Delphy • by night he would be re trng rn the "locker of Davey Jone ."

The boat reached their destination and dropped anchor in the naval testing o-rounds. The crui er teamed on, followed by th jib from the Delphy. he dropped anchor about five thou and yard off, and her mall crew o-f .Am , · • ' t th D 1 • • ,rn 1 of the 'ib . ._.__________

The radio room of the Perry "·a ker warm for about half an hour -91-

rece1nng orders from the · acting fl.ag5hip, Delphy. Each gunner was w1pmg off his weapon of destruction and bragging about what his first shot was going to do.

Orders came from the flagship for the Perry to move astern and one point to port and stand by for further orders. The seamen stripped to the waist and were all busy either wiping off shells or hoisting them into the turrets. After everything was in readiness the order came to begin firing. The Perry was to shoot astern of the first funnel. Perry's aft guns fired but missed. They were followed by the fore guns ". hich made 'a hit, but not a direct one. The shot that followed sent board , funnel and all projecting objects high into the ajr. A direct hit was made and the cruiser's boiler exploded, tearing the hip in two. The hulk began to fill rapidly and its nose dipped slightly, as it ank. •

-BLOYCE PACKER, '21.

I love to see thy graceful form Spreading widely around, Balancing on one strong trunk. Idly you stand there alone, Lulled by the gentle spring breeze, Proud of your individuality, Your millioIL eyes all turned upward, Admiring the deep blue sky, Or counting the multitude of twinkling stars what calls vou there? y OU are ahvays growing. Slowly but surely you are reaching Your destination-Heaven.

0 grave one, solemn one ! You heed us not; You mock at our foolishness. The longer I look at you, the graver I get. ,Vith_ your gentle moYement, You tell me to be wiser. You inspire me, 0 powerful one ! You shake my heart, 0 ilent one ! Your gravity I fear; I dare not pluck even a leaf from your welcoming arm.

-BERNERD T.UL\.HARA.

1Yhen the time comes £or me to a Yail myself of the pri Yilege of woman suffrage which has finally reached thi far western tate, I shall see to it that one of the first bill passed i to aboli h parties £or children under twelve.

However, my mall si ters, regardle s of my age and dignity, differ so vehemently from this point of view that, there being two of them and only one of me, they prevailed upon my parents to take sides with them, anrl plan for a childrens Hallowe'en party went gaily forward. ·

Now I am seventeen and a enior in high school. N1aturally, I have no time for such things However, I was informed very forcefully on all sides that I need have nothing to do with the party-that nothing ever had been or ever would be allowed to interfere with my chool work. Up to that time I had found thi rule only too well enforced.

But, a luck would have it, the only time I really wanted this well known saying to come true, it £ailed to do so In fact it railed so completely that my teachers evidently thought that I was a victim of the prevailing epidemic. One of them asked me if I was not "carrying a temperature."

It was either £ate or my great aunt Rebecca, who died just two days before the fatal day of the party, that plunged me into difficultie Whatever the cause, the thirty-first of October found my parent many miles away, leaving me in charge of the house, with Katie, our Swedish maid, as assistant-Katie, who alway a ks scores of questions, but who never, even by accident, an wer any.

Then, to make matters worse, the twins, who stand together through thick and thin, but who disagree with everyone else as a matter of principle, decided, at the last moment, that they wanted the party in the drawing room instead of the sport room as had formerly been arranged. Katie, who is indulgent if nothing else, asked if she should not get both ready. I tried in vain to squelch her with a frown and a motion of the head toward the twin . The children had taken advantage of her suggestion, and were alre ady planning the decoration . I tried to be dignified and to rea on a mother doe But omething must be wrong with Katie's rea oning power-I am of the opinion tha it was left out of her. She simply told me that she was years older than I-a if I didn't know that-and hastily departed to her room to pack.

I let fly all my dignity and literally got down on my knees to beg her to stay-for the idea of washing dishes £or forty children was rather appalling. She. however, had suddenly developed an awful toothache. Beside , one of her grandmother had died that morning. Katie had even then b en in our hou ehold long enough for me to realize that when one of her numerous grandmothers died, she would not be een for ome time. My truggle with the hou ekeeping a re be t forgotten.

The day of the great event found me in that tate of mind when one doe not know whether he i walking on hi head or his feet, and doe n't care. In a Latin test that morning I wrote down ''apples and pumpkin head" in translating a selection from Cicero. • I am sure that he didn't mention anything of the kind.

At all our former partie , I had seen mother rushing aronnd the whole day, so that by evening, she had alway been utterly exhau ted. I determined not to make thi mistake, and to re t as much a po ible beforehand. Besides, a new book had come that afternoon, :rnd I never could have giYen the proper attention to the pa,rty without at least a glance in ide.

How it happened, I never knew, but ju t a I reached the mo t thrilling part of the book, the door bell rang. Almost in tantly the clock truck its melancholy half hour, and £or the fir t time I realized that it wa only -93-

an honr until the guests hould arrive. Imagine my surpri e when I found that one of them had already arrived, and everal other were coming up the walk. It was then that i recalled my father's old aying that no child wa. really flesh and blood unles he came to a party at lea t an hour before he wa invited.

T othing was ready for the games. I ru hed out the side door and down into the basement to get the apples re3dy for bobbing. Overhead, I could hear children's footstep and the incessant ringing of the bell. The apples all had very nearly as many germs on them when I finished washing them as when I began. One of the children came down with the mumps several day afterwards, and I have always felt rather guilty.

Up to this time, I had dreaded the noi e and confu ion which is always a part of such an occa ion. But a I went up tair , I courageou ly set my teeth and opened the door, giving a preliminary shiver.

Inside the door, my heart ank within me, and my mouth, in turn, dropped open. What was wrong? All forty children who romped together every day at chool, were sitting primly on the edges of their chairs, gazing mournfully at the victrola which was pealing forth my father's new record, Finlandia, which is about as cheerful as Chopin's funeral march. Not a whisper, not a -. sound, e caped from one of them.

I was horrified! Things never happened thus when mother was herP,. I rn hed into the midst of them, with a rather guilty feeling, like a laughing child interrupting a funeral service. My v01ce sounded decidedly frivolous a I asked them what they would like to play. A death-like ilence followed, which eemed to last hour Finally a little girl timidly raised her hand and suggested doll This seemed to nap the tension for the boys all protested loudly, at the same time setting forth their moral, physical, and spiritual objections to the innocent dolls.

Then one comedian tood on his head. , ,Vhy that should have eemed funny, I cannot imagine. I u ed to be able to do it myself l However, everyone roared with laughter. Then someone lapped someone el e on the back a brilliant act which again brought down the hou e.

By that time, it was impossible to make my uelf heard. So I simply u hered the children to the kitchen to bob for apple , thinking they would be quiet under water, at least.

·whether it wa an accident or the mi chievousne s of ome individual. I cannot ay, but in some mysterious way, the largest tub of water tipped over: The water poured out in an avalanche, and apples bobbed to the four corner of the room. Everyone stood a i :f paralyzed, watching the flood separate into little stream and wind in and out among the furniture, and onto the oriental rug in the dining room.

One very mall boy was the first to come to hi en ·e He natched the be t tablecloth from the buffet and got down on h1 knee to mop up the floor.

In the mid t of this confusion som ~one yelled, "Fire!" I forced my way to the living room. where I found that a candle in a jack o' lantern had :;et fire to a curtain with the aid of a dozen sets of feet and one glass of ,Yater, the flame wa put out withont its having done much damage.

o the evening pa ed. Many games were started, but all were interrupted before they were fairly begun. Nobody poke once in his natural voice, but shouted at the top of hi lungs and ince santly. I don't really remember just w·hat else happened. It is all to me a blurred memory of noi e and confusion . ,Yhen, exactly one hour later than the time set for leaving, one of the children's father telephoned, there wa a great clamor of protest raised.

"\Yith difficulty, I finally made them realize that their parent would worry i.f thev didn't start home immediatelv. One- of the children, who e mother never "·orries abont anything, repeated L thi at home, I learned afterward. -94-

}Iy greate t urpri e, I might eYcn ay hock of the entire eYening wa when I realized that although very tired all eemed to lrnYe had a fine time -with the exception of one small girl who was broken hearted becau e an equally mall boy had deposited his ice cream in her lap, thereby ruining her new dre. s. But, taken all in all, everyone seemed to think the party a great ucce , eYeryone but me. I think I must be growing old.

,vL TIFRED MAYHEW.

-:!Or~amlng

~-\\my to the west where the flowers bloom

By the tropic sea, by the tropic easBy the dim reefs where the breaker boom, .And the spray is brought in by the breeze-vYhere the great palms gently bow and sway In the tropic breeze, in the tropic breeze,\nd the unlight flicker all the day Through the nodding tree -

, iVhere the clouds float lazily overhead In the tropic skies, in the tropic skies,And turn to brilliant gold and red .As the sunlight dies-

vVhere the full moon lifts itself out of the eas

A dull red flame, a dull red :flame,Yhere it lights the tops of the swaying tree( It is never twiee the same)-

\\Tirnre the sand gleams gold on the moonlit beach

And the waters sparkle and gleamAnd the star seem always ju t out of reachThere' the isle of my tropical dream.

Of the parlding, bubbling, gleaming water I am merely dreaming,-

Of thi island of the tropic and the rolling, fl.a hing tideThe twinkling star above it shine down on tho e who love it, And the ripples where the golden moonbeams ride . .

From the island that is sleepino· come a ound like gentle weeping,

From the place where the treetop breeze play.

And from the sea that' blue and cold the dawn come up rn blue and gold, And brinO'S another day.

-Bon GoRDo

I long to run a ,Yay from all the world

.And be alone, and see the leave first pearled With dew<lrops, and the lengthening shadow fl~ r, And hear the ·\Yind. and in contentment sigh.

To see fir t streaks of light acros the dome

Of Heaven chase the wayward tars back home, To hear the moYement of the world when leep .. . teal oft away. to brea.th the magic deep Of wooded aisles. and climb the hills all green,To dance and sing. and feel the world serene.

L-' -E)nfA ,vEsTER)L\.x_-, '21.

I would ·build a dwelling for myself " ralled in bv consecration

A tower, high above the throng; And I would reach down And lend a hand to the strugg!ing, the weary; But I would keep my upper "\.mdows open, And catch the wandering strains of music, Unheard upon th e clamorous s treets below; And watch forever at the windows, • Until the clouds rolled back And showed the 'un.

But now the clouds are thick and dark, Anc1 the wjncls bJow sharp and chill, And they shake the walls I have built; \_ friend now turned a foe, A dream long cherished , but to prove in vain ,The very faith I held to, mocked, reviled, di s pron~d ; But I retire within the dwelling I have built, To mu se beside the fire; To think on things that have been, To dream of things that may be , Forgetting things that are.

HErnx L. R U l\DIOX S ' 23.

Spring at t~g~ of t5own

The smell of fre sh plowed earth Come floating over dusty wind- s wept field s , While fluttering , hopping robin s follow close To eize the upturned worm with chirp of glee.

ome tree s show tiny bud and others dainty bits of spray, The smoke of burning leaves , prevailing from the dawn, Put s an odor bitter sweet into the air.

The ne"· gra s again t the old, acro ss the way Show • up a pale and lightly dirty green And cloud s play tag and float maje tically. The , un , ink s in a purple haze at end of day.

-ROBERT STEVENS '22.

His acquaintance with new methods, hi original idea a to coaching, and the many improvement he ha inaugurated in the gymna ium systems have given Mr. Telfer L. Mead, head coach of Lincoln high chool, his prestige in the athletic world. His abilities and ab olute impartiality as well as his compelling personality have o-iven him great influence with the stud nts. Proof of thi is the fact that he is serving his second year successfully coaching. Lincoln' a thletes.

His football team have been almost unbeatable, recording only one real defeat in two years. Although no championship wa awarded in 1919 because the game with Beatrice wa a tie, that years team was generally regarded as the best high school football team in the tate.

The 1920 eleven was developed from untried men, most of whom had never before _ played regular football, but they came very clo e to defeating Beatrice, in reality the second be t quad in the state.

In ha ketball al o he ha produced grea.t athlete The 1920 group took the championship of Jebra ka with an unblemished record and then undertook a trip to Colorado, where they played a erie with the Colora do pring "Terror " and emerged the victors of Nebraska and Colorado. The 1921 group met the same di advantages in tarting the eason that the football men just preceding had encountered. The only man back was a last years uh titute, but in spite of thi , Lincoln lasted to the emi-final in the tournament and had the satisfactjon of having defeated both contenders in the final

Mr. Mead was graduated from Indiana Univer ity in 1913, havin,q: been in hi senior year a member of the football crew at the halfback po ition. He coached at a number of school in Illinois and Indiana until war was declared. Then he immediately enli ted in the naval aviation department as an in tructor in aerial gunnery. From the ervice he came directly to Lincoln. -97-

Assistant <Coac~ ~rown ~

,vhen "William H Browne took over the rein as as istant director of phys i cal education, ear l y in the fall of this school year, L incoln high school acquired a. man well ver ed in athletic

Mr. Browne attended the State Normal school at La Crosse, ,visconsin, for one year. Following this he took a one-year course at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. In HHS, Mr. Browne enlisted in the army and was in the officers training school at Camp Grant, Illinois, when the armistice was signed. He then took a two-year course in the American Gymnastic Union .r ormal College at Indianapolis , from which he received his G. G. degree.

Athletics has prospered well during the year under the Browne regime. Under hi super' vision the physical efficiency of every boy in his classes has been determined by a series of physical tests. Mr. Browne has had charge of the high school swimming team and helped in the successful handling of the interclas track, basketball, wimming, and baseball meets.

Although not a hired coach, he coached the reserve football and basketb~ll teams and ,,as coach of the field events of the track team. His reserve basketball team won the championship of their class at the Y. M. C. A.

Mr. Browne's success in athletics might be attributed to several things. He i a good organizer and leadn~ of boys an<l is full of school spirit. Himself an athlete of proved ability, and possessed of a manelous physique, he is a fine example of what physical training does to <leYelop a person, a1Hl is an inspiration to the boys in all their athletic undertakings. _ Hi s untiring efforts to make Lincoln's athletic teams a . uccess and his square, :;traightforward method of dealing with boys ha,e ,Yon fr. Browne a "·ea.1th of friends in Lincoln high school.

t5raln u JDin.smor~

Hnrrv T. Din ' mor~, trainer of Lincoln high' · gridiron warrior , is a man with whom eYery high school student ought to get acquainted Harry has a ,rnrm heart and i ah-mys willing to do anyone a service . He has for several seasons served without pay and in recognition of his fine work the 1921 football :-:;quad pre3ented him with a large "L" blanket. Beside his knowledge of iodine and Sloan's liniment, Harry is quite an orator and coach, having managed an independent basketball and baseball team in the city. A more loyal follower of Lincoln high school athletics will be hard to find . -98-

Th e unexpected succes. of Lin coln high ·s 1020 football ea on r -:> minds one of the famous Yoyage of th P. cwannah, the first ~teamship to cro • the Atlantic. She beg·an the p rilons journey equipped with sail~, npon which the ailor relied with the utmo :S t confidence, and with coal for steam which few men ex • pected to help in the pa age. Yet, in .·pite of the fact that even the most optimi tic predicted failur e if the steam were relit>d upon too rn uch, th 0 new po,ver a compli. hed the trip safely and ,,ell. In much the same manner as that in which the cr ew of the avannah la11nch ed their ship, did Lincoln high school begin to run through her heavy schedu l e "·ith Pugh, Au tin , and Captain Packer, who were known to be entirely reliable, and with many untried men , d10 had learned in back yards and Yacant lot · the little they knew of 'the greate t of high school port ." The compari. on doe . not stop here. Although Lincoln wa. t"'ice def eated, th 3 team finished the season creditably,-they proYed their champion hip caliber

.After two week of practice the new Lincoln quad entered their first game, with 1., niversity Place, on September 25. The uburbanites seemed to be beaten until the last quarter. Th ey had fallen heir to a blocked kick and a fumble, both of which they had made good for touchdowns, bnt still the score stood H to 13. Then Lincoln punted, in th e Ja~t <]Harter, and the driving -99-

trader H argreave Merritt Austin Drummon d Hutchison Hummel ~f ead Polick Stowell l\forri on Thoma Marriner B rowne

Peters Packer Pugh \\.ilcox

"·incl carried th ball back oYer th ~oal line for a ' afety g1nng l:Infrer ity Place the nece ary two point. to win. The firt ca ·ualty of the ea on occurred in thi conte t. Thoma. of Lincoln "·a • carried from the field with a broken no ·e. However, the new men h 1d proY cl them ·eh·es reliable,-co mo ,rn coming from chao .

I£ George Pugh had tran•lled to Omaha for the Creio-hton game October 1. in a Pierce-Arrow in tead of a Ford, what wonld the ore ha Ye been i Having missed the train, the Yet ran utilized the well-Jmown creation of the famous leader of peace cl legation The roughne of it erratic journey subsequ ntly formed a plau ible excu e for eYery time Pugh lipped on the fi ld. He claimed that hi equilibrium had been di turb d. The game proved th o-rowing efficiency of the eleYen, in~ reighton wa blanked. Lincoln twi e carried the ball over the goal line-aft r the ref 'ree ·s whistle had blown! The final core wa 0-0.

The o-ame with York the nex Friday, progre eel much like the locom.oti v~ -"Rah ! rah ! rah ! rah! Lincoln hio-h chool," o-rowing £a ter ach quarter. The Yorki t cam.e to the capital city with the confid nt feeling that, although they had never before defeated Lincoln in football, they would thi time disproYe the old proverb, ' Hi tory repeat itself. ' They were right. Hi tory did not repeat it elf -not exactly. for York wa beaten eyen more badly then the vear before. Lincoln low gait in the fir t quarter enhanced the delu ion of po ible -victory for her opponent But about the time th~ir rooter were growino- hoarse from howling "Hold that line!" they began to watch with facinated horror th Red and Black machine mowing down all oppo ition a ~t moYed relentle • ly acTo the field. In the la:t quarter came the fir t brilliant break a,rny of the ea on. Just before the final whi tle blew Pugh mad an eighty yard run and a tou ·hdown, bringing the . core to 21 to 0.

Ambition ..r orth Platte ha Ying been fir. t in increa e of population a ·cording to the 1920 en u . , decided it wonld al o excel the capital city in the gridiron port. o, to indi ate it manelou • progre , it brought along for the game on October 15, the high school band and a prinkling of tudent to do the cheering. The rea ons for Lincoln' 7 to O victory were as follow : the upport off red by the whole team lO it leaders, the tirring tunes of the band the heering of th Lincoln tndent driven to de peration by the leather throat of the Torth Platte citizen , and la t-but not lea t-Au tin' blocking of a punt from behind the goal line, and Morrison' recovery of it for a touchdown.

The Link nearly w nt to Ha ting . coa hle the next Friday. Mr. Mead had aid that they would wait for no one, and everyone but the coach was early. Hi 'Ing r oll" wa slow and he had to run the entire di tance from hi home on outh Fifteenth treet. The coa h evidently had decided that the team had better prepare for track early, and the m n went through a good work-out compiling 61 point to Ha ting 0. Lincoln took a flying tart when Au tin' kick-off ailed over the Ha tina aoal line and wa recovered by Morrison for a touchdown. The ucceeding plays will probably be li ted among Lincoln' track achievement up rior, far from proYing it elf superior met the fate of Ha ting the following week, 0 tober 29 the cor being identical in the two game , 61 to 0. Mead' warrior tarted lowly, but like a falling object, they gathered peed as time passed. J ear the end of the game the throttle was thrown wide open, and Pngh and Packer, who had been 0n the idelines with injurie , were ent in. October 5 came Lincoln' olde t riYal, Omaha Central high chool with the expre purpo e of de troying Lincoln' pennant chance The metropolitan eleven tarted "·ith a ru h and early in the o-ame, their quarterback raised a perfect drop kick over the o-oal po t . However, the Link were not to be beaten by three point and began to play in came t. Hummel and Hargreave bat-

tered the line, and ,Then the Purple and ,Yhite wer~ not looking. Pugh slipped around end for Lincoln's fir t core. Omaha con inned to put Yigor into her game but ,Ta unable to get clo er to a touchdmTn than another fiel l goal. Lincoln, howeYer, cro ed the Omaha goal line twice more. bringing the core to rn to 6.

,Yith a hifted line-up, Lincoln met the , tate Farm ....\_ggie , Octob er 12 ..At the clo e o-f a low, li tle game, the Links emerged victors by a core of :'55 to 0. Lincoln, re erving it strength for Beatrice the next week, u eel imple but forceful formations. HoweYer, they began to run away from the heavier State Farm men in the la t half, rolling up the larg score c::hown aboYe ow came the crucial te t of the ;:,eason, Beatrice. Lincoln began with '·fancy'' plays and held Beatrice in her own portion of the field during the fir t part o-f the game. Bloodgood, Beatrice's mainspring, was expected to do great thing to""ards ending Lincoln's championship hopes glimmering. and lived up to expectation by running the right end for 9 yards and a touchdown. During the remainder of the game the ball roamed back and forth over the field. undecided a to the direction in which it hould go. Beatrice played for time and was ready to quit when the whi tle ble"·· In this game Lincoln' s chances were abruptly checked by one ·core. The second team, which had been playing well, was likewise defeated by Beatrice. In 1910 Beatric e tied Lincoln. Let not the hi tory of either that, or the 1!)20 game be r epeated!

The annual Thanksgiving day game ,rn pla~ 1 e d at Sioux City, Iowa. The Sioux , like Lincoln, had been trong {!Ontenders for the champion hip of their own state, having been no ed out by the narrow margin of three point Lincoln wa not di conraged by her defeat at the hand of Beatrice and played a fierce game. Sioux City cored fir t on a long pa ss, but failed to kick goal. The Links now showed their most brilliant attack of the season. with offtackle play • and a sprinkling of forward pa. se they pushed the ornl aero s the • g-oal line, Hargreaxes carrying it on th e final plnnge. Pugh kicked goal, giving Lincoln a one-point advantage which she held to the end. The final score WJS 7 to 6.

Thi wa the last game of a ucc ~ss ful season. A schedule could hardly have begun with a gloomier outlook. Surel:v the truth was pointed out by the a:::sembly speaker who aid, "It amaze the whole state that you student of Lincoln high can turn out, year after year, eleYen which either "·in the title or come clo e to it. :Not even the metropolis, nearly four time as larg e. can do a well!"

Hummel was the deeply regret that

BLOYCE PACKER

Bloyc e Packer: captain and tackle, played his last game in Lincoln high football togs on Thanksgiving day t Sioux City. ''Pack" was a fearless leader and played Ii is be t on the de fen i Ye. ,Packer mts one of the bigge t men on the line and his place "·ill b e hard to fill next season.

J .AMES .A STIX

James .Austin, captain-elect and tackle, i a born fighter and proved his worth as a leader on many occas ions during the pa t season. His teammates will rememb er him by the expression, "Just call me Jim."

GEORGE PUGH

Georg·e Pugh, quarter and halfback, is a third year ma l1 and former leader of the Red and Black. Pugh was an all-state end last season, but was shifted to quarter and halfback positions this year. Pugh was one of the fl ::>e te s t backs in the state and a sure tackler. \

.ARNOLD HUMMEL

Arnold Hummel, fullback. "Swede" wa the hard hitting ·'old r 2liable" man in the Lincoln backfield Although his first season with the Red and Black, Swede had had pre,·ious football experience "·ith the Aggies. unanimou.- choice for all-state fullback and Lincoln sports he will not be in the lineup next year.

CL.AREXCE DRlMMOND

Clarenc e Drummond, guard . "Tiny" was graduated from the second stringers to a regular berth this sea on and proyed to be one of the biggest propo i -tions opposing teams had to deal with. "11en Drummond dons the moleskins next season, Coach Mead will be assur d of a hard hitting lineman.

GEORGE HARGREAVES

George Hargreaves, halfback. The ever popular George played a dazzling game at halfback and mure than once tore through the defense for long gains. Hargreave is a senior and Coach Mead will have to look long b efore he will find a man to fill his shoe .

GERALD ~1ERRITT

Gerald l\ferritt, guard. "Gerri' was a hard man to pass on the defensive and could also be counted upon to make a hole through the opposing line when needed. Gerry will be graduated this year .

HAROLD HUTCHISON

Harold Hutchison, center. "Hutch" neYer missed a ganw and was one of the best performers on the Red and Black line. Although one of the youngest men on the squad, Hutchison displayed the grit and determination that shonld mak~ him an all- s tate man next season. - 102-

Bloyce Packer

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John Marriner, end. Johnny i a former ·L man, but wa kept out of the fray for the gr eater part of the ea son on account of injurie Marriner wa s a hard tackler and will be mi ed when the call for candidates i i ·::med next year.

MARIO.!_ ~ STOWELL

Marion towell, guard. ·Cowboy" knew little about football when he came to Lincoln high, but before the season wa oYer he had won the r espect of the fans and hi opponent a well.

GLENN THOMA

Glenn Thoma s , end and halfback. Thi • wa Glenn' first year on the team. Tommy was hard to s top when he had the ball afely tucked under hi s arm. He will be seen on the gri Eron agam next fall.

GAYLORD ·wrLCOX

Gaylord ·Wilcox, halfback. "Gay" wa a hard hitting shifty backfi eld man. He wa s very popular with h i teammate and had a ho t of friend on the ideline , .

BEN POLICK

Ben Polick, quarterba ck. "Bennie" wa a good field-general and fa t on hi feet. He w ill be graduated thi year .

LLOYD PETER

Lloyd Peter , end and halfback:. "Pete" made

a s ucce of his fir t attempt at footb'.111 and his speed and endurance add e d many yard in the Red and Black strnggle to Yictory.

CLOIDE MORR! OX

Cloide Morri s on, end . Morri on played hi · be t game at Sioux City. H e wa s a dependable wmgman and will be back in the fold next y ear.

PAUL STRADER

Paul trader, end. trader, like Marriner, wa • kept out of the game becau e of injuries. trader was a hard fighter and consistent player .

Fred Gardner, Robert Stephens · and tanley Betzer did not get into the fray long enough to earn an 'L", but receiYed the econd team award. Gardner was a promi ing end until hi shoulder wa broken early in the ea on. He and Stephens will make good material •1ext year. Betzer will b e graduated.

James Austin

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Lin oln' firt re ·en-e :football team t ha Ye uniform and di tinctive equipment beo-an the 1920 eason with a pre-arrang d chedul The group of boy dall in maroon jer ey and ~ock would have pre ented a harp contra t to the team ~ of preYiou years, with their weater of all color -firt a yellow j rse:v, then a green one, next a white headgear be id a black or tan one p rhap one player ven with one white and O])e ora1we oclc imilarity of nniform evidently ecure 1 the team work and tenacity which mo t secon rl ;-;qnad lack, for they ma le nearly a o-ood a record a the fir t eleYen.

For everal week aft r the openinp: o-f chool the econd were battered by the men of the fir t diYi. ion until they o-rew a hard and tough a crubs :-;hould be. The fir t o-ame wa with "'\Vilb r, and the re ene howed that they had been developina, f r the final core wa. 21 to 7 in fayor of the Link How ver when they ta kled Pawnee City, they di cm-ere 1 that the place liv d np to the name of the famou tribe for which it wa name l. Lincoln wa bra ten 27 to 0.

However badly beaten, the re erve did not allmY the University Place :e ond to triumph over them.. The record o-f niver ity Place' first quad wa. ,'})Oil d when the hope of their re erve wer blighted by a final core of 41 to 7 . \!though their luck had been the rever e of that of the fir t in the Uninr ity Place game, th luck of the t"·o team wa the am in the ca e o-f Omaha Central. Omaha nt down a well-trained eleven a alway , but they la ked the per istency of the Link and were beaten by one touchdown, ecured on a trick play which had been worked over and over.

At De "\Vitt the econd ran up again t a tough propo ition-a blustering, tearing fullback who lid most of De,Vitt' scoring after rippina great holes in Lin oln's line. The final core was 3i> to 0.

The last game of the , ea ~on wa with B a trice. The r erve were beaten 1 > ' ab011t the ame marain of point a the fir t team. The only touchdown for Lin ·oln wa made by H ath Griffith ':l:fter a forty yard run. Beatrice carried the ornl over twice, brinaing the final core to 1-1 to 6.

till one more di tin tirn honor wa awaiting the econd at the end of their ea on. "Then the fir t team wa awarded it "L' ' in a embly, the members of the econ cl team were pre,:;ented with small "L' ' enclosed in <'ir le:, instead of the ·'R's" of former y ar Captain McBride, McIntyre, Dinges, • kold, Cooper Lewi., Cumming Mockett, Griffith , Zucko:ff, Crawford, (iorrin, Brown, Marx, and Kiffin received letter .

The ea ons core "·ere a follow :

Lincoln n· 21 "'\'\ ilber 7

Lincoln rv ......... 0 Pawnee ity ............. 27

Lincoln rv . . . . . . . . . 41 Uni. Place Re erve ....... 7

Lincoln R rY . . . . . . . 7 On~aha Reserve .......... 0

Lincoln rv 0 DeWitt ................. 35

Lincoln Reserv . . . 6 Beatrice Re erve 14

Lincoln Re rY 75 Opponent. no

The 19:21 basketball team can easily b~ termed ··Lin oln' be t" from the standpoint of grit. determination and success . The Rel and Black quintet, under the leader;:;hip of Captain Harry Olds, annexed fourteen Yictories out of a possible twenty-one. The ucce;:;s of the squad is due largely to the effort • of Coach Telfer L. Mead, who succeeded in vi·ea, ing tog ether a winning combination from the raw product. :No man on the Lincoln team had eYer ·won a school letter and the majority of the players had had but little ba ketball experience. In spite of thi handicap, Coach ~Iead's pupils scor d :391 points during the eason, or an a verage of 19 counter · a game. It is noticeable that Lincoln is credited with victories over Omaha Commerce and LniYer ~ity Place, the former, the winner of the state championship and the latter, rnnner::;-np for the cup.

Captain Harry Old ended his bHsketball care 2r in Lincoln high chool when the whi tle blew, ending the Commerce-Lincoln game in the state tournament. Olds has the distinction of being the high point man on the team "·ith a total of 161 counter::, for hYenty conte:ts. Hi ability to cage free throw when th e team needed a point or two and hi fighting spirit both were a. source of gratification

Harry OI<ls to follower of the sport.

Loren McPher on, aptaiu-elect. was one of the steaclie~t and most con~istent performer on the Lincoln high qninte t. Hi" ability to hit the b'.l ket "·a~ the can. e of much concprn to all oppo;-;ing guards . ' ·Mac' " field goal in the first half of the memorable Commerce game garn him a place in the Red and Black Hall of Fame that cannot b 2 forgotten.

Clayton Le,Yis. center and guard, gained the respect of his opponents becau~e of his skill in hi~ting the hoop and throu_gh his a_bility to hold down opposmg forward Lewi. came second on the Lmcoln high score sheet and hi· close guarding of "Ike" Mahoney in the Commerce game was the feature of the battla .

Gerald Merritt, playing guard on the team, began the sea on with but slight knowledge of the "art of playing basketball." At the end of the season he was one of Coach Mead's old reliables. "Jerry" had little respect for future Mahonevs, and his aggressiveness throughout the season places him in the position to demand the respect of Lincoln high rooters.

Dorsey McIntyre was graduated from the second stringers of last year to a regular guard position on this seasons squad. McIntyre was a dependable guard and his knack of dribbling down the floor for a basket or two a game brought ha ck memories of "Rody" Lamb.

Philip ommerlad earned his "L" by holding down the position of center on the squad. EYeryone who sa w Sommerlad play knows that he played the game ,Yell. '·Phil" was unfortunate in haYing to be on the injured list for

Sommerlad Lewis

Coach Mead Merritt George H. Olds McIntyre McPhe1·son

part of the ::;eason. omm 0 rlacl i~ a :::emor and his plac ~ "·ill b~ lurcl to fill next year.

Elton George, ub3titute fonYarcl. had but little opportunity to display hi ' ware , but in the games in which he wa • a participaut hi accuracy in placing the spher e through the basket made the fan;:; sit up and take notice. Georg 3 will be grnduated thi year.

• The first game of the season wa • in the natur e of a sectional battle b 3twe 2n the middle and far west. 'Bob'' Hager\; much heralded Junior Gold from Oakland, California, got away with the long end of a 25 to 13 "·in (?Yer Coach Mead's experiment . Had the contest been played later in the sea ~on, the tide might have turned in fa Yor of the Red a.nd Black.

The first test of Lincoln' trcmgth came when th e Red and Black ba ·ket tos er :, battled with the trong D e"\Vitt aggregation. " Th en the final w·histle blew, Captain Olds and his t eammate · had annexed their fir t Yictory bv a 30 to 17 margin.

"- eward high school gave the Red and Black warriors a great b1ttle, and the contest was not decided until the last thre e minute s of play. The final count read : Lincoln, 32; Seward, 25.

The fourth game on the schedule proYed to be ''fruit" for the l\Ieadmen. The final score s tood 35 for Lincoln and 7 for Bethany.

Nebraska City, winners of th e Class B cup in the state tournament, had a well balanced aggregation, but they fell before the Lincoln battering ram by a 25 to 10 score in the next conte s t.

Lincoln was handed her second dru 1)bing of the season wh n the Cr 3ighton (Omaha) high school five claimed a 12 t c, 10 ,·i ctor:v in a struggle on the Omaha floor.

The Aggies proved themselv es to b ~ " ·orth :v oppon ent · in a game s taged on the Armory floor lat e in J anuarv. The boy s fro)n "Cow College" met d ef ~at, · however, through ~heer ability of McPheraon and Olds to hit the hoop with uncanny regularity. The scor ~ sheet gaY e the Links an 18 to 11 triumph.

South Omaha met her doom on the Coliseum floor bv a 28 to 18 score. Both teams were handicapped b 2cause of b 2ing unaccustomed to so large a playing pace. Lincoln had the b e~ ter teanrn·ork and stow ed away her sixth victory of the sea on.

A trip to Omaha to do battle w·ith Omaha C entral was next on the program for Coach Mead's protege . After a fierce struggle during the fir-;t period, the count read a tie, 9-9. In the last half, Olds broke awa.y from Good. Central guard, for a basket, and his bvo free throws a moment later gaYe Lincoln a 13 to 11 Yictory. The str ength of Coach Mead's warriors was then known to those who had wondered. Lincoln had g·ained the r es pect of high school coache throughout the state. Lincoln was no longer a "never was,'' but a real factor in the rac e for tate championship honors.

Geneva, pos e sing one of the seven ,Yonder .-: of the world, is a to"·n all Lincoln 011ght to vi it. This wonder is the o-called gymna ium in which all GeneY!l n have a ju t pride. It is the mallest floor in Nebraska. Because of this fact the Yello"· and Black gain°fl a 16 to 1-t scor e over our charnpionsltip aspirants.

One of the fastest game:; of th8 seasoP wa s th" battle "·ith Sutton lii: d1 school. ·when · the gong rang ending the encounter. Lincoln was ahead. 20-U>.

A sweet revenge on University Place was well earned when the Red nnd Black gladiators annexed a 17-13 win on the suburb"n floor the following ev ~ning. In the la t half with the score standi1rn: 10-3 in favor of the uburbanites, a rally was started that did not encl until Referee Gilillian stopped the battle. Old and Lewie; were important l"Cton in the victorv .

Hasting met the Red and Black on Lincoln's off day arid succeeded in giY-ing them a 23 to 13 trouncing on their home floor.

The next night Superior bowed dom1 to the Links . A ii to 15 re sult was

gratifying to the hom 0 folks. · Superior had previou ly defeated the Hastings qnintet by a •Comfortable margin.

• The next game, with Omaha Commerce had been looked forward to all ..., a on. "Ike" Mahoney and his teammates went down the ,rnyside by a 5 to 4 count in one of the fiercest battle ever taged on a Lincoln court. The first half stood -1:-1, Lincoln. Mahoney had a chance to tie the count just before the " hi s tl e blew, but missed. .McPherson and Old s did all the scoring for the )feadmen, and the guarding of .Mahoney by Lewis was well worth the watching.

Omaha Central shed a little gloom on Lincoh\ high prospect. by an 18-17 " in a few nights later. The o·ame went an extra five-minute period and rivaled the Commerc 2 game for teamwork and fighting s pirit. Olds s tarred for th e Red and Black while Ray Clement, Omaha leader, claimed hi share of the honor s A r 2turn gam.e with De,Vitt wa sbge d at "Tilb 2r . The Links can1.e out on top. 31-21.

Beatric e proved a formidable rirnl and snatched the long end of a 21-15 sco re in their home city. The game " ·as the last befor e the s tate tournament. Lincoln had stood th e te.3t with twel rn wins and six def ea.ts Three defeat s had been a<lrnini tered by a score of two points or les , while one of the other contests was an out-state game.

THE TOURN.A:\IEXT

The eleventh annual basketball tournanwnt of X ebraska high schools with two hundred contestants, meant a bitter , truggle for Lincoln high. Teams wer e entered from all sections of the state and nearlv two thousand athlete s took the floor somedme during the tourney. The team s wer e divided into group according to the s ize of school, game ' won, n mn b 2r of veterans on the team and pr evious tournament experience. The Cla ss .A group included orfolk, Grand Island, Creighton, Omaha Commer ce, South Omaha, Lincoln, A nburn, Superior, Kimball, Sutton, Omaha Central, Hastings, Bayard, Geneva, Beatrice and --C-niversity Place. The first day, half of the tea rns in the classic were eliminated. The " ·innen battled the next morning and the victor:-, engaged in the semi-finals in the afternoon and evening. The finals in all thirteen cla:-:-ses were faged on the third night of the tourn ev

In~ th e first round Lincoln drew South 01m ha. Th e Stock Yards athlete s were again humiliated, this time by a 13-8 sc ore. The Links "·en never in danger and it "as not until fat e in the last chapter that th 2 OmaL ore n McPherson lurns made a serious impression.

Superior fell down before the Lincoln attack in a fast battle by a 23-13 count. Olds made over half the Lincoln total, while Lewis and McPherson claimed their share with fonr and six points each.

The semi-finals proved to be an unlucky draw for Coach Mead' pupils. Ornah:i Commer c2 1 eager to avenge her defeat of a few weeks back~ won handily b_v a 13 to :2 score. The ra s ult of th e game was never in doubt. The Commerce team had improved considerably and prowd their worth by capturing the state titl e from rniver:;;ity Place the next e,Tening.

The Tournament winner:· :

Class A Omaha Commerce

Class B ·ebraska City

Class C Ravenna

Class D Minden

Class E Fairmont

Class F Waco

Class G Wakefield

Lincoln high· , record :

Lincoln ........ 13 Oakland Golds .... 25

Lincoln 30 DeWitt .......... 17

Lincoln 32 Seward 25

Lincoln 35 Bethany 7

Lincoln 25 ebraska City 10

Lincoln ........ 10 Creighton .... 12

Lincoln 1 State Farm 11

Lincoln 2 South Oma ha .. . .. 19

Lincoln ........ 13 Omaha Central 11

Lincoln ........ 14 Geneva 16

Lincoln 20 Sutton 16

Class H Waverly

Cla s I Holmesville

Clas J Panama

Class K Greenwood

Class L Waterloo

Class M Trumbull

Lincoln 17

Lincoln ..... 13

Lincoln 17

Lincoln 5

Lincoln ........ 17

Lincoln 31

Lincoln 15

*Lincoln ........ 13

*Lincoln ........ 23

*Lincoln 2

Total points, 391

Average points per game-Lincoln, 19; Opponents, 15.

* Tournament games.

Uni. Place ...... 13

Hastings ....... 23

Superior 15

Omaha Commerce 4

Omaha Central 18 DeWitt 21 Beatrice ....... 21 South Omaha. . . . 8

Superior 13

Omaha Commerce 13

Total points, 318

Hardly had the football ea on been inaugurated before there was a call for cheer leader . One veteran was in the field, Harry Old , who had hared hi po ition with Edo-ar hoemaker the previou year A contest, a ummg the form of an a sembly, was held to decide the other cheer leader. Emmett Junge wa the winner in thi contest.

At all the local football game , and the parade preceding them, the two cheer leaders ·were very much in evidence with red shirt and skull cap .

Emmett bore the brunt of the cheer leading at the basketball game , while Harry wa leading the cage squad. ·when the ha ketball tournament reigned upreme in Lincoln, the two were the men "of the hour," one leading the quad of five men, the other guiding the Red and Black follower

What i an athletic a embly without the Old -Junge combination 1 They eem to be the root of the enthu ia m at L. H. assemble . All of the. e happening demonstrate that it take a worthy tudent to be a cheer leader for Lincoln high chool.

After the coach Mr. :Mead, had taln'n the cream of the basketball candillates for his fir::,t sqnad, the assi ·tant coach, Mr. Browne, was presented the leaYings to make oYer into a qninLt that would b~ C9.pable of giving the first ·quad a fight for sncce ~s and that conld successfully stand up against a heavy checlnle of its own . Mr. Browne wa, eqnal to the task for, although the mernb2r:s of his S(Jtutd were of midg._t proportions, he deYeloped them into a team which was noted for it aggrcs:iiveness and which on a few occasions, alth011gh they wen far apart, forced th? first team to throw up the sponge.

The rrserves opened the season with a victory at the expense of the Nebraska , ; chool of Busines::, on the "Y'' court, January 8. The following week the Bethany reserves were forced to take the count in a scheduled league game on the same floor.

The next game ,rns played in the b:ick of a garage at Beaver Crossing. Three fiYe-minute extra periods were necessary to determine the victor. The final core "·as Be9.Yer Crossing 1 , Lincoln resenes 12. The game was marked

Browne

Hutchison Brown MiJls

Corrick Zukoff D. Olds ~fiJler Rosenberg

by con iderable roughne s on the part of both team and the boys ."·ere marked with bruises, the re ult o.f coming into contact with ra.fter and beams which n pported the building.

February 1 aw th~ Link Yanqui 11:~d at the Y. M. C. A. by the re erves and ,Yesleyan ..._\_cademy and the nfrer ity Place re erYe met the ame .fate not long a.fter.

,ve t Point high chool ent . to battle the reserve , a team of hu ky warrim·s the ·ize of "·horn made the re enes look like pigmies. "1rnt the econd stringer. lacked in bee.f, however, they made up in headwork. • The vVest Pointer5 were sent home with the short end of the core.

The scrnb . had a chance to aveng'.> their previon. de.feat by Beaver rossing and they didn't lo e the chance The Link .., cored 35 point to the vi itors 3 in a game played at the univer ity armory.

The re erve were shimmied over the hills we t o.f Lincoln in rent-a-fords to the town of ~fil.ford where they hit a snag, .and were de.feated 23 to 18 on February 3. The boys say the absence of hock ab orbers on the Fords can ed them to be shaken o severely that they entered the game in a somewhat dazed condition.

A.fter a complete recuperation from the hock received on the Mil.ford trip, the second made it an even break by drnbbin°· the Blue Rfrer lad 21 to 11 in a gam e preliminary to the Lincoln-Omaha Central encounter.

,vhen the ea on opened, the re se rve et a a goal a victory oYer the • y·, Junior v On March 5 they .fulfilled their ambition and .for the econd time in two year the Red and Black took the Secondary Schools League Champion hip away .from the a s ociation, this time by th e overwhelmino- core of J 8 to 7. - •

.A few weeks later a tate o.f jealousy wa created between the first and secornl teams by the pre entation of a gold ba ketball to each 1nember o.f the secon l . gnad.

Thi year. second team can a ily b 3 distinguished from second team of previou year They had a coach and a pre-arranged schedule of thirteen game:. Th e JD21 re erve were the fir.::;t team to rec iYe letter . The .following boys received a three inch "L' enclosed in a circle: Don Old s , Harold Hutchison, am Zncko:ff, Israel Ro enberg, Harold Miller, Frank orrick, and Morrel Mills. The cores .for the . ea.:.•on "·ere a .follow: :

Lincoln Reserve . . . . . . . 12 Beaver Cro 1ng _. 1

Lincoln Re erve . .

. . . . . 17 Lynx ................... 13

Lincoln Reserve ......... 2 Templ High ( for.fei t) ... 0

Lincoln Re erve .

. . . . :3 ,vest Point 11

Lincoln Re erve :3i5 BeaYer Cro sino- 3

Lincoln Reserve ......... 47 Plea ant Dale ............ 9

Lin oln Re erve 19 ".,..esleyan Academy .......

Lincoln Re se rve 20 :Milfor<l ................. ~3

Lincoln Reserves :36 East Lincoln Church 15

Lincoln ReserYe ......... 22 l 111. Plac e Re erYe 2

Lincoln Reserve .

Lincoln Re er,·e .

. . . . . . 21 )IiJfor l ..... J1

. . . . 1 --1~-, .Junior ~ ............ 7

2 5 120

Track for the season of 1921 was similar to the football and basketball seasons-there was plenty of material, nearly all of which was of an uniform hue of green. Gish, who handled the bamboo pole last year, wa the only veteran to return to put on the pikes.

Over a hundred expectant candidates turned out when the fir t call wa sounded. The ranks dwindled as the season wore on, but there was a good number still out at the end of the season.

An intercla track meet held soon after the eason wa under way qneezed out every available track man in chool. The juniors took the event " ·ith 52 point hung to their belt , while the ophomore cleaned up 43. The fre hmen ran up a core of 33, and the seniors, with only four men entered, picked up 27.

Beatrice, with her veteran team of two year standing, took the dual meet held in Gage county by a core of 78 to 34. Beatrice had an experienced performer in every event, while Lincoln had only one letter man to tie to. In thi meet Hepperlin of Beatrice broke the tate record for the hot put by heaving the iron 45 feet 11 inches. Gi h took fir t in the pole vault; Peterson, who won third place in the broad jump, skimmed over the low hurdle for a fir t, and Gardner did the ame stunt in the high hurdle Lewi acquired third place in the 100 and 220 yard da hes, the di cu , and the shot put. Dunkle took econd in the half mile and third in the low hurdles. Conkle found a econd berth in the 440, and Cohen won a third in the half mile. 01 on ran the mile for second place. In the high hurdles Hargreaves rnrne in third. Rucklos tied . for second in the hio·h jump.

The Univer 1ty Place meet held on the tTohn on field wa more succes ful. Coach Mead's aggregation of cinder digger. romped off with the honor , taking Gl point to the uburbanite 52. Lewis and Peter on did the main scoring with 16 and 13 points respectively. Lewi took a fir t in the 100, the shot put, and second in the 220 and the discu throw. Peterson won the 220, the low hurdle , and placed second in the 100. Cohen won the half mile and Olson took econd in the mile. Gardner won the high hurdles and Hargreave placed second. Gish tied for first place in the pole vault and took a second in the broad jump. Dunkle took a second in the low hurdles, Rucklos slipped into econd place in the high jump, and Conkle won a third in the 440-yard da h.

Lincoln had few prospects in the tate meet. The teams from over the tate, containing ome record-breaking material: whittled down the Red and Black

chance to a tooth-pick. B~ntrice. wi1mer of last year.;; cup, put in nearly the same squad thi year and con eqllently took the honors.

In the meet Lincoln was repre ented by the following: Peter;:,on, the 100, ~20, low hurdle . and broad jump; Lewi , 100, 220, shot, and di cu ; Gi~h. pole vault, low hurdles, and bro1-d jump; Dunkle, -1:-:1-0, half mile low hurdles, discu , and shot: Conkle, 220, 4-40, half mile; Cohen, 4-10 and half mile: Hargreave s, low hurdle ; McMahon, 100; Bartholomew, 100 and 220; Gardner, high hurdle. ; :\Iclntyre, mile and half mile; "'Yarde, +l-0; 01 on and Echn rd. , mile.

Peter son won first plac 2 in hi cla in the low hurdle . Gi h placed third in the high jump and tied for second in the pole vanlt. Gardner won a fourth in the high hurdles and Le,Yis took third in the shot put.

t5be. 3unlor-.Se.nlor Olpmpic.s

The first olympic ever held in the high school took place on May 21, 1920. It was planned by a joint committee repre .. enting the junior and senior classes ancl the faculty. Various ideas were Lrought up in th 0 meetings and finally a certain plan \las adopted. Then the list of events was made up and each cla. s immediately began to select it be.;;t athlete for each event. All the tryouts wer over about t"o days before the games ,Yere to come off. Then attention wa turned toward getting th P gronnds ready. Referee were selected from the university and from the Y. M. C. A. Everything was in readine the day b efore.

On :May 21 the entire chool ,vas dis :nissed to witness the affair . The junior • and senior classes marched ,vith their r ~s pective band and rooters to the ball park, where the lower classmen had already eated them elves in the grandstancL. After all the people were se~ted and the participant s were on the field, the official began to rnn off th ,3 different events

It was noon befor all the event s had been finished. The final score s tood CO to 30 in :favor of the seniors The seniors celebrated their victory at a picnic in the afternoon and entertained the junior president as the guest of honor. The committees felt that th :> re ·honld be some events to follow up the olympics; accordingly it ,vas decitled to have a final a ·embly where a treaty of peace was to b ~ brought up :rnd signed by each clas.-, forever closing the ho tilities between '20 and '2 1.

After such an undertaking had one ~ been carried out by the students themseh·es, it wa easy to ·ee ,Yhere impro ·vements could b e made another year. o eYera l change were made in the event and in the coring of the various game for 1921. It was decided to giv:, the girl a chance to win more honor ~ for their class, and ome ne,Y event w r drawn np by the girl ' coache antl adopt d by the general committee. The ev nt • were a. follows:

Boxing ................... lighbYeio-ht Color relay ..................... girl ·

Boxing heayyweight Tuo- of war ..................... boy::; \Yre stling lightweight Tug of war ..................... girls

Wrestling ............... heavy,YPight Battle royal lightweight

Ba eball throw .................. boys Battle royal heavyweight

Basebal1 throw girls Push rod contest.

Footbal1 throw boys -!0-yard da . ·h .................... boy . Color relay boJs 15-yard da h .................... girls Color rush.

The eYent added thi vear are a:3 follow : Ba sketball throw : girls 75-yard dash .................. . . boy --!0- rard dash girls Kite flying contest ........ girl.~

The olympics of this 31 e ar was held at the fair ground . on May 20.

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GlRLS c\lhll:tlCS

mts.s ~re.istaM

When Miss Breitstadt came to us l a t :fall a s our girls athletics director, all the girl in the gymnasium cla ses and tho e girls whom she directed in after- chool sports pronounced her, in athleti Yernacular, a ·'good port." .Although she hinted at a checkered career when she was told that her history would appear in the Linl(s, we :found upon inve tigation that eyen' check is a mark to her credit.

'Miss Breitstadt ha had unu ually thorou o-h preparation for her work. :fter being graduated from high chool, she attended the PniYer ity of Illinois and received an A B. deo-ree. Further training was taken in the Chicago N orinal School o:f Dancing. She taught ·eyeral year in the high chool o:f Champaign, Ill and in the summer o:f 191 she upervised the playgrounds o:f Quincy.

New and varied activities have been introduced into the gymna ium work thi year. Girls athletics now include folk-dan ing, oc er, bask tball, tenni · , captain ball, track, military drill and swimming, and all have been made wry popular under Mi Breitstadt' direction .

Mis Breitstadt has a remarkable capacity for sympathizing equally with her mo t talented and mo t backward pupil ,Yhen a command is mi under tood, he never lose patience, but i ready to explain it step by step . Yet her clear concise orders and her alertne ~s in directing a game keeps the quickest o:f the girls "on their toe ." The girl in the dancing classes have an unbounded admiration :for Mis Breitstadt' wonderful technique and her grace in dancing .

~To one know better than the eniors how he re pond to the feelings of a victoriou team, for she wa a excited over the basketball tournament as any of the girl . Before she sent the girls she had coached into the fir t game, she aid, "Play hard, but play fair. and remember it i good sport man hip to give your opponent a rousing cheer at the end of the o·ame, whether you win or lo e."

One of the more recently organized a sociation:-; in Lincoln high school is the Gir1 Athletic Association. It has for its aim improvement of health, promotion of interest in out door por~ , and development of good port man~hip. Any girl can be a member by winning one hundred points in any of the girls ports · or athletic activities of the school. These points are awarded for the following athletic accomplishment.' : for being a member of swimming, ba eball, soccer or basketball team; for performing certain accuracy te t ; for excellence in swimming; for skating and hiking. .

The school letter "L" is awarded to a girl "·hen he receive the required number of points. A freshman must win one thou ·and point to obtain a letter, because she has four years in high school lPfor her. The cale of point for winning the letter i a follows:

Frrshmen ................ 1000 J union; . . . . . . . . . 500 ophomore .............. 700 ._ enior .• .................. 300

The member hip i increasing every year. There w re only twenty charter members, and now in 1921 there are forty-nine members. X- early all these members are actively intere. ted in the progre. s of the a ,sociation, and any chool girl will find them an actfre and livdy group.

The 0-irls Athletic .Association not only striYe to cleYelop physical strength and kill, but it cau es the girl to realize the Yalue of leader hip and gool port manship. The officer this year are:

Pre ident. ..................... Grda .. onthworth Yice-presidt>nt ....................... Fleta Swartz :::-:iecretarv ............................ Ruth mith Trea urer ........................... Ruby '\Yilder

OCCER

·""\Yhat is the interesting fall game ihrrt the girls of Lincoln high schoul play r' a:::.k-; an intere. ted re ident of . outh Lin coln "It is soccer, a crame somewhat imilar to football, but mor e suitable for a girls sport," a more enlightened citizen replies. occer this year was great fun. Every girl looked forward eagerly to the tournament. Miss pringer refereed thP practice game ., but Mis Clark, from the uniYer;:;ity, refereed the tournamem. Miss pringer labored under a handicap as a referee, for she is o mall that seYeral times the freshmen mistook her for one of their team mate .·.

Th e junior-senior match was an exciting, scientific game. The hopes of t!1e 8enior , were rai ed very high. As they are to be graduated from high school in the spring, every girl of th ?rn thrills with the ambition to win one last honor for her cla s During the first part of the game neither side scored. In the la ..., t ten minute period a tension seemed to be upon all the players. The senior goal guard had barely kept the b1ll from going between the goal post.;, when by a fluke play, the ball was kicked right between her feet, and the junior s scored. Then the seniors made a goal, and not many minutes afterward th 1 ~ juniors scored again. In the midst of a particularly hard scrimmage a shrill whistle sounded. All looked at one another in stupefication ! That couldn't be the final whistle. "11 y, the senior.;; must not be beaten! A wild yell from the juniors confirmed the worst fears of the seniors. The side line were shouting "Rah! Rah! Rah!" while the eniors ,rnlked dejectedly off the field. "So much for our over-confidence," remarked one enior. "Oh won't we beat tho~e jm1iors in the basketball tournament!"

Tlw sophomores and freshmen play d a fine game. Both sides seemed evenly matched, and the defen ive of each side was particularly strong During the entire game neither ide scored. A fiv,2 minute period was allowed to play off the tie, but till neither ide scored . Tlh· next afternoon they played again, and the result was a core of one to nothing in favor of tlrn sophomores . In the deciding- game of the tourmnnent the victors in the earlier games played a hard, exciting game. The seniors did not cheer for their natural enemies, bnt the lack of cheering did not seem to influence the ·core, for the junior won by a score of two to one, and wer :• proclaimed the H)21 soccer champions of Lincoln high school.

"Mugs" Eastham, the junior captain, was probably the best all-round soccer player in the tournament. EYeryone admired her clean, alert aame and her cheerincr " ·orcl to her team a • they played.

ROLLER-SKATING

"1iat i • more fun on fl warm spring afternoon than to go roller-skating? .Anyone "·ho has not experienced the thrill of rolling alono· OYer mooth pavement~, ' ·hooking on" behind wagon and buggie., and coasting dmvn a long hill with ihe wind whistling pa t one's ear~. has missed a world of fun.

The girls athl()tic association is ju--;t brginning to take up roller-skating. In different parts of the city group haYe heen organized in which girl · may win point toward an "L" each seme t er. A leader is chosen who records the number of hours skated by her group. Unle there are at least three in a group it i-, not counted as an official crronp, and points cannot be awarded to it members. Twenty-five points are gi,,e n to the member . of a group, when they have skatPd hventv hours.

The Gi1:ls Athletic A sociation gave a roller-skating party the first seme. -· ter. Th e girls, with frequent laughable tumbles. skated around the high school building on the cement walk most of the evening. and then went into the girl~ gymna sium to enjoy refre hments and to dance.

TRAMPING

Boy Scout and Campfire Girls aren't the only ones who enjoy ten or twelve mile walks. Lincoln high chool girls this year ha Y had a great deal of fun going on tramps on Saturday afternoons or holiday

Hazel Safford wa appointed leader for the year 1920-1921. he no- tifie the girls when there is going to be a tramp, and al o set. a place to meet. Each girl wears her gymna ium suit, and carrie. a light lunch. When a girl has walked forty miles within one semester she receiYes twenty-five points.

The points gained ~re not the only i.ncentirn for tramping. Every healthy active girl enjoy the fre h air, and the exhileration gained by breathing it on foot. The close companionship with the other girls going on the walking trip encourao-es sonncl and la sting friendship .

CHEER LEADERS

Each year when the G. A. A. has an election, four girl are cho en cheet· leader . These fonr girls lead the cheer at the Yarious tournament and ath- letic meets. It is their duty to keep up the spirit of their own team by frequent and hearty cheers . The four cho-,en this year were Hazel Old,, Harriet McClelland, Clara Hines and Marguerite Eastham.

TRACK

In the late pring of 1920 the Girls Athletic As ociation held the second annual track meet. The events were high jump, broad jump, shot put , javelin throw, baseball throw, hurdles, fifty-yard da h, pole dash, pole vault, and bas- ketball throw.

The winner of the first places were as follows: high jump, Harriet Mc- Clelland; broad jump, orma Lewis; javelin throw, Lois Pederson; hurdles, orma Lewis; fifty-yard clash, Harriet McClelJand; pole vault, Frances Gable; ba ketball throw and baseball throw, Viola Feather. The individual winner of the meet was Harriet McClelland. This place wa given to the girl who won the most point given for first, second or third place in any event. The second and third individual winner were orma Le"·i and Nellie heldon.

BASEBALL

The baseball conte t of the spring of 1920 wa a warm one. The clas e were arranged for the tournament in thi fa hion: enior- ophomore ver u fre hman-junior.

Boys alway laugh at the idea of a girl ba eball team, but if they had een the senior of 1920 play they would not haYe been so amused. France Gable and Norma Lewis tarred because of their home run hits. In the fir t ix inning the core remained almost parallel, but during the last th1 ee innings the junior-freshman team lo t heart because of the rapidly mounting core of the senior- ophomore team, and played wildly. The final score wa thirty-six to eight in favor of the enior-sophomore team. fr Putney, a former high schoe.,l gymna ium tea cher, refereed the game.

GIRL BASKETBALL

"Dear Minerva: ,Vhat i the mo3t popular girls sport in Lin coln high chool i ' While some questions as fooli h a thi are seen in the distre s column, a godde of wisdom hardly need be con ulted to answer thi que tion. ,ve advise the questioner to go into a gymnasium cla s where the different sport are practiced, and ask the girl which port they enjoy the most. The answer will in all probability be five to one in favor of ba ketball. Every

girl who came out for ba ketball thi year wa an enthu ia tic upporter of the port, and all were eagerly looking forward to the tournament . The first game in the tournament wa between the ophomore and freshmen . The sophomores, being very sensjtive to color schemes, chose lovely hade of blue and yellow cheese cloth to make their caps and ties, but the fre hmen were content with the regular gymnasium outfit. Before the two team had played the first quarter, it could be een that the freshmen had the stronger team. Although the sophomores fought gamely, the freshman forwards unerringly shot ba ket after ba ket. Hazel Safford, a ophomore, distingui. hed her elf by her well-aimed ba ket-throwing from the free throw line, and Bernadine Je] on and E-rn Davi , the fre hman forward , did fine ba ket~hooting. Both ides kept up a teaJy even game throughout, and the final core wa twenty-two to ten in favor of the freshmen.

SCSIORS V SE~TIOR

The next game in the tournament wa between the junjors and seniors. The latter had enlivened their regular gymnasium outfit by the addition of gay lavender stocking., and pink and lavender tie and caps. The game between the junior. and eniors is generally anticipated keenly by the referees and those who are familiar with the game, becau e these two team have had everal years experience in basketball, and play a more scientific game than the lower classmen. This year the senior.s looked forward to the game with especial eagerness because they were anxiou to avenge their defeat in the socceL" tournament, and to have engraved on the silver loving cnp pre ented to the winner of the basketball tournament the inscription, "1921 won by 1921."

In the first half both side played well, and the score was kept ju t about even. Blenda Olson and Dorothy Goodale scored the greatest number of points. As oon as the whistle announcing the end of the half was heard, the members of both teams rushed to the score keep~r, and the senior were omewhat dismayed to learn that the juniors were one point ahead. They went back into the <Yame and both side played furiously while the onlookers gave a fine specimen of unorganized cheering. ·within ten minutes of the end of the game th~ score wa a tie. Then amid excited yells of encouragement, Blenda Olson hot a goal and Harriet McClelland threw two wonderful basket from mid-field. "\"\71en the end of the game finally came, the core tood twelve to nine . The enjor had defeated one enemy and were keyed up to beat the fre hmen

._ EXIORS V . FRE HME

The next afternoon the final game of the tournament was played between the freshmen and the enior . The enior.s started off with a vigorous game and the . core mounted swiftly, while the freshmen made three or four <Yoal In the be()'innina of the econd half the fre hmen began to play harder than ever before, and after Bernadine Nelson and Eva Davis had each thrown two or three ba k<"ts, the score was almost a tie. The seniors began to lose their self-confidence and to play wildly. Numerous chance for ba ket were let pass and neither side wa succe. fol in throwing ba kets. In the last quartet, after Miss Breit tadt had calmed the seniors, and a . ured them that they would of course ettle down to more consistent playing, they went into the game with a teady determination to win Blenda Olson threw three ba kets, and Gret~ Southworth, by wonderful guarding, bpt Rernadjne elson, fre hman forward from <Yetting another goal. When time was called, the eniors uttered n triumphant yell, for they knew they had won the tournament. The whole _o·ymnasium ·wa in a pandemonium. When the score was finally announced it prowd to be "seniors 19, fre. hmeu 14." The cup ha again been won by the senior and the legend on the cup will be '1921 won by 1921" .

'' DL\ILTG )IEET

Per ·ons not in touch with the gymnasium clas e cannot understand the Yemacular of the girl in wimming cla e . " e you a frog 1" "Did you know Anna ha pa sed her pollywog te ~t r' "Fm fini shed bubble ! ' But they are only di cu ing the new y tem of wimming accomplishment s which Miss , pringer and :;\fi s Breit tadt haYe given the classe this year . The girl pass through the tage of 'pollywoo-,' "frog," and "fi h" by performing ome of the easier s troke and dives . Oh, how the freshmen dread to take their fir s t s,Yimming le s on! After donnino- wimming uit and cap, · they walk gingerly oYer the lippery tiles of the plunge floor, and climb reluctantly down the ladder. Each girl invariably test the temperature of the water with her toe , b efore he attempt to get in. After getting into the pool , one of the more timid one s lip and go ~ under! what wild truggle ensue. Finally he rights herself and determine . never to let go of the rail again for fear of drowning in four feet of water.

~\JI thi. mu s t be di couraging to the s wimming in tructors, and yet in om e miraculou s way before the end of th e semester, the wimming clas e cea3e to r~ emble. a hip-wrecked. crew clinaing desperately to the ,Treckage bu acqmre a likene ss to a chool of happy young porpoise :May 4, Hl21, wa a wonderful day for the porpoise In other ,vords, the expert s"·immer were given a cha11ce to how their aquatic ability in an intercla s. " imming meet. The bank s of • the wimming pool were crowded with teacher s , a few mother , and many high school girl . The team were compo sed of the fo1lm6ng girls:

S enior

BLEXDA OLSOX

WJLLA WYNKOOP

DARLEE vVOODWARD

HARRIET McCLELLAND

Substitut es

EASTER KELI.OGG

El I A SHI\'EL y

Sophomor e

CLARA HINES

MARY HAR:\WN

VIRGI:"ITA IRONS

HAZEL SAFFOnD

Substitutes

IDA REED

DonOTHY DIA)'lOXD

Junior M ARG1:E1UTE EA S TH nr

MILDRED AMES

MARGARET UTER

DOROTHY GOODALE

Substitut es

CORA FRANCES TAIT

JEAN MCKAY

Fr eshman

EYA DAVIS

CATHERrnE LAWLOR

GERTRl' DE ROWE

FLOREXCE FORREY

Substitut es

MILDRED KIXXER

MARGARET AME ,

The fir s t part of the conte t con i s tt>d of the demons~ration by member o-f each team of ide troke, back stroke, brea s t troke, standmg front dive, runnmg front dive, an l und r-water swimmino- The winner of the e events were: Sid e stroke Standing front dive

1. Ht EXDA OL , ox, senior 1 HARRIET McCLELL.A::.\'D , senior

2 MARGARET UTER, junior 2. EYA DA ns, freshman 3 . H \..ZEL SAFFORD, sophomore 2. CLARA HINES, sophomore B re ast strok e Running front div e

1. D A RL E EX WooDW \..RD, senior 1. EYA DA ns, freshman 2. CLARA HrxEs, sophomore 2. VrnGINIA IRoxs, sophomore

3 DoHOTHY GooDAI E, junior 8 DARLEEX WooDw .rnD, sen i or Ba c k st r ok e Und,er water swimming

1. HAnnrnT M c CLELLAXD , senior 1. EYA DA n , freshman 2. CL A RA H IXE , sophomore 2. VrnGIXIA IRoxs, sophomore

3. MrLDnED A1rns, junior 3. MARGARET UTER, junior

EYa DaYi the winner of the under-water w1mmmg ff,ent, , ,Yam the whole length of the pool, without coming aborn the water, and was rewarded by Yigorou applause from the pectator~.

The econd part of the contest con i ted of an inter-cla s relay race, fancy diving, and other " tunts" perform8d in deep w·ater. The relay race was won by the enior team. Each team then di ·played five fancy dives to be judged by form and the po ition of the diver, two point being given for each dive done in good form. During this part of the contest, ~he j1idges, hovering near the edge of the pool, were quite disma~•ed by the shower they received when a di ye wasn't just true.

While the judge were counting 11p the point , Clara Hine and ·willa ,vynkoop amu ed the f?pectators by fa .king off bloomer , rniddie , shoe , and stocki ng s in deep water. Several of the girls warn with lighted candles in their mouths, while still others demon trated life saving holds. Finally the judges' whi tl e blew and Miss Springer announced the score. " eniors first," (she wa interrupted by loud cries of pleasure from the seniors pre ent) "soph()mores and £re hmen tied for econd place.'' M:ore cheering followed.

The first indiYidual winner was EYa Davis, who had twenty-two points. Harriet McClelland took second place with fifteen point , and Clara Hine · third place. Em Davi was admired by all for her clean-cut diving and speedy wimrning, and Harriet McClelland and Clara Hines both did goocl work on their rcspecti Ye team::;.

DANCING CONTE T

Per ons who scoff at belief in fairies should haYe come to the dancing contest, May 9, and have seen the sprites that danced gaily in the high school auditorium. Flowers, butterflie , brook~· and incarnations of Spring floated an l fluttered about the stage . EYeryone who attended the dancing contest, held under the au pice • of the Girls Athletic Association, was plea e<l with the variety and taste exhibited in the various dances. Girls from both the beginners and the advanced dancing classes took part.

V,Then the curtain first rose, one 11acl a confu ed impre. sion that he was looking at an old-fashioned garden, et out in straight rows with flower of every hue. The entire dancing cla , in dainty brio-ht co tumes, di played everal nece. sary technical po itions, and then other positions which aid grace, balance, and poise.

Then followed the solo dance . Some of the girl , follmwcl l\Iilton' ~ inYitation,

"Corne anrl trip it a ye go On the light fantastic toe."

Other;; gave dances more slow and tately. Each girl in the conte~t had her dance well in hand, and performed it ,Yith admirable precision and grace.

,n1il e the judo-es, Mi Pound, Mis· ,Jone , and Miss Miller, were decidinothe "·inners, Mis Breitstadt gave a dance, By Firelight. he had been urged for month to give a dance before th ~;tudents, bnt had never before consented. he truly re embled a gyp y, with her gay costume, l1twe ear-rino- , and tinkling tambourine.

Finally the decision was ready. Bernice Ray took first place with her dance, 1p1·ing Maiden. Bernice's dance wa one which took careful and painstaking practice, but it wa a true representation of fickle, changeable pring with her laughter and tears, gentle bre ~ze and trong winds.

Hazel navely was given the second prize, her dance being The Letter. She portrayed the feeling of anyone receiYing a much wished for letter:, rejoicing in it, then in a fit of temp ::- r at a part of its content, tearing it in shreds, and finally remor efnlly mrl loYino-ly picking up the crap . - 122-

Glady · Ramsdell receiYed third prize. Her dance w·a The Jloth, and one would almo:-::t b ::- lieYe she might be a hugr ··Luna'' moth.

PROGRAM

TECHNIQUE

(a) Fi ,·e Positions.

(b) Fe!:.it Battements.

(c) Grand Battements.

(d) Poses (for balance and poise).

DANCES

A Picture Beatrice Marshan Tarantella Virginia Lehman

Dawn lv· Ch

Daisy Chains J irgmia. amp e

Irish Jig

Ida Reed

In the Park Reba Evans and Jane Stone

Pierrette Leora Chapman

Modanet Maganek .. .... Harriet McClelland

Dance Russe ............. Evelyn Lindaman

The Letter HazJl Snavely Morning - l

The Brook Helen Mills

Marguerites J Spring Maiden Be : nice Ray

The Moth Gladys Ramsdell Violette. · Katherine Kin~

The Shepherd's Pipe l M• Ch

The Birds Awake s· aurme ampe

By the Firelight (Gypsy) Emma Br€itstadt

Sta6ium

In the sp ring of 1920 the high school athletic committee and the membe1,s of the board of education began discussion of an athletic field and the building of a stadium at the high schoo l. Th 3re "·ere many reasons for considering such a yenture. In the £all of 1920 th ~ university athletic authorities had been reluctant to let us use their field at all because it interferred with football prac. ice, and they had charged us for the use of it. ,~ e had been obliged to . omit the lat period each school day wh·~n a game was held at home, in order to give the field to the university athletes when they demanded it. Secret prac.ice was almost impossible. Because of all this the Lincoln high schcol authorities planned for an athletic field. Mr. Pickell had presented to the board of education, plans which were revis e:! at the directicn of the high school committee. for the construction of an athletic field. It was recommended that the ,Yater serYice drains which would allow the field and track to drv in thre e hours aft er a heavy rain, and the grading for the track, all of ~hich was estimated tc cost from $4,000 to $5,000, be authorized.

Later, the committee, for the purpose of considering the further development of the athletic field, directed the architects to prepare plans and specifications for the wall and the grand stand . Careful specifications by th 3 architects showed that a concrete grand stand shculd be made to accommodat., thre e thou . ·and per..:on s. Two team rooms under the grand stand •were providPd in the plans. The grand stand itself is to be approximately the length of the field with a depth of one hundred feet. The wall i. to b 0 eio-ht fe 0 t high and of e~mcrete, b : ing slightly rounded at the corners of the field. For pure decoration it wa • rnggested that a hedge of b1rberry between the track and the wall, Yine:-:; on the ,rnll, and a row of oak.~ jnst outside be planted to accent the shape of the stadium . Since oaks retajn their foliage lat e into the wint r the field ,,rnuld present an attractive appearance to match that of the high ~chool. Progr2ss on the stadium will now be d~la_vecl until more money can be ecured. Unle ~s football, basketball, or some other activity earns enough money to w~lrr ~nt the continuation of the work, the stadium will probably not be completed until the grade school childr?11 have all been runoved from cottages . " Then completed this undoubtedly "·ill be the best high schoo l ~tadium in the country, "·ith som~ features that will put many uniwr;;,itie~ to sham? .

··He·s just as sick a they are And hi • heart i like to split. But he work 'em, works em, work::-; 'em Till he feel them take the bit.'"

Kipling's word may be applied to the "·ork of the debate coach. It may be added that the coach not onlv ·'works 'em" but works himself. To Mr. T. '-- .' Dunn coach of debate in Lincoln high chool, fell tl~e lot of endles round of labor. To quote Kipling again: "His "·ork begins, heaven know · when And hi • vrnrk is neYer thrOlwh."

Mr. Dunn wa compelled to deYelop a debating machine with only one experienced man for material. '\Yith the quietne s and tenacity that characterize all his undertaking , l\Ir. Dunn grappled with this ta k. Although he was unlmmn1 to the tndent , thi. being his first year in Lincoln high, l\fr. Dunn soon rou ed in them a white-hot enthu iasm for debate. The re:mlt

,v-a a well trai11ed, ratl1er forn1i la ble tea111. -· Mr. Dnnn did not seek publicity,-hi work wa:, not in the public eye,-but the ~chool feel · that the ucce the debating team O"ained thi . year may be in n considerable measure attributed to Mr. Dunn.

Mr. Dnnn "·as graduated from Knox College with an A. B. degree. FollmYing thi he did graduate work at the Uniwrsity of Mis ouri. After actino- a principal of the high school in Lebanon, Mo., for three ~Tears. Mr. Dunn left that cit~· to take graduate work at the niver ity of Chica 0 ·o. Then, for three years, he worked for the Co.ngr~o·ational church among · the tudent at the Iowa tate College of Agri ulture and :Mechanic Arts.

'\Yhen the ,Yar broke out, Mr. Dunn went to the officers trammg cam p at Camp Zachary Taylor Kentucky, "here he wa commis ·ioned second lieutenant. He wa then tran ferred to amp Travi in Texa .

After hi di charo-e from the ·en·ice, Mr. Dunn made an overland trip to California, trav lling all through the soutlrne -tern part of the country. The? he returned to Lincoln, where he engaged in educational "ork among the umver ity tudent In the fall of 1920 he joined the ocial science department of Lincoln high chool.

··The time will com e ' when you \Yill hec:lr me," said Disraeli after he had made a failur 2 of his fir ' t spe 2ch in PL rliam ent. The Lincoln high school debaters ha Ye b een heard, and their ontorical efforts, as Di sraeli's finally wer ', hnw bern rewarded with nccess.

Th 0 fir t call for deb1t ~r3 went out late in ..1. Tovemb 2r. About bY 2nty prospects appeared and for s 3veral weeks they wer trained · in the element of argmnentation. On Decemb::-r 15, bYo t '.:! ams were selected to repre ent th<> school throughout the eason. They immedia ~ely set to work hoarding eYidence, and con tructing a cas? on e ch ide of the q 1e s tion that would with tand bombardment from anv Xebraska te~m.

Mr. T. s·'. Dunn co :: ched both team .; this year and clesene · much cr 2dit for their succ es s. Lincoln's record i:; conYincing proof of th quality of debating that th ~ tea11:, ar~ doing:

Lincoln (default) :3

Lincoln 1 Temple High ............. 0 Cathe<lr1l ................ 2

Lincoln .................. 3

Lincoln (at Lincoln) ...... ;3

Lincoln (at Cret ~) L

Lincoln .................. 8

Lincoln 3

·w e:;levan Academy. . . . . . 0 c~r te •........... 0 ('rete .................... 2 r ni Ye rsi ty Plac ~ . . . . . . . . 0 Beatrice ................. 0

Lincoln 2 Omaha Central. ........... 1

Lincoln\ total .......... 19 Opponent s total. 5

As originally chosen, one team consisted of 'Wendell Berge, captain, Hugh Cox, :rnd Donald Loder. Thi team m ,'t Cathedral high chool in the tat.e

Hugh Co x \Ven d ell Berge

\l b:o n Spe ier

D o ugl ass Orr Mr. Dunn John \Ii i o n \V;ll ia m H o lme s

league. Shortly after thi de bat Don..-1ld Loder left chool ,rnd John Alli on took his place for the 1' e leyan ..A.c adem>r debate . A. finally con titut cl, how- e,;-er this team ,ms made up of ,vendell Berge, Hugh Cox. and Albion , peier. The other team ,,a. compo ed of John Alli'" ,n captain. ,Yilliam Holme , and Douµ.-lass Orr.

•• Re olYed, that the literacy te t re:3tri tion on immigration should be re- pealed" "·a. the tate league que tion debated by both teams. Both team were pr 0 pared on each ide of the que tion.

Intere t eenter d thi year on the Beatrice debate The conte t for the Fonun cup offered jointly by the Formn of Lin coln and Beatrice, in addition to the perpetual riYalry b~tween the two schools, erved oreatl>r to timulate interest for thi~ contest. \Vith tongue: sharpened, ja,, well oiled, and hearts determined, the team journeyed to Beatrice on the twentieth of April and won by a nnanimou decision. everal carloads of rooters also made the trip, and they beat Beatrice in rooting, as well. Had Lincoln lo t thi. struggle, the Formn cup vrnuld b 0 long permanently to Beatrice, since the chool that wins it three times traight b 0 come it owner. Lincoln there-fore nm t win the cup for two more year:3 to become it owner. The cup was presented to the school in f!S embl>', and ewry tudent of Lincoln high schoo l hopes that it i here to stay.

l'lnt~r-<tlas.s ~ebat~

Congratulation · to the fre hmen The Magee cup and school champion hip are theirs, b:v Yirtue of their victory in the final , over the junior::;. There was not a nentral in Lincoln high chool during the intercla s debate season Each tPam was backed by a confident cla ~ . .,nd the dispute were not confined to the . actnal debates: they permeated the corridors as we1l. On the first day, the • :-;eniors, 12roncl of their three year.s high chool knowledge, philosophically took the . tand with the juniors, while the freshmen and ophomore contested with each other. omething surely happeH,,,d thi fir.st day, for the seniors and sophomores were eliminated, leaving the junior. and freshmen to fight it out.

The critical conte t was staaed in a semb ly. ,,7hen the bTo team filed out on the platform, sighs of pity arose for the yearling . ,vho could expect any- thing from them 1 But thi pity was all premature, for the freshmen proved their nperiority to the junior;:; and "·on the Magee cup which goe each year to the winner of the finals.

The qne. tion debated was the tab league question, "Resolved, that the literacy test re. triction on immigration should b 0 repealed". The senior::, and fr2:-;hmen unhelcl the affirmative, the junior and ophomor s upheld the negative.

Following is the makeup of the l'hss teams:

Seniors:

,Yilliam Bertwell

,Yilliam Holme.

Theodore Kaden

.Junior :

Hugh Cox

Donald Loder

Lillian mith

Sophomore : Palmer ~lc9r ew

Blanche Larrab e 0

Jnlins Fran ·den

Freshmen:

.T olrn kiles

Otho De Yilbis ~ terlina Hatfield

In memory of Lincoln high school students who died in the service during the World War this bronze tablet was placed in the main entrance of the high school building by the students.

Our Alumnl

Lincoln high school is proud of her alumni She h as a right to be proud of them . I£ we run down the list of graduates, we find many occupy- ing positions of merit,-in business, in professions, in politics and in the home. These men and women who have caught the spirit of L H S are American citizens of the highest type, who contribute to the work of the world . That is why we are glad to claim them for alumni.

But do they still remember Lincoln high, or in the rush of their work have they :forgotten their school days of years ago 1 The answer to tha.t question is obvious to the Links staff. Every alumnus with whom we have corresponded, has expres ed the warmest affection :for his school, and has mani:fe ted a lively intere t in its progress . The alumni who have contributed to this department ar e very busy m en, who have nevertheles given their time and talent to the end of making this volume of the Linlcs a success.

To Dwight IGr.:ich, '15, who is now studying art in New York City we are indebted for the artistic design which marks the alm:nni section of the book. ,ve ar e very grateful al o to O wald Black, '17, cartooni t for the Lin co ln Star, who gave u the spirited cartoon repre senting the Lincoln high school student attempting to ride the fiery steed, Higher Education.

The letters quoted in this ection also come from men whom we are very proud to call our alumni J. Dean Ringer, '99, until thi spring superintendent of the department of police, sanitation and public afety in the city of Omaha, has been highly praised becau e of the efficiency of thi department . Mason wheeler , '02, is now assi stant attorney general of the state of Nebra ka. After b eing graduated from the University of Nebra ka, Mr . ,vheeler attended Columbia Law chool for four years and practiced law in ew York City for eight years. Before entering upon his pr e ent duties he was for two yean lieut enant of field artillery in the American army.

Fred Up on, '02, i s now chairman of the department of chemistry at the University of Nebra s ka. He received his A. B. degree at the University of Nebra ka, and he received the degree of Doctor of Philo sophy at the University of Chicago. He then held position s as re se arch chemi t at the UniYersity of Cincinnati and the University of Chicao-o b efore he became research chemi t and later head of the chemis ' :ry department at the Univer ity of Je bra ka.

Did you ever have the experience of cutting a wi sdo m tooth, quarr eling with :vour chum, lo si ng your wrist watch, failing to recite in Latin, and being kept for forty minute after chool, al] in one day 1 Then on your arrival home did you meet your great aunt , who patted you on the hould e r and exclaimed, "Oh, my dear, the e are the happie t day s of your life " omething of thi s ensation come oYer th Lin lcs ta:ff when they read letter written to the hio-h chool by alumni. hall we, too, ome day, forget the pin-prick of our every-day exi tence and think of our school day a one long dream of bliss 1 vVe are :fortunate thi • year in rec eiving a letter from a man who appre- ciate. the humor in s uch a point of view. Dr p on i ready to laugh at his own idealization of hi chool day , saying, in the opening of hi letter :

"Our boyi h day look very merry to n now. The nubbings and toothache and Latin verbs ar e all forgotten -the Latin verbs e pecially. Theworld appear to hav e b 2en a very superior sort of plac e then, and things were more as they should be. Boys were boys then, and girls were very different. Al so winter s were omething like winters and ummers not at all the wretched thing we grt put off with nowadays . As for the wonderful deeds people did in those days, and the extraordinary things th t happened, it takes thre 0 strong men to believe half of them. I like to h

one of the old boy telling all about it to a party of youngsters, who he knows, cannot contradict him. It is odd if, after a while, he doesn't swear that the moon shone every night when he was boy, and that to sing mad bulls in a blanket was a favorite sport at hi chool.

"'Vinters," Dr. Upson repeat , "were omething like winter , twenty years ago. Skating partie , when half the school went along, were the order of the day, and every now fall brought out clas bob- led ride , followed by oyster parties and pie feed . peakmg of pie f eds, do you eniors of 1921 ever indulge in them after eventh period in the chem lab. ( contributions 5c per) ?

'·And the ummers were not at all the wretched things we are put off with nowadays. The summer or late spring brought the annual outing when the whole school, teacher ~ and all, went by special train for a day at outh Bend or Milford or ome other place. Dr. Davenport furnished the ice cream, and a a pecial privilege member o-f the enior cla s alway rode in the baggage car in charge of the ice cream and the checking of parcels.

"And the teachers were omething like what they should be twenty years ago,' he continues Our envy wmld be arou ed did he not immediately add, "Miss Gere could always be counted on to loan the chem. lab. for an impromptu feed. ' we draw a long breath of ati faction, for are not the refreshments erved in the "chem. lab." as far-famed in 1921 as ever before?

In retrospect Dr. Upson i impres ~d by the character of his fellow students, twenty years ago. "The students," he say , "were of a high type and worked hard. There wa a real purpo e in going to chool. Among the graduates of twenty years ago there might be mentioned everal successful lawyers of today, two or three bank ca hiers, at lea t one notably uccessful architect, a number of our leading physicians, two or three engineer who have made real uccesses, several profe sors and head of departments in the state university and other chool , and of course from the ranks of the girls a whole host of successful housekeeper and teachers and a sprinkling of business and professional women."

Above all else, however, there stand. out in Dr. Upson' memory the per- onality of one man, Mr. H. J. Davenport, who wa principal of Lincoln high school from 1 99 to 1902. "Men of hi _ type were found all too seldom in public school work twenty years ago," Dr. Up on tell us. '·Mr. Davenport was a man of brain He wa characterized by absolute fair-mindedne s in his dealing with student and by a singular ympathy for the tudent point o-f view. Davenport had a loyalty and npport from the student which made for a real school spirit. The head master Bate , in Kipling' torie , talky rrnd Co., typi:fie Davenport. Davenport had a control of the situation and an insight into the way of boy and girl uch a the head ma ter how in his dealing with Stalky, McTurk and Beetl ."

One cannot but wonder a the force of character po e ed by a man who after twenty years i remembered by hi pupils with o much ardent gratitude a, is Dr. Davenport. Another alumnu , Ma on Wheeler, comment upon Dr. Davenport's personality in the s1me spirit as does Dr. Upson. Mr. wheeler ays, "'' e recall with re pect, pride and whole ome admiration the head of the school, Dr. H. J. Davenport, an unusual man of a type not often found in the intermediate teaching profe ·sion, big in body, brain and heart. He wa a man whose unu ual per onalitv radiated a splendid influence upon the entire chool. There wa nothing mall, petty or sel:fi h about him. His ideals were plendid and hi s method of impressing them upon hi pupils were unique. Those of n • who came within hi phere of influence in our adolescent years have much to be thankful for."

Mr. Wheeler also pays tribute to his other instructors, Miss Mary Campbell (now Mrs. Major), Miss Edna Rickett ' (now Mr. Erne t Fol om), Mr. W. S. Heitzman and Miss Mariel Gere. "The per onal character of a high school

teacher i far more important than his or her method::, of teaching,'' he says, commenting upon the far-reaching influence of these per ons.

Dean Ringer' memorie of hi school day are concerned laro-ely with hi ' schoolmate , po · ibly becau e Mr · . Ringer was Mi l' ellie Trigo-, graduated from Lincoln high school in '99. He recall in particular "the rou ing rallies and football games, the inging of the old chool ongs, the exciting debate each Friday night in deLating society, the weekly rhetoricals, the partie • (much les. formal I pre ume, than tho e of today), the work of the class room, the comradeship of clas. mate.s, and la t, but not lea t, the faithful work and . :nnpathetic cooperation of those fine- pirited men and women of the facultv.''

A Uu:ill of i::>ride i.· ours " hen we learn that our affairs are of concern to men of uch importance a the e. Dean Ringer Yoices a sentiment which our alumni are wont to expres : ··Today, as of yore, we are proud of the victorie , and suffer in the defeat of our Alma Mater, whatever the contest may be.'

'1-l~rsonals

It is with a feeling of proprietor -;hip that we of Lincoln high chool follmY the careers of our oTaduate who are now in the University of Tebraska. ,,Then we turn to the university new section of the new papers, we are almost always rewarded by an item ,vhich indicate that Lincoln high school alumni are winning honors in college. ,ve cannot possibly find space in this section to tell of everyone who has done omething worthy of mention at the university this year, but we haYe chosen a few from Yaried branche of nniver. ity affairs.

Robert E. Craig, '20, was president of the freshman cla last year. Joe IYer on, 'lD, wa treasurer of hi da " la t year and Franci Colton, '19, wa secretary.

Knox Burnett, '20, i circulation manager of the Daily N ebm,3kan, the univer ity new paper. Gertrude Tomson, '1 , is on the reportorial taff.

Miles Hildreth, '17, and Fred Campbell, '19, were members of the university affirmative debating team la. t year. Loni Finkel tein, '1 -n·as a member of the negative team.

John Lawlor, '18, was a ·i tant adverti ing manager, and Katherine Brenke, '1 , was feature editor of the Comhusker, the univer ity student annual publication

Eleanor Fogg, '17, is a memb r of the 1 niver ity Players. he ha played important part in veral of the play pre ented thi year .

Sam Brownell, '17, i a member of the Innocents, an honorary orgam- zation of enior men He i ~ chairman of the committee in charge of univerity week. Last year he was chairman of the junior debate committee. He is also a member of the University Players .

I n athletic , as well a. in other activitie , alumni have accomplished a great deal. Monte Munn, '18, ha been J ebraska's right guard in football this year. He also · played center on the basketball team last year and this year Harold McGla on '15, ha been quarterback on the football team. Verne Lewellen, '20, and Howard Adam on, '17, were members of the freshman basketball team this year. ,, e ley Jungmeyer, '19, was center with the univer ity basketball team. Tom Lee , '17, and Herbert Gi h, '18, were on the track team la t year.

Alumn i at l.Cnivu.s itr

The class of '21 is going to find one que tion absorbing more and more of their attention a the ummer months go by. Even now, amid all the turmoil and excitement that preceeds graduation, the question is ringing in their ears, "\Vhat will life at college be like 1"

In many high chools the que tion call up a different picture in the mind of almost every graduate, a the clas~ i to b,e scattered in many in titutions of higher learning in variou part of the United States. In Lincoln high school, however, the majority of the student who intend to pursue an education farther have in mind the ame university, the University of Nebraska.

Consequently the Links taff decided that it would be conferrino- a genuine benefit upon the graduation clas if it could o-ive the seniors some "inside information" a to the condition which will confront them a inexperienced £re hmen next fall. We are indebted to Sam Brownell, '17, now an active tudent in the Univer ity of Nebraska, for the following letter: April 6, 1921.

To the Editor of the Links:

Dear Sir: I hav tried to write something to the clas of '21 that might be of use to them when they enter the univer ity. I have realized what a hard task it is, and how little I am fitted for such a ta k. As a re ult I have decided to call attention to some things which a freshman often overlooks, yet which loom up at the end of a college career as fundamental to a successful college life. University life may well be compared to a maze puzzle, never easy, but ea ier if a little help is given at the start from one who has finished, so I am going to put before you a few things that I should like to have put before me if I were starting the university course next year.

In the first place, "Why are you going to the university 1" For the added know ledge, higher skill, and technical training gained there, of cour e. That is the prime factor in university training and means, then, that the first thing in the mind of every university tudent shall be his studies. Many of you may not have a definite profession in mind, and even if you do, I believe the majority of the seniors of the university this year would say, take considerable general training a a foundation fir t before specializing . Look ahead to the future in selecting your courses, and then, having elected them, make them first in your university life. Do more than "get by." That is the worst cur e a freshman can have, this "get by" attitude. Yon are having a chance to get something worth while. Make this opportunity count, and you'll never regret it.

But your tudie do not constiute all your university education. The man who get hi studie alone ha missed a vital part of his college course. You are fitting yours lf for life and mu t be able to get along with the people you come in contact with. Your friends, and ability to make friends, will not be handed to you with your diploma. Your friend are the re ult of growth, and the friend of college are ome of the most intimate and lasting ones you will make. Therefore make friend , friend who are worth while, true, friends who will la t.

Then, third, there are the activities of the school. The man who is active in school will be active when he graduates, and the active man is the one who will ucceed. They take time and energy, it is true, but you will gain twice what you put into them in training, friendships, and pleasure. In conclu ion, then, let me sum up the things I hould want to keep in mind if I were tarting school next fall. First, remember the purposes in going to college. Do more than "get by;" you'll never forget it if you do, you will if you don't. Make your school work first. econd, make friend~ with all around you. ome of the closest friends you will ever have you will

gam in college. Third be active m school activities. If for no other reason they are splendid training.

To the cla of '21 as a whole, I wi h you all the greatest . uccess in your university course, or wherever you may go. I know you will continue to hold high the reputation of L. H. . so that four years from now we may see in the univer ity a leader3 in the cla of '25 tho. e who are now members of the cla of '21.

With best wi he for ucce s in putting out the LinFs thi year, and assuring you that I am till an L. H. . booster~

Y ery truly yours, A~I BROWNELL.

~lumni Win 'l)~i ~da lKap,pa '"Jfonor.s

Phi Beta Kappa honors were awarded to fifty-three members of the graduating cla at the Univer ity of Nebraska on March 24. Senior are elected to membership each year throngh their schola tic record.

Of the new members, the following are Lincoln high chool alumni : Mary Brownell

Sam Brownell

Frank Fowler

Janet Maitland

James Burks Harley

Olive Hartley

Eleanor Hinman

There were four prizes given to the araduating clas. la t year. They were the senior prize, the Fred Gardner scholarship medal, the Harry idney Dobbins medal, and the Rot'.lry club prize . ·

The senior prize is given to the boy or girl who best repre ents the school ar..d who has done the most for his or her cla s. The prize is an award of fifty dollars, the faculty serving as judges. Herbert Brownell received this prize last year.

The Fred Gardner scholarship medal i offered to the tudent who has received the highest average in his grades through his four year of high school. Thi was won by David Halbersleben.

The Harry ydney Dobbins medal i presented annually to the be t boy athlete with the highest . cholar hip record. Verne Lewellen received this medal.

The Rotary club gave prizes of twelve and six dollars to two girls who made the best graduation dresses for a limited sum of money. These prizes were earned by Fran e Newens and Elizabeth ,velch.

7uture. Alumni

You can tell them when you meet them

In the different walks of life; You can tell them when you see them Pushing forward through the strife; You can tell them when you see them, Be it east or north or west; There are certain signs that mark them, They are diffP.rent from the rest.

When he seems alert and ready, When his nerve will not run out, When he comes up smiling broadly Though he's getting knocked about, When he plays the game to wm it, And his play is clean but fa$t, When he sticks to the job the/ gave him

As long as he can laast, When he's eve ry thing he should be And you begin to wonder why, It's a very easy puzzte, For he came from Lincoln high.

Almost every place you'll find them, Be it north or east or west, If you look for them you'll see them; They are there among the best. Their work i s going forward

A s the troops of years march by; They give the best that's in th~m, And -they came from Lincolr. high.

DRl\Mt\llCS

The high tandard of the dramatic enter-prise of Lincoln high chool for the last two year. can be attributed only to the effort of Mrs. Ruth _.,.. ew Ion, chool drama tic coach.

Mrs. :New Ion has studied both in Indiana and Columbia universities. She came to Lincoln during the fall of 1919 to accept a position with the Engli h department. In this department her dramatic talent was uncovered and the Mummers immediately ecured her a one of their spon ·or . During her two years with Lincoln high chool, Mr:-3. New Ion ha coached all of the c la s plays a well a the Mummer plays.

Everyone remembers the pre enta tion of the Minrnmer. play for 1919, You J ever Can T ell, Mr s X e,don' fir s t production of importance in Lincoln. The junior cla s then ecured her to help ,Yith their play, Alice it-by-the-Fire Tho:e of the senior clas who were fortunate enouo-h to ee thi s play pre ented. decided that Mrs. Xewlon w a s the one to help them a he had the junior:-3 by coaching their play. Thu the . ucce . of Th e Jlan of th e II ()111' wa . a ured.

Iler next work wa the fornmer s play for H>21, Th e Road to Y es t e 1·day. Thi ~·ear the cla of 1922 chose a play by Edna Ferb er, $1 /200 a, Y ear , an d th e . enior cho e Th e Ot•isi from the book by Churchill. Th e Cri ·is was presented to two full audience How :Mr . ..... Te,vlon found time to teach her many cla e , and durino- the ame time pilot the young actor . and actre~ es through the ecret of acting, i one of the late t my terie of Linco ln high chool. Her untiring effort· have made the dramati productions of the school felt in the heart. of all.

Thoe ,Yho lrnve ,rnrked with ~fr. Xewlon find rehearing not an unplca~ant grind. but an intere. ting period of in trnction. The leading man of one of the dramatization pre ented thi :vear wa walkir1g down the corridor frmn1ing·. A friend clapped him on the back and a . keel, " ,Yha t' the great <lifficnlt:d"

' 'Oh. I don't get to rehear e tonight," came from the gloomy actor.

" Beginning to like it. ar e vou ?''

"Like it! ay, man! There i n <> thing better.''

Though ~fr s ·xewlon ha been h e re onlv two :ve ar , her high dramatic ideal:-:: and. h e r onstructiYe imagination have <lone much for Lincoln hio-h chool.

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All hail the Ide of April. If the soothsayer had only said this, he not only would have given Julius Cresar one more month to live, but also would have given us a quotation to use in this emergency For surely, "Beware the Ide of March!" will do u no good, even though it has lived through these hundred of years. Even if we can't begin with a quotation, maybe in A. D. 4183 our "All hail" will help some poor struggling editor. ,vi10 knows 1 At any rate, the Ides of April this year wa as momentous an occasion to the class of '21 a that famou Ides of March wa to our friend Julius Cresar in 56 B. C. The only difference is that his cri is wa a disastrous one while ours placed us, we complacently feel, in the hall of fame.

,ve seem to remember that there have been enior play in former years; and now we think of it, other evenL have recently taken place outside of the school world, a presidential inauguration, some little difficultie in Europe and the orient, but the thing the enior will remember about the spring of 21 is the preparation and presentation of Tlie Crisis by ,Yinston Churchill.

A play is like a camera. Certain scene , certain dramatic situations photo- graph themselve upon the mind of the audience. They are called the high- lights. In a period play, as The Crisis, the audience not only sees a well-acte<l play with stirring ituations, but the cu tom , the manners, and the dress of a former day n on the tage make Lhe watchers realize that what i now hi ory was once everyday issue to our fore-fathers The slave auction cen in th fir~t act was a typical in tance which thrilled the audience with a :fuller realization o:f the difference between the pa t and the pre ent.

The law office of Judge Silas Whipple, an abolitionist in St. Loui-:;, is the place where Stephen Brice, a young Northerner, and Clarence Colfax, a hotblooded Southerner engaged to marry Virginia Carvel, fir t meet. The coar e cheering of bidders and onlooker at a slave auction, can be heard through the open French windows of the room. Nancy, the mother of the young girl being old, rushe into the room, and on her knees begs omeone to ave her daughter. tephen Brice, full of pity and di gu t at the cene, leans :from the window and begin. to bid for her. Virginia Carvel is also determined to buy the girl as a maid to her. he in tructs Clarence Colfax to bid

for her. ....i\nd thns from the two window.~ , looking dmn1 on the cene, te.phen Brice and Clarence Colfax bid higher and higher. Excited by Virginia's keen d~ ire for the lave, Clarence bid on until the price reaches 900, which is almo t all the money tephen ha saved. Ther i a moment ten e ilence. The onlookers and bidders are quiet, waiting for the next move. Then-·' 910'' call tephen in a clear, unfaltering voice. The girl i old to tephen, who liberate her, but who incur the animosity and anger of Clarence and Virginia.

Two years elapse . Colonel Carvel, father of "\ irginia, i entertaining for his daughter. The gne ~t., mostly yo11ng friend of Yirgini,, throng the room, de. iring to dance their favorite, the Virginia reel. Perhap the next cene will linger longe t in the memory of the audience a one of the mo t artisbc scenes ever presented in a high ~chool pla~'. To the lilt of the ever-popular mu ic, with the swish of oft, wide, brwaded hoop kirt , and the coquetti h to;-;s of curl · , the guest. dance through the Virginia reel. Punch i errnd by the traditional darky butler. But an air of anxiety pervades the room. will Abraham Lincoln be elected? The gnests rally to the Southern can e, and with a defiant air drink to " eces ion." Then like a thunderbolt come ~ the news. "Abraham Lincoln is elected!"

Clarence Colfax enter· the Confederate army as a lieutenant, and Brice enters the nion army a a captain Eliphalet Hopper, a Northern hypocrite who would now be called a 'profiteer,'' obtain control of Colonel Carvel' business a:ff air "'-fhen the town i in the hand. of T ortherner , Hopper threatens to expo e Colonel Canel, who i on leave from the Confederate army visiting hi home, to the Union authorities, unle~ he give \ irginia in marriage to him. Stephen Brice, who ha aved Clarence Colfax's life before, intervene~, and the Colonel is saved.

The success of the play wa evidenced not only by the two crowded houses, but by the close attention paid by the audience, and the favorable comments passed upon the play everywhere . The ca t de erve all praise, e pecially the principals, who e work wa beyond many performance which are labelled "professional.' The costuming, the etting, the moothne s of the play, and the excellent bu ines management of it indirate what eniors, and especially the class of 1921 can accompli h. The coaching of Mr . Ruth ~ewlon, and the help of Mi s Price and l\fiss McMahon cannot b ~ too highly complimented.

The following is the cast :

Charles Righter ...............................

William Holm~s

Joseph us Glenn Dunkle

Eliphalet Hopper .............................. Don Hollenbeck

Stephen Brice ................................... Clayton Snow

Silas Whipple ..................................... John Major

Virginia Carvel

Louise Lesh

Clarence Colfax ...................................... Neil Cole

Mr. Canter ..................................... Edward Kub:1t

rancy ........................................ Elizabeth Asmus

Puss Russel ................................. Winifred Mayhew

Colonel Carvel Ernest Witte

Eugenie Renault

Dorothy Davis

Anne Brinsmade .............................. Phyllis Unthank

Maude Catherwood ... ........

Frances Wineland

George Catherwood Irl Kuns

Jack Brinsmade ............................... Theodore Kaden

Tom Catherwood .................................. Ivory Tyler

Emma Westermann

Other Guests. Rosanna Williams Winifred Mayhew

Ephum ........................................... Marion Pratt

Mrs. Colfax Frances Hilliard

Sergeant .......................................... Leon Nefsky · f Montford Kiffin

Soldiers

Irl Kuns

Mrs. Brice .................... Lillian Baker

$1.200 A Y~ar

-when a young university profe or, devoted to his work, leaves his pro- fe sion, don a pair of overall , and determine to work in a mill for the rest of his life, decidedly omething mu t be wrong. This is what happened in the play, $1 :BOO a Year, by Edna Ferber, pre ented to a full house by the cla of 1922

In the case of Paul Stoddard, profe . or of economics at Dinsmore Univerity, it vrns not merely the struggle to make both ends meet on the pitiful alary of 1,200 a year that made h'im give up hi profes ion, but the fact that hi work wa unju tly criticised. He determined that since he wa not to be allowed to say what he felt, when he wa an acknowledged authority on his subject, the self sacrificing life of a nniver ity profe or wa not worth while. Frank Dinges interpreted the difficult role of Paul toddard convincingly from the time he . tartled the little group assembled at hi home for one of their meagre dinner parties by hi blnnt tatement that he could not afford to feed them, through his rnried experience a a mill hand, to the clo e of the play, when his courageou stand had brought about a proper appreciation of the teachino- profe ~ion.

Ruth Virtue wa appealing a Jem1 toddard, the loyal wife of the prof sor. In pite of the truggle to keep up appearance. on their mall alary, he found life much more worth while in the unfrer ity circle than in a lnxnriou • flat in the factory di. trict.

Martha, the ·nobbi h, unaccom1nodating maid, who disagreed with everyone as a matter of principle, wa clenrl)7 imper onated by Dori Trott, who brought ont her droll peeche effectiv ly. The all-too-friendly n ighbors of the toddard in the mill flat , the Bohemian :Mr. and Mrs. Zsupnik, a interpreted by George "\Voodle and Marie Cronley, drew shout of laughter ancl bur t of applau e from the audience.

Evelyn Angle wa yery plea ing and delightful a Tony, the Zsupnik's blooming youno- dano-hter, who se chief interest in life wa gorgeous clothes, bnt who objected to being called a "cru 1ed orchid.' Frederick Fnnke a teven foClure, who was guilty of applying thi misnomer to her, made a realistic love- ick young man. Finally, however, he took the advice of Tony, and, turning hi attention to Frances ,, inthrop, niece of Jean toddard, "put a

Ii ttle jazz in to hi , lorn" by e , corting her to a motion picture theatre. Thelma '""exton wa unusually strong in her portrayal of France \Vinthrop.

John Alli. on wa dignified a yrn • l\IcClur the wealthy mill owner. Henry Adam " rinthrop the ab ent-minded profes or of Greek, A. "tarr Putnam, profes or of Engli h literatur , HmYard nell, assistant profe sor of chemitry, and Y ernon ali bury profe sor of biology. ,,ere well portrayed by Loui , Fro t, George Elwell, Ronald Button, and Ralph IcGoogan, re , pectively. Loi· Brook and Martha Fieo-enbaum a Mr.. Putnam and Milly Fam~ing helped to create the atmo phere of refinement which characterized the university life.

Tony Lococo and John ,Yil son a. the di sati fied mill hand , Howard Hebbard as Gu., the janitor, Raymond l\IcMahon a I sadore lotkin, Ow tailor, and Leroy Abbot as Cle,eland '\\relch of the Ma todon Art Film Cornpany, lent humor to the play with clewr imper. onation .. The cast "·a. as follow. :

Paul Stcddard, professor of economics and cliemist ~y Frank Dinges

Jean Stoddard, his wife ................................ Ruth Virtue

Henry Adams Winthrop, professor of Greek Louis Frost

Frances Winthrop, his daughter ...................... Thelma Sexton

Cyrus McClure, a mill owner ...........................

John Allison

Steven McClure, his son ...... .. .............. Frederick Funke

Chris Zsupnik, a mill hand ............................ George Woodle

Mrs. Zsupnik , his wife .... ......... l\Iarie Cronley

Tony Zsupnik, their daughte, .... . ... Evelyn An gle

Martha, a servant ...... . Doris Trott

A. Starr Putnam, professor of English literatur c ....... George Elwell

Emily Putnam, his wife .. .. ..............

Howard Snell, assistant professor of chemistry

Lois Brooks

Ronald Button

Milly Fanning, his fiancee ... 1\ ~artha Fiegenbaum

Vernon Salisbury, professor of biology

Ralph McGoogan

Otto Krajiik, mill hand ................................ Tony Lococo

Louis Polinski, mill hand ...... .... John Wilson

Gus, a janitor ................ Howard Heb bard

Isadore Slotkin, a tailor ........................ Rs.ymond 1:cMahon

Cleveland Welch of the Mastodon Art Film Company Leroy Abbott

If you were to meet Georo-e ,Va shino-ton todav on th treet conH'"': you would probably feel like falling on your knee and touching th<.> ground with your head three times-that i the Chine e cu tom, but i~ mo t effectiYe wherever it i used. And George ,Ya hington would probably look at you in that sympathetic way in which people regard someone not quite right in hi. mind. And you would be somewhat dazed to fiml that he wa not accu tomed to being treated in that way.

The cherry tree tale, hi s career as great general, and later a the "fathPr of his country" are ·o well known that we alway think of him as some infallible and mighty person who had alway been reverenced. The Mummers, in the playlet given on ,Va hington' birthday, jolted our minds out of this beaten track and gave us a glimp. e of his life when he was merely a youthful surveyor, no more famou than the chaimnen and pilots who accom parried him.

The cast of the play was as follows:

George Washington, a youthful surveyor Robert Slaymaker

Richard Genn I young lads who serve as chain- f lrl Kuns

James Talbot men or pilots .............. i Merle Heb bard

Keith Carey J I Roy Randolph

Red Rowan, a frontiersman's daughter. . .Louise Spangler

"'Vhere, I be eech you, oh tell m<>, where is Yesterday? I it reached by the Mi ~souri Pacific or the Rock Island? Can freshmen go on the halffare ticket ?" Such wer the confn ing and distre:,Sing que tions of the perplexed high chool student when they heard much suppressed and mysterion · gos ip abont the "Road to Ye:terday." ... Tone of them had ever before heard of Ye terday-they an thought it must be some minute village compo.:ecl of a church and a grocery store.

However, the Mummer::, stand for intelligence . Foolish question like the .: e hindered them not at all. They tolrl all inquirer::, that they might travel the road to Yesterday by purc\asing a round trip ticket from the auditing committee for twenty-five cent.

" 7 ith Mrs ewlon .a chief engineer of the crew, the cast made many trial journey during the long week of r_ehearsal. From the minute when the announcements were put on the hnlletrn board, the ca beo-an the reading and memorizing of their line The auditorium \Yas the acred anctum of the pioneers. Here, b ~fore row of empty, blank-eyed :cat , they learnea to ,,,alk, talk and a t as tage peop~e are ' nppo ·eel to clo. They learned to converse with the topmo t seat in the balcony They acquired the art of ~hrinking from an angry mob off- . tage, which con i ted of a mall boy with a bio- voice The curtain heard many Y°'Y of love, saw many crockodile tean. Even when Rob ~rt ~lavmaker wa afflicted with chickenpox, and Hope Barklev lot her voic2, did the ca 't lo. e heart? o ! "Are we down-hearted? No!" was their slo2;:rn , and thev noblv lived np to it.

Rehear;-;als for an:v play hst into tJl e \Yee small hour , ~and Mr. Brow·n, who takes care of the building at night, b~came well acquainted with the cast. Mr. Brown's heart soon ceased fluttering wildly when he pe 0 red through the glas • doors of the anditorinm and ·,nY Iri. Ludden and Dayton Hyde ap- parently tabbing each oth<'r with rulers. Nor did he open hocked eyes when he saw a red-haired boy con unH' a notebook, apparently under the conviction that it was a meat pie. For he learned that it wa all to come out right some wintry night of December. And it did.

On the evening of December 17, the audience climbed into their eats and were soon transported into the magic land of l ng ago. There venison pies anti a formed the five courses of a seventeenth centurv dinner. There witches brewed mysterious concoction , and were burned at the stake. There gypsies and soldiers of fortune traveled the broad highway , helping unfortunate maidens. There castles with moat , turret and drawbridge ,, owned by haughty lords, held sway over the countryside. It i no wonder that the audience sat spellbound during four long acts.

It all happened thu : El peth Tyre], a flighty young American girl who is visiting relatives in England, longs to return to the days of romance and of chivalry. The Fate heard this wish. They made El peth eat quantities of Roquefort cheese They inflamed h =r with an intense desire to ee London in a day. Tow this combination is eno ~1gh to hurl anyone back to the seventeen th century. Life a a lave girl had not been Elspeth's idea of romance, but thi is the situation in which c;,he find herself after b3ing transported back to the day of 1603. he i order"d about · and mistreated in a way that would make a modern maid throw up her hands in horror. Finally the duke comes to the rescue and make her his wife, although he already ha one whom he ummarily diYorces. After all these disillnsioning experiences, it is small wonder that Elspeth is thereafter content to live in the twentieth centu ry. After two act of medievali m it was r lief to the audienc e to find her back in h e r own environment, where he had an enthusia tic young lo, er awaiting her. The cast was as follow :

Elspeth Tyrel .. . Hope Barkley

Jack Greatorex ......................

Eleanor Levesen

Malena Levesen

Will Levesen

Roy Randolph

Frances Carrothers

Iris Ludden

Dayton Hyde

Harriet Phelps : Mildred Johns

Nora ............................................

Marta Rankin

Dolly Foulis : Willa Wynkoop •

Kennil Paul ton

Adrian Tompkins ...............

Robert Slaymaker

Edward Borgens

Even from the lofty view-point of a . enior , sophomores occa ionally appear remarkablv ke en-minded. At lea t. in their Chri tma a sse mbly they showed mrrked discrimination in their choice of gifts for the repre sentatiYe of the differ c> nt classe ._ " 'Twa th night before hri tmas and all through the hon e, not a creature wi>. ·tirring, not even"-the stately enior, the friYolou junior, the energetic , ophomore, or the innocent £re hrnan. And while th y c:lept, anta came with hi pack, which he carried away considerably lighter.

The planet commonly known to experienced astronomers as "Earth" was presented to the senior , it b eing what mo t of them chiefly desire, excepting, of conr<-·e, a .- mall minority who eem to think they already have it at their feat. Undoubtedly, eYeryone will admit that a jumping jack i very appropriate for the giddy and rather juvenile mind of the juniors. On the other hand we would like to advi e the ophomor e to inve t in a cow . ince they insist on b ing over-weight, milk is much b etter, both for the complexion and the stomach than bonbon -e pecially if devoured in uch quantitie as the bucketful that well meaning Santa left them. As for the £re hman, little need be said. A puppy dog-the white woolly kind especially-is both harmless and amusing. What mo e could be desired?

The ca t wa • as foll°'v , :

Senior class

Clark Richardson

Junior class ..... . ...... E'.eanor Parry

Sophomore class ................................. Martha Guist

Freshman class

Vlrginh Stultz

Santa Claus ........................... Douglass Orr

After the fir t pantomime, 0 car Bennett sang two number:'.), and lark Richard on gave a saxaphone olo.

The la t number on the program was a p;;111tomimic dance, entitled Fall. The ophomore celebrated their recent tran .~ formation from verdant £re hmen by exhibiting the P°'Yer of time to change eYen the liYelie t o-reen to the ere and yellow leaf. The green leave. were represented by :Margaret Munger, ,Jane , tone, Mab el l\Iatteson, Janet Edmiston, Leora Chapman and Grace Loveland. The yellow leave were Bernice Ray. Katherin King. Helen 1ill.:i, Evelyn ,YiL on. Reba Evan and HRz :! l nawly. Frederick Teal acted as Father Time . The piani t wa Alice ._ pringer.

Both pantomimes were written by the ophomore cla . .

,Yhat fun it would be to have for a real ·chum your great grandmother, just a he wa in the day of the minuet, "·hen he wa eighteen, your age exactly~ That i , of course, if she were an amiable great grandmother who wouldn't think ill of you imply becan"'e you were up-to-date. ome of them in their portrait look as if they di ~:1pprove of the world in general, and especially of us.

Eighteen-year-old Katherine Nowell, in the play let pre.-ented by the Mummer~ in honor of ,Vashington' birthday. had the good fortune to po e a grand- mother who was really quite human :i.nd friendly. Her portrait hung be ide one of Katherine, recently completed.

One night, ju t as the clock strn ck midnight, both of the. e portrait tretched their limb , and lowly and cautiou ly tepped forth from their picture frame , young Katherine with a "How tiff I am, 0 Gee !" in startling contra t with her ancestor' prim "La! Had I been forced to tand lono-e1·, methink I should have wooned. ' On meeting face to face, each carefully in pected the other, each e€'.ming quite plea eel, although rather bewildered with the re ult of her examination. Katherine, who at fir t sight had thought her neighbor someone merely "dolled up" for a masquerade, soon di covered that the speech and manner of this mysteriou . tranger were in keeping with the dre. of 1750, and concluded that he wa the "deare t old fa hioned valentine" he had ever een. Grandmother Katherine, although le eloquent in her admiration of her name ake, neverthele admitted, "Verily, I like her much, both skirt and bodice, although her words are pa sing strange "

In exchanging confidence further, everal ource of disagreement arose between 1750 and 1920. The latter prote ted that he would have died of paraly is in dancing the minuet, although after her grandmother had "trod a measure" of it, Katherine admitted that it was "classy ." The colonial maid of 1750, on the other hand, politely des~ribed the jazzy fox-trot a "fair indeed, but violent "

Katherine enthu ia tically offered to tell the "little D resden china l ady" the meaning of such my terious word a "telephone," "phonograph," "aeroplane." what larks they would have ! They would never be separated; they would talk and talk !

All too oon, the cock crowed. Immediately, both fell silent. Day was at

hand. Very reluctantly, they stepped back into their picture frames. Eaeh murmured a faint "goodnight," then all was still .

The characters of Katherine and her great grandmother were taken by Ruth and Katherine Henderson, who, being twin ister,, were especially suited for the parts.

Merle Hebbard danced the minuet with Katherine Henderson, and Irl Kuns performed the fox-trot with Ruth.

Our efforts in thj critical old world are for the most part confined to making people think ns as virtuous a possible. It was quite the contrary, however, with Hyacinth Halvey, hero of the hort one-act play presented by the seniors in their color day assembly.

This eccentric young Iri hman came to the mall town of Clune as subanitary in pector, presenting numerous testimonials as to his worth. The inhabitants of the town, including Mrs. Delane, the postmistress who made :i practice of reading everyone's letters, Miss Joyce, who rented rooms only to exclusive gue ts, James Quirke, the "honest" butcher who sold diseased sheep to the army, and Fardy Farrell, the ambitiou me senger boy who pa secl seven-eighths of his time in sleeping,-all were greatly excited and awed by the appearance of one whom they imagined such a aintly character. However, the novelty of being a saint soon wore off, and the role became irksome. Hyacinth determined to do something desperate to besmirch his own character. At the sugge tion of Far<ly, who stayed awake long enough to · hear his idol' tale of woe, Halvey stole the precious sheep of Quirke, the butcher. Jo sooner had he made away with it, however, than a police sergeant arrived to inspect the butch3r hop. It happened that this was one of the sheep which had died of dis 0 ase and which Quirke had intended to sell to the army. So, when Hyacinth reappeared, it was something of a shock to ee Quirke sitting back in his chair, apparently friendly toward the whole world. Halvey immediately informed Quirke of the serious crime he had committed. ·what was his surprise, mingled with ·dismay, when Quirke, literally on his knees, thanked him and informed all the townfolk of the noble deed. In their eyes he was changed from a hero, not to a base villain, but to a young god.

Halvey, then thoroughly enraged, followed a ·uggestion of Fardy by stealing a half crown from the collection plate in church, and pre enting it to Fardy. The coin was soon discovered in the posse sion of Fardy, who was, consequently, arrested. All the protests of sub-sanitary inspector and messenger boy only served to convince the people that Halvey was hielding Fardy. Still seeing their saint through ro e colored spectacles, they bore the disgusted young man a way on their shoulders-his reputation still untarnished.

The cast was as follows :

Hyacinth Halvey ...............................

Mrs. Delane ...............

Fardy Farrell ....................

James Quirke '. ............

Miss Joyce ...................................

Arthur Francis

Kathleen Ra ugh

William Holmes

William Bertwell

Mary Creekpaum

Sergeant Carden ............... ...... Irl Kuns

Our parents are very rarely seen at high school. ..When occasionally they do make their appearance, it is generally because we have done something very wicked, such as skipping classes ,)r having too many tardy slips to our credit. However, on March 11, a large number of mothers, fathers, aunts and uncles were seen . approaching the school building, not with faces set for a painful scene in the principal's office, but with actual smiles of anticipation. The Mummers were giYing a play in assembly and had invited their parents to see it.

The play, Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil, by Stuart ..Walker, charmed young and old alike by it irresistible invitation to "make believe." "The scene is a kitchen. The time is when you will." A little boy has been watching the lentils boil until his mother returns. As he sits there musing, wild shrieks are heard from without. Then a beautiful big butterfly flits in through the door, followed by the queen herself, who is in great distress of mind because she is to be decapitated at noon. She begs the boy to hide her until the clocks strike twelve, after which she will be safe The boy conceals her in his mother's room, which adjoins the kitchen. )

No sooner has he closed the door than a mime, or jester, enters. The boy, who at first is terrified by the belief that this is the headsman, soon loses his fear when he discovers that the visitor has some glittering gold balls which he is going to j nggle at the beheading. He urges the boy to go along and see him, but the boy, remembering his promise, refuses.

A pretty milkmaid with her pail then enters. company her to the decapitation. She tells him of offered as a reward for the capture of the escaped tion for the boy, who knows where she is hidden, all the wonderful things he could buy his mother. a "nice queen."

She too urges the boy to aca huge pot of gold that is queen. It is a sore temptaespecially when he thinks of But then, the queen is such

A blind man is the next visitor. He asks the boy to . how him the way to the beheading. ,Vhen the boy refuses, the blind man explains how a blind man can see with his ears and nose almo , t as well as if he had eyes .

A ballad singer come to beg some lentils. The boy coaxes her to sing to him, and she does. after being bribed with lentils after each "stanza . "

Finally the terrible headsman appears. He is furious at not being able to find the queen. He insists on demonstrating with the boy as an example how he conducts the ceremony of decapitation. Several times he all but enters the room where the que en is secreted He finally discovers her just as the clocks strike twelve. But it is too late, and he himself mu t need uffer the penalty he was going to inflict on her.

However, as befits a fairy tale, "all liYed happily forever after." The head1,man is p ardoned on condition that he give over his sword to a museum. Th~ boy is given several pots of gold and pretty things for his mother. The queen determines to forbid the use of jewelry in the kingdom. Then the king's great aunt can't have a ringed toe to be stepped on, she declares, and consequentlv ther e need hp no more beheadings.

Th e cast was as follows:

Prologue

Device bearer

Little boy

The queen

A milkmaid

Emma Westermann

Blossom Hilton

Harold Hildreth

Sarah Towne

Marian Gardner

The blindman ................................

A ballad singer

A mime

The horrible headsman

William Bertwell

Louise Lesh

Jacob Cohen

George Tobin

The melancholy clanking of chains may recall rnriou things to your minrl. Perhaps you will think of a long line of conYict in triped suits, painfully dragging their balls and chains. Or again, gory pirate leading their innocent victims to a miserable death may appear to your mind's eye. Mayhap it will remind you of a huge bulldog biting and gnashing at the chain which holds him prisoner. Any number of things within the cope of imagination may enter your mind, but one thing you would neYer dream of, not even in your wildest fancies. And that i the thought of the mall group of laborer ~ who toiled night and day to make up this book. o, in order to make you realize that they were literally chained to their task , members of the Links staff d~termined to hold an a sembly where everyone might ee the tragic truth displayed. . It wa three a. m. ·William Bertwell overcome by exhau tion, pu hed aside the conglomeration of papers which he had been reading and sank wearily on a nearby couch for a fow moments of much needed repose. Out of the silence as he lay there, came the harsh grating of chain , accom- panied by faint groans. Then slowly n-nd painfully, with downcast eye and care-worn countenance , the Links taff, bound by links three inches in diameter, approached to torture the mind of their har h ruler. A long plank on which were seated three wretched creature , followed. The e were those "who had to sit on the Links board !"

The dream faded. But the mind of the editor was not yet at rest. Blind Homer, led by his dog, entered and held a lengthy di course with William, advising him to Ign his name to each of his writings so that their: authenticity would never be questioned. Shakespeare, too, appeared and hailed him with delight a "another ·William," wishing him good luck a a fellow writer.

Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin entered his dream and begged piteously to have their pictures printed in the Links, to make sure of their being pre- served . The hard hearted editor turned a deaf ear both to Mary' suppli- cations and to Charlie's bribes. He even refused to Ii ten to that mall bare- foot film star, Jack Coogan, whom the lure of the Link had fa cinated. This last supplicant was promised, however, that " ome day, in about 1933," when he should have become a senior, he too might have his picture in the Links.

Just then the telephone rang waking the editor from hi troubled dreams, and ummoning him to the Links assembly.

The ca t, in addition to the taff, wa a follow :

Mary Pickford ............................... Margaret Munger

Homer ........................................... Douglass Orr

Shakespeare .................................... Wendell Berge

Charlie Chaplin ................... . ............. Harold Young

Jack Coogan ................................... Otilo DeVilbiss

To go "behind the cene " i alway intere ting ,-o much more intere ting than to enjoy the tudied effect obtained from a eat in the audienc~. But to go behind that impa sable curtain which hide from u s the faculty, ha never before, in the hi tory of Lincoln high chool, been accomplished. It required one of our famou s Red and Black color days, and the literary and dramatic abiliti es of m emb er of th 3 ,, rit er Club to bring the unheard-of event to pass.

Our brief glimp e of thi awe-in spirino- body haw ed it con idering the weighty matter of sub stituting ae thetic dancing for football, the chief reason given being that the latter i too rude and mo st injuriou to the to es In spite of Mr. :Mead ' pitiful swoon, the matt er wa all but ettled in favor of dancing when Mr . Mead appeared and hed uch copious tear that the di astrous change was averted. ·we £e el that "disa trous" i not too trong a term, for we have seen some of our football heroe . dance.

The cast wa as follow :

Miss Pound ....... ...... ............ Doris Trott

Miss Jackson.. . ........ Martha Fiegenbaum

Mr. Alder ....... ... William Bertwell

Miss Armstron ::; ..

Mr. Mead .....

. .................. Ruth Virtue

. Hugh Cox

Miss Johnston . .. . ...... Mildred Stackhous

Mr Culler ......

Miss Glass

Miss Muir .

. Robert Slaymaker

.. Ruth Tanner

... Hope B :ukley

Mr. Ferguson ....... . ......... Edward Kubat

Mrs. Minderfer . ...... . ... Mary Creekpaum

Miss Breitstadt ...... .. . .. Ruth orth

Mrs. Mead ........

.. Clarissa Bucklin

Harry Olds .... ... .. Ke nneth McGregor

George Pugh.

. eil Myers

Special Ballet : Freshmen

Swede Hummel Gaylord Wilcox

Jimmy Austin Bloyce Packer

Gettysb 1ur g, a on€--act play of post-civil war time s , was given m April by the class of '21 a a fore-ta te of The Crisi . The cene wa placed in the work hop of a civil war veteran , a Yanke~. Link Tadbourne, the veteran who has lately lost the u e of hi legs, sits drow ing over his oxyoke. Hi seventeen-year-old niece enter , and having put the yoke to team, begin s to trace out a map of the battle of Gettysburg in the awdust on the floor, for her daily le on in hi tory.

Her uncle awakes and with much of his old time spirit points out with his cane the Gettysburg battle, recall the sound of the guns, and recounts the attacks of the enemy. He i s startled by the sound of the fife and drum, the tramping of the old soldiers marching to the cemetery in the Decoration day parade. His eyes light up, he taps th e floor with hi cane, humming in a worn and creaking voice, snatche of Glo1 y, Glory, Hall elujah, as the music comes to him from the cemetery. He ri ses on his arm, and then, overcome with excitement, throws aside hi cane, snatches a tiny Union flag from the sawdu t pile and joins the company of old soldiers.

The part of Link Tadbourne was taken by Robert Slaymaker and tha· t of hi niece, the country school teacher, by Katherine Dillon.

To H. 0. Ferguson, director of mnsic in the Lincoln public schools, belong the credit for the growth of music in the high school a well a in the grade chool . Before he came, the students had become indifferent to mu ic. No operas had been given since the school had moved into the new building, chorus was not offered in the curriculum, and no glee club ~ had been organized.

Mr. Ferguson arou ed new enthu iasm. His first innovation was the formation of a chorus which met once a week. During that first year, 1917-18, he organized the glee clubs and pre ented an opera, H. 111. Pinaf 01·e. It wa al o during this term that the first mid-year concert was given. In the four years he has directed music in the high chool, choru cla ses have increased from one a week to one each period, or five a week with a total enrollment of over 600; a boys and a girls glee club have been formed each year, and thi year there is a new club, the girls junior glee, a stepping tone to entrance into the more finished club; and four operas have been presented, 11. JI. . Pinafore, The Fire Prince, The Mikado, and Captain Crossbones

Mr. Ferguson has also raised intere -t in mu ic in the student body at large. He i always glad to use his glee club in as embly, and ha been in trumental in bringing arti t s to appear in a semb ly and to giYe concerts after school for nominal charges. He put ze t into community ingiug in assembly; he has been largely respon~1ble for the formation of the Orpheon , the music club of the school; and he ha helped to place rare musical treats, in the form of concerts by uch orche tra a the ew York Philharmonic, and portion of opera pre ented by famou.· companies, within the reach of the high chool tudent's pur e. Hi. aim and purpose are ummarized, perhap , in one of hi own entences,-"Every tuclent who i graduated from this high chool hould have ome knowledge of cla ical mu ic,-mu ic of a high er type,-which he will enjoy during the remainder of hi natural life_:,

A much envied person is a memb~r of the glee club. And well he may be, for the glee club is one of the most enterprising and influential clubs ia Lincoln high.

The sixty boys and girls made their first appearance this year in assembly, where they were received with the greatest favor. They sang for the Womans Club at the meeting held in the high school auditorium. The boys appeared before the Rotary Club one noon, receiving royal entertainment in return. Later, they made several very interesting -excursions to different grade schools, where they presented half-hour programs. The girls visited Capitol and Elliott schools, while the boys sang at McKinley, 1Vhittier and Bancroft schools. On Christmas eve they cheered the children at the orthopedic hos- pital and at the orphans home, with old Christmas carols.

At the carnival, the glee club gave its annual minstrel show, this year, A Nightmare in a Grotto, the most hilarious conglomeration of color, song, and dance ever seen in Lincoln high. Mr. Fergnson and Emmett Junge, assisted by six equally radiant black £aces, kept the audience smiling, while twenty boys in red and blue shirts, and thirty girls representing everything and everyone from 1776 to the present day, completed the amazing spectacle.

The production of the opera, Captain Cmssbones, was the crowning event of the glee club year. Full of pirates, and piratical exploits, providing mnch suspen e, and many hearty laughs for everyone, this opera was an unprecedented success. The proceeds of the opera are to be used for providing uniforms fo1: the band boys.

Mr. Ferguson, minstrel, stage director, and leader, is member of the glee club as one of them. And, as one their troubles, and mistakes, as well as their good times. credit for the nnusually fine things which the glee club

considered by every of them, he shares

To him is due the has done this year.

"If the chorus continues to grow, it will be necessary to seat it in the auditorium, and place the audience on the stage," exclaimed :Mr. Ferguson in mock dismay, as he laid plans with the Orpheons for their annual mid-year concert, presented January 21. Lest a too-logical reader infer from this remark that a large attendance was not expected, let us hasten to add that the size of the audience was ample proof that music does not have to be syncopated to be thoroughly enjoyed by Lincoln people.

The first half of the program was given by the chorus, under the direction of :Mr. Ferguson. It was during the singing of the Soldier's Chorus that. the light suddenly went out, leaving the auditorium in darkness for several minutes. ..Without a pause. but with a marked crescendo, the chorus finished the election, winning much prai. e for its training and ability.

The Wate1·s of illinnetonka an Indian song by Mr. Lieurance, was one of the most beautiful and appealing piece. which the chorus sang. A cantata, The Landing of the Pilgl'ims, by Loni Coerne, concluded the fir t part of the program. I wa nng in commemor:ttion of the tercentenary of the landing of the pilgrim , and i very ugge tive of furiou. wind and dashing wave

.,,_ n entirely new feature wa. the theatre orchestra, which accompanied the chorus. It is compo eel of selected player from . the first orchestra and will play for all chool theatrical in the fntnre.

The second half of the proo-ram wa given by the band and orchestra, under the leadership of ::\fr. Righter. The Hem·y rill Dances, by German, some stately, others light and airy, were played by the orchestra. The fine blending of the instrument in the band, and the excellent technique with which the members played wa comment d upon by many.

k everal selections by the senior double quartet and the tring quartet completed the program. The tar Spangled Banner played by the band, brought everyone to lns feet at the clo e of th'?. evening, with a sense of rising from an intellectual feast.

<I:aptaln <I:rossbon~s

"Long ago in old Havana Lived a Spanish maiden fair,Long ago to old Havana Came a gallant youth, her heart to share. But her father, grim old monster, Of her romance would not hear. So he took her and he placed her In a dungeon dark and drear."

In old HaYana thi wa the manner in which a fair maid wa won. Accordingly, the father of the fair maid ordered all the door and windows locked and barred fa t, o that no means of egress would be left. He then proceeded to try to cure Theresa, his daughter, of her infatuation for Richard Stoneybroke, an American planter.

But "all i s fair in love and war." Richard oon conceived a brilliant plan by which he hoped to win Theresa. Di gui sed a s Captain Cros bones, a burly pirate, he collected a band and soon great commotion aro se at the palace. This most terrifying crew were near and threatened to attack the Don himself. In true pirate tyle they kidnapped Th eresa and her companion and carrietl them off to their pirate lair on the I le of Pine , where Captain Cro sbones immediately di clo ed to There s a his identity. The Don, greatly perturbed, offered a handsome reward and the hand of his daughter in marriage to the person who should re cue her from the pirate .

After ome complication and much lively action, Richard toneybroke ucceeded in dispo ing of Captain Cros. bones, and his entire band of pirate met the fate that several other bands de erved to meet. The Don o much preferred that There a should marry even an American rather than a pirate, that he gladly bestowed upon the happy Richard hi daughter and pronounced him heir to his entire estate.

The part of Theresa, the Don ' beautiful daughter who was the cause of the entire situation, was taken by Georgia ·wunderlich. She succeeded rn making her self the irre i tible, willful girl that the production required .

Richard toneybroke, alia Captain Oro bone , a dangerou , blood-thirsty and very alluring pirate, was portrayed by Clarence Beeson with much gallantry.

Bernice Bays, as Eleanor, an American heir S u who hoped that some day, somehow, omeone would love her for her elf alon , and Ivan McCormack, as Captain Bomba tio, of the i land police, who was desperately in love with Eleanor vied with the leading lovers for the good will of the audience.

Emmett Junge and Torgny Knudson, as Zim and Zam, the i land police, made themselves into a well trained, orderly company.

ylvia Cole played the part of Donna I abella, wife of the Don, who was at her wit's end to know how to manage her fly-away daughter. Sylvia's beautiful contralto voice won much admiration.

- Paul Reed was a very reali tic Don. He wa con tantly annoyed by visits from his adoring relation , who ''entertained the notion that their ob tinate devotion to thi awe-in piring Don would be rewarded."

William Holmes, as Anthony Law, legal adviser to the pirates, and Henry Eller, as Bill Pilgrim, a retired pugili t who was "a-dyin' the death of :t dog," were amazing in their original and graceful exhibition of ae thetic dancing.

Miss Pelling, the bachelor maid who taught Theresa her English, and who had no use for love except when regarded trictly a a verb, wa exceptionally well interpreted by Dorothy Toren. . The chorus of sweethearts and wive who follmYed the pirates over the deep blue ocean because they could not bear to find them elves "moping at home," and the lusty pirate , together with the men and maid servant , and the Don's bothersome relation , added ze3t and color to every cene.

The two full houses which attended Captain Crossbones furnished ufficient proof of the quality of the performance. The beauty of the co tumes and the scenery has never l?een urpa ed in any local or high school opera.

The proceeds of the opera will go toward uniforms for the band, and the chamber of commerce has promi ed to contribute an equal amount to the ame cause.

vVe are certain that the originator of the phrase, "it beats the band," had never encountered any such organization as the Lincoln high school band, for it "can't be beat!"

Fifty-five stalwart lads, in red and black caps and khaki shirts, with the ajd of fifty-five glittering brass and nickel instruments, have put spirit and zest into many an occasion, and ha Ye more than once turned the tide of n close battle in favor of Lincoln high. It is the band which leads the parades to the field in the autumn, when the football boys are contending for the championship, and it is the band which puts life into the assemblies, and brings every student to his feet singing, "Lincoln will shine tonight!" The band helped to celebrate Rotary Club day at the university, and that it was well liked is certain, for a few we 3ks later it was asked to play for the Michigan Aggie football game, on the university field.

On March 31 the trade smen of Lincoln launched a campaign to sell Lincoln to Lincoln. A grand parad e, led by the high school band, was the Preparatory Band

center 0£ attraction. In the afternoon, the band played in different parts of the city and was highly praised by all who were pre ent.

It hardly seems po sible that until ten years ago our high chool existed without an organized band. However, in tho e ten years, under the leadership of Mr . Cornell, Mr. Ross Mr. Bailey Mr. Greenslit, and :M:r. Righter in turn. the band has done much -for the chool.

I_t is oro-a~ized on a military basi , and the captain leads it in parades and m assembhe The officers for this year were as follow :

Captain ....................... Franci Ellsworth

Adjutant ........................... Ralph Cutt, First sergeant .................. Manin St. er

First lieutenant or librarian ..... Donnell Comfort

Second lieutenant or editor .... Raymond Gillespie

1)nparatorr ~anb

"1-2-3, 1-2-3." Row upon row of shining instruments, and behind them many worried faces, some earnest, others ardent, bending with knitted brows over a puzzling phrase,-it is a rehearsal 0£ the preparatory band.

Mr. Righter gesticulates with a vig0r equalled only by the strenuous efforts of the little fellow on the high stool, who is vainly endeavoring to extract harmony from a horn fully twice as large as he. But he has the right spirit, and as it is just such boys as he who attain higher things, he will probably be a member of the first band next year.

The preparatory band is organized to provide training and practice for students who are interested in instrumental music, and it furnishes an excellent opportunity for every member to obtain a thorough knowledge and appre- ciation of good music as well as to develop technique.

There are now thirty members in the preparatory band, and it gives promise of accomplishing much in the future.

Never failing at the critical moment, always on the spot with a cheerful tune to put new life into the player and students, the jazz band has helped win many victories for Lincoln high.

It has played for all of the basketball games, this season, and when the Boy Scout pageant was given February 11, it wa the jazz band that contributed the lively tunes to which the scouts performed.

The band was organized this year, and is managed by the boys themselves, who take the greatest interest in it. Gerald Scofield is the captain, and it is due to his efforts, along with tho e of l\fr. Righter, that the jazz band has been uch a success.

{5 ~~ Orc~~stra

If one is in the vicinity of the auditorium during orchestra practice, and if he does not watch himself closely, he will find that he has stopped awl is listening intently, while all thoughts of history or algebra or the errand which brought him from the classroom are far, far away. Then, little by little, he will approach the door, and it is only a Spartan devotion to duty that prevents him from entering.

There is much to interest him there,-there is the little girl at the piano, whose fingers seem to fly over the keys; there is the boy in knickerbockers, with violin tucked under his chin and with fascinated eyes fixed on the ceiling; there is the fat boy in the corner, who has not finished his lunch, and who is endeavoring vainly to play his violin in three-four time in spite of the fact that his jaws are grinding on in a steady four-four rhythm. One with a sensitive ear, however, will not see these details, for the music is beautiful, and the members of the first orchestra play with exquisite precisi0n. The orchestra has played many times in assembly, and at the mid-year concert no organization won more whole-hearted praise than did the orchestra. At the teachers convention, although it was April fools day, every member did his best, and showed the teachers of southeastern Nebraska what Lincoln high ·chool students can do. At commencement, securely fortified behind a wall of ferns, every instrument shining spick rrncl span, the orchestra finished this year with a flourish.

P reparatory O rchestra

"The playing of an instrument in a band or orche tra require the exact coordination of more :faculties than aay other one thing and that i why we be l ieve that mn~ic is of such importance educatio ally." These are the words of Mr. Righter, who directs the orche::;tra. Hi aim i to build it as nearly as possible on ymphonic lines, and to aid every student in the orchestra to acquire a more thorough appreciation of mu ic .

The· officer ~ of the orche tra are as follows:

Pr esident ......................... Kobv irin ky , ice-president. ................... Don Hollenb ci{ Secretary-trea urer ................... Ralph Cutts

Editor ......................... l\fary Creekpaum

Cn todian ......... ..... . ....... :Montford Kiffin

"ll r~pa ra tor p Orc~~ .s tra

In olden times there was not a sho ~maker, a blacksmith, or a jeweler, who had not risen to hi position through an apprenticeship H had erverl under the direction of a skilled workman, who taught him the detail and technicalities of his profession, before he was considered able to practice for himself. In ju s t the same way, the preparatory orchestra fit the tudent for better work in the first orchestra.

Anyone who has had the experienc e of watching apparently hopele ~s chao::i merge into comely order, can imagine the :fascination which the preparatory orchestra holds for its members. Chaos i the word which best describes, in Mr. Righter's opinion, the fir t attempt of his high-spirited young musicians to do "team-work." But soon each one grasps the idea that he is not performing a olo, or running a race with the other players.

Finally, one day, a thrill of pure delight sweeps over the group on the auditorium stage. A miracle has happened,-a miracle as beautiful and as perishable as are the first cherry blo soms of spring. All the instruments are blending in perfect ensemble! No musician who ha once felt that he himself is cr~ating part of such a vibrant, pul ing harmony can ever forget the experience.

The membership of the preparatory orchestra has grown thi year from seventeen to fifty-six. The enthusiasm and numbers of these beginners challenges the imagination, when one think of the first orche tra of the future.

A new musical organization has been introduced into Lincoln high this year. A theatre orchestra now supplies the music for all class plays and other Lincoln high school theatricals.

Thf're has long been need for just such an orchestra as this . I n the past great difficulty has been encountered in ecuring small orchestras for plar. The theatre orchestra i conducted by the tudents, under the leadership of Clyde Davis, who directs all of the rehearsals.

The orchestra made its first appearance at the mid-year concert, and has been much in demand at all sub equent entertainments, because of the type of music played, and because of the finish with which it is rendered.

Up and away to the land of romance, Up and away to the i le that entrance, Up and away by the ea; l p and away to the lake of the rorth, l p and away, all ye bolcl hearts fare forth, For it's up and a,,ay we would be.

For • trong i the call that bid us ari e, And strong is the love of the free cloud-swept skies, Where the bold, boLterou "·inds laugh in glee. At the tinsel and glamour of court we can sco ff, ·when the horses are waitino· and mad to be off, For it's up and away we would be.

Though yonr doublet is torn, if your ways debonair, You can mock at dull toil and laugh at gray care; Then think not of bending your knee. Though there's naught in your purse, if your sword's at your side And you've a heart that i bold and a horse you can ride, Then it's np and away you should be.

Up and away, up and away, Set sa il to your ship, leave your safe land-locked bay, Up and away and be free; Up and away to adventure and fame, Up and away from di honor and shame, For it's up and a"·ay we would be.

-HELEN

L. RU)DIONS, '23.

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Writus (Club

"The ,vriter s Club will meet today at 3 :05 in room 203." \\7 ith what demureness the announcement of the fortnightly meetings of the club hide the atmosphere of the meeting ~ . For here embryo Rudyard Kipling, Amy Lowell .., George Bernard Shaw , ,Yalt Ma on and Annie Laurie fight for their conflictino- views of literary art.

If one were to inquire who are the seven most callous person in school, the answer would unanimou ly be, "The manu cript committee of the ·writers Club." To them must be read the m03t intimate out-pourings of the soul; to them are entru ted the literary hope ~ of everal hundred students a year. The hole in each manuscript submitted to them betray the but lately removed pink ribbon; the stiff crackle of the history paper whi pers of the loving care spent in its election and purchase. But the committee is unmoved by such evidence of affection. The manuscript which meet with the approval of thi. committee must indeed be written by students who receive the love and admiration of their Engli h teacher. Each new member i impressed by the aureole of genius shining around the head of his fellow member~.

The spring poetry meeting i perh::ip the mo t typical of all the meetings. Like all poets, members of the Writers Club are moved by the opening buds of spring to a frenzy of self-expr" ~sion. Lyric poetry dealing with robin red-breasts. love and new hats soothes the ae thetic sense of the writers. Ballads a , la Hugh Cox, revealing the dangers of alluring spring air in a mysterious region somewhere west of Denver, work upon their emotions.

A manuscripts are read anonymo:isly, a criticism of each one must be giYen by all members upon order of the pre ident. Endurance of most biting sarcasm is learned here. At first it is hard indeed to present a stoic face to caustic criticism of a secretly treasured manuscript, but any such sensitiveness is soon cured.

Future dramatists, as well as poets, are practicing their art in the ,vriters Club. The play given in assembly on school color day was written

by Writers Club members. In past years the organization has written plays for better English week, the carnival, and even for the Mummers.

Miss Muir, head of the English department, is the sponsor of the club. The officers are as follows :

President ....................... William Bertwell Vice-president and trea urer ..... Mary Creek:paum ecretary ............................ Ruth Virtue Editor and chairman of member hip committee .. .

t,~¢ ~l y

. Hope Barkley

The purpose of the Hi Y is to deal with the problems of boys, and the whole force i kept busy trying to solve for x. The club is open to sophomore, junior, and enior boys. The happy-go-lucky freshman is not admitted, probably because he has no troubles serious enough to engage the attention of the experts at the Hi Y. Or perhap fre hmen are not considered capable of earning the fifty cents a semester which i charged as membership fee.

All Hi Y activitie center in the building situated cater-corner from the high school. This very fine home was given to the club in 1911 by Mr. H. E. Sidles. The piano, game , tables, lounges, and chairs were furnished by Lincoln business men who are interested in boys work.

If you would see the Hi Y building at the season of its mo t intense activity, just stand on the corner of Twenty-second and J streets at 11 :40 on any school day. Do not attempt thi , however, if you have a weak heart. At the sound of a gong, a mob breaks out of the high school doors and makes for the Hi Y with a force that nothing can withstand, for the motto at the Hi Y is "First come, first served," and that awful feeling that steals over a boy at noon when he ha had nothing to eat since breakfast does not prompt him to loiter along the way to food.

Yet, would you believe it, there is another room at the Hi Y which is likely to be the cause of gradual starvation among Lincoln high school boys, for every day there are found those willing to go without lunch in order to have first chance at the quero table Most boys, however, attempt to combine their favorite pastime of eating with . ome other sport, playing checkers or chess, looking at the magazines, always limp-paged (how do they get that way?) or manipulating the player piano, which, after an abused life of four years, is still capable of plaintively r~minding the boy , "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles", or "Darling, I am Gro,ving Old."

But it is not only at noon that the club is a center of activity. Banquets are given for the various athletic teams of the school, and these any member of the Hi Y may attend. Here talk by prominent boy enthusiasts are given. Coach chulte, Mr. Luehring, L. C. Oberlies, and Fred Kelly have talked to the bovs this year.

The building is in charge of "Bill" Day, former Cornhusker football cap- tain, and the boys have no fault to find with the management. Any boy who goes to the Hi Y will look back to it 1n future years as a place where he found friends, wa welcomed and trusted.

The officers of the club are as follows:

President .................. ; .. George Hargreaves Vice-president ....................... Dean Lowry Secretary .......................... Dayton Hyde

Mention the Student tandard Club, and what comes to the mind of any member~ Sizzle! Crackle! Pop ! That is the sound of weiner skins bursting over the camp fire at one of our picnics. A pompadour comb and a . shepherd's crook! That is Alice in vVonderland dancing with Little Po Beep at one of our "dress up parties." A rainbow of color in St. Paul's dining room, and the voices of three hundred girls singing in unison! That is a scene of the Student Standard conference held in Lincoln last autumn. Oh, it is u eless to try to enumerate the memories which crowd into consciousne at the bare mention of tudent tandard.

Are we giving the impre sion that thi i a frivolous organization i Far from it. The object of the club is to create, mainta,in, and extend among the member a strong, high moral sentim ent and to e tabli h the girls in Christian character. The club is an auxiliary to the Y. ,v. C. A. There are no tryout for member hip, but dues of twenty-five cents a semester are collected from all of the member Except the Hi Y, this is th e large t club in Lincoln high school.

The club meetings are held every other Tuesday at 3 :15 in room 42G. Clever programs are always provided, having a a main feature helpful talk by men or women from out ide the school. Often, after bu iness meeting , the girl dance and have light refre hments.

The followin(Y have been the offic ~r for the pa t year :

President ......................... Myrtle Osthoff

Vice-pre ident ......................

Secretarv ..........................

Trea urer ..........................

Ruth Towner

Sarah Towne

Dorothy Hoy

Ruth Towner has acted as pre ident thi last year, since Myrtle ha been unable to do so. The ponsors are Mi Chapin, a teacher in the modern language department, and Miss Wyman, girls work ecretary of the Lincoln Y.W.C.A

Or.p~~on.s

,vhat i the mo t o-hastly sen ation kno"n to a Lincoln high chool student~ Differing answers to this question might b 0 given. but any Orpheon will tell you that it is the sound of one' ow·n heart ga ping, "Potato! potato! potato . " when one's name come next on an Orpheon program. It was largely to combat thi terrible shyness among those ble sed with 'arti tic temperament," that the Orpheons wer ~ organized, in Hll c, under th ' guidance of Miss Lucy Haywood and Mr. H. 0. Ferguson. •

'Quality and not quantity" i what the Orpheons ar eeking in membership. The officer hav e always thought it better to have fifty active members than one hundred , half of whom were "dead ." For this reason st rict tryouts are held every six weeks. tudents trying out are judged by a committee composed of three Orpheons and the ,3ponsors . Be ides tho e gaining admission by try-out, the members of the or ~hestra. band, boys and girls glee clubs, and girls junior glee club automatically become members on payment of their dues of twenty-frrn cents a semester . Although mo. t Orpheon are musicians, the club also admits into member hip students ·who have ability in kindred arts, as elocution and ae sthetic dancing.

The regular meetings of the club are held on the second and fourth Mlondays of the month. .At this time, although their hearts are pounding fiercely within them, chosen members entertain the rest of the club with clever and varied program .

The Orpheons back all the musical enterprises in Lincoln high chool. Some excellent program have been given by the club in a embly . n experiment was made this spring, that of bringing a noted artist to the high school. Mr. Paul Althouse gave a concert under the auspices of the Orpheons. Th~ Orpheons hope that in the future Lincoln high school students may hear other great artists at the comparatively low price for which they heard Paul Althouse.

The officers are as follows:

President ............................ Sylvia Cole

Vice-president ..................... .. Loui se Lesh

Secretary ...................... Robert Slaymaker

Trea s urer ......................... Ronald Button

7r~.s~man <birl.s <.tlub

Almost the newe t and certainly the youngest club m Lincoln high chool is the Fre hman Girl Club, which was organized in 1920. The aim of this organization i to unit e the fre hman girls in friend hip, and to acquaint them with the good standard of the chool. Thi is a £re hman o-irl re erve, from which the girls go to the Student tandard Club.

Alread :v the club boasts of eighty- ix energetic member·. .Any freshman girl is eligible on paying the dues of twenty-five cents a seme ter. The colors, pink and green, were adopted and worn during the membership campaign at the fir t of the year .

At two of the meetings during the pa t year, women from out ide the school ham talked to the girls. Mrs. Roland Ireland gave a delightful talk on manners, and fiss Ethel iermeyer, field secretary of the Y. W. C. A., told the girls how they could help the club. .A play, Th e Dress Parade, given by memb ers of the club wa an unforgetable demon tration of good and bad taste in dres

The club gave two parties during the year. Both were held after schoo l m room 426. Dancing and games furnished di version from the heavy burdens of the day,-a freshman's troubles are always o se riou s.

Mi s Marian Whyman, girls work ecretary of the Y. ,,... . C. A. and Miss

Allen worth of the history department of the hio-h chool are the pon or of the club. The cabinet is as follow :

President. ....................... Helen Ander ~on "'\ ice-president. ................... . . Fern Pringle ecretary ........................... Janice ,valt Treasurer .......................... Elinor Gu tin Chairman of program committee ............. .

. . . . Loui e ,vohlenb 2rcr Chairman of ocial committee ..... Irene Mc e ern v Chairman of ervice committee .... )Iildred Kinner Chairman of publicity committee .. France Farren s

Do you who judge u by the loquacity of indiYidual member , or by the tripping interchange of dialogue in our stage play , con ider the Mummers ill-named ? In that ca e you hould attend one of our private meetino· There you might ee our formidable sergeant -at-arm s, Colombe Oberlie , ilently depicting a wildly cheering mob at a football game. There you might ee Irl Kun s driving a noi eless Ford without emitting one ejaculation over ita eccentric behavior. Oh, we can curb our tongues, \Ye assure yon!

Spoken drama receives a large share of our attention, however. Annually a play of three or four acts is presented. Th e Road to Yest er day the play given January 17, represented a nightmare in which the heroine imao-ined herself back in the seventeenth century Hope Barkley. as the heroine, suffered so realistically in thi dream, that the audience wa hardly le relieved than she when, in the la t act, she found herself safe in the twentieth century once more. That the club is not afraid of play demanding subtle interpretation i indicated by the fact that You ~Vever Can T ell, by George Bernard haw, and !he T~,ig of Thorn, by M. J. 1Varren, have been presented by the Inmmer 1n prev10u year

Each year everal one-act plays are o-iYen in a ·semblie and matinees. This year three of the hort play were coac hed b:v girl in the club. Iri Ludd en coached Tli e Florist's Shop; farjory Linch , 0 redone ; and Mildred John ., Th e Bank lcc01mt.

One of the most delicate piece of work \Yhi ch the Mummers have ever accompli hed wa the performance of i x lrho Pass ll'hile the L entil Boil, by 'tuart ,valker. Thi. dainty bit of fanta y wa given in a pecial as embly, to which the parent of all Mummer were invited. " eeing is believing," and it is hoped that the parent will ee more evidence of the Mummer hard work in the future.

The club now ha seventy-five members. Kvery eme ter try-out are held, and those who ncce s:fu lly pa s the te t are admitted. One or two persons from outside the club, the sponsors and the pre. ·ident judge the try-out

The officers are as follows :

Pr e ident ......................... Helen Tom on Vice-pre ident. ................... " .,. ende11 Berge .._ ecretary ................. .... ......... Irl Kun 3 Editor. .......................... Hop e Barklev Hi torian ......................... Dorothy Davi ergeant-at-arm ................ Colombe ·oberlie - -165-

mumme.r.s

J . Blackman Bertha Seiffert

Dayton Hyde Ivan McCormack

Ernest Witte Bessie vVythers

vVilliam Holmes Louise Lesh

tout

Ivory Tyler John Ricker Wendell Berge

Vi o la Ge istlinger Dorothy J-T 'l V Fnrnces Barr Earl Smith

Dori s An ties Jeannette Mirick Margery Linch Lucille Barr Jeannette Mathieson

Viola Fairchild Helen Miller Hazel Fickes Marta Rankin Margaret Williams Ruth Rundstrom Margaret ~ atson l{uth Towner Albion Speier

Dorothy Fitzsimmons Doris Trott Helen Tomson Opal Hunt

Elizabeth Asmus Myrtle Osthoff Margaret Hyde Mary Creekpaum

Hugh Cox Miss Proctor Ronald Button Miss Scott

John Allison Helen Oberlies Keith Miller

Jere M : kel George Hargreaves

David Webster William Bertwell

Vernon Mitchell Reid Tracy

Frances Hilliard John Maj or Mary Harmon Maur;ce Wing

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Den~osthenes i~ dead, an~ Wi~liam Jennings Bryan ha left Lincoln, but-oh, forgive us! 1v e won't fimsh this chestnut. Hon stly, though, the Forum doe raise one' hopes for the future of American oratory. Fact flee like frightened jack-rabbits from the club meetings. When John Allison begins to wax eloquent on the subject, ""\Vhy cat , leave home;' or Hugh Cox and "endell Berge cross swords over 'the rela t ive merits of the republican and democratic partie , or the whole club clamors to be admitted to a free-for-all on the question, "Resolved, that the one-man street car hould be abolished" then, I say, it i a stubborn listener who can hold fast to any conYictions which he may have brought · to the club meetings.

Unlike Demosthenes, the aspirant to Forum membership does not practice with pebbles in his mouth. Instead, he truggle • with that no los balking handicap to speech, a frog in his throat. Behind clo ed door he mu t meet ;1, three-headed Cerberu (in plain word , three judges in no way connected with the Lincoln high school) who may swallow all his hopes of forensic. fame. "\Vith honeyed words he trive to coax his way through this torture chamber into the Forum. To the accompaniment of a sepulchral rattle as of lmucklebone , he begins to speak. He is somewhat relieved to di cover that it is not hi rattle-pated thoughts, a he at fir t imagined, but his timorous knees, which are thumping out this rattling rhythm. Into the dry, dead air of the almo t empty room he attempts to pour a flood of oratory. He pouts gloriously for a minute; then the fountain loses it force. A feeble little stream of halting sentences, a trickling word or two, a stammering attempt at a last spurt of eloquence,-then silence. Feeling like a doo- with its tail tucked between it legs, the ,vould-be orator slinks from the room.

But oh! the grand and glorious f ~eling when the announcement of election comes! Then with the ea e of a practiced politician the Forum member dispo es of the weighty affairs of the world. The Japanese land .bill, the Irish question, fixing of prices by government,-all these issue have a solution clear as daylight to him, which he attempt to demon frate to the more clouded intellects of the rest of the club.

Occasionally Forum members are modest enough to keep ilence and listen to an outside speaker. The club has been honored this year by addr~s e given by Judg e _, hepherd ai1d by Mr. Moseley of the house of representabv~. Two alumni, Clarence Kozitsky and Joy Berquist, talked at one of the meetmg

The Forum now boast sixty member The ponsors, Mi s Scott, former debate coach, and Mis Proctor, of the mathematics department, have had much to do with the rapid growth of the Forum thi year.

The officers are as follow :

President ......................... Ronald Button

Vice-pre ident. ...................... Loui e L~sh

ecretary ......................... Helen Oberhe

Treasurer .......................... John Alli on

Editor .......................... Y/"illiam Holme

Hi torian ......................... Margery Linch '--' ergeant-at-arms .............. George Hargreaves

"Meristem," gentle, non-botanical reader, means something capable 0£ growth. The Meristem Club 0£ Lincoln high school is aptly named. It was planted in our midst only two years ago, and already its membership has grown from sixteen to fifty-four. It ha s grown in dignity, likewi se, for no longer may any student achieve membership who has not successfully completed one semesters work in botany or biology.

Almost as soon as its seed was sown in the minds of the students who organized the club, Meristem began to hear the fruit of good scholarship. Club meetings were such fun that every student of botany or biology wished to keep his class average up to eighty, so that he would be eligib l e for membership The carefu l cultivation given the club in those first days by Miss Louise Brownell, a former teacher in Lincoln high, probably has much to do with its thrifty condition at present.

This club has its characteristic method of absorbing oxygen. Instead of preparing for a dose of fresh air by equipping themselves with roller skates, as the G. A. A. girls do, or with sketch books, as the Art Club members do, student in the Meristem Club provide themselves with butcher knives, or their equivalents, before sallying forth for a tramp.

Mu hrooms, lichens, liverwort s, mosses and ferns are usually brought back from these excursions, and are discussed afterward in club meetings in polysyllabic terms calculated to make an outsider gasp. Bird hunts are also popular, the camera, of course, taking the place of the gun, now, happily, almost obsolete in this connection.

Mr. Alder is sponsor of the club at present. The officers are as follows: President Arthur Stroyer

Vice- president ................... . . Je ssie Seacrest Secretary-treasurer ................... Lela Askine

'Art <.!lub

The next time your automobile unaccountably stops on a countr. road, and father sends you acro ss fields to the nearest farm house for gasoline, do not be alarmed if in the middle of a pasture you encounter twenty-two wooden barricades, from who se shelter twenty girls and two boys are levelling maliciously pointed pencils in your direction . Glance about you, and you will discover that their weapons are not directed at you at all, but are being used to aid them in staring an apologetic and decidedly self-conscious cow out of countenance. In short, these will be the members of the new art club, who have banished the word "hike" from their -vocabularies. and have substituted the term "sketching excursion " ,

These "excur sionists" have not 101:i.g been organized as a club . Last fall, a few students realizing the value of an art club to the school suggested that one be formed. After considerable discussion as to just what such an organization would do after it had been founded, a meeting was called in room -!00 . Twenty students attended. Officers were elected . Anne Deffenbaugh was made president; Norma Carpenter, vice-president; Ruth Fell, secretary; Doris A.ntles, treasurer, and Frances Murphy, editor. Miss Dana and Miss ..Wilson were chosen as sponsors .

Try-outs; open to all students except second seme ter seniors, were formulated to consist of original designs, drawings, or paintings, and to be judged by a special committee.

Forty-three tudents responded with accepted try-outs . On February 24, a short, energetic business meeting was held in room 426, followed by dancing and refreshments, and since that time the vitality of the club has been unquestioned

The aim of the club is to promote the interests of art among the students of the high school, not only by encouraging them to do original work, but by cultivating an appreciation of culpture and painting.

The forty-three members of the ~\_rt Club are planning to do big things Several noted Lincoln artists have given talks at their meetings and a group of programs has been arranged for the future, including the said "sketching ex -cursions," trips to exhibits, a weiner roa st, and a spring party.

(t~ ~mistrp '-!lub

Sssst bang! Are you a member of the Chemistry Club 1 If not, you'd better come and help blow up u rnlcano or help wash the dishes after refreshments are consumed. (It is hard to tell which of the e processes is the more destrnctiYe.) If you join, yon are obliged to take an active part in the dish-wa hing, for everyone cleanse· his own utensils in the laboratory sink, but you may take only the part of a passive onlooker in the various explosions which are put on for the edification of the members.

The meetings are held every other Thursday in 320, where there i plenty of noi e and excitern ent. Some novel experiment is performed at almost every meeting. Perhap the miniature representation of Vesuvius in action was the mo t spectacular of tho e witnessed this year. At one time a most beautiful sea-garden was represented by dropping into water various chemicals, which sent out branche , some green, some blue, ot~ers red, brm,n and yellow. Several times professors from the university hav d lectured to the club on chemi try.

The Chemi try Club is different from most of the club in Lincoln high chool in that it i tarted anew each year. The reason for this is that mo t of the members and officers are seniors, being graduated in the pring. The first club was started in 1910 by Miss Gere, the present spon or. In the year following the students tarted it with no suggestion from the sponsor. The club owes much of its success, howenr, to the untiring efforts of Miss Gere.

The few expen e are paid for by an as essment made on all the members. There are no requirements for membership. The invitation is , imply, "Visit one of our meetings, and if you like it, join u ·.''

The officer for the year are as follo" :

Pre ident. ....................... Robert Maxwell Vice-president. ..................... John Wilson Secretary ...................... Anne Deffenbaugh Editor .............................. John Major

Sergeant-at-arms ............. . ... Lyle Bryant -170-

A professed keen observer has said that the Round Table has no need for club pins, since the eagle eye and the -firm lips of one feeling the call to be a school teacher is a sufficient mark of identification for any member . A glance at the accompanying photographs will partially dissipate that notion. These gentle countenances indicate that in the future the growing tendency to temper justice in the school room with mercy is to be continued.

The work in the Round Table is always interesting, since the members consider those problems which will confront them in their teaching,-story telling, the serving of hot lunches to children, and school nursing problems. The programs which are planned and given by the girls are decidedly original. Sometimes impersonating little children, the girls present a program such as grade school pupils might give. Frequently they dramatize and act fairy stories. At one of the meetings a play named The 111 atrimonial Advertisement was presented. Only the old-fashioned reader will smile at this title and consider it incongruous for a club concerning itself with "careers" for women.

A formal party has been given annually. The Round Table attraction in the carnival this year drew, as always, a large crowd of "fishermen."

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Round Table. Miss Kuhn 1s sponsor and Mrs. Anderson is her as i tant.

The officer are as follows :

President

Beatta Farlow

Vice-president Ruth Hoff

Secretary

Ed11a Wallace

Treasurer ........................... Mary Ames

Sergeant-at-arms

Edith Kauffman

Editor Evelyn Sittler

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SEPTEMBER

13 School starts.

14 School stops.

15 School starts again.

17 Cast iron workers go into action ; band has first meeting.

18 Fred Harmon raises a bli ter on his little finger-over-work.

19 Seniors reach age of discretion? Move into auditorium.

23 Mr. ewlon drops in to say good- bye.

25 Lincoln-University Place football game; 15 to 14, their favor. "If the wind had only blown the other way !"

27 Hazel Fickes discovered cracking peanut shells on the main tairway. Sent up for life.

30 Ga plant bombed. Co-ed lunch ; food hortage. John Alli on eat;:; Spratts puppy biscuits for lunch.

OCTOBER

1 Creighton game, 0 to 0.

4 High wind mus es up Francis Ellsworth's hair.

8 George Pugh promises to eliminate his satanic maje ty from the persons of a Beatrice aggregation in the near future. All in - 172-

assembly, too. York game 21-0, Lincoln. A little more natural.

9 tu dent council elections. No wild campaigning.

11 Fluctuations in food market. Cafeteria prices go up and down to $.07.

tudent council elects Harry Carson president.

14 Dayton Hyde put s on a pound of flesh and starts to reduce.

15 Color day assembly. Play, Behind the S cen es. Intimate life and eccentricities of •the faculty revealed.

North Platte game. vY e win, 7 to 0. Lincoln lick eleven platters.

1 Paulus Bengston and Harold Gish go into partnership and buy a checkered flannel shirt.

19 Gish wears the shirt.

20 Beng ton wears the hirt.

22 League of atio~s a embly. Hastings game out there, 61 ·· to O, our favor. Evidently we • go hasty. •

23 Senior color day-assembly and banquet. Seniors wear dunce 'caps. (If this weren't a senior book . we'd say something clever.)

25 Mr. Browne compelled to· explain why he is not in a s embly.

NOVEMBER

1 A song by Cecil Rhodes entitled, "The ,Vay Is Rough and Rocky And tlie Road I s Full of Slips." "U" slips out.

2 Election day. Wendell did his best.

3 Assembly for Omaha game.

4 Teachers at 0 m a h a. ( Distance lends enchantment.) Vacation.

•. 5 More vacation. Omaha game, 19-6, Lincoln. "Come one-come all."

7 A. Howler Pup visits Miss Muir's English class. Theodore Kaden is the hero. Puts dog out.

11 Armistice day assembly.

12 State Farm game. They got () points and we got 55.

14 Carol Black gives Mr. Culler n, bad shock. Comes to school on time.

16 Cloide Morrison demonstrates the Pathagonean proposition in Mi ;3S Proctor's geometry class.

17 Better English assembly. w·e K. 0. slang in the tenth round.

19 Little fire under the stairway and a big one in the furnace. Beatrice game.

25 Mr. Culler throws cat out of 226.

27 Physical examinations started. Hip pockets, milk bottle size, come into vogue.

DECEMBER

1 Dick Case comes home from the navy. "We sail the ocean blue, Our ship' a saucy beauty," etc. You know the ' line.

PHYSfCAL EXAMINATIONS

3 Football players get "L" in assembly. ,Ve get it in class.

4 President falls off his chair in senior home room.

6 Band, orchestra, and glee clubs manufacture music for Womans Club.

8 The ghosts of two table tops rise up and haunt the senior class. Miss Price, melodramatically, "Macbeth shall sleep no more."

10 Sophomore assembly. Refer to the puzzle department. The dog was good.

13 Juniors out-talk seniors m debate n).

14 eniors walk over juniors m basketball and-

15 Treat the sophomore s the same way.

1 Mummers play, Ro ad to Y es t erday. Chri stmas vacatio:r:i. Student s hold indignation meetmg to a sk the board of education to let them go on to school. Board firm in its refusal.

JANUARY

3 School starts again. "Good morning, dear teacher, "\Ve're glad to see you," etc. Everything dusted off but our books.

5 Junior--fre hman debate in a sembly. 2-1 for freshmen. "And :1 little child shall beat them."

7 Junior Golds-Lincoln game. Better call it the "California cyclone."

8 Everybody skips school.

[Editor's note: It was Saturday.]

10 George Underwood goes to get fir s t milk and cracker lunch.

12 The grand old per_ambul!l'ting muic dispensary at 1t agam. Glee clubs visit grade schools.

13 Ed Kubat and Dayton Hyde appear at chool in s triped collar~. Ed wears checkered ve st. Reminds us of a book called Th e L unati c at Larg e

14 ,vriters Club banquet. Maurice ·wing a s blu s hing heroin e in a thrilling melodrama.

15 Lincoln-Bethany basketball game, 37 -1 7, Lincoln.

17 Emma We s termann wear s golo h e. Temperament, not temperatur e

19 H. H. Wil son tell in a sembly about the Pilgrim fathers. Why didn ' t they s ay something about the Pilgrim mother 1

20 Nebraska City-Lincoln game. We beat 5 to 10. Quite a tellar ' . aggregation of basket arti s t s .

21 Mid-year concert. Where wa s Fergy when the lights went out 'l

22 aturday. Day off to recover from concert.

l,H.S. AFfECTS

AND GOLOSHES

24 ,v-e have set our life upon a cast and we will stand the hazard of the die. Some of us do die. Examinations.

25 More examinations and more deaths.

26 Still they come - examinations. ¥atinee party to relieve the tension.

27 Breathing spell.

28 Semester ended. We get our credit lips. N. B.: Some get slips but no credits.

Senior pie feed. ( See record for January 29.)

SENIOR

29

Increased activity among Lincoln phy ician

30 First day of new eme ter. V{ e mis many of the old fac es with which we used to hake hand Lots of new ones , too ( faces, not hand ) .

FEBRUARY

1 X othing stirring.

2 Much the same.

3 .J.. To change.

4 Omaha-Lincoln game. we beat by 2 points.

5 ,Junior open night. J apane e parasols for decorations. Robert tephens ,,ras paralyzed With fear. Lest the Umbrella fall And hit him On the ear.

7 Cecil Rhodes caught drawing a picture of "dear teacher ' and given an excu ed slip. ome people are born lucky.

9 Miss Rankin peaks in a sembly.

10 ,ve get better and better. Beat utton by 4 point

11 R-R-R-R-Re Revenge. "\Ve walk over Uni Place 17 to 13. Life look better.

12 Y. W. C. A. conference at high chool.

16 Another tumbling as embly. Bob Powell doe neck fl.op. Plea e do it ao-ain for the children!

1 )lore mu sic. Alumni give mu ical a embly.

19 u perior - Lincoln game. 17 - 15, Lincoln. "1rn t a bore !

20 Cathedral high - Lincoln debate, They "·in, 2-1. Beware of the Iri h!

22 Wahington a embly.

:.3 Omaha Commer e game. Lincoln 5, Omaha 4-. ~Iahon y becomes emotional; ing , "BelieYe Me If .All Tho e Endearing Young Charm ."

24: Ba ketball team wear a beautiful mile. harle Lutton in a _embly. ,ve go crewed up for good behaYior during a cla ical concert. ,ve hear ' a ey at the Bat.

25 Faculty hold annual banquet.

MARCH

1 Enter March like a young goat. Omaha Central whip Lincoln. They came in like a lion.

3 Ba ketball a sembly.

4 Junior play, 1,200 a Year. 1,300 to hear.

7 Lincoln di play uperior line of talk and beats , .,.e leyan academy in debate.

9 Links assembly. Boy Howler and Dougla Orr co- tars m drama. You might ay that Dougla had gone to the dog.

10 Tournament : ,ve pull through. Commerce lays u - out. The Irish at it again. Mummers grve ix ll ho Pass While the Lentils Boil. George Tobin in bloody role. ' Behold the Lord High Executioner."

1-± Unknown girl ki se unknown boy in corridor by Lldvocate office.

15 My teriou appearance of new traffic rule in front of ldvocate office including: ".i.::r o kis ing in thi corridor." )fost be the Blue Law committee at work. Ba ketball men get letter m a embly. hall we call them 'men of letters '~

16 Willa ,vynkoop ample garlic in student council meeting. Miss

Jones gets ball of long wanted red tape in assembly. "The lost chord" is found.

17 St. Patrick's day. .All of us get up in the morning. Lawrence Bradley wears watch charm of a potato.

18 Carnival. First issue of Lincoln Lemon. Miss Pound as Blossom Hilton. A little bit of everything.

19 Saturday. vVe clean up. Everyone happy but the custodians.

21 Thomas Coppinger writes spring poetry. The best of us will do it.

22 Ice cream today. Group .A will attend.

2-:! Dual debate with Crete. We win here but lose there.

25 William Holmes disgusted. Signifies his intention of collecting a gang of rough fellows, going 1 down to Crete, and pitting on the sidewalk. Forum banquet.

2G Mummers spring party. Plenty of punch.

2 Intense excitement. Louis Frost displays haste. Runs to lunch. Fear expressed in some quarters that his mind has suddenly become unbalanced.

30 Althouse concert We hear champion heavy-weight tenor of America.

APRIL

1 Teachers convention. Some of us get to go home and some of us are fooled and have to stay for demonstration.

2 More convention.

3 Spring vacation. Everyone rests i

11 At it again. First appearance of one-cylinder spark plug ties.

12 "Sleepy" Morrison wears an alarm clock on watch chain. Morrison's keeping time.

13 Ruth Towner get mallpox. Mr. uller, Mi Pound Dr. ,, olfe and di Yer ~ other ~ a k Irl if he i in danger. Yigorou denial from Ir1.

1± faurice Wing dubb cl Marc lb ,, ave in Mummer meeting. That' licen e for murder.

15 enior play, Th e Crisis. Quite a cri i till the lio-ht s go on.

16 Once more Th e Crisi . They get better and better.

19 Lincoln- niver ity Pla ce debate. Three "good men ·and true" lecide for u.

20 ame team o-oes to Beatrice . 3-0, Lin oln's favor. , Ye get Forum cup.

21 Janitor tart diggino- dandelions on lawn.

"The flower that bloom m the pring, tra la!"

22 Forum cup pre entecl to chool in a embly by captain of debate team Profe sor Fogg tell u that the world "went crazy."

23 Orpheon prmg party. , vhy don't they prmg omething new~

26 Assembly . Mr . Tew en tell the poached-egg tory. Harold v\T ood almo t trangle

29 Commercial conte t. Typewriting and black-hand conte t .

rEditor· • ~ote: Di play of woeful io-norance on part of calendar editor. He mean horthancl ] Trark meet at Beatrice .

"CAP'T CROSS BONES "

MAY

1 Walter Dobbin in ec tacy, "For I'm to be Queen of the fay mother, I'm to be Que n o' the May ._ '. And he was u h a prom1 mg young boy

3 econd period new writing clas ~ get out Acl l'Ocate

13 nnual opera, Captain 01·0 sbone 'Yo Ho Ho! And a Bottle of R um.'

SURVIVAL

OF TH£ FITTEST

'i\ND BEARS HIS BLUSHING HONORS THICK UPON HIM~J

20 Olympic . ''You 're a better m:m than I am, Gunga Din . ' Senior picnic

27 Junior- enior.

JUNE

3 Senior class day. Assembly is a bitter pill for George .

5 Baccalaureate sermon . Harold wood register for agriculture, elementary de ign, gymna ·ium, and lunch.

-Anticipation .

6 Examinations start. Links out.

10 Graduation exercises

'3 unior to a ·.s~nior

Oh reYerend senior, " Te humbly ask thy opinions On matters that sore grieve us, Knowing thy fruitful intelligence, Enormous energy and bountiful good humor. ,ve kno"·, moreover, That thy four years have broadened thee, Have opened new vistas before thee, Have given thee above all, that gracious and condescending Affability

That can come only to those who have toiled and uff ered. , ve shamefacedly confes our hortcoming in thy augu t Presence, knowing that thou , Yilt eparate the wheat from the Chaff -all this we know and .Are dazzled by thy might-but J-irst wait till the Olympics.

[Edi tor ' s note: Thi prophecy came true, 60-50.]

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,June ..J-: Am graduating from A today. Got the s welle -t tie I eYer saw to graduate in. Ha big gre en flo 11r in it.

June 5: I'm a full pledjed high s ch :>01 skolar now. I feel s o brite.

September 10 , Monday: Came down t o high chool today at 1 :00 p. m . ,v ated until 5 :00 p. m. , an swering lo ~s of que stion , etc. Found out that I had regi s tered at Grade School la s t pring.

eptemb er 12 , W"edne s day: Got up at 7 :00 a. m. Ran all way to chool o's I wouldn't b 2 late. When I got ther e , nobuddy wa in the halL, o I run all around, bangin ' on door s o 's the teacher s ·would let me in. Perty oon I got tired and set <lo" n on one of them three marble s eet in th e ,ve t Hall. \. flor ewalker who se d hi s name wa Harr:v Old came along and told me he would adju s t my se at s o' s my feet wo :1lcl touch the flor e He turned a screw and a s tr "' am of cold water s p e rted up m:v s pinell collem.

Thur s day: Couldn ' t find many of my cla . e . Fonnd 102 and 10-! but couldn't find lOB. ~enior se d to go up on -!th floor but I couldn't find the eleYator. \Yent into cooking room and ~lr . Kinyon gaYe me a cookie.

Friday: " Tent to school early ' o' s I could find the eleYator aw Mr. Culler and thinking I wonld impre:-·s e him with my brillyance I ask him if he takes the aim. eleYater co:ning np that he take commg do"n. He sed I ,rnuld hav e to elervate my elf on the tare . Monday: Found out Mr. Culler ,va just jo hing cause a emor howe,l me the works in the ba s ement. Had lot: of time to eat today Ate an<l ate and when I "ent up to the room ther e wa n 't anybnddy their ~o I went <l.own and ate some more. vVhen I came back, the other kid were just gettin' into there seats but the teecher sed I mi::; . ed some of the cla anyway. Ain't that funny?

Tuesday: Got lo t -Uh period today an<l ho"·ed a boy my program o's I'd know where to o·o. He told me my next cla s was Anchent Histery in 125. I went down ther ~ and took a eat among the brushes and broom. Got to wondering how the teecher could use them to teech Anchent Hi tery. Gue s she d~sts out the tomb ~ and brushe off the phinx with them or omething . Perty oon, a red headed man c:tme along and I told him I was waitin' for the re t of the cla s. He ed as far a he knew, their wasn't any cla .;:; s in the Cu todian' office.

""\Vednesday: Heei~ed a gong middle of period today. Thought it wa fir,\ gong and tarted to clime out the winder. fade the teecher awful mad. he sez we ain't posed to do nuthin' when the gong rino- and it' goin' ter ring in the middle of the period every day. That' fnnnier yet, ain't it?

Thursday: 1i sed a lot of my Mh period clas today again. Had an avdul long time to eat again. Can't ee why more pupils don't eat at the Free Lunch Counter. ,

Friday: Bono-ht an Asembly tiket today. Senior tryed to charge me $1.00 for it but I jewecl him down to $.50. , omeone told me not to buy it but I'm not o-oing to m1 any asembly Some Freshmen may be green but I'm not, you bet.

Monday: I tried to go down tairs rite today but it ain't rite to go down rite so I got my stocking torn and a kid told me to go down to the sewing room and Helen Thompson would sow it up for me. I did.

Tuesday: I got tired of the free lunch counter and went into the Cafyteria where I saw a lot of kids pickino- up stuff, without paying for it so I got two tray and piled them full. ""\Vhen I got to the encl a lean fellow with creme colored hair aid 63 cent . I coul-ln 't find but 7 cents so I put everything back, but a little dish of hash. I'm glad I ate my hamburger as I was walkin' down the line.

,vednesday: A sernbly today. \Vent early so's I'd get a good seet. Got their before they tarted takin' up bke ~s. Big fellow came and took the one I got way down in front away from me. Got ten seets taken away from me this way. Got into one at last that nobuddy but a little girl tryed to take away from me. he had her nerve, I'll say. I'm going to ave my tiket for next time.

Thursday: f y Home Room Teecher called me up to her desk and told me a lot about my Lunch Peryod. he sed to eat with my 5th Peryod Teecher. I hoped she'd pay cause I only had $.30. I stayed with my 5th peryod Teecher tho but she looked worried till another teecher come up. Then I begins to get wurried canse I couldn't fead both of them. I didn't feal very gallent anyway, so when they wnrn't lookin, I neaked way. I'll probably get my credits taken away for it.

Friday: Another assembly today. Told to set cleer up in nigger heaven with the re t of the Freshies. They looked so green that I hated to hang · around with them. urn Senior talked and one feller even waved his hands around, the way they did at graduaition. \i\1len Mi,s Pownd held up her hands at the end we all knew she meant to sing the "Star Splangled Banner" like we did in grade school but the orkester started rong and got us off the pitch.

Saturday: Carne down to school today to studdy. I'm awful scared cause when my teecher caught me rolling all day suckers on the floor, he told me I wa going to get 5 U-slips. Wonder what they are.

unday: This is the day all the High School feller go to see their girls. I thot I'd go see Kathleen Raugh can e he was so nice and showed me which way was eest the other day. When I got there she was sittin' on her front porch and when she saw me he called out, "Oh hello Freshie." It made

me so mad, I just walked right on pertendin' like I wa gomg omewere el e which I wasn't.

Monday: Was perty near late this morning. Had to run to my Home Room. When I took off my cap I forgot to take off the tockin' I wear to keep it in place. Everybuddy laffed but I didn't.

Tuesday: Feller sold me a Season Football Ticket today. It ez, "I have my season football ticket. Have you?" I wa. n't going to bye it at first but I asked a Senior and he sez, "Sure, you can't get in without one,' so I did. You know that Assembly ticket wasn't no good and a feller up hear put me wise to a whole lot of stuff.

Wednesday: Football game today. They wouldn't take my ticket o Harold ·wood and me climbed over the fence. ,ve played Uni Place and I bet a nickel Lincoln would win. They didn't and_ I didn t.

Thursday: " ent out to watch the boys play football. Bloyce Packer sent me over to the schoolhouse to get the krimmage line. I went up to the office and asked one of the prettv waiters with the brown hinv eves for it. he sed they were usin' it to hold the flag up. I climbed up ~on "top of the buildin' and tryed and tryed to get it but I couldn't. Funny what they u e skrimmage lines for, ain't it?

Friday: Today I was joshin' a girl in Library and wen I looked up the Librarian was tandin' over me and he ed, "This ain t no place to have a good time." I mighty soon agreed with her and wen he wasn't lookin'. I ran home.

Monday: Got a slip tellin' me to go to the office. Mr. Culler ez, "What did you skip Library for last Friday?" 'Cause I wuz skaired," ez · I. He talk to m e a long time about growin ' up to be a brave couragou man. It made me bawl and re olve to do better, even if Mi Gla did look at me.

Tue sd ay: Today in English Ola , Mi Arm trong ez, " amuel, will you decline thi s noun." I thought of what Mr. Culler sed and I wanted her to think I was brit e so I ed, · ' I n ever decline anything. I'll take all the noun you want to give me." he sent me to the office and Mr. Culler ed I wuz o-ettin' courageous allrite, cause he was afraid of Mi s Armstrong hi elf.

Wednesday: ,vore my green hirt today. How wa I to know Neil Cole would care?

Thursday: It was rainy today so I wore my over hoe A big feller told me I wuzn't alowed to go wadin' in the swimmin' pool. ,vonder what he meant.

Friday: I was o bu y fixing my watch today that I forgot to tudy. I had to stay in 40 minutes tonite. That was allrite tho cau e it seemed like grade skool.

Monday: ,va ent to the offi today for ome striped ink, by Hugh Cox. When I a ked Miss Pownd for it, she ed they didn't have any but had some brain ub titute. I waited and waited for that bu he just went into that little i,nside offis and I didn't ee anymore of her.

Tuesday: Lo t a quarter today in Assembly. omebuddy ed Bobby Hilton picked it up. So I run down the hall and topped a guy and sed, ' Are you Bobby Hilton?" He sez, ".r o, I'm Lloyd Robin on,' but he howed me Bobby Hilton. It' a. girl.

Wedne day: Feel better standing up today. U- lip reached home yesterday. They sed I hadn't learned ennything at High kool yet. T'il say I have. Mildred cha£ said she thought I was the clevere t little kid. I heard her.

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Li. ten my friend and you shall hear, The tory of a fre hman here, Into whose cla. ~-room came a girl, ,vho ent his head in a whirly whirl.

He vowed he would her acquaintance make, If e,,ery friend h had to take. o "·hen they had a mixing dance To the gymna inm he did prance. ,

He brn ~hed off hi coat and slicked his hair, Feeling su re that he'd he there. But alas and alack he had no luck For she went right home in the butcher boy's truck.

Ro he tried to feel happy just the ame, And aid there were more chance in the game. Then came the time for the senior play; He wanted to take her but what should he ay?

He went through the etiquette books at home, And parked some ·uggestion in his dome. To his class-room next day he came, Quite confident and feeling "game"

He opened his month and tarted to ay But he pnt it off till another day. Ashamed of his ha. hfulnes that night. He gathered hi courage with all hi might.

Deciding that she coulcl no more than "Beat it, freshie", or "Drift away", The next day seeino- her in the hall, He wore that here he'd ri e or fall.

He tepped np to her and thr ew out hi che.3t howing a rip in the s ide of his ve t. "'Yill you go to tlrn t how with me"? h ·aid. he miled a littl and he o-ot red.

"Y6u have come a Ii ttle late I gue s, Ancl 'twill do no harm if I confe s 1 The butcher boy came jn t today, And a ked me to the se nior play."

The fre hman tnY hi • error then, And said that in the future when He wanted to get a o-called date By her home in the early morn he'd wait To grab her before he could ay, "You're late".

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Lincoln high school held its carnival last Friday night in the high school building.

[Editor's note: A carnival is an affair where everyone is using desperate means of obtaining your money.] /

The halls were crowded with young and old joining in the entertainment of the evening.

[Editor's note: Evening is that part of the day when many young men are seen ringing door bells not their own.]

The main entrance was thronged. The large clock and the statue of Apollo were stunned by the huge crowds. The clock even went so far as to stop before the evening· was well started.

[Editor's note: Apollo is the personage at the side of the auditorium door on whose elbow so many absent-minded juniors bump their heads.]

In front of each room students were barking their wares in the same manner as the "shoot till you win" man at the state fair.

[Editor's note: Barking is that noise made by a dog when someone is at the ice-box.]

Others in bright-colored costumes were parading the halls proud of their attire.

[Editor's note: Costumes are those clothes which a lady with a new marcel wave wears to draw attention.]

The cafeteria was the scene of a coffee •and doughnut eating contest.

[Editor's note: Coffee and doughnuts are the items in the midnight meal of a man who had to pay . street car fare when he expected to walk.]

In room 226 and the girls gymnasium many people were struggling around in an attempt to dance.

[Editor's note: Dance is a pastime indulged in only by those whose shoes are bought for them by "papa."] ·

At eleven o'clock the signal for the close of the entertainment was given and the crowd rushed for the street cars.

[Editor's note: A street car is a contrivance for the carrying of the public, operated in such a way as to draw violent words from many of the customers.]

With the help of Providence, Mr. Culler finally cleared the building and locked the door on the silent corridors.

[Editor's note: Providence is a city in Rhode Island.]

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It was my privilege to see the memb~rs of the Links staff preparing for their a sembl y on March ninth. It being my first time behind the curtain, I learned much and saw a great deal.

Assembled in the small space, about twenty-five boys and girls were busily arranging themselves for the critical eyes, of the Lincoln high school students, and attempting with little result to keep their el bows out of each other' faces.

Over in one corner Miss Atkins had a tall boy backed against the wall draping upon him a collection of sheets which wou l d draw an envious look from the eyes of a wealthy rooming house owner, and endeavoring to place them around his body in such a way as to give freedom of action . On his head was a wreath, and in his right hand was a chain, on the end of which was an indignant dog, resisting vio l ently the attempt to place him b es ide the apparition of Homer .

In another spot I beheld a figure struggling into a co tume which from my

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position looked very old fashioned. Hurrying over to it, whom should I behold but the dignified president of the student council, ,vendell Berge. I wa intere ted to hear that he was the 1921 ver ion of William hake peare . Other part of the room were filled with people loading upon them elves emblems of their calling. Helen Tom on was unable to get very near anybody . I could not find out the rea on, but I did note the club hanging on her per- son. John Major was laboring under two large bags of money which I took as repre enting the wealth of the alumni. I knew then why I saw him a few minutes before filling the acks with paper from the janitor' room. w·orse than anything else wa the quarrel which the four haughty seniors were having as to how they were to it on the "board}' which was about big enough for two of them. Walter Dobbins and Ruth Tanner were afraid they would over- load the wagon and the other two would be unable to seat them elves in manner befitting their dignity.

The e things would not have tartled me to a very great extent, but when

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)iis Atkins asked the· crowd to o-o aro:.md and get made up" I wa ready for more know ledge.

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Silence!

The pregnant ilence b efore a torm ! Into the air of the du ty corridor Float the warm, ,,,oodsy aroma of cooked food.

A foot tep i heard in the di tance, And

Then

A hrill metallic clangor.

Door bang,

A huffie of approaching feet i heard, craping on the tairway , liding around the corner

A wall of humanity loom in the distance, Hurl it elf nearer.

A roar is heard like the ru hing of ocean wave . A omeone bump into me

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And recovering, am ·wept into the cafeteria.

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Being new in the school and having been lucky enough to catch the announcement, above the giggling and whispering of the girl in front of me, that there was a mixer that evening, I decided to ee ju t what thi thinO' might be that cali ed the girls to wear their best hair nets and the boys to go so far a to tuck brown ilk handkerchief into their coat pockets Following the advice I had heard at the state fair to follow the crowd, I found myself in front of the girl gymna ium. After about half an hour of pushing and shoving, during which my new shine wa overclouded and the crystal on my sister' wrist watch was completely dilapidated, I gained what might almost be called a foothold on the outskirt of the crowd. The sweat was pouring down between my neck and my cravat, but I re so lYed to stick it out after uch a hard truggle for exi s tence.

With no intention of criticising anyone-in particular-I am forced to a:v that a s a dance it gave me the impre~::,ion of a number of flie endeavoring to

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detach themselve from an affectionate piece of tangle-foot. Over at one ide I caught a glimp e of a tall boy blushing furiou ly as his mall feminine partner tried to pound into his head the fact that he wa expected to do forward march and keep off her feet at the ame time. A number of boy cho e him for their object in so m e intelligent remarks which a enior be ide me termed "wise crack ." In another ection of the room I aw a girl indu triou ly at work putting on the la t coat of disguise before starting out to how the as embled student some of the latest " tuff." Getting down to details, I noticed in the hand of almost eYery girl a mall object. ome were gold, some were ilver, some were bra s, ome were tin, and still others I was unable to classify. I taxed my brain in an earnest effort to guess what they were and wa soon rewarded when right in front of me a boy, who parted his hair in the middle and everything, et down a shoe twic e the ize of an ordinary man's, on the foot of hi partner. , iVith a cream the girl dropped the article, and out rolled money, rouge, powder, unexcused slips, and a great deal of paraphernalia my eye was not quick enough to note. I heard her refer to it as her vanity case, -194-

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but I decided for my part I would call it a wardrobe trunk and coyer the sub- ject more thoroughly.

Every once in a while ome couple would be lucky enough to take three teps in uccession without endangering the equilibrium of another party. I did ee one boy, however, who, holding his partner in the same manner as that in which he would grasp a ack of flour, wa spinning around the floor at a considerable rate of speed. ..Around the corner he slid and bumped squarely into an innocent couple, with the result that the floor on that spot was much brighter than it wa in any other parL of the room.

I cannot end my discus ion without a word or two in behalf of the non- union orchestra. I have seen orchestras called upon again and again to repeat, but never until this time had I seen an orchestra which was expected to play continuously. The fatigned violinist, who, I heard, had on his brother's tie, fint parked himself in the chair with the drummer, then after tiring of this posi- tion, mounted the pia no, but all was of no avail, as the crowd called for more.

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I left the nuxer un atisfied becau e I did not see ~fr. Culler on the floor. I am sure he could have done himself credit-in the crmYd, and all the boys would have been fighting to dance with him.

I tated in tartino- that I did not intend to critici e anyone, and I sincerely tru st that I have not damaged the high opinion that any tu dent s may ha , ·1.:.. of themselves, but I am ure I had better top now before the student council ~eizes me for makino- light of their Friday afternoon entertainment.

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When the sun began tQ, shine, The birds wuz singin' handsome

And the flowe :::- s wuz bloornin' fine, The air was warm and balmy And the earth was good to see, When Cinch Tight Dan rode into town On his suringtime jamboree.

ow Dan had been penned up all winter, His spirits were ready to flare, He rode into town with his guns strapped down, All set and ready to rare.

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And he chased the barkeep out. When Dan finished the Cowmen's Inn

And thought the job complete, He came through the door with a mighty roar And started down the street. He broke three plate glass windows. He busted our one street light. It made us blue when Dan got through,The town wuz sure a sight. • Then Dan whacked down the long main street, His gun a-spitting fire. It wuz bad to see but wise were we, We waited for Dan to tire.

Then the sheriff threw a rope around Dan's neck And dragged him through the dirt. We put him away for the rest of the day

Where Dan could do no hurt. It wuz along in spring time, You could hear the birdies' hail, But Cinch Tight Dan, that spring drunk man, Ended his day in jail.

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The Hundred-One hundr'.ld runner competing. Record-,"\71ien one runner beats anoth,e.r' "time.''

Lap-Term u ed to de crib 0 a dog rinking 1rnter. top ".,..atch-One "·hich i ~ r ~lated to the Ing r .~ oll and do e not go. They're Off-" ometime, m eaning that the rac e is t ,.rted but u ually referrinO' to those who ar vhouting for Omaha

Judge -IntelliO'ent looking men who see that the runn er .· keep off each other' hoe- trinO'

Handicap-A u eful cap for the head.

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Baton-A small stick carried by a relay runner bnt mi . takenly u ed by a Gretna boy for a tooth pick ju t rec ~ntly.

Broa] Jump-Participat cl in only by fat peopl

Di cus-Old way of spelling di gu. t.

Vault-To play 1 ap-frog m·er a bamboo tick "·ith the a si tance of a long pole

,von Handily-Meaning that the runner came acro v the line on both feet and una i ted.

Home tretch-" 1ien in the la t q·rnrter of the mile the pectator think it i about tim.e to go home and b~gin to stretch, indicating that the time. i poor and they do not exp ec t the runners around for quite a while Clo ed a Big Gap-During thi period of tretching the pwple yawn and when a runner 8hows enough life to bring this action to a close he is said to have clo ed a big gap.

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:2\ sr~.sbman · :2\.s,pirant to tb~ Jrootball 'G~am )\datu tb~

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Say D ad, those bird up at hig h schoo l can't hold a fl as hl ight to me w h en it comes to football . I came onto the field in an old suit that wou l d make th e bum in the Sennet comedies envious and for this gets a laugh from the g a ng. "\Yell, I had to take my pite out on something so I tack l es the dummy arnl divides it into fragment When this happens the coach looks me over and say:-3 to go to right-half :for the scrubs . Thi doesn ' t aggravate me as I always co uld . hine better with a poor bunch Not bragging on myself - but yon know how it is . On about the first play a guy they call "Tommy" starts around left end and he has on a new uit and is feeling a happy as a o·irl with her fir st engagement ring, but after I hit s that bird he thinks he ~ees the Golden Gate . "\Vell, we got the ball and after a few plays I went through the line :for ten yard . The co1ch told a guy that hould have had m~

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that he wa s so yellow that if he was round they would eat him for a grape- fruit. Pretty good. Eh? A little after this I tear s around end for twenty yards and the coach bawls out a fellow named Pack and a sk s him why he didn't get me and he make a lot of excu e. and believe me he could tell 'em fa ter than the champion of the Arabian Nights. After a time we gets tirecl of running with the ball and we gave it to theni.. One fellow who i o tough that he think a guy that u es a napkin is howing off yells to giv e him the ball and he will make u look like a bunch of new boy when the co p , show up. He hit pretty hard bnt when he reached me I hit him so hard that he calmly re igned without any pain what oever. In the cour e of the game we get no les than about seven touchdown and their touch- tlown is a carce a hon e ty in a blue sky corporation. vVe quit about dark nncl I came home feeling a. happy as a grocery sale man in a starving com- munity of rich farmer s

COLLINS

mu.sings of a .S~nlor

Darleen ,voodward received great praise on her Engli h theme entitled, Ii ow a Tumbling Team lV ould Make the Girls Lm·ge and Strong Like llf e.

I heard a conversation among the girls of the normal training depart- ment in which it was decided to establi h a chool at Belmont for boys between the age of sixteen and twenty-one.

As they stood in front of the Lincoln Candy Kitchen gazing in at th1~ grapejuice and ginger-ale, Fred Gardner 'aid to Ruth North, "Drink to me only with thine eyes!" I could have lent him. a dime if he had asked £or it: "Spud" Tatum, also ,vendell B erge, are great lovers of the ong, Jlfargie.

Irl Kuns fell on the steps at Ruth Tmrner's home the other night and . evered his .hoe string just above the ankle. Kot clumsy, just excited.

Ruth Judge spends much of her spare time looking through the university Cornhusker and picking out the "handsome boys."

He was ju t . aying that it was a nice day and so on when a remark from his friend caused him to give Yent to unr strained mirth. The land laugh awoke

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"daddy" with the re ult that Harold vVoocl arrived home much" earlier than he "·oulcl have under ordinary conditions.

The blonde young gentleman at Hallett' jewelry hop, Dayton Hyde by name, ha developed to perfection the art of trimming the window and watching the ladie in the street at the ame time.

The rea on why Clyde Davis doe:-; not wield his bow twice at the same place ha been di coYered. He is afraid of being taken into custody for "restraint of trade."

Art Bowen' know ledge of the brick laying profession has come in very handy in his geometry clas , where he ha been able to give the rest of the class ome "inside dope."

It has been heard around school that Cecil Rhodes lost a good customer in Rehlander's drug store when he became so absorbed in the young lady acros the aisle that he mixed the footease with the sore throat remedy.

·Wilbur Peter on is a busy man on the Star newspaper. His main run at present i Whitton-Carlisle.

A meeting of the Mummers is scheduled for tonight as they went away last night without adjourning. -204-

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Albrecht and -nrood, Lawy ers. ,ve guarantee to win your ca e and take care of the profits. ddre De Lux ~ BnildinO'. Phone taken out.-Adv.

A new hair bru h is being old with rubber tipped bristle to keep it from kidding over the marcel wave .

Ro ~co Tutty got to chool on time la st week. Reid Tracy went out for track April 16. He al o came back. There wa a great commotion in school la t Tue sday. l yde Davi got a, hair-cut.

)Ii Muir (poising a tick of grease paint before a member of the Linlcs a embly) "I am divided in my desire to make you all beautiful or all ugly." Member: "Make u all ugly. Y 0 :.1 will meet with greater uccess."

A clever young girl named Ruth Tanner Has developed a mo t frigid manner; When we ee her with Lloyd he eem o annoyed That her friend are all tempted to can her.

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But they have a lot to do with the appearance of every man.

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TJ1ere are several ways of u ing baked ham. One of the be tis to eat it. Honey may be u ed for sweetening almo t anything but a traffic cop. paghetti shou ld not be cooked too long. About ten inche is right. cold bath will be found more plea ant if made with hot water.

What would basketball be without Harry~ Always a smile did he carry; H e played on our side

Through the long winter tide And he tripped o'er the floor like a fairy.

Jewell H.: "Do you find the cla::; presidency an easy berth~" George H.: "Not exactly. It 's more like a hammock. Hard to get into comfortably and hard to get out of gracefully." -2 06-

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®pticinns-Eyes Examined Free. In our Optical Department you may se~ect just what you want in Eye Glasses or Spectacles. Fine Optical Repairi:1g. Broken Lenses duplicated.

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Lincoln, Nebr.

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Here's a boy with a pet avcr8ion: 'Which ca uses me to roa r Bobby Farquhar is taking Crisco To make himself weigh more . Pet aversions all are fine, But Loren McPhe'tson wins . He tells you all about the play Before the how begin

Speaking of pet ave.rsions, D e Los Coe makes me frown, ,vhen he chews his gum on the street car, And his hat bobs up and down

Still another pet aver:::iion, A delight to the freshies, g r een, They make face at George Albrecht, when his gla ses aren't clean.

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Eddie Wilson ha a pet aver ion, Which beats all these by far, Any question he can't an wer, Goes to Minerva of the tar·. In one of his letter::; he asked her A remedy for hi red head. "Keep a way from your ister' curling iron," vVas all Minena said.

Mr . Culler has a pet aver ion, , Vhich draws groan from the students' lip , He p l aces the well -known "unexcused,'~ On all their tardy slips.

"Oh, teacher, may I chew gum today~, Asked a tudent of Mis Sprung. "No, not today," she answered him, "I'm afraid you'd bite your tongue . " -208-

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Teacher: '·There's husbanury in he2nn. Her candles are all out. Explain this line."

Cecil Rhode : "It mean that w01nen are not afraid to have the house dark if their hu band are home to protect them."

Kenneth Carr ( taking charge of a r ecit~tion) : "vVho was the wife of Jove '?

Marie chmidt (uncertainly) : "Juno."

Kenneth Carr: "No, I don't. Thaf why I'm asking you."

Darleen ,v-. : Richard R.:

Darleen ,v. :

"Dick, do ha Ye ome more ice cream."

"Thanks, just a mouthfull." "Mother, fill Dick's plate."

Mis Cather ( looking absent-mindedly around the room) : "Let me see, this is the day tha·t thi class does not meet."

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There' that quaint little maiden, Hope Barkley, \Yho hides the last n w from u darkly; ,Vhen you don't find Hope Dealing editor' dope, he dancing with eye bright and parkly

.A boy whose fir t name was Dayton ,Ya tempted one day by old Satan ·when we passed him with hash, To relieve us of cas h,N ow I guess that he's off ce lebratin'.

A girl bore the sweet name of Helen; Of the Links s he wa alway a-yellin'; Through the tickets she so ld She took in the gold,'Tis said even yet she i ellin' ! -210-

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Mr. Kane: "If the bank informeu vou that your checking account was overdrawn, what would you do?" V Ruth: "Give them a check for the amonnt. ''

Mr. Mead: "Wbat is that odor I smell?''

Mr. Alder: "Oh, that is fertilizer."

Mr. M ead : "For land' ake."

Mr. Alder: "Ye , that's what it is for."

A fine girl is Creekpaum, Mary, She isn't the least bit contrary : ,17.1 en she stands to recite On commencement night, ,Ye are ure that her point 1Yill all carry

Alice: Grace: Alice:

Grace: Alice:

Junior: emor:

"My beau is so jealou ." "How ab urd."

""\Yb y? I n't your ·?' 1 " Of course not." 'How humiliating."

"I'd hate to be in your shoe . ' ' "They would pinch you terribly, wouldn't they?"

I

Joe: " ,,11y does Clarence Beeson ino· with hi eyes hut?"

Jim: "He hate to ee us suffer "

Miss Kirk er say that plucked eyebrows indicate the probable existence of a vacuum right behind them.

A dapper youth named Harry Crr .-:: on Grew o tired of his nickname of parson That he cried in despair, "I will mu s up my hair And commit some dread crime, theft or ar son!"

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"He Profits Most Who Serves Best"

There was a young man named Bill Bertwell, :\nd his teachers all said he cou ld work we ll , But he learned how to tease weet girl named Loui e, And she found that he al o could flirt well.

An eloquent orator, Berge,

• Had a voice lik e Tiagara' • urge. To B eatrice he went, All pa t records he rent, And with cup and a smile did emerge

That da hing ~roung chap named Neil Cole I s for cla s '21 heart and oul ; Of his burn id es he' proud; H e lik e hi hirt loud, And pleasing the girl is hi goal.

One sleepy afternoon L ucy at staring blankl y at a mounta i n of schoo l book she had brought home to be studjed, and wondering· which to attack fir st .

, uclden l y a very queer looking permn, whom Lucy immediatel y recognized as a fairy , entered the room throug h the open window . "Come," he said, taking L ucy by th e hand, " I am going to show you some - th i ng that will do your heart good ."

"Ther 's nothing the matter ,Tith my heart that I know of," said Lucy, "but anything for a chance to put off work."

, 1rithont any more words they both flew out of the window Lucy had never flown b ~fore, but strange to say he had no trouble now . (They never do in fairy storie )

At la t they alighted . Lucy perc eived herself to be in a very b eautiful garden, in the middle of which wa a large bonfire which a number of happy boys and girls were feeding with books which t h ey tore up for the purpose.

" ' \711ere is thi , and who are all those, and what is that fire fod" asked L ucy all in one breath, as was her u ual manner of interrogation.

"Thi s is that part of the Hereafter which is ca ll ed the 'Haven of Children.'

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They are the pirit of departed little one and that i s the place where they burn chool books," explained the fairy .

"If you'd only told me thi , I'd have brought mine along," aid Lucy.

"I will now show you that part of the Hereafter which is devoted to the puni hment of the enemies of children," aid the fairy, io·noring the interrnption .

"Sounds intere. ting," aid Lucy hopefully.

They traveled through the garden until they reached a wall with a ombre looking b l ack gate .

"Be ca r eful of your th es and thou ," a i d the fairy to L ucy "They ta l k li ke Quakers in here." Then turning to the gate he commanded, "Unfo l d, ye porta l ! Enter, morta l. " .c\ !ld L u cy accordingl y entered. he found h er- se lf in a large room heated by a furnace in the middle.

T he fir;:t per on s h e aw wa a man in a Roman co t n me, bent over a dog-eared, paper-backed book.

" ' Vl10 art th ou, unfortunate~" inquired L ucy . The gentleman rai ed his head orrowfu ll y

"Hast thou never heard of me~ I comm i tted a great cr i me against high choo l tudents . I wrote the Gallic War! I am Casi u J u l ius Caesar!"

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"Tell the lady "·hat you're doing here, July/' reque ted the £airY . "Ah, my ta. k is unbearable," aid Cae ar, "'I mu t read mine accur, ed book five hundred trillion time ."

"And hast thou not yet fini hed ?" a ked Lucy "Alas, no/ sighed Caius, '·I have now read it one thousand, two hundre l, sixtv-four and two-thirds times."

·"Alas, thou art indeed to be pitier!.," said Lucy, pas ing on to the next sufferer. •·And who art thou?" she asked.

··I," replied the person he addres ed, "'am Pythagora I discovered that the square on the hypotenu e 0£ a right angle triangle i equal to the um 0£ the squares of the two legs. I believe I may ay that my theorem ha::i caused more geometry tndents to fail than any other My puni hment is to find the hypotenuse 0£ right triangle after right triangle for one million vears."

., "Aye, brother," broke in another ancient Greek, looking up from the pencil and paper over which he w·as laboring, "but thy task i small compared to

mine. I," he added, turning to Lucy, "am Euclid I inrnnted geometry "

And what i thy terrible doom?" asked Lucy.

Ala., I must extract the quare root of negative one," he replied.

"Ye both ham my sympathy" aid Lucy, turning to another group ··And who are they?" he a ked, waYing her hand toward them.

"They,' replied the fairy, "are th famou hi torical characters who se deeds yon are so cruelly obliged to "tudy."

··And what i • their punishment?"

"It i a cruel, bnt just one. Th ey have to write over and over the elate they have macle famous, until they are forgotten."

"And who are ye?" she asked them.

Then Lucy beheld a great throng of people occupied at diver;:; ta . ks.

,Yith one . voice they re ·ponded, ""re are the teacher~. Onr punish- •ment is unending. "\Ve mn t work out all our own a signments ."

At la. t Lucy saw a warm corner n ear the furnace, which wa vacant.

",Yhy is that place empty?" she asked the fairy.

"That? Oh, that's reserved for the English teacher who expects perfectly matter-of-fact, pro aic high school boy s and girl to become literary o-eniu e on req ue t."

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1 he de sene: it," said Lucy and there :he was back home. ·',Yell, here is my much-longed-for inspiration," she aid, ' ·at least, I'll haYe my English le ;;on tomorrow " -HELE T Rr~nrox , 123.

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1 T mv, boy, it' · time you were in your .eats. It' · almost time for the bell and I have so mnch to do thi morning that we must o·et settled clown to bu:iness immediately." he rustles tlB paper on her de k in a mad ·earch for the announcement. "Read a little louder, plea. e," she ays, fidgeting, "I'm afraid we are not all hearing. Turn aronnd in your eat, Marie, you are dis- tmbino· the whole room . ''rhen the b ~ll rings I would like to speak to Marie, Car"·in, and Victor."

He i tall and very blonde with a con tant glimmer of a ·mile and a habit of saying, "Dad-gum it. He is always in the center of school activi- tie and has an air of being extrem ly busy. He likes to drape his arm picture squely over the back of the neare t girl' eat or to run down the hall ,vith lono- low motions of hi loo ely-jointed limbs -216-

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Her cheeks are surprisingly pink which E~ake • me wonder H er h ort h ai r, curled i nto :::;mall ringlets all owr her head, bobs when she talk· or l a u ghs. Her small feet are clad in satin or suede ;:;lip1rrs, a· though she were r a cly fo r an eYening party, and he ·elclom ,Y2:u.-; the ·2me dress two ncce:~i -v e day::,;. Thus . ·he graces u:::; ,Yith her pre enc2 e:1ch day.

He is n::,;ua lly one of the fir;:;t to r.?ach :-'Chool He newr ha~-, anything to do at school early in the morning , Bnt his three yen· of early rising ban' giYen him a habit \Yhich he claim:,, is harder to break thnn hi other habit,The habit of wearing a checked red shirt.

NOW is the time w hen your storage battery should be p ut in first-class condition for the coming seas ~n.

Drive in and let us fill batte~y with distilled water .

We are equipped to give prompt service on an y make of storage battery.

1731 0 St.

He jumped into hi road ter And peeded up the street, He topped before the bakery To bu)r her something sweet. He jumped into hi road ter The eandv bv hi side. , He topped· before hi lady's house To take her for a ride.

They jumped into hi roadster. he said, "I ·want to drive." He topped and they changed place And onward did they ride.

Ah woe to me, ah woe to them, A :fateful e-..ening that, For he ha mo,Ted too far aero And mashed the candy fl.at.

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,Vh er angel fear to tread I go Without fear For fool may go o I've heard \Vhere angels fear to tread.

Copy long oYer due I take ·without fear To the Advocate office. Here I find That angel fear to tread.

Aroun l our winding hall I go But I find That angel come ; So not here Do angel fear to tread. - I ABEL CA::\[PBELL, '22. - 218-

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His hair is a raYen black.

Yon wonder if hi farnrite barber ha died, For hi. jet hair curls loo ~ely down to the nape of hi ~ neck , And hi s ide burns are nearly a::; long.

Hi s nit is usually light in color

And he 1s got a habit of carrying a Yiolin case around "·ith him .

He ha s a Yery complex natnr e ,Yith a forbearing attitud e toward hi teacher

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