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To replace such illustrious members as
Hodie Letts and Sheldon Spicer, we had
several new boys. And we had a new teach­
er, too. The imperturbable Joe Ritter, of
Scranton fame, was come to instruct us in
smelly, potentially explosive mixtures. Then
there was Pedro the Wizard, who called on
the boys to “produce” and drew perfect
circles free-hand. Cosmopolitan Uncle Ted­
dy (how he could holler!) guided us past
tricky “p.d.o.'s” and gave us jingles we
shall remember long after we’ve forgotten
the causative faire. Some of the boys learned
how ridiculous an inflection reader can look
under the spell of Mr. Raines. Then some
of the lads had the pleasure of learning
under a man who could hypnotize and who
jumped rope 1000 times on a bet. Who but
Mr. McIntyre? Still a few poked into the
scandals of Cicero’s Rome under genial,
tolerant Coach Waugh tel. But all of us
relished the Town Meetings that the
Baser’s laissez faire policy encouraged. Pure
democracy under the genial N.H. prof.
Class elections were run off with a mini­
mum of lobbying or pressure, and when the
returns were in, Jerry Myers had again
captured the presidency with Parker Dris­
coll as his sub. Charlie Scovil and Bob
Martin grabbed off the scribbling and bank­
ing jobs.
To relieve the arduous effort of class-
work we had some variations as some of the
boys exhibited female stockings during a
study of Chaucer, and later when some
particularly Hearstian tabloids were posted
on the bulletin board.
Fritz Siefert, exchange student from
Germany, turned into a fine companion
and became delightfully “Yankee.”
In the Christmas plays, our Thespians
scored in three one-acts. We had many
members in the casts; Coffin, Ladd, Mc­
Connell, Ruth, Scovil, Sanford, Crompton
Earle did their stuff. One of our plays was
produced over the radio, with the last three
participating.
Then came blessed vacation -a chance

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