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all about Cleopatra, Hatshepshut, and Sennacherib, not to mention the art of
"line slinging.”
Athletically we had another football team under "Two Gun," the "man
from the South with a big cigar in his mouth,” and were lucky to have some
real "gen-u-wine” Notre Dame plays. Theoretically they should have worked,
but I guess as theorists in practice we weren’t so good. In soccer Joe Wild
showed that some day he’d be a star on the varsity, for he was good even then.
Slowly the year rolled on. "B’arcat” Andrews and "Al” Davis nightly
played their game of chess, which usually ended up with "Monsieur Algebra
Professeur” snapping out of it at 11:30 and coyly asking whether the last bell
had rung or not. We managed to elect class officers at this time, two of whom
were John Macomber, President, and Dick Chase, Vice-President.
After Christmas vacation we again went out for our usual sports. A new
extracurricular activity this year was the operetta, which was finally presented
at a grand performance the evening before the spring vacation. In the cast (and
did they yodel prodigiously) were Swent, Schiller, Toof, and Macomber. What
talent!
Once again the warm breezes hit us and made us languish as we returned
from our last trip home before the summer. Out under a golden sun on the
green grass we organized our ball team under Messrs. Heiney and Howeth, both
of whom we knew as "fiends” in the classroom. Many of us pounded the track,
and others wielded the racket. Life went along easily. Joe Wild won the Junior
Declamation Contest, with R. Henley Judd a close second. Judd also took a
cold, cold tub one evening late, under O. J. B. H.’s personal supervision on the
Third Form corridor. It seemed that this rascal would climb up the fire escape
to their corridor and make a lot of noise, getting them in trouble with the local
authorities. The boys finally organized their efforts, with the aforementioned
result of the immersion of the culprit. What a noise there was up there
that night!
Thus with time marching ever onward, we passed these last few weeks
before June. Then, having enjoyed the Commencement exercises, we hastily
dispersed to enjoy our short summer vacation.

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The autumn leaves were again picturesquely gliding to the ground when
we wended our way through these gates to open the new school year. Eagerly
we took our desks, now situated in the front of the back block in Study Hall,
and gazed contemptuously at the "brats” in the First Form. For the next two
days we wandered around getting orientated again, buying books in the crowded
book room, jostling our fellows in line as we got our locker keys over in the
gym, and trying to fix up our rooms on corridor with some tone of respectability.

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