The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-09-08
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

black and white hat band and appeal
ing crimson sox, that every new crop
of freshmen has a more exaggerated
idea of their own Importance In this
great social system than the preceding
class. Why last year we thought the /
limit had been reached when a herd |
of boobs in knickerbockers, with an aver /
age weight about ninety pounds. had |
the audacity to appear as the class of |
1918. (Note 10 or 14?) But they |
were overgrown brutes compared to in
fantile mbeciles."
The speaker paused and waited to see |
the impression his smile had made up
on the lone freshman. The six-foot |
athlete and the midget in short pants
made rather 1uicrous picture as they
posed upon the school fence near the
drinking fountain.
The little fellow looked UP meeEly
and said, Say. will you please hand
me down match?' The favor granted
the Junior continued: Now the first
thing you have to do is to relieve your
intellect of that prevalent idea that to
be Hammond high school student CON
sists of wearing loud haberdasherv
playing football and using slang" Here
the third year man pulled his hat down
on one side and upon the other and
produced a pocket mirror. After a min
ute inspection he seemed satisfied and
said, All to the hickey -slaughr'
Now you appear to have some saw
ing qualities and if you will listen to
little gratis advice and remember that
| you don't amount to anything. but
would like to, see a faint harbinger Of
a slight hope" He used the con
descending tone OF the worldly wise
elders to the unsophisticated youth.
No. l. Don't spend your time gazing
around to find something to laugh at.
| If some absent minded scholar sticks
the business end of a freshly dipped
pen in his mouth and then expectorates
| over the inhabitant of the next seat
don't har-har! SO loud that the janitor
Will leave his work in the basement
| Don't roar all day when some coed
| arises and translates from Latin:
Caesar had many fast friends among
| Whom } and } were the
fastest" Have your little giggle and
| then quit
Don't crawl under house or climb a
tree every time you see sophomore
If they want to haze you they'll get
you sooner or later. and, anyway. the
! pure food laws won't let them eat Won.
Now 1t pays to get your work as YOU
go along. It's easier. Remember that
the professors a whole lot wiser
1hat you and the first time you make
any funny noises they can put the
kibosh on. Why, if you come beating
II up the stairs on our heels with a
worried look and an open volume burr
into the professor stationed in the hall
hang your hat on the door knob, rush
into the assembly room. you can bel
! your sweet existence that the teach.
ers help. He knows blamed well tina
/ you're booked to recite the first period
in the morning and were bummine
around in front of Cox's or Daddy Bfcl<
! nell's the previous night. So he give,
the Indian sign and the faculty nre
pare to hand you everything from tn,
third degree up and by night YOU hav,
4 the blind staggers, a nervous head
ache. hunted look and the night
q mare
If you want to make Favorable
i Impression, don't run after any uppe
clasSmen. You may think that by re
naming back in the winC-1 you'll be ou
of the show, but that's where you mis-
B calculate.
Say, there's a great big princfpa
q involved and the maxim is Let ther
a run after you"
g For instance. remember two fellow
equally talented with no striking diff
ference mentally or physically. On
started in to make himself prominen
a He called the superintendent Mac" an
y the fellows by their nicknames. butte
IN where unlimited, wore G path be
81 tween his seat and the tutors desk an
81 excepted every opportunity of holdin
"A the spotlight. At the end of the frs
II quarter he was a Joke. later a bore an
81 by summer vacation the most utterl
u depised person in school. He gave it u
Il as a bad job and quit and every 10
he has now he loses for the same era
81 son.
"a The other fellow didn't have any
81 thing to say except when called on
81 class, after that he would sink dow
{ and remain passive He paid strict a
"a tention to the instructor or whoevs
81 had the misfortune TO be called upo
8 When a coed would address him. !
= didn't call her little one" or "kiddo
but gave an admirable imitation of s
Walter Raleigh and said, Yes, Nil
81 Burgundy or whatever her name wa
II Well say, by the end of the first yet
81 any one in the school. even to tt
81 most exclusive senior would wa
g around an Erie freight to speak to hi
IA and the following term he was the q
~ time champion popular scholar"
Just then a party of uppercIassrnt
rounded the turn in Holman street an
fearing to be seen. engrossed in a hear
to-heart confab with a ..freshie.'
strobe unconcernedly towards them.
* AS they passed the bewildered fires
81 man heard the garrulous junior S:
III as he pointed him out. .sDidia o.,
notice how much those kids have