The Dickinson press., 1912-06-08
II FINISH
HIGH SCHOOL

Glass Prophecies Pictures Brilliant
Future for Members. Supt.
Berg Favors Practical Educa- /.
tion. Exercises Good.
Last Friday night was the eighteenth
time that the people of Dickinson
to listen to the exercises in
with the graduation Of pupils
from the high school. The first exer-
cises were in 1894, when Miss Carrie
Fowler was the only member of the
class and in the eighteen years that
followed or up to the present time 122
persons have graduated from the Dick
inson high school and are elassed as
members of the alumni association.
The stage on Friday night was prob
ably as prettily trimmed as at any of
the proceeding graduation functions.
The class colors, violet and white, pre-
dominated, the violet being displayed
in the lavish punches and wreathes of
lilacs, and sweet peas and bunting, and
a lattice work in front of the rostrum
was in white. Potted plants and palms
were also used to complete the beauty
of the stage setting. Their motto ''Be
There was worked out in their colors.
The graduating class. faculty and
school board. took their places on the
stage while Lee Heffron played Marche
Ponti6cale. This was followed by the
invocation by Rev. F. H. Farrand and
then by a chorus by the high school
girls.
Ethel Parker was the first member of
the class of 1912 to step forth on the
stage and deliver the Glass History"
She told about those-five in all-who
began the first grade in the Dickinson
schools. These five were Crobsy Rich
ards. Donald Ray. Robert Hill. Maysie
Dinsdale and herself. One-Marjorie
Lytle-joined their ranks in the higher
grades, while the others were added in
the high school years. Last year four
of their girls made the first basketball
team and two of the boys were on the
first boys team. In football they were
represented by four boys and in all
athletic work their class was foremost
in their four years in the high school.
In their Sophomore year. with help,
they added $3.50 for gymnasium equip
ment by giving a play. and were the
first of the high school classes to raise
their pennant over the new school build
ing in 1911.
Robert Hill was next on the program
with an grafton the 'Mono-Rail'' which
was as follows:
THE MONO-RAIL
There few of us who. as boys.
have not been entertained with the
spinning tops but the day soon arrives
when we become too old or too proud
to spin them, and most of us never give
them thought again: A few years
later, perhaps. we become interested in
some OF the numerous inventions Of
modern days. but our tops have long
since been forgotten. And yet, what
surprising possibilities of knowledge
and power have been put aside with our
neglected playthings? Who would have
thought that in them lay concealed the
secret of steering torpedo, of steady
ing ships at sea or of travelling with
security in car on single rail at the
rate of 13O miles an hour?
The falling of an apple led to the dis.
covery of the laws of gravitation. A
box elder tree seed. whirling as it fell
to the ground, suggested the screw pro.
peller. The mono-rail owes it's success
to study of the common top.
Picture to yourself d car a little
shorter. little wider and lower than
the ordinary passenger coach. pointed al
the end. the interior much like the cal
of today, supported on groved wheels
running on single rail, balanced by
two giant tops spinning at enormous
speed in one end of the car, the entire
machinery enclosed in space 10 feel
square. and you have some idea of the
model car with which Louis A. Brennan
astounded and thoroughly aroused the
English people.
This car was the outcome of using
three balancing principles, all of which
are illustrated in the top. A top will
not stand on its point unless it is spin
ming. An unboiled egg cannot be made
to spin because its center of mass is
not fixed, but boiled egg will spin
like top. A body is more stable when
it's center of mass and it's center o1
support are In the same line, which
is illustrated in the spinning top, and
Is one reason why Brennan used large
iron tops.
Again. man carrying a load on hit
right shoulder leans to the left to keeI
his balance. For the same reason q tor
will rise to an upright position wher
thrown so as to light at an angle. tina,
is, to q position where friction on al
sides Of the point is equal. Applying
this principle the inventor used twt
tops spinning in opposite direction.
in q vacuum. When the passengers. o.
the load moved to one side the ca
raised on that side.
Coming to the third principle, we not,
that body balances itself more easil,
when free to move in two planes.
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