The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-11-04
JUST THINKING


That teachers are teachers in Ocala
High!
Miss Sheppard, of course, doesn't hear
many classes,
But each angel-child feels her hold on
the masses;
Finds all in the fold most construct
i've and gay,
Decides in the fold it were better to
stay.
Mr.. Lindsey does Latin-and, whis-
per, tits said,
There's so much dead language ma
rooned in his head.
That man cannot sleep very we'll in
his bed,
Being haunted by visions of chatter
ing hosts
OF Homers and Virgils and-Oh,
Caesars ghosts,
And everything difficult, classic and
grim;
1t scares me to barely be thinking of
him.
Mr.. Bitch teaches history-even to
me!
And that's teaching some, as my
family agree
(On this one point at least), and I
think it's the way
He adroitly delivers his "talk for the
day."
Relieving dry text with such pleasing
narration,
One swallows it down with subdued
exaltation.
While meanest old figures, known
furtive and wild,
Elusive to clutch of a desperate child,
Become strangely tame, drop sedate-
ly to heel,
Once you get the assured, mathemat-
ical "feel"
That's all Mrs. Sprinkle. All, she is
a treasure!
So friendly and patient-and nice be-
yond measure.
miss Burleson also does "Math." by
the slatefull,
But doesn't teach me-and is probab-
ly gratefully.
''Lab" work is pure joy. How could
brain-fbers rust,
When there's really a good chance
that something may bust?
So / page round my head, gamely
hoping, in time,
To fit Miss Davis's name with g
rhyme.
AS for English-'tis pain! But the
souls may be wrung,
We're getting a grip on our weirt
"mother tongue"
Never Judge by these verses; will
Mrs. Brown in mind,
think, on the whole, they'll go bet
ter unsigned).
! And last, but not least, doth my fame,
enthrall
: Miss Edwards effect on our quie
study hall.
So while soulful cornetists play some
what in tune,
: And one muses. on youth from all les
sons immune,
! Or, with worshipful eyes, glimpse
Il scraps of the sky,
i Sweet sunlight on trees-a bird hurr
3 by
& 'Tis comfort to feel (scanning diligen
& faces)
Il Than Ocala High there are reall
3 worse places. his
q
4 When you've finished with thes
3 lines you'll laugh and call it sol
3 stuff" but after all old stuff is some
: times as effective as new, if it tells
truth. Some students of the o. Il.
L (other schools as welD seem to entel
\ tain the idea that the climax of scho,
. spirit is reached in standing on til
T side lines and croaking a few throat
', rah, rahs for the home team. tt
= boy who enters school with the avov
ed intention of leading his teacher
merry chase may have spirit of kin
but it is anything other than scho'
N spirit. A student who endeavors 1
!. uphold the moral and intellectu
"a status of his school has just as muc
10 school spirit as the great athlet
% star. One should learn to do his d.
~ ties cheerfully whether they be lars
% or small, pleasant or unpleasant.
has been said before it's the lit
things that count. We of the Oca
High should try at all times to Ii
m up to those high standards establisl
" ed for US by our predecessors. Whe
" we have mastered the true spirit
" cooperation at home, in the ella
-, rooms and on the athletic field, the
=, and only then will he possess an no
M est to goodness spirit Amenl
m Did you ever stop and wonder up.
such questions as why womer
dresses change from long to short