1905 West Des Moines High School Annual

page twenty-seven

THE SECOND YEAR CLASS continued.
Second year class continued

WE, ON the authority of the teachers of West High School, consider the second year class the most polite, studious, and in short the most reliable class we have. We shall show wherein the other classes fall short of the model set by our class. The first year students have not yet grown accustomed to the strenuous high school life, and consequently very little responsibility is given them. Third year students are beginning to wish they were Seniors and to seek for the same rights and privileges granted to the Seniors. As result, they are not to be depended upon. the Seniors—oh! the Seniors— they are not mortals and so can not be classed in with the rest of the school's pupils. So it is left for us to fulfill everyone's expectations of model pupils, and we answer nobly to the call. Everyone knows that there are many members of this brilliant class in every line of work in the high school. Wherever we go we always find them right in the front ranks, bravely striving to climb higher and higher up the mount of knowledge.

This admirable class consists of about 235 members, everyone of whom is interested in all the others.

In music, art, and debating, as well as in the regular line of school work, our class has attained a high degree of excellence. Many of its members with marked musical abilities are found in the orchestra or glee clubs. Much of the designing for The Tatler is done by the young artists in this class. In debating the class has a high record. The mere fact that it was represented in the preliminary debate is worthy of note, but that it was represented in the six from whom the final team was to be chosen is indeed an honor.

Not only in intellectual ability but also in physical prowess, does our class gain distinction. Sumner Macomber, John Newman and Carl Harris, three of our boys worthy of mention, were on the football team of last fall, winning great glory and making their class very proud of them by their wonderful feats. The class is well represented by its thirteen candidates for the spring athletics. Even if they do not all gain places in some event, still they are a credit to their class.

The members of the class have already gained much renown and we feel sure that we shall always succeed in the things we undertake.

For its good spirit and its obedience to the laws of the school the class will always be remembered and used as a model for later classes. In the near future if you hear of some great achievement of the members of this class, you need not be surprised, for our prophecy will but be fulfilled.

MILDRED SPRAGUE, '07

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