Bloomington High School, The Gothic, 1921, Page 43

Description:	1921GOTHICB. H. S.The FreshmenAll Freshmen are divided into two types, the slow but steadys and the wildand wooleys. Both types get there. The wild and wooley get there first--anddont last very long. The slow but steady get there at last--and stay.This is not a temperance sermon, it is a description. The Rhinie class is ablyfathered by Mr. McCaughan and by Mr. Wooley. These two with an able corpsof assistants care for them tenderly, and do well by them. They are as a wholea very decent class. They are not fresh, and in public they bear themselves witha quiet, respectful er-er-er respect for their elders.We rise to protest. For years the trick of looking behind the doors for thenumbers of class rooms has been shouldered off upon the Freshmen. This isuntrue, unfair, illegal, and several other things not worth mentioning. For it isdistinctly a Senior trick. They forget. They look behind the door. Sometimesa Junior does it, and maybe a Soph or two. But a Freshman never does. Howcan he? He doesnt know that there are numbers on the door.The Freshmen are the originators of the Cap Exchange upon the firstand second floor. They do not swipe them, they exchange them. This is legit-imate, it has always been done since the time of the first Freshman. But itworks both ways, for if the owner of the exchanged cap sees his own hangingupon a hook in the Exchange sometime later, he is liable to have both. Andthe Freshman goes home bare-headed.Forty-threeImage alt-text: Black ink drawing of “Ve Portals Of Learning,” with an individual standing behind a gate in the portal reading a book. Two individuals sit on the steps, and another approaches the bottom of the steps. The drawing is signed “M. Carter.”
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Collection:	Bloomington High School

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