WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL
LINN COUNTY, IOWA
1921

THE PULSE STAFF

THE PULSE

A magazine published Five Times a Year by the Students of Washington High School,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa

E D I T O I A L   S T A F F
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF—EVELYND JENNY

A s s o c i a t e     E d i t o r s
Local—Charles Simon     Calander—Kathryn Houlihan     Athletic—Buel Weare
Literary—Katherine Holden     Alvin Keyes     Exchange—Harwood Warriner
Personal—Cortena Denlinger         Alumni—Selma Frink
Art Editors—Dorothy Gray and Mary Safely

B U S I N E S S     S T A F F
BUSINESS MANAGER—FREDERICK SEELY
Assistants—Hughbert Hamilton, Maurice Rosenthal, Jerry Neprash
Milton Oberle

Subscription, $1.25 per year     To Students, $1.00     Single Copy, 25c
Entered in the Postoffice at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as second class mail matter

    The best THE PULSE can do is to live up to its name and be the written account of the throb in our school life. But to make the magazine entertaining as well as a mere review of events has required effort, and the result has been recognized even by the exchanges. This year the staff has supported "The Pulse" with jokes, editorials, stories, and special features to such an extent that the magazine has been enjoyed by other schools from coast to coast. There are bound to be a number of people in the school with a literary future, and it has been the purpose of the literary department of THE PULSE to recognize them before they graduate, so that the writer of tomorrow may look back to high school for his first recognition, and the journalist may say he began his career on THE PULSE staff. Our pronounced success in athletics has provided material of a quality no PULSE in former years has had the opportunity of publishing, while the art work has been a significant feature in every issue of the magazine. It is to be hoped that THE PULSE will progress in size and quality with the school, as it has done for the last twenty years.

TO MY MOTHER

Perhaps this wild and weird and spleenful earth,
The petty pains that are a man's to bear,
The little hate my heart hath given birth,
The shivered, shattered hope, and dark despair
Might seem to me the things they really be;
A huge misshapen mass of cloudy space,
Too dark for thought, too ghastly vague to see,
Were it not for the one whose heart's embrace
And faultless soul to me hath ever been
A guiding light, outshining every other,
Whose heart my own despair, hath born within,
Of whom I speak in worship deep—"My Mother."

—BARNETT EVANS.

SOME OF THE STAFF

The Drill of the Fire Brigade
(Do You Recall the Assembly of Feb. 3?)
Half a flight, half a flight
Half a flight downward
Out (?) for their fire drill
Marched the nine hundred.
"Forward, ye Fire Brigade!
Charge for the door," she said.
Out (?) for the fire drill
Marched the nine hundred
Wondering, they do not flee,
Senior nor Freshman.
But teachers quite glaringly
Volley'd and thundered.
So they marched down—but not
Not the nine hundred.
   
Teachers to right of them,
Teachers to left of them,
Teachers in front of them
Volley'd and thundered.
Stormed at—it's sad to tell,
Boldly they went and fell
Out (?) for the fire drill.
Then back all pell-mell
Marched the nine hundred
"Forward, ye Fire Brigade!"
Was there a one dismayed?
Not tho' the students knew
Some one had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do or die,
Again to the fire drill
Marched the nine hundred.
   
Back to the "aud" they tear
And then—what an icy stare!
Sternly Miss Abbott there
Bids them repeat the affair,
While everone wondered,
Stunned by the strange decree,
O, forget not that Fire Brigade,
Forget not the sight they made
When all that was left of them
Left of nine hundred,
Panting and weary to the
Third floor thrice wandered.
What a fizzle they made of it!
What hasn't the chief said of it!
Poor old nine hundred.

Things a Sophomore Ought to Know

  1. That you are only one of 1000.
  2. That the library is not a parlor.
  3. That the auditorium is not a dance hall.
  4. That the Drug Store is open evenings as well as during school hours.
  5. That you shouldn't spoon in the halls. (Suggestion—teachers won't
    bother you in the park.)
  6. That fussing is the lubricator of H. S. activities.
  7. That if yu eliminate the "boy and girl problem" the teachers will have
    more time to devote to your studies.
  8. That you shouldn't take a H. S. case too seriously. She's yours today
    but someone may relieve you tomorrow.
  9. That an R. O. T. C. officer doesn't really own the school.
  10. That seniors are mortal.
  11. That if you are roasted in the Pulse or Annual you'd better forget it.
    Knocking won't erase it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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