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1903 El Solano Yearbook

The following is a page from the 1903 El Solano Yearbook. The early yearbooks were more literary publications than current yearbooks, although they did have some photographs of students, including all seven students of the senior class.

The entire 1903 El Solano yearbook is online as are the 1932 and 1936 yearbooks.

THE knowledge obtained by the study of science has already become of practical use to at least one member of the fourth year science class. Anita has invented and prescribed a medicine in the shape of a powder, warranted to cure all cases of stupidness, sleepiness, and foolishness resulting from a period of Science IV.

Why is Hal like light?
Because it is hard for him to turn a corner.

Was Mr. Owen actually afraid of a beam of light, or why did he stoop and go under it, in the physics laboratory, one day?


Wallace (to the other members of the physics class) I am now going to effect a transference of this transparent substance, commonly called water.”

RAINBOWS. -- Mr. Owen, in Science IV: “Anita, describe a bow” (beau).
Silence.
Mr. Owen: “Have you ever seen a bow? If so, when? and in what position were you?”
Anita: “In the daytime and with my back to the sun” (son).
Mr. Owen: “Have you ever seen a bow in the moonlight? If so, in what position were you then?
No reply.
Mr. Owen: “Is there a secondary bow?”
Anita: “Sometimes.”

Mr. Owen (during the work with C02 gas): “When you buy soda-water what do you pay for?”
Faith: “ Gas.”