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1/1898 - 4/1898
-Our first issue cost $.10, about $2.25 in today's dollars.
-Our first story was about perceptions of the American Revolution and had poetry interspersed with the text.
9/1898 - 6/1899
-Profile of women telephone operators (10/1898, p.14)
-Opinion piece supporting American liberation of Cuba from Spain’s “sic simper tyrannis” attitude whose metaphorical comparisons to liberation from slavery make it seem propagandistic. (9/1898, p.7)
-Fanciful first-person account of a painter’s adventure in Paris painting a suit of armor that comes to life. (9/1898, p.9)
-Continuation of excerpt from one of the “Boys in Blue” alumnus letter describing experiences in Honolulu (11/1898, p.7)
-Editorial encouraging girls to send in stories to the paper, assuring that girls “know how to write just as well, if not better, than the boys.” (11/1898, p.17)
-Analysis on whether American civilization is going backwards, citing America’s lack of culture and corruption within its democracy (12/1898, p.8)
-Opinion piece justifying US expansion into the newly US-liberated Caribbean islands from Spain. (3/1899, p.25)
-Column on passing time on a cable car by observing the passengers. (3/1899, p.28)
-Description of James Russel Lowell’s life as a student, poet, ambassador (4/1899, p.11)
-Story describing life of a Lowell grad at Stanford University (5/1899, p.16)
9/1900 - 6/1901
Lowell girls form a girls’ club: lunch parties, book discussions and jealous boys. (10/00, p.8)
Description of a warmly received minstrel show put on by the school to raise money for the football team. (10/1900, p.18)
More slightly racist jokes—“Li Hung Chang, yes but who Hung Li?” (10/00, p.17)
Another slightly racist story about a student’s fictional trip to China (11/00, p.6)
11/1901 - 5/1902
5/1902 - 12/1903 *
9/1902 - 1903 *
9/1902 - 5/1903 *
8/1903 - 5/1904
1904 - 1905 *
8/1904 - 5/1905 *
8/1904 - 6/1905 *
8/1905 - 4/1906 *
-Overheard in the Bookcase, Study Hall (08/05, pp. 10)
-Exchanges - poetry and short pieces by students (11/05, pp. 24)
-The Haunted Bridge - A True Story (12/05, pp. 30)
-A Lowell Interpretation on Peace Treaties (02/06, pp. 14)
-An editorial on the 1906 Earthquake (04/06, pp. 37)
3/1906 - 12/1907 *
-Class Prophecy - Epic Poem (12/06, pp. 15)
-Latin as Heard in Lowell (12/06, pp. 82)
-A Day at Lowell (02/07, pp. 10)
-Lowell in 1950 (1907 annual, pp. 66)
-Editorials (12/07, pp. 52)
9/1906 - 4/1907 *
9/1908 - 12/1908 *
6/1908 - 12/1909 *
1/1909 - 6/1909 *
9/1909 - 12/1909 *
1/1910 - 6/1910 *
6/1910 - 6/1911 *
9/1910 - 12/1910 *
1/1911 - 12/1911a *
1/1911 - 12/1911 *
6/1912 - 6/1913
9/1913 - 12/1913
2/1914 - 6/1914
9/1914 - 12/1914
8/1915 - 11/1916
8/1919 - 11/1921 *
9/1919 - 12/1921 *
-We explained what the cafeteria was. (8/19 pp. 1)
-W.E. Coombe titled his meat market “Lowell Meat Market.” (8/29 pp. 3)
-Some US History kid got too carried away and wrote a constitution for Lowell. (8/29 pp. 7)
-MJB coffee avertised with us! (09/29 pp. 6)
1/1922 - 1/1924
2/1924 - 6/1925
9/1925 - 1/1927
2/1927 - 6/1928
9/1928 - 12/1929
-We had one Vitamin-E fortified freshman class. (9/28 pp. 1)
-Our Parent-Teacher association was hyper-involved, even way back then. (10/28 pp.1)
-Apparantly, we argued about coins vs. paper money, too. (3/29 pp. 3)
-UC Screwed with our heads, even back then. (4/29 pp. 1)
1/1930 - 12/1930
1/1931 - 12/1931
-Remembering the first ever "Lowell" newspaper published - 33 years ago. (3/12/31, pp. 1)
-Specialists find that headaches are hereditary (3/26/31, pp. 1)
-President Hoover is Declared Swiss Citizen (5/21/31, pp. 2)
-Teachers Fly to School to Prevent Tardiness (8/20/31, pp. 1)
-Journalism Staff play basketball game, emerge victorious (11/12/1931, pp. 4)
1/1932 - 6/1933
-Lowell's Day by Day - the newsbriefs (3/17/1932, pp. 2)
-Teacher Sees Double -- Tests Two Pairs of Twins (4/07/1932, pp. 3)
-Sour Grapes - A modern take on Aesop's Fables (4/28/1932, pp. 2)
-Believe it or NOT - little known facts (5/12/1932, pp. 2)
-Will School Ever Be Like This? (6/02/1932, pp. 6)
8/1933 - 5/1935
9/1935 - 6/1937
-A bunch of shinkickers felt the need to return the following year. (12/35 pp. 3)
-Henrick kept our field mice alive after they were caught for some odd reason. (2/36 pp. 4)
-The swim team begged for swimmers. (2/36 pp.3)
-Mr. Williams got scared by the Mexican revolution(9/36 pp. 4)
-Carol Channing went to see some islands with her mom. (6/37 pp. 4)
9/1937 - 1/1940
2/1940 - 1/1942
2/1942 - 1/1945
3/1945 - 1/1947
2/1947 - 1/1949
3/1949 - 1/1951
-Unnamed pranksters set off firecrackers at a Lowell game, jeopardizing Lowell’s reputation. (3/49 pp. 2)
-Totem Pole: Lowell’s very own GOSSIP column! (4/49 pp. 2)
-A former Lowellite. Leroy Dubins, has his own TV show! (5/49 pp. 3)
-The graduating class gives advice to underclassmen which still holds true for us today. (6/49 pp. 8)
-An opinion on whether Bebop is music, or just annoying noise (1/50 pp. 2)
2/1951 - 2/1953
-Lowell was just as dirty as it is now, over 50 years ago! (3/51 pp.2)
-The danger of teenage driving is stressed. (4/51 pp.2)
-The circus comes to Lowell! (5/51 pp.1)
-How the Freshman view Lowell Seniors (6/51 pp.4)
-Our own Mr. Axt shares his feelings about the Lowell football team (10/51 pp.9)
-A tarantula by the name of Dracula, a native of southern California, appeared in Lowell and melted the hearts of the staff and students (11/51 pp.2)
-Students petitioned to lower the voting age from 21 to 18. (3/53 pp.2)
9/1953 - 6/1955
-The benefits of Extra Curricular Activities (1/54 pp.2)
-Epidemic of Senoritis going around (3/54 pp.2)
-Lowell students participated in Youth Government Day (5/54 pp.1)
-The “Report-card plague” hit Lowell students (10/54 pp.2)
-Students predict what will happen in 1984! (11/54 pp.2)
-Lowell Constitution may be changed (4/55 pp.1)
-A student offers the 8 keys to personality. (4/55 pp.2)
9/1955 - 12/1958
1/1959 - 12/1962
2/1963 - 2/1966 *
2/1966 - 5/1968 *
9/1968 - 6/1970
9/1970 - 12/1972
1/1973 - 1/1976
-Gottas love the moonmen, although we've run out of them.(1/73 pp. 6)
-What is habeebsberry? (1/73 pp. 7)
-We had Scramble day the same month Feinstein visited Lowell!! (2/73 pp. 1)
-Lowellites ski with bears. (2/73 pp. 11)
3/1976 - 1/1979
-M. Lambert (TheLowell Staff)'s Aunts
--One aunt thought revitalizing the golf minicourse was a good idea.(11/76 pp. 9)
--Another was in a play, and they typo'd her name. (3/76 pp. 16)
-Well, we started celebrating woman's day. (3/76 pp.1)
-It snowed! (3/76 pp. 15)
-We had a paper "Bitch Box". (3/76 pp.17)
3/1979 - 12/1980
2/1981 - 6/1982
8/1982 - 6/1984
8/1984 - 6/1986
8/1986 - 6/1988
-After returning to school, students find that restrictions that were made a few years before, were being enforced due to the growing problems in the previous years. (10/86, p.1)
-Three police shoot and kill a student, at Mcateer, who was thought to be a burglar, due to a silent alarm that went off after midnight. (1/87, p.1)
-Students voice their opinion on their needs for a revision in new parking policies. (3/87 p.2)
-New additions to the library, including the Meyer, and a computer room, open after a long wait. (5/87, p.5)
-The Lowell recognizes the excellence of student performances in sports. (6/88, p.20)
8/1988 - 5/1990
8/1990 - 7/1992
-An early instance of the swimming pool myth shows up (3/92, pp. 7).
- Lowell welcomes new assistant principal, Ralph Vandro. (10/90, pp. 1)
- Cardinals or Spartans? Confusion over which one is Lowell's mascot. (10/90, pp. 1)
- Editor Tom Toch of U.S. News and World Report visits Lowell. (4/91, pp. 1)
- The truth exposed: Lowell students involved with rampant cheating. (3/92, pp. 15)
- Registry is no longer useful and should be reformed. (4/92, pp. 3)
10/1992 - 6/1995
-Teachers and administration battle over the new re-admit policy. (10/92, pp. 3)
-Detecting high-tech counterfeit currency bills. (4/95, pp. 11)
-'30 alumnus William Hewlett donates enormous grant of $200,000 (4/93, pp. 1)
-Book Review: Madonna's latest book, appropriately titled Sex (12/92, pp. 13) -Lowell becomes the third high school in the U.S. to offer Korean as a class (10/93, pp. 1) |
