Bridgton Academy - Stranger Yearbook (Bridgton, ME)

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THE STRANGER 11 It seems that this game interests great crowds im- mensely although I doubt if we could work up to their enthuslasm over chasmg the sphere all over the arena for so llttle a reward as puttlng a batsman out before he attalns securlty on a sack HERBERT GODFREY 38 NOBODY IN PERSON What a terrlble reputatxon Nobody has yet we allow h1m to remam at Brldgton Academy Mr Sampson can usually put a person out of school for actlng dlsgracefully lf he so wlshes but he can t expel Nobody because Nobody IS nowhere yet he IS everywhere Folks say that Nobody throws the erasers and splt balls and Nobody swears and breaks the rules Nobody IS the one who takes cllppmgs and Nobody IS the student who steals a smoke Someone clutters up the dark room and Nobody IS held responslble Even fuses are blown by No body However those are only a few of the thmgs he does for Nobody rough houses Nobody makes nolse after llghts and Nobody cheats Do we therefore want such a person here 1n school? Of course we don t' What good IS a school Wlth Nobody 1n It EVELYN FOGG 40 WAR SHOWS NO MERCY It was on one morn ln June 1917 when the sun had Just made 1tS appearance 1n the East that a loud blast of a slren dlsturbed the mornlng peace Amerlca had entered the war' Thls was greeted wxth shouts of 1oy by some but others refused to take 1t thus Thls was somethmg to be glad about some thought but lf they had only known' If wele soon to present themselx es before thelr xerv eyes' Young boys enllsted and were drafted They were on a new adxenture' They would go to Europe' They would calry a gun' It IS ms bel1ef that lt was the thought of adx enture not patrlotlsm that IHX oked these boys to go but please reahze that I am not denylng or denouncmg patllotlsm Three ITl1lllOlI sons w ere drafted mto thls hung hell of fire and sh1apnel boys sexenteen and elghteen vears of age Yes lt took sex enteeu and elghteen xeals to bulld up the body whlch they possessed but It took 1ust one bullet to destroy that bodv Can you not x 1sual1ze these pool fear 7 . ! , . S . . , . . g , Q , Q , . . , . . , a . a , - , , 7 ! . ' , . . 1 9 , . ' . S 7 ! 7 . 'I' Y . 7 . I .I S s Y . is T , . .. . V . . they could only have visualized the unmerciful horrors that 1 Y Y' D - .La v l . 7 Y Q D .S y ' D v -I S 1 . w . -L 1 v ' 7- L' C ' y L , J

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THE STRANGER Agaln they were routed th1s tlme by the ChI'1St13l1 k1HgS In 1492 the Jews were banlshed from Spam bv Isabella Some of them were chosen by Columbus to find a passage to the West Indles but lnstead they found Amerlca the g163.t6St countly III the wo1 ld Soon the Jexxs wele expelled from England and France and they xx andered to Poland where thev were welcomed The Jew at thls tlme Ill Eulope could not own land Instead of bemg a fal men the Jew became a merchant a mlddleman and a money lendex xvh1ch he xemams today although the restrlctlons on Jexxs were llfted somewhat at the end of the I rench Revolutlon W1ll no countly w elcome the world s leadlng money makel One of the most recent outrages agalnst the Jews has been the persecut1on of sald people by the famous or should I say IIIIHIYIOUS d1ctator of Germany Put you1 self Ill the place for example of Anchel Doffman one of the gleatest phllanthloplsts of th1s era He 18 known fO1 h1s 22181181 0Nlty throughout Germany Can you p1ctu1e a man of hls callb 1 demoted to the pos1t1on of st1eet cleane1 Is th1s fan ' ls lt mst? It 1s fol you to declde But the 21 cat dlctatol has done th1s and many s1m1 la1 thlngs I am Celtdlll hoxx ex 91 that although ou1 lace max be pelsecuted thele 1s one Ihllljl' that H1tle1 O1 f1nx othe1 1ule1 cannot bl eak and that IS ou1 IIIdOI'!I1t2lbl9 sp111t and ou1 ab1l1tx to tu1n the othe1 cheek They max d11xe out the Jew pe1 haps but thex xx 1ll nex 91 d11xe out h1s spnlt PYTHAGOR XQ THEORY I h lxe 1ust lctulned fl om 1 Xlslt to 1 nexx xx o1lcl It Ib 1 xx olld x istlx dlffelent IIOIH ouls belng xe1x model n I sh ill t1x to 6XpldII1 one ot the amusements xx hlch ittx lcts multltudcs ot 1ts people Thls pecul1a1 game the name of xx hxch I cannot lecall ls plax ed III a gl eat Ienced Ill alena It 1s play ed on in elon gated 1hombus xx 1th 1 sxck pl iced Ill each co1ne1 Thele ue llllll, plax ex on a te 1m hxe ot them plotect the lhom bus ind thlee plote t the outel IQQIIOII The IEHIHIIIIIIQI man stands 1n the centel of the lhombus from xx hence he p10 1ects 1 sphcle toxx ll ds in ODDOSIIIQ' bluclgeon xx 1xe1 The ohuct ot the glmc as n ulx is I c Ill Lstlm1t9 seems to be to lctllcxc the sphclc lJQIOli the man xx 1th the club lelches thc home sack 7 , , A ' 1 1 11 ' 1 1 . Y Y Y Y I Y 1 ' V 1 A . ' Q ' 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 ' 9 l I 1 - n l 1 - x Y I ' 7 '1 ' 1 11 1 ' 1 1 . , . . N V 1 I . Q ' 1 ' 1 I , . 1 D 1 va ' 7 7 v ' - 1 1 '1 1 ' D1 ' ' . c Q 1 4 1 'w 1 .ma 1 D . 1 I '1 1 ' f 1 1 1 1 A . A 1 s ' 1,1 '1 1 1 1 1 ' 1' '- o 4 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 7 1 11 1 '1 . . 1 1 v 1 1 , . , c 1 1 11 w 1 .1 1 . . l 1' 9 v ' K 4 ' l 1 1 1 Y 1 1' 1 1 4 1 1 1 1' 1 1 1' v ' w ' 1. 7 f 8 OREIN SHIRO, 3 . , , J 1 2 1 ' 1 1, 1 1 2 1-1. 2 1 1 1 .1 2 , . U ,... . .I L1 2 1v, A. . ' ' 1 L1 1 1 '. 2 12 . 1 .1 1 'I v 1 1 ' I 1 -1 v 11 ' 7 7 '1 . 1 ' 1 1 ' ' 1 1 '1 1 1 1 - 1 -Y ' 1 1 C ' ' .' ' 2 S2 ' I ' 2 ' ' ' '. Z. , .S . 2 3 . . . I , 1 1 1 1 ,, 1 1 ' 1 ' ' 1 I x 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 - . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1. 1 1 1 , . 2 . 1 2 . 1 . g - 2 . y' 2 1, ez as 'z 1: z ,s Q ,, 811, .1 ,., ' 1, , .' , 12. A1

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