Flintridge Prep School - Log Yearbook (La Canada Flintridge, CA)

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SPELLING BEE Once interclass competition had been decided upon, Mr. Dickinson insisted that a spelling bee be held to show everyone concerned that good Flintridge spellers are truly rare. Three students were entered from each class: Freshmen A. Melin, Box and D. Markham; Sophomores Lissner, Detoy, and Robbins; Juniors Eliel, Earl and D. Munroe, and Seniors Goodan, Lawrence, and Frost. The event took place on Friday, November 17, lasting only a short time. Robbins and Munroe were the last ones to fall, but class average was the basis for scoring and the Senior class was victorious. The biggest surprise of the day came when Mr. Dickinson astounded most students and some faculty members by announcing that rarefy was spelled with an E and not an I . TICKET SALES Along about January 30 the Juniors seemed to prove, to the satisfaction of all, which class was the most filled with ' spongers ' , pests, and all other things with such appropriate names. The method of determination was from the results o f a ticket sale for our night basketball game. After final count had been taken, Mr. Dickinson was able to announce that the Juniors had sold, pawned, or subtly given away more tickets (6.6 average) to their imposed upon friends than any of the other classes. The Seniors still point out, however, that they might have had this honor had they pestered their friends for but two tenths of a ticket average more. Then both the Freshmen and the Sophomores loudly proclaimed that they were the only gentlemen in the school by selling an average of but three apiece, but this shortage of sales was hinted to have been caused by bashfulness. ACADEMIC AVERAGE CONTESTS When a person has an abundance of brains or brawn alone, that ' s something, but when he has superfluous amounts of both, why it would be just too much praise to tell the person so for fear he would swell up and float away.

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BASKETBALL On one windy day in February, namely the 16th, baseball practice was dis- continued for one afternoon to run off the Senior-Junior basketball game. The Juniors were heavily favored; both because four of the varsity ' s first string men were Juniors, and also because of their previous victory over the Seniors. The whole student body was there; blankets were spread for some, and the gradeschoolers could be heard playing cops-and-robbers in the distance. Seniors Goodan, Mackay, T. Munroe, Lawrence, Walters, Frost, and Bullock were all present for the scuffle. Goodan, Bullock, and Lawrence made their debut on the basketball court as players, thus silencing their critical tongues. Juniors present were Allen, Weaver, D. Munroe, B. Earl, C. Markham, Gamble, Kellogg, Eliel, and Hampton. The Seniors led for the first half of the game, with Mackay keeping the pot boiling with intermittent baskets. FHampton scored the only basket for the Juniors during the first half, although many of his team-mates had excellent opportunities. More fouls were called on the Juniors during the first half than on their opponents, much to the relief of T. Munroe, a much bewildered Senior who was laboring under the illusion that the Juniors were out to get him. During the second half, the Juniors climbed towards the capstone, but dis- played remarkable energy at missing foul shots, which were suddenly coming their way. Frost, unable to check his mass, was called numerous times for charging, as was Walters. Bullock tended to manhandle his opponents, so was replaced. hHalf way through the third quarter blankets were discarded and the onlookers were lined up along the court, quite vociferous and unconfident in the Seniors when T. Munroe was sent off the court, raving mad because the Juniors had framed a fourth foul on him. One of D. Munroe ' s long shots finally slithered in and the gun went off before Walters had a chance to shoot his much needed foul shot, hialf the mob went blithely off yelling that the Juniors had won, but it was announced that the score was tied, so another period was started. FHampton finally made a foul shot, making the score II to 10, in favor of the Juniors. The Seniors, two times thwarted in conflicts with Juniors, left the field muttering that revenge would come when the scholastic interclass contests were held.

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The Seniors this year, however, think that it is being too childish to keep a secret from anybody, so they wish to modestly tell all the world that will listen, the truth; that is, that they think themselves in possession of the extra-superior combination of both brains and brawn. The brawn, they say, will have been amply demonstrated on ' ditch day ' when the Juniors have tried to stop them, if anyone needs a demon- stration for proof. The brains, they claim, have proved themselves evident, for in every month of competition but the first, the Seniors have far outdistanced all the other classes. According to the results released by Mr. Dickinson they averaged better than a B plus, and upon investigation it was found to be a fact that none of the teachers was bribed. ESSAY CONTEST Having won the scholastic awards per month for highest class standings, the Seniors naturally felt that the essay contest would also be won by their more journalistic members; however, as usual, they underestimated their rival schoolmates ' literary powers. The subject finally chosen was Horizons , and the number of interpretations of this subject is practically unlimited. Denslow turned in a remarkable piece of work which presented the possibilities of wanderlust in potato bugs. Senior Lawrence treated the horizons of a cave man, while his classmate Frost turned pacifist by elaborating on the futility of wars. Mr. Gamble finally won the affair for the Juniors, with Junior Reid Allen and Freshman Denslow being runner-ups. Gamble pounded out a typically imaginative saga concerning the dreams of a rather mentally alienated female. Grass skirts, broken bottles, repulsive spiders, and invisible males were all treated in this odd essay, which according to the Judges ' opinions, seemed to give the most acceptable picture of some kind of horizon. They who thought their essays solved world problems of unemployment, etc., were quite displeased to think that insanity should be chosen in preference to social reform matter; however, their dis- pleasure was no greater than J. R. ' s surprise when he found himself the winner and able to stretch out and digest a long desired volume of Tennyson ' s works which he received as first prize.