Fordham University - Maroon Yearbook (New York, NY)

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LEO JOSEPH O BRIEN B. S. Fordism Prep. Debating Society (I. 2, 3); Crew (I, 4): Track (I. 2); Class Football (3). Oh. ffodt. Ilfndf «■ » ©» lx • of thin nobtr n-if'e. Shaktsptorr . uliuit Ctusat. HAVE you ever, being on Canal or Orchard or Baxter Street, and looking in the window of a clothing store had a big red-headed Jew seize you by the collar and try to drag you into his store, that having hypnotized you by his talk, he might induct you into one of his nobby suits? You haven't? Or nothing like it? Then you never passed Times Square in civilian clothes during the late war. For if you had. you would have suffered this same fate at the hands of our Mr. O'Brien, former sergeant of the Marines. It shows the quality of him that in that band of fighters where many college men were proud to rank as corporals, he was advanced to the grade of sergeant in three months. It was as a gyrene, we imagine, that his abilities showed their first real blooming. He went away genial, but not an over-poweringly dominant force: he came back bronzed and straight as a sapling. and with a convincing, rapid-fire line of talk that astounds one. to take a leading place in the activities of the class. They say that the trim figure and the gray Irish eye of him set one little heart a-fluttering, and the affair is quite serious. We speak only from hearsay, but it is a report that might naturally start about him and might, quite as naturally be true. For this we know: that as he leaves Fordham. there is no one who is not his dear friend. I

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 2: HI FRANCIS HOWARD BARRETT Special Xavier Hitch School Basketball (I); Tennis (4); University Orchestra (2, 3, 4); Class Football (3): Class Baseball (3. 4); Class Hockey (3, 4): I. C. Sodality. .I ipjueakinp engine he applied Unto his neck, on northeast tide. —Butler- Unit Unas. THERE is a prejudice against musicians. But if Chuck Barrett chooses to draw out of so much wood and catgut and horsehair, harmonies that send upon the soul the winds of Olympus, or if it pleases him to follow the fashion of the day. and dispense jazz—if he wishes to do all these things, as he most excellently can. who is to say him nay Not we who listen to him, most certainly. For here’s no Bohemian in dirty linen and a Windsor tie. Here’s no absinthe-bibbing Greenwich Villager. Here’s no lank, long-haired, sallow, saturnine, intense virtuoso for you. Out upon all such dull dogs who must prop up their art with eccentricity! Give us a jolly fellow, full of the joy of life, a man of the kidney of Barrett, whose exuberant temperament has made him the most accomplished practical joker in all Fordham. has put into his eye that twinkle that not all the skill of an expert retoucher could blot out of his photograph. We have some dim memories that in Freshman he made quite a promising showing on the baseball and basketball squads. But he never followed up this success, preferring to engage himself in running dances, jazz bands and other ventures, in all of which he showed a fine managerial hand that augurs well for his success as a business man. We hear, however, that he intends to study law. Cut it out. Chuck! Cut it out! vi ’A A 1 x I A