Glen Cove High School - Profile Yearbook (Glen Cove, NY)

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THE RED AND GREEN Page Twenty-three SOME PLAYS WE KNOW ABOUT. 1. Tea for Three—Hearing between Mr. Gribbin, teacher and pupil. 2. Nothing But Lies—Our excuses. 3. The Emperor Jones—Our former cadet captain. 4. In The Night Watch—Studying for a test. 5. The Sacrifice—Staying after school on your own accord. 6. Smooth As Silk—Some people’s alibis. 7. The Bad Man—William J. Johnson. 8. The Champion—G. C. H. S. 9. Welcome Stranger—Seniors in Washington. 10. Nice People—Our teachers? ? ? ? 11. Ladies’ Night—Detention nights. 12. The First Year—Our Freshman. 13. The Lost Romance—-Tom and Mary. 14. Deception—Thinking of passing on a class average of 75 per cent. 15. Romance—Miss Tyler. 16. The Home Stretch—The week before Regents. 17. Dumb Bells—Room 201. 18. The Only Girl—Miss Brandhorst. 19. Tip Top—Football and basketball records. 20. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—Herb, Tom, Mike, and Dave in the latter’s fliver. 21. Enter Madame—Study Hall, 7th period. 22. Biff, Bing, Bang!—Mr. Gribbin at end of first half of Polytech game. 23. Connecticut Yank—Arthur Hathaway. 24. Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic—After Oyster Bay vs. Glen Cove game at Roslyn. 25. My Lady’s Latch Key—Key to Room 204. 26. Lightnin’—Jacob Bernstein. 27. The Passing Show of 1921—The Seniors. Obituary. Died—Our hope of having a gym for a few years to come. Died—With the coming of summer; diligence in doing home work. Died—With the coming of Regents, our happy go lucky manner. He Was Buried Next Day. Teacher (to pupil who has asked foolish question)—You know that fools can ask questions which wise men cannot answer. Student—Yes, that’s why so many of “flunk” in the exams.—Ex. Who Said That! During the Senior-Junior, Sophomore-Freshman baseball game, a small boy, standing in front of the backstop was hit in the ear by a ball, and ran away, crying. Then someone made a bright crack. “That place ought to be recerved for teachers.” Safety First. Fyfe—1 wouldn’t stand for that if I were you. Why don’t you call him a liar? Springman—That’s just what I’ll do. Where —where is a telephone?—Ex. Solved. Leonard Ritchie—I wonder how long I could live with brains. Miss Brandhorst—That’s yet to be seen.—Ex. Well? Miss Light—In writing stories for children, Gerald, you should write so that the most ignorant can understand. Gerald—Yes, mam. What part of it don’t you get?—Ex. That's Easily Seen? Denton—The doctor told me that if I didn’t stop smoking I would be half-witted. Elliot—Why didn’t you stop?—Ex. The Proper Odds. Herb—What’ll we do tonight? Tom—I’ll spin a coin. If it’s heads we go to the movies; if it’s tails we go to the dance; and if it stands on edge we’ll study.—Ex. Poor Thing. A woodpecker sat on a Freshman’s head. And settled down to drill, He pecked and pecked and pecked awav And wore away his bill. —Ex. Miss Richardson—As I’ve told you people before, “It’s up to you. You know I don’t have to pass this Regents; I passed Geometry Regents a long time ago. And the whole class agreed with her. She passed it a long, long time ago. us

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Page Twenty-two THE RED AND GREEN Don’t You Just Love This? Why, the colossal nerve! Isn’t that so, Shory? 1 can’t teach you people arithmetic and algebra, too. Do you agree with him, McLoughlin? All right. Now settle down to work. We wont have any more nonsense. You act like a couple of two-year-olds. When I went to school it was etc., etc.---. hy, any fourth grade children can answer that question. They’re not hard at all! The trouble is that you people are too downright lazy. Improvements For Our School. 1. Have the school nearer home. 2. Bring the third floor down to the first. 3. Omit the third book in Geometry. 4. Forget that Cicero ever gave Catiline such an awful calling down. 5. Provide games in the study hall for those who haven’t anything to do. 6. Give the students time to get from class to class—say about twenty minutes. Advertisements. IjOst—The patience of most of our teachers. Please return—large reward offered by the student body. Wanted—A student to live up to the ideas the teachers have of a good scholar. Report to Herb. Kabachnick. Wanted—An interpreter to translate the language used by the history teacher. Apply to Bill Shory. Lost—The brains in the owl, the Senior mascot. If found please return immediately. They need them. Found—A teacher who never lost her temper. She was buried in 1606. For address apply to Tom Sheehan. TAKEN FROM ENGLISH WORK Handed in by Pupils jrom this School. 1. The clothing of the Armenians is nothing but rags, being all separated from their families. —That’s new to us. 2. Abraham Lincoln was the first man to discover America—Well, we’re glad to know that, anil to think we’ve been mistaken all these years! 3. Mobilize is when anyone gets frantic over anything. He is said to be mobilized—That’s funny; Webster defines that differently. 4. The plural of hero is heroine—My! does not the English language change rapidly? 5. The feminine of monk is monkey—You don’t say! 6. Hawthorne shows that Phoebe is kind-hearted when he tells that she was willing to wash the dishes the day after she came—Most likely this is from a girl’s viewpoint. 7. The days rolled into weeks and then months and finally died at Mount Vernon—They died at a nice place, anyhow. 8. Invitation to a former teacher to attend a class party, “If you can’t come, write us anyway, because we won’t be disappointed in your absence” —They are pretty open about it. 9. Was is past in form but present in meanness—We know that. 10. You can see the men gamboling—Say, but he is one bad speller. 11. Shakespeare is buried both inside and outside his tomb. Inside is his natural body. Outside is his effigy—Well that’s interesting. 12. The argument was basted on religion— We can see you were taking sewing. 13. I am not sure she is lame, but I take it for granite on account of her peculiar movements— No wonder, granite is pretty heavy, you know. 14. Clifford became childlike due to the fact that he lost part of his mind—He’s lucky. Some people never had any to lose.

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Page Twenty-four THE RED AND GREEN Make Your Money Work Unneeded or Surplus Money carried in the pocket, soon melts away, and to spend all invites poverty and disaster. Open an account with us at once and deposit your Surplus Funds so that they will not dribble away, but will be working for you all the time. The Nassau Union Bank GLEN COVE, N. Y.