New London High School - Whaler Yearbook (New London, CT)

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2 BULKELEY NEWS Fellows who do not play there is one thing which you must do. No matter how strong may be the enthusiasm of a team they will surely lose interest if they find that they are not believed in by their schoolmates. They forfeit every afternoon to practice. They work hard for all the honor that they receive and when they work and see no support from the very ones they represent then certainly they have cause for complaining. Baseball teams are expensive. Certainly there is no fellow among us who does not wish to see the Bulkeley team fitted out in top notch Style. The team represents the school and remember that the school is the fellows. Evidently the Athletic Committee has no thought of running a school play this year and this makes it all the more necessary that we do our part with the utmost loyalty. There is no greater pleasure to a fellow who really has a spark of school spirit in him than that which is derived from the cheering at or before or after a school contest. It makes us more completely united with one lasting bond of affection. It gives us something to remember after we have left the school. How satisfying it is to see a crowd of fellows standing together shoulder to shoulder cheering for their colors. Fellows let us get together. Let us become more thoroughly united. Seniors do you realize that there are only three more months before the final lesson at Bulkeley School will be over ? Do you realize that life here at Bulkeley will soon be a thing of the past ? Have you forgotten you have only three months more together ? Seniors it is up to you to make the standard for the other classes to follow. Small and Edgar are no longer here to arouse you. You must arouse yourselves. You must set a pace that will give the Middlers and Juniors something to fight for when they attain your position. Middlers remember that the responsibility of the school will depend largely upon you next year. You must prepare. When a game comes make it your business to be there. Don’t by all means go to the Nickel or the Bijou instead.

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Bulkeley llew $ BULICELEY SCHOOL NEW LONDON, CONN. Charles L. Smiddy, ’08, Editor-iti-Chief Willi am Bessklievre, ’08, Athletic and Exchange Editor Robert G. Cruickshank, ’08, Business Manager THE B UL HE LEY NEI VS Published every month except July and August. 50 cents per year, 5 cents per copy. Subscriptions should be sent to Robert G. Cruickshank, Business Manager, P. O. Box 269, New London, Conn. All exchanges should be directed to Exchange Editor William Besselievre. Vol. IV FEBRUARY, 1908 Editorial ONCE more Spring is with us. Once more the school room is humming with baseball talk. Another season has arrived. Another Bulkeley team will soon be practicing. The question now arises as to whether or not it will be a success. But there is no need of any fear in this respect. The future of the team to a large extent lies in the team itself and in the fellows who attend the school. Taken as a whole the support that the Football and Basket Ball teams received was very unsatisfactory. But now that Spring has come it is certainly up to the fellows to do something. In the first place everybody that can play must play. In the second place every body who can’t play must support those who do play. If we can only find nine fellows who are willing to work and dig Bulkeley will be assured of a good team.

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BULKELEY NEWS 3 Juniors this is your first year here at Bulkeley. You have two more years before you. High School life is different from that which goes before it. Bulkeley must mean more to you than the primary schools. You are wishing now that you were Seniors. Little you appreciate the fact that you have two years ahead of you. When you are Seniors, when you have been here at dear old Bulkeley for two years and see commencement looming up before you then you will feel either glad because you have worked hard or sorry because you have loafed much. Each and every one of you have a voice. There is no doubting this fact, but too many of you have been devoting them to nothing but “You’re it.’’ Perhaps you do not know that Bulkeley has a record in Baseball. You ought to do your share to keep up that standard. When the first game comes, be on hand and when an opportunity is given to cheer, cheer with all your heart. Seniors, Middlers, Juniors, we can have an ideal life here in Bulkeley if you but choose to have it so. We have a Debating Club. We have a Glee Club. We have a “News.” Let everybody grasp the opportunities which are open to them. May the Bulkeley stand be covered in Black and Orange at every game and may the yells that for thirty years have inspired Bulkeley men to work and fight to the very last ditch be heard once more with a ring and a shout that will show to one and all that Bulkeley still possesses, still cherishes the flame of loyalty and patriotism. What class will win the meet this year ? will Bulkeley defeat the M. T. S.? are other things which ought to interest the members of the school very much. As you no doubt know Manager Chipman has arranged to have a duel meet between the best fellows here at school and members of the Training School. Last year and the year before the meet consisted only of school and outside events. The presence of the Training School will make it very interesting. Now the success of the meet lies solely in the members of the school. Manager Chip-man can work from now until next December and not accom-