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

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BULKELEY NEWS 7 CLASS OF 1904. Thomas Soltz is now City Physician in New London. He is a graduate of Jefferson Medical School. Harold Small, a graduate of Yale Law School was admitted to the bar in Connecticut in January. James Floyd is studying at Middlebury. He is member of Delta Upsilon. Sheldon C. Starr is at work on the Panama Canal. Stephen E. McGinley, a graduate of Trinity and of the New York Theological Seminary, has taken a pastorate in Wyoming. CLASS OF 1907 John C. Glynn played fullback on the Rhode Island State College football team. Ismar Baruch is leading his class at Brown and teaching in a night school. He was on the Brown debating team. R. Scott Linsley is practicing dentistry with his father in New London. CLASS OF 1908. Clifford Chipman is studying forestry at Michigan. Eugene Clark is a student at Wesleyan. Charles Smiddy, James Kenure and Richard S. Wall are at Middlebury College. Smiddy is baseball manager, Wall was captain of the freshmen football team and also on the varsity squad. William Sistare has made Delta Upsilon fraternity at Middlebury. Morris Lubchansky, a graduate of Michigan Law School, was recently admitted to the Bar. Robert F. Bacon is in the employ of The Proctor Gamble Company in Cincinnati. CLASS OF 1909. Herman H. Appledorn graduates this year from Clark College, Worcester, Mass. William Melville is an honor man at Holy Cross College, in Worcester, Mass. Frederick Dart has made Psi Upilon fraternity at Trinity. Arthur L. Dean has a position with The Lorring Axtell Company, Springfield. Michael F. Shea has made Delta Upsilon and was captain of the sophomore football team at Middlebury. Herbert G. Huntley has discontinued his studies at Rhode Island College to enter business in New London. George Martin has a position at Chappell's coal offiice. CLASS OF 1910. Samuel V. Prince, a student of law at Boston University, has made Gamma Eta Gamma, a legal fraternity. Morgan B. Haven has received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point. Since his graduation from Bulkeley he has been a student at Brown. (Continued on Page 16)

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6 BULKELEY NEWS gation. Lo and behold! There was the Pig ? And asleep ! With silent tread he drew near. Then with a magnificent spring he hurled himself at the pigskin. There was a scuffle, sending a thick cloud of dust. From this cloud a pig shot with the speed of lightning and disappeared in the cornfield. Phone was so tangled up in himself that it took some time for him to get up-As soon as he had regained his feet he began to spit out great lumps of dirt -- all he had caught. When Phone returned from dinner the pig was in the same place as before. This time Phone secured a large bull rope. This he managed to fashion into a lasso. Armed with this, he once more drew near the larder. The rope became entangled in a rock. The pig needed no further hint to vamoose. With the quickness of thought he was on his feet and making for the com field at incredible speed. This was too much for Phone. Urged on by the fading vision of a two spot, he made record time for thirty-five yards. He reached at the gate through which his prey had disappeared but there was no sign of a pig. Thus he was forced to give up and the inspiring vision vanished. Nothing more was seen of the pig until about three o’clock. Then we saw it again in the same place as before. He must have fallen in love with that spot which was right near an old deserted pen. The idea struck me that if we could only get him in there we might hope to capture him. From the grain box in the bam we procured some meal. With this and some water I prepared a tempting supper which I poured into a trough in the pen. Hearing the familiar sound the pig crawled through a hole in the fence and plunged his nose deep in the feed. I at once proceeded to block up the hole, while Phone went for a bag. When he returned with a large two-bushel grain bag, the prize was all appetite. Cautiously my friend climbed over the fence, laid the bag aside, and cornered the pig which made a sudden dive for his legs. He stooped just low enough for the pig to catch him amidships. The force of the collision was so great that Phone was thrown backwards and fell sprawling into the trough, breathless. When he emerged from his bath he was covered with meal and water from head to foot. With a discomfited look he crawled out of the pen and muttered, “Never again.” It was a great show while it lasted but it was much too short. We had to catch that porker or we wouldn't get the money. Owing to Phone’s firm resolution, it was up to me. So I put my hat in the ring. Three times I cornered the greaser, but each time it managed to escape between my legs. Now, by being done four times in succession a thing is liable to become a habit. But bad habits are fatal. I was beginning to get sore both in mind and in body. I picked up the discarded bag and brandishing it above my head, cornered the pig a fourth time. Quickly draw, ing the bag between my legs, I held it wide open. Scarcely was this done when the enemy attempted his fifth escapade, in the habitual manner. This time through the bag. The fact that he didn’t succeed was announced by deafening squeals. A lively struggle ensued inside the bag, but the prisoner found no opening and finally quieted down, which meant surrender. With the bag on Phone’s shoulder (I gave him that privilege) we made for Mrs. Brown’s and the bucks. On entering the yard, we beheld that lady coming hastily down the path, waving two bills above her head. We made a hurried exchange. She caressed her “poor piggie,” and 1 sized up the two bucks a long time before I happened to think of Phone standing by. He too was eyeing the money and at the same time nursing a few bruises. So, pitying his case, I coughed over a “ One.” X. Y. Z. -14.

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8 BULKELEY NEWS Uulkeleg Nnua BULKELEY SCHOOL, NEW LONDON. CT. Girard B. Troland, 13, Editor-in-Cbief Barrett Foley, ,14, Business Manager Robt. A. Keefe, , I 3, Circulation Manager Anybody in the school. Contributor. THE BULKELEY NEWS. Entered at the New London P. O. as second class matter. Published quarterly, 40 cents per year, 10 cents per copy. Address all business manuscript to the Business Manager; all other communications to the Editor-in-Chief of Bulkeley News, Bulkeley School, New London, Conn. VOL. IX. FEBRUARY. 1913 NO. 2 1 I ’HE members of the Junior Class have set a splendid example to the rest of the school by signing a pledge that they will Concerning endeavor to use no profane ‘Profanity language while they are at Bulkeley. Mr. Towne had previously brought the matter before the Senior Class. Although he did not request the Seniors to put their names to any specific pledge, he intimated that he would like to see something of this sort done. Some days later, in addressing the school, Mr. 1 owne chided the class for having done nothing. We hope our principal has not interpreted the stand taken by the Seniors as meaning that they are in favor of the use of profane language. For several days after Mr. Townes talk with the boys the question was the topic of much discussion about school. The Seniors were unanimously opposed to vulgar talk and vulgar thoughts but were equally unanimous in their belief that signing a pledge is not an effective method of obliterating vulgarity. We say, unofficially, that it is the belief of the Seniors that, that which is forbidden, tempts. Deny the school the privelege of entering the school tower outside of school hours and it’s a safe bet that the old bell will be rung the evening of our first victory. Grant the boys the privelege and they’d be too indifferent to pull the rope. It’s human nature. Let those, who despise profanity, unostentatiously abstain from it and in their own circles vulgarity becomes as uncommon as a school-boy with clean hands. Have everyone sign a pledge not to swear and he’ll swear because its forbidden. Thats human nature, too. However, we commend the Juniors for the spirit of their act although we differ with them as to the correct mode of procedure. Let the Juniors look well to their pledge. Profanity in its lightest sense is the use of expressions which by reason of their vulgar meaning are offensive to good taste and fail to enlighten the hearer. We refer to profane cursing and swearing. But there is a deeper, meaner, more wicked kind of profanity, the profanity of light talk; gossip, by which we so often put a blight upon the reputation of another; an insidious bomb with which we blast what is beautiful and good. A thousand times more sinful than the foulest oath ever spoken are the utterances of a malignant tongue which with sweet sounding words confides, as a secret, into a listening ear, the petty faults of an absent friend. To swear is to betray the deficiencies of one’s vocabulary; to pass one’s leisure in idle gossip is to betray a character woefully lacking in the essentials of decency, honor and upright manliness. We hope and believe that the pledge of the Juniors is a step against this other vice connoted in the word “profanity,” and if in all their conversation they keep their mouths free of all that which tends to lower