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

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14 BULKELEY NEWS Kidnappers. Within my heart and in my soul. My conscience gnaws at me, And bids me tell the things I know And let my thoughts go free. So now “I take my pen in hand,” To name our greatest fault, And ’till a clean tale I have made I shall not call a halt. Our school that looks so good without Is filled with crime inside; The fruit of many a yearly raid Has passed her portals wide. We steal the children ’way from home And keep them here for years; And pay no heed unto their cries Or to their childish tears. But still perhaps we’re not so bad, We try to make amends; We try to teach them useful things And try to be their friends. We try to show them nobler paths, Day after day, and then, As they from childhood upward grow, We try to make them men. Cogan T5

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BULKELEY NEWS 15 Satti—“What’s that I smell burning ?” Murray—“Harshowitz has a nickel in his pocket.” Jordan (in German)—“How do you say ‘doctor’ in German?” Frau Moll—“Herr Tockter.” Jordan—“I meant an M. D.; not a barber.” You can drive a mule to water, But you cannot make him drink. You can drive a fool to college, But you cannot make him think. Mr. Lawrence— “Take a dime, Moran, and make silver nitrate.” Moran—“I haven’t a dime. Will two nickels do?” Mr. Bigelow—“What one department is there that every city has that is absolutely free from graft?” McGarry—‘ ‘Police Department.’ ’ What we need this year is cheap ice,—we have plenty of cheap skates. (Ask the sales manager). Why did Feeley get up and leave McGarry after they had entered the Lyceum Theatre together? (Grape Nuts). An optimist is one who when swallowing a fish bone thanks his lucky stars that he is not an ostrich. Littlefield has entered the Y. M. C. A. pageant. Very happily he was assigned the part of a Mexican which gives him an excuse for his bullthrowing. My father sent this note one day, To my German teacher—it read this