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

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BULKELEY NEWS 19 the football squad, but all are not strong enough to endure this sport. Furthermore many enter the track meet, but there are at least fifty per cent, of the student body who will indulge in no athletics at all since we have no baseball. Why? It is not in spite, because they would only spite themselves. It is because they are physically unable to enter any sport except baseball. Baseball is the mildest sort of sport, yet it is the national game. Perhaps within the next year the trouble will come to an end by someone offering the school the use of a field. May and Mulcahey, former Bul-keley stars are now at Fordham. May has lined up with the varsity team in Football and Basket Ball. Mulcahey was one of the mainstays on Fordham’s varsity football team and if rowing is introduced he will probably be found in the crew. Samuel Lawrence, a former Bul-keley star of the class of 1912 is now at Kingston College. Lawrence played halfback on the varsity squad for the season of 1914. He also played on the baseball team of Kingston. Thomas Noonan, a former football star on Bulkeley’s varsity team is now a member of N. F. A. No doubt the football squad of 1915 will feel the loss of Noonan. —Sheedy '15. Michael F. Shea, of the class of 1909, was recently commissioned by the Associated Press to cover the trial of Dr. Don O. Bisbee in the Supreme Court for Addison County, Vermont. Mr. Shea is manager of his college track team and chairman of the press club. J. Janies Floyd, of the class of ’07, is editor of the “Annual,” the college paper at Middlebury, Vermont. Mr. Floyd is also associate editor of the college newspaper, and secretary of the Vermont Intercollegiate Debating Association. William M. Si stare, Jr., ’08 has been elected president of the Senior Class at Middlebury, Vt.

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18 BUEKELEY NEWS 'VT'OT having sufficient space in our last number we were unable to mention the excellent work of Bul-keley’s fast playing second team. It is needless to rewrite the Football many ways in which they were of assistance to the first squad, as well as it is needless to rewrite the victories they won. The mainstay of the Second team was Daly. He earnestly brought that gathering of young school boys together and made a second squad of which any high school might be proud. Together with coach Daly’s work comes the work of coach Prince coach McCoy’s first assistant. Prince spent many afternoons in helping develop our varsity squad. The coming football season, the season of 1915 will undoubtedly be a successful one with Feeley captain and Fitchthorn manager. Fitchthorn was chosen manager by an almost unanimous vote. After the election of Miner as track manager no one need worry about our making asuccess of the track meet. Miner has the Track Meet inclination as well as the ability. This year’s track meet will be held at the State Armory on Washington Street. As it is necessery to hold the track meet under the auspices of one of the Militia companies, this year it will be held under the auspices of the 10th Co. Coast Artillery. It has been held under that company for the past few years. There will be many events to give the members of the different classes a chance to compete. Many students are wishing that an aggregation will be present from N. F. A. The prizes will be the same as in past years, that is: first prize—bronze medal; second and third prizes—ribbon badges. The class receiving the most points at the track meet will have the privilege of having their numerals engraved on the silver cup in room 1. There will be no school baseball team this year, owing to the fact that we are unable to secure a field on which to play. For past seasons this has been the favorite Baseball sport of all the students. Every scholar in Bulkeley School wishes to indulge in some kind of sport as it is practically necessary to keep the boy in perfect health. Many boys, no doubt, enter

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20 BULKKLEY NEWS David Mulcahey, of the class of ’14, played tackle on the Fordham eleven during the past season. Dack May, ’12 played the other tackle. Girard B. Troland, of the class of 1913, is making a splendid record at the United States Military Academy at West Point. At a recent examination Mr. Troland was eleventh out of a class of 280. J. Seeley Bixler, ’12 has been elected to membership in the Amherst College Chapter of Delta Sigma Ro, the honorary debating society. Mr. Bixler was a member of the team which recently defeated Williams and Wesleyan in a triangular debating contest. William Dunham, of the class of 1913 was recently appointed second alternate to West Point by Senator McLean. Twenty-two students from all over the state took the examinations and Mr. Dunham ranked third. Misery 'HpO be tired of life because every--T thing on earth tends to be in dire opposition to you, not allowing you to prosper, to dream that you might have been a man in good circumstances with n o t h i n g to check your happiness, character, or ambition ; to be grieved because you receive neither help nor sympathy from friends you aided more than once, little thinking they would be false, to be disheartened because you are a-fraid to look a man straight in the face, thinking yourself a backslider, to know that your enemies are continually slandering your reputation and praying that you will have the worst luck possible, making you think you are doomed to disaster; to realize that most of your fond hopes have failed, each one being shattered at the moment when you thought all was well, causing you to think death preferable; these are the conditions of a man in misery. —Demosh '15.