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

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BULKELEY NEWS 11 lulkfbg Nnita BULKELEY SCHOOL, NEW LONDON, CT. Gustaf M. Liljenstein, ’i6 Editor-in-Chief Tracy W. Ames, ’i6 Assistant Editor Waldo L- Miner, ’17 Business Mgr THE BULKELEY NEWS Published quarterly, 40 cents per year, 10 cents per copy. Entered as Second Class Matter at New London Post Office. Contributions are earnestly desired. These may be handed to the Editor-in-Chief. Address all Business Manuscript to the Business Manager. VOL. XII. No. 2. Basket Ball. AT7E are sorry to see that the at- tempt to make basket ball a school sport was not a success. After the energetic work of Moon in securing a place to hold our games, and the willingness of Mr. French to sacrifice his afternoons to round a team into shape, we should think the school would have been willing to do their part. There seemed enough enthusiasm at first to carry the project through, but somehow that enthusiasm died out so that the team soon broke up. During the first weeks of practice money was needed to pay the expense of the lights, and also the janitor. This would only have been a trifle. A collection from the school would easily have settled that matter. Basket ball is always a paying proposition. Seeing there would be no other sport during the winter, a large audience would surely patronize the games. After the first game or two, there would be no more need of contributions, as the money taken in on the games would suffice. The expense of the visiting team would be slight considering that only six men generally take the trip, and that games could be arranged with teams in this vicinity. It has always been found a paying proposition in other schools, so why shouldn’t it in ours? Even if we did have to contribute a little at the start there would be no need of it during the following years as there would surely be a little money left in the treasury by the end of the season. As football is now our only sport, we should try at 1 e a s t to have one other. Baseball is next to impossible so why not try basket ball? Once it is started, we are sure the thing will go along by itself, as does football. We hope that the task will again be attempted next year. It will probably mean hard work but we hope someone will be energetic enough to try it again and make it apossibility. Remember the old saying “Nothing is impossible.” We are sure that if it is handled in the proper manner it will not be impossible but surely possible. If one would like to see basket ball as a school sport next year remember the saying “If you want a thing well done, do it yourself.” Don’t wait for the other fellow to start it, but pitch right in determinedly, and we are sure of your success. □ □ 0

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10 BULKKLEY NEWS rings which, as soon as received, gladdened many hearts, not mentioning his own. At home Grace didn’t seem the same after the event on the yacht. Her father d iscovered something wrong and after some hard thinking discovered a psychological method of treating her ailments. He sent a long letter to Harold. In reading the much-delayed letter Harold understood and using his witty talent dispatched invitations to all the guests —his personal friend s—who were present at the reception on the yacht, to come to his American home and there be the guests at a surprise party on his sister in honor of the gifts received. The surprise p a r t v was arranged by Harold and his father. The evening of the party came and so did the invited participants. A delightful program was made up and all that tended to pass the evening pleasantly was introduced. The faces of the guests seated around the table waiting for Grace were invaded with smiles as they forgot the past and were lost in the depths of the present. A cable from Mr. and Mrs. Dewey, newly married; previously Dorothy Smith, nurse, and Robert Dewey, corporal, was received from the war zone and read aloud, which added to the pleasure of the evening, for in it they found love, and Grace knew she was forgiven because—well, because she was. —F. Malien. Miss Tooker. I saw a girl across the street, and Thought I knew her. I went across the girl to meet, and For I was sure. The girl she smiled welcomely, and I tipped my hat. “Howdo,” I said, “Come with me?” and She knocked me flat. The judge asked me why I flirted with Miss Tooker. I said with my feelings hurted that I mistook her. “You Miss Tooker,” said the judge “Can’t understand it. Ten days,” and I couldn’t budge Nor comprehend it. —Frank A. Mallen. The cop came around, pinched me, and Took me to jail. In court the girl I did see, and She told her tale.

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12 BULKELEY NEWS W. M. I. versus Bulkeley. TELLO. stranger.” And thus we may address our friends across the way, the W. M. I. girls, who, it seems, are kept distant from us in social affairs, (because of a past experience) at a time in life when their companionship and ours, are most needed. They might as well reside in Ohio or Alaska, as far as intimacy with them is concerned, and were it not for our meeting each other daily upon the street by chance, we would forget each other. It doesn’t seem fair that two schools so near to each other in situation, should be so far apart in matters nearest their hearts, especially when most of the students of said schools are graduates of the same grammar school. As the young man grows he wants friends. As the young woman grows she needs friends. Yet it is not this friendship they are asking. It is a get-together—know each-other spirit which exists in them, but is not allowed its freedom. Two schools in a small town, such as this, should be closer together. They should hold meets, dances and other socials together. They should work together, and above all, stick together. The only time the W. M. I. and Bulkeley students are together in a body, is at the football game with Norwich, to show the latter they are at least concerned in our welfare, because Norwich usually has a supply of girls to act as rooters for their team. After the game they are again W. M. I. students, to remain until our next Norwich football game and thus the wheel of Fate will turn unless some David will attempt to shift its course. It is a gigantic task, but no more was Goliath’s! BBS A Timely Question. TT'HE idea of taxing the mentality of a pupil who is a public school graduate and has received a diploma before allowing him to enter Bulkeley seems absurd—or even that of accepting a list of pupils from a grammar school principal, which he recommends as efficient to enter high school without passing an examination. When a grammar school pupil receives a diploma it means that he has satisfactorily completed the full course of study as prescribed by the Board of Education and is competent to go further. If not, he has no right to his diploma! (Why the principal ol a grammar school picks out a list of pupils so that they can enter Bulkeley without passing the customary examination, we cannot understand, unless it is that he can read their future). And why he gives diplomas to pupils whom he does not recommend to Principal Towne is a mightier problem, for if those pupils denied recommendation are unfit to enter Bulkeley without passing a test, then why are they fit to receive diplomas? The fact that a pupil passes a test belore he is admitted into Bulkeley does by no means signify he will I e-come a docile student. He may have been fortunate to know the subjects in question at the time,