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

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16 11ULKELEY NEWS loved, and to them we egarly seek the tributes of a memorial reference, a lasting devotion. These heroes have mastered the maxims of knowing, making, and loving friends; they are worthy of our sincere veneration- Such men will not be forgotten; until man’s ingratitude to man has made all mankind as compassionless as fire, as merciless as the hurricane, as uncontrolable as the tide, and as hopeless as the damned. What has friendshipe achieved from the dawn of creation to the present hour and what is her warning? We could not conceive all of the accomplishments of friendship they are countless. But let us childishly imagine that every block of the Great Wall of China is a finely printed tone of the accomplishments of friendship, yet with this uncouth phantasm our imagination has tarried far behind. To God a-lone are the accomplishments of his divine gift of friendship concieve-able, we can consider but a few. In truth, friendship has mothered all our virtues, and patiently sought the retrenchment of our vices. Man would be like the mole hunger for darkness and obscurity were it not for the guidance of friendship. She has emerged us from the chaos of despair from the blindness of opacity and taught us the principal and duties of unity. Our arts, sciences and learnings could never have been advanced without the championship of friendship. The Empire, kingdom, and state are built upon the friendship of their peoples. In our conquests, our victories, and our a-chievements we must not forget the warning of friendship. Time has been able to laugh scorningly on the sands of lonely Egypt, on the ruins of forgotten Chaldea, and on the mournfull remains of once-proud Hellas, because the people of these master dictators out casted friendship when they needed it most. Eriendship had built them, they had exiled their builder, thus they actually signed the warrent of their own execution. Man as individual is governed by the same phenomenon, through friendseip he will attain, out casting friendship and he falls. Thomas C. Gannon.

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It( rL EEL E V XE WS 15 Friendship. (An Essay) KNOW friends, to make F friends, and to love friends are three maxims for a successfull life. It is raraly possible that the fulfillment of one of these can be accomplished independently; for to know is to make and to make is to love. Once these maxims are accomplished they protect their possessor with an armour that can withstand all save death. Man can be deprived of riches, robbed of wealth, despoiled of title, and striped of rank, but if character remains then friendship can be attained. What a comfort, a haven, a consolation it is to one who has been so unfortunate to meet such deprivations. Yet he can scorn the spoils of conquerors, ridicule philosophers, and laugh at reformers. He has learned that the code of society may often be changed by the mere wishes of man, but neuer that of friendship her laws are eternal. “He lives”. The man of friends beholds the frontiers of El Dorada and a-bides on the isle of Utopia. Like the day, friendship is a gift from God to all mankind to the rich and to the poor it is the same. Man goes gallentlv forth on the golden morn of Youth in quest of friends and conquering, returns to cherish in the gray eve of age his captives borne from the realms of friendship. We see the new born infant holding up its tiny hands asking for friendship, we see the old man dying asking for his friends. We come into the world beging for friends and we leave the world grieving their loss. A traveler a-bout to journey to a distant clime seeks first the parting from his friends, and on returning awaits impatiently the welcome from those he parted. The vidlor in a race for fame cherishes more the cougraula-tions of his friends than all his trophies. Then there is the one who fails lying sore and bruised upon the sthuy highway of life. He peers almost hoplessly in the darkness of failure when lo! there ap-perrs a gleamihg beacon, a consoling light, it is the coming of his friends. Friendship is more than is seen in parting, returning, succeeding or failing. It is the heart of our desires the nucleus of all our emotions. The world has record of men who have reaped all that the harvests of conquest, knowledge, and fortune can offer; yet they have failed in the arena of immortality for they sought to achieve without friendship. Like astonishing comets they appear with marvel swiftness; but with greater speed they disappear into oblivion, ephemeral sub-jedfs of fleeting history. Then a-gain. we know and see men who though bearers of less brilliant careers are more esteemed, more

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BULKELEY NEWS 17 VOL. XIV. No. 2. Hulkelejj Nntta BULKELEY SCHOOL. NEW LONDON. CT. Russell H. Corcoran Editor-in-Chief Thomas Murphy Assistant Editor John M. Mallon, Jr. Business Mgr James Fitzpatrick Advertising Mgr THE BULKELEY NEWS Published quarterly, 60 cents per year, 15 cents per copy. Entered as Second Class Matter at the New London Post Office. Address all business manuscript to Business Manager; all other communications to the Editor-in-Chief of Bulkeley News, Bulkeley School, New London, Conn. HP HERE is a large class of fellows at Bulkeley, who might easily be termed rowdies. They slip through their school life, barely passing,—sometimes falling below,—with the idea that they are Self-Respect fooling people. To say the least, these fellows are unwise. They seem to lack even a particle of brains. Judgment,—they never considered that word. These fellows, as I said before, have the idea that they are fooling people. Well, perhaps they are. Perhaps they fool the teacher, their parents, and a few others who take an interest in them. Yes, perhaps they do, perhaps they fool all of them—except one. Did you ever try to fool yourself ? Really, now, did you ever earnestly try to fool yourself ? No matter what a fellow pretends to be, no matter what people think him to be, no matter what he is refuted to be, he knows deep down in his heart what he is. And try as he will, he can’t keep his mind off it. It haunts him. So, can’t you see, fellows, that in order to live a good, clean life, you must respect yourself ? If you can respect yourself, you are a man. To respect yonrself, you must be clean. Fellows, you can’t get away from it. So now, let every fellow at Bulkeley try and gain his own respect. That is what counts, and counts heavily. If you respect yourself, other people just have to. Give it a little thought. Do you respect yourself ? □ □ T T’S a trying time, fellows, prob- ably the most trying since the war began. After the wild enthusiasm which accompanied America’s entrance into the war, the greater part of us have re-Our Patriotic gained our reasoning, Duty and realized that the best and most patriotic thing we can do is to keep right at our studies. “Business as usual”, is the slogan. Many of us have also entertained the thought that the struggle would not last long. Time, however, has shown us that this is entirely improbable. The war is now being brought home, and we are beginning to see the hugeness and seriousness of it. And most of us are aching to get into it. Even those who are not so hot-headed as to wish to jump into it right away, clearly see that sooner or later they will be