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

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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

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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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18 BULKELEY NEWS called upon to do their bit. And along with these ideas, there comes to most of us the thought—“Well, as long as I’ll soon be through with school work, and in the real fight, what’s the use of working very hard now ?” Fellows, it is an awful mistake to adopt that philosphy. It is the philosophy of the weak, not of self-willed men. Now is the time when you have a grand opportunity to show your real worth. Are you going to do it by lying down on the job? If you do, you are a weakling; worse than that; you are yellow, and you lack the qualities of a real soldier. When the time comes for you to get into the actual warfare, well and good, then go to it! But is it going to do any good to bring rifles to school, and shoot them off in the class-room? No, fellows, your duty at this time is to stick right to your work in school, until the time comes for you to do something else. So let’s show a little more patriotism right here. Let’s have some stick-to-it-iveness, and see if we can’t raise, and not lower the standard of our school, and materially decrease that disgraceful number of names on the “Apud Inferos” Roll. □ □ T T OW many appeals are made to the students of a school, every year, in the name of school spirit? School spirit is a term that is not used in a broad sense. All students are urged to attend School Spirit each football game, to help the athletic association, to give aid in all campaigns; all in the name of school spirit. They are all deserving, and surely should receive the desired support of each student. Have any of the fellows at Bul-keley ever thought of school spirit in a different sense ? Have you ever thought of it in the true sense of the word ? The significance of school spirit is to aid in all things which are for the good and welfare of the school. Certainly the above things are for the good and welfare of the school. However, has an appeal ever been made to the scholars who are below in their studies, to brace up, in the name of school spirit ? Have the students ever been asked to care for school property, in the name of school spirit? Have the students ever been asked to refrain from rowdyism, in the name of school spirit ? Aren’t all of these for the good and welfare of the school? Just strain a little of that gray matter, and work this out. □ □ P NLY about fifty per cent, of the money pledged by the students to the Athletic Fund has been paid up. This means that unless the remaining pledges are paid in, the school will be Athletic Pledge placed in a false position. The sweaters for the football team will arrive in the course of a few days and there will be a large bill to settle. The members of the team have done their part by offering to meet any extra expense that has been caused by war-time conditions. Now, it is up to the students. Let everybody know that when a Bulkeley boy gives his word of honor, he means to back it up.