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

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BULKELEY NEWS 31 EARLY ENGLISH EVENTS. Note: Selected from a number of Junior history papers as the best essay—for many reasons. A T a very early stage, England was named by the Angels. In 400 years D. A. Julius Seizer invaded into England and drove the Kelts from England into Whales. The Brittons were the Saxons who entered into England in 1492 under Canut. They came from Brittany. They were brave and warlike people who engaged in cock fighting and also lived by fishing and manufacturing. After a long seige on Julius Seizer they beat him and ignominiously drove him off the country. England was then left in a rude state by the Druids who held religious services out of doors. The Druids were like the I. W. W., except they had no unions. At this time Alfred the Large rained in 272 years. He became famous by letting some pancakes burn on a Dane. Because of this deed he was made a king. The throne was later succeeded by William the Consumptive who was the first of the Mormons. Later England was rained by Rufus, who was named William because his hair was read. Edward the Black Prince founded shivalry which is a fight on horseback between to horsemen. These were sometimes called krusades because they fort in tornados. A nite errand is a man similar to a telegraph boy only he goes out in the nite to search adventures. Another famous king was Henry eight. He was a great widow having lost several wives. Lady Jane Grey studied Greek, Latin and German and after a few days was beheaded. Queen Mary also died. Elizabeth was called the Virgin Queen because of Virginia. She was pretty. Near a vampire but didn’t marry. She also wore a lot of clothes and had a lot. ECHOES FROM PARODY HALL To the tune of “Smiles” There are marks they make with black ink There are marks they make with red There are marks that set us a---way back Like the goose eggs we do drea-d There are marks that give you higher standing That the folks at home a’-like to 6ee But the marks that fill my card with scarlet Are the marks that they give to me. — T. Gannon

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30 bulkeley news Teacher—I’ll bet you haven’t looked at your lesson.” Bailey—‘‘No, I’ve overlooked it.” A Taee of Prohibition. ‘‘What ale9 the porter?” ‘‘His young daughter wines all the time, and he i9 going home to liquor.” Since I received your S. O. S., I hold your I. O. U. Remit to me, R. S. V. P. And do it P. D. Q. McD—‘‘Say, who wrote the most—Dickens, Warren, or Bulwer Lytton?” Mcl—“I couldn’t tell you; who did?” McD—‘‘Why, Dickens, of course.” Mcl—“How do you know that ?” McD—‘‘Why, Warren wrote ‘Now and Then’; Bulwer Lytton wrote ‘Night and Morning’; but Dickens wrote ‘All the Year Round’.” You can lead a girl to the ballroom, but you can’t make her fox-trot. One of Oipstibn’s Funny (?) Jokes. Mr. Stevens—‘‘Remove what you have in your mouth.” Gpi—“I cannot.” Mr. S. (impatiently)—‘‘Why not ?” Gip—“It’s a tooth-ache.” Steward (on steamship)—“Your lunch will be up in a minute.” Joe (seasick)—“So will my breakfast.” In Chemistry. Prof.—“Name three things that contain starch.” Young—“Two collars and a cuff.” Little drops of water Frozen on the walk Make the naughty adjetftives Mix in people’s talk. Mr. Lawrence—“What makes well water hard?” Wadleigh—“Being so low down.” Soph.—“I kissed her when she wasn’t looking.” Fresh.—“What did she do?” Soph.—“Kept her eyes closed the rest of the evening.” Old Gent—“Little boy, I am sorry to see you smoking a cigarette.” Woodworth—“I ain’t smoking it. I’m keeping it alight for another feller what’s gone on an errand.” “What is the slipperiest thing in the world ?” “Why, two eels wrestling on a cake of ice.” Sullivan—“If I only had money, I’d travel.” She—“How much do you need ?” rv t Established 1824 RensselaerN v Polytechnic Engineering and Science IllollllilC Courses in Civil Engineering (C. E.), Meehan ical Engineering (M. E.), Electrical Engineering (E. E.), Chemical Engineering (Ch. E.), and Gen eral Science (B. S.). Also Graduate and Special Courses. Unsurpassed new Chemical Physical, Electrical, Mechanical and Materials Testing Labora tories. For catalogue and illustrated pamphlets show ing work of graduates and students and views of buildings and campus, apply to JOICN W. NUGENT. H« atiN rar.

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32 BULKELKY NEWS A money-counting expert in the United States Treasury Department recently made the record for counting 4,000 silver dollars in an hour, or 32,000 in a day. To show how vast a sum is a billion dollars, about which we are talking so easily nowadays, it would take this expert 100 years to count that sum in silver dollars, provided he counted 32,000 a day, day after day, without a single day’s vacation. ¥ When the American Eagle was first suggested as an American emblem, Benjamin Franklin bitterly opposed it on the ground that it savored too much of Julius Caesar, who used it as an emblem, and was too closely associated with royalty. Franklin wanted the American turkey as a national emblem, because he is a true native of America, whereas the eagle is not. ¥ In the present war, in thirty months the English Quakers have already helped to reconstruct more than 300 French villages, helped over 11,000 families and more than 36,000 individuals; built nearly 500 houses; donated some 34,000 packels of clothes and household articles; and distributed some $25,000 worth of farm machines, tools and seeds. ¥ The longest canal is not in America, but in China. It is the Grand or Imperial Canal and is 700 miles long. In America the longest canal is the Erie and is 363 miles long. Two of the shortest canals are among the most important: the Panama Canal, which is 54 miles long, and the Suez Canal, which is 100 miles long. Four million postal cards are printed every working day at the Government Printing Office in Washington. It is the largest printing office in the world, has a pay roll of 5 million dollars a year, and yet the executive head of this mammoth plant receives a salary of only $5500 a year. ¥ If the airplane that went from New York City to Dayton, Ohio, in 4 hours and 10 minutes, without a stop, averaging 132 miles an hour, kept this up for one day, it could easily go across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Diver pool. ¥ 6,000 more boy babies than girl babies have been born in Texas since the entrance of the United States into the war. There has also been an increase in the number of plural births, there being 602 sets of twins and 12 sets of triplets. ¥ Taking a census is not so modern as we think. Moses took a census of the Israelites in 1490 B. C., and in 560 B. C. it was the law that every Roman should file an estimate of his estate and personal effe 5ls, under oath, every five years. ¥ Curious, isn’t it, that the first modern breech-loading cannon was invented by a lawyer; the Brennan torpedo was the invention of a clergyman; and gunpowder was the idea of a monk ! ¥ The 40 days of Lent recalls the very curious part that 40 has played in the world’s traditions and customs. The Deluge in the Bible lasted 40 days and 40 nights; the Israelites wandered 40 years in the desert. ¥ Lord Byron wrote a poem once, which consisted of 400 lines in the original manuscript. Before he was done with it, he had eight sets of proofs submitted to him, and had added 900 lines.