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

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BULKELEY NEWS Bulkeley High Old Bulkeley famed for her Knowledge Halls Sits crowned with her many years While proudly waving her old flag falls Bathed in her country ’s tears. She lifts her square gray towers on high Where the song birds pierce the blue She sits like a queen ’neath the summer sky Ruling boys that are brave and true. Green as the emerald is her quad Fresh with the dew and bright Where her fellows gather in singles and squad Noisily into the night. Here the footbatl team for many a year Has planned its well played game. Here the fellows practice with lusty cheer The good old Bulkeley name. Long lines of boys pass through the doors On pleasant mild Septembers And outward o’er its oaken floors The class in June remembers.

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BULKELEY NEWS 5 “Do It For Bulkeley.” ONE MORNING, just after recess I heard two of the boys talking. They were standing at the head of the basement stairs and as I turned the corner I heard one of them say, “Well, then, do it for Bulkeley.” Somehow that statement ‘‘Do it for Bulkeley” kept ringing in my ears and I thought the boy who said it had struck on to what might be a most appropriate motto for all of us. I’ve thought about the motto and I’ve wondered if at first hearing we fully realize all it may mean. In the first place the verb “do” implies activity. We might say “Be active for our school”, or “Be a live wire in our school.” To observe the motto then, every boy must strive to further the interests of the school in every way possible instead of standing back and letting others “do” it. Now the question is—what can we do? We can’t all play football to help the school to its position as champion of Eastern Connecticut, nor can all of us play base-ball, however much we may wish to. But—we can all better scholarship in the ordinary routine of our daily school work. This is something that is in the power of every boy—if scholarship is low, we can raise it,—if high, we can at least maintain it. By so doing we can thus raise the standard of the school and its rank among other schools. Secondly, we can support the various school activities. For instance, we have the nucleus of a dramatic club. With the support and encouragement of the boys, the club might produce something of both dramatic and pecuniary value. We also have an eager group of music makers who are only waiting a little encouragement. Then, that football team of ours— have we supported it as eagerly as we could? Have we attended the games given by our plucky second team and cheered them as often as possible? Lastly, there are certain evils which the authorities, no matter how strong, cannot correct. These evils are too individual to be summarized but must be realized, recognized and corrected by each fellow as he knows he is at fault. These are the things that may be done and what are the things that have been done? The scholarship of the school is high. That is our biggest accomplishment. Indeed it may be favorably compared with any other. Let’s make it superior to any! Let's do everything for the credit of our school and nothing to its discredit. Support each other, and Do It For Bulkeley. —Miss C. Jordan

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BULKELEY NEWS 7 How all the year the rooms have rung With shout and lusty cheer, And many a parting song been sung Around the busy year. Oh boyhood love the old gray walls Your fathers loved before you. Cling as the ivy to her halls Of learning high above you. Yours is a record fair and clean. Long as the years roll by You scorn the thing that is low and mean And Truth you raise on high. So glory be to her faith today And praise for her magic lore. Oh may she sit as a queen for aye And rule her years by the score. Be proud to be known as a Bulkeley Grad Be proud of her very fame For the quad and the squad and the old bronze slab Are bearing an honored name. —HENRY W. WINSLOW.