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

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BULKELEY NEWS ]« The kind of ability that should be of 6t value in school is ADAPTABILITY, ere are plenty of boys of ability, but they ad around helpless waiting for someone show them how to use it. They look for ujbthat can fit them. It never occurs to in that they are being measured by the i, and must submit to a few necessary [rations before they can be accepted. The Greeks found out a great deal, usee they didn’t have to spend so much ie learning ancient languages. So they med from experience. The first thing rs feel together is pain. It takes longer to 1 joy together. They are much more fish about that and try to keep it to them-Ires. The most important part of speech is the rerb. An adverb qualifies a verb, adjective another adverb A great number of xticil failures are adverbial. An unlucky rerb can queer the best verb in the dic-aary. It’s a regular hoodoo. MIND YOUR ADVERBS. You can say anything you please if you fit pleasantly. There are people who ftsay “ How do you do?” without having sound like an insult. They are too inquis-re. Many people draw false lessons from fir failures through negligence about the tab. They think that what they did was rog, and get discouraged. What the fare really taught was that the thing could it be done that way and that they should [again. There was Aristides who was fed the JUST until it got on the nerves of (Athenians. He couldn’t understand it. the trouble wasn’t that he was too just, 1 that he did justice too monotonously, (did justice to the free born citizens until ? couldn’t stand it, but he never tried it the slaves. The boys who cause the most trouble in are the advanced thinkers. Their ids get going so fast on some slippery iy that they skid. Before they know it they are advancing backward. They have a delightful sensation of going as they please till they collide with some fact they did not know was there. WHEN A NEW IDEA GETS CONTROL OF AN UNFURNISHED MIND IT HAS THE TIME OF IT’S LIFE. There is nothing inside tc molest it or make it afraid. There are boys effervescing with modernness. They have learned a few things that other people don’1 know; and they have never found out some things that the race found out long ago. They are pleased to think they are original. So they are aboriginal. When this type of boy comes to THOU SHALT NOT, he goes and does it. He calls every prohibition a taboo. He thinks it is his duty to break every taboo he comes across. It gives him a creepy feeling of no-1 doing his duty, he likes to feel that wayf There are a great many taboos that ought t : be broken but there is a difference betweer' a taboo and something which people have found out in the hard school of experience What is an education good for if it does no. enable people to make just such distinction:-as this. A crow sees an object in the fiel that may turn out to be only a harmles,1 scarecrow. But if he is a sensible crow h will make an investigation before committinj himself. He has seen too many men wh ]' look like scarecrows to take chances ? .] The lessons of Experience are never fun nished without the Experience. There is ny get-wise-quick scheme. If you intend to ge. wise you must lose no time. You can expel ience a great deal if you will use your min , and you must make up your mind to ste lively if you are to experience anything mud:} If you can not get wise quickly there is n i use of getting wise at all. • For all of which ideas and many pith1' sentences we are indebted to that splendL essayist SAMUEL McCHORD CROTHER We knew you would never read him so wL' have hoped that you would read him through us. Here is plenty to think over. Phil. :

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BULKELEY NEWS 13 ». m. j. AN ESSAY ON LEMONS. According to Dan Webster’s cousin Noah, a lemon tacid fruit of Citrus Lemonum. But when Dan's B said that, he did not know that in the second o( the twentieth century, the United Vegetable jmn, consisting of peaches, prunes, apples, etc, jj produce a lemon, but a lemon possessing such aes, that it could not, under the circumstances, • under his definition. We all know that there is new specie, or perhaps it isn’t so new; but anyway, xar more about it now, owing to the fact, I suppose, barbarisms and colloquialisms are now-a-days more nlly adopted or accepted. According to the writer of this essay, a 1920 lemon ag from that already described, is the fruit of many a, and is closely related to the apple family. It is acid, but on the contrary is too sweet, and it may or sot be yellow. It has a great affinity for peaches, s, in as much as this affinity does not separate it like “ specie. There are three distinct classes of twentieth century nr. clingstone, those having a tendency to cling to blameystone; sweet hollows, those devoid of any d interior; and just plain, ordinary, soft lemons, those d sap and mush. If any one of these lemons is unable, what in the world must a combination of all of ■be? Basketball practice is still going on. Teams will i be picked and a number of games are being «d. SAFETY f-IRST! The next time we have a fourth period similar to the d January the 1st, be sure and equip yourself with class bathing suit and a life preserver, as you may -them! N’est-ce-pas ? Dear friend, I think I might do worse, 1 Than quote to you this old time verse: If you love you as I love me, No knife can put our love together. L K. (pointing to hammock) “ How much ? ” Salesman, “We guarantee it for 600 pou — eh, two pand a half. NntPH WHO WILL WIN THE PRIZE ? One of the most successful and delightful affairs of . the new year began at the school January 19th and lasted through the 21st. Every student of the Institute was present at least one day. Members of the faculty ' entertained. The most popular event was a guessing : game. Each girl was given a typewritten sheet of queer I and amusing questions. The object was to see who : could guess the largest number of correct answers. The . prize was to have been an indefinite vacation from. studying, but the judges, Justice of the Peace Fitz Gerald and Prosecuting Attorney Neilan are still un-. decided as to who is the proper candidate. The affair came to an end at 1:30 on January 21st. The guests' reluctantly left the school but promised to attend the next “ reunion ” which will be held in June. •i (Cheer up ! Exams only come twice a year.) i; -BAB. 71. At a recent concert given for the benefit of homeless:1 cats, the following solos were rendered : C You made me what I am to-day. . . .L. K. 21 They go wild over me...................E. N. 22 There’s a little spark of love still burning L. G. ’21 Whispering.............................A. B. ’22 I’d rather be a lemon than a grapefruit E. M. ’21 , Tell, tell the story to me.............M. N. '21 j Waiting.................. . A. H. ’21 »]' When the “ Snow ” is softly falling . . E. S. ’21 ,) ■i On February 8th, the Seniors and Sophomore:, challenged the Juniors and Freshmen to a snow fight. It was held at recess. The Sophomores and Junior1 seemed to be among the absent, but the freshies ai j seniors had a real battle. The lower classmen outnum bered the Seniors who looked a little the worse for wea at the end of recess. However, we refuse to say the we were beaten. A number of Senior class meetings have been heli . recently for the purpose of discussing plans for graduation:, A number of festivities including a formal dance, banque and a play have been decided upon. - W. M. I. ’21.

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16 BULKELEY NEWS Atltlrtira. ELECTION OF LYONS. The first thing of importance for the stove-leaguers to mull over was the election of football captain for the season of 1921. On January 11th, the “B” men met in Room 2 and chose Leo Lyons as their leader for the coming year. Lyons is as clever a football player as one could wish for and to our way of thinking is bound to be a success. He will have the whole school back of him In his endeavor to pilot the team to the Eastern Connecticut Championship again next year. BASKETBALL. For the first time in many years Bulkeley lias been represented by a basketball team, it was formed soon after the Christmas vaca-lion and practice has been held daily since Ihrough the courtesy of the Y. M. C. A. who [•ave the use of the gymnasium. Due to lack of funds and the lack of a manager, howeve little was done in the line of games. Voc tional was beaten a couple of times, the 101 Co. five administered a couple of beating and Montville also defeated us. Thelatti teams were above our class, however, an they only played us for practice. AlthouJ these results may seem a little discouraging still, some good material was unearthed tlJ can be used next year and, besides, everyoj that played had a good time so the seas! cannot be said to have gone for naught, ] BASEBALL. On February 16th at 10:15, Mr. Town! called the whole school together for the puil pose of electing a baseball manager. HI nominated the following men: Bergeii Crouch, Gipstein, Grant, Jerome, O’Neil Snow and Wadleigh. O’Neil was elected The Joy Spreader Give me the guy who smiles and smiles When everything goes dead wrong ; Give me the guy who always whiles The blue days away with song. The guy of the voice with the smile that wins, Whose answer is soft to wrath, Who rights himself with cheery grins When he stumbles in the path. Yes, give me the guy who smiles, and smiles Then without delay or fuss, Give me an axe with a good mean edge And I’ll murder the tiresome cuss. — Garret Smith. From “ The Conning Tower, ” New York Tribune, ■