Arms Academy - Student Yearbook (Shelburne Falls, MA)

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who led the nation through strife and bloodshed. Truly he was a great man, a man whose fame will increase with each passing year. As it has been said, he was strong and tall like the trees he felled, the kind broadness of the fields filled his heart, silence and solitude were his boyhood friends and when only a great man could save the nation, God called Abraham Lincoln and found him ready. The above essay was written in a forty-minute class period, with only a few notes as a guide. The Lincoln medal, given by the Illinois Watch Company of Spring- field, Ohio, for the best essay, was awarded to Miss Harriet Kemp. This is a copy of the original, just as it was written in class. The Artist Little .lack Frost is an artist, With brushes and colors bright He travels over the woods and fields And colors the leaves at night. Here a splash of crimson And there of yellow or brown He paints a pretty picture As he travels around the town. Margaret Smith, '29. Peanuts and Pennies Lupino was a monkey which belonged to Lupo, the Italian organ-grinder. Every morning, even when the rain was pattering gently on the sloping roof of his room, Lupo would swing Lupino up on one shoulder and sling the little hurdy-gurdy on the other, and saunter out to earn his living by making music and collecting pennies. Lupino was dressed in a blue uniform, with red braid on the front and on the pockets, and he wore a red hat, carefully mended. Lupo could not sew very well, it is true, but when he discovered that the pennies were dropping out through a hole in the hat and that the children were pick- ing them up and using them over again, he sat right down with a little needle and a big thread that he happened to have, and stopped up the leak! And because he had more thread than he needed, and some extra patches of cloth, he put two more pockets on the uniform, big pockets like pouches that would hold a great many pennies. The two had a very happy time together, wandering about the city, and nobody in the little house where they lived could decide whether or not Lupo was fonder of Lupino than Lupino was of Lupo! One day, a warm, sunny day, when all the children were rolling hoops in the park, and when the windows were wide open with the white curtains blowing, Lupo picked up his monkey and said, Come on. We go to Mario's restaurant today. This restaurant was the nicest place in the city, Lupo thought. There he could sit down with many friends and chatter fast in Italian and eat a big bowl of the good macaroni, while Lupino played in the open court or dozed in the sun and dreamed about monkey-land. On this fine day Lupo was no sooner inside the door of the restaurant than he saw an old jolly friend whom he had left behind him in Italy years before. They greeted each other and slapped each other on' the back, and then sat down to have lunch, talking fast all the time. But first, before they ate, Lupo tied the monkey to the railing outside the door. Lupino looked at them, very slyly out of one eye and saw that they were not paying much attention to him. Then he hopped until he got as far out in the court as his chain would let him go, sitting down on his hind legs he pushed his cap far back on his head and looked at some children who were playing hop-scotch. Their singing and hopping made him want to dance, too, so he jumped up and down, and a little bell that was fastened to his uniform like a button tinkled and tinkled. The children stopped playing at once and gathered around him in a circle. One of them, however, took one last big hop, she had a bag of peanuts in her hand, and she jumped so hard that one fell out and rolled under Lupino's nose. He put out his little claw, picked up the nut, and

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if 'iv .. -P.-I -'lf arf? 1:-5' ..r -1. .r -L The Arms Student lvlvavltwftvltfrlt JLTflLW1LirJLif1L'w.lL1Tlf33 . L EG- le 531 lf? s Literary Abraham Lincoln Early in the summer of 1806 a young married couple built a cabin near Nolin Creek, Kentucky. They were much like other young people of their time, with little money or education, yet it was they who were the parents of one of the world's greatest men, Abraham Lincoln. As every one knows Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, a desire which soon materialized. H served but one term at the end of which he returned home to continue his law practice. It was a bitter disappointment in 1854 when he was defeated as candidate for senator from Illinois by Stephen Douglas, with whom he had carried on the famous Lincoln - Douglas debates. A greater vic- tory soon recompensed this defeat, however, for in 1861, after a brilliant campaign, :ll Us ti Ib O 4 E F a 3 e :Cl :fl Li e 4 a e D2 e :G E Fl 4 E k E F E e a E 5 .J 1809. His childhood is interesting and Lincoln became president. 'L- -GQ rather unusual, but it is somewhat like that , , , , , if!- ar of many other pioneer olnldl-en, He ro- Heavy .responsibilities weighed down the ml: C: ceived little formal education, but he new Pfesldenti and there Were thflse who qfj -J' eagerly reed the few books belonging to doubted that the man from the wilderness -1. k him and from them he gained his ideas of Of 111111015 ,00'-lld glllde the 11911021 lfhfollgh :Q :VL life. such a cr1s1s. T51 avert war was impossible Ji: - - - - and the dark ays of civil stri e which -D? -The roving Spmt Seemed to be In the followed, taxed to the utmost the strength fl '1 Lincoln family, for when Abraham was f th 1 d f th t. I 1862 1 .r- E seven, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln moved 0 e ea er 0 e na lon' n ' 8' ' in-, - though the war by no means over, a sweep- 'L from the more settled region of Kentucky . . J- L? to Indiana. Less than two years later a ing.Uni0n Victory gave Lmcolfl oliportunlty HU.. e Plague me community fsmlsis. tzaisiisr rirnsifsas 122222 at il whl hail grown up- ther? and Nancy Jan. 1, 1863 all slaves should become free li: D: nco n was one of its victims. Since e F th t time the C fedex, tg :Q ...r Thomas Lincoln had a large family, there m n' rom B' OH on . a es 'JE -1. being Several youu cousins who resided were slowly but surely defeated, until the D: , g battle of Gettysburg crushed the rebel :il :fm there, he keenly felt the need of a helpmate. f 1 A h t t. 1 te t th d d. t. 11: Li Therefore, about a year later, he brought owes' S Of lme 3 r 3 e e 19a lon :Q :Q home a new mother whose love and care of the Gettysburg cemetery' Lmcoln 1-1 C: did much toward makin Lincoln 3 eat delivered his immortal address. The EG' ..r and ood man g gr inspiration which this masterpiece of L E ,Pg .dl h oratory has given to thousands upon thou- 5 -r . mf passe raplh Y and Soon 1: e boy sands of people all over the United States 1- E gnc? n grfiw io mia 00 hl.Ab0ut td at time is the greatest memorial to Lincoln's great fa- - I e B211 5 Ijlngriw, to H1815 an 2, was work. How much those lines, government T5 we t af fncqns career egan' Of 9' of the people, by the people, and for.the :U J time he clerked in a general store and later ii , F-.. he became interested in local politics. In xiigsgih hlgfahxgilfdggs bin rgggliotielil QT 7 -J? i834 he became 9' member of the state leg' years, but his spirit still lives in the hearts Y'- - 1 t d d l te M - - J- G: lslqlulie an servgv. Selffa ima' eau' of the grateful people. The ideals which I-fl Ii Xara ht xg: Ztiummlsfi gjwtgg bgrreelgeafg were his for the future of our great nation LGF . . ' have in some measure been carried out by :Q comfse of tug? he xlilarrleei Ma'ryhT0dd of his successors. His was a great gift, a gift 3: L? Lexmgtolglf bentuc y han f as t ef yfars to be treasured through the ages. He firmly gl- -r. passed e ecame t e at er 0 our believed that we should live with malice .r- h ld - ' ' ll: C 1 ren- toward none, with charity toward all, with Q :lie As he grew older and became more firmness in the right as God gives us see in- -r successful, he desired election to Congress, the right. This was the creed of the man 1- -1 J- L? sl 'manaanaiiiuiuriniuiliuiLJ1.JLJLJLiL.1111T5EL 0 T ET' W' A Sir W rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, 27 '

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