Bancroft School - Blue Moon Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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THE BLUE MOON 99 NBY THEIR WORDS . . .' Miss Fisher: What I mean is-. Miss Lewis: Hm-m? Miss Smith: That's spectacular, isn't it? Miss Estee: Where is your French ear? Mrs, Post: At Radcliffe, Winnie says,- Miss Clark: All right. Miss Weeks: That's corking! Miss Jones: That's plain speaking and I mean it. Mr. Demoorjian: Now, my young lady. . . . 1 Can you imagine French class without arguments about construction, with reference to the dictionary? without anyone's asking what time it is? I without being asked How many of you take Latin? or What comes after demander and regara'er.? Without a mistranslation of Mon Dieu? What would happen in science class- If Miss Smith's pet experiment really worked? If there were not a discussion of Virginia Loud's diet? If everyone enjoyed cutting up things? If the motherly eye were not kept on the goldfish? THINGS TO BE EMBALMED Giggles Knitting Thayer's bow. Stray clothing June's chloroform Tickets to sell Gabriel! Woman! and Mercy Goodness! YOUTHFUL WIT Miss Hyde: Children, do you remember any jokes that we've had in the room this year, or anything funny that's happened? Kitty Sigourney: Yes, don't you remember when I said to you, 'Aren't you ever going to warm up to me?' Miss Denison: 'iDoes anyone in this room know what criticise means? Second Grader: I do: it's when the minister sprinkles water on the baby's head and he gets a name.

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98 THE BLUE MOON Fuzzy fin Englishj : It's just the same old plot-a boy falling in love with his stepmother's son. Junior Sherer: My exams for Brooks have come, Miss Lewis, and you needn't worry about my work any more. They want to find out what I don't know-not what I do know. Henshaw Dewey: Robert Schumann was born in Germany in 1810, when he was nine years old. LAUGHS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Miss Clark: Barbara, what do you know about the Washington Con- ference? Buzzy: They er- um- embalmed the battleshipsf' Miss Clark: Where did the farmers have their distilleries? Ruth Brown: In their back yards. Miss Clark: 'iAfter the Civil War the South was a pretty black propo- sitionf' Miss Clark: Of what value to the United States was the annexation of the island of Guam? B. Pierpont: That's where Guama jelly comes from. Miss Clark: La Follette was a remarkable person. He was greatly in- terested in Shakespeare. Fuzzy: Can't we sell him a ticket to the play? Barbara: What do you think of industry? Faith: Too much work. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Miss Groff: A little blanker expression on that line, June. V. Loud: You can do that all right, June. Fuzzy: Shall I sit down now? Miss Groif: VN'here are you? Fuzzy: 'At hell's gate--!' Miss Lewis: The position of your right arm is wrong in that embrace. Betty Wood: Well, I'm left-handed.

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100 THE BLUE MOON Miss Denison fcorrecting arithmeticj : 'AI am sorry I erased one example that was correct. Little Boy: Oh, you had girl! Miss Denison: John, please put that knife away. John Barton: O. K., Pal. Heard in the Class III: l'The earth goes around on its taxes. Mrs. Sigourney: How's your history coming along, fine? Susie: Yes, we haven't had any. F,l.,.a.. BOOBY HONORS The BLUE MOON Board has not escaped the vicissitudes of the current world-wide depression, and in no phase of its work has encountered more difficulties than in finding enough students to balance the budget, so to speak, of the Booby Business. The Board feels that it must continue to serve the stockholders faithfully as long as there is a market for Boobyism, but if, as seems imminent, a collapse should occur, the owners of Booby stock, most of whom unfortunately are Seniors, will be assessed IOOSQ on each share. It is obvious that such a contingency will put Boobs in an embarrassing position: indeed they may no longer be able to afford the luxury of indulging in their idiocyncrasies. And the final result of the whole matter will be that the BLUE MOON Board will be forced to abandon Cnot in entire regretfulnessj its annual report of Booby Honors. It is therefore with an unwonted note of foreboding that the following ac- count is submitted for the fiscal year of 1931-32: SELF-GOVERNMENT To Barbara Pierpont? and Eaith Adams, first rank honors for having as- sumed a superior attitude toward the ways and means of the organization. To Thayer Hunter, second rank honors for having been impervious to the ideal of consideration of others, to Wit, by having been an inveterate talker during study periods and a demonstrator of the possibilities of throat noises in conversation. To June Haviland? third rank honors for having broken the record for untidiness in the Upper School. SCHOOL REGULATIONS To Betty Wood, Barbara Pierpont? Florence Young, Nancy Johnson, and June Havilandx, first rank honors for having crowned their career at Ban- croft with an inglorious number of tardinesses, -rl., 'kDouble honors for obvious reasons,