Barnard School for Boys - Bric Yearbook (Fieldston, NY)

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Many banners and cups now grace the nooks and corners of our scl1ool build- ing. Many of them were won by the boys mentioned above, but not all. Since their time many others have been won. The same earnest sportsn1anlike spirit evinced by the old boys still pervades everything truly Barnardian, and we look forward to future triumphs. For seventeen years the school remained at its criginal site. One by one the barn, the carriage house, and the old residence were torn down to make way for improvements. In 1887 and again in 1893 new buildings were erected to accom- modate the increased number of pupils. Here within the next ten years many things were done going to make up the life of the school, fond memories of which still linger with old Barnardians, both students and teachers. Mr. Lyon, who had been a valuable co-worker in the school almost from the founding, became associated with the management of the school as Associate Headmaster in 1892. In 1896 the Barnard School for Girls was established on Washington Heights, and the management of the schools was further increased by the valuable addition of Miss Katherine H. Davis, as Resident Principal of this new department. After a period of seventeen years, the growth of New York to the northward and the consequent encroachment of business, rendered the original site of the school undesirable for school purposes, In April, 1903, the Upper School and the Middle School Departments were transferred to 721 St. Nicholas Avenue, south- west corner of 146th Street, New York, where the necessary alterations were made to receive them. At the same time the Lower School and the Kindergarten, were transferred to 239 Lenox Avenue, southwest corner of 122d Street, New York. In these new locations things go along at the school just about the same as they did in the olden times. True, it is not quite the same. The original forty students have now become almost four hundred. The two head masters now have thirty-four assistants, and there are still other changes which indicate as well the steady growth of the school. But in some things the years have brought no change. The same old school spirit encourages our teams on the field to-day. The same old loyalty keeps the boys true to Barnard ideals. The same honest ambition, to make scholars and men, spurs on the instructors in the class rooms. These things, the things that count, have never changed, and will not change in the years to come. The Barnard School of to-day and of the future is a bigger and a better school than it was twenty years ago, but it is and always will be the same old school.

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son. Gn great occasions when the military forces of New York and vicinity would turn out for public parade, there would usually be a division of military schools. On such occasions, the Barnard boys marched down Fiftl1 Avenue or up Riverside Drive in their natty grey uniforms amid the plaudits of their friends. Our school has a United States flag which was presentedto its militaryhorganiza- tion for the fine appearance it made in the Columbian Parade of 1892. Military drill seems to have gone out of school life now in this busy city of ours, and the last drill given by the school took place shortly after the return of Captains Hazen and Lyon., our headmasters, from the Spanish Wfar. It was held in the Eighth Regiment Armory, and it represented a complete day in camp. To make the scene more realistic, the various companies pitched their tents upon the armory floor, and camp nres were built in opposite ends of the armory around which the boys sang their camp songs. The drill, as was always the case on such occasions, ended with a sham battle, amid the deafening roar of musketry and Gat- tling guns, followed, of course, by the removal of the wounded by the school hos- pital corps. VVe also note in this first number of the Brie that the school had athletic teams in the various branches of sport. They were not champions. To be champions was not the primary idea of Barnardians. They played for the amount of sport they could get out of the play. At the same time they played their hardest, and opposing teams found a foe worthy of their steel. Imbued thus with the true spirit of sportsmen, it was not many years before tl1e school teams rounded into cham- pionship form. In the interim they won a banner now and then in various sports. The first banner ever given to the school was won by our junior tug of war team in the I. S. A. A. meet of 1888. From 1890 to 1897 many triumphs in athletics came to the Barnard boys, and in 1892 two cl1ampionships in track and base ball. When one recalls the line school boy athletes that attended the preparatory schools of New York in those days, he will realize what those championships meant in the way of prowess and strength. In looking over the names of the teams, we find those of the boys who had attended Barnard from the tirst year. It is also inter- esting to know what the members of these teams have accomplished in their differ- ent walks of life. ' Syd. Syme is now a judge in Westcliestei' County, New Yorkg Ad. Kelley, who afterwards became tl1e famous half-back at Princeton, has become prominent in politics and business interests in West Virginia, Gif. Beals is now an artist of note, Percy Simpson and Gene. Gilroy are practicing law with great success, Billy Rogers, Chris. Feigenspan, Bobby Moore, Edgar Simpson, Henry Blair, Bob. Monks, Harry Fellows, Horace Burns, Wfill. Stickney and Allen Black are pros- perous business men, Hans Vom Baur and Arthur Smith are successful engineers, while 'VValton Wfilson is a dentist with a lucrative practice. Out of,this large number only one is missing. Carl Mayne, who died a short time after leaving the school. He was one of the noblest little juniors that ever wore a Barnard suit.

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THE BRIC: ITS HISTORY In a very much involved sentence, the editors of the '88 Bric announce the pur- pose of its publication. It seems to have been two-fold, to furnish an opportunity for practice in the art of composition, and to tickle the vanity of parents and- others, not mentioned because of the bashfulness of the editors. Since that time, the book has been published annually with but two excep- tions, 1897 and 1903. In 1897 there seems to have been no adequate reason for the failure, but in 1903 the confusion incident to the change of location on the part of the school, so interferred with the mental equilibrium as to defeat the few feeble attempts of the editors to tread in the steps of their predecessors. At first the Editorial Board was chosen by the junior class from among their own number. This method of election was abandoned in 1892, in which year the Senior class assumed the duty of publishing the annual. Since that year, the Boards have been chosen in a rather irregular manner. In some years by the juniors, in others by the Seniors, and in still others by the whole school. As a result of the election, usually one man was chosen to edit and two to manage the business end of the book, although it was expected that the actual work of compo- sition should be done, at first by the entire class, and in later years, by the whole school. The contents of the book, from the early days to this last issue, have been so much alike in character that the reader need only look over this book to obtain a fair notion of what the previous books were like. The book, in spite of the uncer- tain utterance of the Hrst Board, referred to above, was intended as a record of the school. In maintaining that character through succeeding years it has perhaps seemed to lack spice and variety. If, however, it' has served to reiiect the life of the school it has fulfilled its purpose. ' The book this year is of a more pretentious appearance. The cloth cover and multitude of cuts betoken a prosperity unsurpassed in the history of the Bric. They are also silent witnesses to the school spirit which deserves' all the credit for their being. May the editors in years to come profit by this example.