Berwick High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Berwick, PA)

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THE MIRROR Page 19 .Hterary Ncsleepyf' Cf.Q2illz'am5 Qlorolfvy Stout .24 He weighed two hundred and thirty pounds and his shoulders scraped an ordinary doorway when he passed through. He regarded a six-footer as more or less of a runt. A tremendous youth was John Clarence Williams, and at first glimpse of him crossing the Westmore campus the football captain forgot an important engagement and sprinted in pursuit of the prize. The interview was brief and unsatisfactory. Captain Fred Varney, a morose person of very few words, grasped the arm of the boyish colossus and exclaimed: Freshman squad reported yesterday. - Where were you? Th1'ee o'clock this afternoon. Be there sure. What Prep school? Did you play? John Clarence Williams gazed down good-naturedly at the gaunt, almost insignificant figure of the greatest of end rushers, and answered, in a lazy booming voice: The masters made me play at school. I didn't like it, and I guess I can get along without any football in col- lege, thank you. Football doesn't propose to get along without you, growled Varney. You look less clumsy than most of these great big over-grown infants. Aren't you ashamed of yourself ? Not a bit of it, grinned the freshman. There is some distinction in it when a man of my size refuses to be all bunged up on a football field. This extraordinary sentiment so annoyed Varney, flfwliose temper was by no means pacific, that he retorted: Your class will rlisown you. I thought you were a man, you useless carload of blubberf' You are keeping me from a recitation, said John Clarence Williams, still with the same vast amiability. As he spoke he put out a hand. It no more than touched Varney on the chest and he sat down so abruptly

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Page 18 THE MIRROR C50 the GICZSS of 1924 In aclclition to Icnowing how a thorough eclucation aicls in increasing the amount opposite one's name on the pau roll, clo uou Icnow that-- Less than I per cent. ot American men have heen college gracluates. Yet this group ot men has turnishecl. 55 per cent. ot our Presidents 54 ot the Vice-Presidents 56 ot the IVIeml3ers ot Congress 6? ot the Secretaries ot State 50 of the Secretaries ot the Treasuru 69 ot the .Iustices ot the Supreme Court Witli no schooling 51 Americans out ot 5,000,000 reach- ed distinction. With elementaru schooling, 808 out ot 55, 000,000 reached clinstinction. Witli high school ecluf a- tion 1,245 out ot 2,000,000 reachecl clistinction. With college eclucation 5,768 out I,000,00 reachecl clistinction U. S. Bureau ot Education IN WI'IO'S WHO 1917 The biographies ot more than 20,000 people are given The percentage is as tollows: College gracluates 59 per cent. other college trainecl 14 percent. 1 No college training '27 percent. Woiivt uou malce up uour mincl to get the hest educa- tion ihat it is possible to have? We want to see qou make ot uour lives the greatest success possilale. Nothing Iess than such success will do tor uou, ancl it it is possible tor us in ang wag to influence or aicl uou to go through college, we want to cIo it. The Qerfwick gtolary Glub

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R333-Q0 THE MIRROR that his teeth clicked and he bit his tongue. While he picked himself up from the turf, the mountainous freshman moved away in a leisurely manner, nor glanced behind him. Amazed anger hampered the active captain, who knew not quite how to retaliate. He might tackle the of- fender by the knees and pull him down before punching him, or hastily climb within reach of the youngster's jaw, but either procedure would be undignified in full sight of the campus. For once the melancholy Varney grinned, ac- cepted the joke as on him, and concluded to become better acquainted with this singular freshman. John Clarence's parents had taken pains to Ht him out with a name worthy of the family station, but his class- mates promptly discarded it, and not as John Clarence was he known, but as Sleepy Wlilliams. He accepted the taunts inspired by his total lack of athletic spirit. In other respects he was no laggard. His mind was both keen and rctentive. although he seldom seemed to employ it in study. It made the hardworking students indignant, when, at the end of the term, Sleepy Williams received a higher rating and was considered a safe bet for the intellectual comrade- ship of the Phi Beta Kappa. The Christmas vacation depopulated the campus, and among those westward bound were Captain Varney and the left guard of his eleven, Bob Sedgwick. Varney was silent and gloomy as usual, but conversation was never expected of him, and Sedgwick, a sociable person, sought other di- version. Strolling into another car, he discovered the rosy giant who had scorned his duty to the gridiron. Sleepy sat alone and filled a seat, beaming, placid, no more than half awake. As a sophomore, Sedgwick was supposed to disdain the company of this somnolent Williams, but the barrier of college caste was brushed aside for the sake of sociability. Hello, little one! was Bob's greeting. How far does this railroad take you, and what is the tariff per ton a mile ? I live in Denver, genially replied the freshman. getting the better of a yawn. I lost six pounds this fall. Don't I look it? You have wasted away, I see, after examining you closely. What did it? Fred Varney is in the next car, added Sedgwick, with a chuckle. Why not have dinner with us? You have met him, I'm sure.