Burr and Burton Academy - Burtonian Yearbook (Manchester, VT)

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THE BURTONIAN EDITORIAL In compxlmg The Burtouum for thls year the staff has had d1ffcrent thmgs to bear 1n mxnd Thxs IS practlcally the only means we have of expressmg ourselves as Semmary students to the outslde world We have kept ln mmd the xdca that COPIES of The Burtoman from year to year can furnlsh ve y mterestmg and valuable records of the achievements of the student body The catalogues also form a. record of the school but because they are wrztten by otliclals and present bare facts ln a rather formal manner they of nece slty cannot glve such an mtlmate insight xnto the life of the students The Bmtcmum must have mterest for readers of the present It must also be able to finance ltself So It may be seen that we must make our httle xssue answer all the purposes whlch xn larger schools are answered more easlly by a serxes of magazmes or papers These requ1rements we have met to the best of our ab1l1ty We have trled to make the lxterary department a cross sectxon of the maternal produced here by the dliferent classes m connectlon wxth the Englx h classes or wxth the Contempore Socxety The athletxc and soclal actxvxtles aS rev1ewed m our pages wxll also add a great deal to the 'worth of the book as a record To th1s end too we have arranged plates of snapsnots wh1ch can recall far better than words fam1l1ar scenes of the Semxnary The sectlon of humor lends a b1t of sparkle and local color The Alumm News IS always of xnterest to the Francis Rogers And the advertlsements arc a large source of mcome All m all we feel that we have been aable to secure unusually good m1ter1al thxs year and that the new ideas and the efficlent carrymg out of the old ones wxll make thls a. commendable xssue We w1sh to thank heartlly all the teachers students and frlends who have contrlbuted 1n any way to the success of thxs magazxne and especlally do we wlsh to thank the many generous advertlsers for thelr whole hearted support and to recommend them to our readers for patronage Needless to say we smcerely hope that you wxll enJoy the magazme thls year THE EDITOR COMMENCEMENT WEEK PROGRAM, 1939 Sunday June 12 at 7 30 P M Baccalaureate Service at the Congrega tlonal Church Monday June 13 at 3 00 P M Class Day Exercxses on the Semmaly Lawn xmmedlately afterwards Prlncxpal s Receptlon to the graduatmg class parents and friends at the Prlnclpals House at 9 O0 P M to 1 00 A M Commencement Dance 1n Gymnasxum Tuesday June 14th at 3 00 P M ln Gymnaslum Commencement Ex r cxses, followed by annual meeting of the Alumm Assoclatlon I 1 , - . . y S . . J ' - . . N . . . .S . V 7 ' ' 7 old graduates. The cover design this year is lby one of our Seminary students, , 3 . . ' 1 Y . 4 -4 , , : . ., ' - - - 1 ' v : ' 'I . . Q P Y 1 W , , . . . . . ., , . . p A - , , . . . , . -

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THE BURTONIAN TRIVIAL INCIDENT By Marjorle Batchelder 32 Among my casual acquamtances rs a. certaxn Mrs James Jarvis 4Mmd I sald casual as one would of a stranger met on the street cornerl To Mrs Jarvxs I may be a very negllglble character She was too until a short tlme ago when I began to see famt glxmmerlngs of expressxon ln her dull gray eyes and faded face My work takes me to Mrs Jarvxss door at lntervals We exchange few words I speak wxth her chrldren of whom there are four more than to her The youngest Jarvlses are two and a half years and six months therefore I exchange few words with them The other two four and slx respectxvely are always very curlous as to my home the clty U1 from whence I come and varlous other umnterestmg thmgs It takes both tact and wlsdom to satxsfy them so they get a poorly pamted plcture of the materxal xnlluences whxch surround me The cluldren when I come there are always dirty stockxngless and un combed Mrs Jarvxs may have been very pretty at one txme Her appear ance IS always slovenly the result of hard lalbor and poor management Her mmd lxke that of her chlldren does not see far outslde the small vxllage lcon sxstmg of about sxx housesl 1n whxch she lives She mlght have been the msplratlon for the l1ne ln Markham s poem lThe Man with the I-Ioel Whose breath blew out the llght Wlthlll his bra1n She had lived I gathered from the few lucld statements that she made ln a town nearby She had been marrxed exght years and her umaglnatlon had made her former home a c1ty m her mmd For some time I dxd not see Mrs Jarvxs as someone else took over my work When I returned I found the children playing out ln front of the house They had achleved that state next to Godliness a near as It was possible for them They proudly showed me thexr shoes scrubbed to a nbrllllant luster Thelr dresses were clean and had been neatly pressed form erly thelr hands showed slgns of havxng been scrubbed earlier in the day and much to my sunprlse they wore socks lTh1s last addxtion was aston lshlng It was the first tlme I had seen anything other than dlrt on thexr feetl I was however due for a bigger surprise although after surveymg the chlldren I was prepared for anythlng strange ln this household At the door Mrs Jarvxs met me with an expresslon of Joy whlclh I could not 'belxeve any one could wear for any length of txme She seemed to be burstlng Her appearance had been greatly altered She looked neat and clean The house showed slgns of greater care than had been evldent before After gettmg over my second surpnse I remarked 'There IS somethmg pleasxng you lsn t there Yes she replxed there IS I wa1ted for her to say more :but she was not eloquent and the idea of tellmg her new happiness to one almost a complete stranger dxd not appeal to her I agam appeared at thls home so altered by anticxpatlon of some joyous event The chlldren stlll were well cared for and the face of Mrs Jarvis stlll showed that happy expresslon that had astounded me before Thus tlme It 15 . . , 1 . ' . , , . . . . , , 1 ' ' . , . 1 ' , ' 1 1 . , , . ' 1 ' ' ' 1 1 , . , 1 , 1 I 1 ' 1 ' . 1 , . 1 1 ' ' . . . . . , u 1 1 . . . . . ,, X I I ' 1 1 , . 1 . . . . . W . . ' , - 1 . S W . . - 1 . I ' . . . . . I 1 1 1 1 ' 1 I ' 1 1 1 I . 1 . , ' l . 1 ' ' . . . 4 . . 1 1 - - 1 11 , 1 , 14 11 ' u ' 11 1 1 - ' 1 ' 1