Cambridge Latin High School - Review Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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2 The Cambridge Zin allrmnrirrm MR. BLISS CHESTER M. BLISS came to the Cambridge English High School in 1907. In 1910, that school was united with the Cambridge Latin School to form the Cambridge High and Latin School. Mr. Bliss was in his thirty-third year of continu- ous service when he left us. For many years his work was in the class room and that work was effective, sympathetic, and schol- arly. He possessed to a marked degree certain qualities that are fundamental to good teaching - a genuine interest in and liking for young people, a fine appreciation of scholarship, a willingness to give very freely of time and energy. Mr. Bliss could not do careless work. He was his own sever- est critic and nothing less than his best could pass that critic. His students will remember his kindlinesses when they discussed with him their problems. He left us in the prime of his service and yet the total of his accomplishment was large. We shall remember him as a man of high ideals, fine scholarship, and devoted interest in young people who gave over thirty years of his life to the school he loved. . . . LESLIE L. CLEVELAND. ITH the death of Chester M. Bliss in Octo- Wber, our school suffered a heavy loss. Anyone who has come in contact with his kindly personality must mourn his death as that of a dear friend. A graduate of Amherst with A.B. and A.M. degrees to his credit, he came to Cambridge in 1907, and ever since has worked unceasingly for the good of the school and its students. As a teacher he was very versatile, running the gamut of studies from Latin to History, guiding the Chess Team to its present high status, and attaining the office of As- sistant Headmaster. Not only these accomplish- ments, but also his great gift of befriending every- one around him, endeared Mr. Bliss to all who knew him. A MISS HARDY N O one was more devoted to the school than Miss Georgia Hardy. She loved teaching so much that even her death did not halt her good work. Her spirit carries on in the Georgia Hardy Spelling Prize for the best Senior speller in the Com- mercial Department. Miss Hardy taught here since 1922, when she came here from private teaching, and was. always admired for her work with Com- mercial students. Her death was a really great loss to the school and to her students, all of whom respected .her highly. . ,

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1' Uhr Glamhrihgr '-iKvuivm M. SCH QNX 0149 I 4Y'ASsounN'S CAMBRIDGE HIGH AND LATIN SCHOOL CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS NOVEMBER, 1939 VOLUME 54 NUMBER 1 O Tl C C Tl. L S In Memoriam .... ............................. . . 2 Editorials .............................. ,, 5 Swimming and Sunbusking ..... ,, 4 In a Church ....................... ., 4 The Exile ....... H 4 Stained Glass .... ,, 5 Charles River ...... ,, 5 Silent Servants ..... .. ,, 6 Music Pictures ............................................. .. 7 The Twentieth Century Abraham Lincoln ..... .. 7 Suzanne, Czarina ......................................... .. 8 Mars and Music ..... 1, 9 Wisliing ........... U 9 Jane Wfithers ...... N 10 Pep Talk ...... H 10 Class Notes ..... N 11 The Spotlite ....., H 12 Football ........ H 14 Sports ......,... N 16 Honor Rolls ............................, ., 20 How Vfas Your Vacation? ...... ,A 20 Stamping Ground ................ U 21 Club Notes .....................,,........................................... 22 Published five times a year: November, December, February, April, and June. Terms: 75 cents per ycarg 20 cents a single copy. Entered as second-class matter at the postoflice at Boston, Mass., under the Act of March 3, 1879. , 7 ff.. E. f ,ur-A ff! ' - ' .. so Scnou. l .L :le 'The flieview ,Staff Faculty Adrixen LIISS ALICE KELLEY, Literary LTR. JEROME HIGGINS, Bluirlelr MR. JOSEPH SANTORO, Aff Editor PAUL RICHARDS Asxillam Editor CRAIG WILLIAMS Lilemry Slay BERTHA HUMEZ JUNE JACKSON JAMES LAWLOR MARGARET MILLER LENA SMERLAS EOS SPIROPOULOS Burineir Ma nager NELSON XVALDMAN Arrirlarar Burinerr Manager SYLVIA I-IURXVITZ Advertixing Manager WALTER GARLAND A!i!'PffiJiHg Slay FLORENCE BATCHER MARIE FLYNN PHYLLIS GILMAN CLAIRE NUGENT Spvflife WINFIELD HOLLAND WILLIAM STENZEL G. A. A. Nolex MIRIAM HARNEY K. B. Noief ROSE O'ROURKE Dfdfllflif Club JOSEPH CONNELLY Debaling Nate: MARJORIE FITCH Chen Club CYRON BARBER Azblerirr FRANCIS GRANDE WINN HOLLAND JOE KELLEY Art RAYMOND FITZGERALD RICHARD FRENIERE BERTHA PILKINS Typirlr HELEN FITZGERALD CONSTANCE PETROPOULOS RUTH M-ULLER HELEN SHEA JOSEPH SILVEIRA BEATRICE XVEISMAN LJ. -L-L-LJ.

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Review 3 THE EDITORS EDITORIAL OON will come what all too many of us refer to as the next vacation. True, it is the next vacation, but as any child from the second grade up can tell you, it was originated for a very different purpose from simply giving us a timely holiday. As a matter of fact, Cambridge has always been most generous to us, giving us the days before and after Thanksgiving as well as the day itself, originally with the intention of allowing the teachers time to reach the back woods of Maine to visit their parents. If you are one of those who count the days before Christmas and the end of school,-and which of us is not? - you have something to be thankful for in the generosity of the vacation itself. But there are deeper things to Thanksgiving. You have doubtless heard time and again that every- one of us from the richest to the poorest has some- thing to be thankful for. As one person we know used to put it, we all can be thankful for health, for three meals a day, and for many other things so common in our lives that we seldom realize thev are there 3 there are many who do not have these things, yet I will wager that even these people- may well say they are thankful that things are no worse. Things are never so bad that they could not be a great deal worse. I suddenly realized we can be thankful that, des- pite the many wars that have broken out in various parts of the world, as yet there is no chance that the United States will have to sign another armis- tice. If you have been reading the magazines lately, you know that as soon as we are eighteen, the army has a job waiting for us if necessary, and we will be over there pumping cartridges and 'dodging bullets sooner than has hitherto been possible. I imagine there are few of us who are not thankful that that hasn't yet happened. EMBERS of the class of 1943, we give you greeting and a cordial welcome to the Cam- bridge High and Latin School. You are entering into a fine and honorable heritage but with that privilege you must assume the responsibilities also. See that you do your part toward preserving the century old traditions of your school --traditions of integrity, honest effort, and fair play. How can you do this? By being honest to yourself, you will be loyal to your school. Once more--welcome-and may you enjoy four happy and successful years. L. L. CLEVELAND. Il T'S your magazine, not ours. Doubtless more editorials and campaign speeches have been made on this subject than on any other, yet, unless human nature has suddenly changed, the effect of such appeals is seldom great. We are all inclined to say, Yes, I suppose so, but after all, I am ter- ribly busy. Besides, there are a great many people who can do much better than I. They are the ones you need. Letting the other fellow do it is cer- tainly very popular with us, and it is natural. We all have, in the moral sense, that quality which the physicist calls inertia. In other words, it takes in- finitely more pushing to get us started than it after- wards does to keep us going. However, if we real- ize that we are letting this inertia get the better of us, we have ourselves half started already. After all, we needn't be literary geniuses to be of help to the REVIEW. True, the literary department can always use more contributions, for then it is pos- sible, by wise choice, to include not only good work, but a variety of subjects as well. There are, how- ever, other departments which need a great deal of hard work and help from you, the person reading these words right now. For instance, how often have you read a really funny joke in the REVIEW? Not casting any asper- sions on former staffs, I can safely say that there have been very, few - so few, in fact, that we seriously considered omitting the jokes entirely, but that didn't seem quite right. That is just one ex- ample, and one that ought to keep a good many people busy, it isn't easy to gather together a col- lection of genuinely amusing jokes. If you don't agree with me, try it yourself -- and hand the re- sults in to us. . Don't think that you haven't the abiltiy to help usg all you need is a little ambition and the perse- verance to follow up your ideas. By the,way, there is more to that quality 'of inertia, as any physics student will tell you, once we are going steadily forward, it takes a great deal to 'stop.us.'