Central High School - Cog N Pen Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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JANUARY SEVENTEENTH NINETEEN SEVENTEEN Cover Design—By William Heyer THE Pivor Board Editorials Literature— Cards and Cups—By Victor Dewey Woodruff Wanderings of a Central Senior—By Paul Мойн... James Warren Gibbs as a Poet Things . School News— Central Service Club Prize Contest Announcement The Journalist Club The Technical Club The Central Faculty Morning Forum The’ Senior Class Sports Pivotickles Cartoons

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THE PIVOT CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, NEWARK, N. J. Published monthly, except July and August, in the interest of and by the pupils of the Central Commer- cial and Manual Training High School. Single Copies, ten cents, Subscription per year, one dollar. Entered as second-class matter, October 24, 1912, at the Post Office, Newark, N. J., under the act of March 3, 1879. solicited from students and others interested in the welfare of the school. All such must be in the editor's hand by the first of each month. Short contributions must be left in the Pivot Boxes. Contributions are earnestly VOL. X JANUARY, 1917 THE PIVOT BOARD EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Edward H. Douglas, Room 110 Associate Editor Rose Baskin Literature Gerald Hauser, Leon Kranztohr Chairman H. Norman Collier Elizabeth Miele Sports Victor Woodruff, Chairman Herbert Smock Rose Duffy Ernest Porter Pivotickles Norman Collier, Chairman Jacob Horowitz H. Abe Wohl Graduate and Faculty Herman Chivian Technical Notes Chester Mockridge Fannie Wiess School News Frederick Goodman, Sam Bomse Chairman Isadore Steinbock Faculty Committee Max J. Herzberg (Literary) William Lewin (Literary) Daniel A. McMillin (Business) J. Earl Griffith. (Art) Art Staff William Heyer M. Samuel Abramson A. Donner 5 BUSINESS STAFF Harry Schaub, Jr William Hawkins Irving T. Klein Business Manager and Chairman Assistant Business Manager Advertising Manager M. Samuel Abramson Ass't Advertising Manager Wilbur Henderson Circulation Manager Herbert Smock Harold Merz Assistant Circulation Manager Subscription Manager SENIOR CLASS COMMITTEE FOR THIS ISSUE Edward H. Douglas, Chairman Paul Моби, Ernest Porter Isidore Steinbock Fannie Weiss ! Fannie Abramson Herman Chivian Sophie Dwork Jacob Horowitz EDITORIALS SIMPLE GRADUATION EXERCISES. In an age when every move made from one end of the year to the other has been cut down to the least possible number of motions and when everything is done in the shortest time compatible with efficiency, school graduates, their parents and friends are caused to suffer twice a year at every graduation ceremony for from two to three hours, while a long list of speakers unload their opinions. What is more, graduation comes at that time of the year when all those students participating need their time most for study, and yet it must be taken from their study hours for drawn-out rehearsals of one kind or another. Class day, which was, as a rule, a pleasure to those taking part, was abolished for that same reason, yet few are bold enough to take a stand to prevent the same tortures at graduation. The occasion is solemn enough as it is, and since every student realizes what leaving school means to him, there is no further need of driving the point home. Rather, an unconventional meeting, with absolutely no preparation, and no formal exercises, should be held on a certain date, when the diplomas, the granting of which is the only really important part of the occasion, should be presented. The more graduations one at- tends, the more one sees the need for simplicity. Last year's commencement at Central was commendably shortened. It is hoped that in the future graduation exercises will be reduced to the simplest terms in accord with the dignity of the occasion.