Clifton High School - Rotunda Yearbook (Clifton, NJ)

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THE REFLECTOR Wi IN Oh me, oh my, they're bringing that big bohunk that plays left guard for the regulars. Huh? Who me? O. K. Yeah, I'll tell them to watch the guy playing right back for Lawrence Tech. So long. He forgot, in his terror, even to affect his expensively obtained Pem- berton accent and merely repeated the vile language uttered as only a second-rate but enthusiastic coach can spiel it out in moments of stress. Wonder if Ill get out to the middle of the field without my knees collapsing? OW, grab a peek at that mug playing opposite me. They muSt have rescued him from a lynchingg looks like Capone's right hand man. A whistle brought him back to his predicament. As is usually done with new enemy linemen, the play was directed at Phil's position. Mmmmmmmph! Darned good imitation of an express train. Still going too. Well, at the rate he's going we'll receive the next kickoff. Over! I'1l get yanked out for this, thank God! Aw, nerts, they stopped him. What? The half-yard line? We'll never hold him for four downs on that. Yeah, I'm getting in placeg don't need your advice. You didn't seem to do much more yourself. Huh? Oh, I said nice going. Here he comes again .... Hey! get that ice water out of my face .... Lapsing into silence again, he was none too gently carted off the field and forgotten by all but a scrub manager, whose duty it was to revive stricken gladiators. After several weeks of Phil's tackling an unresisting dummy, the coach was optimistic enough to send in again the ex-Pemberton player. On the third play in which Phillips participated he suddenly found him- self behind the opposing line and the back with the ball directly between him and the goal post. Closing his eyes he lunged forward. His heart pounding, legs driving, he stretched out his arms and encountered a very solid object indeed. The next day a nurse faintly resembling one of Saint Peter's daugh- ters handed him a daily paper opened to an account of the previous day's game. KINGSTON DEFEATS BARNES UNUSUAL ACCIDENT EXCITES SPECTATORS' MIRTH Ames QAPJ, Today.-Kingston State College today defeated Barnes to the tune of seven to six in a mediocre game at the Barnes Stadium. During the third quarter J. Winthrop Phillips, 19, a substitute left guard, was the victim of an unusual accident. In an attempt to stop Jack Annozzi, Twelve Barnes half-back, Phillips mistook the southern goalpost for Annozzi, with dis- astrous results to various sections of his body. Upon entrance to the Ames General Hospital, Phillips was found to be suf- fering from a fractured collarbone and a dislocated shoulder. RODNEY L. ODELL, June 1935.

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THE REFLECTOR VN IW Regrets now arose in Philis heart, because he had not mentioned the facts that the team had been the fourth one and the only reason that he had made that was because he was the only one out for the position. Turn- ing out for a major sport was not quite the thing in Pemberton, you know. Another reason had been the fact that he had had an aversion to oncoming backs. But now he realized he had talked just a little too much. For some unknown reason he did not attempt to talk his way out of the rather embarrassing situation. Instead, meekly, he reported for prac- tice and found the frat boys had talked him up to the coach until the poor gentleman had the glorious idea that he had got a prospective All- American guard. Phil found himself the center of a crowd of second team players and the object of many devout glances. The fact that he knew personally the men who had had their names blazoned across the Sports finals every Saturday evening, and that he had been on the squad of a big school com- bined to make the simple souls look upon him as a hero and a sure-fire future first team man. They were almost right, for he made the second team, shattering his faith in divine powers for several weeks. All his prayers for expulsion from the dreaded agony of a whole sea- son on hard and unsympathetic benches and in the bleak stadiums were unheeded. While all over the country hopeful candidates were struggling for a place on their school squad he was the first player in the history of the game to ask for deliverance from the sport. The sudden metamorphosis to a campus idol, formerly liked by none except Holt Meade, who was conceded too dumb a cluck to know other- wise, aided the unseen cause against the pride of J. Winthrop Phillips, II. His room was now usually crowded with football enthusiasts, and Phil just couldn't help talking. Outwardly he acknowledged the fact that he would rise to the first team as soon as he got on to Kingston ways. If they could only feel the anguish promoted by the mere thought of a two- hundred pound back charging down upon you with murder in his eye and the will to die for dear old Podunk! On the eve of the opening game of the season he had a premonition that he might be called upon to prove his mettle, and therefore he enter- tained a peculiar sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. Always when he had entered the field at Pemberton, the cheering had made him envy the first team men, but now, with a chance of playing, the shouts and the sight of the gold and blue pennants streaming from the stadium flagpoles seemed to be giving him the royal razzberriesn. While hunched under the huge blue blanket with the golden K on it, he thought of the quiet of the Kingston College cemetery where, perhaps, if he were lucky, he would end a perfect day. I-Ie hoped that the end be sudden and minus the jeers of students who had seen the truth of the matter. A sudden hush over the stadium arose him from his reveries. Eleven

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THE REFLECTOR ni A I-Y 3 WHY GO TO HIGH SCHOOL? HE desire to earn money immediately has caused many young people to give up a high school educa- tion. They have argued that Lincoln, Edison, and these men had exceptional minds and an active ambition that spurred them on to train themselves. The average mind needs a guiding influence and oftentimes a certain amount of compulsion to develop it adequately for future use. f Ford got along without much education. True, but ig. 5 All professions need a trained mind. One can not be a doctor, a law- yer, a teacher, an architect, or follow any other desirable profession, with- out training. It takes systematic training to develop the mind, and schools are the only answer. Those who have left high school early have not gained as they had thought they would, for few important business positions go to young people with less than a high school training, and the overcrowding of every American university shows clearly that even a college education pays. This is an age of specialists, and unless one can compete with the best in his chosen profession, he must be content with the second best in life. It has been stated that every day of a completed high school course adds ten dollars to the student's capacity for earning. Work with the hands is entirely honorable, but it is work with the head that pays. But money is not the only recompense for an education. The more the mind is developed, the broader and more varied are the interests in life. The richness of knowledge to be gaind by a mind trained to appre- ciate good literature, music, and art is beyond our estimation of value. An education should prepare one to live a useful and happy life. In institutions of learning one makes friends and is taught to get along with those about him. The acquaintances one makes in high school will last throughout life-friends are invaluable to a happy life. In the same class are boys and girls of all nationalities-these contacts teach one to treat all people alike and to respect the opinions of others. We are never happy unless we are doing something-something that is useful and interesting. The high school curricula are so planned that they aid us in choosing a vocation suited to our abilities. We are taught to enjoy reading novels, biographies and other good literature, to appreciate art and music, and to participate in sports and social activities. So we are prepared for a profitable use of leisure time. Why go to high school? So that we may live fuller, more useful, happier lives. MARGUERITE SMITH, June 193 S . Thirteen