Commercial High School of Brooklyn - Annual Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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RTEXL, .1-..s..-- A I , 7 ' i if f , ,- .. ,, . ..., . 'W t'?l- j' iilf 7- I9 Cpportunity. If I By ELMER H. CURTISS EBSTER gives as the definition of the powerful word--Op- po rtunity, F it or convenient time g a suitable time, com- bined. with other fa- vorable circumstances. Do most men look at it in exactly that Hg-ht? It appears, from my observation, that to most persons 0pportunity isthe chance that passed us by and Came 'CO some one else. VVhen Hopportunityl' came, this some one elsei' was ready, seized it eagerly, made the most of it, was successfulg and his friends said UW' ell, he always was lucky. All young men who are looking for- ward to successful business careers, right at the outset, should eliminate the word Luck from their vocabularies. Real, true, genuine, successful men have never been made by luck. Examples of success and failure may be seen everywhere. An honest, hard- working youth obtains a position in the office of a large concern. The word Pull is used only on the front door: by that I mean that his parents or friends' have never hob-nobbed with his em- ployers, but the boy has just been placed there to work out his own career. This bgy W01'kS. He puts in good, hard, effi- cient work, learns all the details 5 makes inquiries about all the branches of the business 3 and soon makes himself felt in the activities of the con cern that employs him. He makes a successful man. A friend of his, with an equally 0-ood school educat' 1 . T looking for a ion, ias meandeied along, s position wher-e the hours are short an Cl where the salary is 1110-hm xr' . , 5 In keepmg Wllill the position so tg - speak. In other words, he wants a soft snap. I-Ie expects on the hrst of the year to be a supervising clerk, to be able to use the firm's stationery for private purposes, to use the telephone for per- sonal business, to smoke cigarettes, and to wear conspicuous clothes. He, of course, will devote as little as possible of his valuable time to actual business This same individual expects to be in- stalled in a private office that is fitted with fine furniture and all modern con- veniences, to have the privilege of sitting at a roll-top desk and call, Boy,,' and to draw a salary large enough for the sup- port of a dozen persons-all this on the first of the year. You laughiand say, Absurd,,' but I have seen and known such individuals, and I know the business world is full of them. Such hardworking persons al- ways bemoan their Luck,'i and are al- ways looking for a job.' They always say, f'If I only had the luck of So and So to get in right, I would make good too. The ambitious youth gets this never- do-well a place in the same business house that employs him. This boy is given the same chances and opportunities that his benefactor had. Does he make good? Never, live years will find him in the same relative position. And yet he will tell you that his opportunity never came. Young men, tragedies of this kind are enacted every day, boys are falling by the wayside everywhere, but there is al- ways room for the industrious, con- scientious worker. You will hear boys and even men say, My firm does not pay me half what I am worth. In llille out of ten cases, if the facts were really and truly known, they are over-paid in Compb WOYK I an pax ,flaw 50 mu thai '3 gainfr' ahefvf ,4- pel'--l N L the lr .. get 25 man V but V-'E the 011 16611 il' 9,119 w e I0 HIC start V up at I tliirzjv : businr lieved place I CGLHIZL' H1311 II can Ile: luels. 1 LX the 'Wx CENT' .. s.. day. stain. fined ll'0li:ai life. za' end. f- vu, la, lleetr - MM. xx NYY'-N li..X ' w 1 . llueuu ., . 1-letifirk YQ' H v. , ui X l lrlett -1 X . lnffl llllfxi, L , Q U -t

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N 'L' llloli F llllfd. .fl , X15 to IN S- and F race nlilq-tic Iralion, . 10.3 third defeat- Yards. .1 Wil- -I'I6lI. ' track 1-coun- nrday, show- third ier for flreedy 3 respec- Q' W3.S thletic . Sev- ing of taken. Badge were rnoon largfi lH'E6Sl. l-yard , 111116 eet. 4 il the but 21 LIITIP' lower 1111151 Aihleiics Inter Class Football, UN l.'ri1lny, llt'L'Ullll1Cl' -l, Room-117 de- fwml lqooni 413 in an iiilorogling- Q-Lune of football by the score of 8 to 5. The linc-np follows: Room 417 tw liflflllllll. Room 413 CSD Cliznnllcr .......... Right end ............ Rosa ROKR ,..... .... I xnigln tackle ......... lander Q'B1-icn ..... . . . Right guard ...... Schwager . Downing .... .. ..... Qcntcr .............. Dix Xvhjtc ,.... .... l .ctr guard ......... Oltman Miller ..... .... l ,oft tackle. . . . . . .Green Baggonl .... .. .... Lott ond .......... Stanfield Cheethznn . .Quarterback ........ Murray Rogiero. .. ...... Right halfback. ...... Sclimigk Millspaugh ...... Lott halfbaclc ..... Dumpkroff Gallagher .... . .... .Fullback .......... Conroy Referee-liutlcr. Umpire-Muller. Lines- 1112111--Cl1llI'lCS. Timo of halves-20 and 15 minutes. Touchdowns - Green, Gallagher. Touchback-Blillspaugh. Goal-Rogiero, 1-l. Alumni Basket Ball. A basket ball team, composed of Com- mercial alumni, was defeated by a five of the Patchogue Basket Ball Association, bythe score of 32 to 4. The alumni team was considerably handicapped by the fact of their never having played together be- fore. ' Inter-Class Basket Ball. Room 417 played Room 315 on Thurs- day, December 17, in the gymnasium. The score was 20 to 9. The latter room has had the championship of the upper divisions for some time, but -417 lowered its colors. Gallagher and Cheetham were the stars for 417, and Collins and McCreedy played well for 315. On December 2, the Hrst part of the First Division Basket Ball Tournamellf was completed, when Room 208 forfeited 10 Room 120. The following games con- stituted the first series: Date. Rooms. VVinner.ScorC. N6vr-fi-6661 ll R66m 100 VS. 102 100 .4-2 lla ff 106 VS. 107 106 8-2 is ff 109 VS. 108 109 9-2 is ff 116 VS. 118 116 14-3 25 ff 125 VS. 124 125 1 8-2 D 1 25 126 Vs. 280 1225 ecember 2 ff iii? iff 208 120byf9f.f9if O11 the completion of the first series, 23 tl - -- . die second se11es were immediately be sllg The following have been played. ct , ,, ' 2 Decal? E Rooms. Xl'1l11'lCI'.SCOI'6 1 er 9 Ropm 106 VS. 100 106 11-4 9- 112115. 109 116 ll-3 16 H 125 VS. 126 125 .cb . 16 120 VS. 206 120 5-1 The winne each 9111913 1111111 only two teams reniain undefeated. The final game will decide the ChamP19USh1P- Last season Room 124 succeeded in turning out the winning' combination, but as Room 124 has beeii already defeated, the honors this vcar will fall t-o one of' the other rooms. i In the semifinals of the hrst tcrm bas- ketball contest on December 23, Room 106 defeated Room 116 by the score of 16 to 4. In the second, which was very close and exciting, Room 120 deft-:ned Room 125 to the tune of 9 to 8. Cn Thursday, December 10. Room 313 defeated the Parkway llidgcts, in illn- gymnasium, by the score of 19 ln 18. Un Thursday, December 10. Il scrnlv team selected from the second divi-ion Was defeated by the quintet of Roi im -l l 7. by the score of 10 to 6. Cn Tuesday, December 15. thc lm-levi ball team of Room -ll7 dclczncd iln- quintet from Room 413. by thc dcrism- score of 44 to 2. Buchanan and tflicci- ham did good work for -llf.- wlnh- Mosher and Schmick dnl thc hc-st for -lla. I F - ' ' ll-'-n1ln'1' 1 Q11 Saturday moinmg, .lic I - Room 315 defeated thc .'XrlClPl Mlllgiilx ina basket ball game- bl' the Sf'i I 'lil to 9 The Mid2'ets were Ctsllllllllcllilll 'ml' matched from the lJeS'llml 9 hy thc Sn' - - 1 315 cnintvt. 961161 playms' 91 1116 lXO ' ' ' ' ,111-1-1' 21. Room 417 l'lf15'1 l . -' If QITI-41.1. another basket ball game with will t' 1-. ' - H1'OllC Ill! and defeated them for the :LL Q11 December by the score of 42 to O- rs in these series will play

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X., y . J. 5 of . 1,6 pri itil' Fx-. .lgt Ile, Soft the Llble Vette per- and ef P0Ssible -usinegg be ZS iittecl in- Fll Con- ' an on f sitting d to he s up- the ' but I :idu full 'HS HIC als, of al- al- always and tl to .isin S0 O. Cf- ' HCV CSS is unities int he ie will '13 Came. id a by FC is HI' CO nf b0Y5 5 I1 of .1 Illfle real -id i 15' I1 Opportunity ,.,,mpg11'isoii with the actual value of the work they have given their employer, Au employer in the make-up gf his payer-oll .figures that such a desk is worth so much to him, and the 1112111 who 1101513 that desk is paid accordingly. But the trained boy or man, the one who looks ahead of his desk, the one who by honest, persistent effort, makes his work tell in the business life of the firm, is bound to get at the head of the procession. The man who is hired to work eight hours, but who works four hours and kills time the other four 5 who always comes in fif- teen minutes late in the morning 5 who is allowed an hour for lunch, but who goes to the restaurant at twelve, and doesnit start work until two, who starts to wash upat live, when the closing hour is' five- thirty 5 he is the man who goes when the business slackens, and who is never re- lieved when good times return. His place has been easily Hlled for he never countedg He forgot the fact that A man makes more opportunities than he can findf' I Q U Men who become successful through luck, never count in the real affairs' of the world. This is proved by the suc- cessful careers of our big men of to- day. Their success is due to the con- stant, untiring plugging along well de- fined lines. And if -more young men would choose some fundamental aim in life, and then set out to accomplish that end, more would be successful. I am an old Commercial boy, and I have been all through the difhculties I knOW you will have to face... I W1'i'CC 'CMS te warn young graduates against over-con- Hdence and swelled head. Always fe' member you will be paid according tO your value to your emplOyC1'S You Wlll then make your own oppOfiCUUi'fY- 1 --i-,iii Gritty Pikes: It's a heartless world, PHFCI. Think what a woman done when' 25 if5iei.2ij.E3 iii: it to Muddy Lanes? - . G .tt P, . - H imagine. - I 1'1 y ikes. She gimme 3 5315-It-- PIU! -Ex. ' The policeman looked after 0 , - , n the wheel and shook his head doubt- fully. ,He watched him wobble up the the man street and then wobble back 'l0 1. . I li, . gr in '75 there. he yelled at last. Gif 011' lim blcycle whilst I see whether youre in- toX1cated.. -EJ, Perkins, your wife seems verv ile- voted to her Bowers. I DevOtedl Wiell, sir, many rm Heli'- ber night that woman has iliiiggeil the blankets off my bed to keep those wezix- ened little geraniums from gettiiig frost- bittenf,--E.r. . lfli Tom: Good gracious Dick! livr-:ming dress with tan shoes? Tlizuk awfully bad form. Dick: I know, but evening dress with stocking feet is worse. --E.r. Two Highlanders travelling lu lam- don, inquired at Barnet. how fair ull' the city was. They were told ten mile-. Hang it! said one. it is but live miles a-pieceg let us go on. -lf.r. This bell. said a well-uiezmiug sex- ton, when showing the helfry ul. :m ini teresting village Church lt' 11 lfl lF','f' visitors, His only rung in ease or :i va-sf from the lord bishop of the diocese. Il lifv. a Hood, or any other such czilznuilies. Y Ea. An Irishman. deseribiufl' Nf 'k ' ,-. ffhfi 1fwns shrewd11GSS, bald- I'f'l'1'l' H ii cast away on a desert island. where 11 one lived he'd Q0 aroimrl selling ilmll' to the inhabitants. -E-13