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

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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

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tm 3 C4 od he he at iv- 'as hy to he ile he int at 5- of 5- le ie Cl l- D. I Snap Shots Signs, one ol' the participants standing at y. . ' , - 1 A b the d1et1o.11ai',x'. Constantly refreshing his mCmni'y troin the printed pictures. e NVQ Lu-C up sooner seated than we are forciblv iinpressed with the fact that some one git the back of the room is airing his know1- edge of foreign tongues. He is spouting fragments of Russian, as Spasibo Da sivavidau tlearned no one knovvs whereflg Cl1i1JS Of Latin, from the De Caverley Papers and Ivanlhoej scraps of Greek, as Polumatis, 'picked from some long forgotten p-hrase in the Odyssey, and many other dialects of Brownsville and elsewhere. He con-N cludes with the pompous statement, that he could make himself understood in any part of the world. i Many other instances of the kind might be mentioned, so that We are coming 'to the opinion that we had all better discon- tinue the study of that dead language known as English. 4 Uh, you blankety, blankety, blanked dog, exclaimed the student vvrathfully. What under the sun is that brazen fellow using such vivid expressions for Pi' asked an observer, carefully placing his hands over his ears. '6T'hat, oh that's nothing 5 he is only quoting Shakespheref' replied his com- panion reassuringly. . You ought' to hear him quote passages from Coleridge. He saves those, however, for very special occasions. ,l. .l- We notice fromlthe numerous poemS handed in that the students are tempting the muse. They had better be careful, however, for they are likely to tempt the muse to commit suicide. When will the cradle-roll be started at COmmQfCig'l? Such an institution is. necessary for those first-termers who ex- hibit such discernment, as HPPe31'ed Ong? Humber of mid-term examinations, 111 'J I English. Y ' . fms an In ansn er to a question, asking. class laccount Oi RObi11 Hood- lthe es 1 l .- H Hvelbeen study ing Ivanhoe all the terml th' ' mol ,KR is naive statement was com- 1: ' ' . obin Hood was a lmle wifi who Went out ' . is .b basket on 11 great blg red mouthed wolf, who quit-li- ly gobbled h fants are beyond their depth, :find a kindergarten requires certain glim- into the woods with a er arm. There she met a 91' UP-H Surely these in- mers of intelligence on the part its members, a cradle roll has been siigqestt-il as more suitable for this type tif 'sir-L-pr-I-, Einey, meeny, miney, mo, Catch a nigger by his toe. If he hollers let him go, p Einey, meeny, miney, mo. 'clones passes in bookkeeping. Uh no, this is no childish game that is being played. lt is one of the members of the faculty making out the marks for the third. This method is so much simpler and less complicated than the plan that necessitates the keeping of a class book. or the reading of examination papers. - It isavvful to regard the inllnenre ex- erted by girls over all boys' schools. liven our dignified Literary Society men have caught the habit, as you might call ii. At a recent Hash Debate of the lirank- lin, one of the resolutions was as foli lows: Resolved, That the t'o111111vI'vlr1l High School' should be open in Hillt- And again, the Hamilton held a debate on the same question, two dll? lfll Perhaps a feminine invasion would l'l :Ni some of the antique Bean llrnmmels nt the faculty as well as the students. HA11 yesv sighed the artist. l H111 , 9 u 0 . v. comP6lled to Paint to keel' the NM Hum the door! ' Chl exclaimed tie Cl are o'Ol11o' to hanQ' the lllftllfc Outside' mic c 'O L 1 'itiC. then yell you PM--E417