Eastern High School - Punch and Judy Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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THE EASTERNER is a quarterly paper devoted to the interests of the Eastern High School, its faculty, alumni, and students. Literary contributions, which should be written on but one side of the paper and addressed to the Editor, are solicited from all. Business communications should be addressed to the Business Manager. Terms of subscription: 50 cents per year; by mail 60 cents; single copies, 15 cents. Remittance by Money Order Preferred. EDITORIAL STAFF. J. Herbert Babcock, ’10 Miss Genevieve Frizzell, 10 Miss Elizabeth Birtwell, 00 Miss Jessie Wiler, ’10 Charles E. McAllister. '10 Miss Eleanor Farmer, “11 George Manning, ’10 Miss Ethel E. Hall, 10 Leonard Leland, ’11 Melvin F. Fischer, 710° Warde Nottingham, ’10 Miss Ruth Freeman, ’10 Sterling Wilson, 11 Dorlan Cremer, 712 Herbert H. Schwartz, 10 Fred Sanderson, ’11 Edward Royall, ’10 BUSINESS STAFF. Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editor Alumni School Happenings Military Girls’ Debating Boys’ Debating Girls’ Athletics Boys’ Athletics Locals Exchange Art Department Reporter Reporter Manager Assistant Manager Circulator

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Che Lasterner Table of Contents Editorials 5 . Rip Van Winkle . : E Lord Royall’s Speech in the House of Lords The Try-Out Graduation in a Theatre School Happenings Christmas Festivities Debating “ The Philologians A Wisdom of the Sophomores The Reflections of a Junior The Pride of the Seniors Military Monkey Business Girls’ Athletics Boys’ Athletics Alumni Exchange Page 6-7 7-8 8-9 9-11 1 12-13 13-14 15-16 16 16 17 19-20 21-23 24-27 28 29 31 32

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Although Eastern is the smallest high school in Washington in quantity, still it is by no means the smallest in quality. Eastern does not turn out championship football or baseball teams, for there quantity is needed, but she has always maintained one of the highest ranks in the high schools in debating and in ob- taining scholarships, for there quality is demanded. In one respect we have never followed the example of the other schools; that is, in the organization of an orchestra. That we have the material was quite evi- dent at the company feed. We know that Mr. Bradley, 12, would be more than glad to undertake to start an or- chestra this year if the musical students would help him. Now the time is ripe for you musicians to show where the quality in Eastern lies and help organ- ize an orchestra. Football [Extract from Tuft's Weekly.] There is a fatal notion about the coun- try that to be a man you must beat your neighbor. The Frenchman makes dia- bolo an art, the Englishman and Ameri- can, their game a battle. Who was it who said: “When three men stand to- gether the kingdoms are less by three.” Football and baseball ought to be made to include more players. I mean there ought to be more teams and more men playing. Football is not brutal because men are sometimes injured, and now and then a man is killed. It is brutal because it is an entertainment for the public. “Oh, lug him off,” I heard a man Say at a game—a cry in which the spirit is not different from that of Span- ish women at a bull fight, calling for I think it unlikely that a football game ever brutalized a man more horses. who played it. But it may brutalize thousands of men to whom it is nothing but a spectacle. Our public morals, which are our customs, and to be distinguished from personal ethics, regard with sever- est condemnation the bull fight of the Spaniard, and the more ancient gladia- torial combat of the Roman, but their ethics will not long remain distinct from the ethics of the football game, if foot- ball continues to supply increasing amusement for a sporting” public. a agree with President Hamilton in his statement in the Sunday Herald, that football cultivates self-reliance and makes habits of quickness of thought and action. It does all this and more for the player, but not for the spectator. The game to-day exists for thousands more who do not play it and never have played it, than who do. At a school I know very well in England, St. Dun- stan’s, southeast of London, the head- master will allow no boy to watch a game in which he is not playing, or has played the same day. Less football? No; more football, but no spectators ; all play, nobody allowed to look on. If the game has value it will last. School Spirit Each year there are generally one or more editorials in Tue EAsTERNER knocking the school spirit at Eastern, but they seldom attempt to point out concrete examples of school spirit. What we propose to do is to show, in brief, where school spirit has recently been working. We can see it in the work of the foot- ball players. It is true that there are boys