Fieldston School - Fieldglass Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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0119 SL1pe1'1OI WHS good and one good was adequate but you could always b fnendly and coopera tlve tn class ln Ethlcs though ve drdnt get marks and rn between cookmg and home room the Ftrst Form met wrth Mr Cook to dtscuss democracy Aft r setthng the worlds future rn forty mrnutes they got down to work on the lndustr al Revo lutton and the past Mr Peter took hrs class to hear a town rneetmg rn Mass Mr Smythe s class made mazagmes and everyone studled percentage For the Second Formers artthmetrc had g1ven way to math as lay taught then how to transform sheets of graph paper mto hexagonal sol1ds ln socral studte they learned that Mrss French came from Kansas but tn Frrday tests Beowulf garn ed prommence CProm1nens tr Latrn from promlnens enttsj The Latm roots became comprehenstble as Mrs Andrews and Mr Loewy mtro duced the ancrent language to the Thlrd Form wh1le for those who took ht tory the ancrent world came 1nto focus through Nebuchadnezzer and Alexander the Great morn1ng Mtss Murphy D ln mus1c Brotl er Iamess Alr took the place of Dear Harp Cf My Country and smce Latm Greek drdnt start t1ll next year they had to be sat1sf1ed wtth readmg the Odyssey Ill Enghsh Fourth Form was the begrnnmg of the Upper School Parallel lmes were every where equldtstant but Mlss Mt rphy wa sttll Just everywhere and as people rush ed to Jom the vars1t1es and chorus they had to remember to walk not run m the hall Mtss Shrmanoucht had made sure by thrs trme that all could spell her name and 1n Enghsh 1t was a far far better thmg to get a sensrtrvely wr1tte 1 paper than It had ever been before There wer Bro Spanrsh and square dancrng and by the tlme the year was over many erst Wh1le Fourth Formers showed srgns of be commg de grandes personnes Double double borl and bubble Frfth Form brmgeth torl and trouble Sth Former So farr and foul a year l have not seen Ha' A few fleas are good fcr a dog Sth Former Fleas? ls that what you call S AT s'? ls not college to u as the pawnbrokeress rs to Raskoln1kov'P Careful A gram rs b tter than a damn Brown Brown Gray porgy puddtng and p1e z equals x plus y Bussra had a revolunon Darbys apple fell on New on Les Iumeaux and Wrlhelrn e Harvard Swarthmore Smrth Cornell 5th Former But mrdyears rf we should at You fa1l'?' But screw your courage to the stlckrng pomt and you ll not farl 5th Former Thats Act 2 Scen l Lady Macbeth to Macbeth Yes Bayes IS Brown and Brown rs Bayes Bayes But Lenrow watts and htther we must go Mr Lenrow warted 111 a confer nce room above the llbrary wrth Socrates l-lerodo tus and a pfle of mnneographed sheets The Srxth Form rn thetr new lab coas were soon omparmg Electras and the 1 tellectual rage was h re to stay Mr Eyste was sttll pole vaultrng tn room 2 4 rn ns tory tests the sentors varnly called the1r good rncomplete adequate s L1'lCOI1Sl1lU ttonal but there were sttll no grades rn Ethtcs There was college to worry over exams to study for and uncertamty aboctt the future but potasstum sodrum ana arnmontum salts Wherever they mrght be could always be depended on for solubrl ty On weekends there was always Hamlet or Montargne or Man Fate fr nally as lune came man s fate took pre cedence the man rn the senror class rn partrcular as the Srxth Form cleaned out the1r lab desks and took frees 1 3 I 9 H ' , '- I . 4 . Il - - ' ' , , , 'v . r ' l K: I ' ' vw I r I ' . - . 1 ' 9 f ' ' ., All : , , , ' , ' I I ' ' 1 t , T ' . ' ' S T ll, I C V! I I , . ' . T 5 . ' , : ' .... ' ' - ' . f 'l .... ' ' . : ' .. n I ' I I , s . , e , They started algebra C Do girls .... Good we know, , . ,, ,, ,. ,, . . Q , . u T A M! I I , . ' ' . ' ' ' tc ' ' , .c ' , , . ' - r I e . . r ' ' , ' A S Y ' ' ' l , ' l' - V A T f F l S I I A I I 4 1 , , 7 r . , . ' A 9 A l , , , f 1 . ' 1 I 4 - S - ' A I ' fl ll - - - 7 'I

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After two weeks of pur1t1cat1on by hre Lzlrom emerqed The semors learned to motrvate and make semaphores whxle the teachers d1scovered that voluntary non sequent1al homework d1dn t take long to correct On Thursday mqht I1mmy's curtaln ac tually went up stralqht Mrs Muskats new organ roared and snorted to the tune ot Petrushka and even Drck Wernstern was qlad that the Male Ammal was strll hrbernatlnq But Tomm1 and the other wrllmq faculty had to keep up thewr heav enly patrence one day more untxl at last Iuhe got her hnal black and blue mark the Srxth Form qot ready for Hudson Gurld and everyone reallzed that 1t was posslble for some one to beat you and b at you and beat you and never hurt you at all 1 . , . . , 1 1 11 . 11 . . , 1 H I . . . 11 . , 1 . . 1 . . ' 1 . - , - . , . 11 , . 1 - 2 v 1 1 . . . 11 , .

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lune We empty our lockers sell books to the supoly exchange return the extra towel we borrowed from the Gym Department last November But ther are thrngs we cant trnd tucked away be fund a baseball glove and the school year rs one ot t em lts over l94Q IS a ate for a hrstory book The curr nt events we learned about II' Ethrcs are art ot tne oast too and as w take a sooermg glance at tne .world growth and then at ours the year rs no longer a lost art1cle rn the suooly room lt becomes an expenence that IS oart o us The Srxt For C1 a exber ment ergnt rr the tall ard read the nyarogen chaoter a week later wnle at 1 rc screntrsts gav brrth to tne monster H bomb The Mradl Scnool government argued about QHICIGT' cy and oartrclbatlon and that nlght th ev rung oaoers announced that Russ as delegate Nallfed out of the Secunty Cour c1l oometrmes when we looked out ol the wrndow and saw a format1on ot trgnter planes N9 wondered what sense there was to the dtscusston ot a oarty ana lvl er our tr1v1al oroblems frt rn wrtr trungs hke tne cold war It W went on tc sun r the Jolt ot vre Nmg lnfrnrty our mo mentary unbalance althougn drsturbrng ga Je us a lrttle Derspectrve and we wer able to evaluate and cr1t1c1 as we de felo ed an awareness But s hool s ove no ff ana we l av our ernotf locker door on n -. t .t A 1 I . ' A . T . , . .. . , :- t . . . . V n A , e . 9 V 94. . l V 4 'I I I . X I . ., . f- . . , . V n . - d . . . X A 9 V . . , , . . , . ., o , e r 1 e . - . 1 fm 14 - 1 V . . T 3 A . V . 9 A. V Q . . l , V . ' . , . . , . . ' V' ' t 'V ' c V ' e . V Z-3 - ' Lf we 'Q' - 4 ' 1 ' , vs f- ' f t. .l. A AV l , . , V :J . V . , t . , 1 V . . r Y, e e . Q 1 V 5 11. cw. . . C D