Girard College - Corinthian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Girard Hymn Girard! thy mystic spirit calls To happy youth in college halls. And like a silent blessing falls To hallow evermore. From out the old, familiar bower High in the ivy-covered tower. The chapel chimes peal forth the hour As in the days of yore. Sweet memories of bygone days! Let all in song their voices raise; O, dear Girard, We sing thy praise With reverence and love. Our grateful thanks We give to thee For childhood ' s opportunity To live and learn. O may there be Rich blessings from above. Keep us with all our hopes and fears. Fill us with faith that lifts and cheers. Lead and direct us through the years — Be thou our guide and guard. Teach us. We pray, the things to do That make for manhood strong and true — Strengthen our hearts, our love renew; Cod bless our dear Girard. —Harold Barnes.

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January, 1932 3 r-rrr- ——--- - —-—i We’ll be True T HERE are many subjects that might be written upon in the editorial of a class book, especially when a group of students has the heritage of Girard College training, but in the foreground of our experience we can see only Stephen Girard just now. We shall remember him with a love and pride. That memory, however, will remain inseparable with the Old Chapel. The Old Chapel became to us who have spent nine years within its sacred walls a shrine—a symbol of the Girard spirit. Its Gothic lines trailed ivy up grey walls to a stately tower which never ceased to stand a sentinel-of-the-night watching faithfully over the Girard family. Each hard wooden bench inside kept us wide awake to the stern lessons of life—love, toil, loyalty, frankness, and character. How directly the Founder sent home the real Values of spiritual living through the atmosphere and activities of this sacred place! It was here that our class was raised. It was here that we sang our hallelujahs and glee club choruses. Here we acted our plays, recited our Thursday morning pieces and listened to inspiring concerts and eloquent speakers. We have filed from its doors with the keen realization that if we did not become good men Girard College should never be blamed. It gave us all that religion, example, and nobility could offer in a chapel. Now the outer gate swings wide for our last departure. Will it be to col¬ lege or to work? Where? Well, wherever the course of life leads us, let us pause daily to thank God for the friendships, the lessons, and the dear scenes of Chapel hours. With these ever before us, our love for Stephen Girard can never die; our lives can never cease to be enriched and useful; our well-founded training will serve us rightly. Now our deeds must be our lives. We will be true to the Old Chapel. And it must follozv, as the night the day. We const not then be false to any man.

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January, 1932 5 In Public Speaking “Voice—the immortal instrument of God.’ UBLIC SPEAKING has always interested us. You know, it is a wonder¬ ful thing to be able to make your voice move anyone, and it is greater still to move the people you know and like. Our first public appearance was made by Lloyd Minter in 2-2. At that time he read his Thrift Essay before the high school group. It broke the ice, and afterwards the class was more willing to appear in public. Our next showing was in J-2 when our class represented two novels in character form —The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and A Talc of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. There were two interlocutors, one for each story—Lloyd Minter for The House of Seven Gables, and Olimpio Napoliello for A Tale of Two Cities. As the stories were told, the characters entered and took their places in the settings of the novel. They enjoyed it and it keyed them up for future work in expression. During the S-l semester the annual Dramatic Club play was given. Natu¬ rally, the Senior-two class had the edge on their younger brothers, but three of our members made that coveted goal of all youthful stage aspirants. In a thrill¬ ing dramatization by our own Mr. Henry V. Andrews of Stevenson’s Dr. Jckyll and Mr. Hyde, Lloyd Minter had the good luck to become Mr. Utterson, Jekyll’s lawyer and lifelong friend. Harold Pipp, as Dr. Lanyon’s office boy, did a piece of acting more than splendid in its realism. Our only other successful contestant was Harold Williamson who played the part of Dr. Lanyon’s assistant. His able acting and his professional air of being a doctor’s assistant will remain a happy memory. It was a great emotional experience made possible by Mr. Andrews; and, after all, it gave joy to all who love classic forms of the drama. As president of the Dramatic Club in S-2, Harold Williamson is to be thanked for his work in putting on the annual Christmas play entitled Don Juan’s Christ¬ mas Eve. The other members of the club who were in the play and the club were William Schatzel, Albert Bell, Ludwig Soherr, John Whittick, and Harold Pipp. And perhaps it would be well to mention here that John Whittick and Ludwig Soherr as make-up assistants for most of our dramatic presentations should be thanked for putting their shoulders so willingly to the wheel. Ludwig Soherr, John Whittick, Willard Zurflieh and Olimpio Napoliello, captain, were our representatives in S-l in a debate against the Senior-two class. The question was Resolved: That Old Age Pension Laws Should be Enacted in all the States. We, the affirmative, won! The audience was convinced. The class was jubilant! As a matter of course, we all gave Friday morning talks which were interesting and new in that they were about the things we were interested in or had written about. They served as excellent practice in the kind of speaking everyone has to do sooner or later.