Glass High School - Crest Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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1933 The Qllriticdlllrest they would be guided by the Seven Spirits-XVisdom, Understanding, Counsel. Power, Knowledge, Righteousness, and Divine Awfulness. He told them of the straight and narrow path to a diploma, and of primrose bypaths to the eternal bonfire-and Pluto: and admonished them vehemently against the Seven Deadly Sins-chewing gum: hall and heart roaming: chattering out of turn: tardinessg playing hooky and hands: and throwing things, such as spit- balls and sass. ln the end Mars, commending them to the Seven Gods of Luck, bade them begone. Around the reception hall, all over the place, was a madding frenzy of inatriculators-big ones, little ones, tat ones, scrawny ones-before whom the newcomers trembled and were af raid. Then followed work days, play days, good days, had days-days end- lessly-blue Mondays, with the boys closeted with Jupiter: black Tuesdays with the girls and Juno in secret session. But the Seven Lamps were far awayg the Seven Sins so close. Besides it was lazy to sit and let things slide. Things slid until at last Peegee and lfourbee were summoned before jupiter. who told them of their sins and, leading them onto a high balcony from which could be seen almost the entire country of Glass. said, Before you lies the river leading to the Seven Seas of Endeavor. ln that direction lies the Literary Seag next to it, the journalistic: that, the Social: over here the Athletic-There? You can see it !-over there, the Science: there, Fine Arts: and last, the Sea of National Honor. I can not hope that all of you will reach that sea, but go your chosen ways, follow the best, seek and ind the Lamps, and-farewell. J l17l

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dtbz Qlriticdltrest 1933 CHAPTER III Ghz Ctlnuntrp nt QE. CEE. Glass 'Twus frum this l'UlHlfl'j .Y lzilllnfi. They .raw the .vufwni xcas. 'Twas lzcre izfwzm the lzillfojv, They U'l'C?tIIlIl of zf1'cI0ries. -BAKER Jupiter saw among the seven hills the fair land of Glass, he looked with distaste upon his residence on lofty Mount Olympus and shortly after descended, with bag and baggage-and even with his messenger. Mercuress-into the l-lighland, bringing along a piece I I I I I I I I I I I I HE gods do love odd numbers: therefore when great ag I I I 3 -A . ,r ,EI 5 gm.. ,. I gg 1 To se Mfllfl- 1,INl'L'fS 'ir' l of Mount Olympus for a pedestal. Himself he estab- lished in a celestial palace upon the tip of the hill, and Mercuress he installed in a little alcove outside his door to act as a wind-break tshe filled the olhce ad- mirablyj and in all the realm around he installed semi-gods to help carry out his laws. From somewhere Mars, the war god, ascended to help him rule. and was given the godship of Time, to his eternal delight. For he dances and he yells. Giving time, time, time, ln a sort of ghoulish rhyme. To the moaning and the groaning of the belles-and the beaus. And he made so much noise about it all that at last fair Juno, Queen of the gods, descended to Glass, built herself a modest residence across from Qlympus and by her sweetness and gentlcness soothed the land to peace. It was on a torrid September morn when Fourbee, Peegee. and their friends climbed the last hill and stood before the awesome gates of Glass. At last the portals were Hung wide and they entered into the land. To the left stood the chip off Mount Qlynipus where lived Jupiter and whither all the semi-gods gathered in council. Past this sacred retreat the little band slipped a-tremble and gathered in the assembly hall of the land. Soon great Mars appeared before them and, blowing chalk dust and a good joke or two off his finger tips, told them things all youngsters should know-and some they shouldnt. Then he reminded them of the quest of the Seven Lamps, in which E101

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. pn The Qllriticfqlrest 1933 CHAPTER IV be batman 5.-:as 'I'11ey:m1'lcd and xailmi, mrlz in his CUIIICSF and tony. :Ind fought their noble baffles from day io day. -BAKER llll N the plentiful storehouses of Glass Land was abundant material for building and, armed with bookworms and brains. lfeegee and Fourbee set to work. The hull they built of hard work, a bit of Algebra. an arc or two, a little Science, seven words of Spanish and as many of French and Germang while with strong blows and stronger language they drove the Latin in. The rudder X ' 9 they fashioned from English, the keel from books they had read, and the sails they wove of poetry: from History hu At last when the work was done and the ship .:. launched for the voyage, the travelers returned to bid H -1 -X ,, their younger friends farewell and to collect belated ' stragglers. In the process of collecting, they went a- searching in Cell No. 212 and there stumbled on the first of the Seven W'onders of the YVorld. Tucked away in various parts of the room were the Seven Sleepers. Tn one corner Rooster Harvey dreamed gently, snriling sweetly and tenderly caressing the hand of the dormant John .Tusticeg a little way off. Buck Foster, with his head in the parlor and his feet in the sink, slumbered to the soothing snores of Wlilliam Hickey and VVillie Wlilson. Xvithout taking time to recognize the other two, Fourbee, dragging Buck Foster behind him, made for the shore. So the adventurers set sail. For some time they slipped between the narrow banks of the riverg but gradually the course widened into a bay and. beyond that, into Seven Seas. Here their ways divided. for some sailors were destined to explore many seas: some but a few. One group of warriors and spectators steered toward the rising sun Lllltll they passed the narrow gateways into the Athletic Sea. Here they encountered the great storm called Fate, which toyed with and teased all crafts that dared to sail these waters. From the first it played a winning game with the destroyer, S. S. Hilltojvpclg' one minute tossing it upon high waves of glory, the next flinging it down to defeat. Every sport aboard suffered set backs on the cruise-football. basketball, track and tennis. The good ship had not been sailing many days before it sighted enemy' craft bearing down at full sail. Admiral T. M. Funk had only a handful of reserves with which to steer the vessel to victory in football, but by clever manipulation produced a very successful defense, although the offense was woefully weak in spite of George l3rown's head tSecond VVonder of the Wiorldj. Not once did an opponent cross the Hilltopper's goal line by scrimmage until on a cold November day the warriors from Glass clebarked in a sealet of mud and were given mud baths to the score of 26 to o. But the Funkmen had their day and. on the lsland of Norfolk, held the powerful State Championship Team to a scoreless tie. This remarkable feat was 't lllll Usl