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in which he was fired on altemate days from first Mr. DeVeau's, then Mr. Andrews' di- vision, so that for the rest of the year what Latin he learned was largely in the detention of whichever master could recall having seen him in class. Bewildered by this form of democracy, Dirck urged Distler to help dispatch a letter to Hitler, in which the form's slave system was baredg Coogan served Davison, Poillon served Kingsford, served Hoyt, served Howe, and Howe? Further evidence of democracy's decay was seen at Mr. Regan's table, where Mr. Washburn the trustee uttered his classic: I don't know about you boys, but I like the tips just after Mr. Regan had succeeded in training you to love canned asparagus from butt to tip. The term ended in a glorious climax of the Dramat's presenta- tion of Murder in the Cathedral, of dreaded examinations, the Carol Service, the Rector's reading of The Christmas Carol, and a generally festive Yuletide spirit. The Christmas issue of the Weekly marked the literary debut of Coogan C a few birds were hopping around, trying to find a few crumbs as something to keep them warm- J and of Chambers whose eccentric item Whippersnapper, Sr. began a career that was to culminate in his being Editor-in-Chief of the Grotonian. You were soon introduced to the winter term's characteristic activities: the Service of Lights, Mr. Lyncs's sing-songs and piano recitalsg debates, to which you were in those days invited by special dispensation: gym exhibit, in which Howe and Welling won their first stripe, the dance, and the production of Yeoman of the Guard in which many of you took part. By this time Davison had ominously soaked his first blackmark, but deGersdorii' to the Rector's astonishment had not yet identified Howe in the form. Mr. Zahner had capped Robb with a waste-basket, Crocker had recited to Mr. Gallien God sped, cried the watch, and Mr. DeVeau's Latin grades had skyrocketed with the aid of catalytic agents from Bruces' fountain. A late February ice-storm provided you the rare opportunity of skating in front of the schoolhouse, on the tennis courts, and on the football fields. The earliest excitement of the spring term was the dramatic departure of Distler and Roosevelt. Some of Robb's letters from glamour-girl Brenda Frazier were found for certain to be entirely authentic, but he-man-Hoyt, contemptuous of such social precocity, demonstrated the modern Spartan boy by carving his finger and continuing to butter his bread until he passed out cold, to be gloriously borne from the table, dripping blood, in the arms of an awed prefect, to Mither. Easter was at school that year, and was marked by the Rector's dedication of the Davison Room, in which you were to pass many happy hours. On your Third Club diamond by the flagpole, Messrs. Moore and Nichols strove to reduce the menace to passers-by of your erratic batting: you were proficient enough, though, to climax the season by defeating the Second Clubs 10-6, as well as by drubbing the third and fourth crews. Meanwhile on the river Ozzie had been terrify- ingly canoe-wrecked in two feet of water, had shrieked t'Help, but seemed not to learn, as he spent most of the season steering fine Monadnock shells into the luxuriant shrubs of the river-bank. In spite of measles, May Services not held in the Town Hall, St. Marks' defeat of us 3-2, and Nobles' win on the river, your spirits survived, in fact so exuberant were they on one occasion in the dormitory that Robb and Gould emerged with six each, and the whole dormitory with a three-day exile. The Weekly's picture of your first Memorial Day is standard reading: after a preliminary inspection of uniforms, the School Company marched to Chapel to attend the Memorial Day Service, then fell in again, led by the Fife, Drum and Bugle Corps, and marched to the village to join the parade there. The Misses Peabody served refreshments at the cemetery, and the Exercises at f23l
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the Mound were held, after which the Company marched back to the Town Hall, to storm Bruces' when the 'Company dismissed' command was given. On the traditional-style form picnic at Baddacook, everyone had a wonderful time watching Messrs. Hallowell, Nichols, and Gallien do all the work. Prize Day Exercises were duly awesome, and in the afternoon deGersdorff, Crocker, Coogan, and Russell placed in the track meet. Second Form year opened with Ames, Cabot, Nicodemus, Reed, Treadwell, Tucker, Vreeland, and Witte added to your dwindled ranks, the new faculty faces were Messrs. Iglehart, Moss, and Sullivan, as if this were all not enough excitement for the opening day, the hurricane came the next afternoon to set the tempo of your whole term, really, with its subsequent days of floods, blisters, clearing of trees and bushes, and the minor casualties of Mr. Hallowell on crutches and of Vreeland's exacting his ounce of flesh from Russell. You were now fanatic yo-yoers, even entering a contest at Bruces'g those of you who were second Monadnocks fought under White helmets CDavison, exasperated: Reed, do you know ONE play? Reed: Yes. Which one? I've forgotten it. D, you fought a plague of mosquitoes, the result of hurricane-stump puddles, while the upper forms fought fires in the School's first Fire-Fighters' Reserve Unit. The tempo continued as Ames knocked out Coogan in M. T. class, Gould was ejected by Mr. Thomas fWhy didn't you say so in the first place?J, Mr. Robertson shadow-boxed a fire effectively with his extinguisher, Coe nocturnally molested Davison and Kingsford, Ames spanked Roosevelt once a week for the latter's shouts of father, father, and Roosevelt proved to Mr. Moss that twice nothing was two cats, while Ames, Cabot, and Vreeland had a marine engagement in Mr. Moore's lavatory. With the defeat of St. Marks 26-20, foot- ball gave place to soccer, the new field was begun, Hallowe'en brought its feast, a lunar eclipse proved to be small cosmic stuff after a hurricane, the new marking system was introduced, and Mr. Strachan was soon giving the Thanksgiving Day address, this time to a wiser form, who had almost without exception in one short year discovered a crop of near-relatives in the Boston area. You were learning. After Mr. Gardner's birthday, the term raced on to the Dramat's Twelfth Night, in which Russell starred as Olivia. Coogan made the pages of the Weekly, twice this time: Cudolls lie in disorder all over the dismal place, nobody cares about them- D. So busy were you in the winter term getting out a Chronicle that you scarcely noticed the succession of bizarre trial lighting effects in the chapel, the founding of the Band in the Dome, the opening of Bruces' branch office in the Stationery Store, or the spirit-movements of Mr. Thomas's annex table, as Curtis innocently munched on. So many of you were oFf-ex in January that the Peabodys opened their hospitable parlor to you for aftemoon use. Your present reporter's review of The Bishop Misbehavesn included the following significant account of a new-kid who was to become President of the Dramat: Cabot should go far-etc. On February 25th, after dinner, Bishop Lawrence as Presi- dent of the Board of Trustees announced the unanimous approval by them of the Rector's resignation, to take place in June of your Third Form Year. The spring term brought its holidays, canoe-trips on which Howe did ape-acts, nigger-baby games tough on Ames, who, however, seemed to avenge all, illogically enough, by nearly drowning Mr. Nichols on the form-picnic. In the literary world, Crocker tear- fully insisted to Mr. Dick that it was Yose-mite, while Robb on another occasion in the same locale was pathetically forgotten and left standing in a corner while the next class trooped in and laughed, resulting somehow in Robb's departing with four blackmarks. But Vreeland redeemed the class in the Prize Day Weekly: a horrible feeling of guilt l24l
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