Harvard Boys High School - Review Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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THE SECOND GENERATION, PAST AND PRESENT, AT HARVARD SCHOOL 'k lames Boyle, nephew ot Wellington and Calvin Leavitt Bryson Burnham, son of Raymond Burnham DeWitt Buchanan, son of DeWitt Buchanan Dorothy Cudney, daughter ot Harold Cudney Raymond E. Daniels, son of Raymond E. Daniels Gordon Ellis, Leonard Ellis, nephews ot Edward and Arthur Leonard Edward Ferguson, nephew ot Russell Tuttle Elwell Edward Goodkind, nephew of Henry Steele lack Grant, son ot lohn Grant Harold Gordon, nephew ot Herbert and Ernest Rycroft Bentley Harriman, son ot Seelye Page Harriman Robert Hastey, Stanley Hastey, nephews of William W. Renshaw Lawrence Heyworth, lr., son ot Lawrence Heyworth Walter lohnson, son ot Walter lohnson Charles Klinetop, son of Charles Klinetop Frederick Kretschmar, nephew of Norman, George, lohn and Howard LeVally. lacob Loeb, son of Hamilton Loeb Eaton Mallers, son ot E. B. Mallers Edward Mallers, nephew ot E. B. Mallers Samuel Maxwell, Edward Maxwell, sons of Augustus Maxwell lames McKillip, nephew ot George McKillip Stuart Otis, Raymond Otis, George Webster Otis, sons of loseph E. Otis Frederick Renshaw, son ot William W. Renshaw Iunior Ross, nephew ot Walter Friend Fuller Rothschild, son of Iesse Rothschild Eugene Schobinger, Charles Schobinger, sons of Eugene Schobinger William M. Schuyler, Daniel M. Schuyler, sons of Daniel I. Schuyler Louis Seaverns, George A. Seaverns, HI, sons of George A. Seaverns Frank Selz, nephew ot Abraham Selz Alfred W. Stern, nephew of Albert B. Kuppenheimer Frederic Straus, S. I. T. Straus, sons of Samuel Iones Tilden Straus Albert H. Veeder, son of Albert Veeder Sears Wait, nephew of Wallace D. Kimball Robert Warfield, Donald Warfield, nephews of lohn D. Warfield, Ir. Iack Warton, nephew of Monroe and lack Heath Ralph Weary, Rollin Weary, nephews ot Harold Cudney Iohn Wineman, son of lacob Wineman Max Wurzburg, Hart Wurzburg, grandnephews of Milton Hart Bennett B. Young, son ot Caryl Young NOTE-This list is no doubt incomplete: it may contain errors. We shall appreciate your help in completing and correcting any portion of The Alumni Section. PAGE 21

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74 years for eight boys. Schobingers of two generations have been in the school 48 years as pupils, and 82 years as teachers. In a rapidly growing city like Chicago, shifts of population are constantly occurring, and there is little stability of domicile. Population necessarily be- comes less homogeneous. Many of our alumni who represented early Chi- cago have moved to the far northern suburbs. lt is obvious that, considering the shift in population and the low birth rate, we can not depend upon our alumni to replenish the school,-although there is a surprisingly large second generation list. We are proud of the part which our alumni have played in the development of Chicago, and of the traditions which they have estab- lished. But our school can not live on traditions alone. The one tradition upon which it can exist is the one which was established early in the history of the schoolethat of earnestness of purpose, simplicity of school life, and sound education founded upon sound principles. And so, with a school popu- lation representing less wealth than at some periods in the past, we have fewer evils resulting from too much money, fewer spoiled children, fewer spoiled parents, and a minimum of disciplinary problems. And now, before beginning the roll call of the classes, we wish to thank all those who have helped by advice or personal Work to issue this bulletin. We are grateful for all the kind Words you have written in your letters, for the memories you have aroused. You can not possibly know how much pleasure your letters gave, and we wish we could have answered them at once. For, in spite of the trials and tribulations of school work, in spite of examinations, and the whims and vagaries of teachers, we are sure that most of you remember school days as l1CIDDY days, and in this mellow mood we invite you to look into the past which has so rapidly become the present. PAGE 20

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WHEN TARZAN WENT TO HARVARD . .. . . . by EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Q Because I attended Harvard School sometime between the Pliocene and Pleistocene eras, Miss Schobinger has suggested that I write a little article for the School Annual and call it Before the Birth of Tarzan. I think Pre-Glacial Reminiscences would be an apter title. l888 must seem as far back in the dim and distant past to you boys as the last glacial period did to me when I was your age. It seems a long way back to me, toog and I am having a dickens of a time recalling much of anything about ity but, nevertheless, it was in 1888 that I entered the old Harvard School at 2lst Street and Indiana Avenue, where my brother, Coleman, had been a student for a year. I was never a student-I just went to H I school there. I lived over on the West Side where everybody made his Old money in those days and then moved to the South Side to Harvard School show off. I kept my pony in a livery stable on Madison Street west of Robey Street fthe name of which has since been changed, I understand, to that of some Polish politicianI: and in good weather I either drove or rode to school. In inclement weather, I took the Madison Street horsecars to Wabash, a cable-car to 18th Street, and another horse-car to school. Sometimes, returning from school, I used to run down Madison Street from State Street to Lincoln Street, a matter of some three miles, to see how many horse-cars I could beat in that direction. It tires me all out even to think of it now. I must have been long on energy, if a trifle short on brains. I cannot recall much about my classmates. Mancel Clark, Bennie Marshall, and I came over to Harvard together from Miss Coolie's Maplehurst School for Girls on the West Side-and were we glad to escape that blot on our escutcheons! There had been a diptheria epidemic in the public schools the previous year, and our fond parents had prevailed upon Miss Coolie to take us in. As I recall it, there was no other private school on the West Side at that time. If we were glad to get away from Miss Coolie's Maplehurst School for Girls, it was probably nothing to Miss Coolie's elation at being rid of us. I'll bet the old girl turned handsprings. She got rid of William Carpenter Camp at the same time, but I can't recall that he came to Harvard School. The Dads of some of you will remember Billy Camp. Bennie Marshall and I used to sneak down to the breakwater and smoke cubeb cigarettes and feel real devilish. I imagine we even chewed gum, too, He became a very famous Chicago architect. I can see him now sitting at his desk drawing pictures and chewing his tongue when he should have been studying. Mancel Clark and I went to Andover after we left Harvard School. We looked so much alike that when I was late reporting my return from Boston, Mancel used to go to the Registrar's office and report it for me: then everyone was hC1pDY, including the Registrar. At Harvard School I studied Greek and Latin because someone Ilvliss Schobinger says it was Mr. Grantl believed that they should be taught before English grammar was taken upy then I went to Andover and studied Greek and Latin all over again: so, having never studied English, I conceived the brilliant idea of taking up writing as my profession. Perhaps, had I studied English grammar, I would have known better: but then there would have been no Tarzan, and I might still be selling leadpencil sharpeners. There should be a moral to this. Perhaps it is that you should not smoke cubeb cigarettes. at 15th St. PAGE 22 I