Holderness School - Dial Yearbook (Holderness, NH)

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After classifying work into two general types, we discover that they are viewed with entirely opposing sentiments. Group one, which has a tendency to give rise to a bad taste in the victim's mouth, contains those disagreeable and assigned labors known as hours -untimely morsels of punishment,-and dishes -a definitely monotonous pastime. Other involun- tary labors, the practice of which is broken by the seasons, consist of such activities as raking leaves in the fall, wielding a snow shovel in the winter, and cutting grass in the spring. All these have the de- lightfully ambiguous purpose of disciplining the eul- prit and furnishing healthful exercise for the non athlete Group two or Phys Ed has be n termed as labor by only those inevitable few who are opposed to anything., compulsory This hour of sport in mid afternoon offers even to the noviee of little ability an opportunity for resting and to those who enjoy informal partieipauon in such games as football fox and hounds, and soft ball it is an hour of pleasure Kuehner and Knowlton jozn the chain gang by this time they ought to know better ..6 '1 N w f' ' 'fluffy 2'- 7 Snow, snow, snow and More snow' Thats no boxing match thats a rnaulmg at 4. ity., Healthful exercise for those uho think breakfast Bennett just looks good, he cant really htt comes at 8 00 A M

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il S There: always work or the managers Q9 ll apta n Bennett hezng awar ed hu football letter 'X-1 There .t always a photographer at a oothall game What tt ts about athletnes that attracts so many boys IS hard to tell Some go out for a sport bceause of the cxerelse, others for the fresh anr, some take pleasure ln the feellne, of slenll that eomes wlth prae txee, whale others luke the sense of power ln aetlon, as Holmes has sand But there are other artraettons For mstanee there ns the pleasure of bennt, bumped to some hoelsey game away from sehool, of being, half murdered at every jounee before one even has a ehanee to be murdered on the hoeleey rink Then there ts that rare and most eoveted of pnvnlebes, the job of water boy at the football games One of the hugh spots of being, on a team despxte the murmured remarks of Messrs Abbey and Wnles coneermng, over emphasns on athletnes IS the ablllty to slup a elass or so on an oeeaslonal Wednesday or Saturday Thus does ones soul good and enables one to feel that he has seored a pomt on those slave dI'lVll'l1., masters But hnally, for every sport, there comes the be all and the end all here tn other words the banquet, when one reelmes under the tn fluenee of good food, poor exgars a tradntxon for those wtth smoktnt, permtssnon and hoary headed jokes these last, alas, from the eoaehes Foozhall rally the mght he ore the game Rzngmg the school house hell a ter a 'vzctory Q s s 5 It .- ' - - 1 4 I ' I ' x xx' y - I - w I '- . I-x A s s su s u r 1 I 'I ,y X ' ' . . . vp . H - , s ,US ' . I C 5 ' d ' ' f I ' M 'L' 2 t 4 . s 5 'f r I x -I , . F .,,,,I. S N A., V ' MJ, I Yi 0 Q1 0 ,Q , 6 , i I 4 it 1 ' s f - ' - . f '

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fr X 'X 5 1. XX' r fi-ag. +451 SNL Z-fig! Y, 'gg-ur new 4 1 9' 'R W ' 'iv 'W' Y M PJ Efwks Szx days :halt thou labor hut on e seventh ah ' 2 30 Sunday a ternoon, tea at the Rectory Pool Shark There ts a txme for everything, and relaxatlon ts not to be consxdered as an ummportant part of school lxfo. Rclaxatnon, that xs, real honest to goodness loaf mg, hnds a dehnlte place nn the Holderness schedule, and that after a hard days work over text books or on the athlenc field Ior most people lexsure ttme actnvmcs mean lensurc tlme unconsclousncss and sun bathlnt, requxres anythlnt, but presence of mm I rtqunres nothmg at all tn fa t Y be lf sand that there are those enerbetlc ones who look with contempt on the Sunshme Club all the whnle playing thenr hearts out tn a lnvcly bame of brxdbe, or strugglmg wxth a slippery glass of Iced tea Partneularly on Sunday IS lensure txme abundant an extra hour and a half of sleep a free mornmg, chapel, and then the whole afternoon free Whtle the more sensible ones chose truly to relax, there are those Math book, they therefore lmmedlately organize an lmpromptu ball game or dnve off to the nearest skx slope One should nndeed commend such quaker oats zest, as leadmg members of the Sunshine Club how ever, glve us a good soft pnllow S Canoemg on Memorzal Day The faculty ts posztwely mhumann between clan ducumon A x w ' ' - -y - t , 1 - ,A -M A . . '. . l : ., ' - ' Q , ' ss ' ' - ' ' , ' ' r v - d. t - ' ' ' ' c . et ' ' I 1 1 r y -4 . fr' 1 . 4 . V fl b Y s A I 1 Y 4 7 A Qi , 1 I . , . . . f ' ,5, N A- ' 5 1 -' sq? , 4, , ' ,. y , ' .. Z. ,, ,yr 1 449 A I i I I . 1 3? Vi , ' 57. t. -- - ' , 4 : ML, in , ,wi .NMZV .Neg J V4 M . , . .. -J' J., ' fat- of .' .. -- ,sn who consndcr relaxatnon as anythxng not found 1n a A 4 . ve.. ,I 4, .,,s, ..,, .. I, - Q 2 -, . yall U A W. ',Q:..: l I , . . '- '--1 ' V' 1' ' ',' . .' 5' 'lf' . ' . . 'zz' . .NY YQ 5' A- ,-,.'..+'Ae' -.1 Y ' , th - . A' . . ' - 3 . U A. 1 - sr wi ' Q , J A .124 , Wu ,l 5 . f r I I i V' Mya-.k ix ate- Q ta 5 -' i ,af ga -te y. . ,fa x s ,N 1. if .lk s M -1 .Q ' 5