Horace Mann Lincoln High School - Lincolnian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Jim 1933 Qlowe Reviews oT books, movies, and plays were halT a column in lengTh insTead oT The previous Tull column, Thereby necessarily changing Trom a criTical To a TacTual characTer. WheTher This change was Tor good or Tor bad iT is diTTiculT To say, buT They were probably more widely read Than before. The wriTing oT The news arTicles was on The whole accuraTe and comprehensive, Though raTher Tormal. AlThough The phoTographic board did noT TuncTion wiTh any parTicular success, The number oT cuTs used was Tar above ThaT oT The average school paper. A successTul addiTion was The paper's diTTerenT TreaTmenT oT Lower School acTiviTiesg The evenTs were displayed more prominenTly and given more space. The business end oT The paper was run very poorly, wiTh The resulT ThaT adverTisemenTs were exceedingly Tew and small, even Tor a depres- sion year. T-lowever, increased appropriaTions Trorn The General Asso- ciaTion leTT The Record in a somewhaT beTTer Tinancial condiTion Than in The pasT Tew years. BuT nearly all The issues were oT only Tour pages since, aT no Time was There a greaT deal oT news. The one eighT-page number in The TirsT halT year conTained an excellenT Fall SporTs SecTion. On The whole The issues were considerably beTTer composed Than before, The pages being very well balanced. The only changes in The paper's make-up were The enlarging oT Type size in The secondary head- lines, which increased Their legibiliTy considerably, and The addiTion oT sub-heads in The longer arTicles To break up The monoTony. The proof- reading was noT all ThaT iT mighT have been, a series oT sloppy issues culminaTing in an oTherwise admirable six-page ediTion on March IOTh. Early in The season The Record was enTered in a conTesT sponsored by The Daily PrinceTonian. Here iT won an elevenTh place ouT oT ThirTy-Three papers and was praised by The iudges Tor iTs ediTorials and Tor iTs make-up. As cusTomary The Record was also one oT The papers enTered in The ninTh annual conTesT oT The Columbia ScholasTic Press AssociaTion. IT was awarded a second place in The group oT PrivaTe School newspapers, The same posiTion as iT held lasT year. Though This puTs iT hardly above The average high school publicaTion, many TeaTures noT considered by The iudges make The paper someThing To be proud oT and, as Mr. TillinghasT once said, The mosT imporTanT single TeaTure oT school liTe. -fIOIf

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Jizz 1933 Qfomce RECORD REVIEW l-llS season's issues oT The Record mainTained The very high level seT by previous ediTors. The worsT ThaT could possibly be said abouT The paper is ThaT comparaTively Tew improvemenTs have been made. IT uninspired, iTs managemenT was Thoroughly capable. AT The beginning oT The year The usual aTTempT was made To have The wriTing more per- sonal and inTormal, buT The scheme did noT work ouT very well. Two innovaTions were made, however. One was The inTroducTion oT a new column enTiTled View Trom The l-lill, which was run all year by Bruce Bliven. IT began as an aTTempT To do Tor The daily papers whaT Our ConTemporaries does Tor The school publicaTions: To pick ouT liTTle iTems oT parTicular inTeresT To l-lorace Mann sTudenTs7 buT iT soon Turned inTo a vehicle Tor ediTorial commenT on imporTanT currenT evenTs. The oTher imporTanT change was a column, enTiTled eiTher Movies or Screen l-lighlighTs. IT was composed oT brieT reviews oT The leading Broadway picTures and usually alTernaTed wiTh Down in FronT. BuT where The paper gained by The addiTion oT These columns, iT losT wiTh The limiTaTion oT LeTTerbox, The school's Torum oT opinion. lnsTead oT alTernaTing every oTher week wi+h STaTion HMS, iT appeared rarely and Then largely as a space-Tiller. STaTion HMS was run wiTh conspicuous success ThroughouT The year, chieTly by VicTor Barnouw. l-lis abundanT supply oT humor Tur- nished The paper weekly wiTh whaT was admiTTedly iTs mosT widely read column. The TeaTure arTicles were noT as lengThy as They have been in The pasT, buT some sorT oT an inTerview appeared nearly every week, and These were inTeresTing and excellenTly wriTTen. Three new ediTorial posiTions were creaTed during The season, chieTly as a reward Tor pasT work raTher Than as a necessary division oT The paper. These were The DeparTmenTal EdiTor, Exchange EdiTor, and News EdiTor. The ediTorials were capably wriTTen as usual and had The addiTional virTue oT conTining Themselves more largely To maTTers oT school. Various ediTorial campaigns, such as The one againsT smoking, were insTrumenTal in bringing consTrucTive acTion by The school. TIOOT

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Jhe 1933 Qfomce QUARTERLY BOARD Reynolds, Hoover, Barnouw, P. Viereclc, Viclor Barnouw ..A...,,. A........A.................,.... E cliior James Hoover. ............,...............,.,. .,....,..,. A ssociale Edifor THE STAFF Peler Viereclq George Reynolds FACULTY Mr. Alfred Barullw Mr. Harold Clausen Mr. William Blake Mr. David Scoll' fIO2'p