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

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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

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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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Jim 1933 ' ' QUARTERLY REVIEW HE QuarTerly This year was characTerized by a raTher realisTic and prosaic qualiTy, which is a biT unusual in school publicaTions. There were no Edgar Allan Poe Tales prinTed, and while There were some violenT deaThs, auThors did noT dwell on The bloody sTain or The dripping dagger. No sTory began: A weird, pervading sense oT gloom saT on The old baronial casTle oT MacDumTries and none had Tricky ploTs which Turned ouT To have been a dream. For This alone, The QuarTerly mighT be marlced as unusual, buT There were TurTher posiTive characTerisTics which seT The '32-'33 QuarTerly on a very high plane. ln The Fall issue There were Two dramaTic sTories by newcomers To The QuarTerly : Ben Cohn and Miles Rehor. BoTh sTories were based on True experiences. Cohn's Tale Told oT his vicTorious sTruggle wiTh The Colorado River. The sTory had a loT oT suspense. Rehor's DisasTer was abouT a mine explosion and gained a greaT eTTecT Through The simple sTaTemenT oT evenTs. The lead posiTion in The Fall issue wenT To Viereclc's sTory, The WaiT, wiTh iTs seTTing on The Spanish border. Viereclc, who likes Spanish fborders, Tells a dramaTic Tale of poliTical murder. EdiTor Barnouw had a sTory abouT a religious TanaTic, called The SainT in The AuTomobile. IT was a painsTalcing piece oT realism unTil The end, which was sacriTiced Tor ploT. James Hoover had a poem called Susanna This was The only biT oT verse in a prosaic QuarTerly , and The poem iTselT was raTher prosaic. George Reynolds conTribuTed a shorT-sTory called Corn. The Two remaining pieces in The Fall issue were John Wiederhold's Rain and Rodger Harrison's A Day oT Falconry. ln The second QuarTerly The members oT The board had evidenTly been sTruclc by a sTrange bursT oT whimsy. Hoover's sTory was abouT a man who was sTrangled by God, Barnouw's sTory was a modern Tairy-Tale in which people changed inTo oTher people, while Viereclc's dealT wiTh a parTy oT lively corpses aT The boTTom oT The sea. Perhaps Viereclc's Free Sandwiches should noT be classiTied wiTh The above, Tor iT was supposed To be Tunny, and, as a maTTer oT TacT, was Tunny. The Hoover and Barnouw sTories were boTh well wriTTen. The Tormer achieved a suiTably gloomy eTTecT Through The use oT monoTonous. rhyThmic senTences. Barnouw's A Grim Fairy Tale was doTTed wiTh well-expressed phrases, buT iT was Too long a sTory Tor The QuarTerly. Leaf in The Wind, by Donald Maclver, was a well-wriTTen version oT ThaT Tamiliar simile, The LasT LeaT on The Tree. 51033