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

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g Jim 1933 The Two essays were boTh abouT animals. lv1cGaTTin's essay was The more academic oT The Two, sounding like a Biology homework assign- menT, whereas l-lamilTon's sounded like an English homework assignmenT. The poems in The issue were boTh well done. WaITer Fix's dirge was a nicely melancholic poem, while Barnouw's EpiTaph Tor Sappho remains one oT The besT QuarTerly poems in recenT years, having genuine lyric Tire in iTs lines. Taken as a whole, iT was a very successTul Second issue. The Spring number Tairly bulged wiTh poeTry. There were six poems including a very original lyric by RoberT Ackerman, a newcomer To The QuarTerly. PeTer Viereck was represenTed by Two poems, EarTh's Music and Caliban's Dream. VicTor Barnouw had a shorT, lyrical hymn oT haTe, abouT walking down dark sTreeTs on a windy nighT and griTTing your TeeTh aT every body. There were Two poems by lower-Tormers, Philip Krapp and RoberT l-leilbroner, which were boTh simple, unpreTenTious lyrics. The lead sTory in The Spring number was anoTher inTeresTing Ben Cohn advenTure, TeaTuring The Ben Cohn Boys wiTh The lndians. The second sTory was Barnouw's An Episode in The l.iTe oT Johnny Knoblockf' This is The Third saTiric episode TeaTuring Barnouw's hero, The TirsT Two having appeared in The Record under STaTion l-l.M.S. lTs realism was painTully accuraTe and sharply done. James l-loover was represenTed by anoTher sTory enTiTled The SpiTe Fence. Hoover wriTes very well, as poeTs do, when They Turn To prose, buT his shorT-sTories have one curious TraiTg They sound as if l-loover himself is noT inTeresTed in The sTory he is wriTing. This grey, impersonal qualiTy marks all his prose. Reynolds conTribuTed a very shorT sTory called The PoeT, which had The same good and bad qualiTies as his Corn, Two essays rounded ouT The Spring number, one by l-lamilTon, The oTher by Harrison, boTh oT which wriTers were making a second appearance in The QuarTerly. As The MANNIKIN goes To press, The TourTh and lasT issue has noT yeT come ouT, buT a good Tinishing number may be prophesied. Reynolds, The only TiTTh-Tormer on The board, will be nexT year's ediTor. Barnouw has The record in The number oT conTribuTions accepTed: TiTTeen sTories and nine poems. l-loover has a similar record: sixTeen poems, Three sTories. l-loover also won The l933 poeTry award oT The WriTers' Club, which is an inTerscholasTic organizaTion oT school liTerary publicaTions ThroughouT The counTry. The Slaves, which won The prize, was published in The QuarTerly lasT year. Viereck Tollows wiTh seven sTories and Three poems. .fIO4T,

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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

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Jim 1933 ' ' MANUAL BOARD Top Row-Hemmerdinger, Donohue, Moore. Boiiom Row-Kahn. Devine, Hoover, P. Viereck. JAMES D. HOOVER ...,...,,,,..,. ...,,. ..... E d i+or-in-Chief PETER R. VIERECK ..... ......... . .4 ....... Associaie Edifor .IOHN DEVINE .,.,.,....,..,.. ..... . A,....A....., ..,,. ,....,, .,,.... ..,...,..... . . .... ,.... B u s i n ess Manager BUSINESS BOARD RoIoer+ Donohue Monroe Hemmerdinger EDITORIAL BOARD Ely J. Kahn, Jr. Lansing Moore The Horace ManuaI was handed oui on Ihe Tirsi' day of school. The cover was of Iighi brown, and Ihe whole booIcIe'r was neaily and arIis+icaIIy puf Iogefher. The I933 edirion coniained several improvemenis. The conienfs have been rearranged, a new hisforical sIce+ch wri+'ren, and fhe word- ing made ciearer and more concise. Because of Ihe aboIi+ion of pages giving daia on Ihe now defuncf Sfudenf Council, if was 'rhinner Ihan previous issues. 105