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

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g JM 1933 ' We were Then an eager bunch oT Tellows, as yeT unTainTed by cyni- cism, Communism, or Labor-Socialism. Like all TirsT-Tormers, we re- sembled STeig's Small Fry and behaved as such. We had a whole- se some awe oT seniors and a wholesome exciTemenT over TooTball. MosT oT us came Trom The l-l. M. lower school, where we had been TaughT To de- velop our personaliTies and To be leaders. We had done This raTher grudgingly, buT in beTween The Tloods oT inTelligence TesTs we used To rush ouTside To play marbles, picTure-cards, and elecTion-buT- W Tons. lThe aimless buT apparenTly absorbing sporT 1 oT chesTnuT-smiTing was Then unknown.l ln This wise mosT oT us had spenT our early youTh. We were exciTed abouT enTering l-ligh School, Tor we were Tired oT co-educaTion, and we wanTed To be TreaTed like men. ln our TirsT Assembly, lvlr. TillinghasT Told us Rffwfd ECHO' ThaT l-lorace Mann was a school Tor young genTle- men. Then, aTTer he had explained our program-cards To us, we were loosed inTo The hall. Some oT us goT losT and all mixed up, buT iT wasn'T long beTore we goT The hang oT The building and learned The idiosyn- crasies oT our various Teachers. We discussed Them all beTween classes. This one, we said, was a nice guy, buT ThaT one was nasTy-Tempered and made you run around The Track: This Teacher Threw chalk and ThaT one hiT you on The head wiTh a map- marker. Those were The days when l-lodupp and Mackey were The big TooTball heroes. l-lorace lviann had a barrel-chesTed TooTball Team ThaT piled in vicTories, and we were naTurally paTrioTic and school-conscious. We looked up To all seniors as big Men oT The World. We ourselves TelT raTher imporTanT, and our brows were Turrowed wiTh The weighT oT our new subiecTs. lvlr. Franzius and Mr. Baker were Then members oT The French deparTmenT. Mr. Franzius was miliTary and uprighT and a Tree disTribuTor oT U ieroes. l-le always drank Two glasses oT waTer dur- Tammany 'Hgh ing The class andused To line us up along The wall Tor counTless spelling TesTs. Mr. Baker goT his share oT Tame Through mysTerious, whispered Tales which mainTained ThaT he made miscreanTs eaT chalk. This was a 5523.

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.Jlw 1933 ' SENIOR CLASS HISTORY INTRODUCTION OU who read This are noT a school boy now. LeT us say ThaT you are a sTranger Ibig and imporTanTI reTurn- ing To Horace Mann Tor a casual visiT. Your college days lie Tar behind you, and you are a successTuI banker llawyer, iournaIisT, docTor. poIiTicianI. Perhaps we Tind you sTanding in The empTy hallway. Classes are going on, and Through The Transoms pour The mingling noises oT classrooms, Tlooding The corridors wiTh sTrange voices .... IT you can reduce Two equaTions wiTh Two unknown quanTiTies To . . . cuius, cuius, cuius, qui- no I mean . . . . . . Why haven'T you your book Today. Barker? I-Iaven'T I Told you . . This all comes back. Peering Through The windows you can see Teachers poinTing To The board, resTIess boys squirming in Their seaTs, looking aT The clock, or perhaps paying quieT aTTenTion. A bursT oT laughTer rushes Trom one oT The Transoms. You look in. A boy who has been chewing gum slouches sheepishly forward To deposiT iT in The wasTe-baskeT and To pay The Tine. IT is Tor your beneTiT, STranger, ThaT we wriTe This class hisTory. IT should serve only as a sTepping-sTone To remin- iscence and TurTher recoIIecTion. There are many Things To remember,-classes, TooTbaII games, The busy cIaTTer oT The lunch room, Mr. BaruTh oraTing Shakespeare, The dances aT The gym, Andy's snug grandsTand emporium . . . LisTen, sTranger. This is parT oT your own hisTory. FIRST FORM. I-I. IvI.'s LATEST BLESSED EVENT lCIass oTTicers: E. PTeiTTer, Pres.: I-Ienry, Vice-Pres.: Kahn, Sec.-Treas.I T was in The auTumn oT I927 ThaT The class-members oT I-I. M. '33 TirsT received Their imporTanT-looking program cards and Tilled ouT The pink and The blue slips which asked Tor Their birThdays and Their TaThers' Telephone numbers. ATTer biTing The ends oT Their TounTain pens and careTuIIy scrawling The required inTormaTion, The new arrivals Took a deep breaTh and girded Themselves Tor a drasTic schoIasTic career. ISII-

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Jim 1933 corroborafion of fhe horrible sfories we had heard in fhe lower school, among which were fhe fables fhaf second-form bullies would fake you ouf info fhe woods af nighf, fie you 'ro a free, and leave you fhere by yourself. One or fwo imporfanf evenfs are puf down for fhe year '27-'28. ln fhe January of '28 lvlr. and Mrs. Herman, parenfs of John l-lerman, presenfed fhe school wifh a new sfeel grandsfand. We vaguely remember fhe ceremony which foolc place before if, wifh fhe school lining up in silence in a fhin drizzle of rain. The grandsfand was an invaluable giff,-gen- erously harboring Andy's sfore and fhe Dramafic Club scenic equipmenf as well. I-lorace Mann gourmands had formerly obfained fheir gumdrops from an lfalian wifh a liffle carf. The unforfunafe lfalian was fhe buff of much heclqling and persecu- fion from us nasfy liffle youngsfers, so we were de- Pafflol John Hefmfm prived of one of our amusemenfs wifh fhe insfallafion of Andy's con- fecfionery shoppe. We sfill had ofher liffle games, however. Graybearded seniors may remember playing peelc-a-boo wifh fhe spealceasy owner af fhe boffom of fhe hill. The old spealceasy is gone now. lf was padloclced a long firne ago, alfhough fhere is a cordial shop nexf door. The window- fronf of fhe old speakeasy was painfed wifh a fhiclc coafing of orange over which was wriffen somefhing abouf faxi service. lin spofs fhe painf was worn away. and we urchins would squinf fhrough af fhe bar. Somefimes we lcnoclced af fhe door and fled, and fhen a large man would rush ouf, bellowing affer us. As firsf formers we were appro- priafely inconspicuous fellows, and we did liffle fo gef our names info . as fhe Record, Kahn and Keller In me,,,O,,am-,.ie,,,y He,,,,a,, were menfioned for high marlcsg Sfern was elecfed presidenf in Janu- ary, and in May fhe lasf issue of fhe issue of fhe Quarferly bore a sfory by Pefer Viereclc. Ofherwise we were liffle noficed. lf seems fo us now. as we loolc baclc, fhaf we musf have been very model firsf- formers. Cerfainly we didn'f run around and yell, like fhe unruly firsf- former of foday, did we? lf seems unfhinlcable. 3' 53 T,