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

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Jim 1933 ' ham vociTerously approving oT Edgar Allan Poe and l-lamlin Garland, and reading WalT WhiTman aloud in class, making us blush . . . Mr. Gibson inTroducing regimenfal French discipline To The school . . . and T Mr. ETTelson honoring us wiTh The Tale oT The car- penTer's daughTer. WhaT was iT like, being a Third-Tormer? No senior can remember back ThaT Tar: iT is impossible To answer. We can only recollecT parTicular scenes and Tlashes oT The disTanT pasT. Being a Third- Tormer was someThing like being a senior, Tor we were aT The Top oT The lower school, which gave us a sense oT vague power. We exercised This power, Tor insTance. in The locker-rooms. Qnce upper-'Formers had a liTTle gag oT pouncing upon some helpless Tellow in The locker-room and shouTing, l-le hasn'T had a shower! ln vain The Tellow would proTesT. OTTen APe'mf ' Wilson he was made To undress and be dragged oTT To The shower room. ln The lower Torms This oTTen led To pugilisTic encounTers, and soon The whole locker-room would resound wiTh The barbaric and persisTenTly rhyThmic cry oT FighT, TighT, TighT, which everybody Took up and shouTed while pounding on The lockers. ForemosT in These baTTles emerged The war-scarred Tigure oT our own liTTle . Napoleon-Alan SpoTTs, who has since deparTed Trom This school, buT whose unsquelched soul we will noT easily TorgeT. ln This year Cowl made The soccer Team and Buchsbaum The TooTball squad. Barnouw, l-loover, and DelacorTe were represenTed in QuarTerlies, Barnouw geTTing on The board and having a sTory in ProspecTors, which was published in Novem- ber. ln May DelacorTe and l-loover joined The Record sTaTT. Two imporTanT evenTs, however: lal Peyser won The New York -limes' naTionwide oraTorical conTesTg and lbl The yo-yo sTruck Horace Mann School. OT The Two iTems The second had a more The School mealpacke' direcT sociological bearing, buT Peyser's Triumph was Big News and an occasion Tor much iubilaTion in The school. Peyser's speech was re- prinTed in The Times, TogeTher wiTh phoTos oT him receiving a cup. -T563

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JM 1933 ' AnoTher organizaTion which blossomed in The Second Form was The JusTinian Club, which was composed oT Bliven, Munsell, Gwynne. Barnouw, Kahn, l-lenry, Donohue, and Devine, and which was banded TogeTher by Miss MclnTosh. NaTurally This was Tollowed by anoTher club-The CreTan Club, under l The advisorship oT Mr. Blake. ln iT were GoTTlieb, Keller, Euld, Herman, Tyrrell, WolT, STern, and Russell. BoTh clubs preTended To be doing a loT oT good in The world, and boTh zealously drew up idealisTic consTiTuTions. UnTorTunaTely, like The Roman Empire, The JusTinian Club wore iTselT ouT Through The dissipaTing eTTecT oT parTies and house meeTings, which all invariably ended up in rough- house. The JusTinian Club lasTed Through To The end OT The Third Form, when, as a sobering gesTure, The members donaTed a prize To The BesT CiTizen oT The Lower School, who happened To be a member oT The CreTan Club, E. PTeiTTer. The Record occasionally gave space To The l.iTerary Club and To The Two social clubs. lT also menTioned Kahn and GoTTlieb Tor marks, and ExTon and MiddlediTch Tor Tennis. Beyond This There doesn'T seem To be much hisTorical maTerial, excepT ThaT Miss Malloy came To l-l. M. ThaT year. Oh, Susanna! THIRD FORM. NEW TEACHERS AND Tl-IE YO-YO lClass oTTicers: E. PTeiTTer, Pres.: STern, Vice-Pres.: GoTTlieb, Sec.: STroTz, Treas.l When The class oT '33 reTurned To Horace Mann in The Tall iT was greeTed by a whole slew oT new Teachers. Messrs. Franzius, Baker, T-lunT, ScoTT, and SmiTh had deparTed Tor divers reasons, and in Their places came Messrs. Gibson, Oliver, Briggs. l-lughes, Cunningham, and ETTelson. Perhaps iT was during This year ThaT Mr. Camenzind sTarTed To culTivaTe a musTache and laTer decided noT To. We can'T exacTly remember, alThough iT was surely md: i mai,,+a,,, , , in The days beTore Mr. Kalligan sTarTed on his. The new Teachers were a iuvenile loT, almosT young enough To be idealisTic . . . whaT wiTh Mr. Briggs Telling us ThaT our hisTory books were our Tools and we shouldn'T be aTraid To mark Them up . . . Mr. Cunning- T55i-

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g Jim 1933 Qfomce and bowing. The arrival oT The yo-yo was no occasion Tor iubiIaTion. IT broughT a biT oT color To The school lgreen, yellow, and redl, buT The annoyingly engrossing Toy Temporarily ruined The morale oT The school and caused a bIighT over The hearTs oT men. I FOURTH FORM: MAKING AND BREAKING I ICIass oTTicers: E. PTeiTTer, Pres.: Keller, Vice-Pres.: GoTTIieb, Sec.: Henry, Treas.l To paraphrase an old New Yorker quip, we Horace Mann Tellows have a saying, The TourTh Torm makes or breaks a man. JusT how True such a saying is, or how one can Tell wheTher one has been made or broken is hard To say. AT all evenTs, becoming TourTh-Tormers made us Teel raTher imporTanT, iusT as, Tor ThaT maTTer, becoming TirsT, second, and Third Tormers had. BuT Tor diTTerenT reasons. We mighf make an ouTIine: Playboy of The WesTern INFLATION World FIRST FORM: Because we were enTering The boy's school and being TreaTed like men. SECOND FORM: Because we were no longer TirsT Tormers. THIRD FORM: Because we were aT The Top oT The lower school. FOURTH FORM: Because we were no longer in The lower school. This disTincTion is preTTy subTIe, and a senior remembers iT only wiTh diTFicuITy. On The opening day oT school we TourTh- Tormers cheerTuIIy signed our pink and blue slips and IisTened To Mr. TiIIinghasT's opening address in which he sTaTed ThaT Horace Mann was a school Tor young genTIemen. We all TelT Tine. The TourTh-Torm Turned ouT To be sTrong in Trackmen. Henry, Tyrrell, Marsik, HeiTman, and Russell made The Team. Couzens, HeiTman, and GoIdsmiTh made The swimming Team: Fuld and I ExTon The Tennis Team: and Orsenigo The baseball Team. The school year oT '30-'3I was noTeworThy Tor The excellence oT iTs Wednesday aTTernoon pro- grams. We had a sudden Tlood oT good speakers, wiTh programs Trom Heywood Broun, Bruce Bliven, Alexander WooIlcoTT, Johnny Green, and Big ChieT SomeThing-or-OTher, who imiTaTed birds. This year also saw Mr. Bliven, lecTurer .f 57 15.