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

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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.

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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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1933 Qfomce The esTablishmenT oT The Horace lvlann miniaTure golT course. WhaT has become oT iT? you may cry. The answer is: under weeds. All under weeds. Once upon a Time sTudenTs mighT waTch members oT The TaculTy poTTering abouT The grandsTand wiTh golT-clubs, buT ThaT day is pasT. FourTh-Tormers have The greaT privilege oT aTTending school dances. OT course we had aT- Tended one or Two class parTies in The lower school: embarrassing parTies in The girls' school, which in- cluded a scrambling game oT peanuT-hunTing. BuT TourTh-Tormers are presumably old enough To ioin in The sTaTely upper-Torm dances, which have no cheery TacTors like peanuT-searches To enliven Them. Our TirsT real class dance was in April, and we all donned Tuxedos and broughT girls up in Taxis. , A big nighT, we assure you. lvliss MclnTosh had The diTTiculT job oT puTTing us all aT ease, Tor we weren'T a bunch oT smooThies. No, unTorTunaTely noT. lf is The lasT Two years oT high-school which The sTudenT spends in Trying 'lo become a smooThie. During our TourTh-Torm year The Record inauguraTed a vigorous abolishing crusade. Ferris, The ediTor, urged The abolishmenT oT The STudenT Council, which he aTTacked like a Seabury. Social clubs, like our own JusTinian and CreTan clubs, were also abolished, which wiped sev- eral pages oT club phoTos ouT oT The MANNIKIN. l-laving done This much, The Record was unTorTunaTely leTT wiTh noThing To aTTack. excepT, perhaps, The lunch-room Tood. ATTer a mild crusade in This direcTion, The Rec- ord seTTled down To a peaceTul non-abolishing siesTa, which lasTed unTil The cheaTing drive The Tollow- ing year. Meanwhile we TourTh-Tormers wenT abouT our daily Tasks, Took exams' Wenf To pl5y-periOCl' To make his wahT a Sunday haT. play-period, and day-dreamed in sTudy hall. NexT year, we ThoughT, we would be TiTTh-Tormers, and The year aTTer ThaT seniors. FIFTH FORM: Cl-lESTNUTS AND EDITORS lClass oTTicers: STern, Pres.: Bliven, Vice-Pres.: GoTTlieb, Sec.: l-lenry, Treas.l This year, due To The Depression perhaps, The yo-yo disappeared and gave way To The vindicTive sporT oT chesTnuT-smiTing, which we men- Machine slave .5 58 3.