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

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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.

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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 Qlowe Tion because iT seems provincially a Horace Mann pasTime. We TiTTh- Tormers were Too old and digniTied To ioin in This game, buT we looked on wiTh ToleranT amusemenT. The idea is: a Tellow has a chesTnuT miracu- - lously Tied To a sTring or a handlcerchieT. He holds This aT arm's lengTh, and anoTher Tellow Tries To spliT iT open wiTh his chesTnuT, which is similarly secured. IT he does break his rival's chesTnuT, he evidenTly geTs some sorT oT saTisTacTion ouT oT iT, buT if he doesn'T, The game iusT goes on and on. Besides chesTnuTs, oTher Things which were new To Horace Mann ThaT year were lal lvlr. BaruTh's CreaTive English Class, lbl Miss HasseTT, and lcl The campaign againsT cheaTing. These all spealc Tor Themselves. Also, in The Tall, Henry was awarded The coveTed lvlorrey Scholarship. The TooTball Team had raTher grim prospecTs aT TirsT. Ump was delayed in sTarTing aT H. M, Hem: good Cmzen' The season, however, was shorT and successTul. '33 members oT The Team were Crsenigo, Edwards, Buchsbaum. Marsilc, Cowl, and T. PTeiTTer. The soccer Team did especially well. Cowl had deserTed To The TooTball Team, so The only veTeran oT The class oT '33 was Henry, who was ably supporTed by classmaTes DelacorTe. Gerlach, Urie, and Herman. BaslceTball had a good season Too. The Grady-ComTorT-ErnsT TriumviraTe oT '32 absorbed mosT oT The scoring, buT Orsenigo, Edwards, and Vollmer also counTed during The Team's diTFiculT schedule. In November came The Fall .. DramaTic Club Show, The FourTh - 3 1.34. A. ? is Wall in which Rice and McGowan ' wwf? 1 . ' - F' 'Hs were women, Bliven a buTler, Bar- i - ,.. . , M y fri 5,QwTgr ' - A, . yA, nouw a consTable wiTh a bald head, 'R .y ..i 3 and ToussainT a murderer wiTh a T waxed musTache who had shoT , somebody- The FourTh Wall was , K , -- K -' gb- i ' ' i ' ' well received, alThough iT was noT as I happen TO be an idealiw-EX+on. big a hiT as The DicTaTor, which The club presenTed in March and which was one oT The mosT popular shows ever given aT Horace Mann. ln The casT were Bliven, McClave, Barnouw, PTeiTTer, and Rice. Munsell was The business manager oT The club. FiTTh Tormers always begin To geT TidgeTy Toward The end oT The year. Those who expecT To geT iobs on The Record or MANNIKIN 59