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

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Jim 1933 IT was The opening day of school, and The rows of young genflemen who saT direcfly before him composed The senior class of I933. We no longer resembled STeig's Small Fry, for we were now Trying To muscle in on The Pefer Arno crowd. Our arms were folded and our foreheads furrowed. We were, however, slighfly surprised in one re- specT. We didn'T feel as enormous or as grown-up as we had expecfed. Seniors had once looked so Towering and maTure To us, Thaf iT felT sorT of anTi- climacfic To be seniors and nof To feel any differ- enf. l-lowever we signed our pink and blue slips wiThouT experiencing any acTual disappoinfmenf. As seniors we once more plunged info an alfruisfic fervor. The class of '33 seems To have enTerTained a genuine passion for currenf evenfs and argurnenfafive discourse. This had been formerly confined To The lunch-room, where seniors J had shouTed over Their soup abouf such subiecfs as BOY SCOUT Dougie Communism and Space. James Fuld, liffing orafory from The lunch- room up info The library, sTarTed a Speaker's Club and was made presidenf. McGowan, Viereck, Bliven, Rice, Lindsay, Delacorfe, and ofhers spenT Monday one-o'clock periods in haranguing diminufive audiences abouT Socialism, Technocracy, educafion, The Russian experimenf, and The developmenf of musical insfrumenfs. Meanwhile lnTernaTional Clubs were being formed. and To cap iT all Comrade Rice journeyed as To The Chicago Anfi-War Congress. On his refurn Comrade Rice banded TogeTher a liTTle AnTi-War Commif- Tee, which had a noT very pacific meefing in sTudy hall. Perhaps This peace movemenf was sTarTed by The gloomy Docfor Bafes, who spoke To us in Assembly, Five Dairy Maids. and who seemed To draw some mel- ancholy pleasure from saying To us, You boys will probably all be in The nexT war, and mosf of you will be killed. We had a loT of speakers in assemblies, who sfressed The facT ThaT we sfudenfs were graduafing info a chaoTic world, and ThaT The fuTure of sociefy depended on us. One speaker, who sTarTed describing The mafing habifs of The bee, ended up in an exposifion of Socialism. We ' 'H bl y.

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Jfze .7933 Qfomce sTarT To lool4 very solemn and reliable. ln The monTh oT May There Tiourishes a mild Torm oT bribery, and There is coniecTure as To who will be The nexT ediTor oT The Record. On May 26Th The EdiTors were announced in The Record : ediTors oT The iVlanual : l-ioover and Vier- eclcg oT The Record : Kahn, lvlunsell, and DelacorTe, of The QuarTerly : Barnouw and T-looverg oT The MAN- NIKIN: lvlunsell, DelacorTe, and Viereclc. STern became presidenT oT The 6. A., while Henry and Tyrrell were Vice-PresidenT and secreTary, respecTively. There were oTher se- lecTions, such as: Bliven Tor head oT The Library CommiTTeeg Munsell as chairman oT The Social CommiTTeeg and ExTon, by The unanimous voTe oT one, chosen presidenT oT The ArT Club. These elecTions relieved The Tension somewhaT, and Tor several days Tellows wenT around congraTulaTing each oTher. The newly-chosen ediTors immediaTely became smug and saTisTied, relaxing Their responsible Taces Tor a momenT. Meanwhile school wenT on, drawing near To The Tinals and The college boards. The TaculTy liclced an unTorTunaTe 'VarsiTy baseball Team, on which were Orsenigo, l-lemmerdinger, Euld, and Urie. This blow senT The school reeling Tor a while, buT we recovered. Euld and ExTon won The A. A. P. S. doubles TiTles, and The Tennis Team lwhich also included STern and ivliddlediTchl , had a very good season. Unlike The year beTore we did noT have many good Wednesday aTTernoon programs. There were several singers on Thursdays, how- ever-a girl Tor insTance, sang The Big Brown Bear Said 'WooT'. There was also a Tellow who showed us J. Green-home boy who made good. lwiTh charTsl ThaT he could play The saxophone well because There was someThing wrong wiTh his windpipe. SENIOR YEAR: WAR AND PEACE lClass oTTicers: Carlisle, Pres.: STern, Vice-Pres.: Kahn, Sec.: T. PTeiTTer, Treas.l l-lorace Mann, said Mr. TillinghasT, is a school Tor young genTlemen. Winlcie, Mary Ann, and Ely. -T' CO T

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Jim 1933 have ThereTore been made To Teel The heavy responsibiliTy which weighs upon us. We have noT always been weighed down wiTh responsibiliTy. A small band oT seniors, ouT Tor a biT oT iolliTy which would be subTler Than chesTnuT-smiTing, inauguraTed in sTead an Indian-nuT-cracking game, which was played in The library. From all parTs oT The library mighT be heard sTrange crack-cracking noises, whose source could noT quiTe 'oe placed. We goT a loT oT good Rewd 'OOm '933 model clean Tun ouT oT This pasTime, al- Though iT was hard on our TeeTh. The imporTanT Fall sporTs oT TooTbalI and soccer were almosT as successTul in Their Tield. Two goals lThe diTTerence beTween deTeaT and vicTory in The Poly Prep gamel meanT The loss oT The CiTy PrivaTe School Championship by The Soccer Team. OuTside oT This and anoTher deTeaT, aT The hands oT BridgeporT, The 'VarsiTy was undeTeaTed. Urie, T-lenry, and Herman were The mainsTays oT The Team, alThough occasionally such oTher seniors as DelacorTe, l-lemmerdinger, Cohn, and Lindsay made Themselves conspicuous Through spasmodic bursTs oT good hooTing. The New York World-Telegram, Taking a paTernal inTeresT in school aThleTics, drew up some all-ciTy Teams, in which l-lorace Mann was ouT- sTanding. T-lenry Urie, and l-lerman all made The All-CiTy PrivaTe School Soccer Team. ln TooTball, Vollmer and SylvesTer were puT on similarly imporTanT- sounding TirsT-Teams. 0Ther T933 gggggg A members oT The 'VarsiTy FooTball Squad were T-loTTman, PTeiTTer, Gross, Marsilc, Orsenigo, Cowl, and parT oT Buchsbaum. Vollmer, who seemed To be ex- perT in The aThleTic Tield, was chieT cog on The baslceTball courT, along wiTh Fuld, l-lenry, and Orsenigo. THTH h H h V d H In swimming l-Torace Mann TC as ee e ng placed TiTTh in The annual many-cornered meeT. Several seniors were on The Team. ProminenT in The pool were Couzens, Cowl, l-lemmer- dinger, GoldsmiTh, and Graham. fm-