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

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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-

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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 1933 Qfomce We are now concluding This hisTory in The leonine halT oT The monTh oT March, when all The papers bear headlines abouT Presidenlr RoosevelT, l-lerr l-liTler, and The CaliTornia earThqual4e. AT presenT There is a war going on in China, Chicago's mayor has iusT died Trom an assas- l sin's bulleT, and aT The newly-erecTed Radio CiTy There is running a Tan- TasTic movie called King Kong. l-low odd all This will sound some day! ConTemporaneously The Horace Mann Record bears news abouT Vollmer's winning oT The Mor- 3 r-ey Scholar-Ship' O-If 1-he Records Obviously The Tacully is noT presenl. second-placing in The lnTerscholasTic ConTesT, oT l-loover's poem The Slaves Talcing The WriTers' Club award, and oT Leave IT To PsmiTh, one,oT The mosT successTul plays ever produced by The DramaTic Club. The class oT' '33 has been living in an inTeresTing period. When we were TirsT-Tormers The UniTed STaTes was rolling upward To a pealc oT prosperiTy. When prosperiTy cracked and Tinally Tumbled down, we were sTiII going Trom class To class and doing our lvlaTh homeworlc. The ouTside world has always made inTeresTing rumbling noises beyond our school windows. As yeT we are noT members oT The inTeresTing ouTside world, Tor mosT oT us s+ill have college To go Through. BUT we are nearly There, and some day we will siT perspiring in blaclc academic robes, lisTening To a dull commencemenT speech, and holding a college diploma in our hands. ThereaTTer we will have To base our lives upon whaT we have learned aT l-lorace Mann and aT college, and by Tollowing up an old school inTer- esT we may become a successTul banlcer llawyer, iournalisT, docTor, poliTicianl. By Then The world may have be- come a Technocracy, and you will noT be old Bill SmiTh any more, buf R No. 5, ZI64. AT all evenTs you musT Horace Mann siumbem come baclc To l-l. lvl. You musT peer inTo The classrooms, wallc sedaTely around The Track, and Take a loolc aT The old lunch room. And Then a disTanT, incredible boyhood will seem clear in your memory, lilce l-lorace Mann siTTing squarely on The hill-Top, Tirm in The slcy, lilce a garrison. T633-