Hunter College High School - Argus Yearbook (New York, NY)

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ATHLETICS Foot-ball One of the biggest events of the season's athletics was Hunter's foot-ball game with Hale for was it Yarvard?j University. When the huge crowd, filling the seats of the immense stadium, had arrived, Hunter raised its banners. When the crowd saw the glorious heliotrope and white fluttering under the stars, they were thrilled as they had never been thrilled before, as they tenderly thought of what those colors had always stood for,-victory! As the Hunter eleven came marching daintily down to the field in their lavender bloomers and white silk jerseys, a mighty cheer arose from the throats of the multi- tude ........ a cheer that shook the rafters of the gigantic stadium. Then one could see the discour- agement of the Yarvard team, but they finally plucked up spirit and de- cided to lose like sports. The game was a thrill- ing one. The highest statistics have it that 4,786,013 straw hats were crushed in the wild excite- ment. Hunter swamped the Hale team with thirty- eight touch-downs, two sideward passes, and six home runs. The score was overwhelming, being 96-12, favor Hunter. The jubilant Hunter team was carried off the Held on the shoulders of their excited faculty. They were shouting their uni- versally popular cheer. When do we eat? We want lunch! When do we eat? We want lunch! As the last dim echoes of the cheers died out, there remained to view only a deserted field, lonely and silent under the red glow of the set- ting sun Qor was it the stars before?j. ak ar 1: CLIMAX O:F 'THE SEASON The big climax of 'the season, which all the school a W a i t e d with breathless interest for months, and which proved fully as thrilling as it had been expected to be, was the game of Prisoner's Base, between Hunter and the University of Colorado. Both teams had been selected after innumer- able try-outs from the cream of the school. 113 It was indeed a life- and-death struggle. We cannot give you the score, because the score-keeper became so excited that he lost track of the points. I However, that is of but little moment, since who but Hunter could win? Ik Bk lk CASUALTIES OF THE ISEASON il Hunter has been ex- tremely fortunate this sea- son 1n the number of its casual-ties. The following is a list of the dead: ,I. M. Gone , I. Hev Gone Twms I. Shall Nott Return M. Dedd M. Kilt I. Kant Kumback I. Must Kumover I. Shallnott Pass I. I. fincluding 42 other mem- bers of the famous I fraternity who have not yet been identifiedj. The seriously injured are as follows: C. Columbus Q. Elizabeth M. Standish K. Solomon J. Alden P. Stuyvesant The Rover Boys etc. Nobody has suffered any slight injuries.

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WOMAN'S PAGE REPORTS FROM GAY PAREE. Paris, N. J.:-Hunter's 'special fashion correspon- dent, now in Paris, has dispatched the latest 'Parisian decree for gym- nasium costume post- haste, in order that Hun- ter may be the first to re- ceive the latest fashion hints. It may seem a trifle bizarre and ahead of the times to you, but donit be ultra-conserva- tive. Keep up with the styles! The costume is:- I No comb White middy Black tie Blue bloomers No more than two safety pins where the elastic should be. Black stockings White sneakers, or, as nearly white as possible. g Bk lk Dk ADVICE TO THE CRUSH-TORN Dear Advice: I am a young .girl of 38, and my sweetie went away, and he didn't say why, he didn't say Where, he didn't say which. What shall I do? -Heartbroken Dear I-Ieartbroken : Yes, I think you have decided upon the wisest course. HELPFUL HINTS A recipe for a dish kn-own as Strawberry Surprise. Pick the bones out of a quart of Strawberries. Add two pounds of bor- rowed sugar. Throw in a quart of oyster shells and three raisins. If it's good, that's the Surprise. Pk Sk Pk Do not drop glass into the sink. Such treatment has been known to break it. :nf Pk if A simple remedy to dislodge a fish-bone or anything in the throat is to fasten a button securely to a string, swallow the button, then pull the string. No difficulty is found in this simple method, and it will always remove the obstruction with absolute certainty. fFor the benefit of those readers who do not re- alize that this department of the Argus is humorous, it may be well to suggest that there exist other methods of removing fish- bonesj. ik Pk ik W E A T H E R FORECAST Regents Examinations are expected to come in January as usual. 112 HOW TO KEEP WELL A column conducted by T. Meighan, who is known all over the United States fnot for his knowl- edge of medicine, how- everj. Dear Doc: Very often I get peculiar attacks. My head is dizzy, my ears burn, my nose itches, my fingers twitch, my feet are ice-cold, and my whole body is stiff and rheuma- tic. What shall I do? My dear Madame, I am very sorry, but I can do nothing for you. Your description is entirely too vague and general. :ic :r af HOW TO REDUCE If you haven't enough to buy a jar of Skinny- 'form QSZOO in U. S. and Canadaj, the following exercise is an excellent one :-Lie fiat on the iioor so that you collect as much dust as possible. Standing on your head, raise yourself highly un- til you touch the ceiling. Clinging delicately to the ceiling with the toes, swing around vigorously, until your head bumps into the chandelier. Then send for the ambulance.

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LITERARY PAGE Stories. Poems and Riddles SHORT STORY CONTEST .ll QThe Shorter the Betterj This story is the one which Won first prize in the Humoresque Short Story Contest. It was the only one handed in. Look for the beautiful settings, the philosophy, the character study, and the realism in the story. Yes, look for them. just try to find them. Dk Pk Pk It is a cold, frosty night on the border between Siberia and the Congo. All that is visible in the drear landscape is a tiny, rude hut, entirely isolated from mankind. It is a typical rough Russian hut, and the furnishings are as bare as they can be. In it are seated, left to right: -Maran Maranovitch, the old grandfather, Chosol Chosolovitch, the mother, I-Iobo Hobonov- itch, the thriftless son, and Cochran Cochranov- itch, the father. The father, plunged in deep gloom, is seated pensively on the red-hot stove, the mother is fearfully peer- ing through the open door, but can see no signs of the wolves, who are howling at the back door, the son is comfortably seated on the top-most slope of the inclined slope of the Baby Grand read- ing last year's copy of College Humor, which has just arrived, while the grandfather, old and toothless, on the floor, is engaged in alternately mumbling the words of a popular son,g and chew- ing caramels, while he tightly grips between his toothless gums the old faithful herring which he is smoking. All four chairs are empty. Suddenly the silence is broken by the sharp ring- ing of the door-bell. The son slides down from the piano, the father jumps off the hot stove, the grandfather kneels to pray, while the mother flies to gain the seat on the red-hot stove before the father may return to it. An aged messenger boy, with a long, flowing white beard, enters, and puts a piece of yellow paper on the table. Sign on the dotted line, he whispers, breath- lessly. God, but I'm hungry. And the curtain comes down with a roll. 1.14 THIS IS POETRY Gray, fleeting, mists ..... Dark, heavy, clouds ..... Oppression on eve ry side .................... Dull .... overhanging .... Impenetrable .......... A sudden gleam ...... Which grows ..... And grows. .... . And then ...... Is light ......... The answer to .... The question. .... . Has arrived ......... af an an REGENTS SO IS THIS I saw a lark V In yonder park, The night was dark- Hark, Hark! Hark Hark! wk wk af TRY THIS WITH YOUR PIANO My Bonnie leaned over the gas tank, The depth of its contents l to see, He lighted a match to- assist him, Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me. CChorusj Repeat ,.