Lincoln High School - Quill Yearbook (Jersey City, NJ)

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i . Holmes has decided not to go to school any more. What's the use? says he. The teachers keep changing the lessons every day. Today some of us got a tip on singing, to this effect: 'LTO sing well, open your mouth wide, and put everything you have into it. Miss Capron: If you don't konw the difference between terms and factors, you're lost. Voice: Then we'd better start looking for Holmes. OCTOBER Speaker in Assembly: Let us pretend that we have a magic carpet that will take us wherever we want to go. Voice: Take me home to bed. Still much rejoicing over last Saturday's football tangle. Lincoln-6g Dickinson-O. Mr. Wright fin -Iournalismj: Now, if a boy in the lunch room found a nail in vegetable soup, it would be news, wouldn't it? Florence Konsevick: You mean it would be news if he found a vegf etable! Teacher: What's a Grecian urn? Not much. fUnless he owns a restaurantj We have heard, rumors that one of the faculty talks to himself. fThey all do it, but they don't know it. They think we're listeningj Just before a lecture in the auditorium on ire prevention, Mr. Schwarz has us sing Keep the Home Fires Burning. Miss Capron: Wilson, come to the board, on your knees. Miss Barker: What other topic could you suggest beside 'The Policef man in Uniform? Finnie: The policeman without his uniform. Much to the delight of the students, the first period English class is invaded by a stray kitten. Milly Singer searches all period in French for her homework paper, and then discovers that she is sitting on it. Samuel Butcher asks Mr. Barget what caused the downfcrease of the merchant marine. Miss Wayman resorts to the use of Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme book in the teaching of physiology. One brilliant student renders, in translating, -and he hurried off in all directions.

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as 4..-Y -. NOVEMBER Miss Johnson: Maki, what are you writing? Nothing Well, if I believed that, I' think you were in the wrong state instif tutionf' Charles Davidson is seen working with WOR on the loudfspeaker sys' tem for the Moore-Dill rally. QA budding radio engineer?j The Lincoln team is now on the goal standard. And let's hope they remain there! Jack Beattie, demonstrating a new dance step to a friend while walking down Bergen Avenue, unwittingly collides with one of the faculty. Heard in Room 7: You no longer have to walk a mile for a Camelg now they give you a lift. Gym teacher: Can you stand on your head? Boy: No, it's too high. Votes are taken among the seniors for the Who's Who, with some startling revelations. Mr. Wilson: 'LAll you do is mix it with some amyl acetate-that's banana oil. Berkowitz commits a disturbance outside Room 7 in an automobile fpride of Henry Ford, 19255. Miss Capron tells Gibbons he's a diddler. He isn't certain whether to feel complimented or insulted. DECEMBER We are told that a famous archeologist has admitted that he made an error of 85 million years in estimating the age of some dinosaur eggs he found. He should be more careful. Eightyffive million years makes all the difference between fresh and strictly fresh dinosaur eggs. The human brain is a wonderful organg it starts working as soon as we wake up in the morning, and doesn't stop until we get to school. Several students of history have sworn oif eating spaghetti, for, they say, Washington advised that we avoid all foreign entanglements. This business of collecting Day by Day material is like trying to out' Winchell Winchellg it's that hard. Mrs. Joughin exclaims, How charming! as she discovers Felicia 0'Loughlin and Johnny Winter eating cake out of each other's hands on the back stairs. Now the Quill goes to press. Of course, I could fill up the rest of December with jokes, but what's the use? You'd only laugh.