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

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X lllllllllldlll If lille! I ll 44 ll IOHN xvooo He savx no great visions of fame as he signed below the ILSI He scribbled John Vkood as a name that he wished he had neu ei possessed And the rifle he held in his hand made him start at the truth in dread That by this very weapon he held he xx ould soon cause an mcrease of dead And his brain in a whirl fashioned sights xxhich he knew he alvxays xx ould see Of the dead and the xx ounded in mud Oh God' That was all done by me Yes this from his heart did escape And this desperate plan did he make I vtont kill theyre human and ieal thex too love and haxe loxed ones at stake This plan was foimcd by John Wood as he boaided his train to the field And the days dragged by till tht time he could put his method to test And he started his di ive vxithout 610 as a man xx ho had come theic in 1est But his buddy xx ho stood by his side he saxx diopped by the enemy fire And he saxx the grim smile on the killer who had stopped by him as to admire And an anger surged up through his veins and a new thought possessed his xxill As he iactd them xxith rillc ablaze John Wood was out theie to kill' MARGARET FITZGIBBONS 12A TEMPTATION To be a model student I must obey Im taught Id like to take a chance Peihaps I vxont be caught To do oi not to do Alas' it 1S too late Ixe purchased some aheady Temptation xx as too great Although I knevx I shouldnt I had to bleak this iule And be a naughty student Bx chexxing gum in school HELEN INEWNI AIN iw I Iilflf I i i l l 0 I O I O OXO Idfllli 4 4 I 1 a 7 ' ' ' - x ' ' 7 v' , , . V Y ' V . I , ' xc px , - - y . I ' ' . A. I - CK 7 1 ' 7 1 , , Y , Y ' , ' 9 7 37 . 7 Q 1 ' . . A And his courage was high to the truth of the secret his heart has just sealed. y . H . , i ' v' v' 1 , 7 V - 3 ' -' V ' y . , ' ' , , v , y . . . . . , . n x A X YV I X L , V Q . . , t Y,-f Q 7 . , . , , , I . . g , , , . 7 v I 4 , L? 7 A 4 T.

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GN APARTMENT HOUSE NOISES I am very much attached to my home When I go away Cas rn the summer w hen I go to eampb I find rt drffrcult to adjust myself Its the srlence rt farrly oppresses me such a contrast to those dear famrlrar apartment house norses There are the people downstarrs wrth therr radro These people haue therr radro on from dawn untrl mrdnrght They are posrtrvely phrlanthrop c Wantrng to share therr pleasure wrth the world they put therr radro near the open wrndow, wrth the loud speaker facrng outward and the volume turned on to rts fullest strength It rs a very strong set w rth twenty or thrrty tubes and a powerful arn amplrfier and so wrth a hot sw rng band on the effect rs yery strmulatrng to the neryes We set our clocks by the chrld across the hall At exactly 8 15 PM she calls to her father for a glass of water She contrnues her demands for water at fiye rr-rnute rnteryals far rnto the ex enrng desprte the fact that durrng that trme she w rll hare consumed sex eral gallons of that lrqurd We dont get much norse from upstarrs The lrttle boy up there rs qurte nrce but he lox es hrs roller skates And hrs mother anrcrous to please her lrttle darl rng lets hrm practrce every day on therr uncoyercd floor We dont rnrnd W only get angry when he 'rnd hrs frrends try to drrxe n'rrls rnto the floor We are 'rll very rnterested rn that famrly that lry cs on the ground floor of the houst They own a dog The dog rs 'r cute lrttle fellow but hr xoc'rl chor ds educatron these people grxe the dog the rnner courtyard of the burldrng all to hrmself every evenrng and all day on Saturday and Sunday They do thrs so as not to encroach upon hrs personalrty The dog unfortunately does not under stfrnd thrs new system of educfrtron He srts on hrs haunches and gr ow ls and how ls or loud 'rs he can but nucr more than four or Frye hours a day erccept of course on weekcnds That rs r summary of the rhapsody rn norsr whrch we who enjoy conrmunrty lryrng lrsten to every day You w rll not be surprrscd then when I tcll you that many ot u are grateful to the rnycntor of tho c rubber ear plugs In the um mer at crnrp we use thrm for swrnrmrng -Xt honre we use than when we go to bed' IRVIING KAY Xfsfffllll 1144 4 Ill Iliff! IIIIIIO' Il 1 v y ' I: X 7 7 ' - I - . xl . 1 ' ' .' , 7 I I ' v' 1 V ' ' r ' - ' . ,' ts ,' r' ' V - ' ' 1 A Q v 7 - A' D 7 . 7 . y l ' K. l s. 7' ' Y A . A . V V 5 r ' ' - ' 4 ' ' ' - . 7 . . . v 1 I l . . r e 1 L l 1 A Y -' 7 I A I ir 3 Q v 5 C Y v ' . S ' ' v ' v y H I ' ' x' v v l ' 4 C ' 'v V5 ' L ' seem to be abnormally strong and powerful. Apparently believers in progressive 1 ' , . qvv ' I ' . I l . . , ' c I I ' c . . I . ' ' Y L 'S Q . , , A, ' ,. . ' , Q . , ' , -f ' ' 1' r l' '- . - - v' - -' r - s. v , - - r 4 . C ' ' s . r ' 'X ' - ' -' ' .. s - f If r 0 0 f 0 Q llrlvla I 'a'r'o 'lol' 5 Q Q 'lo o' ' Q Q ' a ao :'o':'o'v o 3 0 0 Q 4 a': 0 o 4

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OPPORTUNITY IN SCIENCE Now that getting a Job has become a serrous problem and non democrat1c phrlosophres strengthened by m1l1tary power are hammerrng at the Amerrcan consciousness a tendency has arrsen among the unthrnkrng to belreve that oppor tunrty for fame and fortune rn Amerrca has drsappeared It IS true that the boundless western frontrer whrch provrded opportun1ty for the daring rs gone The un analytrcal begin to believe that therefore all frontrers are gone The frontlers which requrre creat1ve thought are however far beyond the mental horrzon of the best of us I do not mean that great opportunrtres he rn the krnd of mental act1v1ty whrch rnvolves the mere asslmllatron of known laws, such as facts of medrcrne stenographrc symbols or polnts of law and the1r applr catron to an arlment a piece of drctatron or a patent case The professrons which rnvolvc slmple assoc1at1ons of rdeas found between the covers of books are ser rously overcrowded Wondrous opportumtres do exrst however rn the fields whrch employ screntrfic research because different peoples brarns beget drfferent rdeas from the exrstrng knowledge of the science rn questron When the modern world 1S run properly rt will be run by scrence As long as freedom of thought and speech exrsts rn a screntrfic world creatrve science 1S necessary for healthy progress Those who engage rn creat1ve science are en gagrng rn progress mto unexplored terrrtory whrch can prove lucrat1ve from the economrc as well as the screntrfic pornt of VICW Srnce no one can duplicate ex actly your thought trams and thelr conclusions you are blessed wrth opportunrty Your Held mrght be research for new plastics new alloys or for new and useful chfmrcals rf you work for a large corporatron or are out for profits on your own or attemptrng to fill a need vrtal to natronal defense If you are of a more aca demrc turn of mrnd you have an opportunrty to produce results rn such fields as their counterparts there are scrences rn which one has an opportun1ty to become a pioneer or at least to do some foundation work such as 1n strto aeronautlcs electron microscopy the theorres of the true nature and relations of space and time rocketry and atomrc engrneerrng In any of these fields the student who has a true understandrng of rn addrtron to a good memory for hrgh school math ematrcs and scrences has an opportun1ty to choose a scrence whrch wrll be a lrfe long Job and of lrfe long interest rf he can gam employment rn a large corpora tron whrch needs the products of new sciences or rn a research foundatron These men of research whether they work rn an rndustrral private or foundatron lab oratory whether they work wrth pencil at a desk bench constitute the essence of our c1v1l1zat1on The man who carrres the torch of c1v1l1zat1on to new herghts rs, nerther the man rn the factory nor rn the store nor the dictator on the march but the man who adds to mankrnd s treasury of knowledge and fact It IS rndeed an opportun1ty to become one of this select hard working never rich few XflllfiflllIll!!!I16644I4llOf4 4Jlilllllldlllhllllllllllll 1 7 , - 7 7 3 I . . y . y . . .- Y 9 ' . ' . . . , , . 7 , . A 1 . . . . , . . . , . ' . 3 I 3 1 ' , ' r . . , . . pure mathematics, physics, or astronomy. Besides these Helds of research and Y . . . . ' 7 ' 1 ' r Y ! I I . ' 7 1 Y - , - - . y . . . - . , . , . , . 1 y x ' I 1 Y . , . . r C - D 1 ' I v ' . - fxOfOiOOsP'0iOOOOOOPO0llOOOOOOl OS - O-000000O-OOfOPOfI'O0O5000OO-