Maynard High School - Screech Owl Yearbook (Maynard, MA)

 - Class of 1930

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THE SCREECH OWL 17 SON CARACTERE Amer, cynique, desappointe, La Rochefoucauld, un homme desillu- sionne en politique, en amour, dans la vie elle-meme! Pessimiste confirme, mais homme remarquable il voyait tout depouille de ses faussetes et de ses couvertures protectrices de men- songe que l’optimiste prefere ignorer. II n’est pas tou jours juste mais il aime le vrai, et c’est ce que nous cherchons tous — la verite! On admire cette qualite dans Fhomme, particu- lierement dans La Rochefoucauld. Son style est anime, correct, precis ; son choix de mots est exact, colore, excellent. Il est brillant dans la con- versation, incline a etre caustique, mais badin! Sa theorie: “il n’y a rien dans la vie que Fegoisme et l’interet personnel” est excessivement habile bien que la pensee soit morbide. Son amertume est refletee dans ses “Maximes, ” la philosophic d’un pessi- miste. Si Famour et le bonheur avaient pu entrer dans la vie de La Rochefoucauld, nous aurions Fhomme parfait, car un esprit brillant renforce par Famour et Fesperance est admire partout ! Doris Dawson. Ballotte par les desappointements de la vie, La Rochefoucauld devint un pessimiste confirme. Il ne faut pas dire qu’il etait lache simplement parce qu’il exprima des idees pessimistes. Ce sont les opinions qu’il a gagnees par F experience. Ses “Maximes” sont comme le testament moral de son ame meurtrie par la vie. Quelqu’ un qui est blesse au combat certainement n’ est pas un lache! Cependant, il etait fait plutot pour la meditation que pour F action et sa nature chagrine F inclinait au pessi- misme. Il etait melancolique et tres peu sensible a la pitie. Je le trouve interessant! Mark Kelly. La Rochefoucauld etait un poltron. Tous sont des poltrons qui perdent leur foi dans F humanite a cause d’ un desappointement. Tous les pessi- mistes sont des poltrons. Mais ils sont habiles. Ils peuvent meme se persuader que ce qu’ils croient est vrai. La Rochefoucauld etait tres habile. Il pensait pouvoir eviter les desappointements en attend- ant le pis. De cette maniere-la il pouvait recevoir plusieures surprises agreables parceque rien n’ arrive comme nous F attendons. Le pessimisme est une force demoralisante ! Salme Wirkkanen. D’AUTRES ECHOS! “Je me represente La Rochefouc- auld ayant de petites lignes boudeuses autour de la bouche, et dans les yeux un air severe qui cherche tou jours le pire dans les gens. Il est peut-etre ego ' iste, abattu, au coeur dur, mais ces traits servent seulement a faire avancer ses oeuvres.” Edith Perkins. “11 est lache et faible parce qu’ il ne peut pas approcher le monde avec un sourire. Il est trop timide pour etre admire.” Winifred Tobin. “11 avait peur de la vie.” B. Gruber. “11 me semble qu’il parle comme un enfant gate.” Olga Anderson. “11 prend probablement cette atti- tude pessimiste pour se distinguer et pour acquerir le nom de ‘grand pessimiste’.” Irma Wirkkanen. “11 est ingenieux d’etre pessimiste, mais il est plus ingenieux d’etre philosophe !” Edith Perkins.

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16 THE SCREECH OWL me back to the jail. Upon my arrival they brought me before the judge who had a face that reminded me of a cross between a St. Bernard and a Boston terrier. “What’s the charge?” growled the judge, as he took the card I offered him. I shrank down to the size of a Mex- ican jumping bean. My brow became moist. All eyes were focused on me. I didn’t know what I had done to cause all this commotion and trouble. “Your honor,” a man with a red mustache said, “I found this lunatic out in the street.” “But your honor!” I exclaimed. “Shut up!” the judge growled. “And he was breaking windows and shooting children and using profane language.” “The first few charges are nothing, but for his using profanity I shall give him thirty years at hard labor.” “But your honor, think of my poor wife and children.” “Twenty more years for contempt of court.” “What! Your honor, I was only — ” “Put him up for life,” growled the judge. After I had served three days, I knew all the tricks of the various il- legal trades, such as bootlegging and politics. The other prisoners let me in on their plan for escape. The zero hour came and we mutinied. We refused to eat stuffed duck. We were fed up on it. We wanted chop-suey for a change. When the chef refused us, we started our escape and burned down the prison. Gathering together all the ammuni- tion in the supply room, we headed down Main Street to make “whoo- pee.” As we approached the stock yard, someone shot off a cap pistol. A stam- pede immediately followed and I used up all the bombs that I had and made my escape. I’ll not go there any more. Harold Lerer, ’30. QUAND NOUS PENSONS EN FRANCAIS LE TONNERRE DES MAX1MES DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD REVERBERENT DANS LA FORET VIERGE DE LA CLASSE AVANCEE. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Francois La Rochefoucauld, auteur et moraliste frangais naquit a Paris en seize cent treize. II servit plusieurs annees dans l’armee et prit part a la Fronde. II fut blesse deux fois. II ne regut pas la recompense qu’il esperait d’Anne d’Autriche. Pendant les dernieres annees de sa vie il fit la connaissance de Madame de La Fayette. Sa celebrite est due a son petit volume de “Maximes.” La note preponderate des “Maximes” est l’egoi ' sme. Cette philosophie de la vie est exposee avec ardeur et d’une maniere elegante. Ses maximes sont distinguees parcequ’elles sont pleines de pessimisme. En voici quelques-unes. Jugez en vous meme ! Howard King. “Les vertus se perdent dans l’interet comme les fleuves dans la mer.” “Si nous resistons a nos pas- sions, c’est plus par leur faib- lesse que par notre force.” “Le refus des louanges est un desir d’etre loue deux fois.” “Ce qu’on nomme liberate n’est plus souvent que la vanite de donner que nous aimons mieux que ce que nous donnons.” La Rochefoucauld.



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THE SCREECH OWL 18 “Je l’admire pour sa franchise, son courage et sa sincerity !” Katherine Bariteau. “II ne realisa pas que la valeur d’un homme est mesuree seulement par la facon dont il agit quand il rencontre un obstacle.” Wilho Frigard. “11 a leve un miroir a la societe par sa philosophies Dorothy Allen.

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