Metropolitan Vocational High School - Metropolis Yearbook (New York, NY)

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YIESSH IERI AY fhe ground. Her hair is long and fied up in a severe bun a+ +he back of her head. Papa . and Mama Smifh would have hyslerics if Mary used lipslick or rouge, alfhough 1'hey occasionally permil' her +o use powder. John and Mary leave -For school 'rogeiher and fhey board one of +he brand new +rol- leys, or, perhaps, 'lhey bicycle +o school. As 'lhey approach +he school, +hey see +he building, a small, unimpressive brick edifice, formerly P. S. No. 7, localecl on Chris+ie and Hes+er S+ree'rs. They meer classmafes who look very much like lhem, and, as +hey en+er 1'he building, 1'hey discuss 1'he burning +opics of fhe day: fhe recenf Armislice, Pro- hibi+ion, baseball and jazz, fhen beginning +o become popular. Some of +he s+uden+s, as They s1'roll 'rhru fhe crowded halls, hum +he popular hir of +he day, Hindus1'an, while o+hers sing songs from fhe exfremely popular Robin Hood, a brand new oper- e'Ha by Reginald De Koven. John probably aH'ends a Woodworking, an Elecfric Wiring Shop or, perhaps, he al'- fends classes in Typing or Bookkeeping. Mary is enrolled in eilher a Secrelarial or Sewing Course. Twen+y-five years ago, +he Easl' Side Con- +inua+ion School was +he liHle seed of Me+ro- poli'ran foday iusl as Merropoliran foday is The seedling of a greaier and grander Merro- polifan of +he fu+ure.

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ANDWV Eiecfed from +he Subway, +he s+uden+ of Mefropolifan moves across Park Row, dodg- ing fo avoid 'rhe cars, busses, frucks and frolleys fhai' swoop down from +he Brooklyn Bridge al' his righf. As he furns back +o +he Bridge, if looks like a greal' horn of plenfy pouring for+h a mul'ri'rude of vehicles which, like life's blood, feed fhe financial and in- duslrial dis+ric+s which lie below if. He walks Easl' on Chambers S+ree+, a fhoroughfare no+orious in +he hisfory of New York, s+ill s+amped indelibly wifh fhe memen- foes of i+s pasf. Pasl fhe Coasl' Guard Bar- racks, fhe sfudenf lazily approaches fhe Main Building sei' like a iewel in fhe squalor of fhe surrounding slum. Furfher Norfh, on 'rhe oufer boundaries of Knickerbocker Village, sifs fhe Monroe Building whose +wo lop floors form +he Academic Annex of Melropoliian. Above i+, like a fireless symbol, sfrefches fhe Man- haHan Bridge, gaunl and ausfere. Two blocks away, on Madison S'rree+, sfands +he Madison Building, a grandfarher among schools. On fhe easfern perimefer of fhe neighbor- hood flows fhe Easf River feeming wifh wafer lraffic, while on fhe Wesl' broods Chinafown wifh ifs labyrinfhs of mysfery. QDAY

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X-XNID TVUDAY Each morning, before any classes s+ar+, Home Room discussions are held under +he leadership of an advisor. The purpose of 'rhese lessons is +o orien+ +he s+uden'r in and ou'r of school. From fhe Home Room Period, +he sfudenl' moves +o his nex+ class, and, as he walks fhru fhe halls, he hears 'rhe sounds which blend info fhe characierisfic harmony of a voca- 'I'ional school. On fhe fhird floor, fhe home of +he Music Depar'rmen'r, he can hear 1'he melodious voice of fhe sfrings, 'rhe marfial air of +he brasses, 'rhe sof+ fones of fhe woodwinds all led by fhe experl' baron of fhe leachers. In 'rhe Mari+ime Deparfmenf, he can see fhe greai boilers and equipmeni being serv- iced and repaired, he can see embryonic felegraphers prac+ice fhe spanning of greal' disfances. In o+her rooms, rough-hewn blocks of mefal slowly falce shape under ihe sfudenfs' eager hands, and, in oihers, wood is beni' and shaped in+o boa+s of all sizes. In fhe Dramafics Depar1'men+, 'rhe rooms ring wifh soliloquy and dialogue. All fhese voices are 'rhe Voice of Meiro- polifan foday. ln +hese halls, young America is faughl' fo find ifs place in a world where only +he well-irained and fhe well-educafed are called upon fo be leaders.