Noble and Greenough School - Yearbook (Dedham, MA)

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The Graduating Class CORNISH BASSETT Bass is recognized as the class' Hnancial wizard. His Hrst leanings in this direction were years ago when he was one of the foremost gamblers of the lower school. Of course with the dignity of the Hrst class the gambling instinct was subdued, and he now ranks as an authority on the Stock Market and the business world in general. But more than that we shall remember Bass as one who has been closely connected with the mechanics of running the School. VVe recall him as clerk in the bookstore, assistant librarian, plowman, truck-driver, carpenter, and so forth. He always knows how to Hx the lights in the schoolhouse-in short, he is an all-round handy-man whose willingness to lend his efhcient hand makes him a useful and well-liked member of the class. His efficiency made him an excellent hockey manager last year, his talent in mathematics borders on geniusg in athletics he is known as a brute, but rather than use his muscular two-hundred-pound body to advantage in organized play, he prefers to battle on the gym mats with any number of Contestants. It wouldn't be right to omit mention of the house-party Bass gave in Duxbury for the boarders of the class. Praised by all who went, it is hard to imagine anything more well managed or more fun. Bass again showed his ambitious love for work by sacrificing his week-end making it better for the rest of us. The success of the party, due to his efforts, is some- thing we shall long remember. 19 1933 Class B0 Football Squad, 1932, 1933, Team, 1931. Hockey Manager, 1932. Crew Squad, 1929, 1930, 1931. Dramatic Club, 1933.

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33 Class Book The Graduating Class Crew Squad, 1931, 1932, 1933. 3 JOHN BEEBE john is one of the few members of the class who acts his age. Quiet and unassuming, he is content to remain modestly unassertive in all things, doing his own part well and pleasantly. Something he does especially well is mathematicsg he has been outstanding for three years in Mr. Peirce's classes, where he was apt to break out with some deeply mathematical obser- vation concerning a problem far above the rest of our heads. In accord with his leaning for mathematics, he took Solid and Trig, and, take our word for it, keeping up with Bass and Kell in that field is quite an accomplishment. Besides this he designed and built, with Ham, a charging- machine to be used in football next fall. It appears very formidable, and sometimes it grieves us to think of having to leave School without having a chance to use the colossal ma- chine into which they put so much work. John has always had a remarkable gift of not worrying, and it is for this that we most envy him. When most of the class is jittering in its seats awaiting an exam, he will come striding in with an attitude that only real freedom from care can give and one that is very becoming. We are sorry that he is going to be the exception next year and will not be at Harvard, but we wish him all success at Brown. 20