Pingry School - Blue Book Yearbook (Elizabeth, NJ)

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C,xRLos CoN'r1:1cic.xs, Conti-ary, livarlosf' Prize Speaking, .081 First Prize, Selwlar- ship lScientiHc Coursej. '08, U. . , . . I enjoy 111ysUff t'U1'.v we!! 111 CUJlIf7lI71'X', I C1111 'I't'7'j' ive!! L'UIIfC7If rulzmz 111111 1111011110 On March l6. l892, Little lif'Z11'f1'AI'-lHS made his appearance and wept for some mathematics to do. The city he honored with his birth was Acuascalientes Qlaat. 219-l8', Long. ll2Ol5'U, the capital of the State which bears its name. llesides being an undoubted authority in things mathematical. he is a star at mechanical drawing and an orator of no mean abilities, though he goes the pebbles of Demosthenes several better by substituting an ever present gob of Spearinintf' Carlos will surely leave large footprints on the sands of time if he does not prove too good for this world. and indeed we even fear that that may be the case in the next. To Columbia with lsfyarlosf' CL'1:'r1s Gianni: CULIN, JR. - Curt, l'rof.U Art Editor, liLL'lf HOOK, .081 Class His- torian CCommeneement 7. H0 IIIZISIL, 110 fs, he EGIIIIOZ' Z1111' be -zu1',vC. Ten days before the birthday celebration of his great relative, St. Patrick, in the year of our Lord, l800, Curt. dropped into New York, wearing' nothing' but his spectacles. llis wardrobe. we are glad to say, has since greatly increased until now he is considered, with the possible exception of Rosendo, the most beautifully appareled member of the class. lie is our special representative among the fair sex of Cranford and many are the broken hearts that lie bleeding' beneath his patent leather shoes. Pennf will feel the inlluence of his charming' personality this fall ln f 4

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flies 4242 ll W l QVW lil if Eimgtls' i iilef Ng i ta st i , 4 Q WllMliillll'lml . Q hmmm Cwelihrrzh at Qllnmmentementb Upon this. our lust clay zts Senior Class of the Pingry School. it is hut right that we Should leave that for this As a clztss we were lirst organized fur hack in the grades, when an election was held to determine selected were the ofticers of this hotly. How successful this election wats, .and how well the ezuiilidzttes, is fully shown hy the fact that the president ot that year hits reinztinecl in office ever since. lt was not until our Second Form Yeztr. however, thztt we tirst ztttrztcted puhlic notice, for then we :required :i reputzttion as l,z1tin scholars and indeed were so populztr with our instructor in that suhjeet that for one whole week he detztinetl us after school merely to heztr lls recite. Of course this was for his own pleasure. Up to our Third Iiorm Year we had all pursued the sztme course of study. hut in that ycztr our wztys parted, the clztssiezilly inclined 'taking up Greek, while the more scientitit explored the mysteries of physical phenomena. This yeztr was noteworthy for we :zppeztred in ull the gh unztccountnhly lost. Then. too. in the Spring we acquired clztss hztts, which will l-ing renienihered in the school. lluring our Qenior Year school ztffztirs have developed wonderfully. thouffh without the P . , - 5 heztrty support which the fztculty has given to these new departures, their success wO1il.l i not have been ztssured. Lute in the tztll. to all admiring' eyes, il slcztting rink ztppeztred upon the Ural, and though we hrtd no skating thereon, still the satisfaction of having at rink renizuns. Then. too. the old custom of having :t mid-winter plzty has heen revived and Mr, Holi ztuordecl great ainusenient to those who ztssenihled. iNlz1rch 6th, in the ztutlitoriuin T nd of the Town :uid Country Cluh, lsut our efforts have not heen wholly in It soeiztl ri drzunzttie direction: for seyerztl of our nnmher went to New Yorlc lztst January for the purpose of taking the mid-winter college entrztnce exzmnnations. Such success :ts they met with hits seldom hefore heen eneountertl hy any students. Klztnv were the honor marks received. Ind eefl, one report reztched perfection :uid the others were very near it. Ancl now. in closing, wc wish as Z1 class to thank our instructors without whose :tid we should hztye been unzthle to write the history of the Clztss of l9llS. Though :tt times. no douht. we hztye sorely tried their pzttienee. they huye zilwztys heen rezuly to exert themselves in our hchztlf. :md we ztsk them to rememher our clztss with the hest of good wishes, Ceizrts Cl, CVLIN, Jie. 1.i some few words of advice for coming Seniors, and of coursei we helieve purpose there could he nothing more suitzthle than the history of thc Clztss of 1908 ary ot new clztss pins wlnch. although provided with satety czttehes. were lit'

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How.xRn IJNCIJLX llxyis, Deacon, Doe Track Team, '07, '08 , 4 nlflt' f'fOTt'llIGII l10111ctu111'd filods .'11'.e 'zt'0f11'y tray. Ol cl Deacon Davis lirst saw tha: light on ,Tune 9, H538 Hens agitat molem' and since then he has increased wonderfully in wisdom and stature-especially the latter! until now he stands at the zenith of his earthly hopes, prepared. whether to enter Riitgers, or to edit the Rafztuay Daffy ,1lKQ'1'1'c11H111'c1!. Howard is also renowned as a track athlete. While his portraits of Spalding are alone sut- ficieut to gain him fame in this vale of tears. After his matriculation, in whatever line 'fflld l3e'1c. find: himself enoaeed. we pick r N N45 him for a winner. isn't XYe hope every man we pity the man. Cifoiemc Eoyxpxium lhxlocia, JR., Patty, George. Associate Editor. lqlfffllilku '06, .072 Prize Speaking, 'O5g Greek Urator QCOIHINGHCC- ment.J I 2.1111 11111 vlzoosc -zulzaf lllllllj' 111011 tfCSl.1'l', 1106111150 f 'tt'1'H 11111 j11111f1 iufflz 60111111011 sjv1'1'1'fs, 111111 1'1111k 1115 'ldlifjl the bc11'l1a1'1111.v llIZIffilIl07US.H Un October 17th, l89l, Georgie-our Ceorgie was born with a gun in one hand and a fishing rod in the other, and he has exer- cised both hands abnormally ever since. The old rascal has the cold, grey eye of the good marksman. One ot the relies of his narrow escapes is a derby hat with bullet holes through the crown. His struggles with 'X'ergil's Ecloques have been heroic. will be good to Georgie in Yale next year, but it he 16