Spence School - Yearbook (New York, NY)

 - Class of 1948

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VOCABULARY “These words in themselves are night”: Shadow, dark and pale moonlight, Silver, star-dust, shadow, pool, Graveyard, nightmare, dungeon, ghoul, Spectre, silence, dream, and groan, Black and still and warm and moan, Strange, mysterious and kind, Long and quiet, slow and blind, Empty, echo, lonely, fright, These words in themselves are night! Courtenay Dewey Gentry, XI “These words in themselves are fair’’: Shining, auburn, lucent hair, White neck, arms, light feet and hands, Blue, green, pinkish rainbow bands; Light, creation, thought, ideal, Painting, music, steadfast zeal; Stained-glass window, shaft of light, Church, and choir, and Christmas night; Joy and sorrow, solitude, Dancing, singing, quietude; God, and Earth, and loving care, These words in themselves are fair! Claude Goffart, XI “These words in themselves are home’: Children, parents, dogs that roam, Tantrums, temper, sobbing fits, Smiles and laughter, humour, wits, Silver, napkins, dinner plates, Flowers, fences, white-washed gates, High-backed chairs and sagging couches, Mumps and measles, father’s grouches, Dripping raincoats, muddy floors, Cats and dogs and scratched-up doors, Lizards, toads, and mice, and birds Home makes up these simple words! Patricia Williams, X1 SEA FANTASIA Fantastic sea of checkerboard: Red from the Red Sea, black from the Black, Shades of azure and turquoise from Mediterranean shores White from the river through Lake Geneva, Green with bitter salt from Atlantic and Pacific, Yellow from a muddy Chinese river. Enchanting. Star-shaped is the ship that sails this sea With every point a tale of past adventure. Center of fantasia. Norseman’s proud curving masthead With eye of rugged sailor for a prow; Egyptian trireme—bronzed, sweating backs Straining to the mighty oars; Paddle wheels of a river boat thrash The vari-colored water; Dim small boat which for a dime Gladly takes one for a trip to Welfare isle; Gun-metal gray of present warship With mounted hatred in its turrets, Thousand masts and simple sails. Skull and crossbones, the Jolly Roger's omen Whirling, whirling, point counter-point Far-off Brittania rules the waves. No captain for my star ship Except any free sail who deems to try. But this is my dream And knowing the dreadful end From this point counter-point, The sinking of my ship into a Charybdis, N’er to rise up, I have made no human. For who can live long in “Fantasia” ? Sherry Cogan, X 66

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HOW WIDE SHOULD IT BE? (Prize Essay) Staring does not help. I had stared fixedly at the same problem for fifteen minutes, but it was still the same sensible nonsense. “Mr. Parker decided to have a border for fiow- ers along both sides and across the rear of his back yard, which was sixty feet by forty feet. If the border is to be of uniform width and occupy one fifth of the yard, how wide should it be?” At that moment I didn’t care whether the border occupied one fifth or five fifths of Mr. Parker’s yard. My eyes were heavy with sleep, and I longed to leave the elusive x and y, if only till the next day’s math class. Suddenly the problem came alive! I understood at last. It had nothing to do with algebra, nothing to do with numbers, for that matter. How could it? For the problem belonged to the Parkers, not to First Year Algebra. Last March, when bald, raw patches of brown mud were beginning to disfigure the winter’s snow, Mrs. Parker said to her husband, “John, don’t you think we should do something with the back yard this year? Everybody else has flowers or vegetables or shrubbery at least.” Mr. Parker looked up from the mystery he was reading. ““A flower border would be nice. We could have it along both sides and across the back of the yard. How wide do you think it should be?” “That depends .. .”” said Mrs. Parker. That was how the problem started. Mr. Parker asked friends and relations, cousins and aunts, and they all had very definite ideas. Mrs. Spixit, the lady next door, said that nastur- tiums were nice, but they needed a lot of room. Mr. Parker’s mother-in-law liked climbing roses; they needed almost no room. Mrs. Parker advo- cated a narrow border because she didn’t want to crowd the garden furniture. The children said, “Remember the croquet set. That has to fit, too.” The dog, thinking in terms of a large bone- burial ground, was in favor of a wide border. During all the weeks of debate, Mr. Parker never lost his temper; a sunflower could not have been more cheerful. But he was tired of the feuds over phlox and petunias. The very thought of a hoe made him nervous, and his sleep was troubled by visions of cut-worms and slugs. Finally he gave up. Mrs. Parker could have the garden if she wished, but he never wanted to hear of it again. Though Mrs. Parker tried valiantly, she never could decide how wide the flower bed should be. And neither could I, But the math teacher could. Without considering the Parkers, she used a magic equation which immediately told how wide it should be. Phyllis La Farge, IX



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$$ LES TAPISSERIES FRANCAISES Les tapisseries francaises au Musée Metropo- litain sont arrangées selon les siécles depuis le quatorzieme. Elles viennent des vieux chateaux francais. Autrefois, les dames tissaient ces tapis- series pour les murs nus des chateaux. Au quatorzi¢me siécle, on faisait des tapisseries qui représentaient des faits religieux, tels que la vie de Saint Etienne et ses miracles, ou la vie de la Sainte Vierge. Les visages sont expressifs et les costumes sont intéressants comme forme et couleur. IL y en a de beaux rouges et de beaux bleus. Les fonds sont simples et d’ordinaire d’une couleur. Comme les siécles passaient, la tapisserie deve- nait plus ornée, plus grande, et elle perdait sa simplicité. Les visages devenaient plus développés, plus modernes, les vetements beaucoup plus ornés et détaillés. Il y a plus de personnages dans les tapisseries, et maintenant il est plus difficile de distinguer leurs actions. Les fonds sont de di- verses couleurs. MON CANARI, CHIRPY Mon canari, qui s’appelle Chirpy, est jaune et gris. Il ne chante pas, excepteé a midi. Il a juste fini de muer. La semaine derniére, on lui a coupé les ongles parce qu’ ils étaient trés longs et il était pris sur son perchoir. Chirpy mange beaucoup et il est trés gras. Il mange un biscuit d’ceuf et deux différentes graines pour canaris tous les jours. Sa cage est tres grande et Chirpy l’aime. C’est un canari doré, entraineur d’opéra. J aime beaucoup mon canari. Est-ce que vous l’aimez ? Daryl Beckman, VII La Chasse de la Licorne est l'une des séries les plus connues. J’aime le feuillage vert et jaune, les mouvements gracieux, l’uniformité, et le sym- bolisme qui s’en dégage. Je trouve que cette série est plus artistique et délicate que les autres. J’aime aussi l’Apocalypse et les tapisseries qui repré- sentent la vie de Louis XIV. Par ces tapisseries on peut apprendre les événements quotidiens du peuple et de la royauté a cette €poque. Avant que les tapisseries deviennent tout a fait modernes, il y a une série qui représente des mon- tures pour les tableaux. Il y a toujours des anges, des trompettes et des arabesques. Elles sont jolies, décoratives, mais elles ne veulent rien dire. Les tapisseries modernes sont horribles, 4 mon avis. Elles sont comme les peintures modernes abstraites. Les couleurs sont trop vives et ne sont pas harmonieuses. La plupart expriment des sen- timents qui ne semblent pas honnétes et sinceres. Peut-étre faut-il étudier l'art abstrait pour les appreécier. Patricia W eenolsen, XII UN PORTRAIT Peut-étre ne me connaissez-vous pas. Je suis petit, out, trés petit! et j'ai six longues jambes et six grands pieds. Mes oreilles sont bleues. Jat les yeux rouges et les cheveux courts et verts. Pensez . . . Qui suis-je? Je suis le microbe dans la salle trente et un. Frances Ewing, VIII LES DEUX ARBRES Il y avait dans une forét pres de Paris deux arbres; l’un était un pin tres grand et majestueux, et l’autre était petit. Mais les Oiseaux aimaient mieux le petit arbre parce qu'il était plus aimable que l'autre. Le pin disait toujours: “Quelque jour, je serai grand et beau, et tout Ie monde m’admirera.”’ C’est pour cette raison que les oise- aux n’aimaient pas le pin. Un jour, trois hommes entrérent dans la forét et regardérent les deux arbres en réfléchissant. Finalement, un homme montra le pin et dit aux autres: “Voici le meilleur arbre de la forét. 67 Coupez-le.” Alors, les hommes coupérent le pin et l’emporterent loin de la forét. Le petit arbre regardait tout avec envie et surprise. Le lendemain les oiseaux vinrent et s’ intalléerent dans les feuilles des arbres. Le petit arbre leur posa des questions au sujet du pin et ils lui ré- pondirent: “Le pin qui parlait toujours de la renommeée sera un arbre de Noél dans une maison de Paris. Aprés Noél il bralera et ce sera sa fin. Maintenant, vous aurez plus de soleil et vous croitrez grand et beau. Nous ferons nos nids dans vos branches et vous nous protégerez. Elinor Myers, X

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