St Lukes School - Oak Yearbook (Wayne, PA)

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and won well at that. The team which beat us was far inferior, and we did not wake up to the fact that they were ahead until it was too late to remedy it. Now that basketball is firmly installed, let us hope that next year we may have a still stronger team, which will cover itself with more glory than the famous team of o5. Mid Year Exams came and went without causing much trouble this year, but no doubt everybody was glad when they were over and able to boast of the high mark he got in such and such a thing or how gracefully he flunked in Virgil. Mr. Read, greatly loved by all, on account of his bountiful hospitality, did not lose his reputation this winter, but entertained each form separately in the Dutch Dining Room. Such things greatly help to pass away the dreary wintry days and who appreciates them more than St. Luke's boys? On the evening of the fourteenth of February, Mr. Kelsey, an old St. Luke's boy, gave us a very inter- esting illustrated lecture in the dining room. His subject was Architecture and Modern Plans of Beautify- ing Cities. Mr. Kelsey is an interesting talker and his lecture was greatly enjoyed. The school play, which was generously written by Mr. Strout, and rehearsed twice a day by a large cast, never materialized. It was decided by vote at a meeting of the Garrick Club to postpone it until spring on account of the briefness of the time, being unable to act the play up to the usual standard of previous St. Luke's theatricals. At the Haverford Meet on February twenty-fourth, Ben Gatins, a third former, won the third prize in the two hundred and twenty yard dash open to all school boys in and around Phila.delphia. Easter being so late this year it was decided by the Faculty to change the holidays. Vacation began April first and ended April seventeenth, thus making the spring term quite a bit longer. Never has a winter past with fewer boys on the sick list, and the new infirmary, although attractive enough to induce a fellow to get sick in order to be put up there, was not used at all. All the boys left on April Foo1's day for home and were happy to think that the winter term was at last over, and spring had come. THE SPRING TERM. Spring, in all her glory, had arrived, before the boys returned from the Easter holidays and every one seemed glad to get back, as all knew good times awaited them. Lots of good warm weather and plenty of IIO

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came the never-to-be-forgotten Cheltenham game in which we carried off highest honors, winning by the decisive score of I7 to 2, which ought to be able to explain itself. Chestnut Hill, our next rivals also suffered a defeat at our hands, and their much-thought-of dinner will have to wait until another day. They say all comes to him who waits, but we are afraid Chestnut Hill's Football Team will have to wait a long time. The Episcopal game, which really ought to have been ours, but which we lost 0 to Io, shows what a difference a large sick list makes in a team. With all our drawbacks, we clearly outplayed them and ,practically lost the game on fumbles. One more defeat at the hands of Central Manual ended the season, which although we lost as many games as we won, was successful in the point that all our big games had been decisive' victories for us. T The Football Feed in the Common Room was voted by all to be one of the most enjoyable entertain- ments ever given at St. Luke's, and the good things to eat made one forget all his bumps and bruises received during football season. Halloween was duly celebrated and greatly enjoyed by both masters and boys. The addition of a large bonfire, below the athletic field, and an entertainment given in the Common Room by magicians, especi- ally engaged for the occasion, greatly added to the evening's pleasure. A great many of the boys went home for the Thanksgiving recess, but those who remained at school did not regret it in any way, as theatre parties were arranged every evening, and the Cornell-Penn game as well as the Army-Navy game drew more than the usual number of St. Luke's boys. Time went quickly between Thanksgiving and the beginning of the Christmas holidays, and no matter how much a boy may love his Alma Mater, he is never sorry to leave for a three weeks' vacation at home, especially around Christmas time. THE WINTER TERM. january tenth saw most of us back at school from the holidays, and not at all prepared to do the hard work which the winter term requires and which Mr. Strout never fails to remind us of. A few of us lingered, not being able to have the good times, which were going on at home. Basketball, which was born at St. Luke's last year, showed up strongly this year and we had a team, that for a school of our size was something to be proud of. Out of the seven games we played, six were won, 109

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out-door work, got all athletics in good working order, with plenty of candidates, our prospects seemed unusu- ally bright. The first baseball game, on the twenty-eighth of April with Central Manual, was also the first game in the Princeton Cup Series, which promises to add greater interest and more increased rivalry than usual to the baseball season. Being our first game, we hardly knew what our team would do, and when at the beginning of the ninth inning the score was 2 to 1 in our favor, it seemed as if the game was ours, but the visiting team made two lucky hits and scored three runs, thus winning out amid great excitement. The Annual Relay Races at Franklin Field were held on the twenty-ninth of April and although every man did his best, we ha.d to be satisfied with third place. May will be a busy month at St. Luke's this year for out of thirty-one days we have twenty-eight filled with either a baseball game, tennis match, or track meet. An Interscholastic Golf Tournament will be held at Bala on the fifth, sixth and seventh of june. St. Luke's expects to be represented and hopes to do herself justice. june is always an eventful month for schools and colleges. It is the educational harvest time, and for us, who are so soon to leave our school home, the most important of all. The final exams, the Sixth Form Dinner, the spreads, the baccalaureate sermon, the Closing Day Exercises and the Dance are all in store for us. The year soon to end has been a happy one, how happy none of us can quite realize till it has past forever into our life history. We shall always look back upon it with pleasure, and those of us who are so soon to leave St. Luke's forever, do so with a feeling of envy for those who are privileged to return in the autumn. FINIS. Ill