St Pauls School - Sixth Form Yearbook (Concord, NH)

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THE YEAR HIS school year has been on the whole very successful The standard of scholar ship has improved as is shown by the fact that the school average was higher than ever before and the percentage of failure in examinations was markedly smaller than in former years The tone of athletics in general has been excellent and the standard of good sportsmanship high The work of the various societies has been carried on with unflagging enthusiasm There has been very little illness in the school In club athletics the Delphians excelled winning the championship in football hockey and baseball Their superior team play and their abilitv to use every opportunity to its best advantage enabled them to defeat both the lsthmians and Old Hundreds The Del phians also won the track The season at the pond was long and successful each club having eight full crews and consistently maintaining a fine spirit The Halcyons won the first sixth and eighth crew races The Shattucks won the second third fourth fifth and seventh crew races The interest in golf tennis squash and other sports has been great The lsthmians won the squash championship the Old Hundreds won the cross country runs and the Harvard Second Varsity team The SPS tennis team lost to Andover and won from Manchester High School and VV1lton Mens Club the champions of New Hampshire The S P S golf team played one match which they won The SPS football team was very successful winning from Noble and Greenoughs in an exciting and hard fought game by 1 score of 20 7 The S PS hockey team lost to Harvard lireshmen 2 O and also to Dartmouth Fresh m n IO They defeated the Princeton freshmen IO and the Yale Freshmen Zl The game with Kent School which was the hardest fought and most exciting game of the season was won by the S PS l0 The S PS baseball team defeated Concord High School 53 The work of the literary Societies has b en consistently excellent and the standard v V i ' ' 7 A y x . . . , S Y . . . i , A 1 L , , 3 1 . . D 7 D . y i . 1 ' v Isthmians won the club tennis championship. The S.P.S. squash team lost to the , . . 7 , ' - - 7 . . . , . W . . , . --I . I , . .x. , ' 1 7 ', ' Cl -a' n , -l 1 n , - . 7 fy , J s 1, - n J e ' ,

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T wenly thi u THE CHOIR

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both of the debatlng and of the llterary exeruses has been hlgh The Qoncordlan won the jornt debate The mterest rn the Home has been unusually good and tontrrbutrons haxe been yery numerous Both prose and yerse haye been excellent and the paper has earned much tom mendatlon from outsrde sources as well as from tht sthool The meetlngs of the Nllsslonary Souety hue occurred more often thrs year than ln the past and the work of the socrety hls been very successful The bLlCI1Ill'lL ASSOLIHIIOU has done good work and held many lnterestrng meetmgs The oiiicers of the Slxth Form exchanged xlslts wlth the Prefects of Groton School and two counullors also yrslted bt Nlarks bchool The basement of the bug study has been rebullt and a Lnltcd States Post Office has been 1nstalled for the use of the school wrth an rndxxndual box for each boy A new bar ber shop has also been bullt there The rntersectnon of roads rn front of the Lower School has been rearranged and trees have been planted along the road rn front of the workshop It was full of welrd costumes and strange yehltles The straw yote taken ln the school elected Nlr Coolrdge by an overwhelmlng majorlty FX new system of ordcrlrness holldays has been adopted Path boy who YCLCIVCS no yellow sl1ps for the entlre year IS glyen 1 whole holrday lnstead of the former arrange ment of glylng the hlblldly to the boys ln the burldlng NVhlLh recelved the fewest yel low slxps Another new custom lb that of haxmg speeches from srxth formers 1n the blg study at the Saturday Iavenlng assemblies durlng the hrst two terms Thls provldes a much needed opportunrty for practnce rn publlc spcaklng Vle bellexe that thls year the school has llxed up to nts hlgh standards and that rt has falthfully carrred on 1ts long establnshed tradltlon of loyalty and serylce The re sponslblllty of carrylng this standard and th1s tr1d1t1on lnto the world outslde the school rests upon us Tu enty fi e 1! i wi 2 if 1 xv I r Tx- I -x x. I x xv w ,I Q. Y , yy Tw v L . A L l L A L . l . I Election Day was a whole holiday this year and the parade was better than usual. C C V N Y' -Q C - 2 - . . I T V . V 7 . L-