Stamford Union Free School - Camera Yearbook (Stamford, NY)

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N ow 'tDoc, l1ere's your chance to marry some money as I have always said you Would, Allen reported to-'Doctor Cathaway one eveni11g as they were walking about the grounds, Jo , Allen, Doctor Catliaway and Ellen. A N ever you mind what I marry whether it's your sister or money, Doc replied. Come on Jon, I see tl1e 1I10011,S coming up. Shall we watch it I? Allen said taking 'fJo around to Where they could watch the moon as it slowly ascended flooding the ground with its mellow light. s G. BROIVN '26.

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I certainly do! He was 1ny roommate at college. VVl1y, do you- -know him I? Allen was g'etting rather excited by this question. Yes very well. My friend and! I were walking one day and he gave us a ride back to town. He sopke of having fixed a broken leg for a. young chap, Allen Patterson, by name, I think. Well by jove! Can you beat that. I happen to be that Allen Patterson and it was my leg that was broken. Are you sure that you're not my brother? Ellen asked full of excitement. Your brother? I didn 't know that I l1ad a sister. VVhy do you ask? Ellen told her story and how she had happened to ask about her childhood. I am going to send a telegram to Aunt Lucy and ask her if I have a sister. If you prove to be my sister, Ellen, all the better. Let's have another dance, what do you say? They started for the hall but Ellen was claimed by Doctor Cathaway who was also a guest. USO this is your game is it, H Doc? So long, Jo and I will hop this 0116. Eh Jo?l' Seems as if we would, came from t'Jo as tl1ey danced away. It makes me so happy to think that Ailen is my brother wl1ich I think he surely must be, Ellen told the Doctor. IVhat! Allen your brother? Are you crazy? No just happy. Seems as though he does look enough like you to be your twin brother since you say that he is. The party came to an end, and tl1e guests departed. Jo happier than when she arrived and Ellen thrilled' over her brother, for such he proved to be. The next week after the party and after Ellen told her aunt Grace about Allen she invited him and Doctor Cathaway for the week end. VVith Allen came news of a large sum of money which had been left to each of the Patterson children, unknown till Allen had looked up past histories.

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EDITORIALS S is f'X.l': ,,, N i! Eli ' x , fp. Af.:-If: -.L V, ,.,, . - - , -4' -.1 ' . A T ll I. E T I U S The purpose of athletics is greatly misunderstood by most people. The majority of people consider athletic com- petition as something to pass away time or as something to make a person strong: The main object of athletics is the C0- ordination of mind and body. The second object is to teach people the idea cf courage, sportsmanship and fair play. Football is perhaps the greatest athletic game in the pres ent day schools and colleges. Vlie cannot consider Big League baseball as upholding the purposes of athletics as their main purpose is to give the audience excitement and re- ceive money in 1'eturn. Imagine an athletic game in which the players did not use their brains but depended entirely upon their physical being. Un the other hand imagine the players o11ly using their brains and not their bodies. The eltect of bodily coordination is not seen only in athletics but in every phase of life. The quick thinking developed by athletic participation is also of great use in cyery day life. Athletics also afford recreation at the same time with mental and physical benelit.