Townsend Harris High School - Crimson Gold Yearbook (Flushing, NY)

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9 . FRENCH STQRY f I La Voix D an Dela Du Tombefzzz. ARNOLD GALLUB javais achete un automobile neuf- un beaute: rose coleur, une figure ex- quis, et tres distinque Apres liachat, j'allai au garage pour prendre possession de mon automobile. Naturellement. j'etais :res inquiet cle le concluire chez moi. Et pourquoi pas? Comme j'etais content en pensant a la surprise et a la joie qu'il y aurait chez moi at la vue de ce don agreable, parce que c'etait joli, en verite. Monsieur, dit le me-canicien, Hje veux vous dire quelque chose d'import- ance Personne ne s'est encore servi cle cet automobile. Les freins ne sont tres dignes de foi. A cause cle cela, je vous avertis cle ne pas aller rite. je fis remarquer mon habilite de chauffeur. Tiens, me dit-il, si ce que vous me dites est vrai, cela m'egal, mais pensez at ce que je vous dit. Il vaut mieux etre prudent. Je partis en begayant un mot d'as- surence. Le chemin que je devais suivre etait tres montagneux. Le moteur bour- clonnait joyeux: en verite, rien ne fait plus de plaisir a l'automobiliste que le bourdonnement du moteur en revan- che, tout allait bien je ne pouvais pas m'empecher de sourire en pensant aux avertissements de l'ouvrier. Apres tout, il se moquait de moi, le bon- homme. Il ne savait pas, probable- ment, que j'etais motoriste depuis onze ans. jetais pres de ma maison, cotoyant une grande colline escarpee, gagnant Vitesse at chaque moment, quancl sou- dain il est venu a moi-oui, soudain, comme un coup cle tonnerre Cest un desir aliene, cleprave, sans controle, intimide par ce long chemin cimente. je voulus la vitesse . . . Vitesse-cette mechante possession des diables d'en- fer. Cependant, pour apaiser mon clesir, je pressai sur l'accelerateur et 16 filai at toute vitesse. Quelle joiel Quelle nouveaute! Mais-qu'est-ce que c'etait que cela, qu'est-ce que je voyais! Oh, mon Dieu -cletait un autre-un autre automo- bile tout droit! fessayais de m'ar- reter-impossible-les freins etaient inutiles-tous mes efforts etaient en vain! Un craquement temeraire . . . inevitable . . . terrible . . . un choc foudroyant. Les avertissements du mecanicien niavait pas en en vain! . . . un pens momentare cle clouleur, ensuite l'oubli. Combien de temps j'etais insensible, je ne sais pas, mais guancl mes sens une revinrent, je me le vai pour brosser mes vetements. je ne sentais pas de douleur, ce n'etait pas d'ordinaire que je serais heureux. Je me remis sur piecl et je vis un groupe cle spectateurs en train immobiles. La silence reg- nait. Tout a coup, j'apercus un homme que je connaissais chez ce groupe silencieux. Hon, c'etait impossible, j'avais tort . . . et encore . . . oui, de par tous les diables, c'etait Henri Briant, sans cloute-mais . . . Stupefait, effraye, je le vis m'approcher. Ennn, avec un effort violent, je poussai Henri, Henri! . . . la querre . . . La Marne et les coups cle feu . . . sacre bleu, Henri, vous etes mort . . . dans la guerre . . . vous etes mort! Et avec ce sourire naive que l'avait distingue toujours, il repondit, l'Oui, mon ami, et vous aussi .... . N W 1 , Q ,Q if, L 4 - ' Q , ii 0 egg Y ,Rx-A i, ' ll i , : ll 'l i 0 'U 41 ,f .iihliik . Q . Page Sixty-Five

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0 I-'ff m m f- tm i rW-cet ff- fr-f Geal 'fb 4'-,ka f 1 gr . a.. 5. , Q If CLASSES I.. ERE, in Townsend Harris Hall, to a greater extent than in any other high school in the city, the class is an extremely important factor. .5 Each is a separate entity and each has certain duties to perform and matters to regulate. Since every Harrisite is interested in his class 2 Qiif, first and foremost, there is a great deal of friendly emulation in the student body. The various inter-class tournaments, both in the athletic and non-athletic fields, are whole-heartedly supported by the students each term. These activities are followed with the greatest interest and their outcome is quite an important local event. Particularly during the spring term, when the balmy weather stimulates interest in things athletic, there is much activity over at Jaspar Oval and in the environs of the school. Then hundreds of students turn out every day to play on, or at least root,' for, their class-teams. Two innovations during the past year have greatly contributed towards stimulating rivalry and competition between the classes to a greater degree than ever before. These are the inter-class swimming meet and Eield Day, both introduced and sponsored by the General Organization. These events have a distinct advantage over the inter-class tournaments in that they give all the classes an opportunity to compete against one another at the same time. Besides, the results are much more conclusive. Introduced last term purely as an experiment, these meets proved so successful that from now on they will undoubtedly take their place as permanent events on the school calendar of activities. In the non-athletic field there is the inter-class debating tournament which always proves to be very interesting. This activity attracts even more students than the athletic contests do. Boys at the high-school age, for some inexplic- able reason, take great pleasure in voicing their opinions. Deprived of this great joy in the classroom, they are even more anxious to give vent to their thoughts outside, where there is no stern teacher to disapprove. Hence their interest in debating. Since the Varsity Debating team was abolished a few terms ago, the class which wins the prize is usually conceded to be the team equivalent to the varsity. In addition to these activities a paper is issued by every class and all vie with one another for the distinction of having the best publication on the bulletin-board. These papers afford valuable training to students interested in journalism and furnish material for the staffs of the Crimson and Gold and the Stadium.'y The main reason for the pre-eminence of the class in Townsend Harris is its small size. Ini a school of five or six thousand students it is impossible to center activity in the class for this would result in conflict and confusion. However, here, where fortunately we number only about eleven hundred, each student is familiar with all his classmates, there is a bond of union among them, and it is possible for all to co-operate and work for the welfare of the class as a whole. S E - x fl , lij fill' Q14 r 'Est Y- Vg' . K 0 'V had . 0 . Page Sixty-S even