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

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SENIOR MEMORIES It was all a mistake. We took the entrance exams to get a holiday from school. Impres- sions on exam day . . . Max Smith's stubborn lock of hair over his left eye . . . Mr. Conti's first reverberating bellow . . . the feeble jokes about the elevator's effect on the digestive system . . . Remembrances of Lower C . . . The election of Hofheimer because he was the tallest . . . the first T. D. knocked out by a belligerent member of the class . . . how we all set the alarm for 6:00 A.M. and retired at 9:00 or 10:00 P.M .... the reception given us . . . mayhem for a hot dog and murder for a drink . . . our own re- ception to the L. C's . . . debate . . . should Heinz' label be 57 or 57M ? . . . Dayton Den- nett the optimist . . . telling us that usually many Lower C's were ejected . . . when three- quarters of the class tried to crash politics in L. B . . . remember H. P. Isenberg? . . . and Mr. Ieradi,s gentle ministrations . . . Harry Simon's pleading for a function . . . and none resulting . . . the lost battalion . . . Junior High School students . . . discoveries . . . Mr. Blake's remarkable collar . . . Jake Landman wrote the alphabet . . . Cput it after his namej . . . the champion reciter of mile long rules, Mr. Whyte . . . and without paus- ing for breath . . . evolution . . . Mr. 0lt's developing a moustache . . . strange inter- ludes . . . the football game . . . Mr. Fitz's patented English curriculum . . . functions . . . the banquet . . . glowing cigarettes . . . then home and to bed . . . the boat-ride . . . Dave Heft, the canny pitcher . . . Max Smith singling . . . Mr. Trilling dropping a fly ball . . . remember . . . the all-conquering football team . . . the first week of the term . . . rush for clubs . . . Amy Richter's green cards . . . unsuccessful cuts . . . mad geniuses . . . the Physics Department . . . mysteries . . . why did William Roy Begg lose his trusty razor. . . . why did girls in Industrial building march around and around the room . . . occasion . . . window-cleaning . . . battle-cry . . . What, no soap? . . . a noteworthy fact . . . the loyalty of the class to Mae West . . . fond remembrances . . . the week-ends . . . build- ing standing tall and straight in the sunlight . . . a scholastic haven . . . sanctuary amidst noise and turmoil of busy city . . . wistful memory . . . the goodbyes . . . it's all over . . . farewell . . . page thircygwo

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the flock of January, 1934, having been fleeced full well, do behoof ourselves to proceed in the procedure of the preceding herds. In pursuance whereof we do thrust a most beneficent and philanthropic hand deep into our cash-less cache, and do bequeath: To Dr. Standerwick-the overbearing bur- den of our much used conscience to be used as a threat to Lower Cs, To Dr. Landman-a Republican police-dog who won,t put his paw downvg To Mr. Heft-an electric fan to blow the imaginary chalk-dust from his desk and chair, To Mr. Fitzpatrick-a glass of water to elim- inate dryness, To Miss James-an automatic phonograph which will say, whenever the silence is bro- ken, Now, boys, there's to be absolutely no talking in the library . . . To Dr. Goss--the Fable of the Hare and the Tortoise. Need we remind him that the Hair lost . . . To Dr. Cobb-an easy-flowing fountain pen, for he appreciates and rewards a good tale well told, To the Freshman of Tomorrow-one ton of yeast which may help him rise to the heights to which we once aspiredg To the T. D.'s-microscopes which, in the event that the yeast should fail, will facili- tate their seeing the lilliputians, whose traffic they direct, To the School in General-the information that the seeming dust found on the floor is nothing but unused grey-matter, be ad- vised . . . also that Dr. Chastney is neither so hard nor so soft as exteriors might in- dicate . . . also, that riding the rough road of learning in a pony-drawn crib is both precarious and fruitless. In witness whereof, we do hereunder trans- Iix our name with the poisoned arrow of erudition. To wit, to what, to wait. Us, the P. G. of Tomorrow. page thirty-one

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LITERARY SECTIGN The literary section of this Crimson and Gold needs no extensive editorial. One need only read the table below to appreciate the fact that never in any previous issue of the magazine has such a rich and extremely varied collection of literary gems been pub- lished. Sonnet Wiilliam Goldberg ...... ..4.. 3 -1- Corrida de Toros Harry M. Simon, Jr. .... ..... 3 5 The Brook Eugene Lang ....4.A.. ..... 4 2 The Romantic Plea Maximilian Price .,.... ..... 4 2 Ramblings Victor Friedman ..... ..... 4 3 Success Henry Maas .A.........,. ...... 4 8 Mr. Townsend Harris Maximilian Price ........ ...... 4 9 As Canines Go Irving Levenson ,.... ...... 5 1 Euriah Snell Richard Cohen ..,.,. ,..... 5 6 The Philosopher Harold Fleck .......,.,. ...... 5 8 The People vs. Masters Mortimer Podell ,....... ...... 6 1 Stone Roger Goodman ..,..., ...... 6 5 Misinterpretation Thomas D. Durrance ......,. ...... 7 0 Hunter's Song Eugene Lang ,.,.. , .,.... 73 The Poet William Goldberg ....,. ....,. 7 4 page thirty-three