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the same as last year, and we were proud of the record. The first Sunday
evening Mr. Thomas told us about the Olympic games, which he had motored
to during the summer. All of us thoroughly enjoyed this evening program.
Thus started auspiciously the work of the enterprising Y. M. C. A. board of
1932-33.
Once again, as the afternoons started to roll by, we began training for
another football season. With Joe Freeman, an old Moses Browner whom
several of us remember as a star footballer here a few short years ago, supple­
mented by Messrs. Todd and Rice, our coaching staff seemed to inject adrenaline
into us, and there was a spirit and spark out there that was a pleasure to watch,
and what results it brought! With veteran material in Capt. T. Lawson and his
brother, A., the slugging twins; in Ostrom, McLaughry, and Mayo; and in subs
of the year before, like Sprague, R. Scott, Todd, Waughtel, Fales, S. Thompson,
and A. Davis; and in Dye, Morgan, Randall, Mitchell, Burns, Murdock, Blaney,
Gill, Otis, Conlon, Hanks, and Lindholm, several of them old boys and some
new—an aggregation was put on the field which romped successively through
Pomfret, Priory, Country Day, Tabor, Thayer, and Governor Dummer, and left
no doubt that we had a team. We scored a total of 127 points to the oppo­
nents’ 19!
Others of our class turned out for either cross country or tennis. Joe Wild
captained the Hill-and-Dalers, who beat Warwick, and Cranston, got second in a
triangular meet with Central High and Dean Academy, and lost to LaSalle.
Our other stars were Graeff, Merritt, Pierce, and Syren. In the Senior tennis
tournament, Eberle, Gonzalez, Howard, and Wagner showed up well, Eberle
winning, and thus getting his name on the Horton trophy.
About this time of the year, when the leaves were falling fast and we were
almost ready for Thanksgiving, the national elections turned up. Loud and
vociferous were the arguments which emerged from "Rainsey’s” history cell,
and a straw vote was decided on. The final result, when Davis and Bradley got
through arguing, was: Hoover 146, Roosevelt 11, Thomas 10. "The Salesman”
had given us a talk in a Y. M. C. A. meeting a few days before; so maybe he
had biased our opinion. He’s a pretty sly gent.
Not having anything else to do on corridor, Messrs. Todd and Strong
started to emulate the eminent Lucifer Butts with such crazy contraptions as
"automatic window closers.” The poor boys didn’t like getting out into the cold
air after a night under multitudinous blankets. "Homey” Strong’s worked with
an old clock, a piece of string, and a book, while "Roger” used a tin curtain rod
that clanged on the floor each time. But what’s a little thing like that?
Now Thanksgiving came and went, and we had a fine long week-end.
Back in school again, we delved more deeply into Solid Geometry and its
figures, English literature and drama under our pal "Willie”; the /Eneid and

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