The Press., 1895-06-27

while the young gentlemen have shown commendable energy and perseverance. Again, the class is the first to graduate | pupils who have passed through every | grade established in the new school build | ing. -ta | September 7th, 1891, the s. H. s. open ed with fifty-seven members. Of this number twenty were in the entering class, l thirteen girls and seven boys, the largest l in it's history up to this date. Of these, | ten attended school in the primary de- partment, our valedictorian and saluta- | torian beginning in the lowest grade. | The others, starting elsewhere, were Miss Fisk, from Stafford Street, Miss Sprague, from Hydeville, Miss Mabbett, from Paw tuckett, Miss Hewett, from Worcester, Miss Bradway, Miss Fairfield, and Miss Newell, from West Stafford.
 During the first year one of our num- Der, Chas. Sullivan, was promoted Just why the faculty saw fit to take him from our ranks and make sophomore of him, hrs only been accounted for on the ground that his sister, soon to be one of us, and Miss Wightman, entering about this time, fully maintained the standing of the class.
 We were assigned the usual difficult studies of the first year. As is. usually the case, our importance and ability were not half appreciated by the higher classes. can remember our being consulted as 8 class but once during the whole year, and that at it's close, on the all important question of where to hold the school picnic.
 We began the second year with but eighteen members, six not returning, but Miss Clark, Miss Kitchen, Miss Sullivan, and Miss Ward joined us. It was during this year we attained great skill in mount ing native plants, finding the root of things and the value of unknown quanti- ties, unknown to the author of the alge- bra, but very evident to the class.
 When the third year opened we gained one girl pupil, but lost two girls and one boy. We could bear the loss of girl or two with some resignation, but the Joss of that boy we'll, we never fully recover ed from it; however, the zeal and determ- ined spirit with the class at its beginning continued to be its marked characteristic.
 The third year Miss Foster, an old class mate, returned, after several years ab- sence, pursuing studies in Germany and France. She was gladly welcomed as worthy addition to our class.
 We developed rapidly this third year, and, having nearly exhausted our vocab- ulary in the native tongue, our instructors endeavored to enlarge our horizons by the use of a modern language. So those who were receiving the culture which the study of Latin and Greek gives as we'll as all in the English course, began to speak the French language in all it's purity.
 Our predecessors had duly warned us of the dangers lurking in parallelograms, quadrilaterals and triangulations, there- fore, we approached the geometrical field cautiously and reluctantly; but it was in this branch, with the original propOsi- tions, more than in all others, that we distinguished ourselves.
 Our fourth and last year found us all in line, excepting Robert Smith, who left te complete his studies under the light of the old bay state. Fortunate for us that this was our last year, for, at the rate our class was losing the sterner sex, we would soon have naught on which to bIEOy our hopes.
 While during this last year we have seemed to walk the earth in truth, we have spent most of the time above and beyond this sphere,-we have lived among the stars, wandered among the cOnstella- tiOns and planets, and visited the moon in all it's changing phases; struggled through space along astronomical lines, and finally come back to mother earth to the ethics of life, with it's lessons of morals and manners. As result of this, perfect har- mony has existed in all our undertakings, especially in our class meetings, when class colOrs were to be chosen, a class pin selected, or final arrangements made for commencement.
 The young gentlemen have heartily CO., operated with us in all our plans. In fact, the present class is a brilliant type of the time when woman and right or woman's rights shall prevail.
 Throughout the whole history of the class, as has been stated, with the excep- tion of short period, there have been thirteen girls in the class; and, pardon me, if here l seem to boast, as history must adhere to truth, the class has won a glorious success, and disproved the old superstition of the unlucky thirteen.
 That we have survived and enjoyed good health please observe the class prophet. The labors of the class have covered wide field of study. Hopes have been fostered, fears dispelled, and faith encouraged by our excellent in- structOrs, and the gratitude of the class goes out to them unmeasured.
 The future will soon be the present, and the present fade into the past; our history has but just begun; it's compile tiOn lies in the future. We believe that in the wise counsel and faithful guidance of the past the foundation of 8 prosperous and valuable future have been laid, and the coming historian will find much to commend in the class of 1895.
 The Baccalaureate Sermon
 The new feature of baccalaureate ser- mon we hope has come to stay, hope shared, we are sure, by all the large au- dience who heard the able discourse by Rev. c. A. Dinsmore at the Opera House last Sunday evening. It was wholesome address, an exhortation to noble life that cannot be lost upon the many young people who heard it. The speaker said he loved to address the young, there was so much of the future in them. The cen- tral idea was that one should not live solely to get as much out of life as possi- ble, but to deserve as much. There are thousands who are trying to get more out of the world than they put in. They want to be rich at the start If they haven't money they borrow it, and if they cant do this they take what belongs to other people. This spirit is what makes the frequent crashes in American financial in stitutions. This class of men will be pun ished. This is the unworIdly view of life The bulwarks of society are those who want only legitimate interest on all they put into the world. Those who are will ing to put in thought and service for al they take out in cash. Upon such oul great institutions rest. St. Paul did not say ''the world owes me living" Keith CT did he say "give me fair chance. , He realized that he was debtor. Real ize that you are debtors to every man tc render him the highest service possible You are debtors to the past. You are ab solutely free. Your privileges were bought with great price. Every liberty is seal ed with a blood-red seal. You are debt = ors to the day in which you live. You have been educated in the public schools you have been protected by society. Tht ohrrch haS nnannd m for Irc,, Ahn Rr,A,,uo