Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-18

l Mater. Nearly every grammar school l ill the city is here represented, but, as usual, the Crosby Grammar school leads, having contributed to our illus trious class embryo graduates. Our i advent into High school was marked l by the abolition of all shorter courses;
 the High school curriculum contained
 a greater variety of courses than had ever been the case before and you now l have before you representative from
 the College Preparatory, Technology, Classical, Modern Language and Eng l fish Courses. The English course in-
 cludes our commercial department l which. besides bookkeeperS, court and other stenographers, engages to fill all vacancies which may occur in the con- | gressional staff of StenographerS, while the study of civil government enlight-
 ems us on all sorts of important sub | jects, from the powers of the president and congress to the difference between a marriage license and a dog license. The classical course have given us
 not few graduates who are prone to wake the gentle muse ,and are some times quite successful, as Miss Bryan
 or MT Hayes might testify if they chose The scholarship of our class
 
 I might have said that the scholarships
 are excellent and that each and every
 member of the class is a bright and
 particular star, and so he or she is in
 his or her own line but since history
 must look into the face of truth. as in
 a mirror, and there see itself reflected,
 as historian I must stick to facts and
 therefore cannot add that the speciality
 of every member of the past for the
 past four years has been application.
 But let no one think for minute that
 we shall not bear comparison with any
 other class either past or future, not
 only has our general scholarship been
 good but the averages of some of the
 members prove them to be scholars of
 no mean ability and we expect ere
 many years to hear things of them,
 while we are sure that the department
 of our class would compare favorably
 with that of previous classes, we pre- sume that possibly there might be found room for some slight improve ment, as our worthy teachers would probably admit if very hard pressed.
 A striking feature of our class isenter- prise and to this spirit we may at- tribute the success of our numerous undertakings. Miss Katherine c. Ber
 gen is very enterprising at every re- cess with the help of U. s. tS Go she causese to disappear two of MT Names generous sandwiches. That the class is excellent and enterprising there can be no doubt, especially when you view the various tokens and trophies which, since we cannot take them with us. we magnanimously leave to our successors Our freshman year I suppose was much 0c nf a lot of frightened freshmen daily growing older and bolder, till we reach ed point in our lives when ignorance was bliss and we were sophOmores. With our change from freshmen to sophomores came also other changes; changes in our staff of teachers and also in our studies. Miss Kane had ob- tained a years leave of absence and MT Kennedy, "Prof Joseph Kennedy" took charge of her classes. Miss Sinsa- baugh was obtained as teacher of com mercial arithmetic and first year book keeping. while MT Bridge, teacher of physics and chemistry was succeeded by MT Shute who endeavored with all | the brain and Drawn of his proud six feet to enlighten our young minds on such subjects as matter, force, energy l and inertia: but some of us contained | such prOdigiouS number of molecules | ill our mental makeup that the density | was too great to admit much of the l light of knowledge and while some of | us were typical of energy alas, great | many of us might have been classed | as most vivid and striking examples | of mental inertia. With the acquire l ment of Mir Condon our list of teachers i became quite lengthy. Tn our sopho- more year we began to show such | marked signs of class development and | individual ability that the upper classes, recognizing our superior quali- ties, invited us to take part in many of the social and other events which | have made the pupils of the High | school known to the public as royal We shouted over the athletic victories and lustilv cheered the grimy heroes of the gridiron who won for the first time our beautiful Yale cup: this event was celebrated by a torch-light procession followed a iubilant mass meeting in Assembly nall. Speeches were made by mem bers of the school board and the cap- tain of the victorious team.
 Girls and boys alike were deeply in- -erested in the Boys Glee club which was OTSdulZeu tudI year, tiHu sll d CUT ,ert given by them six young lady the Misses M. M. McDon- i'd. Dickson, Bryan, Vaill. Nunn and Henderson, who constituted the flower If their class. or thought they did at east. were chosen as ushers and per- 'ormed their duties in a highly satis- actory manner. The grand success of he Boys concert fired the girls to ac- ion. The girls felt that they had )een left out in the cold, so far as chool associations were concerned, nd with determination equalled only " that of the man who manifested mighty resolve in the words ssPikes Peak or bustr' they set about organiz- ng glee club. By dent of much pa 1 fence, perseverance and persuasion. { nd under the leadership of Miss Dee l heir hopes were finally realized The { ophomore year gradually drew to a f lose and in due time we became jun { DTS. Many of us will recall the jun pr year with particular pleasure It ( eems to me that we were the most l, vonderful juniors whom these walls ! ave ever sheltered. Why the senior iris of that year were dreadful1y T ealous of the junior girls, as if we I you'd be blamed for proving more at-