Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-18

l tractive to the Sterner sex of their class than they! The athletic sue cesses of the sophomore year were re-
 peated in the junior year. In October
 the Girls Glee club accompanied by q boys quartette, attended teacher $ convention at New Haven and under the efficient leadership of Miss Dee
 succeeded in astonishing the natives. We returned home serenading in a very generous and general manner. Having won our laurels abroad we de- cided to give concert at home; in November occurred the most success full entertainment which has ever taken place in this hall. For the first time i'll the history of our school something of dramatic nature was attempted and a musical play presented. On the merits and sweeping success of that
 great event it is unnecessary to dwell since you are doubtless aware of the facts. As a result of our concert the football team received fifty dollars and the school was presented with 8
 handsome music cabinet which you
 see at my right. The Glee club was such q prominent organization during the third year that a history of the
 one must needs include the other. Sey- eral very successful concerts were given during the year which enabled the club and it's friends to enjoy a
 never to be forgotten straw ride to Straitsville, and I would say here that
 although some very wise and learned
 people are known to consider Straits
 vile outside the pale of civilization,
 the Glee club people were quite pleas
 ed with the place and all it contained.
 especially the apples, the rustic bridge,
 bric-a -brac, ainse de suit, and their
 satisfaction is not due to the fact that
 they were easily suited either The
 next event of note was a grand recep-
 tion given by the Glee club at Leayen-
 worth hall, admission by invitation
 only. The year closed with an excur-
 sion to Hanover Park after which af-
 fectionate adieux were said and all
 voted the junior year the happiest of
 school life. At last We were seniors
 and though we fully realized the great
 dignity of our position I do not remem-
 Der to have seen my classmates wear
 ing the graveyard countenance gener-
 ally supposed to be peculiar to seniors.
 MT Webster may have looked a trif1e
 more sophomorize than usual but that
 was to be expected. In order to ac-
 commodate the large number of fn- coming students certain changes had to be made. As a result of these changes the library was pressed into service as the senior session room, and very unique session room it made. The seats were not only brand new but they were also of new brand, while one young lady sat between the angles of the abe and xyz another was quite embarrassed to find herself towering high and above her fellow creatures As to the number of seats which sank in despair under the weight of MT Schick's avoirdupois. the faculty has generally lost all record. Not to speak of the noise of the trolley cars and trucks of every description, it frequently became necessary to pause in the middle of recitation until our voluble fellow citizens had settled i their difficulties beneath our windows, and it was once more possible to hear ones self to think. On one occasion our friends without gave vent to their high spirits by tossing the remains of a belated snow drift through the win dows. After lively few minutes Miss Croft drew a sigh of relief and inquired with a weary voice, 'sWell, girls. are you all alive?"
 -htAIlI1ey uttN WdS ODSeFNeu III q fitting manner. the exercises being months brought around the usual round of athletics. The football team won victory after victory which of course we could not faff to do with MT Walker for their captain, and such a bevy of beauty singing and cheering from the grandstand, and when the e1srlrl fl ,fS,ra6 n these lusty rooters they sailed forth between the halves of the game and executed something between a march | of triumph and a jubilant war dance around the field. After the winning of the Yale cup for the third time the football season closed with the recep- | ton rendered the team by the senior | class. The juniors were willing to | help us receive but since our ball room | in the basement is of rather limited | capacity we could not accept their kind | offices. Owing to some msunderstand- | ng between the wax and the oil upon he ball room floor dancing was en- 1ured rather than enjoyed. but not this fact and the bashful- less of the heroes whom we attempt ed to lioTiize. we managed to enjoy our- selves till the loud tones of Big Ben warned us to diSperSe quietly and thus escape the wrath of MT Kelly.
 Next came basketball, and some of ,ur young ladies became quite infat- lated with the game they said. but ye all know that the team itself was 10 small attraction, as has also been of the Springfield team The sirls became so interested in basket )all that they formed a team of their ,wn. They practised in the Y. NJ. c. \. gymnasium and under MT Clapp's
 ble instruction learned to pass and hoot and not be too gentle nor lose ime asking pardon when they stepped n each others toes. Thefirst and only public game was with the Hillhouse High school girls of New Haven. and vas played in the local Y. M. c. A. The visitors failed to play according to heir own rules daring the first half of l-] he game and were quite indignant vhen their opponents adopted their actics in the second half. The fair aptain of the New Haven team offer q to send our girls a book of rules n girls basketball Doubtless she ould also have supplied us with an ] new and unique code of honor 1 ut.
 .Of all the words of tongue or pen l
 The saddest of these are it might
 have been'' ' pplies here for the New Haven team l