The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-23

own little community, but people ant
 even times far remote.
 Boardman High school has passed l successfully and triumphantly through her first years. It is the new wei equipped High school in every sense
 and it has grown year by year in mem bership scholarship and influence.
 Hillhouse is the old in buildings
 equipments and years, Yet few
 more months and it's well worn stairs
 will be trod no more by High schoo
 students only few more times will its recitation bell call the students to their
 tasks. As we have come to the end ot
 our lives as High school pupils, so Hill | house is coming to the end of her exis- | tence as a High school. It seems al-
 most like dissertation to give her over
 to the grammar schools. Never can
 they know and love her as we do. For
 them no fond associations cluster about | her every stone and pillar. But to us she stands like mother stretching out her loving arms to each and every one. And yet the new means more adVan-
 tages, more breadth and a higher level. And so with tear -dimmed eyes for the love of the old, we yet joyfully say,
 Welcome the new, with it's opportuni-
 ties!"
 Gentlemen of the Board of Education and our Superintendent, it has been the cuctom of our predecessors to assure you that the graduating class will en- deavor to repay its debt of gratitude to you and to the city of New Haven by q worthy and honorable career. But we proudly point you to the past instead and show you how faithfully these promises have been kept. We would have you note how many positions of honor and trust High school graduates hold and what an unsullied lustre sur rounds even the most obscure.
 We can say no better word to you, our principal and our instructors. For we feel that the long list of honorable and honored names must be some slight recompense to you for all that you have done for us and for Hillhouse.
 Schoolmates:
 In the words of Longfellow to the students of his old Alma Mater, ad- dress you tonight:
 "Oh Caesar, we who are about to die
 Salute you"
 The new is before you and great are your opportunities, Our work as High school pupils is done, yours continues. Soon the new High school will welcome those of Hillhouse. Some of you will have the proud privilege of being the first to graduate from the new school. You must create history for New Hillhouse, make it worthy to be com pared with the old. Our schoolmates at Boardman have a spendid start on record; continue it as it has becn begun. Soon both Boardman and Hilhouse will be side by side on one street; let them not be divided in spirit, but walk side by side along the path way of knowledge. We are going and l We leave you the honor of Boardman and Hllhouse to protect, Our mantle falls upon you. Wear it as worthily as we have endeavored to do
 Classmates:
 The saddest part remains to me, to bid you farewell. The old life ends to- night 50 long as it has been with us Such joy as it has seen with us!''
 Surely the new can never be fairer or ;weeter. And yet there is no going pack All the voices cry. "On! to the | lew!" We of old Hillhouse, the last of | many let us close it's record gloriously; | ct our lives be a memorial to her, The | uture graduates will not have the in | which we had to suffer In | i'd Hillhouse. Perhaps they may &C., omplish more with greater facilities. | But would we want to change with | hem? Give up our priceless privilege if being old Hillhouse's last graduates No. We have a long and noble record | 'ehind us; they have one to make; we ave many precious memories. They ave to create them. To you also fel- lw classmates from Boardman, a great ask is given. You have the reputation f a new school grandly begun, to in- rease and sustain. Boardman has in he past four years grown to great i'm ortance and you have share in it's rowth. Continue after graduation to 'ork for it's success and honor. Farewell then, classmates, friends lay the new life opening so brightly efore us tonight ever bear with it . weet memories of the last four happy ears. For the last time, farewell