Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-19

idols, that trying to pass in all a
 years studies was the best policy
 in fact in all ways we had outgrown
 that appellation which we were
 forced to endure when we entered.
 We walked with Caesar in his it.
 lustrious campaigns. and Miss Croft
 repeatedly told us that no class ever
 covered the ground in as creditable
 manner as We did.
 MT Kennedy attempted to pilot us
 through triangles, rectangles, so on
 and so forth.
 wish I might make use of the
 pen of either Swift or Voltaire to
 tell in fitting words of our experi-
 ences in learning geometery. One
 Of the boys-no, it was neither of
 the Phippses-said there was only
 one language capable of expressing
 the subject fully-the profane.
 What heartaches the subject gave
 some of us! But for some of us it
 had no terrors. Miss Eunice Crane so mastered the mysteries of lines
 and angles and planes that we some
 times think she half pitied the ig-
 norance of the lamented Euclid and
 his modern compilers.
 Only those who are endowed with
 that happy faculty of memorizing a
 lesson word for word, passed in
 physics. Miss Murphy, give me the
 law of gravitation?" ''Oh, I left it
 home." A slip of the tongue is no
 fault of the mind, Lulu. Our per feet FraDoh aneopt u,oe euab o ,,loos
 ure to Miss Pretat that sometimes she entirely lost her power of speech and was unable to utter the words of commendation or condemnation
 which she wished to express.
 Already we had begun to see that there was more than ordinary talent among the class. Where, o, where, Ethel MacLelland, did you ever get that artistic temperament?
 Helen Kenyon must be a particular friends of Orpheus or even of the Divine apollo, who according to Mill tons epistle to Marse had such power while playing his zither in exile, that neither the banks of the stream, nor the rocks in the chasm stood quiet" And the spotted lynxes softened at the new song" But it is easier to charm nature and the wild beasts of the forest than to write a class song. And we pride ourselves on having, from the hand and brain of Miss Kenyon, the pret- tiest class song ever written by a High school graduate. Miss Leon ard, too, can turn out verses with the greatest ease; recite the whole of the conciliation speech without stammer, do many another feat, to all appearances difficult to another, and remain through work and play, one of the best-natured mortals in the world. Also read Miss Dineen's epic, 'To Our Telephone Operator" and judge accordingly.
 We had now finished the half of our course. With swelling hearts we were about to be known as juniors. The only consolation which the outgoing class had that year was that it was quality, not quantity, which counted. If there are any '06 | graduates to-day present they must l see that both quality and quantity l are combined in our class. This | year saw us wading through the | difficulties of that woman-hater, | Publius Virgilius. We have found | out that MT Hogan agrees with Yer gil about women. Vergil thought | our sex changeable and fickle; Hogan | knows they are so, and says he | could add others adjectives if we | were not so busy with Greek. See l him blush now when he knows that | we know what he thinks he knows | about us. Behold our modern Diog- enes. He is sorry to be found out. | Dooley's friend he may be, hates all young ladies from henceforth, now and ,orever..
 How we sighed when he saw the senior class preparing for gradua- tion. But it filled us with a sense of | pride, our craniums became of ab- normal size (some of us, you know, are still afflicted that way), when we considered that before many weeks we were to take their places. assume the name of seniors in the true sense of the word.
 Our course in Latin had now pre- pared us to enjoy the eloquence of Cicero. Just ask MT Wilby how we delivered those orations against Cat iline. Why, Mcknight got so elo- quent that we were ready to lynch and all the conspiratorsl We were advised to find other Eng fish words than those suggested by the Latin. Jimmy bravely brought out extemporaneously for ex tenn pore without any trouble. But he was not the only member of that class who added words to Webster's Unabridged.
 So far We had given no social af- fair of any importance. In vain the girls waited to hear of the boys get ting up dance. For some unknown reason they hesitated, probably thought the risk too great, until our supply of patience gave out and the senior girls, cooperating with the junior girls. held meetings, submit ed plans, appointed committees, un- il one Monday morning the tickets were actually printed. Then some 'f the boys who have attractions out tide of school were willing to buy tickets from us. admitting two. But [ was to be purely a school affair md the manager was obliged to un- iergo some rather severe criticism. What do you know about that, Mir 7itz"? But she is quite alive and till survives. as you see.
 At any rate thR evantfuI pFobf ar ived and in dainty frocks and beam- ng faces we danced into the wee. 't ma hours" IL was a grand sue