New Britain herald., 1920-06-24
Musical Comedy, History of Class and the Will Make Up Excellent Farewell Program.

Class night exercises were held at tho High school last evening. This was the last formal meeting of the graduates as n body in the school and tho program included. m addition to tho musical comedy. The Bos'n s Iiride." an interesting history of the class by Edward John Owen and the class will by Howard Hooker Mitchell President Robert Doyle gave the address of welcome. The class history and will follow:
 CIass History. 1920.
 Soft. low music. Vibrant black- ness. Dancing flames from brazen lamps. The sweet. heavy odor of in- ccrse. A Hindu Buddha exposed by the folds of q pail of purple silk.
 High in his cushioned throne in the center of the hlack-hung hall sat Samaritan. sultan of India Dark browed and handsome was his face. lighted by tn" flaming samovar be- fore him: hut in his eyes the real man showed-hard. cynical.
 Before him. Schcherazade. the ra- diant tho teller of tales the rose of Sewistnn. Dark. deep. soft were the lights that gIowed in her eyes-lights which bespoke the mystic. the dream- CT oT dreams the prophetic fire.
 lftH ul NHttht fNAilaIldTs INiSts pii. Schc he razade."
 And she did rise and stand before him.
 AhG again spoke Schar1ar. "Oh. ScheEcrazadc. this night do I require Of thee tale. Interest me not. or let thy tale die upon thy lips and bright shall leap the sun from the swift stroke Of the scimitar."
 And spakc Scheherazade. "It is we'll. oh. my lord and master. for this night have I prepared for thee tale rivaling in length the great Mahab- hdrata and Of whose interest shalt thou be the judge. oh. Mighty One" And thus did Scheherazade begin f the greatest Of all her tales
 'There once dwelt in n distant land a. clan of people called Estudiantes. A restless. rowing race were they. pleasure loving and peaceful taking from lifc all that 1t offered and giving in Tcturn--nothing.
 And so it came to pass that in that season during which all growing things are fresh and green in their newness to all life. the Estudiantes did come into Il strange country, and finding tho inhabitants there of a @oodI. folk and 0. congeniaI deport- ment, they did straiChtway make hnn"ti tHSlf lhttHlion Oi lnelf re- .n1aining.
 But one thing did disturb the peace and pleasure of the people. Tn this fair land were 'hordes of hideous Il tasl<Liasters who did on every hand beset the inhabitants, and every year great was the toll of lives which they did exact from the cringing popu- lace
 There was. however. throughout the realm a time honored and highly pfIzed instrument which cid greatly allos late the sufferings of the people. Tho ,..,,, possesSion a,,,a Of @la2 easy ~ out it they were well nigh imp of oxorution. The name of tf
 vnleuNt was truly as curious M
 rfru'oent itself. The taskmaxers tn great wrath. did dub it DOT asi- 'norum.' while the peoples moe il- Y literate appellation was 'trot' Thus fortified against their fiendi.h on 2rcssors did the Estudiantes /edde in this land where they had sb luckily | chanced to pass.
 And great was the rejoicing among tho habitants. for here were a | people ready and able to publish the name or their fair land throughout the world and with them carry it on and upward into os:erity-splendid and supreme. Amply was their faith | rewarded.
 ''In this land, oh schariar. were the men mighty or limb. They did | delight them in lusty journeys. tribe i battling against tribe, in the swarthy sweat Of their Joins. And they did | cal these, oh master. the tourney of the oval ball and that of the rounded ban
 "When in these journeys the Estu- di1ntes did Prove their superiority to | ail their neighbors. these same neigh bors, delighted to bear kin to such as | they did declare festivity in their | noner and did there formally relieve | them Into brotherhood. Warm was the reception accorded them and well was t remembered by the Estu- | diantes.
 | But t remained for them again to display their superiority. The pre- vious dSellers in the land. undaunted | by their erstwhiIe defeat had or ganize1 a tourney of the rounded ball ] in which they did hope to rob the Estuqiantes of their laurels. Great was the merriment of the neophytes ! when they did learn of this plan and straightway did they defeat the ex- 1 ccution thereof.
 | Yet again did the Estudiantes bting the proof of their prowess be- 1 fore the eyes of their seniors. On , that day. which in this land was 1 termed Glass Day" they did appear 1 garbed as milkmaids and ns cowboys. As chief administrator of their ' .ss~as h. Al nVss IIaW lI