Central High School - Cehisean Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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14 THE SENIOR ANNUAL. start our organization and who has always wished to see us make the most of our abilities and oppor- tunities and who has helped us to do so. The writer seems almost to have forgotten that Mr. Smith belongs to the whole school as well as to the Class of '98, As principal of the school he has shown himselfa capable man and the Board of Edu- cation has recognized his ability by making him superintendent of the St. Paul schools. XVe wish him success and happiness in his new position.

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THE SENIOR ANNUAL. 13 This is the picture of Mr. Smith as he looked nearly four years ago on the September morning when we, the Class of 1898, first saw him as our school principal. From term to term ive have been obliged to take work of many different teachers but this face we have had always with us as that of our principal. XVe have seen it in the Assembly Hall, sometimes telling us of the death of a class-mate, sometimes of victories in athletics, we have seen it in the office, sometimes as we awaited the answer to some flimsy excuse, sometimes atease when we mere- ly chatted, sometimes with the greatest attention when we asked his advice. It is the face of a man who has taken a deep and helpful interest in the Class of 1898 from the time when he helped us to

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THE SENIOR ANNUAL. 15 The Freshman when he first enters Room 22, is utterly bewildered and withered up by the storm of sarcasm with which any failure on his part is fol- lowed. It is something he never dreamed of before but in a few months he learns to take it as a part of the lesson as much as the conjugation of the verb or the day's translation. Mr. Fisk's bearing towards his class is anything but bashful, but the entrance of a visitor will make him blush like a boy, and in his embarrassment and haste to furnish his guest with a seat, he is apt to dump his own gloves into the waste-basket. Then the young ladies of the school sometimes cause the poor man intense pain by in- sisting on walking down to the car with him. But what of that, he is a fine man. XVe can add but little in praise of Mr. F. XY. Fisk, to the splendid testimo- nial that Pres. Carter of Williams College gave to