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

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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

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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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16 THE SENIOR ANNUAL. him in his address before our school. Mr. Fisk is a gentleman born and bred, a scholar and a teacher. He has sprsad the fame of the St. Paul High School through all the great Colleges and Universities ofthe East. At his own College, Williams, his pupils in Latin and Greek are accepted on his recommenda- tion, without an examination. All arguments against the study ofthe classics fall Hat before what he accomplishes. The constant review and drill, the exactness required, the steady application to his studies, though the pupil may not see it, are forming and strengthening his character more than anything else in his school life. Small wonder is it that Papa Latin is loved and reverenced by his pupils as is no one else. . 'SQ