Hughes High School - Hughes Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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voices of light hearted children echoing around his own hearthstone, his fancy pictured on the walls of his humble cabin, the many hundreds, yes, thousands of children whom he was in one sense adopting, whose minds would be made more clear and whose eyes more bright, whose powers for good more expanded and strengthened, by the learning he would give them. Unfriended and alone in the present, he was looking forward to the ftiendship of the future, and in imagination clasping hands with, and receiving the congratulations of the fathers and mothers of gene- rations yet to he. . 'No doubt the company that followed the remains of Thos. Hughes to his last resting place on that chill December day more than fifty years ago, seemed to the careless observer like a small 011:; but they little knew that it was only the head of the procession, and that column numbering in its ranks men of science and of art, lawyers, doctors, statesmen and divinee, bright eyed youth and beauteous 111aidens, is still passing, and the number is still swelling, till the funeral pageant of a monarch of the present day fades into insigniHcance, and the triumphal processions of the conquerors of the past, are excelled.

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'lN MEMORIAM. THOMAS HUGHES. BY A GRADUATE. By his great and wise bequest, Thos. Hughes, the wanderer from a foreign shore, has enshrined himself in the hearts of the young and 01d of our Qgeen City of the West, and built for himself a monument more proud than the pyramids of Ancient Egypt, and more lasting than the sculptured columns of the Eternal City. We can fancy how the thought- less boys of a half century ago in our city pointed the finger in derision at the solitary man who lived with his horse and dogs alone in his hum- ble cabin on Liberty Street, never thinking that in that secluded hut plans were forming by which their very descendants perhaps would rise up and call him ttblessed. A companion picture for the miser of Marseilles, who, jeered and hooted by the rude populace for his seltish- 11ess, in dying, bleesed that city with pure and sparkling water by means of his hard earned and well saved store-is the spectacle of Thos. Hughes uhloved, unappreciated and misunderstood perhaps during his life. in death opening up a fountain of learning from which have been drinking not alone the poor and destitute children of whom he made mention, but the children of the rich and the intelligent and refined of our city. Unhappy in his married relation, no doubt he took infinite pleasure in the one absorbing idea to which he was wedded--with no

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Q 1 LESSONS OF LIFE. Egg: :1 $rmmam. We have passed from out the portals, bright and gay, Of 0111' Alma Mater dear; And the weary toilsome studies of the day, And the things we used to fear. F1owns and rods we fondly hoped had passed away, Neve11'n01e to see 01 hear. 9 wage .6 eeegiew l As we stood there 011.1119 threshold, if we knew What the future had in store, We would Iind the words of wisdom were too true, That 0111' school-dnys were not oler; But that in the school of manhood j ust in view, We must. study evermore. Some of us. for ten 01' twenty years and more, I11 this harder, sterner school, Have our lessons connedemade failures as beforee- 0ft been late-against the rule, Had our whippings, frowm and lectures, trials sore- Sat upon the duoce's stool Father Time, a stern'old teacher, adding one, Makes six sehool-days in each week; From 0111' holida; s substracts he, and when done, Cares not: for the paling; cheek ; Multiplies 0111' daily burdens as we run, And divides the joys we seek. But these school- days will be ove1 by and bx , 0111' gleat Teachel then will call Each of us to stand before him in the sky To be judged; 0h, may we all Pass examination nnbly, and on high Welcome be to Heavelrs hall.