Philadelphia High School for Girls - Milestone Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Professor's room once a week, To sleep, perchance to dream, and incidentally to hear how this mundane sphere came into existence. We learned that during the first stage our oceans were oceans of boiling soda-water, and here many girls closed their eyes to get a good mental picture of this state of affairs, and by tl1e time the Professor reached the fifth stage the mental pictures of each girl must have been perfect, judging by appearances at any rate. It has been said that Music hath charms, but the charm of hearing a lesson taught by the New Method is simply unsurpassed. Any one passing the lecture room when these lessons were in progress might have been alarmed to hear sucl1 queer sounds as Pon1-pom, pom-pom, and had this person stepped into the room, he or she would have seen the cause of the queer sounds which was only a bunch of keys suspended by a long string to the gas fixtures and used asa pendulum. Verily, verily, this is an age of progress ! In Room 18 we gave talks for five minutes, more or less, generally lessg the least said about these talks the better. fit ',f 'tL:f ,,,, ' ii Here we heard of the children who loved I, I school to such an extent that they would Q lg r remain after school hours on Friday afternoons A 'ff' to hear their teacher read to them, and of ' if 1 ill' others who would become so interested in f iii, their work that had a whole menagerie been , ,, ,ill let.loose in the room they would have gone on .Q Timgwgjggihz quietly with their work. - A +43 -f ' If to do were as easy as to know what 'E I 1 I fi Q were good to do, we would all be great w f fi 'vwiw artists. Many of us know what we should I practice during sixteen hours a day, but alas, 151- V ,Q !J'I??l the knowing was easier than the doing, hence s, wig- the scarcity of Angelos and Raphaels among ifm tf -- T---7 l us. However, those who have had their 'V , -Q33 rv, ,, gif' f'1Ti': .i-u , , r, . i H, ,,,s - , I8

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efforts crowned with success will tell you that they learned to draw by drawing. Our last year at school will be remem- bered as one of many holidays. We have had Dewey Day jubilees, and even blizzards. Those who braved the elements and came to school during tl1e week of snow were re- warded by a long speech from our old friend, Mr. Walton, who said that the P. N. S. girl was not made of sugar or salt, and he admired her all the more for it. Gur class history has one page bordered in black. Two oi our classmates have been taken from us by the Reaper Death, but we know that The grave itself is but a covered bridge, leading from light to light through a brief darkness. To you, dear girls, Ilshall not say good- bye. May we ever be united as the dear old Class of '99. May we ever stand by our col- ors and remember that -'Ffrs , , M.. F 5, as Q- z .- ,lf A, K' ,, ,Ld ff? ,l,v ,, . Fi, .f lf f-2' ' f f , 5. , ,W VY? . 5 f 1 14 my, 6537, i glflf, ,f v KW ff My QW!!! f' W 4 if 1 x f! !,Zf W J f fr:-.22-....-----1---f- 'IMa 5' 'ff'f1ji,y f ,Q M 'll ,Am I ,ff I- yt Jf Y .YQ ,v!,l.j,g'yH fl , 4 V X Mak rj M y fag- J, ' 1 lf,f,f f , If 1, f - , f X -.- ff? 25251 1 In ,K Any: :- Z3,' 5 --sL7': i W, -it UV? V T21 A-'1s-- 5 4 ff fffwzvfe- - '- af The white is the emblem of love and truth And the violet the emblem of loyal youth. And so, dear girls, I say to you, God be with you till we meet again. 19