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

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in us, and by their endeayors to make our lessons as interesting and as attractive as they possibly could. And of our school We say :- 0f all the beautiful- pictures That hang on rnen1ory's Wall, i There is one of dear old High School That seemeth best of all. - y 4 A EMILY E. C. PATMAN. R N 5 I 72 2 i- - S5 i s -A f 15

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T he, moonlight on the H2 O, The bench beneath the trees, The Fe arms that clasped you so. ' While gently blew the breeze. ' p Mrs. C. taughtnus music and jokes. When she would give us back our test papers she would always say, Girls, count up your marks, for, you know, I just hate arithmetic, and I am always making mistakes. But, strange to say, when we did iin3lmistakes,they always happened to be in favor of the girl, instead of to her disadvantage, and you know that kind of error is really not half so bad as the other kind. ' But the drawing room was always the haven of rest and recreation: here the young Augustus was murdered in his prime with that worst weapon-the lead pencil, the face of the beautiful Venus was sadly mutilated, and the venerable Zeus was made to smile! And so we worked and played-not without occasional remonstrances from Miss Hubbs-but these remonstrances we always took as if they had been sugar plums. ' So, you see, our last year was an exceedingly delightful one. Our dance was given on the iirst of December, and it was a great success. Butwho ever knew of joyunmixed with sorrow? Our happiness was destined to be blighted. About Christmas time the well-known separation took place, and half of our beloved friends departed from us to the Normal School. But our class is a united body, held together by bonds of love, and it would take more than mere temporal separation to divide the friendship that has grown up among us. What have we to say of our teachers and our school, now that we are to leave them both? We say both this-we love all our teachers, and we sincerely thank themfor their labor and their kindness. They have tried to make our school life happy, both by their kind interest 14A A ,M M J gpm., g I Q 3 I 14-0-All ffvf -- - ,J-naps, , uc

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