Abbot Academy - Circle Yearbook (Andover, MA)

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college: preparatory class 1901 MOTTO Fide liter COLORS White and Gold Officers Harriet Alihea Lee Julia Charlton Rockwell Clara Locke Thomson Helen Isabella Buck President Vice President Secretary Treasu?-er v 2cS

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They smiled at our hopeless confusion, They choked us with horrible names, And whenever we pleaded, reproachful, They said, You must blame Mr. James. We floundered in desperation To page two hundred and eight. There we read of insane delusions, And felt that would be our fate. So this is the pitiful story, Told when the day-beams fade, And the Seniors sit together, Pondering the flunks they ' ve made.

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COLLEGE PREPARATORY CLASS HISTORY [NCE we are only a College Preparatory class, and do not belong, correctly speaking, to the body of ancient and honorable Seniors, we feel, naturally, a little diffidence in placing before the public the history of our class. Yet, knowing that because of our ardent efforts in her interests we deserve a place in the annals of the school, we venture to relate the short story of our life. The class was brought into existence on the first Tuesday after school commenced, in September, 1900. Two of our members were new comers in Abbot ; the rest of us, eight in number, had been in school two or three years. All together we comprised the large class of ten. Our number was reduced later in the year by the with- drawal of two members. The College Seniors hold the proud distinction of having the first spread of the year. It was held in the class president ' s room and was a great success. The next event of importance was the play, written by two mem- bers of the class, an adaptation of Because She Loved Him So, which was given shortly before the Christmas vacation. This was 29