Abbot Academy - Circle Yearbook (Andover, MA)

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CtaBB JE) 6tot% WHILE we were Senior Middlers we did not have many opportunities to show of how much we were capable. Our Senior Mid. spread was our first gathering, when we felt ourselves a class and bound together by class spirit. But with the beginning of the Senior year began the struggle for supremacy. The competition for the Indoor Meet and Field Day was carried on with the Senior Middlers in friendly rivalry. After an exciting combat the Senior Class won. Early in the year we gave our Senior Reception, which made us feel the dignity of our position and that we were a very important factor at Abbot. The Senior Play caused us much hard work and the denial of many hours of outdoor recreation and indoor amusement, but brought with it the greatest success and satisfaction. The Seniors ' Banquet showed our class spirit and unity. It was good fun, as well as the most important affair of the year. As a crowning event the Trustees intend to give a party for the Seniors, to which we look forward with lively interest and appreciation Our days at Abbot are nearly over, and they have been days of great pleasure. As we look back over them we see that they were more than pleasure, because we know that what we have learned will help us in that real life which we have only begun, because, after all, it is Ad vitam non ad scholam hoc discimus. Lila Mae Shirkie. 12

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t$t a e of 1905 Cfd6S Cofors ffoiaer Green and White Lily-of-the- Valley Qttoffo Ad Vitam non ad Scholam hoc Discimus Officers Lila Mae Shirkie Winifred Peirson Mary Katherine Woods Marion Louise Audette President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer 11

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Boofitng QJJacfixoarfc anl jjforxoarb IT is good for us to look backward over the seventy-five years since Abbot Academy was founded, and to realize that we are about to join the number of splendid women who have graduated before us, and that our love and enthusiasm for Abbot will be united to their constancy. Through the years there have, of course, been many changes, but the Abbot spirit will never change ! Looking back over the past we see that we have had many advantages which former classes did not know. The McKeen Memorial has been a source of great enjoyment, with the finely equipped gymnasium, the stage where the day scholars and seniors gave their plays, and the Day Scholars ' Room which made such a splendid Green Room for our dramatics. Then there is, last but not least, our Senior Room, bright and sunny, where we conquered our fears of Psychology. It is, undoubtedly, so steeped in the excellency of the class of nineteen hundred and five that the following classes will absorb great inspiration from it. But it is as well to look forward as backward when there is so much to look forward to. The pleasures taken in our new building have just begun, and then we have hopes of an Art Museum soon to be built upon the Circle. Surely there are glowing prospects for the girls who are to come, and we hope that they will have as many good times and love Abbot as heartily as the class of nineteen hundred and five. Amy Thayer Blodgett. «3