Agnes Scott College - Silhouette Yearbook (Decatur, GA)

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. V- ' i ?ntnr QllaBH l tatory BACK over four years we look. To be poetic, I suppose we ought to say four long years, but that would hardly be true, for packed as they have been with hard work, pleasures, trials, and frolics, they seem to have fairly flown by. What a long road there seemed to be ahead of us when we started as a strong band of fresh little Freshmen! The year 1907 seemed to be somewhere in the vast, dim ages of eternity. It is hard to realize that now it is here, that we are on the home stretch, and in a short while shall depart these classic halls, diplomas in hand. We started with enthusiasm, and we finish with enthusiasm, but alas ! though we started with numbers, it can not be said that we finish with numbers. Our ranks have been sadly, often tragically, decimated, and at the finish we find only a tiny remnant emerging from the fray — battle-scarred vet- erans the)- are, too. But these four years — I wonder if we will ever have any happier ones? Of course, we have thought at times that no class ever had such vexations and tribulations as we, but looking back now. we can well see how these have been overbalanced by the pleasures and joys of our college life. Tt must end soon, though, and we leave our college friends, the faculty, and this dear old place with all its spots of happy and tender associations, but we all carry with us sweet memories, friendships, and an untold benefit whose influence will last through life.

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Sarah R. Boals, Covington, Tennessee Propylean Literary Society President of Class ' 06-04-05; Secretary P. L. S. ' 04-05; Exchange Editor Aurora ' 04-05; Presi- dent P. L. S. ' 05-06; Secretary P. L. S.- ' 05-06; Editor-in-Chief Aurora ' 06-07; Secretary P. L. S. ' 06-07: President Y. W. C. A. ' 06-07; President Student Government Association ' 06-07; ■ Asso- ciate Editor Silhouette ' 06-07. . P Rachel A. Young,. .Quitman, Georgia Propylean Literary Society Critic of P. L. S. ' 03-04; Vice-President Class ' 04-05; Vice-President P. L. S. ' 05-06; Presi- dent P. L. S. ' 06-07; Vice-President Y. W. C. A. ' 06-07 ; Alumnae Editor Aurora ' 06-07 j Asso- ciate Editor Silhouette ' 06-07; Hall-President Student Government Association, ' 06-07.

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Ea $e or Nnt tn Ms THE leaves of my book fluttered in the breeze as I sat by the ope n window, absently looking out at the waving branches of an old oak in which a colonv of sparrows were holding high carnival. The spring weather had made my pupils very restless that day and it was with a feeling of relief that I leaned back in the low arm-chair and gave myself a few moments of rest. I looked down at the book I held. It was an old Annual, published the year I left Agnes Scott and the faces of the girls that looked out upon me were all familiar. Could it have really been five years age ? Why, it seemed only yesterday that I had been one of Class ' 07 and these girls my schoolmates. And now what changes had been brought about. Turning over the leaves I came to the Senior Class pictures. The first was a slender girl with dark hair and a disdainful expression. I hadn ' t seen her once since we left school but the little town where I was teaching was not too isolated to get news now and then from my classmates. Miss George had been to a finishing school in Xew York, and since then had held the position of leading society belle at her home. Her pictures had appeared numbers of times in the papers when balls and receptions were given in her honor. Remembering her of old, how could I wonder at her popularity? On the next page was the calm countenance of a second Senior whose career was very unlike Amelia ' s. It was four years now since Rachel Young had decided to go as a missionary to- Africa, and only very meagre news came occasionally to tell us how she was progressing in her work. Irene Foscue ' s business ability had led her into a line of work not altogether unexpected. Such talents as hers could not lie dormant and hardly had she been out of school a year when the position of society editor on one of her home newspapers was offered her. The energetic performance of any duty given her would have made her an eminently successful bookkeeper, but of recent years I had not heard of any change in her occupation. The next picture was that of Sarah Boals. Her career since leaving school was not surprising to me, for her dignity and stateliness graced admirably the lecture platform. Many and various had been her trips through the United States and her speeches had always been received with boundless applause and admiration. She was indeed a born lawyer, and I should not be astonished at any time to hear of her adopting that branch of labor, though her attention is