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Senior Annual. Nineteen Fourteen Senior Reflections Being the Class History of 1914. HE time when we are to bid farewell to our Alma Mater and go forth to take our place in the world is at hand. That our going may not entirely wipe out the memory of our achieve¬ ments in the school, we, the Class of 1914, produce this histori¬ cal essay which we lovingly dedicate to our Alma Mater. As the mind wanders back along the road to yesterday there comes a faint vision of a bright, autumnal day in the fall of 1910, which marked our debut into the Cathedral High School. Yes, we were like all other freshman classes—as verdant as the fields in spring, yet there was a some¬ thing that betokened individuality. It was a cosmopolitan class to be sure. There were students of all sizes and of varied mental capacities, hailing from every parish of the city and the nearby towns. From the very beginning we were impressed by the presence of one youth who, like his patron St. Thomas, has since well deserved the title of the Angel of the School. In idle conversation, we had heard many vivid and glowing accounts about the gay life of the high school student. Experience, how¬ ever, soon taught us otherwise when we encountered the infinite mazes of Latin conjugations and the almost insoluble problems of algebra. In September of 1911 we returned a band of would-be-wise Sopho¬ mores. The decrease in our number was noticeable, but it was in this year that our ranks were honored by the addition of three youths who were destined to future glory. Augustine is talented in music; George is a literary genius; while the third is he of basket ball fame. It was a great year, that sophomore year of ours. Lost in the intricacies of geom¬ etry and wandering unwillingly through Gaul with Caesar we learned, like other classes, to disgrace ourselves most gracefully. Although our frail craft of knowledge was often threatened to be engulfed on the rough sea of learning we managed to survive it all. It was on such dark occa¬ sions that we were usually afforded some amusement by that quartet of famous comedians, Furlong, McMahon, Buckley and Keenan. In September, 1912, we again took up our work covered with the veneer of recently acquired dignity. Our achievements in this year were most extraordinary. The first evidence of this was the formation of an orchestra. With such musical geniuses as William Deverell, Augustine Martone and John Mattie, there was little doubt of its success. In the spring of this year a debate between the Juniors and Seniors took place. Outgeneraled by the convincing arguments of the Juniors, the Seniors suffered a decisive defeat. Another debate soon followed in which the oratorical powers of Albert Beikirch, Albert Geiger and Felix Clossey gave evidence of a genius for lawmaking. In May, we were given charge of publishing the “Student” and we responded by making our first issue a grand success. About the same time we were honored by an invitation extended by the Seniors to attend their Class Day Banquet. It is need¬ less to say that we enjoyed ourselves immensely. Our Junior year wit¬ nessed the return of that “small but Oh! My” personage Edmund Con- n i n e
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