Austin High School - Comet Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Elassfs Day and niulit [joor Don Quixote iiored () -er books until ho went mad. (On the eve of our final exams, we dee|)ly sympathize with the unhajjin- knight.) Stories of doughty knights, lo el chimsels in distress, dragons, magic castles, and wicked en- chanters fired his imagination until he determined t ) revive the ancient order of chivalry and go thru the world aiding the weak and righting wrongs. If only he had hat! common sense to guide him! But he was an idealist, the original tjui.xotic idealist.

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' 3 in The comet? 1020 The Song of tlie Senior () the t()|) of I Ik- wcirld will snon ha (. ' been reached; From the hard daiK ' i;riiid I ' ll he free; The goal of n childhddd shall he overreached, The wide world a-callinii to me. The shine of the da - of comiiiencement is nigh, And I, with a heart th.it is liijht. Do fast lnirr - on, m hopi ' s in the sky. Toward the goal that is glistening hrii;ht. I glide through the days, though the way still be rough, My mien so exceedingly bright That the much pitied Juniors, and Freshies, and Sophs, Are reminded of their own sad plight. And could I but keep all the joys of this time. Till the years heavy hang o ' er my head. It would seem that even the heavenly clime. Would l)e futile and vain in its stead. Though the much suffered nightmares of final exams, Act as some slight check to my pride, I have long been convinced of the widsom of crams. Without which I soon would have died. So when my diploma is handed to me, My nose shall go high in the air; And a more l)lithesome Senior, through this broad land and free Will be most hard to find, anywhere. () the top of the world will soon have been retiched, From the hard, dail - i;rind FU be free; The goal of my childhood shall be overreached, The wide world a-cailing to me. Thomas J. McLeod. ■ §( 77s f is m . Pagi 15