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jITH the Class Issue of ' 98, the present staff lays down the well-worn pen, and work for the school year ' 97-98 is completed. The relief from the toil and anxiety connected with our High School journal is indeed j welcome, but we must say that we have derived much pleasure in the performance of our duties on the Editorial Board of Olla Podrida. Every member of the staff has wrought conscientiously in the interests of the paper, and, through it, of the student body; and if it be the judgment of our readers that our efforts have been crowned with any measure of success, the editors will feel amply rewarded for the work they have put upon it. We scarcely need to say that, but for the loyalty and painstaking energy of our Business Managers, the success which has come to the Olla Podrida during the past year would not have been possible. To them especially, and to all who have contrib- uted in any way to the interests of the paper, we make grateful acknowledgments. We have spared neither time nor money to make the ' 98 number a success, and we present to you for your inspection our hundred-page issue, hoping that it will merit your approval. We beg the reader not to be too critical, but to consider the limited means at our command. We have endeavored to make this issue the best possible in all particulars, both representative of the best literary and artistic talent of the school, and of all the organizations connected with our institution ; and we hope that our efforts may meet with the commendation of all members and friends of the High School. We are under great obligations to Miss McLean for her kindness and assistance at all times during the year, and but for her sympathy and encouragement at critical periods, the results attained would have been far less satisfactory. She generously acted as judge of the Prize Story Contest, and the story which was selected as the best was that of Mr. Percy Warner, which is printed elsewhere. We wish to return thanks especially to those who submitted stories in the contest, and to all who have otherwise lent aid in the production of this final issue. Among those who have been of special service to us, we wish to mention the Wilcox Photo Co., who took most of the photographs for reproduction in this number. We are well pleased with the treatment they accorded us. 35
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President ' s Address. Friends : — History, in every age, has established the fact that the youths who have developed muscle, who have learned endurance, who have been taught absti- nence, became the men whose skill, strength and courage have fought the world ' s battles, and won its victories. When the Spartan mother buckled the armor on her son, her parting words were, Never return without your sword ! Spain inured her youths in the fiercest gladiatorial combats. Our Revolution- arv fathers gained strength and endurance in their struggle for existence on the Wild Xew England Shores. As the representative of what has been called the Athletic Class of the B. H. S., I would speak a word for the Campus and its events. The farmer boy grows strong in the harvest field, the laborer in wielding pick and axe ; but for the student of the city school and college, there is little chance for development of strength and endurance, save in the Athletic games and sports. The physical structure, made in the image of its maker, must not develop brain at the expense of muscle to reach perfection. In many of these contests has the class of ' 98 excelled, and victories been won, aided by the sympathy and cheers of our fairer and better halves, the girls. It is wise in the time of peace to prepare for war. The general plans the attack, the strength and courage of the soldiers win the battle. Should we be called to take up arms in our country ' s defense, our dashes, our hurdles and our relays have not been in vain. That the prowess of the class of ' 98 has in no wise detracted from its high mental development, the list of our one hundred and two graduates, and the literary ' program they present to you to-night, must convince you. For the first time in the. history of the B. H. S., our principal will be gradu- ated with us if he does not get cinched. A test of our power to endure is seen in the graceful manner we have accepted the Kellogg building, its draughts and its furnaces. It is our consolation that Washington, Webster and Lincoln were never graduated from a sixty-thousand dollar school-house ; and some of us who have carved the desks and thrown balls upon the Kellogg walls may become as illustrious. The history of the past has proved that fine school buildings and modern con- veniences are not necessary to the highest mental development. Fresh paint, immaculate walls and lofty ceilings are not always conducive to the best brain-work. ' Tis the spirit of the teachers and the pupils gone before ; the air that breathes of study and discipline ; the tread of the floor worn by footsteps in other days ; the thought to carve our names on the desks by the side of the names now known and honored in the land that awaken a desire for knowledge and stimulate ambition. Thus we have been contented with our lot, yet we hope for the new school house for classes yet to come. In the physical, mental and moral structure that each is building, may the class of ' 9S realize that Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build ; Truly shape and fashion these, Leave no yawning gaps between ; .Make the house, where gods mav dwell, Beautiful, entire and clean.
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