Boise High School - Courier Yearbook (Boise, ID)

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Nm ard COURIER lution who uttered the grim count beside the guil lotine were insignificant mutterers compared to the methodically insistent years TXVENTY-TVVO. The last examinations are QW? NVEDNTY-TWO. The knitting womeniof the Revo: Qi B . . i. ' J'- iiifeywlifii your books and over. XVe graduate tomorrow, let us say. Com- mencement week comes to a close. You pack up turn them in. recollecting that some of them held up pretty well. You walk down through the halls among the masses of students. The brother-seniors seem to reflect that same air of superiority. You notice things that before had been a matter-ol- course. You meet a number of friends .... . . . Gee, my cap and gown fits like a sack .... VVell, I guess we do it tomorrow. . . . Hardly seems like four years, does it? . . . And so on. It occurs to you that you have suddenly become sentimental, but you carefully conceal it. Everybody is in a hurry to go. Some will go on the farm for a hard summer's work. Others in the moun- tains. Some will work in town, and then there will be those who will live the life of leisure and luxury, fat the expense of the folks j, and later journey up to the lakes, to mingle with the four hundred. TVVENTY-TWO. To you it is the single class. Those that have gone before and those that shall follow will be marked only by their relation to it. How foolish, you tell yourself, but the reproof merely serves to strengthen the belief by giving a doubt consideration. TWENTY-TVVO. A jumble of thoughts usurps your mind, one succeeding another with amazing rapidity, but with small semblance of reason .... Your knee pants arrival in school, the first feeling of manhood . . . a scrub on the football squad . . . the first visit to the Principal's sanctum . . . wearisome days in class rooms . . . school spirit . . . the significance of the laws of diminishing returns . . . the desire of girls for a different male . . . realization of your own similarity. . . . TWENTY-TWO. You are exceptional in your own silent estimation alone. Your predecessors left you this inheritance that has become a part of you, but with your leaving the inheritance goes on. Each class, to its members, appears the chief and signifi- cant accomplishment of the school. TOMORROW-Twenty-three, then twenty-four, twenty-five. six, seven, eight . . . and so on till recollection tires and memory runs to the contrary.