Bradford Academy - Chimes Yearbook (Haverhill, MA)

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88 THE CHIMES emy Hall. The girls attended, in Haverhill, Gounod's Gallia and Rossini's Stabat Mater. The night before the Senior play, the Seniors were allowed to go to Haverhill to Tanner's for dinner, and for an evening of genuine good time, few can surpass this. We had an inexpressibly pleasant feeling, to think that we were over there on a school night having a good time, while all the other girls were at home studying. Such it is to be a Senior ! The next night, the seventh, came our Senior play, when The Rivals was presented. All day an air of expectancy hung over the school. Friends began to arrive, and up and down the corridors could be noticed Seniors, some murmuring their parts, and others giving orders. Certainly it was a happy, though busy, day. A description of the play is given elsewhere in detail. After the play there was dancing by the Seniors and their guests in the Gym. During the month Madame Martinez gave two informal recitals, exhibiting the work of her ad- vanced pupils, and the girls did great credit to their teacher. Valentine's day was celebrated in a most appropriate manner. The juniors were the hostesses, and the entertainment was a masquerade dance. During the evening valen- tines which had previously been deposited in a basket were distributed. The second of Professor Down's recitals was on the eighteenth. Madame Helen Hopekirk played, and her playing was a delight to all. Fraulein Kammer gave a very interesting talk upon Germany, illustrated by the stereopticon, and as it consisted largely of her own personal experiences, the girls were all the more interested. The twenty-second was celebrated by only a few girls, for almost everyone went away for over Sunday. Those who were left behind, however, did not lack for fun. The next lecture was by Rev. A. T. Kempton, being a stereopticon ffpicture story of Evangeline March March third the Senior class was most fortunate. We spent a happy even- ing in Miss Knott's room, where we were entertained by Mr. Williamson and Mrs. H. A. Chase. Mr. Williamson read Bu1'ns's poems to us, and Mrs. Chase sang a number of Burns's songs. We shall always look back upon this evening as one of the bright spots in our memory of school days. On the sixth, Pro-

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NINETEEN THREE 87 there, on account of the vividness with which Miss Knott portrayed the beauti- ful city. The night before the girls went home for the Christmas vacation was one of the happiest of the year at Bradford. Thirty children from the Orphan's Home in Haverhill were brought here and given a Christmas tree and party. January january was marked by many interesting events. In the hrst place, we had a talk upon India by Mrs. Burnell, a returned missionary. An illustrated lecture was given by Ernest Thompson-Seton upon Wild Animals I l-Iave Known. This was very interesting, and the calls of the different animals were particularly entertaining. On the seventeenth the juniors entertained the Seniors at Bald Pate Inn. The sleighing and moon could not have been improved upon, and we enjoyed one of the famous Bald Pate dinners, dancing until time to leave. On the evening of the twenty-first a large number of us attended a concert by the Fiske jubilee Singers in the Bradford church. Miss Keyes gave an interesting talk upon Michael Angelo, illustrated by many stereopticon views. About sixty of the girls and some of the Faculty went to Boston to see Richard Mansheld in Julius Czesar. On the twenty-second many of the girls called upon Mrs. Daniel Kimball of Bradford. She is the oldest living graduate of the Academy, and every year the girls attend her birthday celebrations in large numbers. This is an event to which the girls always look forward, and they are very glad to pay her homage on these pleasant occasions. The Centennial Club presented another attractive Tennyson programme. This evening, besides papers and anecdotes concerning the great poet, A Dream of Fair Women was read, and illustrated by tableaux. February On the fourth began the une series of concerts which are always among the most enjoyable events of the year. This series comprises three recitals, under the charge of Professor Downs, and they are given every year, usually during the winter term. The first concert was by the famous Kneisel quartette of Boston. It was pronounced by many the hnest concert ever given in Acad-

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NINETEEN THREE 89 fessor Tyler of Amherst College gave a very able lecture upon The Rise of the Theory of Evolution. As the Seniors had been studying about the subject, it was particularly interesting to them. The fourteenth the Sophomores took the Seniors to Tanner's for dinner, and then on a straw-ride. The Centennial Club during this month began the study of Browning. The latter part of the even- ing Fratilein Kammer explained the operas Lohengrin and Tannhauser,'l Miss Peabody illustrating at the piano. Next in order we attended an address in the Bradford church by Rev. Philip Moxom upon the subject, Is Religion Interestingg Mr. H. A. Clapp of Boston gave one of the most interesting lectures of the year upon Hamlet. On the twenty-eighth we had our Senior banquet, a day long looked forward to. Now that it is over, how near Com- mencement seems, and we realize only too fully that soon our school days will be a thing of the past and we shall no longer be at Bradford! The juniors decorated the gymnasium and table in a most attractive manner and sang to us. A delicious dinner was served, and at the table the decorations were American Beauty roses, our class flower, candles, and very cute dinner-cards containing grinds from the juniors. The class history and prophecy were read. Would that we might have this evening over again, for it was at that time that we realized as never before how happy we had been together, and how dear to us had become the friends from whom we must soon part. We are looking forward to a lecture in April upon Pompeii by Dr. von Mach, and to a recital by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach and Madame Martinez. Other interesting events will follow, but as our book goes to press the last of March, they cannot be mentioned here. In speaking of these events, which concerned, usually, large numbers of girls, perhaps some of the smaller, but by no means less enjoyable affairs, should be mentioned. For example, the 'tboxes from home must not be for- gotten, nor the spreads. These spreads are usually on Saturday evenings, and such good times as the word spread brings to our minds l A particularly pleasing feature of our school life is the way in which a birth- day is celebrated. The girl who has the birthday is given the seat of honor at dinner, and the table is decorated attractively with flowers and candles. There