Burlington High School - Oread Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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Senior Editorial lt is commonly stated that no one can be a dignified Senior , without hrst having been a green Freshiefy but the members of the Class of 1906 were, without doubt, an exception. Our 'first days of high school life were probably the happiest and proud- est in our existence. Wfe felt as if we had ceased to be children, although we may have appeared as such sometimes, and that we were starting on the road to real life. Thus we felt as we found ourselves among the older scholars, looked over by the Seniors and juniors and laughed at by the Sopihomores. Many of our strongest men had times when it was an evenly debated question whether to run or stand. But who wa.s there to show fear? W7ho was there who did not face the Sophomores when they interfered with our rights? Wfe had men who knew their rights, and knowing, dared maintain. O Class of 1906, you may well be proud of your Freshman year in the Edmunds High School. ' Vtfe had not been in High School very long before the envy of the Sophomores was excited b-y the prominent appearance of Bean Pole Fuller, commonly known as Speed,' Hugh Carlyle MacGibbo-n, Hollis LeRoy Muller, and many others. Without much consideration, they decided to make these knights of the noble green cloth look upon them as superior beings. Finding a few of our men one night they chased them into a dark alley. Then a battle followed. Bull'ock's powerful muscle took care of three Sophomores, Platt and Smith, two of our lost leaders, held others at bay, and the result was that the Freshmen came off with flying colors. As Sophomores, we began to settle into the rut of things, and as the class that entered that year looked so small and childlike, we decided to leave them entirely alone. Une of our greatest dilhculties that year was to keep 'AChalk Wfheeler from being petted and spoiled by Miss Brownell. Wfithout doubt we suc- ceeded for Chalk', has blossomed into a. noble Senior. ln our Junior year we began to show our strength in school affairs. In politics, we were becoming leaders, and all the school organizations were growing nrmer than ever before, under our support. a 20

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There was one more step to climb before we would rea.ch our goal, and when September came in 1905, we entered the High School as full fledged Seniors. Wie had looked forward to this year as a time far distant, and as a year that would be reached by many a.n-d lost by few. As the year passed quickly on, we Watched the football season, our iirst masquerade, the play, the basketball team, and last but not least the Register, flourish under our supervision. Think, O Seniors, of the Class of 1906. Are you not proudo-f the results? ' Let us 'examine our ranks. There is Trapper, our mighty athlete, Smith, our great editor and oratorg Nlfilliam Bullock, who uses all the words in XWebster's Dictionary, Chalk Wfheeler and Siu Peck, both as innocent as lambs but always in trouble. And we must not overlook the girls of this class, who will furnish the world with knowledge. And who can Jimmie Donahue flirt with when they leave the High School? Wfe can now fully realize what it is to be dignified Seniorsf, and we feel that the happiest days of o-ur lives are drawing to a close. Thanks to our teachers for the patience they have shown in our times of difficulties, and hope they may forget our faults, though many, and remem- ber our virtues, though they may seem few. So leaving this happy school life which we have enjoyed for four years, leaving our teachers, and especially one another, as members of the Class of 1906, let each one of us, through life, keep in mind the happy days spent at Edmunds High School. Soon we are to go different ways. Some to college and some into business. But in whatever path your way leads let it be remembered that to shirk the present task for dreams of a noble future is to incapacitate one's self for a larger life. Genius is no substitute for faithfulness. Let no one be disheartened because success seems to retreat as he advances, for such were the discouragements of his most envied predecessors. Let the beginner convert the blocks in his path into the stepping stones to success, remembering that with faith, pluck, and persistence, all things are possible, and that as Longfellow says: All common things each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. 21