Carrier Mills High School - Reminiscence Yearbook (Carrier Mills, IL)

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1 ' 'Y-ja? jf !' 'S'-1-rf-'f iv-'-xv :-.:-5p'?!1'lY1v-- I WOULD I WERE A FRESHMAN by Mary Baker If the famous Hindu magician of the Chicago Tribune's cartoons were to give a high school freshman one wish, the delighted and surprised freshman might very probably ex- claim, 'Oh make me a seniortn A word of advice, freshmen, ask for a bicycle. Being a senior isn't all your imagina- tion pictures it. It is true, perhaps, that we do Wrule the roost,W but we are not sophisticated, and we are not confi- dent. You freshmen may feel that you are facing the 'fog in your throatsn and the Wmist in your facesn, but think of us facing life, or even worse, college. If we wear a dill pickle expression, it's from thinking of what will be left of us after the tornado of the first college examg if we seem snooty, believe me, it's from envy. We know high school isn't going to be so bad for you, and we hate to leave, really.i But we don't know what lies ahead of us. A last word, ,freshmen, if you think your path is all thorns, and that of a senior all buttercups, look into the blanched faces of the next graduating class as they march out of the auditorium with their diplomas. If your path is thorns, the senior's path is lilies! . '