Cedar Grove Academy - Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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And degrees we have among us. Nell O'Brien. with her A. B. Is in High School. teaching iuniors English. Math. and Chemistry. Nell. we'd like to he your pupils. Watch your laeaming eyes and true. Watch your crimson lips give orders. See your pupils loving you. And with her we ranlc our Anna. We are proud of her M. D.. To our town she is a credit. A blessing to humanity. Mary O'Hare was always busy Drawing sketches great and small. Today. as a cartoonist. She wins the praise of all. So. Mary. here's a job for you: Draw Anna and the rest. Fix each one in her station Be she north. south. east or west. Draw a nun with Chinese children. Draw a nurse. an artist. too. Draw blushing brides and famous writers. Mothers who are staunch and true. wk wk wk Pk wk Ik startled. I spring from out my chair. The embers burn low. The dying shadows on the wall, Are flickering to and fro. rve floated in a silvery laoat. Across the sea of dreams. with sleep my pilot. I have viewed The future of each one. it seems. Somnus showed each classmate on a vague and unknown shore. It was he who called the meeting Of the Class of '24. Had I Aladdin-fs wondrous lamp. I'd rula it hard. and sue with might the fairy courts To make .this dream come true. CATHERINE FALLON. '24. Page Tuwnly-scren

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E Q Zbistnrp of what Grabs SGQQQQQQQQSQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ2Q33QQQ3B Three quarters of a century ago. Cincinnati was a group of insignificant factories backed by monotonous rows of small houses. utterly lacking the variety of architecture that graces the homes of to-day. But the unattractive little town lay in a setting of exquisite beauty. for before it the Ohio drew its graceful. serpentine way and around it rose an amphitheatre of stately. forest-clad hills. crowning the loftiest of these was The Cedars . the home of Judge Alderson. Mrs. Alderson's sister. Mary Hewitt. who visited her in 1845. thus describes it in her boolt. Our Cousins in Ohiou: Their home was called 'The Cedars.: it was in the state of Ohio. on the banlcs of that noble river. which gives its name to the state. and about four miles from the fine city of -----. The Cedars lay upon a road which went on and on. through little clusters of houses called 'towns' and 'villes'. and by farms. and through woods. and across valleys and creeks. to nobody ltnows where. at least I do not. Well. a little way out of this road lay the Cedars. lt was a large. handsome. and somewhat commanding-looking place. a bricln house whitewashed. and one of the oldest thereabout. It stood on the highest land in the neighborhood. and yet it was only after having ascended the mile-long hill that lay between it and the river. as well as by observing that the cedar trees which surrounded it. and which gave to it its name. were land-marlcs to the whole district. that any one perceived how high it really was. This elevation. which made it blealc in winter. caused it to be breezy and particularly pleasant during the fervid heats of summer. The house. which. as I told you. was white. had green Venetian outside shutters to the windows. In front there was a large two-storied porch. up which grew. in wild luxuriance. a beautiful prairie rose. which in summer hung about it like garlands of flowers. On the sunny side of the house. which was consequently very hot in summer. there ran a broad piazza which. like the porch. was two-storied. so that both the upper and lower rooms opened into it. The piazza in winter was the favorite playplace of the children. and as it was shaded with vines and trumpet-creepers. it was in hot weather like a beautiful summer parlor. Here in the summer the family frequently tool: their meals. and often sat in the delicious moon-light evenings fill bed-time. As I told you. the house was at a little distance from the road. It stood surrounded by its own land. and in a beautifully smooth field called the 'lawn'. It was approached by an avenue of locust trees. and the lawn itself was scattered over and grouped with cedar and catalpa trees. which grew there to a large size. and which were. in fact. the remains of the primeval forest. Beautiful flower-beds surrounded the house. and others were cut here and there in the open lawn. which was kept nicely mown to a considerable distance round the house. and besides these. lovely flowering trees and shrubs grew in clumps and thicliets. among which seats were set and arbors made .....,...... Page Twenly-nine