Central High School - Aglaia Yearbook (Manchester, NH)

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process of running the gauntlet was only replaced by a mild form of shower bath under the basement faucet, and an occasional immersion in the school fountain. Our first year as a Class was remarkably uneventful. We came grad- ually to feel acquainted with classmates, with teachers, and eventually be- gan to lose that feeling of awe, which is common to freshies, toward that noble product, the senior. 'l'he Class of '86 from the very beginning took kindly to the school and its institutions, from the laboratory to the corn- ball man. We were intensely interested in our studies. Physiology, with its menzorable visions of skeleton females and fresh meat from neighboring butcher shops, for instance. Latin was also said to furnish delight un- speakable to those who cared to learn of Caesar, and Virgil, and other old fellows who were wont to make Rome howl in the dead past. Zoology was interesting too, with its live crustaceans, its mouse that wouldn't die under an air pump, and all the other strange creatures that from time to time found their way into the recitation room. In many youthful breasts a fervid desire was awakened, which resulted in the accumulation of exten- sive collections of the results of nature's handiwork. The Class boasted at least one naturalist who was thoroughly interested in the work. The bug professor predicted that this boy would produce one of the mighty Thoreaus of nature we read about. t'l'his joke is copyrightedy Before the Class graduated from the school a superb natural history specimen in the shape of a nnely-mounted opossum was added to the case of rare birds which graces the lecture room. What wierd, pungent odors we used to formulate in that long room under the roof. , Then there was French, with its overpowering grammar, and Geology, with its rock tand ryej, and its impossible stories about the slimy night- mares of pre-Adamite times, and the shocking times we used to have in not

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