Central High School - Aglaia Yearbook (Manchester, NH)

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? 5 l K .Ni Cfiorreepondeqpce. HE duties of the Scribe in attending to official correspondence, have not proved particularly onerous, and the communications received were, for the most part, frightfully uninteresting. From the letter tile which rests on our Work desk, we cull two characteristic compositions. First, a letter from a former Principal, one which needs no explanation: GLoUcEsrER, Mass. Iune 2 '86, i , 4, To Me Ex. Com., Class Q' ,86, M. If S. DEAR FRIENDS!-The kindly and thoughtful remembrance of your former Principal, by the graduates of '86, M. H. S., has been received with the deepest pleasure. The familiar names subscribed stir many a pleasant recollection of the past. I need not say that it would afford me a great treat to be present with you on the day of your final successes and departure from the M. H. S. Unfortunately, the day is the closing one of our school year in Gloucester, and though graduation occurs on the Monday succeeding, I could hardly be able to absent myself at so busy a time. None the less, my heartiest congratulations shall be yours for this successful termination of your school work, and I shall never cease to hope that the solicitude of friends and hopes of parents, for your best welfare, may be more than met by the usefulness of your lives. Very truly yours, A. W. BACHELER. Next comes a letter from an old classmate, in response to an invita- tion to attend the Class Sleigh Ride of February, 1885: - C195

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they returned, the doors were Two escaped the decree and tread. It was kept locked until they were nearly frozen. marched into the lecture room with stately such episodes as this that made the corn-ball a needful institution at the M. H. S. 'l'he Amen Corner must secret society, not be forgotten. It was the home of a who may be denoted Knightresses Qfeminine of knight, pronounced quickly to secure euphonygj of the Amen Corner. Then there were the chapel steps, which the Class used so much as to wear them entirely out, necessitating their removal during the summer. 4 . RAIJUA'l'ION came at last to the Class of '86, as it must to all classes. For weeks were we preparing for the hour when we were to make Q Nl I our linal bow as High School students. That our ii ' endeavors were productive of good results was a source K, of greatest pleasure to us. It was with a strange mix- y f'IH ' ture of sadness and joy that we assembled at the school 4 building on graduation day to take leave of the old X I W .V associations,-the lecture room and our old recitation 'I A rooms, where, in days gone by, so many pleasant hours Q 7 had been spent. After the graduation exercises in the evening, the Class was tendered an ice cream supper by the teachers. It was duly appreciated, and did not result in creating other than an artificial coolness between the members. Then, with many a parting word of good will, we separated, and the history of the Class of '86 was ended. Not a blot mars the purity of our record. Nothing is there of which we can sa Y, We would have had it otherwise. 'l'he Class of '86 was a model of t SUCCESS. 1185

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H11.LsBoRoUG1-1 BRIDGE, N. H., Feb. 25, 1885. DEAR CLAssx1ATEs:-Owing to my inability to find a young lady will- ing to pay my fare back from Manchester, and for other reasons later to be stated, I find myself unable to join you in your festivities at Goffstown. The agony which rends my heart may be compared to that which filled the breast of the illustrious Alexander. when he, weary of the conquests of mun- dane things, sighed because there were no more girls to conquer. The secret springs that move and animate my intellectual being will, however, rise respon- sive to the contemplation of your pleasures, and the tenderest chords of my soul will break forth into responsive strains of harmony. Methinks I hear the gurgling eddies of feminine mirth, and the more masculine guffaws of the boyees, as together you speed o'er the smooth and glittering surface Dame Nature has provided for the especial benefit of the M. H. S. Class of '86, Methinks I hearthe strangulated groan of the oyster, the dull thud of the pickle dish, the deafening crash of the cracker, and the stentorian cries of the boys: Pass the pepper. ff.'yffw', 1f1f:1'1'1-:R I It makes me hungry, it appeals to my highest sensibilities, it fills me with unfathomable regret. when I think of your exquisite banquet, one which I am sure would tantalize the gods and cause Ed Sturgis to cry aloud with joy. And yet, beloved classmates, I can but feel that. amid the dazzling array of beauty, with brother classmates min- gling, stealing away their senses. and so forth, as the poet has stated. I am far safer here in my quiet country home. Indeed, D0mzz.r ma uugzze fs! lufis- simum rmzglmnf'-5 C., 92 And as the engrossing cares of business, the bewildering duties of the family, and the demands of religion, command me to be absent from your loved and prized society, I beg you one and all to excuse me fully, for: EAM zzulla rugmz :ri fill. parere zzefesrf .r1'!. -D., 17, 50, 169. I wish you abundant joy and perfect peace. I assure you that The tender grace of a day that is dead Will never waltz back to me.-A . Tennysnn. I am yours truly, though sadly, J. HowARD CAMPBELL. But for the diliicult metre of the above prose poem, we should have had it set to music.-tThe Scribej l20l