Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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WE DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO MR. JOHN A. SANFORD, Principal ok “A” Room, On e w hom the Class ok ’90 WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER WITH Great Respect and Admiration. Minneapolis, June 4, 1890.

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 BOARD OF EDITORS. JOHN F. MCDONALD, Editor in Chief. WILBUR C. FISKE, Business Manager. WILLIAM G. GALE, Secretary.

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INTRODUCTION. “Since brevity is the soul of wit. And tediousness the limbs of outward nourishes, I will be brief.” IT is with pleasure that we present to our classmates and friends, the first volume of the High School Annual. We confess that it is with a little pride too, inasmuch as this is, so far as we know', the first volume of the kind ever issued by a High School Class. It is not w ith an idea of being original, or yet with an idea of apcing the colleges or universities, that we do this—we are “wiuc i too humble''{ ) for anything of that sort—but merely for our own satisfaction in possessing something to enliven our memories of many a pleasant day and occasion, and to call back to mind, once familiar faces, reluctantly forgotten. And now’ that you have the Annual—and we hope paid for it—peruse it well, and if you like it, we should like to hear you mention it, but do not, we implore, shake hands with us—we mean the boys—just consider the youthful energy put forth in the manipulation of dull scissors and our exhausted condition after several elaborate efforts with a whitewash brush and a well-known solution of flour and water—and kindly refrain from anything more than a verbal expression of your congratulations— that is, if you have any. Hut if you feel inclined to criticise or perhaps vent your w’rath for some fancied wound to “your feelin’s”—it cannot be real for nothing has been written in such a spirit—we will gladly listen, by proxy however, as our time and patience are indeed quite limited ; we will simply give you a sitting at a phonograph, into which you can pour your criticisms and words of reproach to your heart’s content. We have endeavored to make the “Annual” a reliable edition, to omit so called “personals,” and to present the advertisements »»f firms for whom it is a pleasure to bespeak your patronage.