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REIVIINISCENCES XYhile the buzz of the saw anal the elang of the ham- mer are near. in preparation of the long-looketl-f4ir etli- tiee-a new High Sehool buililini:--the realization of our fontlest ilreams. it is but natural that we beeome reminis- cent. Time moves all too swiftly for most of us. but in no other way is its onward sweep more emphatieally foreeiil upon us than when we try lo keep paee with sehools. Little girls with the white aprons aml eurls of yestertlay are the sweet. girl grzuluates of tomlay. The red-elieekeil little boys we knew so well in the yesterilay. are the flig- nitieml young men of totlay. And invariably we say. Mil how young they graduate. NOW I when in reality these young people are just as olil. just as staitl, and just as elever as we were when we were Seniors. And toe. it is not easy for those outside the school life to realize how rapiilly the sehools are growing, At the sound of the gong' for dismissal. TWO IIYXDREIJ SEVENTY-TXYO pupils pour forth from the High Sehool building--a large number, inileefl. when you stop to think that in l?ltI0'only about halt' that uuinlier, ONE HVNURED FOHTY-TWO. made up the total enrollment. The sev- enth anil eighth grades were also in this building at that time antl though these have long' sinee been transferred DELPHIAN 'FOURTEEN to the wzirtl sehools. the lligh Hehool buililing is still llliltlvttllillt' to meet the retpurements ot the tour regrular lligll Sl'ilUIli 2'l'Eltll S. We are justly prolul of our eity anal its sehools, anil wo sometimes boast of the faet that there are eighty pupils in our eigfllth giatle- fthe gratle where many. alas. too iuziny. llwfll lifvys aml girls. ilrop sehool for more allur- ing' paths of these eighty pupils. fully ninety per eent will go o11 to the High Fehool, Fig'ure it out by any manner of means anal. swelleil by the twenty or thirty non-iesiilents that are sure to enter the ltlreshman t'lass. this number will be inereaseel to one humlreil Freshmen. who will enter the High Feliool next Septemiber, When one huntlretl enter in the fall aml only forty-tive leave in llle previous June by gratluation. some room, somewhere. mrst he macle for the oneoining, ever-inereasing: hortles. A1.r,l we are glad to make the room! We are glail thrt boys anal girls are eoining' to see the advantages ot' an eilueation: glad that fathers antl mothers. more antl more. are urging the onwarrl step: and Qlzul espeeially. that the li mes. without ehildren. ean feel it in their hearts to help. uneomplainingrly. other homes to etlueate their young people Ameriea and Michigan in general, or Charlotte in iv:1r'2iei'lar. may have faults. but a penurious spirit to- wartl sf-hools antl eiluc-ation is not one of them! Nothing: absolutely nothing, is a greater nionument,to the fore,
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