English High School - Brown Owl Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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f6ENfi QD O . 3 93 10 o HE opening day of the school year of 1907 found a number of unso- phistocated children seated expectantly in the spacious hall of the English High School. VVe, the now brilliant class of June, 1911, after learning our fate, quietly adapted ourselves to our new surroundings as so many had before us. Qur freshman year, spent in solving unknown quantities, passed like a bird on wing. After the long vacation, we came back to school ready to take up the more elevated duties of Sophomores. Here we proved our first perplexing proposi- tions in geometry, and as for physics, why we were able QPD to operate any kind of machine. Wfhile in this year we compiled a class paper, called The Echo, which showed a spark of ingenuity that we hoped might develop into a flame before we published our Brown Owlf' Next came our junior year, which we enjoyed to the fullest extent with only one dark cloud crossing our path, that being the passing away of our classmate, Susie 'Weaver It is needless to say that we felt of some importance at this stage of our progress, for in this year we held our first class meeting and also our junior Social. It was a gay assembly that graced the hall of Qld English, which was decorated with the school colors and clusters of palms, on this occasion. But. lo! it is September again and now we enter rooms 1 and 11 as Seniors, full of anticipation of those Senior joys which we hope the next historian may have the pleasure of relating. JANET M. BOURN. 32

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beaten. Avalanches of Historic Dates checked their progress, and the monster English still followed closely, darting out his fatal fangs. The pilgrims had organized their company, and completed their journey under the wise commands of their chosen leader. Nevertheless, the Mighty Leader was always present to protect the little band against danger. Mount Senior was very steep, and the climb was hard and long. Halfway up the mountain side was a beautiful mossy terrace, and the pilgrims rested there for a few hours. So happy were they to be within sight of their journey's end, that they forgot their Weariness, and danced in the terrace until the Mighty Leader, who reckoned a late hour from the stars, sent them to rest. As the days wore on, the pilgrims became more eager and zealous. Some- where just before them was the Pearl of Wisdoinig somewhere in the City of Desire, that bright gem was to be found. Ever higher loomed up the gates of the city, and the walls seemed to become thicker as they approached. The Mighty Leader conversed with the Keeper of the Gates, and then to crown their success along the English High Road, the wearypilgrims were welcomed by others who were on the same quest for the Pearl of VVisdom. ' The massive gates were closed again. The pilgrims had been guided into a broader, wider sphere of experience than they had ever been in before. A great wave of gratitude swept overthe pilgrims, as they reviewed their four years' journey, for the higher ideals which they had been taught to follow, for the wisdom they had gleaned while on the quest for the Pearl of VVisdom, for the strength and manhood those trials had caused to predominate, and for a broader insight into human nature. 'A brighter pearl lies further onf they were told, and a few prepared for the second quest. The hoary head bent lower over the papers and the sleep of weariness enveloped the writer. Thelstained quill fell from his hand, and as it rolled back and forth over the papers, it left the mark of a star. May it be the Star of Hope, a happy omen, for the class of january 1911. ' 51

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