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STYL 5 From the Letters of a Senior July 9, 1925 Dear Aunt Hatty: My first day at Kossuth seemed to me an epochal event in the life of a great person. With the slow, dignified gait of a proud, all' knowing freshman, I made my way up the hill, accompanied, as it were, by the two high signs of my class, the flat, shining brief case and the almost traditional loosefleaf notebook. After deciding that the Frisbie Pie Company and the candy store on the corner made the location of the school ideal, I en' tered the building, where I was greeted with a list of rules and regulations. Gym must be taken at Waltersvilleg assemblies were to be held at Barnum, absence required excuses, and, above all, students must remember to keep to the right in walking through the halls. After my inferior social position had been duly impressed upon me by such directions and the dissertations of wordlyfwise sophs, I began to feel a little like Gulliver among the Brobdignagiansg but as I learned to speak in x's and y's and to decline the good farmer without making him feminine, my superiority complex gradually returned. About this time it was first rumored that the new Warren Harding building was near' ing completion and that we would be trans' ferred at Easter. But after a while such false alarms came to be a custom,. for by June the building was still in the process of erection and I was still attending the eightfroom, yelf lowfbrick schoolhouse. as :ie ae as :ie ae is Uanuary 25, 19261 After an extended vacation of three long weeks, I arrived at our new high school, which had just been completed. I had been there a few months before, at the laying of the cornerstone, and then, it being a rainy day, everything about the building seemed dull and unpromising. Consequently, I was agreeahly surprised by the high arched halls and the well-lighted rooms. Everyone was extremely proud of the new building, and we felt at last that we were attending a regular high school. In my Hrst flurry of excitement I joined four clubs and two teams, but was compelled to relinquish two because they met on the same afternoon. We have been en' joying assemblies regularly and are proud of our hall, which can seat twelve hundred students. We are beginning to participate in athletics, and Central has been designated as our bitterest rival. Because of our successful first season in sports, our teams are already gaining prestige. We have a fine athletic field, which in time will be further developed. I have joined the staff of our school paper, named, by a count of student votes, The Spectator. In English we are studying grammar at present and will in a short while take up Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, in which I never could at first get deeply interested. We are also delving into geometry and Caesar's Commentaries One admirable characteristic of our school is the spirit of activity evident everywhere- in the session rooms, the corridors, and the class rooms. Though most of our organizaf tions have been already founded, time alone can erase their crudities and air of newness, rendering them smooth and progressive. PK as is wk is wk an Uune 29, 1927, Vacation over, I went back to the old grind, only this year there was the addi' tional work of writing for the Spectator and attending college board classes. Of the latter,
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STYL S Harding to the Graduate Act for the future, emulate the past, Think of the present less, of self the lastg , Be free from their control who give you can't And sentiment-for sober reason, rant. Their merits few, too numerous to name 1' Their errors, but their bigotry the same. Deem not impertinence wit, persistence sense, And noise and fustian miscall eloquence. just reverence, no servile awe, display, Unswerved by doubt, unconquered by dismay. Think of yourself as one to whom is given A form of earth, but faculties from heaven, Think of yourself a being of a race, Whose conduct may adorn it or disgrace. You have before you a narrow course to run, A noble task assigned, but still undone. Achieve it, and to mem'ry be consigned Among the lights and blessings of mankindg Neglect it, and-- life's fitful fever der And dust returned to dust-be known no more. Lest dreams of youth may languish soon and die, Be true, be free, and Harding's loving eye Shall linger where your monuments aspire And own the children worthy of their sire. Sarah Herskowitz 45
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