Hartford Public High School - Classbook Yearbook (Hartford, CT)

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THE CHRONICLE 279 I don't doubt but that we have given some very choice debates, with- out realizing it. But there was o11e subject, on which I started the discussion, which I thought my audience in that room did not appreciate fully, so I am going to write about it to you, incidentally showing you what pleasure and benefit I have derived from your kind gift. For the first few days of our confinement here none of us felt well enough acquainted with the others to do much talking, or indeed physically capable of conversing, so we spent the greater part of our waking hours in reading. You, doubtless with perfectly good inten- tions, shipped to this hospital a quantity of cast-off literature, which I digested, or devoured, or rather tried to swallow, as best I could, it being the only reading matter I could procure. There were some forty pamphlet-like magazines, with vari-colored covers, evidently the monthly issues for the last four years of the Hertford Academyg there were also four consecutive volumes of some sort of year-book-I believe they call it the Howl Amzual. Each of the pamphlets was labelled The Chronicle. VVhether this title signifies that the publica- tion is permanent, haunting the school by which it is edited as a chronic disease, I know not. Certain it 'is that it had a lasting im- pression on me. I must say that the majority of the stories were interesting, inspiring, in fact-and as for those dated 1915, they were really works of art. After careful study, determined not to be mistaken in a matter of such vital importance to the world at large, I finally settled on the Class of 1915 as the paragon of all the classes that ever graduated from the Hertford High School, or ever will Cfor the next three years. at leastj. I was determined, also, that my three companions should share my beliefs, and so, with a great deal of time and labor, I set about to convince them, compiling a great many statistics and facts showing the superiority of the aforementioned class over all others. It is odd how a matter of little significance may puff itself into one of tremendous import in the eyes of a rational man. And I am not sure but that the affair of the Class of 1915 is indeed a huge one. It is not for me to say. At any rate, when I was ready, I attacked my fellow sufferers, armed with all the facts I could marshal from the limited scope of my reading. First, the very fact that the class entered the school for the first time, as Freshmen, on the thirteenth of September, 1911, is an im- as