Lyceum Phoenix of Friends School - Phoenix Echo Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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Class History of IQOO. we possibly let any one into the secrets of our Senior year? We who have lived for so long in this our Alma Mater hardly venture to tell our fourth little history-it is so unlike other years. We have done about the same things as before, and yet there is a peculiar feeling in everything: we mentally stamp them all with that suggestive little phrase, 4' the last. The things which before seemed commonplace are now fraught with a reverence our Freshman year never dreamed of. Amidst our visions then were going to concerts, out to church, going down-town, and all sorts of other delightful things, in short, doing about as we pleased. We never understood with how differ- ent a joy we would look upon them, as we now find ourselves doing. We, the so-called lucky Seniors, even look with a feeling of envy on those just entering their course, having in view four years of Friends School, with terrible work and study, as they think. But how brief it seems now: how much more we should have done. Still, would we have it otherwise? Would we have the world go back in its course? No, indeed, there is other work for us to do. This other, bigger school has waited its destined time for us, and we must take up the other duties given us with the earnestness we wish we had adopted long ago, so that, as time goes on, we may look back with less regret on the past than we do at the end of Senior year. Our Thanksgiving sociable, most naturally, we considered a great success, thanks to the help of our kind assistants. Senior year has given us great delight in receiving Thomas Battey as a member of our class. Before, we had always admired and respected him as our teacher 5 but now, to know him as a class- mate is a privilege enjoyed only by 1900.

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Gur candy-pull was exactly as one would imagine, only a little more so, and even now the weighty question whether vinegar candy ought to be or ought not to be is still being discussed and rediscussed, and will be handed down to posterity no doubt, for who has the presumption to pass the final verdict? But, anyway, we are glad to say this is the only difference of opinion that has ever existed to mar the character of Igoo. I had almost forgotten to say that nine new friends had joined us at the beginning of this year, because now it seems as if they had always been eighteen-hundreders, so important a part of the class have they become. We wonder now how we possibly struggled through three years without their friendship to help and encour- age us. ' After all, we have done nothing unusual-nothing for which we may hope to be remembered. Still, if love is of any avail, if daily petitions for Long live the good School are worth anything, you have received something from us, for Mesa humble tributes we have, indeed, given freely, and in return we beg that you will keep a little place in your hearts, however small, for Iooo.