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

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Senior League. Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn. i T i Y HIS couplet expresses most perfectly the outline of the history of the Senior League. By common inclination and desire for companionship, the great souls of Senior dignity deserted their quiet QP? retreats on second corri- dor, and collected for the purpose of forming an alliance which should have high thinking for its object, and friendship dear for its ruling spirit. I I cannot say that we have reached the heights of thought which we saw before us, glorious and beautiful, like snow-capped moun- tains in the distance, but I can say that the fires of true friendship have ever burned warm and bright in all our meetings, the cheery glow continuing from meeting to meeting, lighting up all our cloudy days ,and increasing the happiness of our pleasant ones. It was the friendship kindled in the Senior League that made every moment so full of enjoyment, that filled every nook and corner of Senior corridor so full of a certain friendly atmosphere, that made visiting a constant necessity and delight, and the ceremony of say- ing good night a circumstance of such depth of emotion as would remind one of a scene on the wharf when a great Atlantic liner is about to go to sea. Our meetings-I wish I could give you even a faint idea of their interest. Our gracious president, ever solicitous for our comfort, with magic touches turns the meeting-place into a perfect little paradise of ease and beauty. Into this little retreat we gather, leaving our school cares and all vexatious behind, bringing with us only light hearts and that necessary attribute of a girl's existence- fancy work. Wotilcl all our sewing come under that head? Oh, no! Some plain and very useful work has also been done under the inspiration of the Senior League. Wliile our fingers deftly plied the needle our minds followed the adventures of Richard

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