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History of the Class of '98. MABLE FRANCES COLLAMER. Amid the merry pealing 6f school bells, on the first Monday in September, lst)4, a large class of bright pupils entered the Norfolk High School. As usual a grand rush was made for the back seats, but as “two masses of matter can not occupy the same space at the same time,” we at last decided to sit where we could. We were model freshmen, bearing patiently the tyranny of tin seniors and the slurs of the juniors. Our work, which was taken up and completed at different periods during the year, consisted of arithmetic, book-keeping, algebra, mental arithmetic, composition, grammar, civics, German and Latin. Never has there been a freshman class to equal that of 94. Every little while, we had to “orate” much to our dismay, and as we worked and toiled to make the room beautiful in our class colors, pink and white, all the credit we received for it was a remark read to us from the sophomore paper: “The room looked beautiful last month in faded pink and dirty white.” We were fortunate in several things: First. The eighth grade occupied our places in the room and re- ceived a bounteous share of slights, etc., from the upper classes. Though we recited every day, our number was so great that each individual recited every third day and like other bright freshmen we studied every third day. Time passed and the patient freshmen became sophomores. This is, perhaps, the most trying year in the high school, for a sophomore does not care to associate with a freshman and the juniors and “noble, potent and reverend” seniors do not care to notice him. We studied algebra, rhetoric, general history. Latin, zoology, and geology, and so smart did we become, all the other classes wore blue “specks” to enable them to bear the brightness. Certain days were set apart for feasting and various are the eatables partaken of in that one year. Also many short visits to the city became necessary to the sophomores during each day. The fall of ’% found us in our places as brilliant juniors, ready to take up our work, consisting of worrying the freshmen, ignoring the sophomores, assistin': the seniors and extolling ourselves above all others and incidentlv studying. Our studies were geometry, geology. botany. Latin and American literature. Much sport was obtain-
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14 THE MILESTONE. ed from the botany class, for that study necessitates long rides into the country, though it doesn’t necessitate that tramps should scare the little girls of the class. Many pleasant memories will we carry with us of our junior year. Especially the class parties, fifteen in number, given by the different members of the class. Special parties were two, one given by the juniors in honor of the seniors, and the other in return by the seniors for the beloved juniors. We also banded ourselves together as the ‘’Junior club” for mutual benefit. We had officers and committees and arranged programs in a business like manner. During the year a system of self-government was established which was carried out nobly by our class. It also seemed necessary to the English division, on account of the seniors, to have afternoon prayer meetings intermingled with song services, varied occasionally by a private circus. The culmination of our junior year was our class day program, which was rendered at the last of the year, and which gained for ns an everlasting reputation as artists. It was one of the finest programs ever rendered in the Norfolk high school, so it is said. Of course we do not say so, because we are a very modest class. The Class of ’9S, composed of seventeen members, stands at the head of the Norfolk high school. We are the tenth graduating class, and the largest ever graduated from the Norfolk schools. When we entered the high school we were between forty and fifty strong, but many of our members have been removed from us, and our number has been reduced to seventeen. However, we remem- ber the saying, “Quality, not quantity.” Many have moved away, some teach school, others are engaged in different kinds of work. Several are married, others would like to be. Never have we lost a classmate by death, for which we are very thankful. Our number has been increased from time to time, especially in the last few years. The studies pursued and mastered are geometry, astronomy, botany, English history and literature and Latin. As a class we will always be noted for our musical ability, industry and push. Perhaps this is due partially to our motto, “Industry Leads to Success.” We have organized an orchestra and maintained it, given entertainments and raised money for a piano fund for the high school. Our name should go down in the annals of history as a bright and shining light to future classes. Most of us are musicians of no mean rank. Though we are mostly inclined toward instrumental music, it is said that when the seniors sing all the earth trembles and the little freshies clap their hands, for the sound thereof is like the rushing of mighty waters. Our dear boys are noted for their angelic dispositions and their great desire to escort the young ladies home from parties. Their delight is bob-sled parties. The girls are in the majority and the leaders of the class. Their delight is oyster suppers and short talks on dress. So proficient have they become in the subject, they have discussed and exhausted it several times during the latter part of the year, much to the delight of the boys. During our four years of school
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