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men. And then of course there was our dance. One must admit that the punch uniquely spiced with cloves was sufficiently original to be worthy of our class, but let us make one honest confession because it is good for the soul. We did wish to join in the strike and we, as experienced partakers in such undisciplined carousing, warn all coming classmen against such radical steps. Those, as we have said before, are but the salient points that have cliequered our career during the first and more inconspicuous half of our sojourn within these impressive portals. .-Xs juniors we took the school by storm. We were fewer in numbers but surely it was the survival of the iittest. We organized, an unprecedented privil- ege, and captured the pennants for the interclass games within the Hrst months. Our dances were, though our modesty is strained in telling it, the most successful of the season. Our campaigns for Senior benefits shamed those in whose behalf we were exerting ourselves. at .Xs to the Senior dances. they were sadly lacking in notable members, for the juniors had quite properly removed them from liarm's way. A play alone did not satisfy us for a Xmas entertainment: it was only an incident in a surpassing program. ln brief throughout the whole year we accomplished the object of every true junior Class--we harassed, surpassed, and embarrassed the upper- classmen until the faculty thoroughly disliked us and the underclassmen paid us the respect due us. For what more could any one wish? And as a final joy to till our cup to overtiowing was our indispensable aid in the Dramatic Club, Science Club, and teams. In fact a junior was captain of our baseball team. But let us stop with the account of junior events. They are so numerous and creditable that we are afraid of appearing boastful or of straining the credulity of our readers. ' At last we came to the fourth and crowning year, few in numbers but un- doubtedly mighty and capable of accomplishing the tasks expected of us. Q Great we were, for only the great can put aside their personal glory before precedent as we did in the interclass games. llut why should we tediously review our series of accomplishments: the dance, the Pliniscoma, the Annual, the Clubs, the rings, the play, the teams, what would they have been without the experience of the Class of '21? It was a question of duty, of support of school traditions and we did not shirk, No, more than that, we introduced two concerts for the Wlasbington trip and what is more, we made them a success with only the half- hearted support of the underclassmen. Now you have here the summary of the life of '21, an illustrious life, if not an illustrious summary. We have been indispensable but unfortunately we have beenn and will not be as will the coming classes. Our history may have seemed to you a boastful one, yet it is only a chronological tabulated page of events which is to be added as the last leaf in the great loose leaf notebook which contains the honorable, record-making annals of the school, and we are glad that our page is a well filled, carefully written, unblotted one. We hope those that follow will attempt to equal, though they could never surpass, the leaf numbered '21. CORA DUBOIS.
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