Rome Free Academy - De O Wain Sta Yearbook (Rome, NY)

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1 and Physical Culture.

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The Senior Annual PUBLISHED BY THE SENIOR CLASS ROME, N. Y. CLASS DAY EDITORIAL 7IND friends of the class of 1908, this volume represents our initial editori- al attempts. We most sincerely hope it will meet your approval, or, at least, you will criticise it with leniency, for in our age it must be remembered there lives no natural genius. If we had lived in the heroic ages we would have been undoubt- edly so aided by the friendly divinities that you would have found a Homer or a Pericles among us. But such was not our fortune; instead, we have been left on a great pathless plain to seek our de- sired goal. But permit us in our crude and unpol- ished way to apologize to those who in these pages have not become our victims. schoolmates, we have a To you, dear word to say: Feel not slighted or dis- pleased because your names are not on these pages; for upon the tablets of our hearts they will remain forever. Our material came for.h hurriedly for the ill-fated came in too late. So cheer up, kind ones, press, and your names, ones, and dream of the pleasant future where your. name next year will hold its place in a better Senior Annual.

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THI Calendar acai 3 ful Everybody assembled in joy- anticipation of their arduous studies. are Already the under-classmen by their superiors pt. + the Seniors. Miss dazzled pt. 6—Denio catches a glimpse of Our old standby, foot-ball, 1s ‘n of with great delight. Rusty” first, but not thei sept. 23 faculty, ‘n hair immediate- to “Gil.” Mr. McCurn ; bounded affections upon Miss Fuller. 28 lavishes his un- Oct. 1—Wendt enters the p ing resolved to study. } s Di gin. without their ass T Rome- Utica foot - ball vame. is better to have played and lost than never to have 19 studying during the no played at all.” Oct. Panic in scho Bailey caught ym hour. Grace Felton’s birthday. Great yn. Miss MacFarland, in a dejected of mind, exclaims in Virgil: Quis homo iam misero mihi denique restat ? What man now remains for miserabk me ? Oct. 30—Concert for piano fund. Cole and Miss Squire make their debut. Oct. 31—Seniors memorable held their Hallowe’en party at Westernville. SENIOR Jan. 16 ANNUAL Nov. 5—Wailing Esther Freeman only got 95ina physic test. Nov. 10 to school with Miss Squires. teeth. and gnashing of 1 ee rvead Walking Mr. Sweet is obs Yes, we have heard old fires are often re- that nder if this will be fire ? kindled. We wi Sweet-Cole (coal ‘eat excitement. First flurry iors begin to talk of a Senior sl Nov. are 18—We wonder if congratulations in order. Raffauf was he: mark that work in: tion. Nov. 22 vere Nov. try class The had shock; Miss Burdick said P. D. QO. 28 No school. Eve Ss reome a se- rybody eating Dec. Dec. 10 blers ? Dec. 14 uates with all Dec. 19 Flore terested in « Dec. 21 Everybody adjourns for the Nothing doing. Mystery! What about the gob- lebration. 1 the Great ce Denio grad- honors. nce and June become in- ach other. Session closes with Doxology. Christmas vacation. the High School. to sit Every body at good, warm pl so Prof. ace Harris says. Jan. 9—Chapman caught flirting with Miss Cosgriff. Many of came to Jan. 10 the young gentlemen school bedecked with ‘“‘war paint.” This is not due to personal vanity but to the make-up in the ““Old I Vermont Farm.” Mr. Wendt stroll in the hall to Comes the Bride.” Miss the American History class that henceforth Jan. 13 Miss tune of Here and the Mowry Crawford informs she will have the monopoly of all the os ‘‘smart sayin