Springfield High School - Capitoline Yearbook (Springfield, IL)

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Page 6 THE CAPITOLINE hammer has fallen repeatedly Qfor I have received knocks in plentyj in the main I have been successful. If I have offended any, I am sin- cerely sorryg if I have been unfair in my judgments, it was not in- tentional, and if our class has not accomplished all some of you have been expecting perhaps I am not entirely to blame. Although our class is small, it should not daunt us that We shall not till the stage of the opera house. There is often more energy and power in the most infinitesimal atom, nitroglycerine for instance, than in a large mass of matter. As your president let me say that I am proud of you all, and I feel honored in holding the presidency of such a class. It will give me great pleasure to recall in later years the class over which I was called to preside and I trust that you will continue to remember me 'in after years when the class of 1909 is history and its members ab- sorbed into various callings of the practical world. When we leave the old school and go forth into the world, let us not be unmindful of the duty which we owe to ourselves, to our friends, to our school and to our country. Let us resolve to be citizens of the best type, striving for the perpetuation of those principles for which our forefathers fought and died, that we might have this fatherland, this city, and these educational facilities. May we show ourselves worthy of their sacrifices and maintain by our lives if ,necessary the principle of light. In closing let me say again that I feel gratified with our showing. What we have done, we have accomplished not by any favoritism or adventitious aid but by earnest steadfact endeavor. We trust that our friends who are with us this afternoon Will receive our efforts in good part. W. J. MILLAR, JR., President, February, 'OQ. Class Prophecy CHESTER SIKKING. I was resting on a boulder in the opening of a dark pit, in the Himalaya mountains, awaiting my guide who had gone back, quite a distance for a light. My attention was attracted to a small shiny object, somewhat back in the pit and, for I dont know how long, I sat contemplating on what the object might, be, when it suddenly grew brighter and drew nearer the opening. I perceived it was an odd looking little man carrying a lantern who approached and commanded me to follow him. I-Ie led me through this dark pit into a cave, strange and extremely weird in its appearance and after pointing a long bony finger to some apparatus, which was as strange looking as its sur- roundings, told me in a squeaky, ghostlike voice, that that was the work of a whole life. By this device, he explained, you can see any- body or any place you desire. Perhaps it was because this was the fourth of February, that the idea came to me to endeavor to find out what the members of my graduating class of February, '09, were doing. Look here, said I, if this apparatus is what you claim it to Q 4

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