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winter your interest was again centered in basketball, and this year your team was rewarded by conquering all the other teams. What a joyful day that was for you ! It almost made up for your defeat at hockey, the
previous fall.
And now that the joyful but busy season of Spring has rolled around
again, you have a new addition to your class, for Helen Palmer, a lovable girl from New Orleans, a short time ago was transferred to your class from the Juniors. As you are the oldest class in the school, and many of your members have been elected to positions of great responsibility, the most important activities, such as Field Day, the Banquet, and Shaw’s play, Androcles and the Lion, he in your hands. But as these events and many others are yet to come, I cannot record them here.
However, graduation day, that happiest day for the Seniors, and sad­ dest one for the fleet, is still to come. For every year, after the graduation exercises, the radiant Seniors go down to the w'harf, and midst wild excite­ ment board their class v’essel which is festooned with every kind and color of flower. Then after an impressive ceremony, the vessel leaves the rest of the fleet and sails off into uncharted seas.
When you come to this moment in your career, may your ship cut the water with all the grace and dignity of a true battleship. And as you skim
over the sea of life in your class vessel of influence, honor, and friend­ ships, may you reflect upon the gleaming sands of your schooldays, forget the cliffs of exams, and many times come back to visit the town of Plainfield.
A. P. L., ’23.
Miss Wells: “ This new theory of the single tax will solve the taxation problem.”
Lib: “ But it seems to me all tbe bachelors would get married.”
When Hay meets Hedges, what a rural scene!
Tuttle: “Are your problems checked?” Green: “No, striped!”
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