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From the latter w e carried off sam ples of the cotton from its raw form to the various
finished products. 0 fortunatis, w e w e re allo w e d to ride dow n in H an k 's "b erry.”
W e m a n a g e d to m ix in w ith our now earnest stu d yin g a v ariety of incidents to m ake
life in terestin g. T h e " A ise ra y A in cay Society” w as form ed— its n am e speaks (in P ig
L a tin ) for itself. A fter the d isb an d in g of this group, the class in d u lg ed in th rillin g
gam es of cops and robbers, u sin g as a prison the space behind the v au lt under
A lu m n i H a ll. T h is en tertain m en t ended w h en one over anxious prisoner put an
elb o w th ro ugh the one and on ly w in d o w in the prison.
D u rin g the w in ter days a ch an ge in schedule w as put into effect. W e had our
"sp o rts” in the g y m from 1 :3 0 to 2 :3 0 and then studied until 4 :3 0 . Such a p lan
h ard ly m et w ith our app ro val, for there w as n o th in g harder to do than to settle
dow n to stu d y in g w h e n w e w ere just startin g to feel active from the g ym w ork.

A diversion w as created by the discovery of a set of blue books co n tain in g in­
terestin g and e n lig h te n in g m aterial. K ey w ords sup p lied by one m em ber of the
class kept a busy lin e of note passers en gaged in research. M usic appreciation classes
in A lu m n i H a ll w e re at tim es difficult to sit through and seem ed pointless to those
w h o could not keep a poker face, but others of these classes w ere really en tertain in g
an d educatio n al.
T h e sp rin g season w as in au g u rated by the m em orable fight betw een T ay lo r
C otter an d H arry Pett, in w hich tw o shirts, at least, m et their doom. W e began,
also, w o rk upon an Eskimo p an o ram a, containing, am o n g other things, a battery of
Ivory Soap sleds. A rough estim ate w o u ld be that three large cakes of soap w ere
necessary to perfect one tiny sled — skilled artisans w ere w e! T h is p an o ram a w as
to be show n at the final exhibition at the close of school.
A tten d an t, too, upon the close of school w as the trad itio n al trip to Boston. W e
visited L exin gto n , Concord, an d all points of historical interest in Boston. W e ran
up an d d o w n the B unker H ill m onum ent and surveyed w ith disappointm ent the
skeleton of the dry-docked Old Ironsides, w hich w as in the process of reconstruc­
tion. W e ate in the G eo rgian C afeteria, to the last m an o rd erin g iced tea, thus
b rin g in g m ore g ra y hairs to M r. W h it e ’s head, for w ere w e not still of a tender age?
In the afternoon w e boarded the U. S. battleship Utah and then visited the great
A g assiz M u seu m . C otter ju m p ed ponderously up and dow n beside a seism ograph,
but w as u n ab le to m ak e it record any kind of q u ak e even w ith his— ah— advantages.
W e b o u gh t several copies of "F ilm F u n ” to read on the w a y home, but in the
h ilarity of the m om ent lost all restraint and used the m agazin es as m issiles, aim ed
for the m ost p art in the direction of " H a n k ” and " N o rm a n .” A fter a last stop at
W ig h t m a n ’s, M r. W h ite , w ith a sigh of relief, w as able to turn us over to our
anxious parents.
A t the clo sin g exercises, in w hich our chorus sin g in g K ip lin g ’s Recessional
sounded s lig h tly o vertrain ed , T a y lo r Cotter w as aw ard ed the read in g m edal, w ith
W y m a n P endleton runner-up.
W e san g our last songs as low er-schoolers and departed, feelin g m uch older and
anxious to im press our k n o w led g e on a w a itin g w o rld of sunshine.
E. A. W .

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