Annual (May 1900) . we love our school I Every wall is chiseled withsomfe memory picture. As we go from room to room, we can again hear the interestingstory, and recall the pranks that we have played on each other. We can see the deter-mined and familiar faces of the members of our debating and literary clubs. We againhear the gracious words, and witness the little deeds of kindness—great mementoes, bywhich we shall always remember each other. How strange it seems now that we should have labored, tested every nerve to itsutmost, exerted every energy to gain a seat upon this stage tonight. How
Annual (May 1900) . we love our school I Every wall is chiseled withsomfe memory picture. As we go from room to room, we can again hear the interestingstory, and recall the pranks that we have played on each other. We can see the deter-mined and familiar faces of the members of our debating and literary clubs. We againhear the gracious words, and witness the little deeds of kindness—great mementoes, bywhich we shall always remember each other. How strange it seems now that we should have labored, tested every nerve to itsutmost, exerted every energy to gain a seat upon this stage tonight. How we labored Iand now, how we regret that that which we have striven for has come. How good! How gentle I has everyone been to us. We thank you, Mr. Emmerich,for your kindness. You have spared neither time nor pains to make our school-life as in-teresting and pleasant as possible. We thank you for the agreeable surprises that youhave often planned for us, and for the pleasant meetings that we have had in the audito-. wua M < O z ^ QZ< a:< Z< QOOO rium. You have made our school one sweet home-life ; and as we depart from our school-home, and from your paternal care, we feel just as one does when he bids hisold home farewell forever. We thank you for your kind advice, that has bound us to-gether with a deep feeling for each other. We thank you and we honor you. We thankour teachers for their willingness to help us, for their efforts to make our school-life asinteresting as possible, consistent with thorough work; we thank them for their patienceand for the sincere interest they have taken in our progress from year to year. We are grateful to our parents for the opportunity and privilege of going to such aschool as the Manual Training High School. Every gentle word and friendly deed of thepast comes before us now, and is made dearer and brighter because we are no longer tobe members of a happy circle of classmates and teachers. Thankful to all for the past, hopeful for
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