. Iris 1905 . PNf p »!• ^Ife ■ife K HE END! The last page of The Iris! What a motley array ofthings there are hidden among the leaves of this beloved redvolume—photographs, stories, jokes, illustrations — a variouslyassorted mass meaningless to the uninitiated, but crowded withassociations for the least of us. How much of our school life isbound up in The Iris; what a host of recollections this bookwill always bring with it. When we shall grow old and prosaic, a peep into ourhalf-forgotten Iris, lying discarded upon the upper shelf, will make us school girlsonce more. Tests, class meetings, th
. Iris 1905 . PNf p »!• ^Ife ■ife K HE END! The last page of The Iris! What a motley array ofthings there are hidden among the leaves of this beloved redvolume—photographs, stories, jokes, illustrations — a variouslyassorted mass meaningless to the uninitiated, but crowded withassociations for the least of us. How much of our school life isbound up in The Iris; what a host of recollections this bookwill always bring with it. When we shall grow old and prosaic, a peep into ourhalf-forgotten Iris, lying discarded upon the upper shelf, will make us school girlsonce more. Tests, class meetings, the chapel, the face of our chum, the pridewe felt in first wearing our class pin, a vision of Mrs. Tonys little shop—they allcome up before us, shadowy recollections of the happiest, freest time of our lives,a time to be lived over in dreams. Shut the book, only to open it again and
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