The blue and gold . t superiors (who seem to have been born when gray matter was given out ingallons instead of pints) gazed at us with a mixture of sympathy and disdain on theirfaces. Ah! well! Be still sad heart and cease repining, behind clouds is the sun stillshining. Thy lot is the common fate of all Freshmen. Some day well be big andwise, too, maybe. Then came the time of the Red Cross drive and to raise a fund for Red Crossmemberships, the Lincoln school had a social. The Freshmen girls assisted by MissMoore had a candy booth, decked out in purple and gold, our class colors. The boyshad


The blue and gold . t superiors (who seem to have been born when gray matter was given out ingallons instead of pints) gazed at us with a mixture of sympathy and disdain on theirfaces. Ah! well! Be still sad heart and cease repining, behind clouds is the sun stillshining. Thy lot is the common fate of all Freshmen. Some day well be big andwise, too, maybe. Then came the time of the Red Cross drive and to raise a fund for Red Crossmemberships, the Lincoln school had a social. The Freshmen girls assisted by MissMoore had a candy booth, decked out in purple and gold, our class colors. The boyshad a wonderful minstrel show, William Andrews, interlocutor. And so, with much fun and more hard work, we have passed a highly successful,never to be forgotten year. We are not sorry, yet, that the year is over. Victory shinesahead! With a mighty cheer we bid our Freshmen year farewell; and we will go on,and, on, and on and up till we, at last, reach our goal. We shall have becomeSeniors. 41 /r 1919 BLUE and GOLD 1919. LINCOLN SNAPSHOTS 42 1919 BLUE and GOLD 1919 DEDICATED TO THE Teachers of Lincoln High School TREVA ELSEA. 22 Miss Blackford:—Your efforts have been unavailing; and I shall never again thinkthat Hannibal crossed the Delaware with Geo. Washington. Miss Coates:—You have done much towards making our future life easier by yourconscientious teaching. When in business we bump up against a hard proposition, andcannot see the result, we calmly settle back in our easy chairs and say, as Miss Coateswould say, X is the result, and immediately forget it. Miss Cratty:—If you are forced to suffer from reading long drawn out articles onSpring Time, or Summer Vacation, written by some of your former students,dont blame them, or the magazines that accept the stories, but just blame 3rourself,for after once being in your classes, it is impossible to keep ones nobler thoughts fromthe starving public. Miss Kieier:—After a long weary struggle in your class, with the end now ins


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