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ointing Lucy's voice as it rises in sweet aud happy melody. True, the scene is a simple and counncn one, but it heralds future happiness for our class-mate-what more desir- able than happiness call I prophesy for her? d~98. What's in a name? So confirmed is Helen wuubrougb in the English dramatist's theory that I do not suspect any latent hesitnucy Up01l a proposal to change; theu, again, she is a moralist of that class who advocate the origin of the ttie n in the nm!!. From these statements a syllogism naturally develops itself in the thinking mind the conclusion of which my telescope verifies. At the home of a prominent citizen of --, a banquet is in progress. The saloon is illuminated with a thousand candles and adorned with exquisite flowers, the elegance of which combination is seldom seen, save in the realms of fancy; the elaborate arrangement of the tables and the animated conversation of a fashionable clique suggest wealth and high social position 011 the part of the host. 'I'he hostess, half concealed by an artistic centre-piece of orchids, presides with the exquisite grace and complacency so suggestive of Helen- the class Optimist. 1896. The valedictorian was proficient alike, in mathematics, science and philosophy, but she was a scholarly miner, happiest when searching for gems in the literary strata of by-gone ages. The figurative meditations of Cicero, the trials of Aeneas and the sorrows of Dido, the dramas of Racine, Cornville and Schiller, and the exquisite legends of Andersen delighted her mind with their congeniality. Today we find Bettie still indulging this taste. The two sisters are sitting beneath the tall maple in front of their own home. Jennie, strong and rosy of old, is steadily sewing while she listens to her sister's translation of Ovid, or glances at the young farmer busily engaged in binding sheaves in all adjacent field. Not that I attach particlllar importance to jennie's glances, but I have a lurking notion that her vitality would not endure such restraint were it not relieved by them. Bettie, on the contrary, seems to have forgotten the existence of her companion, and is building what are called "air-castles," and so we leave them-one with her literary ambition, the other with her happy betrothed. 1902. The exertion with which the ladies of '93 responded to Mr. Revellets plea for assistance in th'! edition of a class annals .threa tened, pro tempore, to derange his mental faculties. However, he postponed this dire calamity upon determining, in justice to all mankind, to originate a society for the suppression of clever women. Whether this illogical idea made Il~C of its piuious or whether its career was checked by the darts of feminine adventurers I cannot ascertain. In either case our friend has discovered the cunning practiced by the fair sex, and has taken refuge apparently in the Methodist Protestant Conference. Our telescope is directed to a plate upon the portico of a church bearing the inscription: i~-- ?fl Lafayette Avenue I M. P. Church. I I Pastor, Rev. T. P. REVELLE, D. D. t~__ _ ~J