THE COMET •
Devoted to the Interests of The Austin High School.
VOL. 1.
CONTENTS.
AUSTIN,
TEXAS,
MAY, 1898.
TO THE SENIOR CLASS.
NO.5.
marks and other school· tribulations
have made us long to shake off forever,
One more year of time doth pass
from our feet, the very dust of the
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PAGE.
And with it goes our senior class.
place. But, when these petty trials
"To the Senior Class."
With sorrow we bid them good-bye,
have been overcome: and when we are
"The Sweetest Word."
As unto a strange future they fly.
able to laugh at former misfortunes,
"Farewell."
we suddenly find how dear the spot is
"Current Events."
to us, and how hard it is to leave it.
o let them not forget their cheer,
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To our fellow-students, good-bye, May
"Vengeance Is Mine; I Will Repay." Nor close in sorrow this bright year;
they succeed well in their High Scllool
"Sayings of Famous Men About Ed- For not one moment can they stay
The pleasures of the bright school day. career, and may they find therein as
uea'tion."
much enjoyment as we have found in
"How Four Girls Study Latin."
ours. To their tender care, we leave
o may their future success be well,
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PAGE.
the Comet. May they do all in their
Which not years but actions tell;
"The Philippine Islands."
And may God's blessings on them rest, power to improve and support it, and
"Picnic Crumbs."
May they through life's sojourn be 'blest. may they be enabled to make it much
"School News."
Detter than our limited resources have
(a) "The Senior-s' Picnic."
And when their work on earth is done, allowed.
(b) "An Informal Reception."
Farewell to our teachers.
Perhaps
Then may He call them one 'hy one
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they can not now know the love they
To that beaubif'ul home above,
(c) "Lamonta.tions from the Low- 'Where liveth and reigneth only love.
have Inspired in the hearts of the class
er Classes."
of '98; perhaps they can not realize the
(d) "A List of Ihe Intended Grad-
"The sweetest word of our language good they have done: but may there
uates."
some time come a day when Ithey shall
/J love. The greatest word in our lan-
(e) "Two Puns."
guage is God. The word expressing the see and reap the harvest of patience,
"An Opportunity Lost."
shortest time is now. The three make and kindness, and l'ove-patiece, and
"The Home of the Greatest Texan the greatest and sweetest duty man can k-indness, and love a hundred-fold.
Hero."
perform."
Farewell, Alma Maler, loind, tender,
"T'he Oncoming Storm."
fostering mother. How dearly we will
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PAGE.
always remember you; how fondly we
FAREWELL.
"Brain Pesters."
will look back upon the happy day
'The Future Cry of the Americans,"
spent
beneath your loving care.
At last, the time of parting has come
"Nature and. Science."
-a giad OIl1e,yet a sad 'One. Through
"The Graduating Cla:ss of '98."
all out- useful years, we have looked
CURRENT EVENTS.
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forward to this.
To be free, we
"The Manual Training School."
thoughtlessly called it; to go higher;
There has been some talk of a war
"To the High Middles."
to leave the narrow sphere in which between England and Russia, but 'both
"A Pun."
we have lived for something wider, have been pacified.
"Manual Training."
something better.
Youth is hopeful;
youth is joyruL We gaily look forward.,
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PAGE.
The reports of our consuls in Cuba,
\ and leave the dearest pleasures of tu- wh ieh were transmitted to Congress,
"The Perfect Woman."
day for those of the alluring, enticing estimate the number of deaths from
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PAGE.
to-morrow. We are glad; we 'are gay; starvation at 200,000.
"T'he Modern Bicycle."
we are joyful for we are going out
"Advertisements."
into the grea:t world. We will prove
AJbout fifty vessels have 'been added
"The Comet."
how strong, how brave we are. What to our navy. The four most im-
"The Effect of the Weather."
pleasures, what enjoyments
are in portant are the St. Louis, St. Paul,
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PAGE.
store!
Oh,
blind,
thoughtless
youth, New York and Par.is. The four steam-
"A College Episode."
"School Life in an Early Country oh, vain, deluded youth, why do you ers purchased from the Morgan line
ignore the olesslngs placed before your were named the Dixie, the Yankee, the
SchooL"
very eyes, and strain your vision to- Prairie and the Yosemite. in recogni-
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,
ward the dim, uncertain future?
tion. of the section 'Of country.
"School Life in an Early Country
How much dearer school pleasures
School"-continued.
seem now, that we are leaving them
The gold imports
to this country
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behind us forever! How reluctantly we have been very large of late. The gold
"Aldvertisemen'ts. "
turn our steps away from the gloomy reserve in the Treasury has reached
"Exchanges."
old "Hall of Despair!" Indeed, at times, $180,000,000.
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it has seemed to us a "Hall of Des-
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"Ad vertisements."
pair;" sometimes hard lessons and bad
The British recently won an impor-
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