Excerpt from The Latin School Register, Vol. 57: June 1938

It has long been customary for each editor of the Register to write something in the nature of a farewell address. Not long ago, we dreaded the coming of the end we fancied it necessary to plunge into a hypocrisy, to write with the well-known alligator tears. But now it is very much different. There is none of the antici pated joy in bidding farewell; on the contrary, we feel as if we are leaving an old and well-loved friend. Indeed, we are.

As for the minor troubles which we may have had, they are gone and forgotten. We remember, though, to the smallest detail the many happy incidents. Truly, in some rebellious and illogical corner of our mind is a half-formed wish that we had repeated a year or two. We even envy, rather than pity, those who have undergone what may appear to be a misfortune.

Nor are we growing maudlin when we say that we leave friends whom we may never see again. Among both faculty and student body are companions whose like we shall not often find, and we certainly shall not find better men. We apply the word men to both groups; no longer are we mere boys, for we have been fully prepared, in all but experience, to enter a world far harsher than the one we have known.

Some of us leave others to carry on our work. We may fear that they will do worse, but we think that they will do as well and we hope that they will do better. Take, for example, the Register. We have been told, more than once, that the fifty seventh volume has been better than any during the last three or four years. We take this flattery with a grain of salt; but if the Register has been as good as those previous (and we feel that this is true), much credit should go to the writers of the various departments which have been revived, as well as to the student body which has contributed literature of a notably high quality.

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