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Show No one is anticipating with greater pleasure than I the '98 class-letter. I am very eager to learn how you all are getting along this year. It seems odd to think of all the 98ers scattered in every direction. I want to thank Ben Marsh for calling on my mother and for the message he sent me. With love to all my classmates. Yours for '98, EMMA D. FOX. Ballard Normal School, Macon, Georgia, Jan. 25, 1899. My Dear Classmates:- At that ever-memorable class meeting in the woods I very earnestly advised that our contributions to this letter should be limited in length, feeling certain then that our achievements during the next year would be so many and so glorious that, if we were to write of them all without limitation, it would require a month's salary of each to pay for the printing; but alas! the moon has waxed and waned but seven times since that day in June, and I am anxious to testify to my repentance of such folly and vanity. Very few of your faces have I seen since commencement, and the fact makes me lonely. Jeannette, Sara, Georgia, Agnes, Ben, and Harry B. have I seen, and to each of them I am under obligations for some very pleasant, although brief, moments. But I have heard indirectly of many of you and the good work you are doing, and I heartily congratulate you upon your successes, and just as heartily envy you them too. As for myself, my only achievement in which I have the least pride, since coming to the Creston High School, has been the establishing of a modern course in labora- |