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Show 14 My Dear Classmates:- That member of '98 for whose conduct the present contributor is responsible will account for himself thus, remembering the injunction to be personal-I spent the first month of graduate life in and near Grinnell, doing duty on a farm, not out of sight of the halls which no longer deigned to own me. I took my final view of the campus and parted with many kind friends to spend three weeks of marked quiet in and near Newton, Iowa. It was my privilege to meet for a few moments at her home in Des Moines, one of our own number, Miss Georgia Hubbard. August 22nd and 23rd were spent at the exposition in Omaha in company with Miss Bessie Gallaher, Miss Elizabeth Moore, W. G. McLaren, Miss Florence Somers, '97, besides friends and relatives of the young women. Long Beach is the place I have called home for several years, and is now the scene of my trials and experiences as principal of a small, suburban common school. Having refused to carry the vexations of this work beyond the school room, I shall simply confess that patience is not always a virtue and that athletics are not altogether in vain. I am unable even to guess at the degree of my success as a teacher and can hope to be retained in only a very ordinary capacity for the immediate future. While consuming midnight oil in the midst of grinding such as I had never been driven to while in college, I witnessed the passing of ninety-eight. This study was in preparation for an examination for a certificate to teach in California High Schools. After four days' writing under serious physical difficulties, success was mine. Although I can attribute little of tbi§ success to myself, |