rents to go home in a mood
of satisfaction and happiness, and the boys to continue the day's
festivities with a class banquet and a dance.

That banquet was a never-to-be-forgotten affair!

For weeks the class officers had been planning it and no detail was
omitted that could add merriment and joy to the crowning event of 1920's
career.

No sooner were the guests seated at the long table and the spread fairly
begun than a stuffed rabbit, exquisitely decorated with the class
colors, was borne into the room. This was, of course, the far-famed
March Hare. Its advent was greeted with a storm of clapping.

Very solemnly it was elevated in Paul's hands and amid shouts and cheers
was carried by the graduating editor-in-chief to the president of 1921
where, with an appropriate speech, it was surrendered into the keeping
of the incoming seniors.

Then the banquet went on only to have its progress interrupted at
intervals by bustling attendants who came rushing in with telegrams,
special delivery letters, and telephone messages from the Hatter, the
Red Queen, the Dormouse, and many another well-beloved Wonderland
character. Afterward the Walrus and the Carpenter sang a song and then,
with great acclaim and a crash of the orchestra, the folding doors
opened and Alice herself, impersonating 1921, entered, gathered up the
_March Hare_, and with a graceful little poem of farewell to 1920 took
the head of the table.

With a sigh glad yet regretful, Paul surrendered his place.

He had longed for the day when he should be graduating from school and
setting forth for college; but now that the moment had really arrived,
he found himself not nearly so glad to depart from the High School as he
had expected to be. Many a pleasant memory clustered about the four
years he had spent in those familiar classrooms. And the comrades of
those years,--he was parting from them, too. Some were scattering to the
various colleges; some were going into business; others were to remain
at home. Never again would they all travel the same path together. Alas,
graduation had its tragic as well as its happy aspects!

Perhaps some such thought as this lurked deep down in the breast of
every member of 1920, but for the sake of one another, and to make the
last moments they were to spend together unclouded by sadness, each
bravely struggled to banish this sinister reflection.

Hence the dance that followed the banquet was an uproarious affair. When
one