THE WEBSTER SCHOOL

To the youth of school age the completion of the Webster building in 1876, at a
cost of $22,000, was an epoch of great importance. It was the first school
building with any pretention to modern equipment. Our present beautiful high
school building, with everything in the way of conveniences to make school life
pleasant, cannot mean any more to those who attend there, than the Webster
building did to the youth of the seventies. The writer will never forget the
morning when we met for the last time in the old, four-room school house on
Franklin street, there to be formed in line, and, accompanied by our teachers,
march to the new building that to our eyes looked like a veritable palace. This
was really the parting of the ways between the old village, district school, and
the more modern grade schools.

We would like to devote many pages of reminiscence to those school days of the
past, to recall the old friends and classmates, and to pay a grateful tribute to
the faithful teachers who labored so hard to guide us in the paths of learning.
But time and space make it impossible to do this.