Concordia College - Spire / Concordian Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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With the passing of baseball, basketball came on, and we transferred our allegiance to the N. B. C. and to the basketball team. All the while the days were slowly passing, and finally those long hoped for days, Xmas vacation, arrived, and we hied us home. Here a warm welcome awaited us. Everybody was glad to see us. At the dinner table we were deluged with questions, all of which we answered to the best of our ability. Finally the meal was finished and we were given a rest. After supper we decided to visit our old schoolmates. How they did stare when they saw us! We had left as mere boys and came back as half-men at least. Drill and athletics had given us that self-assurance which is necessary to enjoy life. We walked erect and thought straight. We had to repeat our story. Thus tlie joyous vacation days speeded away, and, ere we realized it. we were again to depart from our friends and critics. But this time it was not so hard to leave. Nothing vague, indefinite and threatening awaited us. but familiar places and old friends. January ' s short days passed like a fleet- ing breath, and in the beginning of February we received our First Semester reports. How proud we were of them! But a few of us, and they hatl our sympathy, did not have joyous features. Gloom and disappointment were spelled in capital letters on their faces. The rest of the year passed unevent- fully. A few, who lived in the vicinity of Fort Wayne, went home during tlie short Easter vacation, but most of us stayed here. Finally the middle of June arrived, and with it all kinds of excitement, for were we not all going home soon? Tiie last day came at last, and, after an exhibition drill, we received our final reports. Most of them bore the words Promoted. The recipients of these could be seen walking around with a joyous mien, realizing the new dignity which would soon be theirs, namely, that ot Quin- taners. In several hours all had left, each for his own home, to recuperate from his past labors, and to prepare for those that were to come. That first vacation was the happiest time of our life. But alas, it passed all too quickly, and fall found us back in Fort Wayne, although a number, realizing in time that their paths lay in other directions than ours, had left us. With the addition of ten new members, we numbered but forty-five. This year was a repetition of the foregoing one. Though we were Quints, our status was not materially changed. But we considered ourselves better than the newcomers, showing off before tliem while teaching them the ropes. The time soon passed, and before long another year had flown. So we journeyed home and posed before our friends. Widi the autumn days we again left the old hoiuestead. We were Quartaners now, and although a number had again fallen by the wayside, we still boasted forty members. How we did strut around the campus in our resplendent jerseys, lording it over the lower Ij, classmen! We no longer had to run errands, but our frequent violations - h of the Hausordnung brought us many a day of fatigue. We took every- tfi thing with a grin except Greek. This spectre appearetl before us this year. {:; Fortunate are those who weathereil its storms! So the years passed. m

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Tertia, the fourth year, brought with it no new studies. Out work, too, was now confined to occasional days of fatigue (we were becoming sensible) and the weekly washing of windows. Sundays also had a new significance for us, for twice a month we were permitted to stay up till ten o ' clock. But Tempus fugit and we were soon honorable Secundaners, members of the governing branch of the student body. So the time passed and now but twenty-eight of us remain. However, small as we are, we have left our imprint here, a number of improvements bearing the mark of the Class of 1919. In athletics especially have we sh own our prowess. As early as Quarta we had men on the ' varsity baseball team. Now three of our fellows help to uphold the prestige of Concordia on the diamond. Our class teams have been universally successful, the baseball team last fall beating the coetus team decisively. In basketball, too. we have shown our sterling worth. Since Quarta we have at least had men on the Seconds. This year three of them are helping to make Concordia basketball history. Track is another forte of ours. In Quarta we were already the runnersup in the interclass meet, and in Tertia, though we had lost one of our best athletes, we managed to nose out a victory. In Secunda we repeated the per- formance, notwithstanding the fact that another star had left us. Our chances for the coming year are bright, for our last year ' s team is still intact. Nor do our literary qualities suffer in comparison witli those of other classes. Greek, Latin, Hebrew and other studies have been stumbling blocks to many of our former classmates, but now they frighten but a very few of us. Music also has its devotees in our midst. All the members of our class are affiliated with the Male Chorus. The Quartet and Trio have established fine i eputations for themselves in this vicinity. So we finish our six years ' stay here. Most of us will meet again in St. Louis, but for a few of us this is the parting of the ways. May we always be as happy as during our short sojourn here. To our former classmates, to our kind professors, and to the many kindhearted friends and benefactors in Fort Wayne and elsewhere, we extend our best wishes and hearty thanks.