Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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 ■ History = of = ’94. Isit upon my window seat thinking how 1 shall be able to write the history of’94. Where shall I find words tit to sin the praises of our glorious C’lass ? I light ray pipe, hoping to draw an inspiration from the fumes of tobacco smoke; it forms clouds about my head, and gazing into the rings of blue smoke I see our Class again as Freshmen; I see them as we were at first, coming timidly up the hill from the incoming trains, carrying carpet sacks, our trous- ers up to our shoe tops (the result of too rapid growth), and all showing the proverbial greenness of typical Freshmen. Immediately after our arrival we began to receive instructions as to how we should act during the rush, which was to take place on the coming Friday. Concerning this rush, we received so much advice and so many different instructions from the kind upper classmen that if any of us had previously pos sessed any knowledge of what should be done in a rush, it was lost amid the How of fatherly advice of which we were the grateful recipients. When the day of the struggle at length came, all we knew was that vo had to light. We did not know how, when or where. We were told to march down the path any time afttr nine o’clock, making as much noise as possible. We held our first Class meeting, elected our officers, and started down the path, each one shouting as lustily as possible in order to keep up his courage until the critical moment came. As the two classes numbered about the same, we had expected that we would have a long, hard struggle; but we did not then know our might, and were as much surprised as any one at the child's play we made of it. We met the Sophomores in front of Ascension Hall, and after a short, uninteresting struggle, we were declared the victors. We then proceeded to celebrate our triumph, and were presented to Charley Brown, the 23