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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
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patron saint of Freshmen, whose acquaintance we have cultivated occasionally since. However, we were not satisfied with this rush; we had not succeeded in showing how good a Class we were, but had only shown how easily 93 could he defeated, a thing which had been satisfactorily illustrated several times before. As there was nothing else to do we had to restrain our martial spirit and wait patiently until we should again have a chance to display that heroic courage, which is the boast of the even classes. We now turned our attention to our College duties, fairly dazzling the Professors by our ability to master the intricacies of l-itin prose and the other studies, which arc the trials of a Freshman's life. We made various attempts during the first term to drown in buckets of red paint that verdancy which will occasionally show itself in all Freshmen; whether we succeeded or not is a question on which there is room for discus- sion. We purchased large quantities of fire works and endeavored to amuse the ladies of Ilarcourt. who took an interest in the proceedings, far greater than we, even in our fondest expectations, had ever hoped for, as our display of pyrotechnics took place uncomfortably near some barrels of gasoline which were stored behind the buildings. The success of our Freshmen base ball team at once made theClass prom- inent in athletics, easily defeating every team we met. and finishing the sea- son with a record unsullied by defeat. At the end of the year came the Class Supper, which was attended by the same success that had thus far characterized all our undertakings. The Sopho- mores, having profited bv their experience, wisely decided not to prevent our supper, and having been relieved of our fear(?) of them, our “joy was uncon fined.” We feasted until a late hour, and on our way to the depot got into a discussion with some guardians of the peace, in which we got decidedly the worst of the argument. Such were the experiences of our Freshman year, and we had thoroughly enjoyed them, and had profited much during our first year of College life. At the loginning of our Sophomore, some of the old familiar faces were absent, and new faces appeared in our ranks, but as a Class we remained the 24 same.
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