Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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THE AIIAMI REOENSIO. Not producing any harm, They serve to cast a charm 011 the progress of the'student to his goal; And, by each peculiar shade, In the different stages made, Showing the ever-onward nmrching 0f the soul. A11 honor to the band, Now nearly through the land, Of mental labor, training, and reward; May they ever act and feel Worthy any foemmfs Steel, Striking bravely for their country and the Lord. And as class after class Through college portals pass, T0 the busy, bustling world that lies before; Like the billows 0f the ocean, 1n quick, successive motion, Crowding, ever onward, to the Shore. May each take its place With a fairer, nobler grace Fit to know, and supply their 11ati011,S needs, And the incense sweeter burn In Miamits altar urn, With the perfume of her childrelfs noble deeds? N we .'

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,e W 8 THE MIA MI REOENSIO. the prqference shown you by the nfair sexy and the boldness with which you receive it, might well be envied by juniors. As the past career of tt Seventy-onelt has been one of prosperity, in which its members have proved themselves equal to every emergency, so we hope that the future may have in store for you much of lifels pleas- ures, and may crown all your labors with success. DEAR. FRESHl--1t is with feelings of paternal care that we would lay our hands gently upon your heads, and give to you a few words of advice. An evil star seemed to watch over the commencement of your col- lege course; but time has effuced all its bad effects, and now you stand forth in glorious freshness, a class of promising ttboysf ever ready for the ball and bat, the velocipede, or the boxing-glove, ex- celling in music, in scholarship-tttime will tellfl but, if we should take the testimony of those who Might to know, no such class ever entered Miami. We have not here, as in some of our Eastern colleges, a sys- tem of tthazingllmalthough there are still a few remnants of the ttsquee-zeea left-so that you may spend your youthful days without fear of midnight calls from bands of 'uscully sophomores, intent upon spending the evening, and enjoying with you a social smoke, or politely escorting you to a remote corner of the campus, and there demon- strating the elfects of u battering ram upon the trunk of some Sturdy oak. Gumbol on, little lambs, in your fields of innocence, for in a. few short months all these transitory joys will have passed away, and you will have begun to ascend the mountain side, where you will lay away your lamlfs wool to receive, not a tt sheepts skin, but a wolfls hide. When you shall have entered the tempestuous regions of sophomore years, take our advice, and follow the upward path of v v , ' tt hm onty -ouo,ll but her wayward wanderings shun, although tt To lives, the fairest, best, Certain frailties give u zest, Which we can not wish they were without; 80, the follies which are rife In this, our college life, Are hut shadows on the onward stream of thought.

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FALENDAR FOPX1869A-JJO. MxM- The First Session Will open on Wednesday, September 15th, 1869, at nine delock A. M., and close December 22d, 1869. The Second Session Will open onnngednesday, January 5th, 1870, at nine o,c10ck A. M., and close March 29th, 1870. The Third Session Will open on Wednesday, April 6th, 1870, at nine dclock, A. M, ahd close on the last Thursday in June, 1870. Conmnencement Day Is the last Thursday in June of each year. Examinations Of the several classes will take place at the close of each Session.