Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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been very euceeesful, n promines to he the star class of ti Miami Although Our predoceF- sors Ciditll the ehampiunship in muscle gained by many hnrd contests, Seventy-three conmle: itseit' by the thought lhnt muscle is not an indication of genius, and that men of Inurcle are more fitted For the P. R. than for intellectual giants, An :tlnnmt uncontrollable ambition to succeed ha; been the Cilurzlcleristic 01' most of in mem- bers, and Consequently Homer, Horace, 'i'illlijitiitic;. etc.. have ind the appearance of having been ptetty thumughiy vcnliluted after having gone through our hands. Party Spirit has :xIwu-xs run high, but the very 1:8:t of personal feelings has existed among its mem- 11ers. ch feel, however, that we have somewhat neglected our duties to the Freshies who have been so kindiy git en into our care lay their indulgent mothers. Yet we have often announced the time for their retirement, and for them to ceme to burn their petmleum for the night, and then have seen them :h'lcep by the Strains of :1 Ienrfnl lullaby curroied beneath their windows.eDo they wish any thing more 1' The answer, nothing. Our eluss-room experience has hitherto been pleasant. In Prof. McMullin We regret the logs of one who had shown himself worthy of the respect we held for him. Since he left the Greek room has been one of tiring formality. As we now hope to give the outside world a glance at what we are doing Within, may they find that- t Though the tree grows without ms the kernel forms the sprout.

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E2716 Miami Recensio. 72. EVENTY-TWO has passed the meridian of college life with an almost unbroken circle. A few, who started with us at o the beginning of our course, have left us; this we deeply regret. But to their vacant places we gladly welcome the new com- ers who have joined us; ard, with our original number undiminished, we will take each other by the hand and it onward voyage together. Our course through the past two. years has been one which can not be forgotten; experience has pressed it too heavily upon our minds to be easily cast of. Well do we remember with what meek, gentle, and forgiving spiiits we plodded along the troublesome and thorny paths of the Freshman year, and how we weathered the stormy contentions and passed through the dim uncertainties of Sophomore life. And now we have entered upon the second lalf of our College Course with the bright halo of victory still lingering around us. In Base Bull, our nine, by many and successive triumphs, have at last gained the champion pennant, and we now await the class that shall win it from us In our annual contest with the Sophomores we, of course, elme off victorious, contrary, however, to geieml opinion, and much to the mortification of Seventy-three. In the class-room and intellectual pursuits we have been equally successful. Ourhopes for the future. in spite of the misfortunes of the pasl, are still strong and bright. And now, classmatea, whatever we un- dertake to do let us do it with our might, and at the end of our course retrospect will be equally as bright as prospect.

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he Miami Recensio. IIE Freshmen quietly, hut resolutely, tiled into their places at the beginning of the year. and under the command of their able and etiicient leaders 1m steadily advancing to the front. Although their number is not so great as that of classes that have preceded them, yet they manifest a determination to make up the deficiency by individual effort. In the Department of Mathematics, especially, are they winning lnurels. and that, too, from the comparatively drv study of Algebra. 'l'he uGreek pill, we believe, has been to this class. what it has always been to it! predecessors, terribly hard to swallow. It is said that before the battle of Marathon the very name of the barbarian was sufficient to strike terror to the hearts of the Greeks. Behold, what revolutions time doth work! What now causeth such a knocking together of knees, such paling of faces among the young barbarians of an American college, as the mention of the word JGreek ? Under the new regime of Prof. Miilikin, however, the Freshmen are traveling with comparative ease through the ti Memorabilia of Xenophon, the famous leader cf the Ten Thousand, in the Anabasis 0f Cyrus. With Such an author in theil hands, and with the de- clared intention of' the Prol'cqsor to make his department more inter- esting to the Student than it has hitherto been, and thus in a manner to Hstrew with Howers the path of dry antiquity, we can not but believe that the Chtss of Seventy-four will do justice to themselves and to the University.