Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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goddess ftSoplzz'afl and approaching her in a great variety of ways; some in Natural Science, some in Philosophy, and some in Theology. , Butiwhile these seekers after truth were struggling labori- ously onward toward their various ideals, we are forced to admit that a few, thol we are happy to say a very few, were in the rest- ful, delightfully luxurious pursuit of the magnetic God of ease. They, forgetful of duty, without the adequate preparation will, I fear, find life a Herculean task. Our entertainment in class rooms has been nothing of which we can justly complain, but possibly a slight suggestion would be of some use: for instance, we all think it would be nice to have refreshments of some kind served from time to time just to reViVify our flagging energies, cool our heated brows and allow our strained muscles a brief relaxation, after say three-quarters of an hours hard wrestling with the forms of Aeschylus, or ex- cavating two hundred lines of the concise Tacitus, or after carefully, critically and analytically looking over the phenomena of mind, and especially, since during these llprocessesil or tlpsychosesll our minds or egos are Hundifferentiated continua? Indeed we Junors who are desirous of knowing more or less of the modern languages, do hereby petition the Board of Trustees to issue an order whereby full-fledged dinners will be served to those of us who are so unfortunate as to do battle with French at the eleventh hour, for the professor in charge is so highly pleased with our winning ways that he seems loath to part from us, and lengthens the entertainment far into the afternoon under such conditions. I fear our receptive faculties shrink away with remarkable rapidity, owing possibly to the fact that we are all ' good Visualizers and the most delightful visions of a rich appetiz- ing lunch appear to fill the whole room with their tempting ' presence. The professor as a material substance evaporates and his soft, dulcet, soporiferous tones seem iloating to us from far away. Either pity, realizing itself in a savory lunch, should come to the aid of this example of starving humanity or else we should be allowed to assemble at an earlier hour so that we might be able to dine with our various clubs. Hoping the Faculty will act upon this suggestion immediately in a session extraordinary, we ought next to acknowledge With heartfelt thanks the extreme kindness of the F aculty as a body. We really and truly appreciate the great amount of time they have devoted to us in striving to arouse some degree of interest in the cold, gray, somber, diihcult and often dry iields of knowledge which they represent. We feel so grateful to them that whenever we feel our interest lagging, and find our bodies,, thol seated in chairs, widely diverging from the' erect and ap- proximating the horizontal as nearly as the zig-zag frames of the Chairs will permit, we always feel so ashamed of ourselves after such evidences of our subjection to the carnal, that we invariably remain after the dismissal of the class and apologize, for we never like them to know how dry they sometimes become. Neither do we wish them to know how ' intensely enthusiastic they, at times, make us. Indeed, few outside our own number know with what flagging interest, wandering eyes and bodies curiously twisted we spur them on toegreater explanatory efforts. We sometimes fear that because we look out the windows, yawn, Stretch, pretend to be sleepy and recite with far away, tired expressions, the pro-

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J. S. HANKINS, - Presz'denl 'CLASS COLORS, G. A. MORRIS, - - 07af07 BLACK AND ORANGE m o Ji' LL ARE; no doubt, familiar With the oft includes our whole number and then possibly it is a. quoted HSome men are born great, others little indelicate for us .to sound our own praises when have greatness thrust upon themF I sup- those who are not so fortunate as to be among us, are so- pose it is hardly necessary for me to show busily engaged in seeking opportunities to eulogize us. .We- how well this applies to our glorious class came before the world through the press, for the first time, in. for you all know full W611 hOW easily it last yeafs RECENSIO, With a goodly number worshipping the

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fessors may think we are not giving them our attention, but I hardly think they are so unkind. Sometimes, during examina- tions especially, they wander around near the walls, with bright eyes, fiushed faces and furtiye glances as thol in quest of some- thingm Possibly they suipeqt'the;proximity of a latent equine. They 2do this hbecauseythey' have notiCed a strong, Walmost' un- ' controllable propensity a in V the other classes to make effOrt-s to distinguish themselves as cavalry men, but they do us' cruel wrong for thol our memory scrolls will not contain thirty-six thousand words without a break in the continuity of their order or. disorder, they will contain suilicient data to prevent our falling into the abyss 0f the conditioned. We have all studied hard during the past year, literally we are grinds, plodders, we work because we are tired, and then hard study gives to one an interestingly intellectual look and adds also to some a scholastic bend which we care not for, but are forced to receive. In respect to a comparative gradation with the other classes we may assert that thoi we are not thought to be as super- .iicial and dogmatic as the Senior classand tho, we are not as verdant, conceited, lacking in a knowledge of the ropes and as tremendously unimportant as the F reshman land Sophomores who inflating their balloon-like lungs blow such a whirlwind of nonsense out of their bellows-like heads about their petty quarrels and strifes, in which. the one infinitesimally important tramples upon the bodies of the other infinitely unimportant, gobbling and braying all the while, ttvam'tas vanitalum. From our position we are privileged to look calmly and coldly down upon the Lilliputian struggle going on below us. Poor devils! Little do they realize what the future has in store for them. Mentally equipped as they are, forced, in the somber darkness, to shoulder the fatal rock of Sisyphns, or in other words the heavy responsibilities of life, and push on up the obscure ascent, and thoi unlike the experience-of Sisyphus our iigurative rock never falls rpff, nevertheless the task is equally tremendous for the. ascentistendlessly prolonged throughout all the spaces of eternity, and only' will Surcease of unrelenting toil come when they sink under their heavy burdens upon the cutting, uneven; slope, rendered unconscious of their sufferings by the cold, silent, ghastly presence of somber darkness enwrapped death. Terrible, but it is i a relief to the melancholy sufferers. We only look with pity upon this sad scene and feel not at all boastful, ,tis only natural that it should be such as it is. It is very just that we should attain some degree of success, for we have our representa- tives in all the departments of training, both mental and physical. But as a unit we have done very little work this year, in fact. only once have we gathered up sufficient energy to have a class; meeting. Still united action has only been necessary that once; for we have grown accustomed to hearing the other classes bark- ing and howling around our heels and we rest secure and cool in the knowledge that it isnt possible fOr them to injure us. Would that I might be able to prophesy with certitude as brilliant a fu-- ture for our class as our past has been, but the spirit of prophecy does not rest upon me. KSed satz's Zoquarz'? The ambrosial boy ttljfypnosi, may now be seen iloating lazily around the room slowly stirring the languid air with his silvery wings, and the. historian thinks it best to sink into the soft arms of the waiting- Morpheus and there to abide, receiving events for sober narration in the RECENSIO at some future date whenever it may be the- will of his class that he re-awaken to tell, with silver speech, of their eventful career. HISTORIAN.