Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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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.

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SOPHOMORE CLASS W. M. CLEAVELAND, President W. M. FOWLER, V z'ce-Presz'dent H zstorz'azz - LASSES COME AND CLASSES GO, but 3 ninety-siX will go down in history as the most illustrious ,of the many hands of college students that have ever known the mysteries of college life at UOld Miami? From the time we matriculated as iiprepsf it was evident that we were destined to exert a great innuence over the world we had just entered. Indeed we were so precocious that one professor could ...V..h-.M., W CLASS COLORS, PINK AND CREAM YELL-Ha, he, hi, ho, 4 Hola, ga, zou, . Hola, ga, ziX, Miami 96. not keep us supplied with foodfor reiiection and so another had to be appointed to help that one out. This is the nrst reform we were the means of working. Of course, when we entered the college proper and became Freshmen, new duties and responsibilities confronted us. On looking over the field of action, we found a bad state of affairs. The ways of our predecessors had become perverted and the name Freshman was an odious one to the professor. We were looked upon with great distrust. It was a crisis in the history