Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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of Miami University. But ninety-six was not found wanting. We set to work to restore confidence among the profs. and had even better success than we had hoped for. Soon the prejudice existing towards F reshmen vanished and the hearts of the upper classmen were so moved that the Sophs turned from the error of their ways and, as a mark of repentance, wore sack cloth and ashes, the usual emblems of mourning, for a period of thirty days ' and nights. Out of courtesy, we postponed painting the tower until the ninety-fives had completed their acts of repentance. Then we arose as one man, and at last Our insignia was graven upon the tablets of the lofty turret as in letters of ilame. There those figures l96, so full of meaning, remained for a year. At the end of that time we were one step nearer the goal. Another change was now brought about for which we con- tend the class of ninety-six was responsible. The F aculty, think- ing that after us no class would be worthy the name Freshman, broke up the system dividing the college into, F reshman, Sopho- more, Junior and Senior classes. At present, the term F reshman is merely nominal, and of course we are now nominal Sophs. When a new class next emerged from tlprepdomf, by reason of infantile desire for sport and jealousy at our prestige, it decided to mar our emblems on the tower, gleaming from beneath a coat of red paint, applied by order of the Faculty. The ninety- sevens spent one night dabbling in blue paint with the sad result of causing their clothes and guaranty funds to suffer. Ninety- six, out of sympathy for the over enthusiastic ninety-sevens, allowed their work to remain until President T hompson eradicated the hideous scrawls on our beloved tower. The class of ninety-six has an excellent. it stand in l, with all the University authorities, eSpecially Dr. Thompson and Fardy. Ask the professors how we stand in scholarship, but donit tell us their answer as We are naturally very modest and it might embarrass us. Reader, you have seen us on the foot-ball iield and the diamond. Can you now question our athletic ability? Socially we have met you often, and such occasions are some of the most pleasant of our college life. When the RECENSIO is issued, almost half of our career as students will have been finished. W ith mingled feelings of pleasure and sadness we look back upon the days already spent at Miami, and, looking forward to the two coming years, when so much will depend on us, we have determined that even a brighter halo shall surrOund those characters i96. It is but right that we should here make mention of a former member of our class-Houghton. We need not speak of his many good qualities as he was well known as a model student and an elegant fellow. This is but the beginning of what we could write concerning the class of ninety-six, but lack of space confronts the historian and so we must gracefully submit, allowing the reader to turn his mind in another'direction. G. M. S.

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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

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FR ESHMAN CLASS P. B. YOCKEY, - - - - - Presz'dmz! D. V. COURTWRIGHT, - - - i -x Vice President E. H. ITTNER, - - - - Secrdary FRANK LAMB, - - - - - Treasurer FREDRIC RIDGLEY TORRENCE, T V i w ,......- ?Reshngjw - - - Historian MM HE READER of this humble effort may think that the class of m97H is egotistical, ' Wostentatious or conceited. We are not. It ' is simply the spontaneous, uncontrollable outburst of the historianis thoughts when . s ,. he attemptsto conhde to tithe dumb, unfeel- ing paper? the glorious history of i97. The class of W97 is at last here, the'class which has so long YELL-Come seven ! Come eleven ! Miami 97. and anxiously been waited for by the rest of the world. Swiftly, silently and unostentatiously we came, and the col- lege world was hardly aware of our presence before we. were . firmly established in their midst. The news of our coming spread like wildfire through that band of trembling wretches commonly known as Sophomores. - We soon proved our superiority over them in that memorable rush in the tower, one morning soon after chapel. The struggle was