Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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short and sharp, and we had no sooner landed them at the bottom of the stairs than they slunk away. . 1 Oh, Rubes! Oh, Jays! Oh, Worse? than useless things, crawl in your holes and no more let this noble. college and her loyal sons gaze on your ily-specked faces. Sophies, where were you at? Now that they have been fairly beaten, they have the audacity to boast that they have in their possession a few shreds of our glorious old flag. We would call to their mind that memorable occasion when we came out and consented to waltz over their putrid bodies, when we marched the length and breadth of the campus, searching, seeking, scouring in vain for the insignificent class of W96? Disgraced, disfigured and distorted; the nrst class to crawl from a rush! But why dwell on the details of that memorable night, the world at large knows of the glorious way in which we achieved the Victory. It is also awakening to the marvelous manifestations of our undoubted literary ability. In studies we are pre-eminent, we are undoubtedly the most brilliant class that ever entered the University. We have heard the upperclass-men speak of ltflunksll and ttconditionsf but we listen with blank faces, as such things are entirely unknown to us. The professors, recognizing our ability, are in sympathy with us and have led us into flowery helds of knowledge, where tthorsesll never feed, which we have readily devoured, and even now are anxiously awaiting to be led into newer and fresher pastures. The genius of one of our number becomes evident in the brilliantly illuminated pages of this annual. Socially we also take the lead, nothing shows our pre-eminent popularity in that line better than the factthat while the other three classes are entertained at the ttCollegell and ttSeminaryll in a r herd, we are the class which stands alone, and is invited alone, in order that they may devote more time to-entertaining us. In this we feel greatly honored, although it is but justice to us. Such has been our record, such our Victories, such our at-r tainments. As Freshmen we have been a success, and yet for all these we desire no credit; had we had abler opponents we might never have made the grand success we have, and as new trials, new tribulations, other battles devolve upon us, we hope to cope with them so successfully that the next historian will be able to paint the history of our class in still more glowing colors. And now we would bid farewell to our readers, the all-com- pelling hand of time hurries us on to new scenes and new experiences. ' ' F rom the present time, fraught with all the pleasures of the spring term of the F reshman year, we look back With satisfaction on our first college year just closing. Between us and the time when we shall be thrust out on lifels realities, stern and unmixed with levity, lie three years more- of work, sociability and pleasure. Without cliques or factions, united by the bands of fellow sympathy, the class of l97 invite scrutiny and are open to emulation. FREDRIC RIDGLEY TORRENCE.

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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

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POSrP C3RA.D U ATE 1 HISTORY of the Post Graduate department for the year 93-4 is only a continuation of the history of the class of ,93 of glorious memory. The resolutions passed by the F aculty and the Board of Trustees, in which the old method of conferring the Masters degree was changed to a new one by which any graduate of Miami might receive that degree, who had completed done yearis Post Graduate work and presented a thesis, attracted two of its members to return. , But these men, moved by their love for their alma mater, had still stronger reasons for returning. It was thought that the withdrawal of so many of the best, most regular and most ex- emplary students would leave the under-graduate department in a very demoralized condition, and it was plainly seen that the class of ,94 was hopelessly incompetent to undertake the duties and responsibilities of leadership, that generally fall upon Seniors. Taking all this into consideration, the class decided that it would be best for at least two of its members to return, that they might by their unswerving loyalty to college work in general, set a glorious example to the aspiring under-graduates. That these men have sustained the reputation of their class need not be stated here. The Faculty of Miami are certainly greatly in- debted to them for the continuation of that highly commendable good conduct which so conspicuously marked the years which - the whole class spent in college. When at the end of this semester they leave their itdear . college Izomef we hope that the iniiuence for good which they leave behind them will be wide-spread, and take deep root in the minds of their fellow-students. Then they may retire with the pleasant consciousness of duty well done to await the plaudits of coming generations.