Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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Otjib 3r oTJzsroEST. HE class of 97 striving to act well its part has a brilliant future. As a matter of course during our first days within the College walls, looking at the Seniors with their silks and brcjadcloths, and the handsome bo}s and pretty girls of the Junior class, we were in truth amazed. But as the da5 ' S rolled by we began to notice ' 97 was soon to be the pride of Monmouth Coll ' ge, Although young in college years, let us ask what ' 96 would do without us. Who would aid them in their schemes and be willing to stand the consequences? Oh! that flag! Yet 97 is not made prominent upon the college premises, but we might account for this when we find there is no space left for us. We will move on how-ever, regardless of all annoyances nnd endeavor hereafter to keep free from trouble not concerning ourselves. Our socials are always a success and we can make a masquerade just what it ought lO be Of course some of the Juniors and Freshmen can mask too, and we were pleased to have them with us on one occasion, W ' e can say their ,; ' vV-A zot ' rc p-jrfect ; -iiUciii:ii They w ' ere very quiet. Our girls we know to be above all others. We call them our own, and are proud of them Yet we fear some will leave us by ' 96. Our boys, of course, are all right. Each working for that which will lead them to the most perfect manhood. The class being made up of the best young ladies and gentlemen, we trust will not be sepa- rated until as ' 97 they bid the College walls adieu.

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E ?re no longer children. We have now entered the collegiate department, the goal of our prepdom ambitions. We have heroically met the responsibilities of this position, also the furious jealous) ' of the Seniors and Juniors, and ha e conquered We have been given this opportunity of making known to the world, our achievements, but as we are a modest class, we will leave it for others to tell how theNmety-si.ves. like a mighty- wave, swept up the campus, and on and up. over the college steps, over the prostrate forms of the Juniors, and still on and up. never stopping till it had reached the highest heights, and had triumphantly flung its gold and purple crest to the gentle breezes. We will leave it for others to eulogize our probationists, those heroic martyrs who underwent so many tribulations in maintaining the honor and principles of ' 96. We will leave it for others to laud the considerate and self-sacrificial spirit, d splayed by the Freshmen in changing the night of their banquet from the time immemorial twenty- second of February to the twenty-first: just in order to gratify the envious ?nd grasping desires of the Senior boys, who privately intimated to quite a number of our class, by the means of little white winged messengers, that they would like to ' ' borrow the loan of a part of our class for their banquet on the twenty-second. Although we are modest, it is kut just that we mention a few of our successes: While but infants we covered ourselves with glory by playing foot ball against the Goliaths of all the classes. Our literary work in the different societies has brought the flush of pride to the cheeks of our fellow classmen, and has won the fatherly nod of approval from the Seniors. If any one has any doubts as to the prepossessing appearance of the class R. W. French will present them with an elegant card board convincer Although there has seemed to be much antagonism between the Seniors and Freshmen, yet the Seniors have retained a great love for the better half of the Fre.shman class, and as they seem to reciprocate it, the remainder of the class wishes them a successful future and a God speed.

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OLUGY is the science wliich deals with living things. It includes, of course, the study of plant life, botany: and of animal life, zoology. It views the organism under consideration from several standpoints. It examines the form and structure, Iff- 11 ' ' ° ' ' = ' ' follows the development from a single cell to the adult condition embry- W ° ° - ' ' ' estigates the phenomena and modes of action of life forces, physi ology: it compares the forms and origin of organs and of organisms, morphology: it seeks a simple and natural classification of living thin,gs, and it inquires into the history and mode of their origin There is no line of intellectual activity which ofifers to the earnest student better mental discipline or more inspiring and ennobling themes for thought than does Biology, Xone leads him farther into the power and possibility of discovering unknown truth, and thus becouiing a contribu- tor to the world ' s store of knowledge: and there is no direction in which there is more of the practi- cal to be gained. Monmouth College, like every institution that breathes the spirit of the age. recognizes the importance, the necessity of biological training, and has made provision for it, A biological depart- ment has been established and a laboratory is in process ot equipment. The past year has been the inauguration of the enterprise. Each student has his desk provided with microscope and appli- ances for work. Typical animals and plants are studied in the practical way: their structure, gross and microscopic is investigated and the results recorded by notes and drawings. Courses of lectures explanatory of the forms studied and their relations to other forms occupy the larger portion of the time usually spent in recitation The students progress is rated not by the quantity of definitions and text book statements he can repeat, but by the ability which he acquires to see and think for himself. He who enters into the real spirit of this work will learn to sav with . gassiz, -A biolo- gical laboratory is a holy place,