Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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Usurp its throne. Even when the months Brought round the time in which the gods decreed That it should reach its final resting place. In oblivion. It still lived with its friends. Their toils 1 ' were yet unended The classes All pitied it save Sophomore 1 2 which pursued With wrath implacable the godlike feast, Banquet even to its troubled rest. ' 3 Oh Muse, tell us again of that great class. Who before the troubled February days Fought 1 ' long and valiantly with the Sophomore class. Oh Muse, I have heard of their great fame My whole life long. How mighty is their arm. How wise their counsels. Thou hast said great things And I am thunder-struck. It cannot be That they alone should stand before a crowd Of Sophomore men. Then told the Muse Of mighty ' deeds and great, of noble warriors. Of strategem and strength, of counsel wise. How valiantly they fought, with how great skill, The noble Jimmie 1 f ' skurried up that pole. Then letting fall a blooming tear, spake I, Tell me no more. Oh! Muse. For overcome indeed My heart is grieved that such fam ' d glory ne ' er before Was writ in annals of mankind. Grant this O Muse! their prowess never to grow less , »w ; ' The necessary memorial rites. . As yet not definitely understood but supposed to be a species of antedeluvian fossil. , Term of exile. The pole-scrap which occurred [he morning of Saturday. Septe mber twentieth, ninfr teen hundred and seven, which also was a Freshman victory James Hunter Spicer, the hero of the hour, who valiantly as ' ended ihe heights of the pole and captured the Sophomore colors.

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Sophomore History. — i— I sing a song of the Sophomore class. Of the class of nineteen ten. The deeds of might of this wonderful class Should command a worthier pen. — 2 — For in virtue in courage, in wisdom untold Our name is famed far and wide. And the originality of all our stunts Is talked of on every side. The first great event of our history Was the famous inter class scrap But so few were our number, its a mystery That we weren ' t wiped off the map. But we fought long and hard with pluck and with grit. And though we were beaten, ' tis true. All felt that we ' d done what true heroes could, And what more than that could we do? HERE ' S to the Ban ue we Busted On Washington ' s birthday that year, there was held A banquet most pleasant in years. For all anger was buried, and bloodshed and strife, And peace calmed the faculty, s fears. -6 - Mixed in with these contests for honor and fame. We r e pleasures delightful for all, For parties and picnics reigned that year supreme. And the next year a masquerade ball. —22-