Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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' And yet it compares favorably with the records of those gone before. East Wing turns out as good men as the standard purga- tories. And when we think that in a little while these happy days will cease to be except in sweet and tender recollections, we needs must pause and drop a tear to mark the spot where first we truly learned to live. (We couldn ' t revise this till we find that spot and some senior with a tear about him. Recollections is probably a corruption for it breaks the meter.) ( Cockeye Committee on Revised Version • ' and ( Shorty. 20

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tions, must soon be changed for other scenes whose beauty each one for himself must make or mar. Gee! How can we leave the girls? A new life with vast possibilities, and consequently vast re- sponsibilities, rises up before us. But we are expected to stir up a little independent dust. As we stand thus on the border land and gaze with eager eye on the fields of future usefulness which each one has chosen for himself, let us inquire with what credit we have acquitted ourselves . Did Hyde pass at the eleventh hour? And Walker, O, where was he? K we have failed to do our duty , we cannot blame the worhl if she , withholds from us her luxuries, while she sweetly beckons our deserving brother and folds him in her bosom of success. If we couldn ' t get ' em to hug us here, it ' s all up with us. Although not given to boasting (except Wolford, trs,), the class of ' 93 have no cause to blush, except from — pride We can do ' 94 in everything but pooh! pooh! class histories. Our record, , is not such as should have been the fruit of the tireless labors of our beloved in- structors to whom many of us ai-e now about to bid farewell; (There is a dispute here about the meaning of the text, Shorty maintaining that Tinker fears Billy will kiss him when he says goodbye; while I hold he is remorseful that he didn ' t get his sixth cut in Astronomy.) 19

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Zbc lEMtortal pbonoorapb (Iball i ) ZlalF s Bbout Zbc Seniors, Charles Sawyer Ashton, Williamsburg, O.; May 20, 1870 ; 5 ft., 7 in.; 147 fc ; Jan., ' 93; Denison, ' 87 to ' 89; Antioch,, ' 90 to ' 93; — ; Republican; Doctor. Allen Dudley Bargus, Collins, O. ; October 20, 1870; 5 ft., 10 in.; 170 lb.; 1889; O. U. 0. A. ; Artist; Twin; Mason; bair and eyes black ; modest ; Republican ; Electrical En- gineering. Katherine Burns, Athens, O. ; December 4, ' 71; 5 ft., 5 in.; 105 ft).; December ' 92; Delaware; Clionian Literary Society; Methodist; Post Graduate. George Anderson Elliott, Sharpsburg, O. ; August 24, 1866; 6 ft. 5 in.; 210 ib.; 1889; B. 0. IJ.; Philo, President; O. U. O. A.; Athletics; Y. M. C. A.; Ed. Athena; Shoe, 10; Com- plexion, fair; Orator; Republican; ; Lawyer. John W. Ginn, Athens, O. ; February 9, 1870; 5 ft., 8 in. ; 132 lb; 188fl; J. r. J.; Philo, President; Athlete; O. U. O. A.; ; Heathen Endeavor; Republican; Teacher. Grace Grosvenor, Athens, O. ; August 16, 1871; 125 ib; 5 ft. 5| in.; ' 89; . 11. P ; Philo, Contestant; Secretary of ' 93; Ed. Athena; Non-Politician; Methodist; Teacher. 21