Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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 playing base-hall ami tennis, tumbling summersets in the gymnasium, or perhaps mingling in the social gaieties of a large city. So led on by these pleasing delusions, a crowd of gav and festive youths met on tin campus of tin Vanderbilt about the middle of September of the year of our Lord, 1SS!». They came from every section of the South, from the rocky valleys of East Tennessee, from the level plains of Texas, from the enterprising State ol (ieorgia, from the pine forest of North Carolina, and they were to be united by a bond of brotherly affection into one harmonious whole, to be dcsig- 7 O mated the Freshman ('lass of ‘9.5. After sonic preliminary skirmishing with the Board of Examiners tin- names of those that were not completely overcome were enrolled upon the college regis- ter, and tlicv at once submitted themselves to a course of training for the great • O O fight to take place in .January. But if this preliminary work was not altogether to their liking, if they had expected to play and were made to work, at least be it said to the credit of the Faculty, that the Freshmen always bad plenty of the latter occupation to keep them busy, and if any member of the class ever bad any leisure it was not the fault of that august body. So when the encounter came oil' they were all entirely victorious, except a few who perished in the fray. But although this battle had been won so gloriously b the class, they could not afford to be idle. They saw before them, with their sharpened vision, a much more serious contest, and they began to fear greatly for their personal safety, so that in order to secure this blessing to all they resolved to organize themselves into one systematic whole, so as to present to the enemy a more solid and unbroken front. This they did in the first part of February, 90. choosing for their commander Mr. K. K. Morgan, who. by bis gallant conduct in the former engagement, had showed himself competent to marshal the forces. The final battle i now approaching; indeed, it is near at hand, but we fear not. What, with the rigid drill we have been through: what, with our natural ability, for the Freshmen always were a bright class, and the present Freshmen feel convinced that they are exceptionally so (and who knows more about them than themselves, I’d just like to know ; so who is best capable of judging V); but, above all. what with the wholesome diet provided for them by their several board-

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 17 OFFICERS. It. K. Moim;ax. ... ........................1’irxitUnt. S. II. Mooick, ....................................... I ’ice Prenidnit. Coi.i.ixs Wai.lkk.....................................tittci'dary awl Tn« m r. .}. D. Stamuimi.................. .................... V . II. K. Smith, ........................................I fistar ion. HISTORY OF THE FRESHMAN CLASS. ■ [1ST ;is the .sultrv heat ut' summer was beginning to abate, ami the cool, ' refreshing nights of September testified that Old S »1 had loosened liis grip upon this portion of the earth and was going to make it lively for our brethren of the other hemisphere for a while: just as the school-boy was awaken- ing from that torpor caused by this too vivid realization of the terrors of another region, and was beginning to recuperate and to enjoy life a little: just as nature had ceased to torment him. 1 say. and he had begun to feel that life is really worth the living, his happiness was most wofully blasted by his fellow-man : for with the summer heat had passed away his vacation, and now he was compelled to return to that tyrannical but time-honored enemy of the infantile world, the school. Hut such was not the case of the hero of this chronicle, lie had wrestled with the school-master long and well, and had finally, after years of struggle, overcome his antagonist and left the hateful institution of that tyrant forever, or at any rate, only to return as its master to wield the ruler himself, and to terrify the mischievous small-boy with his frown. In other words, he had made a rise in the world. lie was about, to go to the university, there to have a good time

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 ing houses, and, for the enlightenment of the general public, which is not sup- posed to know much about such matters, it nia he here stated that this is selected so as not to draw the student's attention from the ctherial pleasures of the mind to the more substantial ones of the table, and thus at the same time to economize both the landladies' cash and the time that the student would otherwise lose at his meals, the latter being of course tin most important consideration—indeed, we only mention the first out of the desire to be exact: what, with all these advantages over the enemy, I say, cun we fail to have a most glorious victory ? We leave the answer of this |iiestion to the reader, knowing that he is too intelligent Jo answer in the negative: but should he feel the slightest doubt as t•» O “ c tin result of the fray, we would just ask him to keep his eve upon us, for truly it has been said that seeing is believing.