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History of the Class of 1910. When one undertakes to record the deeds ot the class of 1910, one maj may well exclaim : “Expect not, noble dames and lords, That 1 can tell such deeds in words; What skillful limner e’er would choose To paint the rainbow’s varying hues; Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?” Twenty-two girls differing in personal appearance, taste, views, ideas and ideals compose this class of 1910. When eight small girls, all enthusiasm over being at college, tripped gayly up to Wesleyan’s door and knocked timidly that bright September morn- ing in the year 1000, they were welcomed by a little girl, standing all alone, ready to take them by the hand and introduce them to “dreams come true; for the Prep, year at Wesleyan had made Ruth Parrish ready and anxious to roam the new fields commonly spoken of as “Verdant Freshman.” Ruth came to Wesleyan from Brooklet, (la., and though she has spent the best years of her life here, yet these five years from home have not sufficed to put within her a daring heart, for more often than any member of the class she succumbs to the terrors of homesickness. From September until May Ruth’s continuous wail is “show me the way to go home.” Among the many things that Ruth has taken since coming to Wesleyan, only two deserve men- tion — she took a diploma in music her Junior year, and the mumps in her Soph- omore year. “A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, and most divinely fair” is Susie May Greer of Oglethorpe, Ga., who came to Wesleyan with her mind fully made up that she would reflect honor and credit on her credentials. So she went to work at once and bore off the Freshman medal for high scholarship. In music, her ambitions are pinned quite as high as in literary pursuits, and accordingly in May a post-graduate diploma is to be awarded her. Susie May has a special fond- ness for professors, and she is able to boast of at least a half dozen whom she counts as her steadfast admirers. It must be their wisdom which attracts her. Octavia Elizabeth Bethea, of Dillon, S. C., has believed ever since she en- tered Wesleyan, four years ago, that the dignity of the class is hers as a sacred trust. Octavia often says that her heart was carried away either by a Senior of 1908 or by her room-mate last year. Perhaps this heartlessness accounts for her dignity. Be this as it may, she has had only one T. L., only one friend. Oc- tavia became Wordsworth-struck in her Junior year, and in her frenzy wrote for The Wesleyan: “Oh, to be wafted away, From this black vale of sorrow; Where the dust of an earthy to-day, Makes the dust of a dusty to-morrow.” Upon the poem being turned down by the Literary editors, Octavia, nothing daunted, took Myrtle Reid as her model, and turned her pen to the serious pro- duction of love stories. Since the advent of Nelle Furr, a little girl from Pontotoc, Miss, the class has been made fully acquainted with a Mr. Smith, whose name is now on every lip and breathes from many a sonnet. When love is mentioned, Nelle at once “sits up and takes notice;” and if any one seems prone to treat lightlv