West Virginia Wesleyan College - Murmurmontis Yearbook (Buckhannon, WV)

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goes to join them. The new arrivals are not many, but all are excited and enthused over the journey yet to come, for there are to be many more pleas- urable occurrences on this part of the trip than on the preceding ones. As these come to pass the once-small-urchin is the outstanding character, and the preoccupied, clam-like passenger has pulled the little company out of many a tight place and won the respect of all. Also one of the once-bashful girls has proved to be invaluable with her talents and good sense. Then comes the last stretch of the journey. Most of those who were on the former are back, and with them many new ones. Some there are who have been laboring and striving to catch this particular bus; a few who even got a motorcycle to bring them from the hack just behind, or perhaps even passed by one in order to catch this. At any rate, the old omnibus lumbers on, many of the occupants very anxious at first lest they have not brought all the re- quirements of the journey, but soon everything is straightened out, and the hack seems to go pretty smoothly after all. The once-small-urchin has grown to a wonderful degree, and is leader and most important person among ail the passengers; the clam-like person is now recognized as being the owner of a seemingly bottomless well of knowledge; and the country girl, among others, has won many honors among the rest. Soon the end of the ride is looked forward to, and some even climb up on top to see whether the pier or the ocean is in sight. Towards the last such an attitude of excitement and nervous anticipation prevails that the air fairly snaps with electricity. Everyone is leaning out of a window waving a hat, handkerchief, or pennant. The omnibus bounces over the pavement of the city, and with many a bump and a rattle and a bang, reaches the long looked- for pier. The passengers alight with shouts and cries, and after a brief fare- well ceremony, pass thru the throngs and board the various steamers to sail out into the world. And so it has been with the class of 1915. Many who started in 1911 have dropped out for divers reasons; some have entered and stayed only a few terms; some ha ve had to drop out in their Senior year on account of illness, and many have come back this last year just to finish in 1915. So the class is composed of a few who have been together from the beginning, some who joined a little later, and still others who decided at the last moment to join the former plodders until now there are twenty-five expecting to gradu- ate and spread the glories of Wesleyan thruout America. What the class will amount to then we do not know; but have any of the former omni- bvsses, or will those in the future carry such a variegated list of passengers, such talented musicians, vocalists, artists, cartoonists, readers, teachers, min- isters, athletic directors, social service workers, writers, humorists, comedians, and intellectual wonders? Time alone will tell. 28

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Junior Class Officers William Chilton Bobbitt President P. C. McQuAIN Vice President MYRTLE BOYLEN Secretary KATHRYN DuERR Treasurer