Austin College - Chromascope Yearbook (Sherman, TX)

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JUNIOR CLASS HISTORY. It is with a certain degree of hesitation that the writer attempts to present a history of his beloved class. We are sometimes in danger of losing sight of the very significant fact that a “history” is not a “myth,” and by giving vent to our imaginative powers, however meager they may be, we may step over into the realms of the poet who has who, in after years, shall read this brief sketch of the Junior Class of 1906, shall be “Each for all and all for each.” crucial period. It is in the course of this period that the chemist, by brin ing to bear the various necessary forces, is able to separate the pure metal frcm the crude and unrefined ore. The more perfect the apparatus and the better suited the reagents, the more com- plete will be the separation. It is left largely to men to choose under what conditions they shall pass this period as well as the apparatus in which the refining shall take place. And so it was that fourteen of the very best specimens of crude ore (the writer excepted).

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st favorable and the apparatus ir crucial period at A t specific reagents ar believing that at A best, decided that at that place they would undergo th In the main the chemicals used to effect this refining or all; but at the same time the nature of the ore must determii required to bring about the desired results. It might be interesting to note, in addition to the common reagents used, viz.: Greek, Latin, Mathematics, French, German, Chemistry, Physics, Logic and English, some special ones which have been applied to certain individuals. They are as follows: Jones—Football and Ladies; Chamberlain—Ladies and Ladies; Morrell—A Lady, Football and Baseball; Touchstone—Football and Ladies + Ladies; Pitts—Football and Ladies (never late at first period recitations more than five days in the week) ; Moore —No Ladies and only an excess of English, having read 80 books per year for the last five years; Currie and Nesbitt—Concentrated solution of Football, but only a dilute solution of social intercourse with the fairer sex; Dellinger—Ladies and Music; Lang— Ladies and Baseball, Ladies and Journalism; Henderson—A Lady and------------the same Lady; Holman—Socialism, Journalism--------a knowledge of all kinds of “isms.” The phenomena during this year have been such as cause only a slight explosion ing over us (the Faculty), as well as to the “preps,” now give full assurance that all will be well and that the final product will be a fine collection of valuable metal. The Junior Class, believing that in union there is strength, has from the beginning been a thoroughly organized body. This is evidenced by numerous events which have taken place during the past year, some of which are the following: We are not a tyrannical body, and it was very much to our sorrow (?) when a certain under-classman, having returned home, wrote back to his brethren that “The Perhaps the most pleasing event of the year was the banquet held in the private dining hall of the Binkley Hotel, and which has never been eclipsed, nor even equaled, by any other class in Austin College. On the evening of January 17, 1906, the entire class, together with a former class-mate, Mr. George, of Roanoke, Texas, gathered in 33