Bowdoin College - Bugle Yearbook (Brunswick, ME)

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V0l.68 BOWDOIN BUGLE 1914 1913 HE class of ill omen now occupying the Senior forms in chapel has sur- vived four years in our institution without having done anything spec- tacular or sensational enough to attract world-wide or, speaking can- didly, we may say village-wide attention tif you bar a headline in the B1'lHl,Y'iC'I'Ck' Record in which they were mentioned as having opposed 1914 in certain inter- class contests especially in footballb. Lost in the clinging arms of Slumber as they appear to the campus observer, and unwilling to arouse themselves to take anything like a proper or decent interest in the doings of the College, nevertheless they have been allowed to stumble through the usual class business in docile imi- tation of the real classes preceding them. .Xnd unless better means is provided for entertainment in june, doubtless, they will be allowed to graduate and receive degrees, an honor much above their deserts. Far be it from us to give anyone the impression that this somnolent and lethargic aggregation has been neglected by the powers that be. Indeed, the faculty and student council with a ready appreciation of their chronic inertia and fearing the possible inconvenience of decimation of an entire class, forbade the time honored chapel rush upon sight of our warlike 'band on the campus. Later the council was obliged to appoint censors for the game rushes in order to protect the weak sisters from 1913. But let us not twit them upon their physical disa- bility, or mention their mental vacuity, but rather seek to outlive the odious repu- tation placed upon the College for their being here. ' Indeed, to assume a very optimistically judicial attitude, IQI3, from where we sit, looks like a very mediocre Senior Class, with its few shining lights and its larger proportion of hopeless bo-neheads, and its accomplishments duly subordi- nated to its failures. After IQI3 who would not believe in unlucky numbersl 31