Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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forget the jolly ride there, the performances to help us to refrain from eating the chairs and carpets on the floor? You may talk about Greenland ' s Icy Mountains, but it isn ' t in it with the few we passed on the way home, and I might say, lingered upon in passing. But why relate all this? What does it mean to others? It simply intensi- fies the idea that 1909 is in for a mixture of work and sport. Who can look into the prophetic mirror and tell what the future may be ? Orators, teachers, lawyers, preachers, and who can say what more will go out to make the world greater than it has ever been before. m 23

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1909 Class l istorp ANY of us have been saying 1909 for four years, but now, if you notice, all the Yankees and even the barbarians across the sea are writing it. Vhy? The reason is almost too obvious to men- tion. The class of 1909 has so impressed itself upon the world by its famous career, that all hail it with honor. Some may be unwise enough to say that with many it is a mere matter of years, but they have been misled by some unsophisticated Freshman who. by the end of the year, will refrain from such rash statements. Its past is written in letters of red and white — red for the gory con- flicts it has won, and white for the truce which now exists between it and the rest of the world. The main features of its embryonic stages are ancient his- tory now and just to mention them is to bring vivid pictures of good fun and .hard work before the minds of all. The class scrap in our first year showed ;what Samsons we have in the class. The next year we very magnanimously gave the wearers of the green a little instruction concerning the use of lamp- black and red paint, accompanied by the easiest and most instantaneous method of utterly destroying a suit. We hope they will make good use of the few valuable hints they have thus received. But next to guerilla warfare in im- portance, Professor Smith will tell you, is the battle of wits. In our banquets so close was the contest that the winner could not be decided upon. . s far as the numerous courses which followed are concerned, all seemed to come out pretty well. Lest one feature escape the notice of a not very close observer let me mention the Junior sleigh ride. Someone said, only the moon and the owl were watching — but that person was unkind. Who of those present will ever 22

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■i.1 ,»• ,w?.. ij .!«. ' .-■»,? .« -i ,-(fi „ ' .;j.;. ., r . .m.; -f . ..: t.. .li ...■ ■. - .- ;,» ■ ' ' 1009 Cla00 i ocm EAR old Bucknell, we love thy classic halls, Thy beauteous grounds, and ivy-covered walls; Dear old Bucknell, we love to sing thy praise, We love to live again the dear old college days. Dear old Bucknell, we love thy stately trees, Thy lofty hill, swept by the winter ' s breeze; Dear old Bucknell, for thee our song we ' ll raise, And sing with overflowing hearts of dear old college days. Dear old Bucknell, thy past without a peer, Thy present bright, thy future highland clear; Dear old Bucknell. to thee we sing our lays, With thee we li e in tbouglU again Dur dear old college days. Dear old Bucknell, the class of nineteen nine, ' ith purpose true, will e er fall in line With all thy sons, to sing thy worth and praise, To honor thee and live again our dear old college davs. 24