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The Demosthenian Literary Society., BY GEORGE FUGATE. We, if 9' if for our literary and social improvement, do establish this society. l Great oaks from little acorns spring, and from how small',, and, at iirst sight, unimportant, a clause hath the Demosthenian Lit-- erary Society risen ! Away back in theDark Ages,when the Seniors- were but Freshmen, and the Juniors were stowed away in the Ward schools-away back in '96, I say, some intellectual spirits gathered together to form a literary society. They determined upon the name of the irst of the greatest orators as their name,. as indeed, the nrst literary society should do. ' It is with reverence and a feeling akin to awe that we think of our quondam brothersp They say that the student of today knows more than the wise man of long agog so would it be pre- sumptuous to hope that we, at least our Seniors, speak nearly as well as did Mr. Wilson when he delivered the 'first inaugural' address, or Mr. Lemmon, when he thrilled his listeners with the- first valedictory? As we pass through the halls of time we see many events which have brushed away any monotony which might have clung to the ordinary routine. In June of the year of organization an open meeting program was delivered, and if the persons on the program were any criterion, I for one, should have been glad to listen to it. Again, in the Fall of the same year, occurred the nrst annual reunion, when the members gathered together in the Manual Training Building to enjoy the evening. For why should, they not, with a phonograph into which Mr. Gardiner had sung, Put Me off at Buffalo, to regale their ears, and a banquet looming up at the end of the sociab1e? But, alas! the feast of reason was not always served without. a hitch. For, to quote from the records of one meeting:- 'f Mr. Prentiss was repeatedly reprimanded by the President,
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