Columbia University Teachers College - Tower Yearbook (New York, NY)

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1919 CLASS BOOK TEACHERS COLLEGE 9. 10. WVhen the sun and the Sophs Arose the next day The sun-it Was cool Compared to the fray. To get our augora Their attempt they were legion But the only goat got YVas the goat of old F riedgen. 11. You are physically strong Said the Sophomores with cheek But added-that Freshmen Were morally weak. Q 12. Sophs Went to council Ah-there's the Rub Rock-college property Council said Scrub, 13. But our sister class rescued And had the thing done While We stood by and cheered S0 We felt that we'd Won. 141. Our banner above the Sophs On the tower Our class with the rep For the pep and the power. 15. The rock is still there The vines once more green But the Biology Bugs Keep terribly lean. 1 16. For no matter Who're Sophs When the moonls dark 'tis seen Those bugs march all night, Tracing nineteen-nineteen.

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1919 CLASS BOOK TEACHERS COLLEGE on a strange hue and the Biological specimens thereon waxed fat. Those with an eye for natural phenomena looked for some great event as the cause for these upheavals of nature-but not until the class of 1919 had time to demonstrate itself did they wget the hunch that it was US. Of course they did notice that we discovered more quickly than other Freshmen that the marble statue in the hall of Thompson Building was not Horace lVIann bound in informal attire slinging a pie in the direction of Whittier dining-room, but they failed to connect us with the natural phenomena. In fact, we, noted for our modesty, did hide our searchlights under a bushel that first fall. We, not wishing to blind the college, did not shine in basketball or swimming, but waited to burst forth with one resplendent splash on Field Day. Our gigantic success then was celebrated mod- estly by us in another achievement which will live long in the annals of Teachers' College. Our dar- ing pep has even revolutionized the old nursery legend of the night before Xmasi' and future generations will be taught the following in our praise. 1. ,Twas the night before May Day, And all through the house, Not a creature was stirring But Emily Couse. 2. The Sophs all slept soundly And they moaned with each snore A-dreaming of Field Day And their bleak-whitewashed score. 3. Then Emily Couse with Spotlight in hand Stole forth to awaken A brave stalwart band. 4. There was bold K. Millar, Then nothing could stop her Thought its hard to believe As now she's so proper. 5. There were Molly the Meatless Wape, President Clare, And jolly round Dill Crept down the dark stair. 6. Then thru cold marble Center They rushed out pell mell Dill said that she shook Like a bowl full of jell. 7. Our star it shone brightly But the bugs had a shock And the verdure turned pale When our frosh struck the rock. A 8. In relays-by turns In the still night hush They labored for hours With green paint and brush. 57

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l 1919 CLASS BOOK TEACHERS COLLEGE L Qnpbumnre iKnutn5 not ants Rnutns nut that sbs knutns nutmscurn ber President . . Helen Bishop Vice-President . . Emily Couse Secretary . . Jessie Tuttle Secretary . . Beatrice Buck Treasurer . . Clare Leonard Historian . Elizabeth Rood Back from the summer's vacation we came eager to assume the rights of Sophomorism- Wise Fools were We! And how lorded it all over college, taking unto ourselves that which was ours and also as much of others rights and properties as We dared! Sophomore Rock was ours now and We guarded it jealouslyg it seemed to belong to us so much more since vve had had our numerals on it the year before. We e tried to impress on the Freshmen the dangers of sitting on Sophomore Rockg our rules for the Green Ones were thought to be most drastic and explicit. One evening however, Helen Bish- op our class president entered Sopho- more Song Practice with the news that the Freshmen Were gathering on Sophomore Rock! With one accord We filed out, determined upon being - . Y impressive and dignified, and in tones icily regular, splendidly nulln demanded the Whyfore of such behavior. Then in succulent voices did these Frosh tell us that the rules read, Freshmen shall not sit on Sophomore Rock. They Were standing on it! Laughter broke up the meeting and We returned to Whittier rejoicing that our foe was worthy of our steel. Incentive to outwit them Whet our future dealings. Early in the Fall term the class of 1917 recognized us as their sister class. Each Senior adopted a Sophomore, and in an impressive little ceremony Welded together bonds that were of deeper relationship than mere college friends-that were tinged with the more sacred intimacy of sisterhood. 59