Daniel Baker College - The Trail Yearbook (Brownwood, TX)

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HISTORY OF SOPHOMORES (With Apologies to Poe) Once upon a June day dreary, while we pondered somewhat weary Over many a page and picture of the noted Trail,, ’17 While we turned each separate page, looking for the Sophomore sage, Suddenly that class came into view, and though only a few, There seemed to appear in them the knowledge, that they knew more than all the college, Merely appearance, nothing more. Ah distinctly we remember, it was in that bright September, And each separate Sophomore member again entered the chapel door, With an air of more distinction than he had had the year before, When with a Freshman’s fear and trembling he had mounted to 3rd For now this was a rare and radiant class who made the lower classmen sore, Well known here, forever more. And the stern, staid uncertain looks of those new green draperies, Thrilled us, filled us with fantastic terrors not felt the year before. So that now, to still the beating of our hearts, we stood debating Whether our faculty would be as stern as in the year before When soon the late president stepped out upon the floor, Merely this and nothing more.