Denison University - Adytum Yearbook (Granville, OH)

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Little can be said of the Class of ' 83. Our early career was not remarkable, and in our later days, we have not created much excite- ment. We entered college strong in numbers, but we shall depart weak — yea ! very weak, and had it not been for the most careful nursing, ' 83 would already have been numbered among the dead. Silently as the eternal stars pass on their everlasting course in the azure vault of heaven, have the beloved and honored members of our continually diminishing class picked up their scattered pepermints and, turning their backs on the kindly doors of old Denison, left forever those classic halls, wherein with childhood ' s simple eagerness, they wandered on the boundless shores of truth, and picked up here and there the scattered shells of knowledge. We have been like a mountain river, with overhanging woods and verdant hanks, which has wasted itself among the sands of some far stretching arid plain ; and had not other rills combined to swell the tide, we should have been entirely dried up before this time. Alas ! it grieves my toogue to tell the tale, but, of the nineteen men, whose intellectual countenances were photographed in the group Avith Prof. Harper, at the close of our Senior prep, year, not one is left. Future historians, with futile search, will seek the potent causes of this mighty falling off. They will look for wars and revolutions, for famine, crimes or terrible disasters, but these they will not find. 28

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CMSS ORGENMTIOK President Charles R. Sargent. Vice President W. F. Dann. Chaplain L. R. Mears. Secretary and Treasurer C. Rogers Sargent. Poet Lyman R. Mears. Historian C. R. Sargent. Fiction Will F. Dann. 27

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wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm There is not in heart of ' 83 the spirit that would give rise to such = commotions. ' 83 has always been gentle and obedient ; ' 83 has always attended mildly to present duty, and with unblotted escutcheon, and with no assignable cause, ' 83 has simply p tered out. = It is sad; but, with calm fortitude, ' 83 awaits the fate implied in our beautiful yet touching motto. Observator. = Names. Residences. William Franklin Dann Xenia. Lyman Reason Mears Dresden. Charles Rogers Sargent Bethel. A QP R TO QREKT-m 4 29 liiiiiiiiiiiiiiJiiiiiiiiiiiiy