Edinboro University - Tartan / Conneautteean Yearbook (Edinboro, PA)

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Ihr 0112155 nf 1921 g Here, ladies and gentlemen, you will ob-serve the likeness of several of the major luminositie-s of the illustrious class of 1921. Some unsophisticated persons might imagine that the look of childfish innocence upon these countenances was characteristic of the sixty-five or more of us who first blundered into the hospitable portals of Edinboro in Sep- tember, 1919 B. P. fWhich, being interpreted, means Before Prohibition .J But far be it from us to imply that it was as bad as that. No. It was worse. No person with the mental powers becoming a reader of the Conneautteean can fail to note, however, in perusing the pages which follow, a great and subtle change: of which the appearance of gravity which has supplanted the expression of cherubic sweetness here depicted upon the features of Mike Leacock is but one example, Whence came this high and lofty mien? 'Two epoch-making events have intervened: we have a.ttended Edinboro State Normal School for at least two yearsg and the Eighteenth Amendment has become the law of the realm. Since our vocabulary contains no lan- guage appropriate to a discussion of the second of those events, our remarks henceforth will refer particularly to the first. .1 The fact that our first schedules were made out previous to thegenactment of the statute just referred to has no bearing on the number of days which elapsed before we began translating the unintelligible symbols N-6 and R-3 in terms of Geography and Psychology within hearing of ladies and the Faculty, and on other occasions, in other terms which we won't mention here, because Crawford would probably consider our remarks unduly vigorous and emphatic. But then we can't blame himg he's only a. teacher! Suffice it to say regarding the Hallowe'en Dance of 1919 that hoary tradition con- ferred upon the community the honor of having this affair taken in charge by the Juniors.

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K Uhr Senate 1921 Faculty Members Miss Maud M. Patterson Mr. Hermon Sackett Officers Mr. Floyd E. Skelton .......... ...... P resident Mr. Carl Whipple .... ..... L Vice President Mr. Ellis G. Fulton .... ..... . .. ...... .. Secretary-Treasurer Senior Members Junior Members Miss Lucille Bauschard Miss Bertha Wood Mr. Floyd E. Skelton Mr. Carl Whipple Mr. Clinton T. Leacock Mr. Maurice Rowland Mr. Ellis G. Fulton Mr. Charles Schade High School and Underclass Member Miss Doris Leiphart i283

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