Florida Agricultural College - Pinakidia Yearbook (Lake City, FL)

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Not only in the F. A. C. are we represented, but outside we can pride ourselves on the success of Messrs. Calhoun and Edwards at the bar, Mr. Acheson the machinist, Sergeant Clements in the Cuban war, and Messrs. Echmendia, Matthews, Rowe K., Smith and Merrill at the bookkeepers desk. XYe have sent out Mr. Hopkins 'ony to write another Hail Columbia 3 Mr. Hale to write L' A Man VVithout a Country : and Mr. Fox to do as his greatest ancestor did. Miss Culpepper was married long ago, Misses Hale and McClintock are eminent teachers in prominent colleges of the South. Again we have been very charitable to the lower classes. VVe have scattered classmates by the wayside and especially are the Juniors to be congratulated at the greatest reception of this superfinity from which they get most of their light-candle light at best. Vile might infer then that theirs is a reflected light coming from the Senior Class-feeble on account of the long distance always kept between tl1e two. But aside from the preceding these third-year disciples are first in bed, first on sick list, and first to the fruits of the dining hall. Floating along heretofore in the foremost files of time the Class of Nineteen Hundred will soon be an organization only to be remembered with the passing years. Laboring under some adversity, and being shoved around to suit the convenience of irregular students, its work has probably fallen short of what it could have been. Whatsoever success it may have had was due to the work of the students and the skill of the teachers, to whom this year's graduates tender their sincere thanks. XVhat their work and distinction may here- after be, no earthly being is able to foretell. One intends to be a doctor, another a chemist, and the third Il lawyer and poet. Wheresoever the Stream of Fortune may carry them it is hoped that they can End the way to final success, humble though it may be. Rah, Rah, Ree, XVho are we, The lucky three, Who are numbered In the Class of Nineteen Hundred. 22

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O lovely pink and green You shall be clearly seen With a faith untold Till the sun grows cold And the stars are old And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold. It is a little sad to tell tl1e public that from a class of forty-six in our freshman year we have dwindled down to three. But after a second reflection we cannot say that there is so 1l1l1Cl1 to weep over. Numbers do not make the class. Our readers must remember that the coarser the net the larger will be the fish caught. Rome had her trinmvirate: America has had her VVebster, Clay and Calhoun, and also her triumvirate in a literary sense: and now the F. A. -C. has her triumvirate-exercising the legislative, executive and judicial functions. But we must go back four years and start at the beginning of our reign to tell how much those boys of ninety- seven did smut our freshman faces. They made us run the gauntlet, perform over a trunk or chair, shine their shoes, and bring them water. But we do that nevermore. Next year, at the pride of our lives, we paddled those very juniors of nineteen hundred and one. We almost drowned and froze the little rats 011 a cold morning. Our president even gave a sleeping boy qninine and turpentine and was asleep in three minutes, afterwards. That stupid fresh woke one time if nevermore. That year many a bare-bone rooster on a cold rainy night has been pulled from the thorny orange tree with a warning of death if he squalled again -but he squalled nevermore. XVe made friends with the present sophomores and led them off for a raid on the cane patch, whence they soon scattered through the adjoining forest. XVe surveyed the target range railroad and got some blackberries. Pro- fessor Mathematics did too, we had to stand examination evermore. Three seniors, high and dignified, weight 125 to 135 pounds, height 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 7 inches, with sandy hair, two pairs of brown eyes and one of blue, no care or sternness upon the brows, no wrinkles upon our tender faces. W'e hold to the doctrine of the survival of the Fittestf' The juniors may too, but they ought to revive and revise. May be we shall get up to reveille and serve continements nevermore. One of our number likes to sing such good old familiar hymns as O Minnie Lee, How you once used to be, and still he repeats The Splendor Falls on Castle XVa1ls. Another l1lll1lS The Bell, the mellow tolling of the Bell. The other sings nothing, but thinks of the Song of the Bell, and Down by the Brook. 21

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