Franklin College - Almanack Yearbook (Franklin, IN)

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GDICCRIHL 51:31-ff THE BLUE AND GOLD, '99 E. A. ARTHUR, . . V EMERSON W. CHAILLE, . Hssociates EARLE DUDLEY KELLY, V. . 1 GRACE B.. MULLIKIN, . . OMAR COVERT, . . JESSIEHOLMAN, A. . ESTELLE J oNEs, . . . JEANNETQE MARTIN, . . OMAR H. HOUGHAM, . . Editor-in-Chief. Business Manager. The Classes. Literary. Miscellaneous. Athletics. ' Societies. Fraternities. College and Faculty

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Hn Hpologyg Hlfso a Preface . t Q HE work is finished, the book is done, the job is W l Wi off our hands. Ours has been a noble effort, Ni 594 1. ours a glorious victory. Disaster has repeatedly Xa- ' f . if 1 W . threatened us, but we triumph at last. We have gone about our business with a grace and dignity peculiar to Us, and no one has even suspected that we were achieving a great work. The volume vis elaborate, but it does not con- tain all we know. V We omit the beautiful poem introduced by the immortal lines : . 4' Phillipls son upon the bank Little David in the pool,', V for which, perhaps, an apology is due Prof. Owen. Some thrilling lines written by one oflUs in a country cellar, and an account of Morganls Qtownj Raid, also by one of Us, we accord only the honor of mere mentionf We hope it will not be noticed that there is a dearth of roasts on the Junior class. This has been a source of great annoyance to Us. We have sought everywhere for a place to attack this noble class, but it is invulnerable. We take this opportunity of informing the world that we are great. 'lWe love to observez and ad- mirelourselves for our greatness. Our faces are aninteresting study. We refrain from enumerating our great achieve- ments, but only point to ourhrecord in the various fflate unpleasantnesses ofthe past. We quit our corn-husking to quell the Sophomore uprising last fall. We took the aggres- sive in the extermination of the tribe of ninety-nine a year ago. ,We acted our part nobly, when, on the thirteenth day of November last, westood our ground, a-mightyphalanx, in the Y. W. C. A. coal bin, ready to meet the Seniors inpmortal combat, but no Senior ,showed his dusky face thatdayq' We