Franklin College - Almanack Yearbook (Franklin, IN)

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love to regard our Worlzs,3 for they reiniud us of our greatness. We have no vain and idle thoughtsg We never thought an evil or Weak thought in our lives, but have deduced moral tliuuder from hollyhoelrs and oalainus, and with Wheel-bai'- rows have convej'ed eartloads of Wisdom into human inindsf While engaged on this Work We have sustained ouifrelation to the toot-ball team, taken in all street parades, and ocea- sioually attended Sunday-school. All this, aside from its own 4-xc-elleiic-es. should reooininend this Volume to its readers, who are eteriiallp' indebted to THE EDITORS. -l,i,,fm1i.r : We assert that this is the genuine article. JUNIOR CLASS. if' A7 lv? as l '1 li-'iz'1'J'l ooi notes are a fad, but these are not. We employ them here for the hem-lite of our readers who are not capable of understanding Us thoroughly. 'Tlu-so will soon appear in book form, with red, White and blue covers. flie-fore the dresser. M further evidence of our extreme good taste, P t 4712?-Tre beautiful sentiments are borrowed from the illustrious author of Q' er I' .

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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

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