Franklin and Marshall College - Oriflamme Yearbook (Lancaster, PA)

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All of us belong to a literary society. So much for our work this year. Doc Bertolet and Hower played 011 the 'Varsity eleven and Harry Rupp broke his leg on the Scrubs Of this acci- dent Herr Weiss said: A special interference of Divi11e Provi- dence ! Another Democratic vote knocked out ! We must now end our history, so far as the past is concernedg but we have one statement to make with regard to our deeds in the near future. We are sorry that we shall be obliged to annoy the student body with our orations. We would not if we could avoid itg but we are but tools in the hands of the Fates, whose decrees are as inexorable in this matter as they are unpropitious. And now we bid the readers of the ORIFLAMME a fond farewell. f HIS'FORIAN. 24

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prone the assistant professor was to go the way of the erring one when his superior was away. Jimmy spoke of the Juniors, and especially of their keeping the faculty roll at prayer. Someone suggested that Mr. Sheetz was two sheets in the wind. But this was only a rank pun on Mr- Sheetz's name, for no member of ,97 could get into such a condition on only two glasses of wine. T0 show that we had some class spirit remaining, we resolved to cut Monday of commencement week and requested our guest to inform the faculty of our action. This was tl1e only official cut our class ever made. We all returned at tl1e beginning of the Senior year except Gillan, who had come to us by decree of the Fates, tl1e pace of '-96 being too hot for himg but our pace was so 11111011 hotter that he left us after a trial of but one year. Each and every one chose l1is own program as far as he could, and set himself down to specialize. Four of us took Calculus, and were so successful in our struggles that we were passed wiik- out an examzbzalzkm ! Greece fared a little better, and Rome was comparatively well off. Geology was the only elective taken by all. Some took Chemistry, but the professor proved too great a reducing agent for some, who have now abandoned it. Much in- terest was manifested in Political Economy, as the Presidential election fell in our Senior year, and those who could vote wished to vote in the light of science, Q' scicufe agreed wilh Meir pre- eslablisked opimbns. Many are taking General Astronomy, and many are somewhat disappointed since it is not as general as they expected it to be. Isenberger kicks most. He says we have an observatory merely to look at, his idea of utility being killing time looking through the equatorial. The elective system has made us all feel the need of a reading room, open at all hours, so that we might spend our vacant hours profitably. Some of our number have resorted to match- penny as a means of whiling away vacant hours in the chapel. 23

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