Heidelberg University - Aurora Yearbook (Tiffin, OH)

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c though perfectly willing to plan all the mischief, never are there to carry it out, simply because they were cowards. And that was the way with those who urged us to tight, As it was, we had a good time and there was no ill-feeling. And what is more, the younger classes have carried it on, until our humble little reception has grown to be almost a banquet. O, did l ever tell you that one of the girls in the class was married that year after school closed? Yes, we were not very much surlgtrised, for we had heard a rumor to that effect earlier in the year. O, by the way, did 1 ever send you a copy of the Truth, that mock Aurora we published that year? My, but we thought that was an achievement! VVe did make money on it, but of course we had an excellent business manager. Really, we were so busy the next year getting out the Aurora that we didn't have time for anything else except one class party out at Miss Abbott's. The year moved along smoothly enough: we were all looking toward Class Day for we expected to see our long-lost pennant again. VVe shed a good many tears when that disappeared, and our greatest fear was that maybe we would not get it again. But we made up our minds to have something that day that would look something like it. Wfe had purchased caps and gowns before commencement, and, by the way, if you ever come to college, don't be so foolish as to think that you must have a cap and gown, Really, we almost smothered during that week,- but to proceed, on Class Day we all came out with long class pennants. VVe were the envy of the college that day. Well, this last year has been so busy that we are glad it is over. Of all the productions we have had to write-but then it is all over now. VVe have had, though, in spite of work, rather a busy social time. Our old classmate in Fostoria began it by inviting us over to her home, and since that time there have been several other functions. lt is nice to be a Senior, in spite of the eternal inviting. And now it is all over, and we will soon have separated forever. -some of us probably never to meet again. How terrible that seems, after these four years we have become very good friends! VVe have had our differences, but all that is over now, and to-night we are thinking only of the pleasant things. Life is before usg we are only just beginning to liveg we have been only boys and girls, and now, in almost a day's time, we are men and women. Class day, banquet, commencement day have passed, the lights are out, the halls are silent, we will never again walk through the corridors as students. And now, here we sit and dream of that life which lies before us. lf we only knew what threads the Fates were spinning for us, but we shall know it by and by. You have watched us through these years,- do not forget us now and give your best wishes to your old friend, THE CLASS OF 1906. C301

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.Senior Class H isiory. 000 Heidelberg University, june 1.3, 121013. My Dear Friends:-VVell, commencement day is over, and how glad we are! This has been an awful week, and we are all just about worn out. I expect you will want tn hear all about school, and especially about this last week, so l might as well start in at the beginning. You see, we entered school on the tenth of September. 1902. O, dear, but we were green in those days. I wonder if I have told you much about those very early times. We did have a good time. but we got into about as many scrapes as it was possible to think of. That time out at Mr. Croninger's, for instance. It is a big won- der some of us did not get killed that night. We settled down considerably after that. The idea of carrying revolvers! Anybody with any sense would have known better than that. But. of course, you can't expect anything else of children. I told you once before. didn't I, that tlt was the year we elected Prof, Kleckner Dean of our class? He used to take us out botauizing in the spring, and what good times we did have! Isn't it funny that we have never had very many class parties? We averaged about one a year, for the First three years. . I believe. if I remember correctly, the Hrst one was at Blooinville. How care- free we were that First year! Gf course, those horrid themes did bother us a little, but a very little. We had such a big class and everything looked favorable at the beginning of the year, and yet how sadly that year ended! When school opened in the fall of that year, there were only twenty of us back. There is always something sad. don't you think so, about this thinning out of school ranks. While some of those old classmates we had not learned to known very well, still they were classmates, and the thought that we would never see them in their old places in the classroom brought a sting to our hearts. That year we gave a reception to the Freshman class. We were very doubtful about it, but thought it worth the risking. So many students sneered about itg said we were cowards, and wanted to know why we didn't fight, and so on. But when you stop to think of it, such opinions generally come from that class of students who, C292

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