Hiram College - Spider Web Yearbook (Hiram, OH)

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Class Motto, Class Colors, - Class Yell, Class Flower, Class Professor, Qllluss of 'Hin HHpo6z9a1f dpm9c55. ,Vawy Blue and Silver. SRah! Rah! Rah! - Vier und Neunzig! iRah! Rah! Rah! - Wkiie Carnalion. Geo. A. Peckham, A. M. x 91' .- KX W ' . S wg ? if f 1 RH TL: N0 doubi bu! ye are the people and wisdom shall die wiih you. Q URING the evolution of the present customs and organiza- Cl tions of Hiram College, the class of ,Q4 was that which sup Q-Zilfv . H . . . ,, . . plied the heretofore 1T11SS111g link by a systematic organiza- tion into the Middle Preparatory class of '89. N ever was so much dignity and importance vested by a deliberative assembly as by those first class meetings in which a motto, yell, caps, etc., were determined upon. '21

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In ,QC the Senior Preps. succeeded in making the first class pa- rade to their awe-inspiring class yell, Rah! Rah! Rah! Vier and Newzzzg! Rah! Rah! Rah! echoed by the public school children, Rah! Rah! Rah! fur Pharaoh 'nd Isaac! Rah! Rah! Rah! The first commencement of the Preparatory Department was held on the evening of june I7'Ell, yQO. Did ever the heart of a Senior leap with so great an impulse of selfuimportance when he grasped his sheepskin as did that of the first Senior Prep? The class at this time numbered twenty-two, but though extraordinary in most respects, it proved vulnerable to the immutable law of time, and great was the change wrought among its members. Since the advent of ,Q4 into Collegedom the door of Janus' temple has swung open only at the touch of her hostile hand, or that of her accompliceg and the floating of the Sophomore flag upon the breezes proved an irresistible provocation for warfare to the Freshman spirit. Another distinction of '94 is that it is the only class in the an- nals of the institution whose Freshman heads were able to bear plug hats. Perhaps it is due to this fact that they have modestly decided to dispense with the customary Senior hats, or doubtless the increased cranial dimensions precluded the possibility of their use. The evening of the Freshman entertainment, May I3tl1,iQ2, furnished an occasion for renewed hostilities. Their few victorious conflicts thus far had fostered in the aspiring a belief in the literal significance of the saying that He who would slay giants on the Forum must first slay them in schoolroomf' but alas, the giants of ,QS were not to be slain, for right made might and prevailed, even though the most ungentlemanly girls of '95 did wield chairs and iron rods over the Sophomoric heads in such a barbaric manner as to cause an incessant swelling. Difficult as it was for ,Q4 to resignher weapons of offensive warfare to her foster-child, y96,2111d to assume the dignity of the junior year, yet the time had come when the treacherous Web 22