Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Oak Yearbook / INSTANO Yearbook (Indiana, PA)

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there was many a frozen nose and toe, and many a sleepy head the next day, still, to the coming Seniors we would say — Such niglitly dissipation Giveth added expectation. After encountering man} ' difficulties along the way, we reached the pons assignonim and crossed it in safety ' . Bright smiles then covered our faces and we cantered gaily along with Caesar toward the Rubicon. But why speak of such things when we still have the Model School in remembrance ? Here Description cannot suit itself in words, To demonstrate the life of such a battle. We toiled from daylight until dark, pouring over methods and plans, correcting papers, washing slates and boards. This done, we thought that if the pupils were taught nothing, still we should receive much credit. But, alas ! Despite all our .sorrows and joys, all our hard work and fun, we still have kept in rank and file. The Commencement Day is here. We are graduated, and go out into the wide, wide world. All cannot become great, some will have to care for the little things of life. But we shall all do our best for the glory of our Alma Mater and dear old ' 97, the class which can say to all past and succeeding classes : — Let us but blow upon them. The vapor of our valor will o ' erturn them. 19

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$t hf f lass Hjs?©fy= S the Historian of ' 97, I come not to tell of wondrous genius or marvelous fame, but to speak of the short life of a class known to all bj- reason of good works. Throughout the Junior year we struggled nianfull -, and tliough some few fell by the wayside, the greater number pressed on and reached the goal. Laying aside our Algebra and Botany books (together with many a happy remembrance jf botanizing expeditions), with glad hearts we entered the Senior life. Here we found a feast of knowledge fit for philosophers. Once every day, into our fresh young minds we crowded years and years of history, and problems and prob- lems of geometry. Physics also hath shown us her charms in light, heat and electricity. One brilliant star of the cla.ss is now busy concocting a plan by which a teacher sitting at desk and waving a rod in the ether, may send sufficient vibration to the body of a voung offender to cause the recreant immediately to take position and assume work. And then, after all we had learned of the properties of heat, we set out on the coldest day of the whole year to enjoy the Seniors ' annual sleigh ride. . nd although iS

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Ofd ©f 0ass ©ay E,:)i ¥d$m AniJRESs, . . ........... Prksidknt Mrsic, ............ Myrtle E. Sthphews History, ............ Cl. r. Crawford Cla.ss Poem. ........... E. Grace Stewart ES.SAY, ............. Clara Warnock Growler, ........... A. Virgixi- . ltex Music — Quartette, .... Messes Sweeny and . rmstrong, Messrs. Henry and Lewellyn Recitation, .......... Charlotte G. Rickabaugh Oration, . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. T. Henry Music, . . . . . . . , . Ruth Work Artist, ............ Zillah Z. Davies Prophet, ............. . nnette .Shaw Donor, ............ Georgi. C. Shane Music, ............. Class Song