Iowa Wesleyan College - Croaker Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, IA)

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 ®f)anfe£gtbmg banquet TOAST PROGRAM THROUGH THE AGES To Stmafter, Father Time..........Dr. Leist “A Mighty Hand, from an exhaust less Urn, Pours forth the never ending Flood of Years.’’ Prehistoric Age ..............Emerson Wyse, Academy “Xot to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.” Dark Age.....................Florence Rominger, ’19 ‘ Pouch us gently, Father Time! Let us glide adown thy stream.” Stone Age.........................Newton Moats, ’18 Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores.” Iron Age...........................Aenid Beman, ’17 Gold and not Iron is Queen of the World, but it is Iron that gives the Force.” Golden Age..........................Ermil Frye, ’16 “Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.” Age of Change.................C. K. Hayes, Alumnus ‘ Time stays not for any man.” Future Age......................Dr. R. E. Luebbers “And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree.”

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I $u£fjbaU Since history was first recorded of the affairs of Iowa Wesleyan College there have been fights between the Freshman and Sophomore classes. Sometimes these combats took place on the athletic field; at other times a cornfield north of the city limits furnished an arena for the issue, but more frequently the fight was held in the old main building. The lower class generally barracked themselves in the tower room and with their colors nailed to the dome offered fight to all comers. The Sophomores were never slow about taking up the issue, and several injuries were always reported by the combatants. The young ladies of the college as well as the young men took part in the melees, and many were the restrictions recorded at the Hall against feminine offenders. The culmination came in 1911, when several serious injuries were received by three of the men. 'Fhc next year the faculty decided that the modern pushball game would be a wise innovation, and it so proved its worth the first year that it has since been in vogue. The event takes place a few weeks after the school year opens in the fall and draws a large number of townspeople as well as the student body. Last fall the contest was not as interesting as usual because of the overwhelming superiority of the Freshman class. The first year men won out, 14 to 2.

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pootu “Program MARCH 20 Academy....................“An European Romance” Freshman..................“A Freak Commencement” Sophomore ............................. “Minstrel” Junior.................“A Mere Chant of Vengeance” Senior “If Shakespeare Lived Today”