Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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5 nior lass. 9ffiC6l'5. EUGENE WEEKS, PRESIDENT. GERTRUDE PETERSON, VICE PRESIDENT. ERNEST W. CUSHING, SECRETARY AND TREASURER. Mo'r'ro--l.' I.'.' l.'.'.' CLASS COLORS-White and Yellow. YELL-I! I! I! We are bricks. What's the matter With '96 ? T HAS long been the traditional custom for the graduat- ing class to boast to its heart's content, and none to say them nay. However, I shall tell nothing in this simple history but absolute truth. We are Seniors. For the last time we appear in THE GALE, so now once and for all let us remind the gentle reader and the ungentle as well, that we are Seniors. Four years we have journeyed on the college road and now we have passed the last mile-post. Already our voices have found a new tone, one of retrospeetion. Already we have begun to give advice to the under-classmen and the faculty. We have written our last essay, sung our last song, planted our last vegetable, and wept our last weep. We know so much more than as Freshmen we ever dreamed there was to know, as Sophomores we bloomed and won the hearts of all the faculty, and as Juniors we set an example which, miser- able a'1c!1z-has not been followed. In the languages we have been introduced to Caesar, Pliny, Demosthenes, have scraped acquaintance with Cicero, Lysias, and are on very familiar terms with Virgil, Horace, Plato and Homer, while as French and German students we have excelled the wildest dreams of ourinstructors, and two of our members are ready to carry on an intelligible flirtation with the first stray seuor they are fortunate enough to meet. In the Sciences we have learned all that the scientists, whose text-books we have used, ever knew, and have discov- Seniors.- Some to conceit alone their taste confine.

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ered many things that they never dreamed of knowing, X rays included. In the elocutionary line we have done wonders, owing largely to our great natural ability. In our Freshman year we outspartacussed Spartacus, as Sophomores we evolved Cxpression, as Juniors we prepared ourselves to deliver lec- tures on the Emersonian system, while as Seniors we stripped Othello of all his dusky glory and prepared to teach the young idea of succeeding Freshmen, how to shoot. Now we are ready to run the colleges, churches, and char- itable institutions of the land, or the city, county, state, and S national politics. In coming years we are the ones who will set the clogged wheels of the world's machinery in motion. Diamonds are scarce among us. We leave our hands and hearts unshackled for the great work which lies before us. Here we have the Doctor, Lawyer, Merchant, Chief-the rest of the rhyme we leave to the class below us. But glancing at the chapel clock, allow us to say in the old familiar words, We see our time is up. The piano and Bible are closed with a bang, the electric bell rings, the audi- ence goes out, Prof. Page locks the door and puts the key in his pocket, and we are out in the world. Farewell. VALE., L-I-ri A-t-li.- A most pernicious womnm'