Lake Forest College - Forester Yearbook (Lake Forest, IL)

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were imported for the occasion-bringing the inspiration of active col- lege work to the old boys and girls. Dr. Hillis acted as toast-master, speeches being made by President Harlan, Professors Bridgrnan and Halsey, Theodore Starrett, Ralph Starrett, Mr. Konkle, Dr. Wells, Chas. G. Smith, Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Hillis. During the evening a perma- nent organization was affected and the prospects are that New York will make Chicago Ngo some to maintain its prestige. An Alumni Room One of the enterprises to which the Alumni are turning their atten- tion is that of an Alumni Room at Lake Forest. This room will be the headquarters of the graduates who return to the campus, and will con- tain athletic trophies, pictures of teams, graduate,s publications, and in fact everything obtainable which will tend to foster college traditions. 24

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The Senior Class As Seen by a Junior I4 'I the world settle firmly on its foundations when this class graduates. Such a sunoon has not struck it for ages. They are all russlers. Yes, Egg- yes, something like this: W The lazy breezes dally in the tree tops And cause an empty russling all the day. 'if' The aerial character of the class is well expressed in the president whose administration is as unlike the calm Victorian rule of the Junior president as the Sirocco is unlike the soft breath of June. But when it comes to comparing distinctions we must allow them some pre- eminence. For example we must grant them the pioneer student, although the records showing the exact date of Stark's arrival have long since perished. They have, too, a majority of the common people on their side, for a class roll showing three Smiths is democratic to say the least. But after all we have nothing but pity for them, for to see them begin the year with free and easy swing as if life were a round of Deerpath dinners, followed by soft cooing and stroking of each other's feathers, as if junior-like the year were to go, 'a la mode d'Epicureus, and then to see them, under certain exigencies take refuge behind the Hoaksuand Hride hard for safety-ah, that was very sad, especially since certain ones did not escape. It is really shame- ful to enjoy this junior comfort, gently tossed on the wave of a kindly fortune while the senior crew is stretching every muscle against adverse Hconditionsf' How we wish they had a firm but gentle hand at the rudder as we have. Will they ever make port? But once they graduate-let the world stand fast. Picture the commotion on the turf when a Yeomans mounts the sulky with a I. Russell Stewart to back him! What more persuasive voice among all the barkers on the Pike than Diver's! HThis way, people! Stark the comedian inside! and a Ferguson to manage the exhibit to the imminent profit of the management! Behold a Smith, able to explain in two seconds the manufacture, ingredients and habits of electricity and demonstrate the same, a Barry or a Heindel able to catch, sketch and write the biography of any bug from a spiragyra to a pigeon, a Frazier-UI-Iere I come, creeping, creeping, everywhere. Give me one fact and Iwill make a Record Herald by a stroke of my magic quill: a Burgeson battering down tariff walls with his Iowa mattockg an Asada sweeping Russia from the earth by jiu jitsug a Cromley, king of the North of Irelandg an Ellis sitting by the old Des Moines as the ships go by: book-store Beach, billionaire, a Scott 'ion the bench and a Churchill never before the bar. Will Atlas sustain his burden when this aggregation is added? And nothing has been said of the women. Alas, how sad it would be if they should attain any promin- ence in the senior class! In the eyes of their lords their function is what the owl said, to wit, to woo. Only the Juniors have reached the stage where all are free and equal, and feminine rights respected. 26