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

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T H E ' 9 ' 0 F O R E 5 T E R Senior Class History. 'Tis the fall of the year A. D., l905-a most momentous time, for has not the great class of I909 come to add its chapter to the annals of Lake Forest College? How big-chested and proud we are as we go about the campus, for are we not college men and women now? But older students do not seem to show us due deference. fWe cannot yet appreciate the fact that the reason they see through us and past us is that they cannot distinguish us from the verdant background of the campus., But we do not worry and, blissfully ignoring the apathy toward our importance, we go merrily through the year. We get the jump on the sophomores at our class election. Our team is defeated at football, but we know that that is as it should be. On the track we are unconquered, and from our number we give full quota to all varsity teams and college enterprises. All in all, we are satisfied with our beginning. Another year has rolled around and again we are on the good old campus. Now we are truly important. Think of our responsibilities! The horde of savages in the Freshman class must be subdued and schooled in college etiquette. Our men with trousers rolled a notch higher soon allect the proper Sophomoric swagger and don con- trastyn clothes. Our ladies acquire the Hsavoir faire without the slightest effort. In the class scrap our cohorts show the Freshmen that the back door of College Hall is as good as the front door, by scaling the fire-escapes like veteran firemen, and attacking the enemy from above. Wve are told that we are big-headed and too confident, but this self-same confidence gives us nerve to break into places where we afterward make a suc- cess. This year the Carrick Club gets some valuable material from our number and we furnish the basketball captain, also another member of the team, and on the track hold the lead. As the year closes once more we feel content with our achievements. The summer has passed and for the third time '09 is on hand and ready for business. Now we are upper classmen and we assume a dignity that is very noticeable. The altercations between the classes below us, we view with tolerance: and insist that, in times past, our part in such activities was much more strenuous. We notice now that our opinions are sought after and valued: but, through discretion gained from former experi- ence, we try not to be afilicted with cranial enlargement. At a most successful beach party, our get-togethera' spirit is so renewed that it carries us as a unit through all class enterprises of the year. Our Forester and Junior Promenade are, we think, just a shade better than those that have preceded them. But soon we see that our class loyalty should serve only to increase our college loyalty, and as the year with its increasing responsibili- ties goes on the latter feature becomes the predominant one. As our third year closes our sincere desire is that we shall be able to carry out the duties of the coming one. Our last year has come and as we again return to the old haunts we almost shrink from the thought that one short year must end our residence here. No longer is our dignity assumed. It is real. The childish capers of younger students provoke us save when we harken back to the good old memories of former days. We now furnish the leaders for almost every branch of college activity, the captains and managers of the football and track teams, and the captain of the baseball teamg the president of the Gar- rick Club, the leaders of both C-lee Clubs, and the manager of the men's club. More and more do we realize the debt that we owe to old Lake Forest for all our advantages- a debt that can be repaid only in a measure by our undying loyalty now and in the days to come. As our commencement day draws nearer, the day which will be the beginning of that future life for which our Alma Mater has been so faithfully preparing us, although we know that the separation will come with a pang of regret, we cannot but look forward with joy to that time when, having accomplished greater things in the life of the world, we shall be proud to be called graduates of Lake Forest College. 28