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History of the Class of June, 1901. E all know the tcmltncv of frail human beings to exaggerate their own accom- phshments : but this class has resisted all temptations to boast, and e i-r thini; here recorded has the inestimable value of being strictly true. So, although our credulity may be taxed, please accept our statements, and make no investigations. Our history began on September 20, 1898, when many girls from all parts of ' ir- ginia entered the First B Class. Although homesick and dreading the toilsome stretch befrjre us, we undertook (pur tasks with a will. Each succeeding term our number grew smaller, until only seven of the original class remained, when, in the fall of nineteen hundred, we t(. ok up our onerous duties as Seniors. And much to our soiTow, when one of the seven, Lucy Stubbs, had to leave school on account of sickness, there remained only six to tell the tale of our early struggles. But many others, of whom we are justh pnmd, ha e joined us along the way until at present our class numbers twent -six. First, I will mention a few interesting facts about The Six. Before our sacred number decreased we were designated as the Seven Sages. I won ' t say who hon- ored us with that epithet; certainh- not we ourselves. Conceited.- Oh, no! we are not a bit conceited, but we do think there has never been a class quite as brilliant, as earnest, as industrious, or as good as ours. For instance, who cari explain the cause of a rainbow and actually measure the refraction and reflection of light in the rain drops like Emma Barnes.? After a few more experiments, she will probably mount the rays of light and land in Infinity. And who can pen poetry that will move the hearts of others as dois Louise Hog- wood. ' The parodies she has written on Longfellow ' s poems will outli e Homer ' s Iliatl. At least they would have done so, if the Professor of Literature had not torn them up accidentally (?) and consigned them to the waste basket. Louise also has the valuable attribute of always being aheati of time. She may be found standing outside the Church every Sunday morning, waiting for the sexton to open the door. We are sorr) ' this can not be said of each cjf us. Surely there never existed a more patriotic and musical being than our own dear Sarah Hogg. In the Training School, it is nothing unusual for her to spend the period singing The Star Spangled Banner, instead of teaching the fundamental rules of arithmetic. Bessie Palmer excels in gymnastics. Basket-ball, chest weights, clubs, rope climbing and even the ladder walls possess infinite charms for her. She also has the honor of being the baby of the class. Janie Whealton is our dignified and bebived President. She has ever been an 29
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inspiration to the class, and by her unselfish enthusiasm has fostered a class spirit of unusual strength. She possesses in an unlimited degree that indefinable something called tact ; thus it is impossible for the Faculty to deny any request made by her. Even the stern President will gladly yield any point when she goes to him with one of her captivating smiles. Having never received a Not Passed, she does not know trouble in its direst form ; therefore she can not sympathize with her less brilliant class-inate, josie Luck, to whom Verv Good and Excellent ' ' but seldom come, anil who could never gi -e the principal parts of the Latin verb yii m. Xow, I will jiass on to those whom we have welcomed into our midst from time to time. Man ' of them outshine those already mentioneil as far as the sun outshines the stars. Marv I, ' enn - is our optimistic sister. She finds, Tongues in trees, books in running brooks. Sermons in stones, and good in everything. None of Annie Whitehead ' s pennies go to swell Uncle Pat ' s coffers ; they all are spent on Pen- - Pictures. It is a well-known fact that she excels in drawing, antl if you care to look on her easel at present, you will find a painting of Achilles, who is hanging u|) l) ' one heel, while his mother, near at hand, is briskly applying the rod. All of us are unmoved by the charms of the opposite sex — especially Lucy Wood. ' lien stud ing physiology she found the heart to be the most interesting organ of the bo(h-, and in order to reach more accurate conclusions about its workings, she has decided to do some original work in heart breaking. It is against the principles of Alice Atkinson to be on time, no matter how import- ant the occassion mav be. Her lean face and hungry look are due to the fact that she gets locked out of the dining room nearly ever)- morning. If du should meet a little girl whose pompadour is exactl) ' three times as large as her head, that is Nellie INIunily. If she can ' t remember when to use sit, set, lie and lay, she yet retains the high ambition of seeing, sooner or later, one of the opposite sex weep. Our snail is Nannie Houser. It is the custom of the class to take naps between words when she is reciting, but like the proverbial tortoise, she has reached the goal, while many of the hares who started out more swiftly have been left behind. Now we come to the prodigy of our class, Jennie Jackson. There is no problem in trigonometry that she cannot solve, no sentence in Cicero over which she will stumble. The Professor of Psychology does not understand better than she the nice distinctions between affection and emotion ; and even Faraday and Maxwell could get some valuable suggestions from her concerning the dielectric theory of electricity. We are proud to have among us one whose mind is as deep as MoUie Phillips ' . Li fact, it is so deep that it is a difficult matter to fish up anything out of its fathom- less depths. She considers Titchener and Tyndall light reading, suitable to while away the long hours a summer afternoon. Never has she been hurried or excited. Her life motto is: Haste makes waste. After speaking of so many exceptionally brilliant girls it is a relief to come to one who is more nearly like the ordinary human being. Martha Flournoy never diil or 30
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