CLASS HISTORY PAGE II History of Class June 17 “You've said it! What's the school coming to ? At last, it’s come. We're going!” At last, the sad, fateful day has arrived. For the first time in four happy and successful years, Tech is without its class of June ’17. Yea, verily, grow fearful, friend faculty, and yowl, ye undergrads, and with good cause, for we are leaving. But- we must go forth into the world to engineer her engines, to bake her bread and aid her in airing her ailments. We realize that your despair is well-grounded and to aid you, as we have ever done of yore, we will leave the following story of our doings and undoings to guide your tottering feet, which will probably grow more “pigeon-toed” than ever without our guiding presence. Far back in September, 1913, when we were still young and innocent, we first entered Tech and almost immediately came into contact with the guiding light of our Mechanical Drawing Department. That we were not so ignorant as most “rooks” is proved by the fact that we have seldom let such a grim mistake happen since. Tech seemed to improve greatly with our coming, for immediately we won the football championship and won it again for the next two years, thus procuring the Princeton Cup for the school. As good Techites, we went out for every sport that came along, joined the cadets; in fact we made it our fixed ambition to improve everything we joined, and we joined everything. As sophs, we continued to join and improve everything and incidentally learned down in forge-shop how to miss our thumbs almost every blow of the hammer. In the meantime, the girls learned that it is the CO2 gas, and not luck, that makes the biscuits rise. The G, O. was first organized during this year and, aided by our characteristic enthusiastic support, has grown to be a greater success than even the most optimistic person had hoped for. During this year they changed Tech News to Tech Life and reduce‘ the price. This was because we bought so many papers and patronized the advertisers. In our junior year, we were a phenomenal success. We became “stars” in everything except machine shop, where most of our members were enrolled, but that was all. We only stayed away from Simpson’s long enough to inscribe
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