Mercersburg Academy - Karux Yearbook (Mercersburg, PA)

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Jenior History In looking over a college or academy annual, the average person thinks it is of no importance to read a class history, for they always are the same 3 the largest, most intellectual and grandest class that has ever gained success through school. But the Historian will try to vary from this rule by attempting to tell truthfully, but briefly, all that has occurred to our class-the Class of' Nineteen Hundred and Three. On a Wednesday, in the fall of '99, thirteen small and frightened boys trudged through the rain and mud to Mereersburg Academy. But these t.hirteen were not unlucky, as the number might imply, but were the beginning of one of the sturdiest classes that has ever been graduated from this institution. As one looks over the pages of this book and sees that our class has grown to a number which has never before been equalled in this or many other academies, one can not help think- ing that with such an humble birth as we had, that we should be recognized and honored for our ever onward struggle. In 1899, such builders of fame as Hehnar, lllotherall a11d Nuggets U Wright, laid the foundation of this illustrious body and, step by step, other celebrities have formed and shaped the class until such master workers as Spencer, Donahue and Ward have moulded the Seniors so that the class ca11not be equalled in any school. Some historians in the past have enumerated the deeds and men who have helped to make their class what it was. It is needless to chronicle or even attempt to pick out our stars. The captains of the four athletic teams--l ootball, Basketball, Baseball and Track Teams, are Seniors. Seniors lead 21

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