Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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Class History. ,4q?v.. HE CLASS OF NINETY-NINE is standing on the threshold of a new life. The vision Q 3 of what is before us is beckoning us on to untried pleasures and experiences, yet we linger to cast a farewell glance over the past year. a On the sixteenth of September, 1898, the first meeting of the class was called. At a subsequent meeting, we adopted a constitution and made the organization permanent. Soon after we chose our class emblems a follows: Flower, yellow and white roses, Motto, Stude- nius Excelleref' Colors, gold, white and black, Yell, 'K E. O. L.! Walla, Walla, Will! Ninety- nine! Ninety-nine! Millersville! Boom!!! One of the pleasantest remembrances we have is that of the Senior excursion to VVashing- ton. The journey commenced on the twentieth of October, and the rain which fell during the latter part of it did not seem to dampen our pleasure in the least. The next event of importance was the planting of a circle of poplar trees on the west campus, November twenty-second, 1898. The spirit of patriotism aroused by the Spanish-American war, is indicated by the names given to the trees, which were those of the thirteen original states. Tree-planting is not a new .thing in the history of a Senior Class, but it has never been done here before on such an extensive scale. The next occurrence of interest was the sociable given by the Seniors to the Faculty and students on the evening of the seventeenth of Decemberi . .28. , literarj perfect stnvei ful. ninth A