Milligan College - Buffalo Yearbook (Elizabethton, TN)

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LEWIS M. BOTTS SILAS He drew out the threads of his verbosity finer tluin the staple of his argument. A. B. ; American Literary Society. ELBERTA COX ' ■When a c iild she fell out of the zoinciora and fell down ' chunk ' . B. S.: Ellen Wilson Literary Society. 2(.

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mm IF S ZS Eo [D FRED C. BUCK BF.I.A Sever loorks, mid iici ' er worries .Seldom liiiifcsiiiid never hurries. B. S. ; Frederick D. Kershner Literary Society; Midnight Club; Social Editor of the Buffalo. ANNE MILDRED PERRY, Ph. B. Mil, I. IK Jfcr steps are iiiii.sic and her J ' oicc i.s .sons!. President of the Senior Class; Editor-in-Chief of the Buffalo; Member of the Ellen Wilson Lit erary Society; Queen of Hearts.

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Hi mi If 5 cS %, [g] ntor Class litstory I OR t x) college generations at least, a written history ofllie class of 1916 would be unnecessary. The classes from ' 13 to ' 19 have seen us in action, and they will not soon forget us. Alumni have heard of our activities, and tradition will pass on our fame to future Milliganders now painfully laboring in the graded schools. We dislike to talk about ourselves, and would be pleased to let our achievements tell the story, but the faculty insists upon a formal statement of some kind. Even the most complete history must omit many facts of importance, however, and this sketch, theiefore, must be fragmentar - in the ex- treme. AH things must have an end, even college days. We stand on the threshold of graduation and look buck down the vista of time with a retrospecti -e eye over the events of the last foui ' years. The days spent here have been pleasant, and our work as a whole, a success. As class historian I am ordained to chronicle, in brief manner, the events of the four year ' s course, ami to mention just a few of the hardships and pleasures of that illustiious body known as Seniors. But before beginning the history proper, let me, in a minimum measure, numerate the requirement initiative to admission into the order of ' 16. First the applicant must complete a good high school course or its equivalent. Upon reaching college, all the tortues of science. literature, mathematics, philosophy, religion, languages, both modern and ancient. Besides all these, the male candidates, in particular, must undergo the most nerve racking and heart-rending tortures while taking a shoit course in society. ' ery fortunate it is indeed, that the above mentioned courses administered in broken doses, for so thorough must the reaction of the application be, that a few words in Latin will ividly poitray the sites of ancient Rome, with it legions, temples, and bloody arenas: a sentence in French presents a vision of verdant fields and vine clad hills, while Paris, the throne of gaiety, and mother of fashion, stands out resplendani because of the slightest French accent. Mathematics must be so well mastered that great pleasures accTue from sohing the difficult problems Calcidus and Spheiical Triganometry. The boys must be intimately ac(iuainted with the study of Fthics, P.sychology and Logic, and must be ready on all occasions to (luote from Professor James. F.specially must they keep before them always his views on housekeeping