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CLl E Pa t and PpE Ent o! 95. Pkesident — Miss DUFF. Colors — Bronze and Wliilc Raclietv shack, go whacl go bacU Rackety ho, go jolly Kimoo, Rackety shack, go whack, go back Jimminy buster of ' ' 95. Whoop. lENCE came we ? What are we ? Whither are we going ? An ancient manuscript, found among the ruins of the Monmouth College library, informs us that e sprang from r.cthiiig Someone has said that the more ' obscure the origin the greater the man. This especially true of ' 95 for what could be more obscure than our origin or more sublime than our present. To-day we are something. You say that is not ' much, but my friend, it is something to-be something, and it is more to be a something which sprang from nothing, for we have disproved the theory that something cannot ccme from nothing. With this slightallusion to our ' past and present, let us hasten to the last and most important question, Whither are we going? Well, frankly, not knowing we ' cannot say with a great degree] of certainty, and we are satisfied, for the present to leave ' our future, veiled, in urctilainty.-Jor ' 95 ' is a progressive class. 1 Judging the future by the past a glorious future must await us. Yes. ' 95 is progressive. ' Progress has been cur watch-word, our class motto, and cur class yell. [ You could see pro- gress sticking out all over our jeans and calico, ' when on a bright September day we sat for the ' time in ' chapel and listened to that most wonderful of all productions, that encyclopedia of advice — the Doctor ' s annual address. How we loved the Doctor for that speech! How carefullv we-laid it up in our hearts, and filed it away in the pigeon-holes of our recollections. We have heard that speech ' many times since, but never has it made the impression on cur minds that it did when we heard it re hearsed for the first time. Still in spite of this speech we progressed.
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Of course, in those early days we were unsophisticated. The Freshmen poked tun at the cut o! our hair. The Sophs, passed us by in cold indifference. The Juniors gave us whole dictionaries of advice; and the Seniors worked us for Society. Yet we progressed. It is true that in our pristine state of innocence, the boys would occasionally shine out in all the splendor of a new celluloid collar, and that the girls wore their hair done up in papers the day before our first sociable. It is likewise true that one boy, fearful lest he should fail to get company for that sociable, sent invitations to three girls and that they all ex- cepted with pleasure. Yet, notwithstanding these little irregularities, we progressed. Each succeeding year has brought us new honors. As Freshmen we won the base ball pennant, as Sophomores we assisted on that momentous occasion when the dirty banner of ' 95 was lowered from the College flag stalf. As Junior — Ah ! What honors have not come to wreathe our brow ? Who but a Junior rescued the College foDt ball team from the oblivion, into which it was fast sinking, and led it on to victory ' ? Who but a Junior won preliminary. ' ' V ho, — but why stop to enume- rate our honors? Suffice it to say that there is no honor either on the athletic field, on the platform or in the class rooms that has not come, almost unb ' dden, to ' 95 And now as we look back over our past history and (Sntemplate our present greatn;3s. we feel that we can enter into the dark and unknown future without a tremor Whatever else we may do ' 95 is «are to progress and will continue to progress until the end of the chapter. In future ages, long after we have been gathered unto our fathers, coming classes will be heard to exclaim ' •Oh when ! Oh when ! Shall there ever thrive. Such a class as the class of ' 95 ! that no one except Juniors Ro on this 1 19
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