Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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JUNIOR CLASS.

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CLASS OF ' 00. ARTHUR HENDERSON, President. Colors: Green and White. The year has been very quiet for the double nothing clafs. There has been no class scraps and few of those happenings generall}- considered disorderlj-, 3 ' et largely necessary for an interesting class history. A quiet year does not, however, signif} ' a sleepy class. It has been said of countries ; Happy is the country whose annals are short, and the same is applicable to classes. Thus, though the amount of actual history is not great, we can assure you that we are content and happy. On different occasions when we would have shone with dazzling brillianc ' our well laid plans were thwarted by the weather and our pleasures had to be postponed until a more propitious time. Still water runs deep, and when we might have been doing ' ' the town, our time was devoted, instead, to educational matters and intellectual pursuits which are recorded upon the books of the professors as A ' s, B ' s and other unmentionable letters. We are proud of such a showing. We are proud of our class, We are proud of our name. Being so unlike other classes we had to have a name different from others, and so selected something entirelj ' new — Nineteen Hundred, a beautiful, mellow-sounding name which already has been received with such favor that the faculty has decided that the world shall hereafter base the dates of the next hundred years upon it. In view of our bringing such honor upon the college we have thought not a little of suggesting to to the senate a regulation compelling the male students of the college to remove their hats as a sophomore of Nineteen Hundred Saunters by them on the street. Though such a regulation would be altogether fitting and proper, our modesty will not permit us to make the suggestion. In athletics we are equall} ' good. Last year we ver}- justly claimed the championship in baseball, when as Freshmen we licked the Sophs who swiped the Juniors who bluffed the Seniors. This year our material in that line is as j ' et untried, but we are confident that we have it, and time will prove whether or not we are right. During our college course we have always tried to be amiable, and we are told upon good authority that last year the head of the college loved us above all others because of our angelic disposition. Another proof that we are lovable is that some of the professors were very relijctaut to part company with us this year, and much persuasion was necessarj ' to show them that it was for the best. Everything considered we feel that we have much to be proud of, and down in our hearts we respect and applaud the Fates for their wisdom in selecting us to open up the new century.