Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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f00 t Ll SING of war and the class, who first from the shores of ignorance ' Chosen by Fate, into Monmouth came, to the campus borders. Much were they vexed by the ' ' nerve ' ' of the Sophs night and day. Through the seconding aid of the jealous and meddlesome Seniors. Much, too, they suffered from breach of etiquette, ' till they learn the ways, And into practice put their manners ; whence the class of the Juniors. Monmouth ' s illustrious sons and the pride of the nation. Tell me, O ! Muse of the Causes : what envy they had aroused ; Under what pretext the upper classmen so many misfortunes A ' class of such sterling worth compelled to encounter and withstand. Dwells there such merciless wrath in the crania of beings human ? Off the campus walk, not far from the doors of the College, Stood there of old two stones, the gifts of former classes — The stones, plain in appearance, were objects for painting artistic. The college, is said, these stones above all the world to have cherished, The evil effects of suspension less highly esteeming. That these might sometime of class rivalry be the objects, No one doubted, and such the wily Sophs, had intended. But they had heard of a people who would come from the ranks of the Freshmen, Who should soon o ' erpaint the walks, and these self-same campus stones. Hence did Nineteen Hundred in glory proudly distinguished Adorn in green and white, the objects afore mentioned. Such in part, in Freshman year, were their trials and their triumphs. In the fall of nine-seven, Sophomoreward these same Freshmen Triumphantly bore their colors, with expressions great intellect showing. In contests athletic, in campus and field were they indeed famous. There is a place which mortals have the name of Senior Class given, It is an old institution, the goal of students ambitious ; Thither our course is directed ; but we are now of M. C. the leader In social affairs and in class-room all others excelling. We now in a book humbly ask your attention while we tell Of our progress inimitable, and the affairs of the students.