Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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L E. H. Collins, Mary Blake, Isabelle Irwin. Perd A. Luther, Warrpn Brownlee, Carlisle K. McMurdy, Willam J. Mathews, John Nichol, William R. Lytle, Laura Sykes, Josephine Culbertson, Clarence Watson, Mayme Hamilton. Guy Lafferty, Ruth Stevenson, James Pinkerton, George McKelvey, William Clark, Hayes Crothers, Margaretta Butts, Fiank Hoyman, Jean Brown, James McC ' racken. Hugh T. Martin, Mabel Robb, Irving Moore, Charles Bell. Fulton Furguson, Charlotte Clanev.

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g unior 3ustorty, Motto — I Dare. Cliws Colors -Orange and Black. Class Flower — Tiger Lily. The Class of ' 03, to whom ye gentle reader ' ' is indebted for this book, is busy, very busy; indeed has scarcely time to eat, or sleep, or breath, much less .stop to calculate or even approximate the number of its golden deeds. We leave all such forms of self advertisement, needless to us, to the Apollos (?) and liars of the other classes. They will tell you of daring deeds performed and bloody battles won; of how they hold the base-ball, foot ball and marbles championships: of how they went to ihe banquet and how their friends the enemy did ' nt. In fact they will try to lead you to believe (and they are honorable men)that they are ' i,t ' ' the ' neplusultra ' and the ' real thing. ' They would lead you to imagine that they are the only ones who have never had to preambulate to the rear and assume a sitting posture. Too bad, too bad ; such artists are worthy of a better calling. And yet there is a comforting thought for them, for they can say truly with Rabbi Ben Ezra; — ' What I aspired to be, and was not, comforts me. As for the history of the Orange and Black, as before stated we are too busy turning out the same and recording in this book a true impression of college life, to catalogue it in full. The next edition of The Beacon Lights of History will contain an additional volume or so which will be an abridged account of our epoch making career. Yes, we are too busy running the ' beloved kollege, ' assisting the trustees and faculty, and advising with the nominating committee as to our next pi esident, to care very much what the world thinks of us. Future aires will see our real value and appreciate our true worth. As Freshnienettes we stood pat, and established that reputation, which speaks volume-i, of being bad people, slow to anger but fierce in wrath. Never a second time did our enemies molest us as a means of diversion, for ihe first was always too much like a Roman holiday, and the orange and black tiger always remained in the midst of the aren a . As Sophomores we ruled the roost. To be brief, we stood off the Fresh ies. the whole school en masse, the faculty and the police. Just- ice wiuki-d ihe other eye when we left our fines unpaid. But what shall I say more of the base-ball and track and field championships, of the grand celebration following the same and all our other little incidents, for time would fail to tell of even a part of them. Suffice it to say that the present Sophomore class has not squaked since last spring. In fact we are beginning to be somewhat worried about them. But