Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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1904. Chni, chni hot licks Yo ko homa chop sticks, Chupe sue chop kowi Neg ' e sege ch ase, Hop long- bop Sophmore! ! Sophmore ! ! 1904! ! ! Colors — Blue and gold. Pres. — Ross Hume Once more do we get a write up in the College Annual and well do we deserve it. They all talk about the Sophomore of college having the swelled head. Now we resent that, we do not have the swelled head, we don ' t feel near as big nor as smart as our inferiors, the Freshmen. But we are here with the goods and we are going- to stick it out and be in at the dea»h. We are not near as large as we were, last year, in regard to num- bers but what we lack in numbers this year we make up in noodlism. We are still too many for the Freshmen who out number us three to one. Did not every one of our m ambers get to our social? didn ' t one of our members being tied break away from them and come to the social with his hands tied behind his back? And on Feb 22 the day of days for the Freshmen when their hearts were in their mouths didn ' t this little Sophomore class give three worthy members of the Freshmen class who had toasts at the banquet, a nice three mile ride in a lumber wagon and were we not kind enough to let them walk back so as to be there in time to see the banquet break up ' ? Was not Monmouth College repre- sented at Toronto by our class president? Is not one of our members managing this victorious base ball teatn? If it were not for our love for old M. C. you would see every tree on the campus painted a beautiful Blue and Gold, a flagon the cupola and the good old ' 04 shining- out again on the auditorium but we must hang on to ourselves and not let our love for class over-run our love for college. The only thing we feel bad about this year is that all of last year ' s members are not with us, to be with us when we cash in. But we have added several new members to our flock this year and all good ones too and when we finish we will finish strong-. Looking up last year ' s record you will find we were a class of the right stuff but this year we are small and things have taken on a differ- ent hue, so we will cut this out with the statement that the ' 04 can still be seen on the auditorium and a new stair has been put in the cupalo and its door leading to the attic has been fixed, there is blue and gold paint on its rock on its campus, the ladders in the auditorium have been replaced and the window fixed and a guard is now posted to guard the building from any similar attacks this year. Silence reigns and ' 04 is studying, watching and waiting for a time and chance when there will be something- doing. Albert Foland.

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doubtless they know that though the tig er purrs, his claws are still sharp. At present nineteen men at arms wear the orange and black livery. Nineteen heavy weights with hearts stout and true, guard the honor of the immortal ' 1)3. One half as many charming damsels lend beauty to the class. Lucky for us that they are so few, for it is all two knights can do to protect one lady from the advances of the other classmen. For there is none like unto them, yea even from the river unto the great tea. At odd moments we have protected other objects of less importance, the main college building, for example, on the night of the 22d of February. (Some of the authorities were overheard to whisper that they wished we had undertaken to protect them all). Part of our number have been quite active in city, county and state politics. We have placed a good man in the sheriffs office, thus securing to our- selves immunity from molestation in the future. Next year we shall place one of our number in the city council, thereby giving that body the great intellectual assistance and moral support which can alone come from an educated citizenship. As for the immediate future, we shall rest for a few weeks, after which we will once more assume con- trol and continue to run the kollege, which will undoubtedly take many a long stride in advance under our beneficent tutelage. We are already overwhelmed with applicants from other schools, who wish to join our class. Only the wise in heart can find a place among us. En- trance examinations will beg-in at the first of September. Come early and bring your credits with you. It wou ld not be amiss to send your photograph and credentials as to yonr g-ood moral character to the Executive Committee of the class. It might hasten your entrance or save you a bitter disappointment later on. Also a certificate to the effect that you have memorized the shorter and long-er catechisms with the reasons annexed thereto, will be highly acceptable. This last can- not fail to admit you. If in the past we have accomplished any good for mankind, let it but stand as an indication of our present intent and future endeavor. As for the future, we can think of no words to apply to it more fit than those of the Jewish Rabbi: — ' ' Grow old along- with me! The best is yet to be. ' '

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J esftn an 3ustorty. FRESHMAN CLASS 1902. Pres — Mr. Paul McClanahan. Class Colors — Dark red and pale blue. Yell:— Rat a to thrat to thrat to thrat, Terra to lix to lix to lix Kick a ba ba Kick a ba ba, Nineteen-five! Rah! Rah! Rah! Early in the fall of 1901 glaring-headlines appeared in the lead- ing dalies, calling attention to unusual events. As these throw light on the origin and composition of the class of ' 05 we give a few of them: BANK PRESIDENT RESIGNS. ENTERS CLASS OF 1905. Boer Generals Raffle Off British Scalps. Proceeds used to send a member to class ' 05. Left Wall Street. Noted Speculator Joins Freshman Class. Special to Oracle. Cable by way of Hong Kong and London. Snip sighted. Three brothers, one cousin aboard. Only intelligible words were Freshman class or die! But alas, we are not all noted. For many of us reared in humble obscurity in the swamps of the Mississippi valley, heard the bullfrog- croak as we left. Let ' em pass, Let ' em pass, It ' s raw material, For the freshman class. But ere long we who had considered ourselves successful were tempted to envy when the time ' for enrollment in college came. What to do with those cards! In the first place they were expensive things, for after the required disbursment we found our pocketbooks just a little heavier than vanity. In addition, it was demanded that we peregrinate the college building and premises in order to secure the signature of every man, woman and professor in the vicinity. But as cost determines value, we esteemed this slip of ' paperbearing- our full name [ not initials ] worth its weight in patent leather. By this time we were entered, and began to realize into what we had entered. We found although we had crossed the Styx, we had not entered the sweet Elysian fields. But when the first agony had abated, all went smoothly for a time. Then some sinister being, Mephistoor a Sopho reminded us that a freshman social was demanded b} r custom. Accordingly arrangements were made. But in the meantime it was rumored that certain of our elder brethren had planned a similar carousal to occur a few days previous to ours. We took immediate