Morningside College - Sioux Yearbook (Sioux City, IA)

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Junior History lt is a fact of unquestioned authenticity that September the twelfth in the year of Our Lord, 1905, was the birth of a new era in the history of Morningside College. From that day on the cry was set for a Greater Morningside, and who shall doubt that the advent of the class of ,O9 was the cause of its inauguration. There was a general stir among the upper classes when this freshman class stepped into their places on that important autumn day, for there was something in their face and man- ner that indicated that ere long theirs would be an enviable place in the college. And there were also many misgivings in the secret admiration with which the faculty beheld their youngest brood in its first actions. Organization was of course the first thing to be done, and this was accomplished without delay. Officers were elected and an extensive debate was held upon the proposition of colors. Finally those worn by the founders of our native land, by virtue of which they triumphed in their struggles with hardship and George number three, were deemed most fitting for the inaugurators of the Greater Morningside. Then they yelled their welcome in: You may be rough And have the stuff: Bur not enough To Mm at bluff! O11 those who wear The blue and buff! Yet another difficult proposition upon their hands, and this was to get acquainted. At the Brown home this almost insurmountable feat was accomplished with many peculiar and fascinating diversions. It was here that they first set up that

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ETHEL ALICE DELMAGE, P,xU1.I.1N.x. Her heart is not in her work, tis else 'zcfl1ere. ' History. Atheneum l'nlmllc '07. RUSS W. PHELPS, SIOUX Crrv. Lieber Himmel! Was haben 'wir hierf' Chemistry. Philo.

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battle ery that was destined to strike fear into the hearts of many a 1'ival classman in the days to come: The Frcslmzczz are out for rz revel, The Soph .s' may go lo thc devil. For 1f! .r slrrcly no bluff That we lzazfe the stuff, .--Ind yozfd better come up to our level. Stealing cautiously from this gathering, and, growing more bold when no Soph's appeared fwhether from fear or scorn who shall sayj they bravely marched the streets and diligently practiced their yells. Never had old M. Cf. re- sounded with an equal explosion of class spirit. Time came, however, when they felt that this spirit must be displayed in a more material way, and accordingly dis- patched the long and short of the class to seek out a tall tree from the Missouri bottoms. One dark night they ceremon- iously planted it and swung from an arm the Soph president in effigy. From the top of the eighty foot trunk the lellue and flluff floated tauntingly in the breeze. The wrath of the Soplfs knew no bounds, and down they swooped upon the defenders, mounted on the draywagons and armed with bludgeons. Such savagry was new to the guards, and in their first mo- ment of surprise the ugly monsters bore down the figure of their chief. The Freshmen soon recovered it however and the chief himself, decorated with chains and cords, was forced into a conspicuous position with his back to the pole from which days later the Freshmen banner still floated. ln the evening the lireshmen maidens made merry and spirited away from their hero's minds the thoughts of bruises, broken ribs and fingers. This success encouraged them to issue a general chal- l the Gridiron. llut their pres- lenge to meet any cass on tige was too well established and none ventu1'ed to accept. Basketball, how- ever, may be played with greater safety and the other classes fought valiantly, but in the end were all defeated and the class of 'oo engraved their names upon the cup. In the Homeiliield Meet they were again victorious and came out twenty points to the good. In the literary line they won the ora- torical contest and placed two men on the lntersociety Debate. Commencement over, the liresh- nun went home to dream of the Stuntg they would do when they were Sopho- mores. llle Hl'l'.lXlZll of September thirteenth and the Sophomores awoke the citizens ofithe quiet suburb from its summer lassi- tude to the fact that the school year had again opened. The mstulllmff that the class of '09 did this year was an act of ClW'1t3 1v10w111g ll? experience the trials and embarass- ments of l'reshmen, they had a heartfelt sympathy for the class of llO. So when their lirst business meeting was not well attended and important business had been transacted . . . 1 they obhgingly published the minutes that the rest of the class might be informed. Kindness is so often bestowed upon the ungrateful. lhese Freshmen one night disfigured OIIQ of the beautiful trees on the campus by nailing a pole to it with their colors at the top. Such willful 'destruetiveness could not 0'o un- . , I b punished so the class of OQ chained up the ring leaders and leaving them to retieet upon their disgraceful conduct an un-