Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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new nation to the south made the second year a stirring one. The peace party had a bureau of information organized whose duty it was to distribute regula- tory literature to surrounding nations, as an economic measure. The increase of trouble after the issuance of the nrst circular of the bureau manifested the futility of peaceful settlement, and the bureau was discontinued. Then an army of eleven men was organized and drilled under able leadership. During the fall a hard battle was fought upon Rittersville Moor, which resulted in the defeatlof the enemy. During the remainder of the year comparative peace existed. In january, eighteen hundred ninety-eight, a Peace Jubilee was celebrated in Reading by a grand banquet. During this celebration the enemy made a grand foray into the domains of the United Men of Nineteen Hundred and laid waste much terri- tory, A retaliatory raid was made on the occasion of the enemy's national sleigh- ride. Several minor skirmishes occurred later, but toward the close of the year the millenium of universal peace began to dawn upon the nation. , After severe internal civil strife a commission was appointed to take charge of the regular international year book for the college year 1898-1899. Here the expansion party again asserted itself and the resulting year book was a magnifi- cent volume of illustration, information, and statistics. The close of the third year of national prosperity was fitly celebrated by an oratorical Olympiad. This took place during an international holiday, Commencement week, and attracted a vast concourse of people. The ecclesiastical, judicial, literary, and scientific de- partments Were represented by their ablest men, the scientific Demosthenes receiv- ing the coveted laurel wreath. The fourth year opened auspiciously, the nation having reached that period where she acts as a sort of international arbitrator. During this year civil discord again threatened the natiou's life, but wiser counsels prevailed and the storm has passed. Those who Watched and waited to exult in the plunder and spoil of the downfall are doomed to disappointment. The close of the fourth year will be celebrated with great pomp and ceremony during the next great international holiday. Such is the history of the United Men of Nineteen Hundred in brief, time and space not allowing of a philosophical treatment of causes and results. Let it suffice to say in conclusion : Leben heiss! Sfreberz ! May every class as it passes through our Alma Maier follow its motto as did she Whose brains will soon carry the experience of her four years' life and the in-piration of her motto out into the world's wide fields, leaving to sister classes the jealous guardianship of the name and fame of dear old fWulz!f'11!Je7Qg. ' C. KRAUTH FEGLEY, Hrsroiaraiv. 18

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Senior History. QQ EW people but collegians and those who have been collegians have any idea what a little world in itself a college community is. There are the stern realities in the regular schedule work 5 there are the pleasures in the social life of the clubs, societies, and fraternities g there are the positions of honor and trust in the various offices of the athletic, musical, histrionic, and literary societies, and in the college journal. In the acquirement of these last-mentioned offices politics come into play-politics as complicated as those of the greater world. Wliat is true of the college as a whole is true also of each class in a smaller degree. There is the class organization g there are the traditions to he adhered tog there is class spirit for originality and aggressiveness in interpretation of existing traditions and perhaps in founding new ones. In all these things it is inevitable that strong minds should take the lead 5 that in time other strong minds should assert themselves and that there be clashes, divisions, compromises. Thus does a class make history. In the fall of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, the United Men of Nineteen Hundred became one of the international factors in Muhlenberg College. The record of the first two months is one of internal development. Much time was spent in experimental construction, and in acquiring a realization of the sound- ness of United we standg divided we' fall. A nation of twenty people sur- rpunded by three nations of greater size must of necessity maintain a strict neu- trality. Consequently we have no belligerent records during the first year's history. Every nation has its great seal, its bonny flag, and its motto. The United Men of Nineteen Hundred chose a beautiful seal, and decided to rally around- the old gold and white to the cry, f,c!2m heissi Sfl'6dC7I.,, These things being settled, and the government being in fair running order, attention was directed to celebrating the close of the hrst year's life. Here a policy of expan- sion was instituted. International law called for a play, and each nation had pro- duced one of a somewhat crernatory character. The commission on the play con- sidered a burlesque on some other phase of college life vastly superior to cremating a hated author, and so they wrote ''Chr01zohe!ero1'0se5, which the nation patrioti- cally presented. The notableness of this linguistic title and the grand success of this national celebration thoroughly vindicated the expansion policy, and it was ever thereafter retained in the national platform. The end of the first year and the opening ofthe second saw such a change in the national personnel that a partial reorganization became a necessity. The legis- lation consequent upon this act and the increasing depredations and menaces of a 17

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Senior Class. Q Q Morro, eotons, ,,1l'rlfmlJriIit:S't1zl1rn. VVHITE AND OLD GOLD YELL, HIPPITY, RAH, RAH, REI CLIPPITY, CLAXV, CLANV, CLE! 1900, RAH, M. C. OFFICERS. PRESIDENT, . . . FRANKLIN S. KUNTZ. VICE-PRESIDENT, . GEO. R. DEISHER. SECRETARY, PAUL G. KRUTZKY. TREASURER, . . ROBERT C. PIORN. HISTORIILXN, VVILLIAM M. HORN. MONITOR, . ELMER D. S. BOYER. NAME, HOME ADDRESS. COLLEGE ADDRESS ARTHUR GAREIELD BECK, A T SZ, . . Stone Church, 24 College Euterpea, Senior German Society, Missionary Society, Press Club, Business Manager of THE CIARLA, Business Manager of The flfuhlcvzbcqg, President Euterpean Literary Society. FREDERICK RUDOLPH BoUscH, A 9, . . Allentown, II9 North Second Street Sophronia, Franklin Literary Society, Senior German Society, Missionary Society, Editor-in-Chief of THE CIARLA, Personal Editor of The ZVluf'!e11b.erg'. ELMER DAVID SCHULER BOYER, . . Vera Cruz, 52 College Euterpea, Senior German Society, Business Manager of T1-IE CIARLA, Zlfuhlefz- bevy Staff, President Euterpean Literary Society, Glee Club, Press Club. GEORGE REUBEN DEISHER, A T sz, . . Topton, 25 College Sophronia, Assistant Editor of THE CIARLA, Missionary Society, Senior German Society. FREDERICK LUTHER ERE, . . . Slatington, 62 College Euterpea, Ilfulzlevzberg Staff, Franklin Literary Society. Senior German Society, Press Club, President Euterpean Literary Society, Missionary Society. CHARLES KRAUTH FEGLEY, A o, . . Meclianicsburg, 1 IO7 Turner Street Sophronia, Senior German Society, Franklin Literary Society, Press Club, Illulzlevzbefgg' Staff, Missionary Society, Chapel Organist, Latin Society, Presi- dent Soplironian Literary Society. 19