Ohio College of Dental Surgery - Alethian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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journals and periodicals to with-hold from publication the J'unior's rapid advancement and achievements in modern science, as well as in Dental Pathology, Materia Medica, and Therapeutics. Oh, Seniors ! How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown. These are but a few of the thousand achievements of the Junior class we care to enumerate. Our object is to give briefly and honestly a few hints taken at random, so that it will lead the reader to a fuller recognition of the peerless worth of this redoubtable class about which he has heard so much, and whose success they have so surely and securely builded. Its deeds and precepts stand out so vividly in the history of the past that they are written indelibly in the minds of men, so that their glory is almost immortal. They really need no historian g neither do they need a poet to sing their praises 5 nor a moralist to rapturously extol their vir- tues. We do not mean that we have not these distinguished personages, for this class has ever been noted for its in- spired poets, profound thinkers, and philanthropists, and has, time and again, elicited earnest expressions of genuine respect because of its exalted character. This present junior Class is the only class within the history of this institution, which by their unerring zeal and magnetism, by their unceasing labor for the right and for suffering humanity, have unconsciously, and yet surely en- hanced the Freshman, so that he is constantly walking in our footsteps and promulgating our glory. Nay, the Senior does not look upon us as an unorganizecl mass of protoplasm as formerly, but they have learned to love, honor and re- spect us. They ask our advice, they bow in humble subju- gation to our wants. No previous Junior Class has ever swayed such an influence among its fellow students. More marvelous still, it has found the Way CT. 1.2 that will lead us to the D. D. S. plain where the field of vision is as un- limited and unbounded as space itself, and Where the paths of glory lead but to the grave. Invincible as this class has been in its college career, it is prone to acknowledge it has lessons to learn, tasks to do, difficulties to overcome. VVe disdain the ridiculous and up- hold that which is beautiful and sublime, and from this sub- limity justice demands we enroll our names on integrity's banner. In possessing this meekness and modesty, we pos- sess the power of true greatness, and the same meekness and modesty which at present deters this class from utter- ing, through its historian, the astounding truths about its existence, which are not characteristic of the other classes, characterizes its entire career. We have a deep realization of the past two years 5 we remember the pleasures and the sorrows 3 we came as strangers to a strange land and are now a band of friends, true and tried. As we have another eventful 'year before us, may we be able to meet not only our own needs but to lend a helping hand g may each one feel within himself that he is soon to be cast upon life's stormy sea, where the angry billows rise and fall. Then let us build well g Hx each spar and sail, anchor well thy hopes, because at yonder port Success awaits us. ' Dorm F. ELLisoN.

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if-A .SAGE ' 2.1.7 Z f Y W , ..- . .,'hEF'2- fri Y .ii 4,,.. , ,L-::f1T55m --- 12- f g , .. FEET? ff, ' ' L JU 1oR HISTORY :L '-'- -4-W ,gee-Y ff-Tan. .A '-:se H '.. x . . ,-- f 2,7 ,.!f -, I H Y i - ,gal gr - T ji 4- .rl '1 ::- ff ,Q W , 1904- NE of the most eventful meetings that has ever been held in the history of the O. C- X D. S. convened October 5th, 1901. Then f M , ' was born the class of 1904. g . During the first part of our second year's seinester we assembled on October 24th, IQO2, and elected G. B. Lowry as class president. He, with his special diplomatic powers and executive ability and with the aid of the other class ofiicers, who always worked in unison, has inade our ineetings ineniorable in the ininds of all. None the less honor and credit is due to our worthy and faithful staff of editors who have put forth their best and undivided efforts to have the ALETIIIAN rank with the productions of the best literary colleges. At the beginning of our college career we formulated and laid the principles of our future greatness, and were praiseworthily nained T he United Class 5 such was be- stowed upon us by Dr. Taylor, who weighs his thoughts as the goldsniith weighs his gold. We practiced the theory, 'tunited we stand, divided we fall, hence our naine K' The United Class. It is not the historian's aini to prevaricate, exaggerate, or insinuate anything of which the Junior Class is in every way worthy, and in enumerating soineiof the merits of this illustrious class the Freshy inay not realize alllthat is amply due the meritorious Junior, because the dark curtain still hangs before hiin unlifted. Neither do the Seniors, with all their air of seniority, realize the iinportance and greatness of this class which is attracting world-Wide attention, and naught but respect for the Seniors causes the educational 62

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