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wfficers. 1Jl'6'.S'Zl7l6lZl . . . ..... . . W. A1JEl.m+3R'1' JONES. Vzkc-Preszkiffzzl ..... . MAIQY MURRAY. Secretary and fhiVl0l'IrI1Z , . . . VVILLYS E. THOMAS. Trea.mre1f .... ' . . . FRED C. MERRTCK. Seljgvafzl-al-Arms . . . JOHN M. CRATTY. Glass of '97. fue'-1:-'jfs EFORE handing downto posterity a history of the class of '97, it will not be inappropriate, -1-.fs wif- - , perhaps, to offer a few remarks on class histories in general. Class histories are generally egregiously misleading. The historian in his mighty efforts to show that in his class are contained whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, almost invariably stretches the truth beyond the bounds allowed by the inost liberal persons. After reading his history, if we are crednlons enough, we are co11vi11ced tl1at all- merit and all excellence is united in that class, and that their graduation, and their entrance into actual life, will be the first streak ofthe millennial dawn. The ordinary class historian may be called the wielder of the hyperbole. To say that the ordinary class history is not noted for its intimacy with veracity and verecnndity, nor for its hatred of rhodomontade, is to put the truth in a trembling manner. ' It is with much regret that we notice this crowing, boastful tendency of so many class historians. The practice of trying, by fair means or foul, to convince the public that one class is the undoubted superior of all others, is both uncharitable in itself and weakens credence in the whole history. Hence, , 3 2 g
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