Olivet College - Oaks Yearbook (Olivet, MI)

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SOPHOMORE CLASS. COLORS-TWAROON AND GOLD. H01z.o1'a1-y llfembers-P1'0fes.r02' cmd llifrs. S7'lL'if11. YELL. 709: 709 Feeling fine. Tmmer ein Ts our sign. Har! T-Tar! Har! CLASS OFFICERS. First .S'el1zeste1'. Second Semester. President, . . . HEBER STOUT, . XFERNE B. BROWN. V ice-President, . FEURIEL EWVING. . IOSEPHINE BACON. Secretary, . . . CORA BROWVN. . I-I. L. HUNSBERGER. Treasurer, . . . XVM. I-I. SKENTLEBURY. . lVl.xR'rHA E. STEELE. Athletic Manager, . . S. I. BRAINERD. . ARTHUR I-IADDEN. CL.axss Morro-TA 1cALA, TA cHixL13P.x. CLASS HISTORY. At the organization of the class of ,OQ, the ingenious Mr. B. Dodds was chosen president. Forthiwith our then Freshman class decided to give a party in the college gymnasium. The enthusiastic but misguided Sophomores attempted to interfere with the progress of the party, resort- ing to the diabolical expedient of burning sulphur by pailfuls, in the effort to create a smudge dense enough to drive us out. Sulphurous fumes seeped through the Hoor and walls of the edifice, but we did not withv draw. A hand-to-hand conflict later ensued, which called forth the efforts of the dean to put it down. The besiegers were peremptorily ordered away and left the Freshmen in peace. The anti-sophomoric spirit thus aroused 'first expressed itself in an attack on the Sophomores while giving a party at the lake. The Sopho- more president, Mr. Ashby, appeared on the dock at the lakels edge. From out of the darkness a form hurled itself against the slender class presi- dent. It proved to be the Freshman president. Thle two class presidents clinched, and both went off into the water. The Freshmen, having accom- plislied their object, beat a hasty retreat with a number of Sophomores in pursuit. The Freshman president, hard pressed, followed the instinct in-