Otterbein University - Sibyl Yearbook (Westerville, OH)

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Senior Class Lewis Edwin Myers Georgia Park Ora Leta Bale Oscar Henry Charles Elmer Lloyd Porter Frank Asher Risley William Garfield Snavely Edward Waldo Emerson Schear Nellis Rebok Funk

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Senior Class Mary Courtright Frances Ellen Barnett Benjamin Carl Bailey Harry Fagan Sayre Bertha Charles James Warren Ayrc Eugene Clark VVorman Samuel LeRoy Postletluwait Mary Esther Lambert Zetta Maude 'Fruxal

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Class History of 1907 Q29 lt was four years ago, at the bewitching hour of midnight. The lean old moon lmng in the east and cast a ghastly radiance on the world. Owls and bats were abroad, and llanshees, headless horses and barking dogs gave death warnings. Some little, dark forms stole silently into the dismal-looking' old laboratory and formed a circle around a brazier. Apart from them, in a dark corner of the room. sat a brooding Spirit. Her long, jet-black hair hung in disheveled strings over her face, while her small, bent form was enveloped in a cloak as black as night. Her voice could be heard occasionally as she mumbled some queer can- tations, reminding one of the moaning wind on one of those dark and stormy nights when witches and ghosts chase each other through the air. -lust in front of the Spirit stood an old dilapidated table upon which burned a live tire. Test tubes, porcelain crucibles and mortars were much in evidence and attracted the attention of the small dark forms who gathered in a circle and danced about the table of the Spirit. .-Xt all appearances pleased with the actions of the wee forms, the Spirit slowly arose from her invisible seat, waved her long bony hands mysteriously in the air several times. and with a weak, moaning voice declared that a great plan had matured in her cloudy mind and. B uttering words of doubtful portent, she sprinkled a magic powder upon the little black forms and upon the coals. .X bright violet flame arose, a sharp explo- sion followed, and when the smoke died away, lo the dark forms no longer l'reps and not yet Freshmen had vanished. In their stead, no less than forty brilliant violet particles went flying through the air each in a different direction. These the Spirit quickly caught by means of a large net made of cob webs. cast them into a mortar, ground them up to a line powder, and then treated the result with a sweet tempered potion. The grand result of the experiment was an organized Freshman class Filled with the tire of genius. One by one these lively creatures jumped out of the mortar and danced round the Spirit singing: Of Naught-Seven we are the class, To-night from Prepdom's ranks we pass. If we are now such as you see. VVhat will our class, when Seniors be ? NVith the residue, left in a confused state by the spirited Freshmen forms, the old Spirit experimented again and again. For the most part, she rejected the results as unsuited to her masterpieces, the little transformed beings. A few 19