Penn State University - La Vie Yearbook (University Park, PA)

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sought learningr as the most excellent thing, leaving less dignified and worthy pursuits to those less wise. We claim as a matter of class pride, not that we have successfully evaded a greater proportion of the required work than anymhcr class in the institution, as some c1assus 1'10, hut that we have never shirkcd the requirements of the Faculty. In the exercise of moral intlucncc ,89 has never hccn afraid to rcprovc outlandish freaks m' unmanly conduct in the face of imbecile disposition to continuc objectionable aml unworthy custumsv and in the face of that mis- apprehension of true lifc and spirit. which is always ready to cry cranks. Eighty-ninc, your historian takes this uppurtunity to congratulatc you upon your independent spirit. HIS'I'URIAN.

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After P. S. C. had once a year, at the advent of each new class, despaired that she should ever accomplish her mission among men, she was at length encouraged in the autumn of 1885 by the unaccountable appearance of that bright constellation, '89. Our class decided to come to P. S. C. as an act of benehcence to the institution, and, successfully ignoring all former classes, we have with master hands worked out a correct and true pattern of great- ness to be imitated by Classes to follow in coming:r generations. In numbers we exceeded any class for many years, and, notwithstanding the fact that our swift pace has left all the tired and weaker ones behind, yet so many have we overtaken in our course that we have an unsurpassed showing in numbers. Our physical supremacy during the first two years of our existence as a class was never questioned, and we received only encouragement when we early began to cry: Hie ! Hoc! lfighty-nine ! livery time ! Rnoh ! Rah ! Our class prophet wrote at our lirst meeting the following prophecy: ll Thou shalt be a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff; thou shalt fan them and the wind shall carry them away and the whirlwind shall scatter them. We read, and knew that our class should overcome all its opponents;- we read aright. Our superiority was always duly acknowledged, whether it was by owning us victors over :1 selected team in a tug of war, or by recognizing our right to wear undisturbedly the shreds of the Freshies flag as neckties. But withal, the eminently distinguishing points in the career of our class have been its intellectual acquirements and moral influence. From the very first term of our Freshman year it has been impossible, in choosing representative talent from the college classes for public exhibition, to overlook the ability of '89. In the last two years of our course we have quietly and undistractedly 23

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