Rockford College - Recensio / Cupola Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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F...- r .Ii vvvv-' --www v-qv,-v-i,.,..... vv---V, .-v.. V I F11 three more will be gone. Then we'll have to take our own stand--we'll be upper classmen and we'll have Freshmen looking up to us. September 13, 1907. I guess junior year must be the best year of the four-at least that's the way I feel about it. We seem to have found our place in the school. We have the grandest Freshman class to look after this year-larger than for many many years-and we intend to show our ap- preciation of them. A week from today we entertain at an informal tea in various Junior rooms in honor of them. That's a beginning at least. October 26. We have got the nicest Freshmen this year! Think of it-a cotillion tonight in our honor. Oh! it's great to be an upper classman, to be respected and looked up to by those who have not yet reached our own intellectual heights. But the cotillion-music, flowers, gallant Fresh- men in white shirt-waists and black skirts to give the needed masculine touchg Juniors in their best, carrying roses from devoted Freshmen, and most wonderful favors-colored paper boas, moons, canes, etc., etc. It most certainly was a success-one well worthy of our gay, young Freshmen. bk PF Dk wk Ik June 12, 1907. And now little diary good-bye for this year. You have been good to hold in these pages, our pleasures, good fellowships, and our loyalty to our beloved Alma Mater and the class of '09, And Juniors, now you must put aside childhood's gay garment, and take upon you the black and solemn robe of dignity, reserve, and majestic calmness-the inherit- ance of a Senior. - - ' 5 x j , 1 QJ JTFXEQ ANI IW' . v Y Y E231

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snowy whlte We had the tea room all to ourselves and ended up with all the Rockford songs we could think of including our two new class songs April 25 1906 At a class meeting this morning we were told of a challenge from the Sophomore class to a tennis tournament to be held before June We re all going to play tenn1s from now on May 26 1906 We ve lost our first fight but weve shown what we re good for Every one of us rs to hoarse to talk we have class spirit even rf we dldnt get the Tennis 06 pennant Cheer up well do better next time Sophomores ought to be able to do more than Freshmen anyhow September 14 1906 Back again at school and mighty glad I am to be here So IS everyone else I guess I couldn t help feeling a little bit lone some this mormng though with so many of the old girls gone and so many more new girls to take their places that I believe I felt ex en more a stran ger than last year Sex eral of our class and of the Seniors are not back No hunting for class rooms or getting lost this year. We're old girls now. ' I . . . . , . - . . . , . . , , . . 7 9 y x ' y . . . 1 - ' 2 u ' 9 ra 1 , . . . , . '- . , . . . 1 1 . . . 1 V ' Y . February 2, 1907. Practice makes perfect. The Sophomore banquet tonight proved it, this one being even a greater success than that of last year if such a thing were possible. After all-there's no class like the class of 1909. April 25, 1907. XVe displayed our good sense as a class this morning by not engaging in a color rush where we were outnumbered at least three to one. It was Junior Vine Day. june 10. Two days more and our Sophomore year is over. VVe haven't done anything really great or wonderful, but we have done nothing on which we need to look back with regret. But then they say, It's the little things that count. Vile gave a breakfast to the Seniors this morning and helped them carry out their tree exercises. They adopted the big box-elder tree on the campus with most appropriate and impressive ceremonies and entrusted it to our care. I do wish that they didn't have to leave us so soon-even if they are few in numbers. they've been many in spirit. Breakfast was served out- doors afterwards-real early before the people indoors had theirs. All was beautiful and bright-just enough rain last night to make everything fresh and green and cool for us. In the center of the table we had a big bowl full of lillies-of-the valley-picked this morning, with the dew still on them. Each place had a small bunch of them too. Oh! but they were sweet. Three of our class of last year were back--it made it feel sort of like a class reunion. I wish that classes didn't have to break up-next year, at least I22I

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Uhr Zlnninr Sung TUNE- THE ISLE or OUR DREAMS 1 In the dear old college of Rockford, There are many fine classes there, There are Seniors and Sophomores, Freshmen and Preps But The The The Are none with the Juniors compare. Freshmen are dear little workers, Sophomores bluff all the time, Seniors, though wise, in some people's eyes as nought to the class of '09, 9 M 'When the class of '09 came to college, They proved their metal right then: In Science and History. Bible and Lit As Sophomores they proved it again. And now we are all of us juniors. NVe are leaders in all that goes ong And as Seniors they'll say, they have added each day New laurels to those they have won. 3 In the class every one is a comrade, Three years we have worked side by side, Our troubles and cares, each one of us shares, In class spirit we all take pride. But to us Alma Mater means most, girls, And Her her mem'ries we'll ever recall, ideal is the highest, her aim is the best, She's the tie that binds closest of all. l24l