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SOPHOMORE HISTORY. O ! For the jolly Sophs of Shorter. A more experienced class I know has never existed, for, it seems to me, we have been all over and under Europe, scoured the Alps clean, visited the pyramids of Egypt, and — but there, of course you will want to know through what paths we have been to accom- plish so much. From the forum we have heard Cicero hurl his philippic against Catiline, and have seen how by the aid of one (a woman) he was able to exile the foe of the commonwealth. We have been wrecked in the waters of the Phoenician lake ' ' with the sad .Eneas, and have helped found a race from whence sprung the illustrious Caesar. In history, we have like Al-Mamoun, by picking the heavy stones away, climbed through the narrow passages of the pyramids and guessed at about where the king ' s treasures were stored. We have viewed palaces, mounds, and temples of Babylon, and have helped the brave Leonidas defend the pass of Thermopylae. We have charged with the Greeks at Marathon and have swept like a tempest from the mountain over the plain, pushed the Persians back within their wooden walls. We have followed one of the lion ' s brood, Hannibal, across the snow-capped Alps into fair Italy. 27
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Now. I am going to tell you a secret, but of course you will remember that silence is golden and won ' t tell a soul. It is this: There are some genuine poets (? ' ) in the Sophomore Class, for I found in the back of one ' s book a verse that ran like this : If perchance a flood should come. Quickly to the book I ' d fly. For I know if all else were engulfed. Geometry would still be dry. Nevertheless, we have learned that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, and that it can be proved, for at the bottom of the page it has Q. E. D. We have not only dealt with the plane side of geometry, but have found the hidden path into solids, without dividing them proportionally. In the laboratory we have learned not only the long list of formulas and how to distinguish between H.O and H,SO„, but have gained valuable information as to how to keep our vinaigrettes filled without the aid of the druggist. We have lived over with the Father of our Literature, ' ' the days of the Dutch in New York, have listened to Whittier ' Telling the Bees, and have seen the brown-eyed lass go above her little sweetheart in In School Days. In our dreams we have been haunted by Poe ' s Black Cat but still we rejoiced at his escape from the fall of the House of Usher. We have listened with atten- tive ears to the wooing of Minnehaha, and have heard the modest John speak for himself. We have selected for our motto Perge Modo, but the puzzling question with us now is to know how these wee small heads are to hold all that is to be learned between now and 1902. L. L. N. 2b
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