St Olaf College - Viking Yearbook (Northfield, MN)

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Senior Class lVlOTTO: HE.ile mit Weile. COLORS: Lincoln green and deep cardinal. YELL.. Cazalle! Cazalle! Cazalle! Ca-Za! Get out! Get out! Get out of the way! Reebo! Ribo! Ziz-Boom-Bah. Seniors! Seniors! Rah! Rah! Rah! HONORARY MEMBERS. Dr. and Mrs. P. M. Glasoe. GFFICERS. President, I-I. J. GLENN. Vice President, S. O. LUND. Secretary, IDA JORSTAD. Treasurer, HERMAN ROE MEMBERS. ' Anderson, Einar Hopperstad, Beatrice Axelton, Alexander Jorstad, Ida Bergh, S. U. Larson, Magnus Bergan, Ctto Lee, E. F. Bjorgum, Christopher Lund, S. O. Bye, Richard Mohn, Gunda Eidem, S. O. Nelson, Peter E.. Patland, H. Norhryhn, Emma Pedde, Nathanael Peterson, Alvin Fjelstad, Rudolph Raaen, Henry Flaten, Ole Roe, Herman Flom, Andrew Rorem, Edw. Glenn, H. Routier, Eugene Hanson, Burton Tollefson, Sander Hertsgaard, 0. l. Warren, Anna Wigdahl, Oliver 14

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History of the Class '08 U OR REF LECTIONS OF A SENIOR- giwell, how does it feel to be a Senior? It is apparent that there is some funny feeling connected with being a Senior. When you first came to college no one ever rushed up to you with a glad-to-see-you grin and a shake, anxiously inquiring as to how it felt to be a Freshman-not on your life! You were not supposed to feel as yetg in fact, everyone knew just how you felt,- the verdancy was expected to stand out in bumps all over you. But after you have gone through the mill for three years and are three-quarters done, or, as the case may be, a trifle overdone fclassically speakingl, you return for your last year, you are a poor specimen of a Senior indeed if your friends do not pop the well-how-does-it-feel-to-beaa-Senior question to you. And if your faculty of perception has been trained as it ought you will notice that the ques- tion is always accompanied by a suspicious glance at your hat, with the ques- tioner's attention centered not so much on its style as on its size. There you have the root of all this display. Along with the Senior title there is supposed to go a peculiar feeling of greatness and of superiority over the unfortunate underclassman, the intensity of which feeling varies directly with the composition of the subject afflicted. This affliction, peculiar to Senior classes, has grown to be the rule rather than the exception. Some classes pos- sess it to a greater degree than others. Now whether the class '08 has ever been troubled in this particular, it is not for us to say-we hardly have the proper perspective to judge-correctly, but for ourselves we merely mention in passing that, if ever there was a Senior class noted for great modesty, the cl - - but wc are wandering away from the subject. This was supposed to be a his- tory, a history with a capital H. History fwith a fitting gesture on the penultl, according to an old text which we perused as Freshman under Doc's tutelage, is all that we know about everything that man has ever done, or thought, or hoped, or felt. 16