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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
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This definition is just the one we were looking for. We were not born a historian, and, when the task was assigned to us, we deplored the lack of ready material-for the class of '08 as a law-abiding class has never partaken in any escapades that would have made good historical reading. Still the class may have thought, or hoped, or at least feltn something in that direction and if that's history why we are safe and here goes for some. F or example, the class might have thought once upon a time that it would be making history and that it would at the same time be great sport to borrow the President's horse, without letting him know about it, and then blanket away the president of some other class, as, in joyful anticipation of the feed which was in store for himself and his classmates, he wended his way to the home of his honorary members. We say that such a thought may have been harbored, but the thought was not father to the deed and it was never done-not by the class of ,OS Again the present sedate Seniors might have felt, while they were still frisky Freshman, that of all days the Sixth, when visitors were plentiful, would be the fitting occasion for a grand-stand play which would let the outside world know that there really was a Freshman class in existence at St. Olaf. But we never allowed our feelings to carry us away and as a natural result there was no defiant '08 rag on the flag pole, no broken windows, no class-scraps, and no after-chapel lecture the following day when we were Freshies. But then these are not the things which make-a class great-there's con- solation in that. Greatness, as we look at it, consists in doing something. With that sense of the word in mind it is not for us to say that we have done anything that can be considered of historical importance, but we can at least carry with us the satisfaction which comes from feeling that we have done our duty as a class. Eile mit Weile has been our motto. l-lasten slowly and save the fire-works for the battles that come when school days are but memories of the past. If therecord books of the professors could in any manner be got at and investigated and statistics collected, we are so bold as to believe that they fthe statisticsj would show that as students we were neither exceptional nor verging on the other extreme. ln student organizations and student enterprises we have helped to bear our full share of the burdens. In oratorical contests and inter- collegiate debates, on athletic teams and elsewhere, we have had the privilege of being represented. 17
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