Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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22 THE HALCYON. CLASS OF ' 56. EMMA S. BONES, New Brighton, N. Y., Literary. AETHUK D. COCHRAN, Westtown, Pa., Engineering. GEORGE J. FREEDLEY, Richmond, Va., u HELEN G. JOHNSON, Muncy, Pa., Classical. ELLA MERRICK, Wrightstown, Pa., u EDGAR M. SMEDLEY, Media, Pa., Engineering. ROWLAND J. SPENCER, Cur wens ville, Pa., Literary. MARTHA M. WATSON, Trenton, N. J., Classical. C. PERCY WILLCOX, Philadelphia, Pa., Scientific. •

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24 THE HA LCYON. JUNIORS. Class Colors : — Gold and Sapphire Blue. Motto : — f» ' to TTpoaSEv. Yell :— JJi; Ya, ' S7 ! Hi, Ya, Yo ! . ' The Junior; be the mould of form, The easy loafer vith his tune, The graceful slippered pantaloon, And now, when throusjh the Soph ' more storm,- He jilays the spoon. r T last, after a tempestuous voyage of two years we have K| reached that harbor to Yards which as Freshmen we looked with fear and trembling. We have jjassed through the hardships of the course and anchored safely in that haven of rest, the Junior year. How sweet is that word to our ear, and what visions of late trains, recitation hooked and lectures cut it brings trooping through our minds ! Our men are not, as a rule, large in stature, but making up in overwhelming brain-power and massive intellect what they lack in height. We have public speakers of great force and power, who can talk for hours upon matters they know nothing about ; and when they are through the listeners will be in the same blissful state of ignorance in regard to the subject. They resemble the lawyer who set his mouth to work and was in the habit of going off and leaving it talk- ing, and would not be responsible for what it said when he was not present. We have poets of the beautiful snow breed. We have Republican, Democratic and Mugwumj) politicians. We have mathematicians of the most virulent kind. We have engineers who can instruct the Profs. We have musicians who can make one A ' ish he were at rest in the grave. Lastly, we have two moustaches of the second magni- tude. We are dignity personified. No longer do we laugh and jest with the under classmen. No longer do Ave cheer the roof of our heads into a case of neuralgia over a game of foot-ball. We have always been a humble class. This is partly owing to the beautiful and artistic manner in which the Faculty has repeatedly sat on us. They began by sitting on our Freshmen plans for a class society, and continued sitting on every request they possibly could, clear down to refusing our petition for a Junior day. It is probable they will con- tinue this sitting process through the rest of our course.