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Class Ibistov WHEN I WAS a little boy, and my feeble mind by the help of my fingers was hardly able to count that youthful Spring had seven times fled, and b} ' her gentle wings had seven times touched nie, ni}- mother with an indescribable maternal pride and joy, unveiled to me the following mystery which was connected with mj ' birth. By the interpretation of an extraordinary phenomenon, which then occurred it was unanimously decided by the astrologists and sages that the boy would become the greatest historian of the ages. Great, not on account of his own personal merits, but because of the greatness and sublimit}- of the subject he should represent. Although yet a boy, I commenced to fathom the depths of all the histori- cal subjects and tried to discover if anything of great importance was left for me to write. Having said farewell to my loved ones, whose presence so much I cherished, I have traveled from city to cit)-, from kingdom to king- dom, from clime to clime, and from continent to continent. I have climbed towering heights and descended into the valleys, crossed the mighty deep with its frenzied waves, and endured many hardships for the purpose of my calling, believing that the finger of kind Providence was leading me toward the great object of my existence. As the S tar of Bethlehem from the sandy deserts of Arabia, from the shady groves of Athens, and from the sacred rivers of India, for many days having guided the three wise men of the East, stood still above the manger, where the child king, the sole aim of their travel was lying, so the auspicious star of my destiu}- having led me to Taylor University, there, with smiling glance over our Halls of learning, stood still, seemingly saying that here is my destination. Then I began to realize that it was not the bloody battles between human beings, nor their most deplorable results I was to describe. Neither should I write the history of disasters and calainities, nor the rise and fall of empires. Ah no! Not anything that will lower the standard of man, the prince of all creation. But my theme is the history of a class whose golden moments of life ' s morning are spent in the most delightful halls of Taylor Universit}-. Chief among these classes which are now enjoying the advantages of our be- loved institution, is the class of ' 98. The history of the class begins with the 23
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