Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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History of the Class of ' 96. Carlyle saj s, somewhere, that history is a mighty drama enacted upon the theater of time, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. The history of this class is inscribed upon the minutes of the Glendy Burke, the New Literary Society, and the Students ' Congress. Its energy is testified to by the birth of the Chess, Glee, Banjo, and Mandolin Clubs. The Sketch Club has drawn energj- from its genius. In every department where free ability of brain or muscle counts for any- thing, the achievements of this Class have been inscribed upon the records in letters of such size that he who runs may read; nay, more, its fame has passed be3 ' ond the bounds of the University out into the world and its worse half. While it can not be said that this Class is noted as a set of the most exemplary students, still no one can accuse it of lack of abilit} or versatality. It is no boast to say that ' 96 has created university club life here at Tulane. This is a fact which no one can or does deny. I remember when this Class was in semi-virgin Freshmanhood. Class spirit was almost unknown at Tulane. There was plenty of fraternity clannishness, and every election was turned into a Kilkenny cat fight by the striving Greeks ; but this unpleasant practice was laid away in the bosom of Abraham when ' 96 declared against it and made its influence felt as a Class. Interest in football was started by our forming a team in the Freshman year ; and who does not remember the glory of those palmy Sophomore days? How we taught Professor Guthrie Roman History amid a wild babel of small talk, and while our pupil, as the chairs performed amoeboid movements all over the room, would implore, with tears in his pathetic eyes, Gentlemen, please preserve j our seats? ' ' How we proved to the learned Anderson that either he knew no physics or that we would not ; and, above all, who can forget those ■sr or ' avo. gambolings in the old Medical Building, where bones were reported to be found occasionally? How industrious students would slip quietly away to the halls of the deserted building to cram for examinations, or to pass an hour of solitary meditation, and how all this ceased when the Faculty also began to discover bones? Then came the Junior days. We were in our new buildings — the students had moved into new quarters, E. Del Corral ' s — before the tyranny of the W. C. T. U. Those were glorious days — care-free days. Manj ' students might be seen carrying small brass coin-shaped checks in their pockets. Of course the Class took all the athletic honors this year, as it always has done and will do, but we pass over its achievements, as these are so well known as to need no further mention. In fact, ' 96 needs no written historj ' . Everyone has the history of this class written in his memory. 17