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We come then to the Senior year. Besides those things which are now too famous to repeat, the members of the Class have been verj ' industrious, and have accomplished many worthj deeds, of which the world at large may have no knowledge as yet. For instance, Guthrie has bought a new suit, fresh from lyondon, and was given a triumphal procession through the halls under umbrellas; furthermore, he has discovered an unfailing remedy for insomnia, which he tries on all occasions, especially lectures. Cully Scudder has oifered to wheel the Professors ' baby carriages and act as sub-nurse. Dixon is pursuing his antiquarian researches in bones. Johnson is assisting him with his experience. Allison has been running a successful truck farm on his upper lip. DeBugs has spent a fortune on hair tonic, but we can not guess for what object. Vatter is still on exhibition as the only living sea-cow. Carter is a professional smiler. L,amberton has been having his hair cut b3 ' degrees, and is training for a professional beauty. Dufour is doing a little of everything, and not much of anj-thing. Payne is chronic. Evangelist Bill Whittington has composed a new prayer, and the others have been degenerating, to the entire satisfaction of the Class. Soon Tulane shall lose her most glorious Class; but in the far future, when the last member of ' 96 has at last succeeded in killing himself, there will be a grand reunion on the banks of the Styx, and after electing a successor to Satan and the chief angels of hell, a taster of brimstone, a chief engineer, a manager of the women ' s department, and other necessary oiScials, the class will take possession of Tartarus and run it, as they have run everything on earth, on approved end-of-the- century principles. Historian.
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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
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