Union College - Garnet Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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THE GARNET. 31 ’ 81 . We, the members of the class of 1881 in Union College are, like every other class that ever has figured or ever will figure in its own history or prophecy or editorial written bv one of its mem¬ bers, tfie best, noblest, truest, bravest, strongest, long-windedest lot of men that were ever warmed by the sun’s bright rays. At all events if we didn’t say so in an editorial of this kind we would be behind, just as much, all of our predecessors and successors. We have never accomplished anything that could be emphati¬ cally pronounced praiseworthy unless it is to permit ’82 to bullyrag us to their hearts’ content and thus gain the good-will and laudation of the Concordiensis for putting a stop to hazing. We don’t pretend that Delta Q’ing goes out with this class be¬ cause we object to the custom — it is because we object to being rusticated or shipped — that simply and solely. We never have got more than a meagre olfaction of a cane when we have in¬ dulged in a rush, but such contests form no criterion by which to judge of physical prowess. The jaw and tongue muscles that we have developed in chanting our own praises would, without doubt, outweigh some whole classes, if the thing could be pro¬ perly tested. We have done some things that have made cc the colonel ” get around earlier and work harder before daylight than he would otherwise have been obliged to, nobody can deny that. Altogether, we may conclude, as we commenced — we are the grandest, purest, brightest band that the sun ever shone on and had his brightness reflected back from polished cheek ’till he himself was dazzled. j

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