Union College - Garnet Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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THE GAENET. 26 Junior As we look back over our college course we remember only the pleasure we have enjoyed. All appears bright. We forget how forlorn we felt as Freshmen. How we thought ourselves abused without cause. How we went to bed armed “to the teeth” and lay in anxious expectation awaiting a raid on our rooms. We for¬ get the many hours we spent polling Bourdon, and the many flunks “ Chilly ” mourned over. We remember only tho day we first carried caties and wore beavers to drill. We remember the cremation of Algebra and the beautiful state of the weather at that time. Of the Sophomore year we remember a great deal. We re¬ member how we enjoyed putting the freshmen on the table. How good the cider tasted. How humorous their impromptu speeches appeared to us. AVhat a fine fire Prex’s fence made. What a jolly time we had putting ’82’s “ big baby ” in bed. What heavy damages he sued us for. How he did not get a “ dog-goned ” cent. In our Junior year we were too dignified to take pleasure in listening to the-insipid talk of the Freslimen. We did not think the noisy, boisterous sport of the Sophs becoming us, so we passed our time growing beards and beautifying our personal appear¬ ance. For the first time we mounted the rostrum and spouted our chapel orations, making the Freshmen wonder at our eloquence, and the Seniors groan with envy. At last we have reached the Senior year. It does not seem half so glorious as it appeared to us before. We find a Senior is expected to do something beside wear silk hats and look grave. We find even the Senior is expected to rise before day-break to recite astronomy with Prof. Staley, in order that the subject may

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r — --- THE GARJVICT. 25 Department of gaur. ALBANY LA V SCHOOL. PRESIDENT TOTTER, Feudalism and Constitutional Law. HON. WILLIAM L. LEARNED, LL. D., Civil Law and Equity Jurisprudence. HON. HORACE E. SMITH, LL. D., Dean, Personal Property, Contracts, Commercial Law and Torts. HON. MATTHEW HADE, Criminal Law and Personal Rights. HENRY COPPEE, LL. D., International Law. H. E. SICKLES, Esq., Sources of the Common Law, and the Law of Evidence. CHARLES T. F. SPOOR, Esq., Practice and Pleading at Common Law and under the Code. HENRY S. McCALL, Esq., Real Property,- Wills, and Practice in Surrogate’s Courts. IRVING BROWNE, Esq., Domestic Relations.

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THE 27 be properly illustrated on the “ celestial sphere.” We find that Butler’s Analogy is no hoax, and bolts m that study a tiling of the past. To be sure, we are of great importance, for what would a college be without the Senior ? Then we must soon leave. We have learned to love the old gray walls of Union and the faculty who have ever treated us as gentlemen, and when ’81 departs from the gates of Union, it will be with feelings of regret and sorrow.