United States Naval Academy - Lucky Bag Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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THE CLASS OF NINETY-FIVE

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Vv 's’,'0 . j ISTORY repeats itself.” At least Class History does, and if you know one, you know all : but each class imagines it is a little better than the others—at any rate, a little different;—hence these pages. We first became Neptune’s proteges in the Fall of’91, and were received by the small band of May Spartans that had been hardened by the Summer cruise, and who prepared us for the welcome accorded the verdant “plebes,” when the youngsters return with dreadful mien from September leave. But why dwell on these harrowing details ? All classes go through the same ordeal ; all have these little unpleasantnesses to pass through; and ’twould be but the reiteration of experiences undergone by every class since the founding of the institution, to recite the tale of that first meeting between the two under-classes. We were mildly submissive like all the rest, and endured the stings and arrows of our outrageous fortune as thousands of others had done before. Having ascertained early in the game that our list of “stars” was to be very limited, we set our minds toward other goals, and dreamed of other things than studies. Though contrary to all customs of plebeian propriety, we aimed at the Inter-Class Base Ball Championship, and it was ours ; fur- thermore we did this for the two succeeding years. We saw to it that the foot ball and base ball teams should be fittingly accommodated with repre- sentatives from our members. In track athletics, too, our worth was recog- nized, and wherever skill and strength could have their sway, the pale blue and white waved triumphantly. 20