University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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History of ’90. 21 we assumed, or more properly developed, a dignity worthy of a czar, such that the timid Fresh and knowing Sophmore were paralyzed in our presence. With unity of purpose and ambition we have climbed to the top and will soon go upon the arena of that uncertain field—Life—to fight its battles and enjoy its triumphs. While our pleasures and hopes have been mingled with many ups and downs, yet we could not have expected to spend another period of four years more profitably and pleasantly together than we have done in this dear old college. May each of us enjoy a prosperous life, undergo few vicissitudes and wear honorably the laurels untarnished of fame, is the wish of the Historian ’90.

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20 The Pandora Juniors. In the fall of ’88 forty-four men enlisted under our banner to pursue the Junior course, in spite of the hearty prayers and wishes of one staid old professor, “that those Sophomores of the previous year would never set foot in these college walls again.” While we had depreciated in numbers, still we had grown in other respects. In this year we first inaugurated the new system of examinations, the faculty having abolished those delights (?) of a student’s life, finals in two departments of our curriculum, and establishing, therefore, the system of unexpected “xams.” This plan worked so well with our class as a specimen, that the system was adopted entirely in the succeeding year. Our hardships and trials of this year were alleviated by our vaiious pleasures and enjoyments. No knight of the quill can picture our course; only from the lips of each member can one learn. As our labors drew to a close, our pleasures and enjoyments increased, and at the end, our Junior hop given to the outgoing Seniors far surpassed any that was ever given. Our course as Juniors was finished and we were prepared for the goal of a student’s life—to be a Senior. We did not boast of our five orators as others had done, yet we successfully competed with our compeers of that year, but the studiousness of our members was the toast of the college and praises of the professors, for none had ever equalled us in this respect. In September, ’89, thirty-eight men assembled beneath the venerable oaks which so beautifully adorn our campus, to discuss the future lovely state which we were about to enter, and to drink once more at the fount of knowledge prepared for us. During this year we, as ever, maintained our reptutation as leaders of the college, and were so looked up to; hence

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22 The Pandora. SENIOR. X'V