University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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merely a hypothesis that can be verified only by dissection. As there are some difficulties in the way of performing the latter operation-college laws, rules of etiquette, etc.,-the truth will doubtless ever remain unknown. The class of '92, though a disappointment to us in point of numbers, is already showing signs of unusual promise. One inno- cent Freshman, unassisted, has already been known to stampede a goodly portion of the Sophomore exhibition speakers. What the future has in store for the class, time alone can tell. Virtue, brains, and beauty, are yours, my child I Only follow the exam- ple of '90, and abundant success will crown your efforts. 29

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fully enjoy. The establishment of the Honor List, and the new' regulations respecting absences gave us further cause for congratulation. Then, as if in answer to our inward prayers, the department of modern languages was broadened and a few elect- ives offered, and lastly comes a full quota of electives for the Junior and Senior years. To claim that our presence is the cause of this progress would, perhaps, be somewhat rash, yet, by our numbers and manifold ability, we have doubtless had a share in bringing about these improvements. Wliile our achievements as a class have been in the intellectual rather than in the athletic line, we have, nevertheless, on various occasions, made a very creditable display of skillfully trained muscular-tissue. We have also the enviable reputation of possessing,in a remarkable degree, that rare and peculiar combination of mental qualities which the college man calls 5mza'. This article would be far from complete, without a glance at our contemporaries in the paths of knowledge. The grave and rever- end Seniors will soon go forth-to be with us 7zz'm11zf1' Zl7ZIZ,17ZZ.l7Z77ZL 7'- 77Z.C'fZ7'.n As at the thought we assist an irresolute tear to escape our lachrymal gland, we cannot refrain from thinking that soon the Senioric mantle is to fall upon our shoulders, and, to cheer the Senior on his way, we hereby assure him that, when our 'turn shall come, we shall endeavor to fill the front seats with becoming grace and dignity. That heterogeneous conglomeration of protoplasm, familiarly known as the H Sophomore class, we would fain pass by without remark, but justice demands a few comments. Were it not for their ubiquitous corporosity, the College, as a whole, would hardly be led to suspect their presence. It is, however, said that certain peculiar phenomena exhibited by the class have excited the atten. tion and puzzled the wits of a few members of the Faculty. One professor, it is stated, suggests as a partial explanation, that the nerve cells in the gray matter of their spinal cords, instead of being of the normal form, are probably flat and without processes. But, injustice to the Sophomores, it should be said that this is 28

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