University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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' 6o tI e Ijeadqr. .HE Annualcomes before you asgold thrice purified by fire. The' y fire that the Board of Editors has had to pass through cannot be excelled by any this side of Jordan. By their fellow-students they are held as all-avenging gods and are therefore favored and feasted, petted and purred over by those who wish not to see themselves as others see them. By the pugilistic eIement in College society, they are told of dark and dire deeds, of breaking he arts and, broken heads, of all things that freeze the blood and paralyze the muscles, so that the hand refuses to record a flunk or a joke. However, the Annual Board of '89 have passed through the fire unscathed and now proclaim to you, with this the first BADGER, their glorious victim. The way in. which,'89 established their power in the U. W. is best learned from a historian now dead, whose manuscript was found in the attic of Ladies' Hall. Say' this historian: The early history of the class of '89. is confined to local traditions and myths. Our first knowl- edge of them begins about the time of the Autumnal Equinox in 1884, when a few of their number took up their abode in the Greek Prepara- tory. A year later the entire class, came en masse and pitched their tents on the shores of the beautiful Mendota. From time immemorial the classes in U. W. had been laid waste 'by the Hydra-headed monster, whose power was equalled only by that of the Chief of Rhetoricals. Scarcel had the Eighty-nines pitched their tents on the shores of the beautiful, lake, when this monster swhoped X refuses to record a flunk or 'whajexeept wh Q down upon them and carried off their young men who, there grim death or a class officer interfered, were held prisoners for two years. At sunset the girls used sometimes to go to their prison, which was called in classic language the 'Gym,' butwhich meant 'A Hen-coop,' and weep and lament and the officers conducted the fair squad- ron home. In the year t887, the Eighty-nines were the support and glory of the 7 .27]1al . gIII . S.;i.. 1A. --J , C ,i-i ,-.l ;.i li2lEl li. years. At, sunset the girls use6 sometimes to go to their prison, which was called in classic language the Gym,' but which meant 'A Hen-coop, and weep and lament and the officers conducted the fair squad- ron home. In the year T 88 7, the Eighty-nines were the support and glory of the 7