University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Quiver Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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without cars hut it must be a saw horse; that Mr. Yandcwalker would l e perfectly willing to chew an old shoe if he could imagine it made of candy: in chemistry, arsenic was used for dy(c)ing; whistling as a chemical reagent precipitates nothing but evil. We also learned Mr. Jensen's destiny when he read. •• Farewell, happy fields, where joy forever dwells, hail horrors! Hail infernal world and thou profoundest Hell receive thv new professor! Mr. Hewitt has thoroughly impressed us with the difficulty of removing the radical sign. Miss Sowards dreamed one night she was under the radical, and not being perfectly square her exertions to extricate herself were fruitless. In physiology that feet are sometimes where the head should be, when Mr. Brown told us. The next heading will Ik the Feet. Today such things are over. We look back upon a bright past and one nearly perfect, but we did neglect some non-important matters, such as. I.atin Iwgan at eight o'clock promptly; that a class exercise in science of education wasn’t to Ik treated with sublime indifference. ’ but was to be studied: that all were expected to bo present Friday afternoons. But we attended faithfully to our social functions and class meetings. The class meetings were usually cut and dried for all ha l made up their minds before hand. Even the president decided two weeks l efore he called the class meeting he would not Ik class orator. This class has been instrumental in a number of reforms. It was due to us the addition was decorated; the Juniors are so well-behaved; that the boys need no longer ere with jealousy the ladies’ study until five o'clock, but arc welcomed at four promptly; that love is no longer heard on the tennis courts, having adopted the method of counting by p'ints and quarts for two p'ints make a quart. Revered and esteemed authority adds weight to any argument, so I shall tell you what our teachers think of us. These quotations are from faculty meeting -overheard in a mysterious way. Miss Henderson said. This class is wonderful in its practicability, they even write orations that can be put to practical use. for if all the world should be submerged the orations would still Ik dry.’’ Miss Webster said. None but the class of '' 7 could cvct Ik its parallel ; Miss Apthorp testifies that ‘ 7’s Latin class know to b does not take an object. Mr. Briggs thinks it a shame that some members have decided to be only school teachers when they could make such admirable lawyers. Mr. Clow: A class who looked kindly upon economy, although they had no use for it. Miss Magee said, Those who follow the example set by this year’s Senior class. Prosper. grow. ami !louri»h greatly in the thing of greater worth. While the few who » orn to copy after these i!lu triou» mind Fall and perish in the struggle, all their life a wasted dearth. We have had many serious thoughts and experiences and learned many grand and noble lessons, of which I can give you no idea in so short a time. We hope we have done some little good ; that impartial judgment will pronounce us worthy of the name Seniors. and that Wisconsin will truly be proud of the fortr-ninc voung people our Alma Mater sent forth June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. 27

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY. 4’ T HKKK is nothing so sweet, so bright or so holy as the thoughts that come with the spring.” This year they J are thoughts of graduation, and although hopeful, are tinged with the sadness of parting. Each day has brought us nearer and nearer to the close of our senior life, and now the class of '07 is about to leave you. Hut before we go we will give you a bit of our history, for a class without a history would indeed Ik- a strange class. “There was blight in the wheat last year but H 7is a perfect harvest. We are the youngest, handsomest, largest class ever graduated possibly smartest, for we have twelve more mental machines. We possess the greatest variety in age. nationality, sixe and appearance. Our Hughes shade from a brilliant Green to the deep Blood red We are not forced to economize but are doubly Rich, and kindly favored by a Christen-son. We arc supplied with a Weaver, a Baker, and Jaecks of all trades; a class which resembles Birely's jewelry store, si brilliant are its Spanglers and Rubies. Don't think us conceited because we say these things, for on class day the truth must be told. The ancestry of this class is remarkable- Some canfc over in the Mayflower, some are dcsccndents of famous navigators, poets, educators, historians and presidents. Miss Meyer is a descendant of the Pied Piper who frightened the rats out of Hamclin by his direful piping, and Mr. Green actually affirms he descended from Adam and Eve. Miss McNair is the only member of the class who has always attended the Oshkosh Normal. The rest have come here to perfect a high or district school education. They have come from far and near. Washington anti Dakota contributed two small slips Miss Montgomery and Miss Morgan. Also Missouri and Nevada are represented, and nearly every county in this state has sent its rich blessing. There are forty-nine in the class; its weight is tremendous. It equalled two hundred thousand ounces the day we pulled our orator from the station weighing honors a- well. The tallest in the class is Mr. Morrow, the shortest Miss Urquhart. so small and tiny we almost call her vague. The ages vary from forty down to our baby, who is only nineteen, but this conceited little chap has had the audacity to sign every paper for the past two years O. K. It would be difficult to characterize the class as a whole we possess the sum of all virtues, the Wright but I must give you a few individual traits. Mr. Vandewalker is designated as Frank. Miss Stanton is our Rose; however it is set with little willful thorns. If she will. Miss Hinds will, if she won't, she won't. Miss I.udeke is as quiet as a lamb: Mr. Pistor's voice was ever soft and gentle, while Miss Xolil lives continually among her books. In wit Mr. Madison is a genius, in simplicity a child. Mr. Kirwan religiously believes in chewing even while giving his oration. Miss Warding hath a daily beauty ever with her. and no one head can carry what Mr. Sabin knows. Miss Ingram is here, there and everywhere. Our college graduate is prepared for everything; the tempest itself lays behind Mr. Morrow. Among some of the things we have learned arc these: In psychology that one can form an image of a horse 20

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JUNIOR CLASS. Abottc: I CAN: I WILL. Otdccr . Pres. M. W. McAkdlk. I 'ire-Pres. Joskimiink Lakkabhk Secretary- -Moi.uk Hakkington. Treasurer Wsi. Mukpiiv. Color LAVENDER. Flowrr WHITE CARNATION. Yell: We are, we are, up to date, Urah! Oshkosh! '98.