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

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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.

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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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JUNIOR CLASS HISTORY. 'i F all great tasks imposed on man the most gigantic is now at hand. To think class of ''»s is enough to rack the brain of anv but an inspired historian. The task is to leave it undone. I will therefore yield to the pleasure of the wishes and forego writing our history. of writing the history of the best way to do an undesirable of the readers of this sketch Of the 125 members in the class of 'os. 85 are ladies. This accounts for the high degree of culture and refinement possessed, or hoped to be possessed, by the gentlemen. This valued social development is aided by numerous and pleasant receptions. The last, most joyous and welcome of these is the final annual reception, when we bid farewell to the dignified, much-learned seniors. To the class of 98 has been referred the settlement of the most important social and economic questions of the day. Nine of our worthy members are at present engaged in preparing final decisions on three of these weighty and far-reaching questions that have been proposed for debate; and it is a notable fact that questions once settled by this class are seldom brought forward again for discussion. Let the future possibilities of the class of 98 be realised to the same extent that our present aspirations are idealized, ami the 20th century will be ushered in two years before its time. 13