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

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During the following long vacation, I reasoned myself into the belief, which has stayed with me since, that we have no right to consider our student years as a mere getting ready to live,” and the years which follow as the real life. Every year, in school or out. should he a getting ready to live.” and at the same time every year should he made a part of real life. If young men could get this thought firmly in mind, 1 think some of them might not he in such a hurry to bring their student years to a close. When September of the year mentioned came. I felt, the temple hells are calling. and it's there that I would he”—I learned many a valuable lesson during those years, and the above was not the least among them, for it made me contented to prolong my student days. Equally valuable was a lesson which never fully formulated itself in my mind until near the end of my Senior year, and seems to have come more especially in connection with my work in Psychology with President Albce. ft was something as follows: The human race naturally loves life, and it is commonly considered desirable to live many years. Put to one who loves life and longs for life more abundantly.” length is not the most important dimension. That which is of highest importance may he thought of as the cubical contents of life. Length is desirable only when there is also height and depth and breadth of living. That which is worth being concerned about is that we live each day with high aspirations, and with deep and broad sympathies. If this be done it makes little difference whether the years an individual passes in the particular cvcle we call life be few or many. It a soul lives on the highest level which it is able to reach, and with the deepest and broadest sympathies it is capable of. it has done all it can. 1 thank the editors of The Quiver” for this opportunity. Fraternally yours. A. B. O'NEIL. 20

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History of the Senior Class I'rtfiJtnl, I ’ • ■ I'rrtiJtml, Sttr lary, Trtusurtr, . IlKNMV N. Boddkn Evoknik Wiksk WlNIFMKD A. R«k T AKIIII'K V. lloUTUM COLORS. Cardinal And it came to pass in the beginning of the twentieth century, that a strong and mighty Senior class arose in the Oshkosh Normal School. Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of the Germans, were one score and live noble and stalwart men. besides the fifty and six beautiful maids and maidens. Those that were numbered of them according to the years in which they were born, were twenty years old and upwards. and all able to go forth to battle in the world. In their midst there were men of mighty strength and valor, men of wit and humor, debators for all the vast assembly, orators for the contest, sweet singers for the spring ami the winter, and both men and women pleasing to the eye and goodly to look upon. Some were small of stature and some had reached the height of live feet and fourteen inches: but the intellect of every one that entered into the service of this class is keen and bright and the fulness thereof: the power and the thoughts that dwell therein are not known. And. behold, there came up out of the Normal School, three other classes, the Ju-liors. the Sophomores, and the Freshmen. They were well favored and fat-fleshed and fed from the meat thrown from the teachers’ tables. Ami it came to pass in the tenth month in the year of our Lord, 1901, that these three classes rose up against the Seniors. And all of the host of the enemy numbered four hundred and two score and six and they occupied the plains of the Combination Park. And the president of the Senior Class said unto them. “Ye are come up unto the mountain of the enemy. Behold, the land is set before thee: go up and possess it. Fear not. neither be discouraged, for Victory is with thee.'' And the maidens of the Class came near unto the enemy and said. “We. will send men before us and we will cheer them with out shouts and our yells and they will bring 11s Victory! Victory!! ” Then all the children of the Normal and all the students and all the faculty went up and came to the Combination Park, and played upon instruments called megaphones and upon tin horns and shouted; and sat there before the battle, and fasted that day until even, and after the war was past. all. with one accord, came down and offered congratulations to that great and mighty class. Now it came to pass when all the class enemies were conquered that the leader of the Seniors spake unto them, saying. “Take ye hence out of your midst five men and 22