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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
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1 ye command them saying, two nights of every week, go ye into the Gymnasium and with the great ball which lietli in the basket, practice the game of Basket Ball. Ye shall stand with firm feet on the slippery Gymnasium floor and ye shall not hug the ball; but verily, verily we say unto thee. ‘Throw all the balls ye can into your own basket.’ ” And it was that on the twentieth day of the second month of the year 1902 that these five representatives met five representatives of the faculty. And they gave the Seniors the victory of that game for an inheritance, and all cried with loud voices. “It is marvelous in our eyes.” And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from the Oshkosh Normal School that each Senior class should give a reception to each Junior class. Now. after the custom of those days this Senior class received the Juniors. And they sent forth invitations to call them that were bidden to the reception. And it came to pass at the beginning of the second quarter when the Juniors were come up to the reception that the Seniors cried with loud voices, “Hear. O Juniors, thou art to pass through . Hades this night; to go in to see ghosts greater and mightier than thyself, gypsies whose campfires burn with a brightness like unto that of the star of the morning and around these campfires thou shalt know thy fortunes.” So the Juniors turned and came down the long, dark corridors, climbed the stairs leading unto the mount of the gypsies, and there found a land laden with cake and ice cream. When the night was far spent, the Juniors separated themselves from the Seniors and spake unto them, saying: We know that thou art a class mightier and greater than we.” GKNKVIKVK BARRON. April to, 1902. 1 1 I 23
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