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before, thoughts of his local lady loves (of his far-away one or ones, he ceases for the time to think, fickle man ! ) mental pictures of familiar resorts and avenues where so oft he has strolled for exercise in the fresh air and glimpses of pretty girls — these form a weight in one side of the balance against the stern duties of life on the other. The Senior student is usually regarded as a gentleman of leisure. Indeed, his satisfied smile and care-free manner, as he puffs his Havana in easy abandon in the latter part of his course, would seemingly justify this opinion, but only those who have passed through the trials of the Senior year and have been called upon to choose between the allurements of pleasure and the demands of duty, can fully understand and appreciate the mental struggle to which he is subjected. These perplexing questions must be solved early, and in their solution the student, in relying wholly upon himself, learns one of the most important lessons in life. What a pity, then, that our College days must close ere more of these life-lessons are learned amid sympathetic surroundings! With fond recollections of three pleasant, prosperous years among congenial and jolly classmates and kind, indulgent instructors, who have stood ever ready to befriend and assist us in all our uudertakings, we are about to embark upon an untried sea. With many a suppressed tear and some misgivings within our hearts, we are to say good-by to each other and turn from the door of our Alma Mater. Our feelings which are akin to those of Don Juan in his farewell to his native land, may find expression in his words: Farewell, my Spain! a long farewell! he cried, Perhaps I may revisit thee no more, But die, as m ny an exiled heart hath died Of its own thirst to see again thy shore. With such a sentiment we drop a tear as a period to the history of the dear old Class of Ninteen Hundred and Two. The Historian.
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perchance, into a more restful sleep, from which, however, he is rudely awakened by the sound of the break- fast bell. The careworn face and troubled expression excite, however, but little sympathy in his associates, who ascribe his haggard appearance not to the true cause, but to the ravages of the God of Love. Happily such experiences do not last always, but give place to prospects of a brighter nature when he finds that there are other Freshmen, and that not everyone who has a self-satisfied air and who swaggers about with an all- important bearing, is a Senior, and, consequently, the supposed enemy to every Freshman. Nor does the Freshman year last always, but with the pleasant days of spring come his emancipation and promotion. As a Junior he feels that there are no more worlds to conquer, and that he can sit with an all-knowing smile and muse upon the newcomers drinking in knowledge in indigestible quantities, and gazing open- mouthed at the very scenes and things which one brief year before came so near unbalancing his own feeble mind. Proudly he shows the neophytes the simplicity of investing a partial or making a shell crown, and by his bearing almost convinces the Faculty that they are making a grave mistake in not presenting him with a diploma at once. He seeks to impress each Senior with the fact that the latter must have been in Sleepy Hollow for a year or more, so far is the Senior behind this Sophomorical young Junior. But age brings experience, and with this experience there comes to this once-inflated Junior a humili- ating sense of his own ignorance; so, after passing through the remainder of his Junior course and, probably, trying his wings for a few months between courses, he returns to enter upon the duties of a Senior classman, a sadder and a wiser man. He now realizes the necessity for closer application and more earnest endeavor, in order to prepare himself in the brief time yet remaining for the duties he hopes so soon to assume. No cause for wonder then is the troubled expression and remorseful look upon the face of the average thoughtful Senior; no wonder that even a stranger may discern with wonderful accuracy to which class each student belongs; no wonder that each Senior feels that the lengthening of the Dental Course to four terms is probably a wise step (at the same time inwardly congratulating himself that he is exempt from the fourth course, since three have almost turned him gray); no wonder then at the three distinct types of faces seen in and around our College domain. With these thoughts and realizations uppermost in his mind, the Senior finds himself jostled around among his colleagues of the years before — colleagues with whom he is just now becoming thoroughly ac- quainted, and to whom each day he is growing more strongly attached. In their congenial society serious thoughts soon give way to those of a lighter nature, and the old allurements to pleasure and merriment hurriedly present themselves. Remembrances of social pleasures and theatrical attractions of the years 26
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