University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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Our athletes, their classmates' pride, have made the Hhome-run after helping the black and gold make a brilliant record. Our Zz'!c1'fz!e are stars of the mag- izzwz cczpzzz' series. Forbid that I should forget the intellectual growth of '9S. Messrs. Dewey, Jackson and Bennett have been a credit to the class as bright, breezy students, bliss Kneppe, Graham and Harnage have distinguished themselves as earnest, persevering students. In truth all have made their mark and as the Hwonderful one-hoss shay We stand or fall together. Greatly to the advantage of class records, the co-eds have long since learned that wisdom profiteth little in winning a Hfratn pin, for just as soon as you think it's surely won, lol it's Wout of sightn inside the college walls. For this most excellent discovery, credit lVIiss Isabell. The last scene of all that ends this strange eventful history is our overwhelm- ing victory in the Held of oratory, a new evidence of the survival of the littest, to be sure. Precocious juniors, haughty sophs, come down from your high perch and tell us, why have you no orators such as English is, no speakers such as Pringle? WVhy. as they see all the proud air castles of their imaginations tumble into noth- ingness, I can hear them wailing: 4' 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. What possibilities 'QS unfolds! Only think of the vast and boundless energy of McAleste1'. Wliy, so great is his activity that he has to prop his feet on the next desk to keep his seat in class. And Nicholas, the ttGreat I am of '98, and Blan- ton, the noblest specimen I know of Hwhat might have been,7' and Evans, how often have we heard him with hands deep sunk in his trouser's pockets non-chal- antly ask the 'tProfessah for some 'tsuggestionsn of the answer. And numerous other prodigies that I might mention but space restrains me. Such has been the glorious past of ,9S. For the future our ambitions wander to those glittering heights where fame sits with plumes waving in zephyrs of applause and when reached then-- Yours for the Black and Gold, D. R. I NJ 17

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Sophomore Academic. Class Colors, Bronze and Pzzrjble. CLASS OFFICERS. G. L. ZWICK-Pl'6Sl.lZ767lf. IRVING BARTH- VE'ce-.Presz'denz'. ETHEL SWEARINGENiR6C0l'dI'7Zg Sec1'e2'a1j'. ELIZABETH CALDYVELL--Cl0l'1'6'Sf07Zfl1I'lZ,g' Secffeinzy. In the fall of 1893, when Missouri's fount of learning began to ove1'How With its annual Hood of Wisdom, a numerous and varied band of seekers afterknovvledge, gathered from the four points of the compass, started upon that rocky and difhcult road, beset with so many snares, jealously guarded at every point by a Cerlerus, Whose duty, and often whose pleasure, it is to pounce upon the wavering and cut short their career, which in the end leads to that much sought after and highly prized Bczcco:!rzzn'ez's A1'z'z'z1l1z. ' Of those of '97 who escaped the Y. M. C. A. delegates, and runners and porters at the station, who have survived the ravages of two football seasons, and eluded the snares placed before them by mean-spirited instructors, of those who are now living calmly and at ease, in the assured dignity of a sophomore existence, sing, O inspiring muse! Much is not expected of the slippery freshman, and seldom does the freshman overreach the expectation. His existence is a butterfly, irresponsible, and supremely happy, one, Wherein the responsibilities of college have as yet found no resting place. To him the beauties of the Latin poets are as 11aught to the result of the next football game, the circles of an Archimedes a trifie compared to the smile of a govvned and mortared college lassie. The tale of ,97,S freshman year is not as exciting as the opening chapter of a dime novel, yet several of its members furnished food for tales that will be incor- porated in college history, and told, with many a Well varnished addition, to cred- ulous freshies, When the class itself is but a memory. Looking from my window as I Write, I see the buds of '95 bursting into blos- soms, yet but close my eyes and I am back to the moonlit night in the early fall of '93, when five of ,97,S husky heroes raided the vineyard at the experiment station, and left huge remnants of their unmentionables on the barbed Wire when frightened 19