University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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away by the report of a shotgun. By another trick of the memory I behold i4Don Quixote attacking the windmill, on a bitter winteris night, while an appreciative audience thundered its applause from a neighboring snowdrift. Could anyone write a history of any class, or any man well known in college life, without having been a frequenter of '4Pearson's room, the place where every fellow went to meet every other fellow, to hit the pipe of peace, and to enjoy the hospitality which the giant who dwelt there dealt out to all comers. In this room Blac B., on the fifteenth day of November, 1893, declared his in- tention of overturning the whole University, to this room he returned, bloody and scarred, having succeeded only in tearing out three half bricks, and gashing his head. ,97, having lost several favorite sons in the awful revolution of March- 37, IS94, finished her freshman year in peace and quiet. In this year Captain Stables finished his freshman year, the fifth of his stay at the University. His cloth bound volume, published by the Carpers, entitled 4'Five Years a Freshman, or, HA Soldier of Fortunef' has received favorable mention by the reviewers. Our sophomore year is rendered noteworthy by two momentous events, the- completion of the main building and the entrance into our fold of Rxxtiwmexximh, an aspiring young man, whose desire to assist professors is highly appreciated by both faculty and student corps. The class organization took place in the early fall, and manifestoes were issued bidding defiance to any and all comers, on the gridiron, but no class took up ,97,S' challenge. '96 wished to play us, but having sent spies to watch our practice, were frightened off by Andy lNlcAlester's bloodthirsty rushes and brutal tackles. The year of our sophomoric term is well nigh drawn out, and the time nearly approaches when we shall part as sophomores, to meet again with the added dig-- nity of another year, and bearing the proud name of juniors. Perhaps in this short sketch some worthy has been neglected, whose name and deed should grace these pages,but the omission is not intentional with the historian, who has searched longingly for any material to aid his sluggish pen, prayed for inspiration, Then gnawed his pen, then dashed it on the ground, Sinking from thought to thought, a vast profound, Plunged for his sense, but found no bottom there, Yet wrote and tloundered on, in mere despair. M. .BO

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The Academics of '96. Parnassus born, O muse divine, O Clio, queen of sisters nine, Upon me shed thy sacred light, And, goddess, guide my pen aright. Kind reader, has it ever occurred to you what a wonderful factor in the busy life of the present is the history of the long ago? What would be our boasted nineteenth century civilization Without the foundation laid by preceding genera- tions? Theologians are of necessity students of the past. Lawyers pore oier mouldy records in search of precedents. Statesmen strive to glean from the lessons of the past the solution of the vexing problems of the present. And so, every- where that dam are assumed, the past is the great storehouse from whence they are drawn. But be not deceived by the pictures you have seen of great historians reclining at ease, with volumes of facts within reach of their hands. The duties of the his- torian are not such an unalloyed pleasure as one might think. He does not stand beneath a tree of knowledge that bends its Willing branches, laden with fruit. He must pick his way carefully among thorny branches, sparely fruited, and, in the end, the ardently desired apple may prove to be ttdead sea fruitf' He must carefully pick his way through the labyrinth of eternity, avoiding alike the halls of falsehood and the luxurious groves of poetic imagination. The chaff must be patiently sifted that not a single grain be overlooked. This picture is not overdrawn and we would advise anyone, who desires to call his time his own, not to undertake any history. and especially any class history. XVere it possible for the historian to follovv the example of the epic poets, and plunge in zzzcciffrs rcs, the historian of the class of '96 would be relieved of one- half of his labor. But since we are the first to chronicle the deeds of this class, We deem it our duty to go back one year to the date of its organization. This brief sketch is by no means worthy to be called a Hhistoryf' It is only a retrospective glance. and deeds, not dates, have been lingered over. Class organization has never flourished at the Missouri State University. For several years past, it has been the custom for the senior class to organize, and there has heen. here and there, a junior class with suliicient class spirit to follow their lead, lint the class of '96 was, as far as can be ascertained, the first in the history ot' the university to effect organization in the sophomore year. At the beginning ot' the second semester of the term 1893-'94, the sophomores, following Z3