University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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B acoc Class of I g o 3 e) write a class history? Nobody will itad it. ' • ' (n T ' iiivcrsity sttulents have not outgrown ? v that juvenile habit ol ' just looking at the pic F tures, and the work of the historian passes un- v) noticed for the periodical jokes on our niena i ' erie of mules and shorl-horns, (lickie-i)ir(ls and dog- eared ponies. Why read a class history anyway? To hear again the same twaddle about green l ' reshies. ■dis])laying High School jjins, learning to cut classes and Hunk. calling on Dr. Jesse; ( i) hv bleak December days in Centralia and McHaine stations; hopeful .lunioi-s: ' ;it last we ' ve rcm-hed the goal; dignified Seniors. and such stock in trade of the Senior his- toi ' ian. ad intinitum. I say. why repeat it all? ' ou may answer and. indeed, justifiably so tenaciously and tenderly does human- ity hug the past — Other cla.sses have done it. Dair we violate a custom as ancient as the Savitai ' itsellV Or perhaps another, in the si)lcndor of cap and Howing gown, i ' oi ' getl ' ul of all tradition, may retort, AVas there ever class like iiiiiia ' Hy strength of my cramming have I passed heights over which riders have stumt)K(l. oidy to fall to a degreeless death, even in the fourth year ol their a.seent. His- tory .should record such, (io ye and write it down. CXow all this is very foolish for is not the class of I ' .tO. ' J like so many other classes that have culled and crammed, gallo|)e(l and grai ' led. skimmed and skijjjjcd, and then, bursting forth triumphantly upon the campus green in caj) and gown, have been offended at some one ' s mistaking is for a CDllcgr girl, h ' oi- to be .sure, as Freshmen we wrote thejiies on the columns and nthci- subjects, dear to the heart of the ])rof ' ., because their age guarantees theii- worth: and as .Sopho- mores, we looked down scornfully upon the Fre-shmen, and as Juniors, »7