University of Tennessee Knoxville - Volunteer Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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Junior Class History 0 WRITE the history of the Junior Class is not a difficult task; for it is a repetition of the history of classes gone before, with T merely a change of names and numerals. Of course we were fishyi' and sophy, and everything else which the genius of overbearing upper-classmen could think of; but thanks to the various professors and our own faithful labors, about twenty-five can at last call themselves Juniors. In our Freshmen year we were worked uponli; we were laughed at because we could not keep step to the inspiring music of the University band, not execute right shoulder arms with all the skill and facility of the haughty Sophomores. Nevertheless, we took the cane from them, and we helped the members of the Class of I902--then Juniors-to recover their red caps from the jealous Seniors. The following year we assumed that haughty, indifferent, overbearing, conceited, pretentious, obnoxious air which only a Sopho- more can have, and which every Sophomore does have. How we did abuse the poor innocent Freshmen, and laugh at their follies and failings, in return for treatment we had received the year before. Toward the latter part of the year quite a violent explosion took place, a result, it is supposed, of the ignition of some Sophomore Analytic Geometry in an atmosphere of hydrogen and oxygen; and when the death list was finally completed, the majority of the class had places on it. But now those days are passed, and we are enjoying the latter half of our college lifewthat half in which we realize that then, if ever, we must retrieve a lost reputation-that we are upper-classmen, with whom, together with the Seniors, it lies to maintain the honor of the University; and that in another year, if all goes well, we will be called to bid farewell to our dear old Alma Mater and the scenes we love so well. Still, it must be so, and nothing can change the destiny fixed so long ago. We only hope that, when college life is as a tale thatis told, when our course is run and our star is set, someone, still fostering that friendship which only college life can beget, will say: He was a U. of T. man, of the Class of 1904.

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