University of Virginia - Corks and Curls Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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Academic History. tiinN the periml ml a year has passed. and it heemnes HCCCSS'dIZV tn thiHll tn the expectant wnrhl the history of that august body, the :XCZUlClUlC Class of Virginia. Again tlUCS the historian turn his mind upon that heterogeneous throng, the ghCEUlClllS. and hard does he strive to tliseern in them enlleetivel'x' sonie eharaeteristiewstnnething to distinguish them from the same hody in past years. And again. linally in' despair, does he come to the eon elnsion with the fact that-e tt' It is the same old comedy that is played Upon the same old stage from year to yearf7 Yes, history eertainly repeats itself. A glanee over the chronicles of sneees- sive elasses in any College Annual will eonvinee the most skeptical of the truth of the adage. 'llrne, one eanse of this sameness may lie in the fact that elass his-- at the work of their '9 torians are prone to take too many uf these glances predecessors. and, prompted either hy a feeling of admiration or hy one of despera- tion, are lCtl t0 horrow too freely of their thoughts antl lines of thought. lint he this as it may, there is eertainly no great held for originality in the reeonnting for the fifteenth time of the history of a never-ehanging htxly. And sneh a hody is this Class. I Of course, frnni year to year the Academic Class, like all others. changes its personnel to a greater or less extent, Ulil tignres vanish and new ones take their places, hnt the prneess is much like that of pouring new 1 ?atl into old molds, and. emiseqneinly, the Class is 0f essentially the same nature as when its first history was written. ,llenee. any attempt to portray the ehataeter 0f the Class must, he 1110TC or less of a plagiarism 0f forine' aeennnts: hut a few words, at least, must he written on this snhjeetw-else this were no history. llerhaps the hest adjective to use in tleseriptinn 0f the character of the Q! ACZIthIHlC Class is loose : hut a word 0f explanation must accompany it, or nntrne inferences will he tll'ZlWIl. The adjeetive is meant to he applied to the char- aeter 0f the ixCElthIIlS. eolhfetively. not individually: aml to their manner of organization, not their intrals. lior further information as to this' looseness of organization, eonsnlt any volume of CURKS :xNh Ct'itlis hitherto puhlishetl. The subject is ahly discussed in them all. 15