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4 m % Academic Department joke. The Medicos? HE Academic Department considers itself par excellence the flower of the University. That it is the bulwark of the University ' s existence, owing to precedence in years and consequent preponderance of students, it would be hard to deny. But the conceit of the Academs is far from allowing that their supe riority is based on mere strength of numbers. To say that they are the leaders socially, athletically, and intellectually would be much more in accordance with the opinion popularly prevailing. Theologues are patronizingly looked upon as compulsatory boners. The Law Department is good-naturedly tolerated, but is regarded as a huge Well, says the Academ, I suppose every flock has its black sheep. Such are the opinions which the Academic student expresses, secure in the preeminence of his position. Two classifications may be made of the Academic students. The first and more important con- tains the regular scholastic divisions, under which the students of all colleges are grouped, and differing from these only in its irregularity. The second is an internal product, and owes its origin to differing individual inclinations. The founders of the University, firmly believing that a day would come when the educational light of other Southern colleges would pale before the incandescent brilliancy of that of Sewanee, thought that in such an event our superior dignity ought to be marked by a more enlightened system of class-division. With this object in view, the student body was divided into two classes only — the Junior and Gownsman.
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06 The thinks-he-knows-a-few-things Junior, and the sure-he-knows-it- all Gownsman, from time immemorial have been the target of definition- framers, but so far absolute success has not crowned their efforts. This hesitancy permanently to adopt the definition of any one of the truth- seekers does not imply a lack of mental acuteness on their part, but only testifies to the monumental nature of the task. And it is only a sense of assured future consolation, derived from the knowledge of fail- ures of illustrious predecessors, that encourages any one to make a trial. Both Gownsman and Junior regards his rights and privileges as limit- less, and to encompass them in a few concise and comprehensive phrases requires highly developed powers of discrimination. The name of Gownsman is applied to one who, in consideration of age and mental accomplishments — shorthand, typewriting and book- keeping excepted — is invested with the privilege of donning the scholastic Cap and Gown — material and proportions of same not regulated by official legislation — to occupy a seat in the Squabs ' nest, with a view of ultimate promotion to the Synagogue, and, owing to the length of the gown, to wear with impunity Academic breeches — trousers with certain parts in the last stages of dissolution. To define the Junior involves even greater difficulties. His claim on consideration, although universally acknowledged, possesses no salient features such as distinguishes the Gownsman. Throughout this body there are unmistakable signs of a strong esprit de corps, which, reinforced by a great, though subservient, individual self-satisfaction, pro- duces an unusual solidarity of the whole. The belief in self of the members of this younger and less enlightened — not unenlightened — class is only exceeded hx a vene- ration for the whole. A suitable motto, which the Juniors are at liberty to adopt if they see fit, is contained in the reversal of a certain metaphysical doctrine — The Many and the One. The following definition of the Junior has been evolved at the expense of years spent in observation and study of the species: A self-confident and slightly verdant person of tender years, with pinky-white and downy accompaniments, having a decided leaning — not liking — towards most things considered wicked, and an avowed worshipper of Venus and Bacchus, while the dust accumulated in the last game of marbles still lingers around the trouser knee, and the memory of the last spanking altogether too vivid to be treated lightly. References of more or less accuracy in support of the above statement will be furnished on application. The relations between the orders of Juniors and Gownsmen are devoid of that pronounced prejudice common to college factions. The Junior respects the Gowns- man with that respect which is born of close relationship. Some day — August the year after the rear and right half of the quadrangle are completed — he expects to become one of them. In the meantime he shows them that respect which in turn Minima
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