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seniors In every University it is the Senior Class to whom the burden of guiding and directing the student body is given. More so here at Sewanee than at larger institutions. To this is added the knowledge of impending graduation. Thus the serious garb of scholastic gowns fittingly symbolizes their increasing maturity of mind and their growing po- sition as leaders of men. Yet another duty lies before the Sewanee Senior Class, that of perpetuating and maintain- ing that institution to which they owe their gratitude after they have left its campus. The duty of maintaining its high reputation and ideals by talcing interest in the future members of their Alma Mater and of encouraging those leaders who give so unselfishly of their time to the development of each student ' s character and mind. With this in mind the Cap and Gown gives: The Graduating Class of 1939. % %
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moved, with the consent of the Iroquois, to Pennsylvania and settled there. Having been incited against the Americans by the British, it was during this period that they gave the American armies considerable trouble by practicing on them that type of warfare for which they were so famous. It has been told that the Litany used by the Continental Army contained the invocation from the fury of the Shawnees, Good Lord, deliver us. At the end of the war the Shawnees were forced to withdraw into Missouri (which was then Spanish Territory) since they could no longer get aid from the British. At this time a second division took place, when a part of the tribe established friendly relations with the American government, and was allowed to settle on the banks of the Ohio river. This concession on the part of the government, how- ever, later proved somewhat indiscreet. About 1800, one of the Shawnee medicine men, called Tenshawatowa, the Prophet, who was the brother of Tecumseh, began to preach a new dec- trine, ostensibly a form of communism. Lured to him by that superstition which gave the Prophet power over them, thousands of In- dians from all tribes rallied around. Through the ingenuity and eloquence of Tecumseh, a confederation resembling the earlier one of Pontiac (whom Tecumseh probably conscious- ly imitated) was formed, and in a short time the intentions of the cagy Tecumseh departed from all similarity to the original communistic doctrine and became obviously hostile. In 181 1, after a series of outrages, the American government was forced to send William Henry Harrison to the West. Harrison at- tacked Tecumseh at the center of his confed- eration, Tippecanoe, and completely shattered the revolt. Tenskawatowa was killed, but Tecumseh and his confederations, though both were somewhat shattered, survived. The spirit of Tecumseh was not yet brok- en, for during the next year, when the War of 1 8 12 broke out, that famous leader was immediately sought by the British agents. As a result, Tecumseh soon strode forth in the uni- form of a British Major-General. The aid of the Confederation had been pledged to the British King. The agent who drove this bargain with Tecumseh was probably well pleased with himself, but it was this subtle move which lost the British cause. Some time later the English army was retreating through the north, and was joined by Tecumseh and his braves at the Thames River. Tecumseh could not bear to retreat, and, forcing the English to wheel, gave battle at a disadvantageous point. The result is told in the historic battle at the Thames River, where the English were crushed and Tecumseh killed. After the death of Tecumseh, the spirit of the Shawnees was broken and the tribe fell apart, leaving no group to sing of the struggles and wanderings of the robber band which once took refuge in Sewanee long enough to name it. Hola.
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