Ursinus College - Ruby Yearbook (Collegeville, PA)

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Class Motto “Pas dc cictorc, sans da labour Class Flower Red Rose Class Colors Red and Blue Class History •‘HHl IF class of 1921 is sufficient unto itself. This phrase issuing from the mouth of one so eminent as Doctor Omwakc is to be considered authoritative. If this does not prove conclusively that in the year 1921 there issued from the portals of old Ursinus a truly remarkable aggregation, the following jingle composed by no one less notorious than P. A. Mertz should relieve the most dubious individual: “The class of twenty-one Shall be known by what it’s done.’ Truly remarkable concession, knowing the man. but it only tells part of the story. Now. as is expected and necessary, I shall proceed to toot my own horn. The following discourse will be on myself by myself, inasmuch as I feel that there is to be found no better chronicler of my past. I am a great class. Yes! the greatest that was ever discussed in a regular monthly faculty meeting. But to begin in the best historical style let it be known: That, I. the class of 1921. was born one blustery night back in the year 1897, when the arrival of a boy had been announced to a certain minister. The pulpit orator then and there said, his habitat shall some day be Ursinus. A similar circumstance occurred to ‘Ike’ and Tops’’ a trifle later, l or almost a quarter of a century my embryo slowly grew atom by atom, and by the fall of the memorable year 1917 Dame Fortune was ready to smile upon Ursinus. The first of me to register was Ray Klingaman. who stands pre-eminent for his toleration, as he has slept in the same room with Schlater’s sonorous voice for four long years. The sparkling eyes of Kit were next to invade the Dean’s office, and they have been invading everything and every one accessible since. By the evening of that first day the vandalistic portion of myself Page twenty-ficc