Valparaiso University - Beacon / Record Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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HISTORY OF CLASSIC CLASS t09. C. W. HOCKENBERY. ECORDED history is an indication of the attainments and civiliza- tion of a people. By it we are enabled to estimate their ability, to know their progress, and to see to what extent their inven- tions have bridled the forces of nature, and aided man to better adapt himself to his environment. We now see history from a standpoint differing from that, from which our ancestors saw it, and investigate it with a new interest, since we look at it from the evolutionary side; and with the keynote of progress pervading all nature we interpret all eyents as to their cause and effect, and finally we esti- mate the value of the results of each deed as to its final influence on the pro- gress or deterioration of the human race. History has attracted the attention of men from Herodotus t0 Hoover, and each succeedingP generation has seen more of the value of the understanding of it, because of the relation of the future to the past, and the excellent ideals which a history of any peorle will set before one. About ten years ago some of our present class assembled at what was then known as Valparaiso Normal School, attracted by the advertising ability of its leaders. 'Ihey seen found that it was all that was represented, and that there were many other attractive features such as the eharaeter 0f the instruc- tion and instructors. the spirit of work with which they found themselves surrounded, and the nature of the food which they received at half price. They were then in the embryonic stage of their development, and were known as Commercials 0r Preparatory students, and had as many aspirations as there were individuals; so that immediately when they had passed through this stage, a number of the tribe decided that they had reached their ideal, in spite of the constant warnings of Professors Benton, Brown, Williams and Bennett, to pass through the junior stage, the Scientific, before they started to make their record in this busy world. These started on light foundations, to specialize in Law. Pharmacy, Piano Tuning, Music, Penmanship and the like, while the others continued to lay well the foundation for their work - by proceeding with the Scientific course. They spent about one year with little or no noise, but considerable work, as Junior Seientities. They frequently found themselves confronted by problems when they investigated the assign- ments of A-square, tt Katef, or, again, they found that the Cloud was over- hanging them, and that they had their Fee to hoe. It was here that they learned how to explain most physical phenomena. by means of osmosis; the cause of the heart-beat, the evolution of man, and many other questions about the selection of a partner, choice of food, or how to explain the origin of life. After having: returned for their second year, they were called from their recesses by their adopted tt Grandpa h, and formed an organization that could

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C. W. HOCKENBERY Classic and Professional Vultus animijanua et tabula Agitcms 0737'ch quaestiones ac pugnas cle verbis EDWARD A. ANDERSO Classic

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10 Semper paratus R. E. GORHAM Classic Suam'ter m modo, fortitev in 're y B. R. COOK Classic