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

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outgrown and that is the generosity with which pop- corn was served every day at three oleloek. All through the year a part of each day was spent in the class room and during this term even a few of the class can be found with four or five hours work. Out of the entire class sixty-seven, a great per cent of them boys, choose to walk, or ride7 the rough, thorny way of Latin instead of the tranquil easy rode of the German student. The laboratory work, I mean sky work, in astronomy is being made a specialty of by a number of the boys with the help of lady assistants. Astronomy is a heavy subject re- quiring nearly thirty minutes a day of preparation. For the girls some parts of it are especially hard, the angle of declination being almost as hard to decline as an invitation to a ball. In electricity there should have been light enough for all; but a heavy Cloud overhung, and to some the book seemed to resemble ttThe Light that Failed. 7t During the class work in physiology, Professor Weems sacrificed the lives of nine hundred and ninety-one dogs, actual count. Some after a diet of mushrooms and pepperesauee were submitted to a lung capacity test and a determination of which was most fearfulethe bark or the bite. Others were set to chasing the iieeing rabbit, and the wisemen then estimated the degree of muscular fatigue by trans- ferring the ttpants,7 of one dog to the slothfnl body of another. This in part accounts for the scarcity of dogs and the high price of meat. At zoology lectures we had opportunity to learn everything from how to kill all parasites, how to prolong life indefinitely, what is the color of snakes eyebrows, to the Destiny of man ; but the definition: an organic individual is a ttsanitaryll mass of living matter, though originated by Professor Bennett seems a little faulty. Some masses of living matter, that really ought to be classed as organic individuals, I am afraid would not pass as sanitary. A students riot took place the night of the Media eal commencement. No Scientific ever told me he was in this, but we were doubtless represented to such an extent that it may be recorded in our his- tory. A number of students, knowing of the pres- ence of so many doctors, who could apply first aid to the injured, marched down town and back. A Visi- tor, a few days later, after reading accounts of this in the Chicago papers, was surprised to learn that buildings were still standing both on the Hill and in the down-town districts. July sixteenth the fairest women and the brav- est men of the University, in short the Scientific Class, met and posed for a group picture. Professor Kinsey and Professor Bennett in the costume of a grave-digger, were the only members of the facnltv who honored us with their presence. Tho Bryan has never reached the distinction of the Presidential chair we now have for president one of his neighboring statesmen, who resembles him not only in character but also in features, who as a poli- tician is much more successful than William Jen- nings, being elected by the unanimous vote of the Class. We go outenot as a classebut as individuals. Each must make his own history; the history of the following years may be greatly varied but it can hardly be more pleasant than that of the year just passed. Few years of our lives will be happier than those spent in college, so let each one think kindly of his associations here, and then we will realize-e ttHow unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears old friendsW

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CLASS HISTORY Myra E. J ones NE definition of history is that it is a record of events, and as that is usually dry and dusty, I promise no deviation from the ordinary so I advise you all to provide yourselves with whisk brooms that you may prepare to enjoy the program following. Again history is either sacred or profane, since this is not sacred you may use your own judg- ment, and describe it as you will. It Surely is not hard to select a number of his- torians in a Class like this, after our iinstruetion in English history, and doubtless from our prophet you will learn of many wonderful historians now in the embroyonie stage of development. In after years when the inevitable and baffling examination ques- tion: name three great historians and one of the principal works of each, is presented, the name of your humble servant and the Chronicle of the Class of 1910 will come to your mind and head the list. Of course I could easily write out the history and read the pedigree of some, but to attempt the life history of all the members of the class would be impossible, so I will endeavor only to give the hap- penings of the greatest importance concerning the class as a whole. In history little opportunity is offered for wittieisms, so anything of that nature which came to my mind I immediately passed over to the poetess and prophet. This explanation will ae- eount for the extraordinary brillianey of their pro- duetions. Ten, twenty and thirty years ago there appeared throughout the common schools of the United States and other parts of the world, one hundred and thir- teen exceptionally bright children. These young;r people overcoming many diflieulties on September 20, 1909, assembled at Valparaiso University with the determination to' secure a diploma or two, a MB. SW degree and whatever else they could, un- known to the public. There were sixteen more who lacked the necessary amount of determination and fell by the wayside. In the beginning siX were married, and it is told by good authority that eight more are contemplating the entering of bondage; and the honeymoon trips will be homeward to ask forgiveness and a little change. A number of us were here together last year, but then, adoring the Senior Scientifies, had little time to think of each other. During the administraa tion of Griffith and Brauehla all became acquainted and a feeling of eomradship was established which has lasted all year. During the presidency of Shafer a number of most interestiing meetings were held. Then we had opportunity for practising Parliamentary Law. Many a Scientific who was too busy to attend class, owes his grade of eighty or eighty-two, in Parliamentary Law, to the knowledge he absorbed from the class meetings. It was here we learned more than in the regular oration sections, who were the real orators of our class; and we have some, noted throughout the school, who are said to possess Cieeronian pro- elivities. Here were revealed plots, eounter-plots and conspiracies Vieing with those of Catiline, the details of which even in my official capacity I was unable to learn. During this term, after much debat- ing, the famous by-laws were passed, that they might be set aside in case they should ever need to be used. After six months of cold weather it seemed a shame to think of enduring winter all summer, but the rule of winter lasted until the weather was such that even the suggestion of winter was a relief. The baseball season was opened May ninth with a class rush, the Seientifies and Engineers versus the Lawyers and Pharmies. The Lawyers were in com- Inand of the back stop at University Park and some had spent the night there. The momentum is equal to the mass times the velocity, and when the mass is seventy-flve Seientifres plus thirty Engineers, with a velocity too great to be registered, the Lawyers, with even their slight knowledge of science and mathe- matics, figured out the momentum to be unlimited or irresistible, and as they were not the much talked of Himmovable body77 were forced from their strong- hold, and the ruin of the back-stop was in control of the Seientiiics. The ball team through the season has had the support of the class especially the girls, who at next to the last game very nearly started a class rush, which would have ended, of course, with honor to the Seientifies, as did the game that day and so many other days. Owing to the contesting of some of the games by the Engineers ; they won more points dur- ing the season than any other team. Now the pen- nant, which belonged to the Scientific Class last sea- son and in reality does this year, instead of decorat- ing the headquarters of the Engineers, wherever that is, is not to be seen there; for the much talked of pennant exists only in theory; practically it is nihil. The first entertainment of the year was a social, the last Tuesday of the term. It was presided over bythe God of merriment. This was equaled only by the social of the second term held in Eloeution Hall. One of the numbers on the program worthy of men- tion was the Priscilla and J ohn Alden stunt executed by two of our worthy faculty. The social event of the third term was a banquet at Altruria. Here our professor in English attributed any faults and deficiencies of the members of the faculty to the fact that they had no literary training with him. We may do better. Surely one thing learned in Litera- ture class, besides courtesy, cannot be forgotten nor

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PROF. G. D. TIMMONS PROF. B. F. WILLIAMS PROF. H. N. CARVER .IJ