Washington and Jefferson College - Pandora Yearbook (Washington, PA)

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istoryj ofa '9I. O IMPART to things of technical significance and local interest, to persons of moderate ability and ordinary endowment, a style becoming for its simplicity, and which in the treatment of its subjects avoids, on the one hand, the belittling slanders, maledictions and mud-flingings of a gossiping daily newspaper, and,lon the other, the no less depreciating method of over-reaching its characters and ascribing to them the attributes requisite for the epic and drama, is the happy lot of but few local historians. But we grow pedantically obscure. Who are we and whence are we? Briefly, we are the people-hilly Western Pennsylvania's sturdy sons, known only to one another and the Faculty, but rapidly coming into public notice through the combined influences of kj' diagnosis, Supper Table imprecations and Commence- ment invitations. Some of us have always figured very largely in a local public sphere, cotilion clubs, banjo clubs. boarding clubs, football clubs and theatrical clubs have all served to make our presence felt, to say nothing of our warbling in divers church choirs and dancing neat dances at the President's receptions. A few of us Qthey are the lamentably departed wsj could dash a hundred yards in ten and five-eighth seconds 3 leap a string at the height of five and one-halt' feet, or vault the bar at nine feet two inches--but alas! Sparta is no more. Some of us won prizes in the Society contests. In fact, '91 always managed to reap more laurels there than any other class in competition. Many of us gained positions on the Inter-Society Contest, and be it said to the glory of the class that ,91's men always pretty nearly got there.', But we grow arrogantly boastful. ' The political aspect of the Class has always been a poser. No man ever knew just what a day might develop among ttthe politicalsf' We snufied the battle from afar and awaited ambuscades. They were always in readiness, and yet they came with the surprise of a Vesuvian eruption. The weaker side always made a vigorous light, but the battle ground 15

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invariably proved to be as treacherous as the pit-digged fields of Scottish conflict. Some of' us bore our defeats beautifully, smiling externally, plotting internally, eonsoling ourselves with the rich and racy Anglo-Saxon maxim, 'f He laughs best who laughs lastf' Some of' us boastingly declared what we were going to do, and as a consequence our sun sank prematurely. Others of' us were too lazily indifferent to do aught but sit on the fence and trill the infant Sabbath school hymn, We are little soldiers fighting, fighting, etc. But we grow pugnaciously discordant. Just how many of our boys have sworn fealty to the fair females of the town is not definitely known. Diagnosis data is highly deceptive. Be that as it may we are, or have been, accepted, rejected, or temporarily detained, as though we were the last fish in the sea, a spawning mud- sucker, or a minnow on a hook coaching a bass-just as the case might be. Under the windows of love hallowed homes we have poured out our souls in mid-night melody, and demonstrated that the course of love never did run smoothly as we bunched ourselves over a high board fence, crowned with barb-wire, and stole away into the oil-perfumed stillness when one of those brass-buttoned. denizens of the Sll6l'lfPS oflice meandered into the 'tthus-far-shalt-thou-go limits of' East Maiden street. No wonder was it that as we spliced our broken guitar strings and cobbled our fractured pants we wrought .kf odes on Cop-Nipped Love, or hummed in far away tones, Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still. But we grow gushingly sentimental. One of the professors, in a fine frenzy of' gcsticulation, told us one day to always notice the things around us, to think about them, and to try and explain them well, so that we could tell all we knew about them. We have tried it, but are compelled to give in. It involves our futurity, and before we wish to grow obnoxiously prophetic we will call a halt and as a parting request ask only that the OGWSIL hereafter be called it Wissa- mekingf' 16