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— some Sundays, and on these occasions have never failed to stand on the church steps and watch the calic, as with downcast eyes they departed from the sanctuary. all unconscious of our miserable existence, and ever sur- prised when we offered our services to see them safely home. In addition to these primary duties, we have found time to tremble three times each year in the presence of examinations, and have escaped from these ordeals so as bv fire. We have studied alwavs, whenever time and inclination have happened to fall in together, and in all things we have proved ourselves worthy. Wherefore, seeing that all these duties have been accomplished, we are ready to pass into history. The story is told, the play is played out, and the curtain falls on the last act of the Academic Class of ' 97 amidst the deafening applause of Commencement Day, and as the last echo dies away, a voice from the clouds is heard : El have oliin iiuinitiiac jiiitibit.
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33-l t; Throughout the winter terms we have studied, when our other rather onerous duties have not intervened. But in the spring ! Our young and growing fancies have turned, not lighth ' , as saith the poet, but heav- ily, bodily, totally. to thoughts of calic. How could we help it, with the the loveliest of campuses before us, and the sweetest of maidens strolling so temptingly, so trequently, so slowly, over its beautiful sward ? Help it we could not, and so we had it incorporated into the constitution and by- laws of the class that no one should presume to apply for a degree of any character until he could show reason- able proof that he had at least once in each session been in love. This duty has been faithfully performed by each and every one of us : by some even more frequently than the law required. The great collegiate duty of the spring term, that of witnessing every game of base ball, has also been per- formed, and we have won high honors as onlookers and encouragers of the team. In the later spring we have not forgotten the Father of his Country in our rambles on moonlight nights, and many are the occasions on which we have glorified Old — 20- George with the red or blue insignia of our respective boat crews. On several occasions, which come to us now most vividly, have we seen the venerable G. W. display the national colors, the white being furnished b} such small parts of his own person as had escaped the hostile paint brush of fratricidal strife. In commencement days we have gone regularly to chapel and talked religiously throughout the exercises to our best girl, or to some other fellow ' s, as the case might be. A righteous horror has been exhibited, since our very first commencement, of hearing one word which proceeded from the rostrum, and careful attention has been given to the discourse of those who filled the pews. In all seasons we have endeavored honestly to make as much noise on the streets of Lexington as was ex- pected and desired by Sergeant Hazlewood and Mayor Houghawaut in order that some amusement might be afforded the anxious spectators who daily thronged the municipal courts of justice. The spirit of tender solici- tude for the dumb beasts of the t jwn has been carefully fostered, and in furtherance of this end more than one bovine has found a night ' s lodging far from the noisy crowd in the company of the shades of Plato and Aristotle. On Sundays we have attended service regularly,
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