came, General G. W. ( ' . Lee was tlie l)eloveil president — beloved not only because lie was tlie illustrious son of an illustrious fatlier, but because he was a man of the liighest and noblest qualities — as one of our professors said : One of the noblest men on God ' s green earth. It was with saddened hearts that we learned a year ago that failing health had compelled him to resign the position he had filled witli so much honor. But now there is a mingled feeling of joy and sad- ness, for there has come into our midst one of the nation ' s greatest men, and be has taken up the W(irk liiiil down by iriieral Lee. We part with General l ee wilh regret. Imt we bail willi jny tbe administration of Hon. William h. Wils, m. What more can we say V The men- mention of Mr. Wilson ' s name speaks a volume to every l)atrioti ' American citizen. I must stoj), though not half done. Let me say to you in closing, my fellow graduates of ' 98, let us )nake history in the years to come. We start out with a brief history, but let us so live and act and labor, that we may live forever in the history of the present generation.
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1bi8tov ! of the Class of ' 00. THE Class of ' 99, last of a nol)le race, enibokl- ened by precedent and privilege, makes its junior appearance before tlie public; and witli- out a blusli assures tbem that it deems itself not unworthy to end a long line of brilliant prede- cessors who have signed themselves 18 . And if you have a doubt of it — and surely you can not have, unless your acquaintance with this illus- trious Class be but the slightest — a perusal of its record and its list of notable members will be convincing evidence that, though last, it is not least of the classes of 18 . Ever since (it shall not be stated when) the pioneer members of the Class of 99 Ijegan to make their appearance on the academic arena, it has been a marked class. But without entering further into the matter of marks, we think it safe to venture the statement that the CMass of ' 99 has reached the highest mark possible for a class to attain. We do not wish the ambitious classes that will follow us in the near future to be dis- couraged, but we merely give them the warning of seniority, don ' t try it, you can ' t reach it. The paths by which the members of the Class of ' 99 have arrived thus far on the way to such an eminence are various. Some hnvv toiled in the depths of Philosophy, some have struggled with the insuperable powers of Math., some have backed awa3- at the tough and tangled roots of Latin and Greek, while others have soared to the heights of Astronomy and pierced the intricacies of the ologies; but all have tended to and striven for the one supreme object of becoming a member of the Class of 99. In athletics we have lirld our wonted posi- tion, and to tell what that position is, need I say more than that Oberlin, the furious football charger, is a gift and i)roduct of the Class of ' 99. And the delight of our hearts is Myers of ' • third ' who has again and again thrilled us with bis splendid precision an l judgment on the baseljall iield. And if some of our members have aspired to be painters we would only exhort them in life to seek a higher I ut not so lofty a calling. And now that we have seen in truth what manner of men compose the Class of ' 99, seen that in whatever department of college life you find a man of superior excellency you find him in the Class of ' 99, we can not wonder at the effect of organizing into a unit such individuals. How- ever this may be, on January 1.3th, 1898, such
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