Washington and Lee University - Calyx Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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for ridicule and ojipression. Alas ! ' t is human weakness to forget so soon one ' s own failings. There is iiofhiiii we do not know and we l:iegin t(5 take a prominent part in the affairs of College. We aspire to honors in every department, ' e strive to pull the wires in the literary societies, perhaps we paint Old George and commit other sins which we hope have long since 1)een forgiven and forgotten by the Faculty. Our Junior year is not so eventful in many respects. We come to the realization of the fact that there are some things we do not know and proceed forthwith to sober down and accjuire- them. Perhaps other developments around town could explain this also but that would hardly be called class history. We leave others to worry the Fresh and Faculty, know fewer men in College and less about everything in general. ' ith Uriah Heep we can say we are very umble. We are not so numerous as before ; many have dropped Academ and taken to the Law which has been said, though never above a whisper, to be the } Iecca for all broken-down Academs. Nineteen hundred ! At last we reach the acme of bliss as Seniors, a position so exalted that in our infantile Freshmen minds we had never thought to attain. We become very dignified, hand down our opinion on any subject whatever under discussion with an air wliich only our long experience and wisdom in College affairs can justify. With grave faces we discuss the present evils in College, advise . antidotes and reminesce for the benefit of the common herd of what took place in this or that year of our College existence, ' e note with pleasure the rivalry between the two lowest classes, an evidence that college spirit will not be lacking when we are gone. The members of this class and their accomplishments are so well known to all that it would be unnecessary to mention them here. Suffice it to say that as a body our accomplishments are legion, ' khere are athletes who have upheld the white and blue on many a hard contested field, soon to repeat them in the struggles of life, students who well know how to burn the midnight oil but. alas, depart to seek the wider fields of personal research and study ; engineers who will strive to rival the Seven W onders of the World 20