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Dedication. Storm and sunlight in the sky Hold alternate supremacy, After the grim night is gone Gleams the laughing light of dawn, Wintry branches, bleak and bare, u Freight with bloom Spring's balmy air, And so we greet with furtive tears These records of four smiling years. From far lands and foreign shores, By devious ways, some stern to fare, Warriors we w11o mustered here, Beleaguering 'round Wisdom's doors- Stubborn doors, the needle's eye To blundering camels of our band, And swathed in densest mysteryg All knowledge tedious tomes command. Yet lustier backs for bravcr gains Have bucked and broken learning's line, With scalpel gaze and lancet brains Ripped deftly thro' the bitter rhineg That wards for grasp and gorge divine The fabled fruit of Paradise, Soaring far sun-wards, eaglewise, Thro' esoteric subtleties. Still some have loitered in the rear Inglorious, and shall not be near To share the triumph, loud and large, Gracing our honorable discharge. And some have fallen-nay, farewell, Farewell, old friends, and let it tell, Tho' silent and irrevocable, No less love past forgetfulness. O, noble causc we labored in! O, kind young hearts, and keen to win Fame's pinnacle! What tho' we fail ? Let cynic earthlings rave and rail 5 What boots it so we still may cry With Cato, in our consciousness, Sempronius, we'1l deserve success! Shall we not flaunt their mockery? Ye minstrels, whose soft-twanging lyre, O'er wood, and stone, and savage breast Have wrought the web of your desire, My song should vaunt Ya1e's friendship higher Had I but learned your wizard lore. Are ac Vale, '94. RICHARD WOILTEIINK TON

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Preface. In preparing THE CLASS Book I have endeavored to give to the class as many things of interest and in as accurate a form as possible. The small half-tone picture of each man in connec- tion with the history will, it is hoped, turn out to be a recog- nized improvement in the book and make it a souvenir indeed. I am under obligations to Leete for materially assisting me in the business management of the book. Class Photographers Pach Bros. very kindly helped me with the pictures. Dr. Seaver assisted me in compiling the physical tables. Reed, Paine, Fowler and F. C. Perkins have written the Years' His- toriesg Worthington, the Dedicatory Poem, Arbuthnot, the Musicalg Sallmon, the Religiousg Eno, the Literaryg Skinker, the Athletics, and Judson has helped with various suggestions. Our dear classmate, Harrington, has kindly helped me in 'varzbus ways. WlI,LIAM TILSON, May. 1894,

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The Class of 1894. So might we talk of the old familiar faces. -Charles Lamb. Samuel Stokes Allen was born at Philadelphia, Feb- ruary 8, 1874. His father, Theodore M. Allen,is a retired business man. He has cousins in the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, Geneva and Berlin. He traces his ancestry to the eleventh century directly and Greek and English blood are in his veins. Has renowned relatives too numerous to mention. William Boyd Allison began his fruitful career at Peosta, Iowa, july 31, 1871. His father, james H. Allison, a graduate of Wooster Academy lOhioj is a farmer and country gentleman. His paternal has held all the offices of the township in which he lives. English Scotch and Welsh blood keeps him alive. Hon. W. B. Allison, U. S. Senator from Iowa. is an uncle. Gustav Albert Andreen began life at Baileytown, Ind., March 13, 1864. His father, Andrew Andreen, a minister, is a graduate of Vexio Normal Academy. He is of good old Swedish stock with a small trace of German ancestry that emigrated from Germany sometime after the Thirty Years' War. i I I I E 'f nw X lt.: