Repository: UIHistories Project: Sophograph - 1891 [PAGE 26]

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OUR FRIENDS.

NE morning while in chapel, my attention was called to the student's manner of marching. The girls left first; but I shall not attempt to picture the many gradations of gracefulness, from the willowy creature with a vibratory carriage to the more substantial damsels. The grave and reverend seniors followed next. They were conspicuous by their leisurely movements, combining the precision of s,oldiers with the grace of dromedaries. After them followed the old companies. Not being on exhibition, they marched as if they were doing it only because they had to and would rather have a dollar than go to chapel any way. Some <>\' the boys wore an xpression of deep thought on their faces, indicating, either that they were vainly attempting to remember a lesson—winch had never been read over,—or that their breakf; s were still unsettled. A few had their heads reverently bowel, but whether from force of habit or because some one had Lipped some ice down their backs, could only be conjectured. Behind th^ old companies marched the Dew. They seemed to he really endeavoring to p step to the music ;m<l .-it the same time to gaze with envious admiration upon

the shoulder straps and precise tread oftheir doughty captain. While seeking for some basis upon which to classify all of these various types, I found that I could not adopt the regular division, for, from the preplet, chiefly di • acterized by "a foolish hanging of the aethei lip," the mighty senior, upon wh ma brow "Consideration sits and kingly C e," doth grow. So I grouped them according to their chief characteristics as follow-: The frolicsome student who is found i th< bottom of all de.-p-la id schemes, and also at the bottom in his studies. I >wever h< never intends to injure anyone, not i-xm when he locks the class room door, before chapel, and loses the key or persuades some verdant student to make a fool of himself. The next division contains the rdant students; this division is a variable quantity which changes continuously from a maximum in the fall to a minimum in the spring Here may be found the student who called at the library for a "bogus program; and also the one who asked for military drill on his class card. The familiar student greets you as if h< were VOID- rich uncle from Australia, insis on kissing vou for vour mother, hugging vou for vour brother and finally striking you a favor. He wishes to be Your b > friend < m and shows his inestimable worth by removing a dent which he previously placed in your hat, or by dusting your coat in an off* * *

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The scholarly student; here we should find the student who always has his lessons, n» dreads going to class, was never known t "flunk" in an examinalion, but always "ones" and docs not inform his friends of the fact several times. lie always stavs it