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4£ Tr^fT ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ People which has no history."—The illustrious class of ,{ If. I .H) is not supremely happy. We have tried hard not to make any history, but t h e effort was in vain, for the surpassing brilliancy and originality of '96 could not be concealed. Our Freshman meetings were spirited and showed the real feelings of the class. It may be observed here that we never even in our most verdant youth, confined ourselves, as so many have done, to one feeling as a class—we had and still have several of t h e greatest variety possible. Not only did different members display great individuality, but as a class we never believed in doing as our predecessors had done. W e had a F r e s h m a n Sociable, to be sure—that was required in our course—but it was different from a n y that had gone before. We went on a little trip, but we d i d n ' t lose our heads, or our over, r shoes, we alw ays have t h e former with us and on this occasion we considered it in better taste to wear the latter. We d i d n ' t let the Sophs roast us out either; no, indeed, we were admirably coo! all evening. The Sophomores were so impressed by our extraordinary ability, executive and otherwise, that when we returned to the University they, with one accord, begged us for some little souvenir, insisted on it so strongly, in fact, that after affectionately embracing our appreciative admirers in the hall, we finally consented to leave them a few locks of our hair, pieces of wearing apparel and some of our class colors. Then, for a time, our excessive modesty caused us to withdraw from the public gaze, and the bright light of our genius was seen only in the class-room. Our scholarly attainments were truly wonderful, so great indeed that in our Sophomore

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