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Caption: Illio - 1896
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3umor Cfaee. (Dfficcra. President, Vice- President, Secretar\ , Treasurer. Historian, Sergcant-at-Arras, YKI I . i . W. Pooli. . I; S <in-:i'\iipHfif \ V . \ V . S \ i Lit* \ M l«>M Kl | M I | { \ ( i. II I< K < i \sTOS . CO. Ki MINI. : W Rah, » . <*7 R a h , ,•— '•7, W , Rah! Hah! Rah! JgtBtorg. HE Class of 'Ninety-seven came to the University in much the same way as other classes. Some came down three or four days before the term opened and proceeded to get acquainted with the town and with the Tniversity. By registration day those who had come early were fully qualified to show the later arrivals all there was to see; and could give marvelously inaccurate information in regard to courses and instructors. The members of the class spent t h e first few days in trying to overcome the appearance of greenness. They strolled about with an easy, familiar manner as if they were very much at h o m e ; and as rapidly as possible they learned the names of the fraternities, and could rattle off $ A 8 or 2 X with scarcely any hesitation or doubt as to the order of the letters; and soon they had acquired the habit of speaking of several of the professors by their first names. In ten days each member of the class strutted around with as knowing an air as Barr, who had learned the ropes when he was a Prep. The new Freshmen worked along peacefully on their first term's spurt for high grades, until the time came for 'Ninety-seven's first social. 'Ninety-six followed the example of all preceding Sophomore classes, and announced t h e r e wasn't going to be any Freshman social, and to back up this assertion they used up half the chemicals in the Lab. to make "eye-water " and " s t i n k . " Of course, 'Ninety-seven held their social. They celebrated at Bloomington; and, when it was time to take the train for home, they showed a forgiving spirit, and brought back a little squad of crestfallen Sophomores, who, with their pockets crowded with bottles of chemicals, had been meditating on their sins in the local jail while the dance was going on. 'Ninety-seven did as well as Freshmen could in the color rush. The Soph* did not get all the colors; and there always has been some doubt in regard to the story that Manard, '96, got Beebe's colors alone. 41
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