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19061 BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY 49
The Spring term brought our plans for a Sophomore Cotillion to completion.
This dance was to have been the first of its kind at Bucknell, in fact the first Soph-
omore dance in the history of the place, and would undoubtedlg have been a success
had not smallpox appeared in Lewisburg and the Armory put in quarantine.
Disappointed in our dance we turned our attention to track work and easily won
second place in the Inter-Class contest, giving way only to the present Seniors, and
defeating the present Sophomores and last year's Seniors by a very decisive score.
After these events we pursued the even tenor of our way into Junior year.
At the beginning of this year we came back-somewhat
less in numbers and
with gaps in our ranks where some much missed and regretted comrades once stood-
calmy conscious of our unassailable dignity of upper-classmen, now free from all fis-
tic obligations towards other ranks of associate students.
As Juniors it was our duty to help the Freshmen in every way in our power, and
we did aid them with advice and counsel; helped them to organize; helped them to
resist undue oppression ; helped them with their football team ; helped them with
their "Proclamations" until the Sophomores complained and cried again and again that
it was unfair, and that they had never received such help from their Juniors.
The day of the Freshman-Sophomore football game, we and the Seniors motu-
ally disgraced ourselves and each other by a class rush and scrap which began in fun,
hut ended in sober vicious earnest.
Imagine for yourself the two Upper-Classes of
Bucknell University, attired in their sweet resplendent best, at four-thirty on an aut-
umn afternoon, fighting like terriers for the amusement of under-cla?smen, co-eds,
preps and muckers.
The efforts of our class this year have been mainly turned toward producing
L'AGENDA which will take the breath from all that have come before, and which
will serve as a standard of excellence for many, many years to come.
Of course we
can't be sure yet about the ones to come, that is, not absolutely sure, but we are certain
that we have accomplished what we wished with respect to those of previous years.
Our latest triumph has been our Junior dance, the Promenade which undoubt-
edly eclipsed anything which Bucknell has ever known and will be high water mark
-no unmeaning figure of speech on our campus, by the way-of college dances until
we again surpass ourselves at our Commencement Assembly. Incidentally it is the only
Promenade in the history of the institution which has come out so successful from a
financialstandpoint.
And with the chronicling of this last propitious fact my duty ends.