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we turned out to find that the Sophs had at last raised sufficient nerve to post a feehle
attempt at a proclamation. We immccliately fell to work and hy daylight not a
"proc" was intact.
In chronological order the next important cvcnt was the inter-class foothall galne.
Great were the preparations and on the day of the game a large expectant crowd
thronged the campus, eager to see the contest. Out of respect for our own feelings
we will not dwell at length on this game, suffice it to say that although defeated hy
superior strength and ahility, we wcrc not hcaten, as was manifested hy the class
spirit shown after the game.
I~astly comes the crowning cvcnt of our sclloob year, our Frcsll~nan hanquct
which was held at Wilkesharre on the evening of January 9th. 1905.
After considerahle excitement in rescuingour banquet corn~nittce chairman, which
was only accomplished after we had captured the Sophomore's president and several
of their toasters, we departed almost unhindered.
most successful banquet ever lheld hy any class.
hountiful repast served in a magnificent banquet hall.
This was without question the
Ninety-onc persons sat down to the
When we returned to Lewishurg we learned that the Sophomores had departed
for Williamsport during our ahscncc-they
and as silently stolen away."
This is the record of our most acute fits of insanity.
had "folded their tents like the Arabs
As we grow older in col-
lege life they will doubtless become more and more infrequent, until zt last, with one
grand final spasm, we shall roll out from Old Hucknell into the arms of an astonished
and delighted world. Hail 1908!