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3unior bietorpv', , , OUR JUXIOR YEAR ! Surely Mercury has loaned us his winged, 7 sandals, so quickly have we mounted the third flight of our collegecourse.,+',., .Can it possibly be well nigh three years since that day when'97's bloonling lads and lasses, fresh from their native heather, first awakened-the echoes of our classic halls with the glowing e~lthusiasnl of their lustyvoices? Fancy tells us "no," but cold fact assures us it is even so, and withthe answer comes the feeling of responsibility attendant upon the realizationthat we areveritably atuong the ranks bearing the time-lionored name " Upperclassmen."Having passed the thrilling scenes of heated strife and occult feast, ourjunior year furnishes a scant supply of the marvelous, in which the historian takes suchgreat light.Amoilg the leading suhjects worthy of perpetuation is undoubtedly "n~echanics," for,who that has been hoisted to a "V. G." or an "Ex." by the combined powerof the simple andcompound pulleys can forget that perilous ascent? Nor shall we soon become oblivious to thedefinition and practical illustration of work, foutld respectively in our beloved text-hook, andin the seemingly vain search for French cats and German "loves."Moreover, the occasional rockiog of the ship of '97 has been explained to our full satisfaction,and although we sadly regret our inadequacy to keep the metizccntev constantly in itsproper position, owing to a preponderance of weight anlong the masts as compared with thatwithin the hold, yet we woultl not, even for the sake of smoothest sailing, desire our massivebrain tissue diminished by a single ounce.Then, too, we have considered 011 a scietltific basis theangles of deviation innocently describedby us since earliest infancy, atid have become quite enlightened on the hitherto illexplicablephenonlenon of a body which will not remain perpeadespecially when the latter has a somewhat polished surface.81