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ive 1113 t11c cl~erisl~ecl iiitrocluctory fixurcwhich we have l)eei~ revising ant1 hea~tif~ii~g for altnost a year, ai~d get right down to work.I3eliering that a class history should be colr~plete as well as dramatic a11d onlate, we will detail '98's doingsfrom the point at which they were dropped in the Freshman history.The class of '97 not caring to accept our challenge to an athletic contest on Fehruarj- 22, 1895, an in~loorinterclass meet was arranged for, and '98 entered in all her fullness. In this we captured si2 firsts out of n possiblcten, and four of these six either broke old records or established new ones. Our success on this occasioi~ caused sotne !vise 11eads to ret~~arkthat " '98 might make it interesting for '95 (the class of athletes) when the 'Mirror Cup,' held by the latter class, was contested for onField Day." Trne to their wisdom, there was a royal battle on May 11. From the entries it was evident that the fight would 11eone hetvieei~'95 and '98. The events 1)egan to go off in a way that wreathed Senior countet~ances ill stniles which threatenell to break ill rolls of laughter,I)ut a shower came up and postponed their hilarity, along with the remainder of the iiiterrnptctl events, till May 13 (the nntnher wasuncanny enough to make us llelieve that the tnore huinorous ones generally have the last itlning of laughter); the score st0011 37% for '95ancl 2Sg for '98. I\.loi~[lay rlawnetl in the way bIondays generally dawn, and raced against time till the after~iooii, when tlie gods took a half a(lay off, an(1 came to gaze oil Bucknell's campus. Our score ran right up to 49%, while only two lrlore were added to the 37% of '95. We\\,on by 10 points, broke three records, theti welit the way of all athletic flesh and had our teal11 photograplieil.Our next footprint was in basket hall. After a delay of eight wesks '97 came up to ti~iie. When they did come, it was evident that theybelieved that old fallacy "might makes right" in all its simple purity, but science, combined with skill, is always superior to brute force, ant1we won by a score of 2-1, wit11 a large n~argin of good, clean playing in our favor.Onr heads were distending pretty rapidly at this time, so the Faculty asked us to take a vacatioi~ while they 11u11tetl up another Freshmanclass.35