Aloha - Hoover Library

History of £Iass of 1902.moaun [anguag~Y~II.Wil' sind die treschen Burschen,Modern languages lehrnen.Tour du monde nous pouvous faire,Bans Ie secour d'an Homere,1902,1902,Bravo!(llass ~~lIs.Chick·a·muz, chick-a mine,Chick-a-uiuch, muck mou,Hullabalur, hullabalin e,Two, two, two!Ad verum intimur,Claraitas sequitur.Western Marylaud.Wcstern Marylaud l1902 !tEELING my comparative unworthiness as a scribe to recount the deeds ofso noble a class as is ours, it is not without some trepidation that thishistory is written.The past year has been for us a year of progress. Although we number onlyfifty-four, we have done great things in the eyes of men and our fellow-students.I'm not claiming perfection for this fair class of ours, but will grant that we hadthe usual amount of verdancy common to all Freshmen. However, we were .notlong in casting off this air of timidity and shyness while in the presence of oursuperiors (?)-the Upper Classmen. We soon came forth, with hair parted inthe middle, and took our part in the College affairs with an ease and grace thatdid us credit.Having learned the regular routine of the dining (?) hall, the purposes(strikes) and pleasures of "Parlor Night," we became aware of the fact that theSophomores were our natural and avowed enemies; whereon we immediatelyset about entertaining these worthies, and showed them that we knew a thing ortwo, even if we were Freshmen.Perhaps the most important event of the first part of the year was our footballgame with the above-mentioned gentlemen. The Sophomores defeated us,not because we did not playa good game, but because they played a better one.We "Buck"( ed) the line persistently, and tried to "Leg(g)" the ball around theend, but to no avail. Fate was against us. We were defeated, but not COI1-quered.About this time the Sophomores elected their class officers, and we immediatelybegan planning to relieve their officials from the care of keeping certainportions of their clothing. Not believing in procrastination, we quietly took thecoat of their historian on the day of his election ; and being of a sympathetic (?)disposition, we gave them time to get over the shock which this-to them unwelcome-surprisegave, and did not make any further attempts, of note, to get97