Cedarville College Memorabilia

REMINISCENCES. Old people love to it and think of their youth; their childhood days, but best of all they love to talk about what happened when they were young. So it i in college life. As we near the close of our college days, it give us great plea ure to recall our past experiences. Some of these are ver~· amusing, while other may be sad. A a Prep I recall the board walk, which formerly extended from the gate to the college . It was hardly wide enough for two; and here and there you would find one or two boards off, or a loose board. It al ways made you fe el rather queer, when going along this board walk and probably not paying strict attention to your feet, your mind being occupied with high intellectual tho'ts, to come to a place where there wa a board off and one foot would g..:i down lower than you expected, then in all probability you would follow suit. Then sometimes two would be walking together and they would come to a loose hoard. One person would accidently tep on one end of the board and of course the other end would fly up and then as a natural consequence there would be one or two people on the ground. · But all these trials are over now for we have a nice cement walk leading from the gate to the college. \Vhen you are a Prep you may stand off and.look on; when you are a Freshman you are ju t beginning to be in the push The next thing of importance that come to my mind is a story entitled "The Adventure of Oscar Pridget," written by the beginning rhetoric class in 1899. Prof. Campbell was teaching rhetoric then, and we had to write essays to be read in clas . One member would read an essay one day, and anothe r member the next day, and so on. \Veil we wrote essays until we exhausted almost all the sub– Ject about which our young minds were then capable of writing. So we asked Prof. to let u write a tory of several chapters, each member writing one chapter. He granted our reque t _and when the last wa completed we had a story of eight chapter . We tho't about having it published in the Cedarville Herald, hut de– cided not to do so. "In the springtime the young man' Fancy lightly turns to tho'ts of love,' ings the poet, sad doubtless this is true from the following event. One morning in the early spring of HJOl, on arriving at college, we noticed a my t rious air about some of the student , and heard them talking about some one having been "b lied" the night before. You know when you hear talk lik that you naturally infer that there ha been a marriage. So our curio ity wa very much aroused, and w made inquirie, concerning the matter \,\' were ver 1 much ,urpri ed when w were told that Miss Edith Perri!, one of our students, wa married and it was ,he who l1c1d been "lielled" the previou ev ning. Now, it was on Friday that we h ard thi . The previous Saturday the lady went to Xenia wh re he met her beloved. Then they went to Kentu ky and were married. 1i s Perri] returned to edarville l<1te Sat- 11rday e cning and came to school all the next week until Friday, before an on 19