1915 Cedrus Yearbook

4,1* Freshman History E, THE members of the Freshman Class, in order to create the best of im- pressions, procure justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for a common defence against Upper Classmen, and secure the blessings of publicity to our- selves and our Alma Mater, do compile and publish these facts concerning the Class of 1918. We are twenty-one. Among these twenty-one are some of the gayest lads and prettiest lassies, some of the best athletes and most talented musicians, some of the best orators and students, and some of the brightest heads of hair to be found in the whole college. How do we know this, and how can we prove it to the world at large? Only a fleeting glance at the accompanying picture is needed to verify the statement that our lassies are pretty. There are girls with blue eyes and brown eyes, with pompadour hair and with curls. There are tall girls and short girls, and girls thick and thin. There are blondes and brunettes; certainly, girls of enough different kinds to suit anyone's taste for beauty. There is no doubt about the lads being gay, for "by their ties ye shall know them"; and surely there can be none gayer than "Cam's" famous pink one and "Jim's" re- versible tango and purple. Then, for proof of the athletic ability of our classmen, we have only to point to the pictures of both the girls' and boys' teams in basket ball. In each we find the smiling countenances of four noble Freshmen, who have proven their prowess by helping to make the winning easier, or the losing harder, in the season's battles for old C.C. Does anyone doubt that we have musicians in our class? If so, let him stroll past Dr. Oglesbee's resider,ce on Xenia Avenue some night, and listen to the happy and lilting strains of. "If I were a Bird," as the fair Helen executes them. Can he truth fully deny that this at least is a Freshman who has musical talent? Perchance on the same night the stroller may have passed McClure's room and heard the patriotic strains of "Yankee Doodle" issuing from his casement. Was not that talent also? That we have the best orators does not need to be proven, for of the six contest- ants in the preliminary oratorical contest four were Freshmen, and to one of these first honors were awarded. The judges who made the decisicn, have shown beyond a doubt. that the "Freshies" excel in the speech-making art. Moreover, we are good students. This decision was not forced upon us by a few egotistical members, but by the "Prof's" themselves. Greek and German, by hard riding, are to us sieht-reading; Latin constructions are mere res ludiendi; English is a pleasant iugerne with words; and Trig—well, let Trig be the unknown angle. Ours is indeed a bright class but perhaps the less said about our brightness the better; foras we have heard, red-headed people are as a rule anything but "slow to anger." These are the merits with which we alone of all the classes, past or present, possess. Although we are not conceited, but modestand humble, we feel that when 1918 goes the way of all its predecessors "It will leave behind it Footprint in the sands of time; Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's college main, A forlotn and greener brother. Seeing may take heart again." 3't