1916 Cedrus Yearbook

19 Senior History 16 I T is with pride that we record in the pages of this Cedrus the deeds done(and undone)in the flesh by one of the most wonderfully and fearfully made classes in the history of old C.C. When we are all on the dead level in the cemetery,it will be said of us as of Lincoln,"Now they belong to . the ages." Many will shed tears, copious, gushing tears, not of regret and distress, but tears of joy and gratitude for the innumerable volumes of good deeds which we have placed on the shelves of eternity. In 1912 twenty-four young striplings registered as Freshmen,but as time flowed on the number dwindled or increased by spurts until we now number fifteen. At the beginning of our Senior year Ralph Elder safely jumped from the valley of the sophomore over the mountains of Juniorhood, into the land of the Seniors flowing with intellectuality and irrigated by success. Rev. Whyte will join our ranks on Commencement Day and take his bachelor degree. Two of our members,0.M.and C.P., have already put on the teacher's harness and are pulling many thru the slough of ignorance. They, too, will be recipients of degree's on June 9th. Yes, we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Some have poise, others avoirdupoise; some are blondes, many broomettes; and others have so much of them on the ground that it is a wonder they don't take cold. We are the hope of the ages and despair of the Profs. Our motto is efficiency in the broadest sense —to do everything and everybody. We are going to put on the market the biggest(how about Dave?) and the best qualified bunch of teachers ever yet moulded and branded by C.C. It is said that teachers are the salt of the earth,and our Profs.will testify that we have already attained a five cent sack capacity along this line. There are coming scientists among us who will no doubt be analyzing gold dust for years to come. Then,too,there are some who have proved most efficient in argumentation and debate. Prof. Allen's patient and faithful labors along this line are not barren of results. Such weighty questions as those concerning"Evolution"and "Military Preparedness" have been settled for all times by some of our esteemed members. Ada and Dorothy have had a course in domestic silence and others of our fair members can execute anything on the piano, even just judgement. "Tis said that Merle has the rudiments of no less than ten languagesstored away in the nooksand cubby holes of his cranial anatomy. On the other hand "Willie" has the financial deficits of no less than ten organizations stored away in the nooks and crevices of his pockets—some treasurer! There is an erroneous notion afloat concerning our belligerency. Very few things has our class, collectively or individually, sought to oppose. But in the course of human trickery, when numerically shaped flower gardens, obnoxious because of place and placer, are planted in full view of daily and legitimate walk, then WEfeel it OUR DUTY to the institution to rise up and demand justice—or root out geraniums. Again, who—(I leave space for a reply) would not try to pull the wool over the eyes of the faculty when in order to receive your "sheepskin's' you are compelled to orate 1000 words for the ears of the unappreciating public. We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated; we have prostrated before the faculty and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the Board of Trustees. This leads us to philosophize with Shakespeare—witli a few blottings out and some insertions— "To deliver 'em or not to deliver 'em,that is the question:— Whether 'tis nobler in the minds to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against the movement, And by opposing end it?" In one sense we are belligerent. We believe with our President(McChesney)in mental prepared- ness. The Profs. have been doing their best to load our intellectual howitzers and for four years have been steadily mobilizing the forces of truth and fact. All that remainsto be done is the ignition of these gaseous bombs by the flame of activity. M.E.B. 23