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ill 'with our blue jeans. We don't deny that our dear girls came to many of their childish and by soure termed simple traits. We know they their peanuts and still insisted 011 getting the pencil which had tarry attached. We do not care to deny that the dear little lassies would some- times lick their fingers alter eating their 'lasses. \Ve were Frest.ies, and like all Fresbles we were verdant. Yet never was a truer thing said than that by our presi- dent after having summoned us before him and looked into our blnshing faces and eyes of many colors, even green \Ve well remember his words, and as we wr-ite we know of a surety they were true, This is what he said: "Ladies and gentlemen: You have a future before you and can be what YOI1 wish," whereupon one dear, sweet little lassie of fifteen surumers sang soft a11(1 low, "I want to be an angel." And then we all thought we would not object to being one of the same kind. After a brief consultation we decided to have the usual class officers, and would begin at once to study the members and the offices in order that when we returned the next year we would get the right person for the right place. Of these we will speak ill the next chapter. And now our work had begun. We had one plank ill our platform over which we intended to cross to the shore of fame where we in honor would stand with a crowu or cap upon our forehead, and a rol! -not a biscuit-in our hand. This plank was, "whereas ponies have ever proved a detriment to the cause of education, making the student less a student and more oft a rider, and oftillles making him sore Be it resolved that we do hereby denounce the system of pOll)' riding, and while we may flunk honestly, we will never ride through dishonestly." The reader will readily observe that we had hardly the right conception of the pony question and had made for ourselves a law which, if kept, would make our duties almost beyond our efforts. Yet the law was made and we entered upon our work honestly and ardently, and thus continued throughout the year. \Ve soon realized the needs of our college and began to make an effort to supply them. It was after considerable drilling we developed two base-ball teams and_ a fine class of athletes. Feeling that the first honor was to the most worthy, and be was most worthy \\'ho honestly excelled all others, we entered the various contests determined to excel all others or make all others excel themselves. The result was that at the end of the year, '93 held first honors of both the field and indoor sports. 'While thus we strove and won, Tempus had not ceased to fugit and we were ap. prised of the fact that the day was at hand when the freshmen class shonld step from the lofty position which it had occupied for the few months of its sojourn at the great institution of learning: should put aside what little dignity it had found lying around where it had falleu from the over-burdened Sr's, should forget it was composed of boys and girls from Christian homes of a civilixed country, and of all fools, whether ancient or modern, living or dead, should make themselves the greatest; or, ill other words, the time had come for burning the effigy and with it its accompallyillg out- landish, heathenish yells, shrieks and groans, which made all others but the freshies and the effigy wish that they were the freshies and the freshies were the effigy, and which made the effigy wish it was anythillg or anybody but the effigy. The freshies were not wisbiug-c-they were satisfied, 'rite rest of the people were just what they would have