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riights from Canada to Florida, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, could find but forty-four persons who, according to their judgment and ought to become members of this the greatest class that has ever entered walls of our beloved institution. These lads and lassies were commanded to on their armour and do battle with ig-norance. A second command was not they arose and prepared themselves for the conflict ignorant and superstitions persons assembled, as was the custom, at Union Depot, so that they might come lip to college in a body, for that was where they were commanded to go. One who saw them at the depot compared them to a new-mown lawn, a comparison which becomes plain if we remember that they were Freshmen (and Freshwomen) with their hair C11t. In outward they were not so much different fr0111 the rest of mankind, yet was some peculiar attraction about them which caused the people of Westminster to turn ont to do obeisance to them. On the morning following our arrival we were assembled in the to meet the Faculty, with whom many of us have since had private tions. How our hearts beat with fear at the thought of meeting the for surely this nmst be the monster that. the gods called ignorance, whom now we must contend. the question as to how he looked arose. Thereupon Spencer said that had the appearance of the dragon in the Book of Revelations, except that he had seventeen heads," and continuing said: "The only way to conquer him is to pull his right hind leg until he loses his senses." (Wells was a member of the Sub-Fresh the year before and had suffered this treatment until all his cents were gone.) In the meantime someone who, like David, trusted more in his power to sling a stone in the centre of his seventeen heads than to pnll his leg, suggested that we till our pockets with stones, so that while the girls pulled his leg, as they were adept i!l that, we could attract his attention by pelting him with rocks. Father Time moved on. Each moment we felt that the hour of our sojourn among the living were diminished. Finally the bell pealed forth the hour of OUf d00111. Slowly we marched where angels delight to rush, for we were passing through the girls' part of the building. Having lined up in the auditorium, facing the entrance through which the dreaded monster must pass, we awaited its coming. Soon the sound of approaching footsteps fell upon our ears. They drew nearer and nearer. Every nerve was stretched to its utmost tension. Every eye was. centred upon the entrance. The silence which had fallen upon ail was soon broken by a mixed chorus of "There he is!" followed by "No it ain't!" for instead of some blood-curdling monster, our teachers walked in the door. So