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altogether illegal by the judges of the affair, and if it so pleased the Sophomores they might not molest the Freshmen on Effigy Night, and yet rest assured that no effigy of the 1901 Class was burned in 1899. Throughout the year we have persisted in hard work and have received due reward from the teachers in the shape of good marks. And not only have we made an enviable record in our marks this year, but we have also been making history. For the reception given in March by the Great Triumvirate will mark an epoch in the world's history which will serve to make the year 1899 distin- guished above any other o{ the nineteenth century. Among the girls of 1901 there is perhaps as much variety as in the other department of the class. If the boys can boast of a Cesar, a Crassus and a Pompey, a marvelous genius, who actually reads seven books at one time, a champion athlete, a musician that might rival Mozart, an orator who promises to some day eclipse all the lights in the United States Senate, and an elocutionist who relates such pathetic experiences of the days when he was "a young man" as to move the audience to tears, the girls can claim at least all equal number of celebrities. Among these are good girls, mischievous girls, girls that work and girls that play, quiet girls and noisy girls, bright girls and alas --_ !!! 1901 has a poetess, whose fame promises to live through ages yet to come, in the soul-stirring lines: "Day by day our French we learn, Day by day we flunk in turn," etc., etc., Sorely neglected for the smiling faces over the way. The Latin Class has lately become a source of uneasiness to one of our mem- bers-not that she fears the manly charms of .iEneas, but because whenever the principal parts of "sto" are given she loses consciousness and nothing less than the declension of silva-silva; proves an effectual restorative. To two students only of the Latin Class we would say "Eq~lO ne credite." while they cry out in' alarm when called on to read out of their turn, "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!" A pretty, dark-eyed girl, whose name begins with C--, handles the strap- can with such a vim and a dash as to astonish the rest at the table, while her fair- haired room-mate, true to he~ old love, spends three hours daily writing to --_ Hasdrubal. One young lady of the class has lately developed such a fondness for the Latin language that she actually prefers the .iEnied in the original to Dryden's translation, and goes about day by clay singing: " Anna virumquc cauo, Troiae qui primus ab oris," 00