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such a battle? The best source for the facts of any battle is from an eye witness. But even the position of eye witness was far from being pleasant; however, it was much pleasanter to be an eye witness than to be Fritz's eye- glasses. So the said person preferred the former position, and, therefore, lives to-day to record the event. But continued success almost always has its evil effects. But no reactionary 'force as yet set to work in our midst. Each victory over opposing classes, instead of giving us renewed conceit and intensified vanity, only made us the more hopeful and active, but not vaingtori, ous. That eager, watchful spirit ;;; that was early manifested in the Freshmen, instead of becom, ing only a careless, sluggish am- bition, began more and more to display itself. After we had vied successfullywith the differ- ent classes in the college,we felt that there was still another body we must meet, i. e., the Faculty-not faceto face,how- ever, for we often had to turn our heels to the faceof SOme of them. Hence no idle moments were spent; every mind was keen and active; every effort strong and vigorous. \Ve felt we must soon try our hand with that body. We thus tried to think that making morning inspection was a thing of the past-we early learned, however, that keeping study hour was a thing of the immediate future. Wethought we could best down that body by abrogating their power in laying down rules. But for evel'y mil"we broke, as in the case of the hydra of old, there came out a hundred new ones -1·51 -I--