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This, then, was the general trend of the Juniorthought and ambition, and though we at times departed somewhat from this exact course, yet we never entirely forgot OUT real pur- pose in college nor ceased to d be inspired by our present ~ accomplishments and future hopes Pb an t a sm e.g o ric scenes of \\ anton pleasures a n d \\ o rt h l es s pursuits iZ "auld flit before our _;/; ? ~ r~~- ~ ~'~l~~~~~sie~~~n:'~~~~~~nl\~~ >'\,'~ 4"'~!;~"~"':,,~•..n PI" f'I'~'''b pression of their persistent existence. Innocent fun, how- ever, we indulged in, and enjoyed. This we considered a nec- essary force in the development of any successful college course. Thus appears the reason for the indulgence in the innocent fun," riding horses" and "srniling v-cboth innocent at first, but prolonged indulgence in either often produces re- sults most harmful to the student! We at first thought this innocent fun, but we soon found that there was some peculiar force about eecb which made it necessary f01-one who had once engaged in the fun to keep it up_ Thus to stop either meant disaster, but to continue meant work-abut that was our motto after all. But even though we now engaged in innocent fun, and found our college life made brighter thereby, we were not free from cares and perplexities. These continued still to beset us. In the almost constant change in the course of study our class received repeated shocks. Change in the books had given us 110 little degree of unpleasantness in our first years at the college, for as the change gave LIS no cbaoce of buying om- books ,f second-handed;' it was necessary, for us to order them through the Faculty. Being new at the -1- 58 -1-