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Kennedy, Israel, and Parks. Gerringer and Kennedy won. The class medal was won by Gill, but was refused him because of alleged indiscretions. TIle girls' medal was won by Miss Parks. At the beginning of our Sophomore year we found our number diminished by about half. But this year found us experienced and ready for anything. We hazed as seldom before and never since. Dr. Lewis prohibited hazing and we started in and hazed them all over again. Our class election next occupied our attention and was held without the least semblance of friction or ill-feeling. The new officers entered with a will into the important matter of arranging our Hallowe'en Entertainment. We rendered a program that was highly praised and is now considered the ideal towards which ocher classes strive. The girls gnve a Mock Commencement, the cast including them all. The boys' Minstrel Show is the best performance ever given at Hallowe'en. It included Wiley and Elrlerdice end-men: Gill intcrlocutor; and Smith and Lewis musicians, and was followedby a juggling and clog-dancing musical encore by Smith, Thompson, and Elderdicc. After the show the Freshmen furnished additional amusement around the bonfire on the Girls' Side. In athletics we continued our progress, furnishing three football men, and three baseball men. In basket- ball we had almost a new team but succeeded ill tying for second place. Wiley and Parks won the Elocution medals and Gill and Foard, the class medals at, Commencement. The Junior year is generally considered an uneventful one in collegelife. But it was then that we began to make a very enviable record in studies. Thirteen received Honorable Mention for is probably a larger percent- age of the class than was ever so honored. At the culmination of the of the college course we also excelled, for our Junior Banquet was pronounced a success. Toastmaster and Chairman T. S. Englur perfected the arrangements to a far greater degree than had ever been attempted before. The event was one to mark a stage in our career for the Junior Banquet is really the beginning of the end. As Seniors we have often been censured for lack of dignity but we have met all requirements of the Faculty and have taken it upon ourselves to have a good time regardless of what anyone thinks about it. 'Ve believe that our pred- ecessors have frequently mistaken assumed dignity for real merit. A black gown and a sombre countenance are not infallible indications of a completed education. Iu the Society Contests wc furnished our quota of orators and essayists and feel safe ill saying that by them the standard of these contests has not been lowered. Day and Lewis represented Irving; Gerringer and Smith, Webster; Parks and Hill, Philo; and Israel and Steele, Browning; Irving and Browning winning. Lewis has been chosen Inter- collegiate Orator with Gerringer alternate. Our Senior Elocution recitals have been up to the standard and the Music Recitals have surpassed those of recent years.