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FRESII~fAN (;LASS In football, basketball, and every other sport, the freshmen distinguished IIISTORY As the time went on, the sophomores themselves. and the juniors gave dances for us. Thanksgiving and Christmas soon came with the annual What-no academic atmoshpere to stifle celebration, the banquet, and before we the souls of a multitude of freshmen, no realized it, we were going home. belligerent sophomores lining the walks, no On and on flew time, until January, when stern professors hurrying about intelligently, mid-year examinations reared their ugly no intel1ectual upperclassmen smiling super_ heads. Still we stood up beautifully, and ciliously? No, it was not like that. It entered the next semester with flying colors. was Monday, the 25th of September. The After class elections, we took our place as an day was hot, and we were bothered. Through- organized class on the Hill. out the day, the new class poured and drizzled Spring vacation came and went, and we onto the campus. The moment we arrived realized that our hardest year was nearly we were swept into the rounds of the re- over. Although it has been hard, it has been ceptions, the parties, and the new friends of happy. It was, however, difficult to think of Orientation Week. 1n the rush of events we June with the seniors leaving the Hill. Look, did not have time to be homesick. ing back, we are able to feel that we have Then came the deluge of upperclassmen. accomplished a great deal. We have made Hazed by the sophomores, tolerated by the friends never to be lost; we have done things juniors, and kindly noticed by the seniors, never to be forgotten. We are going on and we soon took hold of things and really on, ever seeking, sometimes finding. To the belonged. As the weeks flew by, we realized sophomores who know us best and help us that we had an outstanding freshman class; most, we are coming ahead, on and on. wonder of wonders, there were more men than To the class of '4°, farewell, for we shall miss girls. We learned to grind, to play, and you. On and on will go the procession of occasionally, to sleep. In leisure hours, the classes, and soon we too shall be seniors, men went out for many of the spans, and the and then ... girls, for the most part, went out for the men. RIDGELY POLLITT Sixly