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SOPHOMORE CLASS There is a time in every college graduate's we did not succeed in uprooting such tradi- life when he is a sophomore. To a freshman it tions as homework, tests or "D" slips. Each is .1 seemingly unobtainable position; but we, day, as our heads hung a little lower from the for whom that year is over, wonder where it weight of the knowledge within them, we has gone. Now we have reached the halfway realized even more that we were here pri- point. marily for an education. We entered the hallowed state of "wise Previously made friendships were strength- fools" in September, 1955. It was good to come ened-new ones were made. Though the inter- back on campus feeling that this was truly ests of the group were varied and milny of us our home away from home. Within a week we were members of separate organizations, we wore "lords of the rats" secking our revenge still ;emained a close knit group. The C. Lee for the year before when we were "rats of the Fishback Scholarship fund, on which we had lords," However, ours wasn't the last laugh, for begun work in our Freshman year, was still in early October OUf wise half was taken away our main objective. Under the leadership of and we were left as just simply fools when as Al Cilmore the class continued to make its pledges we wore subjected to the ridicule of presence on the Hill known. our chosen sorority or fraternity. But