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0 10\·ely pink ami ).,>Tl'ett
You shall be clearly seen
With a faith untold
·' Till the sun grows cold
And the stars are old
,\nd the lea,·es of the Judgment Book unfold · ·

It is a little sad to tell the public that from a class of forty six in our freshman year we ha\·e dwindled
down to three. But after a second renection we cannot say that tlwre is so much to weep o\·er. X umbers do not
make the class. Our readers must r .. member that the coarser the net the larger will be the fish caught. Rome
had her trinm\ irate: America has had her Webster, Clay and Calhoun, and also her trium,·irate in a literary
sense: and now the F. A, C. has her trium\'irate- -exercising the legblati,•e, executi\1.~ and judicial functions.
But we must go back four years and start at the beginning of our reign to tell how much those boys of ninety-
se\en did smut our freshman faces. They made ns run the gauntlet, perform over a trunk or chair. ,;hine their
shoes. all(! bring them water. But we do that ne,·ennore. Next yetr. at the pride of our lives. we paddled those
,·cry juniors of nineteen hundred and one. \Ve almost drowned and froze the little rats on a cold morning. Our
president e\·en ga,·e a sleeping hoy quinine and turpentine and was "asleep· in three minutes. afterwards. That
stupid fresh woke one time if ne,·ennore. That year many a hare-hone rooster on a cold rainy night has been
pnlltd from the thorny orange tree with a warning of death if he squalled again -hut he squalled ne,·ennore.
\\'e made friends with the present sophomores and led them off for a raid on the cane patch. whence they soon
scattered through the adjoining forest. \\'e surveyed the target range railroad and got some blackberries. l'ro-
fl'ssor .\! tthematics did too, we had to stand examination evermore. Three seniors, high and dignified, weight
125 to 135 pounds. height 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet i inches, with sandy hair, two pairs of brown eyes and one of
blue, no care or sternness upon the brows, no wrinkles upon our tender face~. \\'e hold to the doctrine of
"the sun•i,·al of the fittest." The juniors may too. but they ought to reYi1·e and re\·ise. ~lay be we shall get
up to reveille and sen·e confinements ne,·ermon~- One of our number likes to sing such good old familiar hymns
as" 0 ~linnie Lee. How you once used to he, .. atlCI still he repeats" The Splendor Falls on Castle \\'ails.''
Another hums "The Bell, the mellow tolling of the Bell." The other sings nothing. hut thinks of the "Song
of the Bell," and " llown by the Brook. '
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