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Show U. of U. Chronicle Year Book 19jf our gear* toitf) tfje Mentor*HE rounding up of the interesting episodes and historical data of the Class about to mount, according to the graduation ritual, "The threshold of Life," might best have been done by a writer of those stories which bear delicious, double alliterative titles. The devotion and struggle of their college life, climaxed by their piteous exodus, might then have been so described as to prompt the undergraduate to seriousness, and harass the consciences of certain members of the Faculty to a point where they would realize that they could have been a little wiser and gentler, at times, during the last four years.The Class is variously constituted now, as it always has been. Many have been with us at times who are not with us at present, and some who are now with us have joined but recently. In the light of these conditions, the writer is at a loss to know how to treat the Class history, lest he show partiality to the extent of relating incidents in which all did not participate.As Fres*hmen, the Class members were not very much unlike other live Freshies. They had a very successful year. Among other things, they adopted, during this year, their present Constitution, which has never been read since, much less adhered to. The title, "Hoi Polloy" (Greek, meaning the rabble), was adopted, but during the Sophomore year, this name w7as discarded, not because it was not appropriate, but because it was so much so.As Sophomores, they gave a very successful dance at the Ladies' Literary Club, the proceeds of which the boys appropriated to an afternoon stag party, in the attic of the Physical building, some time later. What's that? They did. Those fellows were actually mean enough to vote the entire contents of the treasury to a good time without inviting a single girl (they were all single then). That night the Physical building burned, but of course that was not part of the day's program. At the time, the Class was seated together at the theatre, applauding fellow classmen who were in the caste.Somehow or other the Class used to take a fancy to attending 'Varsity theatricals in a body. I guess they would have been doing so yet if they hadn't been Sophomores. The name Sophomore is still applied to the graduating class by many outside of the school, and the usage of the term is, perhaps, permissible, on account of the popularity the Class attained as Sophomores.You see, it all came about in this way: The University Dramatic Club was giving its annual strut at the theatre, and some of the Class were very much there, and insisted on presenting garden truck to their favorites. Next morning, the Faculty members read about it in the paper. Weren't they there? Well, I should say not-the Faculty members never do anything so rash as to attend a student affair. Grave hallucinations crept in among the ideas hatched in the Faculty room. They imagined the entire State seeking redress for the misuse |
