Show ISTO HISTORY Y OF THE CLASS OF NINETEEN UND HUNDRED ED THE history of the class of 1900 abounds in records records' of 01 brilliant accomplishments incidents full of quaint humor and good noteworthy noteworthy note note- h worthy deeds It is my purpose to repeat the facts of our progress I not as the imagination would have them them- but as actual occurrences Our career began in September 1896 On that well remembered N. N day we swarmed the halls a larger class than e ever er known before and demanded the serious attention of professors and older students True our members did not wear the dignified wise all-wise looks of today nor did they understand the true significance of life at college We wandered through the halls gazing in astonishment at the well filled bulletins and eyeing the college students and professors with a certain certain certain tain mysterious awe a strange conglomeration boys and girls from every direction and of all descriptions cemented together by the i common tie of high aspiration tion There were the little wee twins with their coy smiles and Mr Tucker with his enormous book In contrast there was the U. U of U. U giant Gatehouse who looked into the ti depths far below him with a calm sorrowful expression bespeaking f the words Oh you little creatures Tucker and Gatehouse the most conspicuous students of the University entered with the 1900 Normal Class These were the extremes of our number r f but between them ranged people of all kinds There was Parker B. B Pratt that most original of boys indeed so original as to be able Also there were Condie now our President and the fair haired Peterson whose lack of buttons showed the effect of bachelors bachelor's life s Time sped on yet we did nothing outwardly astonishing we plodded on in school work and stored our knowledge for future mani mani- i. i June rolled around and with it came the years year's final credits Every naughty face beamed with delight as the professors professors professors prow pro pro- w dealt out the 95 sand and s. s Allen and Lyman confessed that we were the brightest mathem mathematical students ts known Reynolds could not account for our superiority in English Miss Brotherhood pronounced pronounced pronounced pro pro- us as artistically inclined to The commencement exercises of the 97 Class came to claim atten atten- tion Such p performance was strange to us and although we were ere interested yet a heavy gloom hung over us Sad news had come to our class telling that one of our number would be with with us no more Aaron Christensen had worked with us faithfully but now he was called to labor in the great beyond i iThe The class of Double Zero soon bade farewell to the beloved halls of the old Varsity and disbanded disband d to make preparations for a second year of hard study All through the summer our boys and rf 5 girls could be seen seen tossing the hay riding horses and in fact indulging indulging ing in all sorts of healthful sports Had Professor Stewart passed that way he would surely have been assured that we were not yet through with our wog polly of existence stage However this recreation was beneficial and placed in us a most favorable condition for study In September of 97 we again swarmed the halls haJIs of the U University University niver- niver sity this time not as strangers to be laughed at No we were now as bright as the older students we joined their ranks and smiled at atthe atthe the Naughty Ones as they sauntered through the building with eyes a and mouths wide open at the new sights We were not discourteous though we did not laugh when they were looking but rather lent a ar r helping hand and aided them in overcoming difficulties 1 K tz F N We were soon settled to school work again but this year we were fr to make our influence felt and be recognized by the whole institution Some of our last year schoolmates were not with us now there places were filled however with new members all anxious to help us along We were Viere one hundred and ten in number and were united by common interests and common aims but as yet we had no class organization Every second year Normal felt that something must be done so that we could command attention as a social body Professor Lyman knowing the real worth of the class offered his bis service and led in the establishment establishment establishment establish establish- ment of the Normal class of 1900 He has since then been looked upon as our God-Father God and nd indeed he has been a true one The Naughty naughty class organized December 3 1897 with Roscoe E. E Grover as president and and immediately put to work to prove to Professor Lyman that we followed his words when he said There is something else to gain in college life besides a knowledge of books we sho should ld cultivate the social side of our nature as well as the mental We decided to give something new in the form of an A ABC B C Spread This was to be the first public manifestation of our strength so every student desired to make it the ev event nt of the school year Our girls were so energetic in selling tickets that the school boys soon had them spotted to such an extent that when one of these maidens made her appearance in the hall the boys rushed pell mell mellinto mellinto mellinto into the basement Our social came in due time and proved to be bevery bevery bevery very successful From it we raised 10 1035 35 with which to purchase our class flag Let it be remembered that our class was the first to organize as early as the second year Yes we were a bright set of students Professor Allen had occasion to use all his old jokes before half the year was over as the CHRONICLE published the fact that he had invented a new set Professor Merrill was afraid to tackle our physics ft class the coming year so he made mad preparations to go East to school 1 And dear old Professor Whiting came to the conclusion that he was behind the times so he began a new course of study Miss Brotherhood Brotherhood Brotherhood Brother Brother- hood also was so worn out finding something new for us to sketch that she resigned her position for a rest from care The next eventful day for our class was the of February The University had arranged for a celebration of our Nations Nation's Hero and had requested that each class attend in a body As yet we did 4 not have our class banner around which to rally so our boys made a large white canvass flag and painted the two zeros in big red figures It was our class emblem to which we would always be true no matter if it were not made of silk Well the classes met in Room 28 to wait for the speaker of the day While waiting each class indulged in its j class yells each trying to make the greatest impression But there was little show for other classes when we had Milton H. H Ross with his powerful voice to lead us Washington Washington Sis Boom Bay Honor and glory to thy bij bis S F I He was the leader of f the red white and blue f We are the leaders of the U. U of U. U We yelled these words with all the volume we could muster The Ther r I class of 1901 could keep calm no longer They raised their president on the shoulders of two of their tall men and while he was waving the x green flag they began to promenade up the center isle Class Clas X f patriotism was at a high ebb in our class quick as a flash our boys leaped over the desks seized the green flag and cast it to the floor Then amid the cheers of 00 and 98 they caused the silken emblem to tobe tobe tobe be dragged along the dusty floor to the corner allotted to it Never again did the class of 1901 try to assert their superiority over our class as the U. U of U. U leaders I c can n but mention some of the important events of our class On March 2nd we held a public meeting which was enjoyed by a large audience March 12 we organized the 1900 basket ball team which during that year held the championship of the school April we gave an informal reception to the Faculty and students I do not wish to boast but allow me to state that we furnished an entertaining entertaining entertaining enter enter- program and refreshments to about guests free of 01 charge Time passes quickly where people are thoroughly satisfied with their lot June had rolled around before we scarcely realized it and we were barred from school for a time In September we were once more reunited in the cherished old Varsity halls But all were not back to school Our class showed the effects of that great law sustained in all of Mother Natures Nature's works the survival of the fittest A A. natural selection had tak taken n place and those who were unable to compete in the upward race dropped out October 1 J 1898 we met in our first class meeting of the year and elected George Riser to succeed Mr Grover as our class dent i On December 21 we gave a naughty naughty social consisting of dancing dancing- and refreshments I mention this party because it was to tous tous tous us a blessing in disguise When in the next class meeting a financial report was called for we found that our social had put us fourteen dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars and ninety cents in debt II The greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time you fall We had bad never before felt the heavy hea responsibility which rests on all social units for we were 4 never before under obligations to any anyone one We began to look at the serious side of class affairs and in our earnestness were bound even more closely together with a feeling of true union It is needless to state that we were soon cleared from this debt and were once more on I our feet with m more re firmness than before Wh When June came once more we bid a sorrowful goodbye to the r 99 class for it evident that turn next Well J was our came we remembered remembered l how their boys uttered slang phrases hr ses so fast that they fell on ff s sour our ears as shells bomb and how their girls shed real tears when they they y had been interviewing the supervisor of training It seemed then that sr II we must go through the same old machine for it was necessary in training as teachers a So it was th-at th that last September we came back with a melancholy f it smile The girls had had promised themselves never to lo look k at the boys l R i but to wear short skirts and don the garb of old maids The boys p lt had resolved to give up all outside interest and live in a students student's atmosphere In place of the old supervisor we found Miss Waite a y smiling social jovial woman who advocated making school life a t 1 pleasure We do not wear those melancholy smiles now and our resolutions resolutions reso reso- have been scattered red t to the he four winds Certainly we have 1 had our ups and downs in In training but our efforts have been encouraged encouraged encouraged I aged rather than thwarted by our overseers 1 We have many new members with us this year from High School f came several students to join us in the fourth year normal work They 11 were strangers both to the class and institution but we welcomed them heartily and they joined us in our class organization and gave r rus 0 us t their h elf support 1 We year fourth-year are abominably busy we have had only time enough for two socials One was given November 3 1899 the thet theother T f t other April 26 of this year Both were successful socially and finan finan- t In February of this year we met the year third-year class in a joint j debate and telling story-telling contest The third years year's challenged us and fi we to preserve the honor of the class accepted They then made the proposition that a banquet follow the contests to be paid for by the losing class This was a base proposition having mercenary ends in view in what should be a friendly contest We Ve rejected the question and refused to have anything further than the contests Our storytelling storytelling story story- f telling contestant Miss Blanche Thomas won the fair decision of all the audience The judges also rendered their decision in our favor for the debate and indeed we deserved it O. O W. W Carlson so the judges say was the champion of the evening and won for us all the honors But later a dispute arose over our other debater and I fear t. t that some still retain the idea that there was some injustice on the thet i t part of the class of 1900 When we chose Mr Robinson as our de- de bator we were under the impression that he was a student of the University and further that he was entitled to membership in the year fourth-year normal class I do not cast reflections on the gentleman of whom I speak he had full intentions of registering in the U University University niver- niver I sity and already considered himself a year fourth-year student Through some misunderstanding however Mr Robinson was unable to register as a student of the Varsity before the night of the contest and by bythe bythe the time he was enabled to register he had changed his plans and did L not enter our class I again say that we were unaware of the fact that he was a non-member non of our school and thoroughly believed him f to be a rightful N Naughty au Naught We have worked hard at our books this year but never have we forgotten that we had a class to serve We have met occasionally in class meetings s and discussed plans songs and public exercises and with all the difficulties of such meetings we have thoroughly enjoyed them I have repeated in a general way the proceedings of the normal class of 1900 but besides these events each student has thousands of individual memories which will always lend enchantment to his school life Now it becomes our duty to say good-bye good to our life as school schoolchildren schoolchildren schoolchildren children and to bear the burdens of ot men and women The past four years have prepared us to cope with the difficulties of life and to do our duty We leave this dear old school but in memory she shall still remain remain rema n we will always be patriotic to the normal class of 1900 and loyal to to our Alma Mater Ida M. 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