melancholy days, and yet we felt that if it were the will of God that she should be thus early stricken down, we could say with the poet:
Yet not unmeet it was that one like that young friend
of ours, So  gentle   and   so  beautiful,  should  perish  with  the
flowers.
On the seventh of February, 1906, we were shocked by the news that our beloved classmate, W. H. Wall, was dead. A clear index to the disposition of this young man was given by one of his classmates while talking to a company of friends, when he said, "I never heard Willie Wall say a thing against anybody in my life."
It is gratifying to each of us to notice, toward the close of our second year spent together, that there is a well developed spirit of congeniality existant in the Sophomore class. We are well represented in all of the departments of the college, and yet there is not the slightest trace of antago-
nism between the members of the various courses. Of the classical and scientific sections of our class, we are especially proud, not because we there find any different degree of intelligence from that high standard which is characteristic of the other sections, but because we find a company, nearly a score of girls, who for beauty, intelligence and lovable dispositions have few equals and no superiors. We feel sure that our class is made up of students who are going to make their presence known in the world, of those who are destined to accomplish great things, and so if sometime in the near future you notice the earth rotating from east to west, just take it easy and say that some of those '08 boys are bringing their plans to a culmination, or if you happen to catch a glimpse of something passing over your head at the rate of 400,000 miles per second, you may just tell your friends that you saw one of the '08 boys riding his domesticated comet.
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