Ninety-Eight
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Title
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Ninety-Eight
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Date
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1892
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Description
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Pages from The Sombrero, "Class Histories of the Preparatory Department"
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Transcription
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Ninety-Eight
{Latin School}
COLORS: Straw Color and Light Blue.
MOTTO: Invicti.
OFFICERS
President,. . . . . LEW E. SMITH.
Vice President, . . . MARIE B. POLLARD.
Secretary, . . . . . ANNA SCHUDEL.
Historian, . . . . . R. M. HAILE.
Treasurer, . . . . . J. M. ROBERTS.
Sergeant-at-Arms, . . J. E. PEARSON.
FROM the very date of its foundation up to the fall of 1892 the University seemed to lack some essential feature. A feeling prevailed that with the Chancellor, hedge fence, and Faculty, there was still something needed to make the instution complete. No one could exactly describe the feeling, yet all felt its depressing influence. The Faculty was increased; new students came by the hundred; social schemes were put on foot and matured, and still relief did not come, though all professed a gaiety and earnestness which they found impossible to feel. The University struggled on, however, sustained by the hope that some day this cloud of uncertainty would be dispelled.
Every doubt and fear vanished when the Class of '98 made its advent. Without blast of trumpet or shout of triumph, a long line of earnest and determined students entered these halls. We did not realize at first the importance of our presence. We studied hard, attended class and chapel regularly, and, with feelings of deepest awe, flattened ourselves against the walls whenever a janitor or a senior made his lordly progress.
Soon, however, some of the leading spirits among us discovered the import of our presence in the University. As a result a meeting of the class was called. Never before had the chapel contained a more genial crowd, more enthusiastic, and yet with so undefined a purpose. At this meeting a temporary organization was formed. Later, on the adoption of a constitution, a permanent organization was effected with the following officers: R. M. Haile, President; W. E. Sediker, Vice President; Ellen Gere, Secretary; C. L. Hopper, Historian, and E. D. Scott, Sergeant-at-Arms.
Of course the organizatinoo of "the dear children," as the Registrar fondly called us, had applied to it many of those stale old Uni. jokes, which are dryer than a twelve
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Author: The Students of the University of Nebraska
Title: "Class Histories of the Preparatory Department"
Periodical: The Sombrero
Volume: 2
Pages: 101-102, 105-106
1892
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