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manhood, were now about to enter the broad arena of life's contest, with the peculiar devices she has taught emblazoned upon their shields, as her representatives, to labor and achieve in her name.
The following, also gleaned by Mr. Barrett, was from a later column and concerns the high school:
In the taste and beautiful arrangement the exercises were not excelled by any entertainment of the university. The graduating class consisted of three beautiful and talented young ladies and one young gentleman. The productions of the ladies.....were surprisingly excellent in thought, and couched in splendidly beautiful language. Every sentence seemed to sparkle with word-gems and sentences of pearls. The address of the young gentleman....., on "The Manias of the Age," was a worthy production. It lacked the glitter and music with which the young ladies adorned their thoughts, but we liked it equally as well. He showed the elements of manly thought in grappling with the knotty practical problems of the day, and evinced a conception of the follies and fantasies of the age.
In the early nineties the management of The Hesperian became largely a matter of school politics. Alumni will recall the rather ornate cover designed by Miss Sarah Wool Moore of the art department. It represented a huge sunflower supported by two "Hesperian students." Across the face of the sunflower ran a ribbon bearing the letters "Hesperian Student." The typography of the paper became so careless that it was not unusual for the paper to appear with all the s's, or some other letters, in italics. These strange freaks of the printer became such a joke among the students that one day a fake edition of The Hesperian appeared. It was made up largely of the most absurd items from the real Hesperian. The following is an extract from the mock Hesperian and is said to be almost a reproduction of an article in a real issue:
Hair-Breadth Escape of J. H. Hooper
At the close of last term a brutal and cowardly attack was made upon J. H. Hooper by a band of nine sneaking thugs and assassius who attempted to bind and gag him; boubt less with the intention of robbing him and leaving him a Mutilated corpse by the roadside. But Hooper proved too much for them. Summoning all his resolution he hurled the villians [sic] from him—knocking down five and dragging the
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