The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-06-26

mental by Miss Lulu Cnanulef were WeIl
appreciated The class poem by Miss Rose
| Horton was not only appropriate but
showed poetic genius. 1t was as follows:
Oh, sweet and tall the lilly grows,
The daffodil is fair to see,
But one know of rarer growth
Than orchid or anemone.
In modest lovelness it grows
Upon an humber, lowlier spot,
Beneath our feet it blossoms sweet
i Tie oregon ''forget-me-not."
A little blossom, pure and white,
Nursed in sunshine, bathed in dew,
Its petals tremble in the light,
And seem to shrink from mortal view.
In meadows green it dwells unseen,
Contented with its humblelot,
But by its perfume seems to say,
Forget me-not, fnrget-me-not."
Oh, tiny flower to poets dear
In loving kindness art thou given,
A token Of remembrance here
Too sweet for earth too fail for heaven.
Thou hast d message from above
| Which sayest, Whatever be thy lot,
| Thy mission is done. the victory won,
| If thou, my child. forgetme-nut"
| And when our work on earth is done,
And are numbered with the dead,
When the monarch oak which now is young,
Above rears his hoary head,
The memory of earthly deeds
Shall linger round that lowly spot,
| And. like the perfume OF this flower,
Shall murmur low, "Forget-me- mot"
| The following programme was rendered
Tuesday morning in the assembly hall:
Instrumental music, Lulu Chandler; ad
dress of welcome, Joe F. Alexander; quar-
tette, Messrs. Berchtold, Lampkin, Fulton
and Clark; address of hail, Leon Louis;
duet, Messrs Fulton and Clark; farewell
address, Matte Avery.
Joe Alexander in his address of welcome
assured visitors that they were heartily well
come to their class day exercises and that
the class would be pleased to act as guides
for any who were visiting the school. He
closed by saying that he hoped they would
not think that the class tree, the American
chesnut, was selected on account of its ap-
propriateness to the class.
On the campus Miss Annie Allen read a
history of the class tree and enjoined the
juniors, to whose care it was submitted, to
guard and protect it. Miss Ida Ray re-
sponded on the part of that class, with an
appropriate speech
In the afternoon the boys of the dorni-
tory played game of base ball with the stu
dents who live in town, the result of which
was that the dormitory boys had the most
tallies to their credit. No great degree of
excellence was displayed, but the game was
enjoyed just as much by those playing and
looking on as if there had been.
The military drill and ivy planting were
the principal events of the evening. The
two companies of cadets were first drawn
up in line by Captains johnson and Fulton,
who, in order to have the requisite number
of companies for battalion drill, divided
each into two and turned one over to First
Lieutenants Alexander and Miller. They
were then taken charge of by Col. Letcher
who took them through the movements OF
the battalion drill. Drill was concluded by
dress parade, conducted by Adjutant Starr,
after which they were marched to the
armory Before putting their guns in the
racks for the last time they gave three
rousng cheers for the commissioned Off
GERS of the companies. 1t takes but a
moment for one, whether versed in mill
tary tactics or not, to see that the cadets are
well drilled. The whole was characterized
by the obedience and promptness with which
each movement was executed. Each cadet
lost his individuality and the whole batal-
lion moved only as one man. In compar-
ing the appearance of students when enter
ing the school and now at the close, after
their military training, marked change in
the bearing of each can be seen. They
walk as if proud of the cadet gray and the
institution which it represents
Immediately after the drill the crowd
were invited to the mechanical hall to wit
ness the planting of the class ivy. The
ivy, said John Starr in his essay. is an en-
blem of truth and fidelity, and it is our de-
sire that we may beliike to it, in climbing on
that which never crumbles and clinging to
the good. Theivy poem, written by Miss
!. Allen is as follows:
Ivy, thou voice of ages long departed,
Thou haunting music of the bygone years,
What memories OF the brave and noble hearted,
What Bacchnials what tn ought too deep for tears
Not where cathedral chimes ares holy
Float out at evening on the twilight dim,
Move up the grassy aises with dirge like hymn.
Not there. but here will be thy mission lowly
To mantle DER these barren walls of toll.
And with the creeping years to Chamber slowly
Thy sunward path, upspringing from the soil.
On some fair day, when again is filing
The blue inverted chalce of the sky
And others then their ivy song are trilling
Like swallows fight, in N emory shall pass by.
These tunefu hours and this enchanted eve.
Where hope, undimmed years of study passed.
Those happy days, that lingeringly we leave
Erst forth to battle, calls the bright blast.
This true, earnest thought dear heart leave with
| you
By toll and striving, only shall we climb
To those far heights and that celestial view
Which is attained by this ivy vine.
r After the ivy song all returned to the
college campus for the cremation. John
Fulton, IN his remarks, consigned to the
= flames on behalf of the class all trials and
tribulations which had beset them during
i school: For Miss Allen he delivered