The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-06-27

those who took part. MIR. Lees address
was good one, but he could have put more
study upon it to advantage.
A piano solo by A. W. Wood came next
and was rendered in a praisworty manner.
The real effort of the evening was the ora
tion by Roscoe Bryson. Mr.. Bryson took
the class motto, "Look to the End" for his
subject. The address was an intensely
patriotic one and was pregnant with lofty
sentiments and ennobling thoughts. Mr..
Bryson's enuncia tion was splendid, his
speech clear aud grammatic and his argu-
ments good, bat hardly spoke with sufficient
force to he heard at the rear of the build
ing.
A cornet and trombone duet by Messrs.
Spangler and Ray met with deserved and
hearty encore.
Miss Mildred Linville read the class poem
Her voice usually strong and clear was hard
ly audible at times, which, unfortunately
for the parties, prevented her receiving the
attention that the paper deserved. From
the drift of the poem it was thought by
many that Miss Linvllle had usurped the
prereeative of the class historian.
Miss Louise Barnett followed with vocal
solo. This was especially good and should
have received an encore.
The class history was read by Miss Carrie
Lyford, and provoked much merriment
among the members of the class. Miss Ly-
ford, like some Others on the program, failed
to speak loud enough, and on this account
her history did not meet with such general
appreciation as it deserved.
John Allen, ON behalf of the seniors, then
delivered the mantle grafton, turning ever
to the class the senior mantle with all its
cares and responsibilities, but also its pleas
ures. Its color, white, was emblematic of
purity and constancy, and Mr.. Allen trusted
that the juniors would take the same good
care of the mantle as had been given it by
the seniors. Miss Bertha Linyille responded
in a most graceful manner on behalf of the
juniors, promising that the mantle would be
honored aud protected during the coming
year.
The next was drill by sixteen junior
girls in fancy dress, pink and white, un Ter
the captaincy Of Miss Carrie Simmons.
They looked extremely pretty, and the
marked precision and military exactness of
their movements, as they went through the
numerous intricate evolutjons, was favora-
bly, commented upon by all.
A splendid feature of the exercises was
the class song, the words and music of
which were both composed by junior, MIR.
A. w. Wood. The class is to be congratu-
lated upon having composer of music, as
we'll as writer of poetry, possessed of such
taste and talent. The song was as follows:
Beside gently flowing river,
Willamette as you know,
Stands the O. A. G. SO dear to as all
Where Juniors are not slow.
For three long years, we've toiled hero,
And not without our fun,
But when we come to think it DER
Our hardest works to come.
CHo.-For we are the Junior Glass,
Junior Glass, Junior Glass.
For we are the Junior Class
Of Eighteen Ninsty-fve.
We will be the Senior Glass,
Senior Glass; Senior Glass,
We will put ia some hard llcks
When we're Seniors Ninety.si
When we were Freshmen long ago,
In September Ninety
We were very nearly hundred strong,
And much we thought we knew;
But we struggled hard throughout the year
With our studies, four or more,
And when our next school year began,
We were Soph' 'mores Ninety-four. Cho.-
Our Junior year is almost o'er;
We're glad VACATIONS near,
And soon we all will homeward fly,
To see our folks so dear.
Our programs drawing to a close,
Kind friends, it's our last token,
For the blissful charm of Ninety five
Is bending, now 'tis broken.
CHo.-And it's goodbye Junior Glass,
Junior Glass, Junior Glass,
Aud it's good bye Junior Glass,
OF Eighteen Ninety five,
For we'll be the Senior Glass,
Senior Glass, Senior Class,
We will put in soms hard licks
When we're Seniors Ninety SIX.
After the evercisss were concluded at the
Opera House, members of the class repair ed
to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. r.
Bryson, where they were rendered recep-
tion.
SENIOR ENTERTAINM ENT.
Again on Tuesday night an immenae
crowd congrsgatsd at the Opera House to
witness the exercises of the senior class
Downstairs the body of the house was filled
to everhowipg, and hundreds Of people
brought chairs with them and filed up the
aisle, almost entirely obstructing the pas
sage ways. Had there been fire, inau-
merable casualties might have occurred.