THE SENIORS' WILL
11tlt I::., the Senior cla£s of 1909, realize that school life, for us, has been very short. ll:.\tl
We realize that we must, in the very near future, leave an aching void in the hearts of these wh:i have known us, to solve the problems of life which the world has long been waiting to have us solve. It is not witho11t many misgivings that we make this announcement to the lower classes who have so spontaneously admired and adored us, but we have arranged to have a large supply of soothing syrup on hand to allay the terrible agony which they must endure.
We realize, with the rest of the world, that the class of '09 is the most brilliant and beautiful class which K. S. N. has ever graduated, and we can discover no indications that the future has any promise that it will ever be duplicated. We realize that this is the great climax in the drama of education, and that we are the result of the energy of all the forces of the universe for countless ages.
We would, however, have the under classes regard their lot as optimistically as possible. No drama is complete without the minor parts, and you can undoubtedly be as useful in your small way as we are in our large one. There was a time, also, when we�id net show as great a degree of brilliancy as we do at present, and we believe that, although you do not compare at all favorably with what we were at your age, still ycu are net essentially different from clasHs which have preceded us.
Then, also, you have our shining example to follcw and, although you can no more atta;n our eminence than tl-e child can catch the ra;nbcw, still you will be able to accomplish i11c0nceivably more than you would have if we had not gone before you and illumnated the way.
To the Juniors we beaueath the right to publish tr.e annual for 1910. Although we realize that the Oracle is much surer:,�r to anything that has ev�r been phblidhed before, and that the Juniors have no one who can pr0duce anythim1: so good again, still we would not have you unnecessarilv discouraved by that fact. The same faculty cuts will do to use al!'a;n, and you can find artists who can fix 1m your own pictures so that they will net be worse-looking than the average run 0f ordinary pictures. Then, also, you will have a splendid model to copy from. and by changing a few words and names and alterin<i: th� relative pcsitirn 0f some of the matter. vou probablv could utilize a szreat de;il of tJ-.;. matter found in tte Oracle with:::ut those wh, will be Juniors in 1910 being any the wiser.
We urge you not to shirk this duty of publishing an ;innual. We assure you that we would not bee:ueath you this privilege if we were net "bliged to tur11 our attention to other things. The schoolrooms of Kansas and tl-e world should not be deprived any longer of the inspiring influence of at least a part of cur class, and the orefe11t post-graduate class is utterly incapable of doing the work in advanced science and philcscphy which we are so especially gifted by nature to accomplish.
While we do not feel that we can agam spend our time on the production of an
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