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In the first track meet we suffered defeat at the hands (or rather the feet) of the 191.3 class, but in football we came back strong, and when the final whistle blew, the score stood 6-0 in our favor. For the first time in the history of the col lege the Sophs had been defeated by the Freshmen. As had teen agreed upon, this gave us the right to fly our class flag from the pole for twenty-four hours. The next day, a bold Sophomore by an exhibition of reckless dare-deviltry, never before surpassed or equalled, pulled down the flag while no one was around and made off with it. Altho excitement ran high for some time, and several Sophs were rather roughly handled, the flag was never recovered. In baseball we were also defeated by '1'). The following year wc again renewed old traditions by defeating the entering Freshmen in both track and football. In basketball and baseball, however, they were

too

strong for

us, and

our

teams went down to

Since

defeat.

becoming Juniors, our main endeavor has been to avoid the automatic ejector. Some, we regret to say, have failed to do this and others only by the des perate expedient of changing courses or joining 1917. For the most part, however, we are "getting by" and expect to be there strong at the finish in 1916.

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