ever in more harmonious submission and ministration to
each other. ”
While the formation of the United States gave occasion
to national'life, the national life has eclipsed the ocasion and
to-day the American people in whose veins flows the blood of
all nations,- Whose life is the combination of all that is best
in the old world with the invigorated new world modifica
tions, whose ideas of the mission and duties of our beloved
nation are based on the highest plane of civilization, —to-
day this people looks forward into the twentieth century
with hope commensurate with its sense of duty and right.
Herbert Spencer says, “From biological truths it may
be inferred that the eventual mixture of the allied varieties
of the Aryan race forming the population will produce a
finer type of men than has hitherto existed, and a type of
man more plastic, more adaptable, more capable of under
going modifications needful for complete social life. I think
that whatever difficulties they may have to surmount and
whatever tribulations they may have to pass through, the
Americans may reasonably look forward to a time when they
will have produced a civilization grander than any the world
has known.
With such a history, such a present and such a future,
we can but repeat our glorious national anthem—
“ Praise the power that hast made and preserved us, a
nation.” L. E. Young.
A “CIDER RACKET”,
“Cider Rackets” began at State in the latter part of the
eighties about the time when the “flag scrap” custom was
started. At first they were not made class affairs nor
there any regularity in their occurence, but in a few years
the interest in them grew. For some time they were carried
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