Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1902 — They Swiped The Seniors’ Banner. [ARTICLE]

They Swiped The Seniors’ Banner.

One dramatic and interesting feature of the high school entertainment, Friday night was not on the published program—nor yet, alas! on the performed one. That was one of the things that might have been but didn’t be. The Seniors, the "potent grave and reverend Seniors” had planned to "get the scoop” on all the other high school classes, and to get away with the big end of the glory of the evening, by making a fine class banner, in purple and white the class colors, and with "1902” in large figures. This flag was secretly hung above the stage, and, according to arrangements, was to lowered before the admiring gaze of the audience in general, and the wrathful and envious eyes of the other classes in particular. But alas! As has happened more than once before, the upper-class man purposes and the lower class man disposes. Two of the seniors’ natural enemies, one each of the Juniors and Freshmen, discovered the banner, and incontinently swippd it. They have it concealed in a secure place, and on some future occasion will flaunt it as an emblem of their triumph, at some time and place when the Seniors will be most keenly disgruntled thereby.