Mindset List, Class of 1915

The class of 1915 thinks:

• What Russo-Japanese War?
• Model T Fords have always been available to the public.
• Mr. Dooley has always been holding forth in The Chicago Post.
• Car windows have always been made of isinglass.
• William Jennings Bryan has always been fat.
• They may think the Haymarket Riot is some kind of rural misunderstanding.
• They have grown up with Coca-Cola.
• The Babcock Carriage Company has always been working on an electric car.
• What Boer War?
• King Kelly has never played baseball.
• Ragtime music has always been mainstream.
• Religious leaders have always been telling politicians what to do, or else!
• "Off the hook" has never had anything to do with a fish.
• Player pianos have always been available.
• Russia has always had a burgeoning Communist party.
• Women have always been secretaries.
• They were born the year Grover Cleveland became President for a second time.
• Classmates could include Dorothy Sayers, Jimmy Durante, and Fay Bainter.
• Half of them may have been members of the Frank Merriwell All-Youth-Sports Club.
• The Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad has never run in their lifetime.
• No one has ever been able to sit down comfortably to a meal of meat packed by Lithuanian immigrants in Chicago.
• Sears, Roebuck has always been a larger retailer than A.T. Stewart and has always employed more workers than the beef-tallow-candle industry.