1914 Yearbook
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1914 Yearbook
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Junior Class History
IT was in those warm, lazy days of early September,
1907. Summer was letting go reluctantly and the
temperature made the school rooms uninviting. Still
the college year was opening and one afternoon a
huge load of trunks of all sizes and shapes drove up
to the house; that evening brought the various
owners from the most diverse parts of the country.
Dusty and travel-worn, though in their best clothes, and weary and
hungry, these bran new students of the year, entered the refectory
for supper. There the curtain was raised on the opening act and the
class of 1915 had made its first appearance in College life.
Most college classes in their earliest beginnings are necessarily
somewhat nondescript and formless. Our own story is no exception to
the rule. A great shapeless mass of material there was, indefinite in
its character, hazy of outline, uncertain of form; a variety of talents
were partly manifest from the start but they required time to develop
and intelligent organization to draw them out to best advantage. And
so our first year is but a confused record of individual strivings, which
if they deserve even an allusion in a class history, do so only in virtue
of the decided social influence they had in disclosing us to one another.
This influence was probably little felt before our second year.
Then, however, it was easily apparent in the mutually helpful
acquaintance grown up among us. Different traits and abilities began
to take definite direction, various qualities and characteristics to set
off one student in vivid contrast to another, suggesting each one's possibilities, and seeming to indicate even then the future field of his
usefulness. One man was evidently destined to be an expert Mathematician, another an able Latinist, one clearly was going to excel in English prose, another in verse and so on. All these bits of knowledge
were gleaned from observation, (whose great educational value we
have often discussed), and no one who knows students can doubt the
great aid we became to one another.
The third year then, found us quite definitely organized with
Arthur Brown as president of the class. This fact alone presented our
school life to us in a new sort of setting; we saw things with twenty
pairs of eyes instead of one. For henceforward it was the class, not
the individual who acted, and the thought of this gave an added charm
IT was in those warm, lazy days of early September,
1907. Summer was letting go reluctantly and the
temperature made the school rooms uninviting. Still
the college year was opening and one afternoon a
huge load of trunks of all sizes and shapes drove up
to the house; that evening brought the various
owners from the most diverse parts of the country.
Dusty and travel-worn, though in their best clothes, and weary and
hungry, these bran new students of the year, entered the refectory
for supper. There the curtain was raised on the opening act and the
class of 1915 had made its first appearance in College life.
Most college classes in their earliest beginnings are necessarily
somewhat nondescript and formless. Our own story is no exception to
the rule. A great shapeless mass of material there was, indefinite in
its character, hazy of outline, uncertain of form; a variety of talents
were partly manifest from the start but they required time to develop
and intelligent organization to draw them out to best advantage. And
so our first year is but a confused record of individual strivings, which
if they deserve even an allusion in a class history, do so only in virtue
of the decided social influence they had in disclosing us to one another.
This influence was probably little felt before our second year.
Then, however, it was easily apparent in the mutually helpful
acquaintance grown up among us. Different traits and abilities began
to take definite direction, various qualities and characteristics to set
off one student in vivid contrast to another, suggesting each one's possibilities, and seeming to indicate even then the future field of his
usefulness. One man was evidently destined to be an expert Mathematician, another an able Latinist, one clearly was going to excel in English prose, another in verse and so on. All these bits of knowledge
were gleaned from observation, (whose great educational value we
have often discussed), and no one who knows students can doubt the
great aid we became to one another.
The third year then, found us quite definitely organized with
Arthur Brown as president of the class. This fact alone presented our
school life to us in a new sort of setting; we saw things with twenty
pairs of eyes instead of one. For henceforward it was the class, not
the individual who acted, and the thought of this gave an added charm
Date
1914
Identifier
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