College of William and Mary - Colonial Echo Yearbook (Williamsburg, VA)

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pMMMM MMMMMM MM? Ci)P COlOtlial (2Bcf)0, 1921 JMMMMAgM MM MM -I i 1 1 I i History of the Class of 1922 HE HISTORY of the class of 1922 must be written if for no other reason than that every class has a history. But the piirpose of this history is not to squander the last few moments of time before this volume is hurried off to the printer in enumerating the many facts of the individuals, rather the heroes and the heroines (for heroic deeds are many and varied since the co-eds came) of our college class. Although custom has decreed that the history of a class should be in general terms, there are facts concerning the accomplishments of the members of this class that should not go by unnoticed. Not all the events to which the members of this class have contributed are worthy of record, but there are some so outstanding, some of such ultimate worth, that no history could be written and deserve the name without a passing mention. Space in these pages is of such intrinsic worth, it is as our only visible heritage to the student generation which shall come after us, to fill with empty platitudes. What we write must be written in brevity and sincerity. Virtues must be recorded and not praised. Gifts and accomplish- ments must be recorded but not evaluated. Every man, every woman, of the thirty-six which make up our class has merit, has gifts, has attainments. It is only when these set the various members off and shed around them particular light, which is essential to a complete under- standing of the group, that we can fully record. Without any further attempt at an Apologia for the fact, that, dominated by an amiable disposition not to proceed with undue haste to the neglect of eternal verities, yet yielding to a categorical imperative that this record must be made clearly and accurately, we adopt the method of approach which is as old as the written word, the method used by the writer of Genesis and the Fourth Gospel. Our history, in the beginning, reaches not to some distant past shrouded with the cobwebs of doubt. It has an accurate location both in time and space, for during one week of September, 19 18, a week which saw the great World War grinding the nations of Europe with greater destructive force than any previous week in its course, during this week dawned the history of the class of 1922. Once more William and Mary gathered together a group of faithful spirits to enter the course of preparation for the battle of life. This class began its history with the establishment of an institution here on the Campus which was to transform the whole student life on the college for a season, namely, the Students ' Army Training Corps. What it contributed to the college is rather hard to say. This much is certain, that several of our members were drawn to our venerable precincts through this medium. Page 104 mw ' m - wm r m mmmmmmmrsrmi. '