Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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2 AMHERST OLIO. As far as numbers are concerned we are enabled to claim a superiority over all the classes that have preceded us. Nor in numbers alone do we hope to be able to excel. Very little opportunity has as yet been given for those exhibitions of individual !1rz'!Zz'am'y of which very likely many of our members are capable. Still our brief history as a class gives us an assurance that, whatever fires we may institute to dispel the darkness and ignorance of the world, they will burn undinv med, notwithstanding all tl1e efforts 'f Soph- istry and error may bring to bear against them. 7, I Some attention is already being given to boating among us, and the stalwart forms of those of our number who from time to time bend to the oar, Qin the gymnasium and on the Io, foretoken an' honorable record'for '77 whenever her muscle shall in this way be put to the test. Much, however, as We delight in these manly and heroic pastimes, we hope to prove ourselves more deeply attached to the real work of college life, and to be found devoting our- selves to it with a constantly increasing enthusiasm, during the comingfour years of our course. VVe do not, indeed, look forward to the time of our gradua- tion, as do our immediate predecessors, with any earnest desire to gain an imaginary independence by a release from the duties imposed upon us here, Nor do we rely upon the glory rising from some events which occurred in this country a century or so ago, to add any luster to our name. On the other hand we hope, unaided by any such association, to make the spirit of '77 synonymous with whatever is noblest in lofty aspiration and most eflicient in earnest endeavor.

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AMHICRST OLIO. I I l ' -Ullllllm l-:-f--- ff we M ' X l 7 Dim f if 5179 t fs QQ.: . 1 'iv I, . f : H 735 meta 'iii'-aiiiifiiiiliz kd gil' is with sincere satisfaction that we iind our names en- rolled in the rank and lile ot' Amherst's sons, and with a humble simplicity befitting our station, we would make our H best bow to the public through the medium of these pages. So brief has been our career, so Fresh in our ears still sound the shouts of welcome with which our advent here was greeted, that we have not many items in our history of which We are able to speak. 'lfhere are a few features, however, to which we may be permitted to refer with, we trust, pardonable pride. Nor is it with wholly unmixed diflidence that we thus essay to speak for ourselves, as we think we have ' abun- dantly demonstrated our ability to blow as well as keep in possession our own horn. To the truth of the former state- ment those will be willing witnesses, whose ears have been charmed with the sweet melody which this delightful instru- ment of music, whose use is popularly supposed to be the Sophomore's prerogative, has given forth at our bidding. As to the latter, ample proof will be found in the numerous specimens which adorn the walls of many of our rooms, and which bear in their battered sides abundant testimony to the fact that they have come from well-fought fields.

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