College of Wooster - Index Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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few sad weeks. l know that some great base ball games were played, I know that Wooster was ably represented in the interstate oratorical contest, lknow that we had debates with Muskingum and Kenyon and track meets with Denison and ,- Hiram, but if you ask me how these things came out, I can only answer with a shake of my head, for the llight of years has swept away the -memory of it all. flLHowever, I have not forgotten that 1905 was the date oi the composition of that great song A -A which, in the long years since, has so often aroused the Wooster spirit on the athletic held, The Wooster Athletes' Song, and I am prone to believe that now, as then, its sentiment, Altogether with a will, with head and heart, Altogether every man to do his part, is not confined to the Held of battle, but pervades the entire student body in all that they do or say. flll.And I am also inclined to think that, however dim and indistinct the details of our college life may become, we shall still retain the greater and deeper things. ln the words of another song, written in 1906, by Ralph Plumer, The Wooster Love Song, we shall go on forever, ever remembering, never forgetting H Qld Wooster and its spirit and the truths that it has taught. Page fifteen

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and the productions rendered by the girls' literary societies, the paraphernalia of the histrionic art was left quietly to re- pose in the green room. it used to be a custom, however, and is yet, for all I know, to have, every other year or so, what was called a minstrel show, at which students actually rubbed cork on their faces and did stunts. This came oli' in 1906 with great success. fllclubs, societies, associations, leagues, fraternities, sororities, which in those good old days were as numerous, almost, as the blades of grass on the campus, Hourished that year as always. But the organization that made the most progress of all was the Y. M. C. A. Early in the year it broke camp in its narrow, cramped a a e quarters in the Chapel basement 5 1:,, Z M J, ,U s and marched triumphantly to its Jiw ,.-' , fi - - sumptuously furnished rooms in , '-fggifj , A V , ,,,- ' QP . J Scovel Hall, where all year it '- 'Y?rZf:T3Z.Sg , . . . . ,wi did valiant service along lines il which, but for it, would have F 33 2 'ie i aggw j. li -,1lf7fi2i,g2' , been sadly neglected. flLAnd what shall I say more? For ,,,. J. K the time would fail me to tell e e e t of the socials and the recep- tions, the walks and the drives, the political intrigues and the scraps, the songs, the yells, and all the stunts that go to make up a college year. And there are so many other things which the students of Wooster University did and said in 1905-6, the which, ii they should be written every one, I suppose that even the University Library itself could not contain the books that should be written. flli.lVloreover, as the year drew towards its close, the sorrow of depart- ing from my Alma Mater, the pleasure I took in the final examinations, and the excitement of Commencement have blotted out of my memory even the more important events, and consequently I can give no clear account of the last Page fourteen

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FGREWORD Men may come and men may go But I go on forever. Thus mused the Poet of the brook. And as it is with the current of the brook so it is with the inliuence 'oi a college. That intangible, that indeiinable spirit always lives, always goes on. Though generations come and go, and though each takes with it into the world a part of her spirit, still lives the college. And though her walls perish by fire and she, Phoenix-like, rise from the ashes, resplendent in her glory, yet is she the same old college. Though the halo of memories thicken and though tradition clamber over the walls, with the ivy, still the same old spirit lives on. Neither opposition, nor adversity, nor devastation, nor good fortune, nor prosperity, nor success can overcome her, for in the hearts, in the souls, of her children the same old college lives on forever. mln the full vigor of her prime, our Alma Mater is about to say farewell to her thirty-fifth graduating class. What honorable classes they have been! How strenuous those living years! Conceived in those troublous times following our great Civil War she has struggled with heroic perseverance. And, risen supremely above the sea of troubles, she now rests serenely on the swell of the rising wave, in this, her thirty-sixth year. mit has been our purpose to make this volume a record, for that year, 19056, of the important happenings and organizations of the University of Wooster. We have seasoned the record with nonsense to make it readable. flll,The years at college are among the best, and it is right that they should be Page sixteen