Florida State University - Renegade / Tally Ho Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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■. £.: -v .,. Wf f i SENIOR CLASS.

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Senior fiistory THE history of this class demonstrates the appalling fact that the majority of the young men and women who enter college do not possess the courage — yes, I may say, with perfect propriety, the backbone — to stick a college course through to the end. Think of a class numbering forty-four in the third preparatory and dwindling down to the unlucky number three by the opening of the Senior. Discouraging as it is, such is the history of this class. No surprise that our graduating classes are so small, and certain people complain of the rigidness of our curriculum. Our townspeople especially may learn a very profitable lesson from the above observation, for the majority of those who withdrew from the college are the sons and daughters of those living in town who are n a position to keep their children in college, giving them the very best advantages. Unfortunately the boys of these parents prefer to secure a position and make money, and so they leave college, accepting a position down-town paying them the munificent sum of $15.00 per month, and they board themselves. Such a pity these golden opportunities are beyond the reach of our countrified boys and girls. However, those of us who have been faithful unto the end have many things for which to be thankful. Our days have not all been halcyon, strewn with flowers and of easy sailing, nor can any respectable college course be so ; nevertheless, we are glad that we did not give up the ship. It has been our pleasure to witness the growth of the institution from an almost local patronage to an attend- ance extending to almost every county in Florida. We have also been the recipients of many advantages offered by the new improvements made in every department of the college. Last, but not least, we are particularly proud of the fact that we shall be the first to take a degree under the new title of the institution. F. A. HATHAWAY, Historian. To life, it is to linger on, To death, it is to die, To woman, it is to suffer long, To man, it is to mourn, To God, it is to reward us all, When death is but a name. —Mcintosh, in 1901 AKGO. To Bilmac : We ' d fain that you ' d explain The sense of the foregoing rhyme ; It may be good, but it ' s not understood- It certainly beats mv time. F. 17