Franklin and Marshall College - Oriflamme Yearbook (Lancaster, PA)

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Q O 32 FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE rial position in College, we have made a record for development never before surpassed in the history of the Institution. Develop- ment has been the keynote of our four-years' life in College. Con- sider, if you will, the condition and power of our Class when it entered these halls and compare it with our ever-increasing influence as Seniors. VVithout a foot ball team as Freshmen, yet college champions by an overwhelming score in our junior year: easily conquered in base ball in 1903, yet just as easily turning the tables on our opponents in 1904-3 without a point winner in our first year, and yet with the credit of two victories out of three track meets, losing to the Class of 1905 by a single point. So one could go on, showing how in every line of work we have improved, at last showing our complete superiority. Historians in former years have chronicled our many victories and enumerated them one by one, we can merely take a comprehensive view of all. Can anyone then censure our pride? Is it notjustifiable? We hope to act as an example for future classes and by our work to lend an impetus to their endeavors. And yet, although with such an enviable record to leave behind, we leave this, our home for four years, with reluc- tance. I-Iere we have fought and won victories which will never present themselves again. Our battles in the world may be but rep- licas of our struggles here, yet there is a certain charm about our college lile, an indefinite something, with which we are loth to part. Although eager to prove ourselves worthy of our Class and College in our iuture life, we are torn between sorrows at parting and the joy of beginning our new work. It is with mingled feelings then that we cease our work here. Many a class will pass from out these IIalls, even as we are about to do, and they, as we, will be- come estranged from each other in after life. It is inevitable that many of us will part here, perhaps never to nzeet again. Yet everv man of the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Six should be so imbued with love for his Alma Mater that her nalme will ever kindle a spark of fond remembrance and devotion in his heart. We part at Com- mencement from our College, but we will ever be with our Gi-gi- eious Mother in spirit. May God grant that no one of us shall do aught to sull,y her fair name.

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