SUNY Plattsburgh - Cardinal Yearbook (Plattsburgh, NY)

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ones - -and take up much more room. Let not this be said of you. Children, there is but one thing that makes us regret to leave and that is that you are on the wrong road. Take our advice and at all times wear tennis shoes so that the office carpet may not be entirely destroyed. Dr. Hawkins pa- tience may wear out with his carpet. Another thing, be very careful of your associates and avoid late hours. Re- member, a man is known by the company he keeps. Although it is fitting and proper for you to be ever courteous and cordial to the Juniors who enter next September you will find that you must hold them at arms length just as we have had to do with you, or you will find them overstepping and you will have the un- pleasant task of showing them back to their proper places, — the task we have had so many times. You may need to give them moral support, but never phy- sical support. I might suggest also that you prepare your orations during the pleasant sum- mer months to hand in for corrections the very day school opens. Dr. Kitchell corrects and recorrects, as do others. And those cf you who are taking commercial work, do not worry about Gregg. The first six lessons are all that are necessary, then be ready and watchful for the speed tests. They come at an hour when you least expect them. Of course it cannot be expected that you will make the brilliant record we have made — 60 words at the end of the first week in Gregg ! ! ! Then there are those little dai- lies in History of Ed . Just get 10 on each one and you ' ll be safe. Oh, I could enumerate a thousand different things that it would be well for you to know and which might save you many anxious moments, but time will not permit. After all, they say experience is the best teacher, so I will have to leave it at that. Just let me urge you once again to be ever mindful of the Juniors un- der your care — they imitate — it is a characteristic of Juniors, so always set a good example. And, by the way, Junior friends, before we depart we leave with you this key, which will unlock to you the door of knowledge and wisdom. This key will also throw light upon Senior secrets and upon many other things which, to you, have hitherto been darkness. Guard and keep it safely, for if once lost dire re- sults will follow. Now let it work. Juniors, thou art afoot, Thou ' llt take what course thou wilt !

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Charge to the Seniors walter j. Mcquillan ' is IN addressing you members of the Class of 1914, there arises in my mind ■! strange visions of those who in the past have played prominent parts in Normal Class Day exercises and who have acquitted themselves with credit and honor in the parts they played. If I can in some small measure follow their example, if I can, in speaking to you this afternoon, make you feel that the class I represent is a class well worth credit and honor, I shall be satisfied. I am entirely conscious of the fact that this year the lines of class rivalry are sharply drawn. The Senior president and myself, while being good friends in the ordinary sense of the term, have not as yet reached that stage of personal intimacy that we go out together nights, so I am thankful, and I suppose you are too, that the sham battle of last year ' s exercises will not be repeated this year. At the outset, I shall relieve you of all uncertainty by letting you know that I intend to extoll the glories of my own class, and also show to you of the senior class that your multitudinous errors have been merely the logical result of your own iniquity and stupidity. I feel that I am safe in saying that the change for the better which so many persons have observed during the last year in this school has been caused by the general all-round ability and the spirit of the sixty-five young men and women I have the honor of representing in these exercises. I am sure that the faculty are all of this opinion, and I am satisfied that the right-thinking people of this community will in the justice of their judgement and the ripeness of their wisdom, award the palm to us for having raised high during the past year the standard of this institu- tion. I am afraid that you Seniors do not fully realize the influence for good that the Class of 1915 has been since its entrance last September. I shall, as far as my depleted vitality and feeble powers of expression allow me, endeavor to make you realize the true worth of the young ladies and gentlemen who sit before you. The spirit, in which we have worked and by which we have accomplished so much, is a spirit you might well have emulated in the days you made your dis- astrous attempt to be the ruling Class of this school. We have labored, not as some of you have in a fruitless search for personal glory, but in a spirit of service with littl e thought for self, and we have striven bravely for the high and noble ideals of school welfare which we have ever held before us. The petty bicker- ing and the Kilkenny cat fights that have so often characterized your class pro- ceedings, have never in the slightest form been present in any of our deliberations. These fights have torn your Class asunder and it was with the intention of sweep- ing up the pieces that we marched in to-day with brooms and dust pans. I am perfectly willing to concede that we juniors in general and I in par- ticular have not been able to satisfy everyone. Very often during the last month I have felt sad when J realized that no matter how I might decide some question,