Springfield College - Massasoit Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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MAS SAS o I n JOHN G. LANG. Senior Class Officers President John G. Lang Vice-president Willard P. Ashbrook Secretary L. E. Hutto Treasurer T. I). P. Aldrich Class History WAS great, when we were Freshmen. Do not mistake me, I did not say we were great, though we might have been. We laughed seldom. It was not being permitted by those higher up. nor being indulged in by those lower down, meaning ourselves. We dragged our prescribed thirty hours a week doggedly. We bore the indigni- ties of initiation where they did not show. We withstood the humili- jj ating and absurd ceremonies of the D. D. D.’s without an audible murmur. We thought a lot but one cannot be arrested for that. I sav we withstood it be- cause sitting was not a pleasure. But we were veritable lions in sheepskins and not because the weather was cold. Our souls rebelled ofttimes, but our feet made of clav, with fallen arches and hay clinging to them as to an old friend, carried us falteringly but surely to the end of our servitude. Down the designated path we trod as beaten a path as we were. ( 27 ) SPRINGFIELD f Jr. ' I VI T 1 9 Z 4 T A: m i’ i ' 1 m