Technical High School - Tech Tiger Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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26 THE 1915 ORIOLE Class of 19125 OFFICERS President ,,.... ................ S HERWOOD ROGERS Vice-President . . . ..... BLAKE SEAVER Secretary ....... ..... E DWIN LARSON Tffeasurev' .... .... H ARRY NORCROSS MEMBERS DONALD COREY CLINTON DARLING WINARD DUGGAN JOHN EVANS NORMAN LYON Graduation .... WEEDEN MERRITT LEE MONROE EVELYN ASHFORD GERTRUDE TEN EYCK MARJORIE TURNER ...ujanuary 23, 1913.

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THE 1915 ORIOLE 25 for being on the RECORD,-the literary distinction. But the key that locks the wheel to the shaft is the golden key of college friendships. Although you may not admire Shakespeares character, Polonius, you would do well to take seriously his advice to his son in the play 'Hamlet,' when he says, 'Those friends thou hast and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steelf No friendships are so lasting and worth while as college friendships. They are usually formed in the first years of the college course. lfVhether they are for good or bad depends on the character of the men chosen as friends. Yale has no place for the man without a serious purpose. She expects a certain degree of scholarship of every son and she expects him to excel in some one of the 'extra-curriculum activities' These comprise athletic, musical, Y. M. C. A., dram- atic and literary activities, besides many minor interests which may be participated in. But Yale, like all other colleges, has her floundering sons who go through their course without making either a clear failure or a noteworthy success. Yale knows her floundering sons, and because she teaches them, sooner or later, no longer to flounder, Yale is the mother of men. Whatever we may conceive the function of a university to be, Yale, like all academic colleges, is fundamentally a center of thought. The college has one purpose, which is the greatest, because it is unique: To send out men who have the ability and desire to think,-men who will think clearly and compre- hensively for other objects than those of immediate personal benent. If there is one thing only in all this paper that I hope will be remembered by those who expect to enter college, it is this 2-Learn how to study efficiently and to think logically and naturally to conclusions. HFinally let me leave a few words with the prospective candidates which an older graduate gave me when I entered college. They were these, 'Go in and do your level best every day, in every course, every term, and don't get a swelled head. ' fsignedl WALTER T. HUME, T. H. S. '09.

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