University of Rhode Island - Renaissance / Grist Yearbook (Kingston, RI)

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Senior Colors Blue and white Officers W. S. Rodman, . W. A. Bai.LOU, . Secretary and Honorary Member Sarah Watson Sanderson Members Willard A. Ballou Mary L. Quinn Walter S. Rodman President Treasurer

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History, ’04 After a career of four years filled with divers vicissitudes, our class, or, more correctly, the survivors, find themselves almost prepared to leave these halls, which have done so much to mould both mind and character. Only a few short weeks and we shall have to step out into the busy world to fight for ourselves. As we look back to our entrance here, we have a mental picture of a small but determined body of students eagerly setting out on their College course. From time to time we have lost first one member, then another, until now but two of the original group are left. As a recompense we have had our number increased by our first lady member, who joined our ranks at the beginning of this year. Yet our lack of numbers is not surprising. We have been studying here during a time of great instablity and unrest and are proud to realize that we have been able to help uphold the college during one of the most trying periods of its history. We enjoy the unusual distinction of being the smallest class ever graduated here, and sincerely hope that we may never part with that honor. We were so unfortunate as to lose our honorary member, Miss Sanderson, but we shall always remember with gratitude her kindly help and cordial interest in us and wish her all possible success in her new field of work. No doubt many of our friends were much surprised when they failed to receive their 1904 Grist, and we are glad to say that the fault was not ours. After carefully preparing a volume which we deemed worthy of regard, we were bitterly disappointed at the unsatisfactory treatment accorded us by our publishers, and rather than present an annual totally inferior to our anticipations and standards, we deemed it best to refuse the edition with the sincere hope that future editors might have a more rosy path to tread. Naturally with so small a class there has been little of interest enacted outside our routine of college work. This latter, we may add, has been strenuous to a marked degree and it is with a feeling partly of regret, partly of pleasurable expectation, that we bid farewell to friends and co-workers at the R. I. C. Our most cher- ished wish is for the future success of the college and of all who may call it Alma Mater. 16