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

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The GRIST 15 that you have not done more for your Alma Mater. Do it now and keep on doing from now until the time you graduate, then you may leave a record which may be a source of encouragement and inspiration to those yet to come. The future of the ladies of the Class of 1906 we hesitate to prophesy. We sincerely believe that their chances are good and that they are sure to make a mark somewhere. Freddy Keyes certainly has done work enough to deserve a place of merit in the world of reactions and reagents. We have been taught to believe that a man cannot possibly fail if he studies agriculture, so we trust that Wilkinson will make good. Harding has already shown great talent as an instructor. This combined with his affinity for lady school- teachers certainly ought to yield him future fruit. Nichols, the “small boy,” has already a very desirable position with our largest electrical company; they have stated that they need him badly and await his graduation with pleasure. We hope that “ Ben ” will wear the same smile in the future that he has in the past, as w e believe it a guarantee of success in all his undertakings. He is planning for further study at a larger institution. As for Berry, he believes as Arnold does, and will seek more college life and training another year. Are we not justified in believing that the future is bright and promising? And yet, anxious as we are to tackle life’s problems, it will by no means be the happiest days of our careers when we look back as students on the college campus for the last time. We wish all that is good and worth having in life to those that are here after we are gone, and will endeavor to make our lives such that R. I. C. may well feel proud of the Class of 1906.

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The GRIST H CLASS HISTORY of 1906 HAVING passed through the busiest stages of our college life and finding ourselves “ grave and dignified ” Seniors, we look back on the last four years and feel like asking for four years more. The days when we were Freshmen and Sophomores seem like yesterday to us. A few short days, these four years; and it will be but the passing of a night before we are gone. When we realize that our Alma Mater is facing a period of growth and prosperity such as it has never seen before, we are anything but glad that our college days “ on the Hill” are numbered. A year hence and we shall not be where we can hear the college yell and song, we shall not be in the classroom or laboratory at R. I. C., but in those of the school of life, each for himself. Like all Senior years, ours has been quiet and uneventful. Two of us succeeded in making the football team, basketball found us actively interested, and baseball will find us doing our share. We hope that the men of our future teams will be college men in every respect. We shall watch with interest the growth of the present classes, and the desire uppermost in our hearts is that you keep the ball rolling and do your part toward building history and tradition, which we desire and need so much. Our college is still young and faces a prosperous future, but the student life to be rests with you. Keep your class yells sounding and your colors flying, muster all the class and college spirit you can, use it everywhere and all the time. The Class of 1906 will come back some day ; and whether the effects of our labors will be seen or not, if we find that we helped ourselves a little as well as aided those behind us, we shall feel satisfied. And so we plead with you to “ hold your ground to the last man,” help our little college at every opportunity, show that she has done something for you by doing something for her. As we look back, our mistakes appear large, and we see where we could have done better; but the best we can do now is to encourage you of the other classes to make each Senior class just a little larger and better than the one before. Do not let the last term of the Senior year find you regretting

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JUNIOR CLASS, 1907 (Colors. iSrii anil iBlark J. K. LAMOND A. H. Barber H. R. Lewis M. S. Macomber . President Vice-President . Secretary . Treasurer Honorary Member Josephine Osborne Bostwick Members Barber, Arthur Houghton Coggins, Calvin Lester Davis, Augustus Boss. Ferry, Jay Russell Fitz, Arthur Edward Tucker, Kellogg, David Raymond Kendrick, Winfield Smith Lamond, John Kenyon Lewis, Harry Reynolds Macomber, Miner Sanford Ethel Aldrich