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

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Page Sev The Grist Junior Class COLORS — Navy Blue and Gold Officers H. A. FlSKE, President S. E. Kenyon, Vice-President E. A. Gory, Secretary L. A. Whipple, Treasurer Members Drew, Joseph Drake Field, Clesson Herbert Fiske, Herbert Andrew Gardiner, Robert Franklin Gory, Edward Allen Kenyon, Susan Elnora Mitchell, Clovis William Rose, Orpha Lillie Sheldon, George Ware Sherman, Mary Albro Smith, John Lebroc Whipple, Lucius Albert

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The Grist Pa«c Sixtc and the rest of us a woman. Our days at Rhode Island are numbered, and the counting of them is a sad, sad task for us, looking, as we do, into a future of which we know nothing. Yet we are ready for whatever it may have in store for us, confident that Rhode Island has brought to us one lesson which we can never forget — to play the game hard, to meet victory with modesty, and defeat with the courage to rise and try again. As we go out from here, we regret leaving behind many firm friends and losing the happy companion- ships of the years gone by. Yet we go with a certain indefinable eagerness to get into the fight, the work and the worry of the world. Wherever we may find ourselves, whatever straits we may be in, we shall always have only the happiest of happy memories of at least one bright spot in our lives, our stay at Rhode Island. Morituri te salutamus.

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The Grist Pu«c Eifihtc History of the Class of 1908 Hh ■ ARUTH is stranger than fiction,” but is not half so interesting. Histories are supposed to be entirely truthful; and as the story of R. I. C. 1908 is to be presented as history, we must necessarily adhere strictly to the truth, however much we should like to digress. Entering R. I. C. as we did in a “leap” year, it was natural to expect that 1908 would be an unusual class in one way or another, but it is with tears in our eyes that we realize we have failed to fulfill the expectation. We have yet a year and a half in which to do something that will class us among the phenomena of the world. When our first history was published in The GRIST, we numbered eighteen ; but since that time six have wandered from the fold, and we now count but nine men and three women, who hope, through the lenience of the faculty and with the help of the gods, to graduate as the class of ’08. Three Junior receptions have come and gone since our entrance to this little institution. Each with its preceding and subsequent events is now numbered among the happy memories of the past, and we are looking forward to one more — our last — with much more pleasure in the anticipation than when we awaited the eve of our first reception in the fall of 1904. Then we knew not what was coming and expected the worst. Now we think only of the old, well-remembered faces we shall meet and the new faces yet to become familiar. For our work in athletics we refer you to other records. We hope that whatever we may have done in. the past as well as what we may do in the future, in this branch of college life and activity, has been and will be solely for the advancement of our Alma Mater. 1908 is represented in every course offered by the college except agriculture. At that we draw the line. Three of us are would-be civil engineers, four are lights of the electrical department, two dabble in chemistry, two are scientists of the first order, and one is taking everything in sight.