Austin College - Chromascope Yearbook (Sherman, TX)

 - Class of 1903

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History of the Senior Class.

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with one another defects in our characters have crept to the sur- face, which being thus early observed, will enable us to guard What a joy it was for us to hold our first class meeting, to elect those who should govern us during our last year at college. We were Seniors! What a weight of authority the name alone seemed to carry with it. After years of hard study, after years of discouragement and success, at length we had reached the last round of the ladder and might pause to review our labors of the past. Pause, did I say? No, not pause, but upward! Let us not turn our gaze to the earth below, from whence we have just ascended, but turning it ever higher, let us strain every muscle, stretch every nerve to grasp the prize just within our reach. Let us extend a helping hand to those following in our foot- steps. They struggle and strive below to reach the prize which upon us as we stand upon the ladder’s topmost round. To them Alas! for the limitations of human vision. Could they but stand where we stand and gaze upon the dizzy heights before us, they we stand at the foot of Fame’s ladder in the midst of a vast multi- tude. What are we in this seething tide of humanity, each strug- gling for the coveted prize? What do our honors avail with this striving, selfish crowd? Because of them, will they stand aside to give us place? No 1 what we gain must be earnest, hard-expended We enter this battle with these advantages, however: We are trained and educated men, we know how to apply our strength to the best advantage; and, where others will fail through lack of Life rears its lofty head into the fleecy clouds, its seemingly unscala- ble sides grisly with jagged points and seamy scars. Stand with us and see the myriads of human beings seeking to scale its towering height. See them bleeding and torn by the piti- less rocks. But at last, after soul-sickening struggles, they sur- mount its forbidding eminence and gaze awestruck upon the beau- teous scene presented. Before, in majestic splendor rises the awful

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