Austin College - Chromascope Yearbook (Sherman, TX)

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HISTORY OF CLASS OF ’( It is in vain that he who has failed to engrave his name upon the hearts of his fellows chisels it in pillars of stone or molds it into monuments of brass; the ever-changing seasons mark their swift decay no sooner than his memory is forgotten. But there are in every man s life thoughts of the past which are sweet to him and which he would fain keep fresh amid all the cares and vexations which mar his maturer years. So it is not to history of the Class of Nineteen Six is spread upon the pages of this book. When, in the fall of 1901, twenty-five young fellows came up from the forks of many creeks to this noble seat of learning, they were filled with much fear and trembling. Out before them stretched a long and dreary-looking course leading up through all the is any time when hope is supreme in mortal breasts, that time is early youth, and these Not all this hopeful band, however, were destined to realize these visions; for the next year saw but half of them return, with some recruits to fill up the vacant places. In the Sophomore year some of these had dropped out, but some notable men who now constitute more than half the class were added; and the opening of the Junior year found the personnel of the class the same as at present, with the exception of B. F. Maner, who left school in October; F. H. Shaw, H. H. Taylor and W. S. Taylor being the only three remaining of that hopeful twenty-five who made the brilliant start. The Senior Class of ’06 have had no “room whereinto no one enters save our- selves,” but have, so far as we might, identified ourselves with every movement by which