Austin College - Chromascope Yearbook (Sherman, TX)

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the good of all the students might be advanced. We believe that one of the best things accomplished in the student-body for several years is the establishment of a voluntary honor system, whereby the whole student-body not only shows its disapproval of unfairness on examinations, but undertakes to prevent such conduct. Though it was one of our class who proposed this step, and led us to take the initiative in it, the establishing of the system is a credit to every class and every student who has lent it his support. It is to be regretted that the support of this system is not at present unanimous, and its effect- it may easily be made of great benefit to the school. If maintained zealously for a few years, it will be found that every student who enters college will sign its pledge almost as soon as he does the college book. “Calamity is man’s true touchstone,’’ is a saying which may well be applied to college examinations. There are few students but there are many who think that to get a little help in order to pass is justifiable. If requires us to sail under our own colors though we pass through the fires of destruction, we have erected a “monument more enduring than brass.” The memory of this will be sweet to us in those days when the mind reverts to the things of the pa our early doings with the sober judgment of maturity. We need not mention the bright particular stars in our number; t say that he who records our annals twenty years from now will need acquaintance to nearly all the dignified callings of life. From oi we furnish the bar two well-trained minds; the medical profession have laid for their life work a broader foundation than the average attained; the gospel ministry will have two recruits; and our other members the various business professions to which their circumstances call them, career in college we have furnished our quota of repres contests, among them a successful debater in ’04, another successful debater and the winner of the Preliminary Oratorical Contest of ’06. But these things will not be uppermost in the fond memories of a lat are such triumphs as these compared to the friendships formed? It is h the foundations for more than mere intellectual attainments; and we hope that a broad e physician h er day. What

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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

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sympathy for our fellows is one of our attainments. To depart with the love of those with whom we have spent these years of mingled disappointments and joys, to feel that they in succeeding years would welcome us to their midst again, is far better than the passing joys of doubtful honors. This we have endeavored to bring about; and as the days which mark our sojourn here draw swiftly to a close, their end brings less of joy than of sorrow if in this one thing we have failed. We go forth now into a broader world, stronger because of the years spent here, better because of the friends we have found, purer because of the trials overcome, inspired by the good will of those from whom we part to zealously serve the present age, and so fulfill our calling.