Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Az' . l t? - . , n fl., j i i FOURTH YEAR cLAss. . qs.. fs' 1 ' 'V A X 2 5 P f EfiPL'n'41' 'X Nv-:rw W f g Q ,' Q, y, tiff, .argl lf .i 4 . if ii 3 Tlx 1 :XXX iw HE Class of '96 has reached a point where it must lay down its claims to unfailing originality and do and say the things which countless generations of Seniors have said before. With deep i f ii if K regret we leave our Alma Mater, carrying J with us stores of wisdom, and leaving behind, we hope, a good example for suc- Q QQ ceeding generations, etc., etc. It is perhaps ,El f :,li,i ' ' an easy matter to make worn-out remarks 1.1, fl 'N and excite no sympathy when one is but 'ard ,fill y half-hearted in a cause, but when the heart is full of intenselst feeling, to. realize that no statement of one's case, however vivid 4 .' Fr and graphic, will make it more than the same old story, this is Q iis , il bitter indeed. Yet not even the fear of striking no sympathetic If Al llx xsi chord in the hearts of our hearers can force back the testimony Oi .fgfliw l f i i we would bear to the unspeakable satisfaction of the past and the cold uncertainty of the future. We have been in college four years, and Q. are nearing at length the goal of our desires: we have struggled from the N puny Freshman ideals to the larger and nobler standards of seniority, we 'W xx i, have breathed in exhilarating draughts of the Old World's knowledge, we Q , . have measured ourselves with others, we have in our small way made repu- X ' lit' tationsg we interpret the college to the outside world g we are its terminus i l4

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fm' Qllflll and in the eyes of the underclass-men approaching honors cast their glorifying light about us. What have we to look forward to P A sinking into insignificance, a feeling that there is no longer room for us anywhere since our old college haunts and offices are ably filled by othersg a gradual realization of the fact that our quondam successes count now for nothing, but that we have a new and much larger world to conquer with no one's help but our own--this is the flat sequel to the brilliance and hopefulness of the Senior Year and Commencement. And because such anti-climax is always disheartening, we ask your sympathy and charity. Be kind to us when we are cast adrift from our old moorings, at least until we have taken our bearings and are at home in the new and deeper waters that surround us. A. C. M. rgfigl ' l' -x 2 ,f l i l X 5 l l l I5