Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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FOREWORD Prompted by the sincere conviction that to every man there comes a time when he would look back upon the days of his youth, and desirous of having some record of the countless suc- cesses and happinesses crowded into these four short years, we present this most humble effort to our classmates.. To attempt to herein recount even a great part of our glories and pleasures were futile indeed; and so, we have sought to record accurately those incidents most generally remembered by us and most suggestive of other equally happy moments. Conscious, as we are, of the many imperfections which this work must possess, we feel certain that they will be overlooked, and if the book shall in the years to come, serve as a kind and happy guide to kindlier friends and happier days, then shall our efforts have not been in vain, and we shall find therein our greatest thanks. THE COMMITTEE.

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OUR HISTORY With a mingled sense of pleasure and pain we look back across the years to that warm, bright September morning of four years ago, when we gathered at James Street to find a dream, perhaps of years, a happy reality. Do you remember how we, one by one, blushing, smiling and perhaps nervous, presented ourselves to the Freshmen professors for inspection and instruction ? And when this formality was over we repaired to the book store (some few of us went down- town) for the books we felt were neccesary. It took but a few days to get under way. We then chose Frank Ryan as our lead er. With what great interest we translated and improved upon the Odes of Horace and the Odyssey! With what stern interest we listened to the lectures of Mr. Cox, S. J., of Fr. Lane, S. J., and of Fr. Stedler, S. J. But it would not have been consistent with the spirit of the class to devote our entire attention to our intellectual development; and so we sent our sturdy repre- sentatives on the gridiron, Buck Hurley, Leo Daley, Duffy, Kiley, Heffernan, Doc Fleming, Rogers, Fallon and Conley. On the track, Halloran, Rowan and Duffy held high the standard of the class. But not alone in these fields did we star, for Scolponeti, Hinchey, Hendricks, Mclnnis, Ryan, Atkinson, Mahoney, Gillis, Feeney and Carney brought us immeasurable glory in dramatics. We laid aside our books for one evening to show our grace in the art of dancing and in this, our first dancing party at Horticult- ural Hall, we met with the same success that has characterized our every effort. It was about this time that four of our members constituted themselves alienists and after serious pubhc discussion decided that Hamlet should not be removed to an asylum.