Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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SECTIUNR A. 1900. Turn over a new leaf. W EET - I i 1 , ' x ARTHUR LINWOOD GOULD, . . Preszkiefzf GERTRUDE WCOD DEXTER, . . . Vz'ce-Pffeszdmf SARAH ELIZABETH MCMENABIEN, Secrcfafgf and 717'6'6Z5?l7'6'7' GERTRUDE WOOD DEXTER, Hz'sf01'z'fz1z

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covers. We left Hermann unter ein Baum-tree and went home to write another circular letter and show our friends the new lines in our faces. We started on our fourth year, our stage of maturity, with sad hearts, for we had been twenty-three and now we were but eight. All the rest, either from love of filthy lucre, love of teaching, or lack of love for us and Bridgewater, had left us, left us fewer, older, wiser, a notorious instance of the survival of the fittest. Only eight, the I-Iomely Eight, welfare called by unsympatbeticfand un- appreciative juniors, who ought however to be thankful we are only eight in- stead of twenty-three. And now we eight, all that are left of the noble six hundred, are about to leave our Alma Mater, Next Year,-we say, and pause. The words have a new meaning for us, we cannot use them with that delightful certainty of former years and we repeat- next year -with a feeling of awe and reverence Qopen throat, aspirated qualityb, and in our hearts thank with deepest gratitude those faithful instructors who have tried to develop in us the whole-souled teacher, and prepare us for next year.

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HISTGRY. - -N-Y--kick-S Q.-kk-SDN! I J' I I-J I d-d- . aeefefzfzfzezezfffzvfzsfsaeieisifeisieefee I-IE four-years' class of IQOO, Section A by name, entered this illustrious institution with a membership of eighteen, and the highest hopes in the world. It may be said that even before we entered we had a reputation to sustain, for the last Section A, to whose name and fame we fell heir, was of a most superior character. Thus at the very outset great expectations of us were entertained. It is said that this very expectation of good is an active spur to honest effort. Whether or not this is true in our case we would best leave outsiders to judge and time to prove. Through our first year we existed. This really is all that can usually be said of anyone's first year in a new place. We were all strangers to each other, it took some time to learn even the names. No special feeling of class unity was developed that year. In school it is probable that we worked harder than at any time since. The new and undiscovered is always an incentive to effort rather than the tried and known. There is not the deadly sameness to it which saps one's energies. In the field of Music our natural brilliancy was somewhat obscured by the presence of a second and larger class, but this was not the case in Chemistry where we distinguished ourselves, especially in the line of explosions and the like, though with a lack of fatality truly remarkable. In Mathematics we rather excelled, being considered in many respects the star class of the year, for at the end we rested on our laurels instead of being obliged to go through the ordeal of a final test. This one first year was the ever-to-be-remembered one of the reign of the scarlet fever. We furnished from our class three candidates for the hospital, rather more, we thought, than our rightful quota. At the end of this year we found ourselves well acquainted, both with each other and the ways of the school, and looked forward with considerable pleasure to a reunion in September. Our next year was one of very pleasant work involving little worry and anxiety. In fact its delightful character much exceeded our expectations, for we had not realized what a sense of independence the knowledge of a previous year at the same sort of workwould give us, or how much we could enjoy small C022- Zffeiewzps. We all remember that in our pursuit of a knowledge of draughts in 4225