Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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imagination, and cannot concei e history to be other than a record of tlie past. There is, tlierefore, nothing with which to entertain you but a record of dried up facts which liave long ago lost all essence of interest, and which, when read, would furnish ou with pleasure of an infinitesimal order. While for us, bent upon the future, and with scrutinizing care seeking to reveal for ourselves what is in store, there can be no more pleasure in writing the dead past than for you in reading. In closing, and by the fact that we close, we expre.ss to j ' ou f)ur apprecia- tion of your forbearance and our hope of revealing to you at some future time the hundred-fold increment of 95 ' s man}- talents. We enter upon a fu- ture as dark for us as for any, yet with a confidence in the training of our Alma Mater which shall .serve as a basis for the superstructure, and with such all-in.spiriiig words as the.se to act as a beacon upon our wa} ' ever present — Look not niournfully into the Pa.st. It comes not back again. Wi.sely improve the Pre.sent. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear, and with a manly heart. Historian.

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' ■■ ' ■ ' ■ ■ —• ' iJksJti SOPHOMORE YEAR. Tiikhtj nil Ad ' t ' iiiiii-d Scat — ( - day I ' ictories — Debate — Gyiiinasiiiiii Prize, Sflph. Essay Prize. )f — Banquet — Vashini:;ton ' s Riith- Contest — Prizes Won : Soph. Dei aiiiatioii JUNIOR YEAR. T ie Pendulum — Its Siege and Pinal .Surrender — ' ' L ' Agenda — Hard Times Knocked Out — Great Imprflvcineiits--Merited Success — ' ahz Joke — Hop — Banquet — Prizes Won: Junior Debate, st and 2iid : Junior ' ' Ex — Inter-Class Contest Prize, Silver Cup. So much for the three years that are past and gone. A brief account, it is true; a bare outhne. Yet we trust it may serve as a reminder to those well acquainted with our hi.story and who, like the small boy, need but a starter to go ahead. While to as many as are unacquainted or, at best, but little acquainted with our career, (though of course few such exist), we hope it may serve as a frame i;i which details may be filled at leisure and to one ' s notion. We now turn our attention to the Senior year, past in fact yet with us in name. To be sure the crisis is to come, and, for this reason, we must regard the year as with us. But the ground work, the foundation of our future life, has been laid, if at all, in the days that have gone by, and what we are, or likely ever will be, depends upon what we have been. This year is an uneventful one in so far as it concerns our history. We have dabbled in philosophy, mental and moral, the mental a little more than the moral, possibly ; distinct class hi.story would exclude this on the ground that such dabbling is the common lot of all. We might speak of our accomplishments as students (if we have any); yet this would be excluded for a like reason, and, at the same time, mention of it is unnecessary, since the fact that we are what we are is proof sufficient that we have met the requirements. If history could be made to include prophesy it might be possible to make some startling revelations. Unfortunately, we are not blessed with a v ivid t This section is omitted out of respect for our friends of ' 96. Revelation might be derogatory to their good name.

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. .,„.. .. „„v .v „..x .. . i.. . , . M a ' 96. Spiu iciiniy . li ciido. Coi.OKS ; Gold anil White. Class fi.owKR : The Daisy, Yku. : Hobby caiioo, canon, canix ! P.ucknell ! Bucknell ! Ninetv-six ! OFFICERS: Pi-esidnil S. R. Wood. I ' ia ' -Pir.ucfeiit J. W. D.wis. Sciir aiy, A. A. Cohkr. Trca iHrei Historian, ' or . . . . . . F. C. FiSHHR. M. RV M. Woi.FK. . . E. R. PowKi.i..