Colby College - Oracle Yearbook (Waterville, ME)

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Senior History MEN ISTORY is not a mere succession of dates or of incidents. It is a record of progress or decline, of advance or retrogression. This is true both of nations and of individuals. So is it with the class of 1906. A bare set of dates might be given here concerningcur entrance into college and our advance step by step to the dignity of Seniors, and yet it might not be a real history of the class for all that. We came here boys-we stand at the-close of our course, we trust, as men. What have been the influences that have moulded our lives during these four vital years ? Has Colby impressed upon us, as she has upon some eighty-live other classes, those lofty ideals which make for true manhood and worthy citizenship ? It may not be the office of one of our number to answer this question, yet the present historian does not hesitate to reply in the affirmative. Surely never has a class passed through experiences more fitted to test its metal since those days of the Civil war. For civil war has shaken the college during our life within its walls, and we our- selves stand, like the veterans of our national struggle, the few survivors in our college world of those days of conflict. The memories of that time are still fresh within us, but no bitterness is there. Love for college is stronger in our hearts as a result of those early experiences, and loyalty to Colby will not suffer because of them. The pleasures and pains of college life we have shared as all classes share them, and the pleasures have far outweighed the pains. We have always done our best to lead those under our care to a full appreciation of the privileges of a college education. Whether success has attended our efforts is not for us to say. But as we draw near the sad days of parting from our college home we face the future, confident that our record here will never be surpassed while Colby shall stand, and that the world has long been awaiting our coming to its help. I9