Colgate University - Salmagundi Yearbook (Hamilton, NY)

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LETTEI2 IIIQCIVI '99 DIE WEITE WELT, Marchuary 32, 1900. Miss SAL M. A. GUND1, Hamilton, New York. DEAR SARAH :- And so you are a debutante,-will come out at Colgate's Junior Prom., and, waiting, like Longfellow's maiden, 4' with reluctant feet, you want one more letter from the old friends of '99, before plunging into the giddy vortex of society. Well, you shall have it. For when,-from the days when they listened to a Faculty plea for more gymnasium equipment even until now,- did they ever turn an unsympathetic ear to one in need. You wonder, do you, at the changes which mark the H new era 'l at Colgate? We, too, wonder and admire. While our feet may never course swiftly over the new track, nor may we hale the festive pigskin across Whitnall field, we yet rejoice in their innovations with a deep joy, begotten of confidence in the brightness of Colgate's athletic future. And the chapel. O, shades of the original thirteen! Can that be so transformed from its pristine blankness, that it is now sacrilege to salt the freshmen therein ? They whisper, too, that there has arisen a new college custom, needing the services of no college of heraldry to give it prestige, but fully sealed by the traditions of the past. Mercury and 1903. Well ! well ! ! well ! ! ! Forty men, did you say, out nightly for football prac- tice ? And our eyes have often looked upon the melancholy spectacle of a single C' sub bucking the line for the edifi- cation of some three or four languid rooters ! ff Verily, the world do movefl And all these things move us, Sarah, to tell you confidentially that the new President is O. K. We, though scattered about this land of ours, from Schenectady even unto Beaver Dam, have met with few thrilling experiences. None have Won eminence as polit- ical agitators or pulpit orators , none swum to glory across the raging streams of the Philippines. Some are teaching Hamo to classes by the deductive method, and some inductively as private tutors. Others are immersed in law or submerged by theology, while yet others are I9

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1et'terta.'ta.' from '99.ze chasing the elusive dollar over the thoroughfares of busi- ness life. HI-Iow does it seem, you ask, ff to be out in the cold, cold world ?U We will answer by an illustrative parable. 44 O ' nee upon a time there were youths, and these youths were banded together into a class and went unto college for four years and got learning ! Latin and Greek, Psy- chl ' ' o ogy also, and Ethics, and many other branches of knowl- edge. Commencement day came and the band played, 20 K 1 and these youths were given pieces of parchment, yes. diplomas of sheepskin. And then they marched forth to meet the worldg and some there were who expected the world to meet them with shouts of 4Behold the conquer- ing hero comes,' but instead it asked: 1Confound you. what are you good for, anyhow ?' Yours lovingly. 1899.