Columbia University - Columbian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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PRESIDENT,S LETTER To the Class of 1908: To each member of the class which is to go out from the University,s gates on Commencement Day next, I commend a careful reading of the charming article, contributed to the March issue of the Columbia University Quarterly by Professor Peck, entitled Ten Years on Morningside I-Ieightsf' The graduation of your class marks the tenth Commence- ment Day celebrated in our own new and beautiful and, We believe, permanent, home. Professor Peck has expressed with great tenderness of feeling and genuine literary skill the Co- lumbia spirit of the older day and the Columbia spirit of the year which marks your graduation. In the short interval of ten years We have exchanged one form and mode of life for another, and in losing something of the picturesque, the sense of nearness and of having much in common, We have gained participation in a far richer and fuller and stronger life, and we have come to occupy before the World the place which is justly our University's due. You Will, I am sure, not soon forget the years that you have passed on Morningside. The farther they fade into the dis- tance, the more they will seem to you to mean, and Columbia Will become, I venture to predict, not less, but more, real and vivid as the years roll on. Nothing in our American life is finer than the attachment of the College and University man for his stu- dent home. Nothing else indicates so clearly the true and noble sentiment which binds us in future life to our years of prepara- tion, and which exalts those years of preparation to a peculiar place in our affections. It has been your lot, coming from distant parts of the land, to be welded during your student life into a single homogeneous body. You are now about to separate and go each his Way into the work of the World. You will, however, never lose the traces of the unity and the homogeneity which you have gained here.

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HAROLD FOWLER.. . . FRED H. RINDGE. . . CLASS OFFICERS SENIOR YEAR ICITCHELL M. BOORMAN. . WILLIAM D. TVIURPHY. . . FOSTER WARE.. . JUNIOR YEAR FREMONT A. HIGGINS. . . KITCHELL M. BOORMAN. . WILLIAM D. MURPHY . SOPHOMORE YEAR GEORGE M. MACKENZIE. . . WILLIAM R. BRECK. . . WALTER G. BRANDLEY. . AUSTIN P. IVIONTGOMERY. . . FRESHMAN YEAR WILLIAM B. ROBINSON.. . EDWARD P. JOBBINS. . . ADDISON A. VANTINE.. . ROBERT P. MARSHALL. . . . . . .President Vice-President . . .Secretary . . Treasurer . . . .President Vice-President . . .Secretary . . . Treasurer . . . .President Vice-President . . .Secretary . . .Treasurer . . . .President Vice-President . . .Secretary . . .Treasurer

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PRESIDENT,S LETTER The name of this year will always have for you an attraction and a significance of its own, and I trust that it may be only the forerunner of many that will be rich in happiness, in use- fulness and in honorable service. With cordial greeting and warmest regard for each and all, I am, Faithfully yours, NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, President. April 7, 1908.