Delaware Valley College - Cornucopia Yearbook (Doylestown, PA)

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THE CLEANER had we had the support that was neces- sary to carry out that most radical enter- prise, we are sure that we should have carried out the ideals set forth, to a reasonable conclusion. AVL' have set a goal. Il is for you lo reach it. lYhy hasn'l it been done this year? YYell, lirst of all, we, the fiI.ICANI'IIt Staff, are not bloated millionaires: secondly, we are far from being literary geniuses. 'l'hirdly, the attitude toward the fiLEANIC1t has not always been friendly. This may have been due to the fact that the Litterateurs were i11 the minority. and it probably was. Throughout the year, the hue and cry has been Help the A. A. Build it up. Give, give, sacrifice, and then some. Atruly admirable spirit. Yirile. red-blooded. redolent. of manliness, etc. And NYll6I1 the poor, weak. starving little GLEANER poked its timid head above the turmoil and chirped for help the iron heeli' was applied. Now fellows, y0u've got an important decision to make. lYill you have a CQLEANER or not! If you want a GLEANIQR, then its importance has got to establish itself in your minds. You've got to get behind it and boost. Understand! Wie do not intend to underrate the A. A. To us, it seems that the GLEANER is a more visible mark of your mentality, than a successful A. A. The Athletic Asso- ciation doesn't want the Paper to horn in. All right. Divide your at- tention between the two. After all, the Student Body runs the A. A., and if the students say that the GLEANER shall be published, who shall stop them? Let the Athletic Associations advisory board understand that the GLE.ANER deserves some of tl1e financial advantages and privileges that the Athletics have, and you will have peace. lYell, we arc winded. We can say that we have done our best. We the Seniors of the staff, wish to say in farc- well, that we hope that next year you will put out as good issues of the Q-iLEANliR, and many more. 1 is h ard to say Good-bye. After months of expectancy, after such patient waiting. we suddenly find the final breaking away from old friend- ships. familiar surroundings. and from friendly interests, is decidedly unpleasant. Some of us will go to College. and others will make a direct start in their chosen paths. And like the rest of the Youth of our Generation. we do not see the trials and tribulations of worldly con- tact, as our elders know them. Vtle will suddenly lose that spirit of confidence which our last. year as Seniors has instilled into us. Let us hope that we all reach our goal, whatever that may be. hlay our success be spiritual as well as material. llay we remember that we enter the world un- known, and to us, is given the task of carving our way. Now, on the eve of our last farewell, let us forget all of our bitter thoughts, and carry away with us, just a sunny picture of the Campus, of the cheerful Ivy-covered Dorms., of the rolling hills and of the cheery, browned faces of our undergraduate friends. As a parting thought, we wish to thank our Blatron, Mrs. Dennison, and our old friend itliss Gross. for the kindly, whole- hearted interest they have taken in us. Oh, Alma ltlater, when we next are here may we see you as bigger in every way, and as pleasant and inspirational as you have always been. Page FQ !ccn

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. -ifql f. .4 X .V ,E 'Q ll m f a a sw - . 1J , -fe , .,, 1 , ei I f , ' M 'fi ffl . ,fi , I 2 I a P' M IST one year aoo, we wrote a c11t1c1zed the student body rather 23149 long .l13I'ZiIlgl1E', in which we 1.,a,.s 1' heavily for its manifold failures and short- comings. Very little praise was given for what had been accomplished, and of course. we felt very noble for our con- scientiousness in stopping to tell our neighbor his faults. Within a short time, we were deluged, inundated, literally swept off our trim size eights, by a Hood of the most highly colored Cand in some cases rather vitriolicl language, anent our mental faculties. W'e were surprised, flattered and discouraged. All of this, however, only whettcd our appetite, and we began to meditate more deeply upon the subject. The result of our meditations has been that we have assumed a broader attitude of mind. W'e have come to the conclusion that every year, with the going of the Seniors. and the coming of the Freshmen, the Student Body takes a deep breath and makes a new start. W'e sincerely believe that every year, we mean to do better than those of the preceding year. The fault then is not with the 'C intention. Clearly. it is the f,'apability', of the Student Body that tends to made the year brilliant or otherwise. W'e believe that every student of the National Farm School wants to do his best to promote the name of his Alma llaterg and does softo the best of his ability. Thus we see why all Student Bodies are not the sameg why we sometimes climb to the highest pinnacles of Athletic Glory, and Page Fourlcclz V ICTOR at other times remain in the shadowy valleysg why at times we are a pride and a joy forever to the Faculty, and why we are not. Personally, we think that the Student. Body has done remarkably well Cas far as that goesi. There have been set- backs this year, with which, probably no other Student. Body in the history of our Alma Blater has had to contend. Athletic-ally, we have accomplished more this year than last year. After talking to some of the Varsity Football men, I am convinced that we had a remark- able team. only we didn't get the breaks W'e like a good, hard-fought frame of football when eleven men play men, but strenuously eleven men play thirteen ref and that useless 'j. W'ell, one game. and keep the back, stern and not really C? affainst eleven be object to seeing tincluding the member of society. the ump' that explains why we won only Of course, we could go on patting the dear reader on but we suddenly feel very serious. To us. the year is complete or successful unless the students can boast of a real, living publication. Oh, where now, a1'e our lofty dreams of a short time ago? W'here is that wonder- ful thing with which we were going to startle an unsuspecting world- the big- gest GLEANER ever publishedv? Gone. shattered. Houted by our erstwhile critics. And now we are going to discourse at length, for this is a subject. which is nearest to our heart. Yes, it is true that we dreamed, but

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THE CLEANER lass iiaisturp YERYTHING, large or small, x H new or old, has a history. I donit know whether we belong to the latter or former class, but, strange to say, when we arrived in the National Farm School, in the early part of March of 1921, the newspapers were negligent enough to overlook the event. Food for thought is no more essential than the other type of that well-known viand, and even though we were only freshmen, we knew enough to invade the dining room. After the battle was over we were gently informed that our after-dinner smoke must be postponed for the next three years. We soon learned that this meant that our after-dinner smoke must be postponed until we could get under cover. Vile were soon introduced to genuine farm work. 'Tain't so bad now, after three years of it, but then, oh, how could our fathers have ever stood for such torture through all these genera- tions. For the sake of variation we were then sent to our classes. After these classes each day we were free to enjoy the wonderful country air. Strange to say. many of us preferred to retain our old habits, and instead of taking advant- age of our good fortune we preferred to inhale smoke during our leisure hours. Since smoke is not one of Bucks County's natural provisions. such as is its fresh air. in order to fulfill their desires. smoke had to be produced by artificial means, via famels, Piedmonts, and Lucky Strikes. The nurseries were full of them. as well as of us. Wie seemed to enjoy the company of those shrubs. but. strange to say it was not at them but through them that we gazed. How could and why did those seniors and juniors punish us for smoking when we were not smoking Paiqr S1'.rli'u11 at the time they caught sight of us. They couldn't prove it, nor did they try. How unfair they seemed to us at that time. A year later, we realized that they also had at one time been freshmen and had also been homesick for the smoky at- mosphere of the city. And so, we survived our first few months. Soon We were staring our fresh- man-junior baseball game square in the face. Now, it is but a pleasant recol- lection, tying the score 12-19. In the fall we again tied the score of our football game with juniors 0-0, being the Hrst class to be beaten in either of those games. lVinter came and went and we became juniors. Old faces left and new ones took their places. YVe lost our baseball and football games with these newcomers through the loss of some of our best material. We now mnnbered 15 as compared to our original 36. In the fall of 1922 we received a few new members from the Class of 1925 who were soon to become our leaders. Soon another class disappeared and we were again joined by representatives of most of the states of our Union. lVe were Seniors. Oh, that grand and glorious feeling! Our senior year was a success even though we mourned the loss of eight of our class- mates who left us soon after we became Seniors. ln our senior year we produced a bigger and better CiLE.-XNER, had fairly successful baseball and football seasons, and our social life was an inspiration to our studies. lYe are nearing Commencement and this history will soon become only a, collection of fond recollections to the 15 men who are to be graduated from the National Farm School on February QQ, 192-L. B. L. KLEIN.