Delaware Valley College - Cornucopia Yearbook (Doylestown, PA)

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HISTORY O ' er these paving stones we strode, To a great and wider road.

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Joseph F. Jli fich CLASS PRESIDENT • }8 =-

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Our tliree years at Farm School have ended. Although we have learned and accom- plished much, we feel our stay has been altogether too short. We want to learn and accomplish more. Here, we made a beginning. Our later days will l)e based on the foundations laid here, and we shall ever cherish this apprenticeship. It is hoped that this history will be a constant reminder in later years, for the members of the Nineteen Twenty-eight Class, of days at N. F. S. Jjirval Stage (3 JTAHCH. IS) ' - ' ;), found us congregated with fear and trembling in the reception J m room of Lasker Hall, feeling like so many insect eggs in a field in danger of being plowed under. Our initial bow into the mysterious ways of Farm School was indelibly marked with thick black ink upon clothes, limbs, and torso, the stains of which some have as yet been unable to remove. After having the freedom of the school for a few days, we learned the fallacy of milking cows by the tail method. It did not take us long to realize our position, colloquially, as MUTTS, which was forcefully imprinted upon our seats of learning, and smart we became. With a feeling of sorrow for our plight, Miss Churchman and Miss Gross prepared a fitting reception, and before the evening progressed far we forgot our aches and pains of the previous week. Along with arduous details and industrials came class work, rich in agricultural terms, cjuite new to us. These curricular activities were interspersed with jolly (?) escapades conducted by our brotherly upperclassmen who sought to explain such expressions as Sloppy Minnie ' s , Short-arm Inspection , and Bend over and hold ' em . Our first opportimity to combat the Jimiors on an eqiuil footing came with the playing of the inter-class baseball game, which we won by the decisive score of 16-6. (A few days later we felt sorry for so large a score.) The monotony of summer field work was greatly relieved l)y the Founder ' s Day exercises in .Time and the first Annual Alumni Keimion on July 4 and 5. As summer progressed we worked in all the departments, becoming well ac- cjuainted with Prunde Shutes . Riten de Bucket , Piece ' ell, Chaunk , Eneway and Enehow , and MY SON Chester . When, after harvest, we asked for addi- tional vacation, having for the most part used our twenty-eight days, we were called Villains . We were overjoyed, for one was not a full-fledged student until called a Villain . W ' e now belonged to the Student Body, and were not considered mere guests. When the Juniors held their Prom many members of our class graced the floor with lovely ladies. Now qualified to join in the execution of school affairs our first act was to prepare a sumptuous banquet in honor of the Football Team of 19 ' -25. It was a lavish affair and gave us our first opportunity to display school spirit so long repressed. -.=1 10 r-