Franklin and Marshall College - Oriflamme Yearbook (Lancaster, PA)

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humanity following the path we trod. And we scrupled not to reach down a helping hand, to lend aid and encouragement to the weaklings who looked to us for it. We strove to untangle the maze and tangle the snare set for them by the Sophomores in the hall-rush. By a coalition with the Seniors, in meeting assembled, we contrived as a substitute a new cane-rush which was joyfully accepted by the lower classmen. Thus was another radical change brought about during our regime. , Our life as Seniors has been more conservative. While still strivingifor the honors within our reach we are more than ever convinced that they are but the stepping-stones to higher achievements and thus are we imbued with a determination to prepare ourselves for future battles with the world by making the most of the opportunities still left to us. It is not the intention of the historian to treat the life of our class in de- tail. This has been done by the worthy historians preceding him. The faithful readers of the ORIFLAMME will be only too familiar, we are afraid, with our scrapes and predicaments to need reminders. It has therefore been the aim of the historian to set forward only the more important elements of our class life pointing to the attainment of that end for which we as students have st1'iven. The events of the past four years will soon be but memories to us. Soon-only too soon-the buffetings of the world will have beaten and moulded us into the spheres of life destined for usg and as old grads. then- whether the world has used us ill or well-we will look back again to F. and M. and in thought again travel over the ground we trod as undergradu- ates. Our triumphs, our escapades, our scrapes will have a charm for us in their recapitulation. If the world has used us ill, these memories will be a soothing balm to our troubled spirits, if well-ah then how much grati- tude will we feel for those dear old Profs. who so solicitously and carefully paved the way for our future advancement Y We are about to make our bow of retirement in the college drama. Our little company of players has endeavored to acquit itself well in the part it played in the life of F. and M. The company now disbandsg only, how- ever, to take up new parts in life's broader drama. And whether these be lofty speaking-parts or merely the most humble parts in seemingly insigni- ticant life scenes, each and every actor of 'o1's troupe may be depended on to acquit himself as well in his new venture as in the play just ended. All1l.C?L.' 26

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Senior 'Hiszstorg' By WALDO T. BRUBAKER al i - , - E, THE twentieth centuryis sons, the sons of Franklin and Mar- V ' gf shall loyal, true and grave, are about to forsake the tutelage of V Sf' our revered college to commence the fight for fame and for- tune in this wicked worldg to launch our craft, heavily laden with the precepts of our Alma Mater and equipped with the block and tackle of moral courage and personal freedom, laboriously con- trived by the wise care of our beloved preceptors, on the Wide sea of worldly experience. Q We, as a class, when we entered the revered halls of Franklin and Mar- shall, were imbued with an aggressive spiritg a spirit as aggressive in the race for knowledge as in the fight for class honors of every description. As freshmen we were undoubtedly green-unmitigatedly green. We are glad to admit it. When we look back to this, our novitiate, the metamorphosis undergone by us during the past four years seems all the more remarkable and gratifying. We graduate forty-one cultured men. As sophomores we toiled diligently over the mighty tasks set us by our over-lords, the Profs. And, although our appetites, perhaps, were some4 what satiated for lobster and MOLLUSCA LAMELLIBRANCIIIA, they were by no means appeased for honors on the rostrum, on the athletic Held, in the field of knowledge,-nor for Freshman ice-cream. We were beginning to be recognized as a power in the body politic of our college. ' V It was during our Sophomore year that we had the gratification of behold- ing the first steps taken to open the way for a H Greater F. and M. The establishment of a Ph.D. course, and the erection of the Science Building, now almost ready for use, mark an epoch in the college history. Another, and an important phase of liberal education has been eliminated from the disregard and neglect which it formerly received. The employ- ment of a competent Director of Athletics was brought about purely by student agitation. These two radical changes having been accomplishedg we hope that the reformation will continue. , By the time we reached the enviable position of Juniors our status was assured. From our pedestal we looked down upon the struggling mass of , ' .25 ,

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