Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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all having- in direct object, Culture for Service, and the producing of such classes as this one. To prove this let facts be submitted to a candid world. They have kept us here to the end of a six years ' course. They have required us to study well many long and difficult courses. They have g-iven us tests and examinations to show us that a professor knows enough to ask questions which no one can answer. They have forbidden us to ride ponies to tests and examina- tions. They have forbidden us to be out of our rooms after 8:00 p. m. They have required us to go to Sun- day school and church services on Sunday. They have brought us up in the way that we should go, expect- ing that when we are old we would not depart therefrom. To every one of these prohibitions and requirements we have submitted and complied in the most humble manner. Our continuous merits have been responded to only by repeated promotions and considerations. An institution whose character is thus marked by every act which may define an ideal college, is most fit to be the Alma Mater of the Class of ' 0( . Nor have we been wanting in attention to our fellow students, the lower classmen. We have warned them from time to time of the danger and foolishness of depending too much upon their good looks and bluffs to bring them passing grades, and the absurdity of their assuming an unwarrantable dignity, such as is be- coming only for college seniors. We have reminded them of the circumstances under which our merits and attainments were being reached. We have appealed to their sense of honor and have conjured them by the ties of our common aims and similar needs to disavow such pretensions. They have responded to the voice of reason and experience to such a degree that we now feel it safe to entrust to them the interests of the student body at large. We, therefore, the seniors of 1906, hereby publish and declare that we now are, and of right ought to be, free from all jurisdiction and authority of the college and be absolved from all further responsibility for the welfare of the student body and management of student enterprises; and that as free and educated graduates we shall have full power to contrive, to resolve, and to execute, and to do all other acts and ' things which ma- ture and able men and women may of right do. And for the support of this declaration we mutually pledge to the cause of humanity our lives, our fortunes and sacred honor.

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College Senior Class. I Quid futuri sumus est in nobis. SMOTTO: - In uns selbst liegt unsere Zukunft. In ourselves our future lies. COLORS— Cardinal and Cream. FLOWER- Marguerite. Officers. President — A.. M. Hess. Vice-President— S. E. Zook. Secretary — Beitlah Kauffman. Treasurer — J. L. Beenneman. Class Professor — S. F. Gingrich. MHEN in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for a class to dissolve the academic bands which have connected it with an institution and to assume among the Powers of the world the sepa- rate and responsible station which the laws of common sense demand of them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to such separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that we are created to be educated, that we are endowed by our Creator with certain remarkable powers; that among- these are Thought, Feeling, Expression and Action; that to develop these powers colleges are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the presence and consent of those to be educated; that whenever any college has accomplished these ends, it is the right of a class to sever themselves from it and institute for themselves a new vocation, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people. The history of the present Goshen College is a history of continuous efforts at developing and training,

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ABRAM M. HESS, Shiremanstown, Pa. Aurora. President Senior Class ' 06. President Y. P. C. A. Ex-Treasurer Y. P. C. A. Ex-President Aurora Society. Chairman S. L. A. Book Committee. ' Deep on. his front engraven, deliberation sat. BEULAH KAUFFMAN, Goshen, Ind. Vesperian. Graduate Goshen High School, ' 02. Secretary Student Fund Soliciting- Board. Secretary Senior Class ' 06. President Vesperian Society. No one knows like a woman ho w to say things ivhich are at once gentle and deep.