Hamilton College - Hamiltonian Yearbook (Clinton, NY)

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Senior Glass Tbistonz HE hoary century, nodding wearily in the slumber of death, has given birth to many illustrious sons. She has seen nations writhing in the throes of civil war, has heralded the march of giant inventions, and heard the echo of Dewey's iron guns. But gloriously has she reserved her crowning bequest until Father Time. standing upon the distant hillside, beckons her to go. Dying, she gives IQOO to the expectant world,- IQOO, a class whose name is synony- mous with erudition,- but what discordant voices do I hear? Ah! lt's the voice of Old Square proclaiming that the glorious cohorts of the century class will leave the old college minus their allowance of keys, it is the voice of Snitz proclaiming -l il --l -if -l it is the voice of the Faculty groaning in utter despair of the centenarians. But as great statesmen striking boldly out on some new policy have been disparagingly thot of, or vigorously denounced 3 as mighty nations struggling for some noble end have received the harshest and most adverse criticism, so the class of 1900, struggling manfully up the slope of experience, struggling toward a noble goal, is criticised by those upon the summit. But poor, indeed, is that class that has no one to talk for it, Harke-n to the words of K' Prex : The men of Nineteen Hundred are oratorical Brobdinags and scholastic l,illiputians g and again, to 'fl-Bill Squires: A most wonderful class of original thinkers. But what care we for censure or praise, for the idle bickerings or honeyed Hattery of intellectual giants? Our record, like the fixed pole-star, shines with perpetual lustre, our memory shall live, hal- lowed in the minds of men, with the mighty lives of the ages, and our monument, when remote posterity shall tread the halls of dear old Hamilton, will be the remembrance of exemplary lives, of un- sullied manhood, and of sterling worth. 27