Hampden Sydney College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hampden Sydney, VA)

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These are some of the material facts in the career of the class. But shall I not tell how the inner man has likewise grown? How we have been moulded by contact with the men who have taught us? How from aimless lower-class men we have grown to soberer manhood, and see with clearer vision the expanse of a life's work, clouded, though it may be, by a mist of lingering memories ? How, at the close of our English course, we look back with longing eyes to the old class-room, bright with the birth of new born hopes, and the memory of our Professor, who perhaps more than any other has shown us the pleasure of intellectual joys, Hlled us with enthusiasm, and inspired us to determined efforts of success? How our other instructors l1ave won our admiration and esteem, formed our ideals of exalted character, and become to us atonce, the incentives and examples of lofty scholarship? Four years ago we entered tl1e Math. room as trembling Freshmen, for ne'er do Freshmen fail to tremble, entering there-nor do they less than we -fail to admire the man, who, while he busted us on Math., himself became the example of all that was upright and just. And now '93 views the closing scenes of the last term. Her College history merges i11to the world's great history-to leave its impress or to die. How little do we know that which we are How less what we may be. HISTORIAN, Glyn gcninr. A studions mien, a solenm pace, To make him seem more learned: XVith budding whiskers on his Race, His thoughts are all concerned. 24

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with all of Seniors' prerogatives. We sit on the front row of seats in chapel, We wear caps and gowns, and we are an unusally fine class in Physics. As a member of the class I speak with authority on this latter point, and it is only from our marked achievements in this special department, and my regard for the class, that I have perhaps been induced to go beyond the strict bounds of modesty. We have had some iierce fights together and have come through victorious, but we're yet to meet our VVaterloo -so we're told. In fact it is the special pride of our class that of those trying for a diploma, the number with back examinations stands at an unprecedented minimum. Not distinguished as some others by a few towering, brilliant men, who by hard work and the goal of a first honor before them have lent a creditable reputation to their class, a large element of which is perhaps of much inferior stuff, the azwzqgrr scholarship of our own is equal to any. If the class of '93 has one boast, it is that her men have almost universally done thorough, honest zvork. In her younger days caring little for athletics, it is not surprising that in maturer years she should not indulge any special interest or marked efficiency in base ball. We did, however, play the Freshmen, and as they do nothing else, they of course did well their part, and the Senior returned to his books, convinced more than ever that he was highly intellectual, and not failing to acknowledge that he was not at all athletical. Vanquished in the field of brawn and muscle we admit, but we leave behind as a tribute to our Alma Mater, volume one, ofthe Kaleidoscope, wrought with no less loving pride in her progress, than the athlete i11 her reputation on the field. As the initiators too of caps and gowns-an attempt to make Senorial di gnitystill more dignihed-We congratulate ourselves upon the assurance of historic renown. The first term passed rapidly, our eighteenth man covered himself with honors, and got the Senior orator's medal, in the Union Hall: while Mc Danald took the Philanthropic. At its close we bade farewell to active society Work, and with a faint realization that It is not the goal, but the course that makes us happy, issued forth to lose our identity in the great unknown mass of honorary members. At the Intermediate Celebration, on the twenty-second of February, NVhite and Spotswood, as Senior orators did the class honor, and McLaughlin has been chosen from among other Seniors and some oratorical juniors, to represent Hampden-Sidney at the Inter! Collegiate Oratorical Contest, to be held at our State University. 23

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