Louisville Conservatory of Music - Crescendo Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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History of the Senior Class “ T) RING back the past, bid time return,” for is not its every maze well J 3 known to us? But lest we forget, or our memory become dimmed bv rapidly passing years, we arc leaving as a legacy to ourselves, and not as a writing to amuse others, this history which we hope shall serve its purpose of keeping fresh our memories. It shall enable us to reflect our gaze down memory’s hallway and view again our friends of these good old days, laughing at the same old jokes, and struggling with the same old problems, then it shall have fulfilled its mission and granted to us the greatest measure of success to which such an article could aspire. With the close of this school year, one star of our educational ambition has set in a halo of splendor. Behind us lie the years of preparation and toil in school; before us lies our adventure with life. It remains to be seen if each member will hold up the dominant spirit of our class—“Still achieving, still pursuing.” It seems but a day since we came from the four corners of everywhere to congregate at dear old L. C. M. Truly it has been only a day for some ol us, for our class includes graduates in all departments, and consequently our sojourns have been of varied lengths. The true history of our class began as Junior; this was our beginning of class organization under our able President who was re-elected as a Senior. More than once she must have known the truth of that old adage: “Weary is the the head that wears the Crown,” for, with a loyal spirit, we placed the responsibility of our fights upon her shoulders. It was in this year that we won lor ourselves the title of the most congenial class. Last year our real work in the class-room began, too, with our entrance, as a school, in the National Association of Musical Colleges and our realization of what work for a B. M. Degree truly meant. We just could not sec the need of so much French and Acoustics in order to play the piano, and three years of Harmony were entirely too much in the study of voice. Perhaps our struggles were continued because we appreciated the significance of the old truism that “There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound up in shallows and in miseries. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our venture.” Many changes had taken place in our class when we organized as Seniors. Some ot our old members did not return for their last vear, some had gone other ways in life; but we found ourselves enriched by the entrance of new members whom we heartily welcomed. Our class has never been a large one, but we have come to believe as our Director said to us—“Do not measure yourselves in quantity but in quality.” There are two things that we have accomplished this year of which we are justly proud: first, at our opening business meeting we resolved to profit by observed mistakes ol others and steer clear of financial difficulties—our treasury is always a dollar to the good; second, we succeeded, under our regime, in persuading the faculty to put in a cut system, allowing us eight cuts a year. But we could never convince them that even national holidavs were due us; Christmas is all that is considered in our vacation schedule. However, this year has not been spent entirely in persuading the faculty to say to us, “A promising class, they are worth helping;” most of us are engaged in serious study (we can never forget how hard we worked in orchestrating the “Alabama Lullaby”), but a few are just—engaged. ' Phis has been our happiest and most successful year, for we are beginning to find that— “It is better yet to learn to think, And best to borrow from the great.” And now as we go out, “Watchman, what of the night for us?” We hope there are names in our class that will go down as among “the few, the immortal names that were not born to die.” The clas s of 1927 now passes into history, and in its passing bids a final farewell to L. C. M. and its faculty to whom it wishes many years of increasing prosperity in the future. And may we leave to you, as our most treasured achievement and possession, the CRESCENDO. L. E. B. is tor ion Twenty-three