Mississippi College - Tribesman Yearbook (Clinton, MS)

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Pres. Lane Miss Tower y SPONSOR — • Senior Class Officers L. P. LANE PRESIDENT A. B. RUSSEL VICE-PRESIDENT D. P. DUNN SECY. AND TREASURER J. 0. GORDON PROPHET MISS MARGARET SHARP HISTORIAN ROSEWELL LOWREY POET Page Twenty-three

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Thomas. Sample. McMillan Ulmer, Freyman

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Senior History Seeking to partake of the fountain of learning the class of ’18 made its appear- ance on the campus of Mississippi College in September, 1914. At first we could boast of our number, but as the years passed circumstances depleted our ranks and scattered our forces. Yet thirty heroes have emerged from the conflict, trained and better prepared to fight life’s battles. The news of the catastrophe at last arrived: war had been declared. Though the strife be waged in a distant land with the mightiest despotism, our boys of ’18 did not shrink in the hour of need and peril, but answered to duty’s call — a score or more strong. One of the bravest and noblest of this number has already made the supreme sacrifice — in giving up his life for his country. He, a true patriot, died a hero just the same as those that meet death in the smoke of battle. Intermingled with our victories have been defeats. But we must not boast of our victories, nor lament our defeats for through them we have been encouraged to greater and more earnest effort and spurred on to seek higher and nobler things. And now we have reached the goal of our past ambition, “We are finishing”, only to “Begin”. We will soon go out on the firing line. Some shall succeed and others fail, but the ideal which has been implanted within our hearts during the past four years will explain our success or failure which ever it may be. In leaving behind the joys and sorrows of our college life we can look back with a feeling of regret, not that we fear the future, or dread responsibilities of the coming years, but that looking back we must remember college freedom is ours no more. With a purpose high and noble, and their faces toward the future, their hearts devoted to right and duty — these are the men of ’18. — Historian. Page Twenty-four