Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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Class Histories

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History of 1902. alfalfa! N presenting this, our last history, we feel keenly that the record of our Class is about to be sealed. Four years have we walked together under the guidance of our Alma fllrzfcif, now content, now restless under the restraint she imposed. In this time we have learned to know each other as only classmates do. During our course we have welcomed new faces to our midst, on the other hand, we have felt the sorrow of parting. Some have left us to take up other work. The spirit of one, who walked with us well nigh to the end, has slipped its cable in the harbor of eternal rest. I-Qegzdesmf in pare. Let us briefly review our course. Soon after entering college we found tour- selves drawn into circles of activity not specified in the curriculum. The relations of students to their college and to each other impose duties that multiply to each individual as he grows in experience. Duties that it is a pleasure to perform, because, to a great extent, they grow out of inter-class relations, and where is the man' that has not the welfare of his Class at heart? Not in the Class of Nineteen 'Two as our minutes will testify. We, as a Class, have had a position to sustain, which often called for the setting aside of individual opinion, and in no instance has the welfare of our Class been disregarded. In her early days, Nineteen Hundred and Two earned a reputation for being up to all kinds of mischief, but she has risen through all that to a position that commands respect. Vllhether viewed in class-work, on the rostrum, socially, or from the standpoint of athletics, she has earnestly tried, and, we hope, succeeded in fulnlling her duty to Muhlenberg and her sister Classes. To the graduate, when he enters upon the duties of his calling, college life soon becomes a mere remembrance. But what are the impressions retained? Will he, after a few years, be able to recall the grades, the orations, and the valedictory? We may safely say, No. W'l1at, then, remains with him? Ask hirn about the scores, touchdowns, rushes, pranks, contests, and the like, and his eyes will light up with a far-away look, as he again nibbles the sweets of his college career. About those cluster memories ever fresh, standing out like oases in a desert. Then rejoice, ye members of Nineteen 'Two , for here we are rich l From play to banquet, many are the ties that in future years will bind us like chains of steel to dear old Muhlenberg. Now that our course is well-nigh hnished, we begin to realize whence comes that proverbial dignity of the Senior. It is meet that we should be grave. Soon we must part, and we know not whether those of us who are left will ever have the pleasure of meeting again to revive the traditions of our Class. To meet, to know, to love-and then to part Is the sad tale of many a human heart.