Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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1313 ClARU g fig . Ik III b W II III! 8zw f f. r II UJ Senior History T HE historian as he begins this history, is impressed very much by the fact that this is the last history of the Class of 1912 that he, as an undergraduate, will write. In a little while, another commencement — the forty-fifth — will be at hand, and another class will be ushered into active life. The realization of the close proximity of commencement serves to throw the mind into retrospection. Ah! retrospection! A glance back through four years shows many interesting things. In the autumn of 1908, the Class of 1912 entered Muhlenberg College. The influence of this class has been described thoroughly in former histories, so detail will be unnecessary here. Let it suffice to say that athletics, studies, publications, and other student interests, — in all did 1912 men manifest interest. The Class of 1912 has been a unique class. Almost continually at “loggerheads” with the faculty during the first years at college, due to its over zeal in college activities, it has lived to see itself understood by the faculty and reinstated in their affections. In the “course of the college course,” too, the class has gathered a wonderful momentum which the writer is sure will count greatly towards “making good” in after life. In truth does the class contain some members of remarkable talents, who are sure to make names, not only for themselves but also for the college. However, the historian would have the deeds of the mem- bers of the class speak for themselves in the future. With this end in mind the detail will be avoided. As time goes on the Class of 1912 will ever remember the short, — alas! too short four years spent in these halls. The class hopes, at some time in the future, to give the college a material return for what the college has done for it. In ending, the historian, in behalf of “1912” wishes the best sort of a farewell to dear old Muhlenberg and all its teachers who have done so much in making her members what they may hope to become in the future. Farewell. Historian. Page Twenty-nine