New England Conservatory of Music - Neume Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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1 e w tnileincl Conser vatoiy cy i ii All honor to them whose names are written much brighter in our hearts, and may we at home be worthy of their trust. And now the chronicle of the graduates of 1 9 1 8 is written. Perhaps we have done nothing startling, and have been externally even as other classes; but it has been our privi- lege to live more intensely in an era of cosmic disorder, and as we have drawn closer together, we have built up a stronger school spirit which has spread even into the very walls of the building, which will, we hope, shed back some ray of warmth on all the classes yet to come. Margaret E,. McSweeney.

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1(1 Con Oitory o Music 91 Biatoro of tljr ajlaaa nf 1918 The Class of 1918! Four short words, but back of them all of our lives to date; our ambitions, our achievements and sometimes our brief despairs. As a class we have followed a certain social formula, established through custom, and we have at various times throughout the year, entertained the Juniors and been very delightfully entertained in return. Of a necessity such parties are formal at first, but young people are too wholesome to remain unfriendly, and from these gatherings has arisen a spirit of camaraderie which has gone far to brighten the school years of those of us who have left the companionship of home and friends, and come from the North, West and the South to study at our Conservatory. And it is our Conservatory. Even while we claim it for our own, we offer in return our loyalty for the tireless efforts and kindnesses of the faculty towards us. Speaking for my fellow-classmates, I would here pay tribute to the unfailing interest of Mr. Chad- wick and Mr. Goodrich in any of our projects, however small. Without them our road would have wound on interminably, but through their enthusiasm, our class has seen many movements inaugurated which will endure as monuments of 1918 long after we have gone. The Conservatory Auxiliary of the Metropolitan Chapter of the Red Cross was formed by a student committee, with four of its five members chosen from our class, and with most of the sub-committees composed of Seniors. If I seem inordinately proud of my colleagues, I have the shining record of the work they have done on all these commit- tees to back me in my justifiable vaunts. Then again we shared in the glory of the Student Friendship War Fund drive, for which, in three days, we raised $1,800.00 exclusively among the students and faculty of the Conservatory, to be used to further the comfort of Student Soldiers who are prisoners of war. All of which brings us to the fact that the elements of our school year — our happi- ness in our work, our delight in our music, and our sheer joy in being young together — all the harmonies of our present-day lives are woven over the dreary organ point of a world at war. The war has come close to us, and I would I had the skill of a fifteenth century monk in emblazoning his Scriptures, to set forth fittingly the names of our classmates who have gone out to represent us at the front. Ellsworth MacLeod Simeon Muscanto Theodore Post Edwin Moore Steckel Archibald I. Swift

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l ew h,n,6,lein{l ConseiVedorvo Music Douglas Partridge Kenney Worcester, Mass. PresidenI Senior Year Pianoforte with Clayton Johns Rose Edith Seguin Central Village, Conn. Vice-President Senior Year Voice with F. Morse Wemple Regina Carey Chastain Blue Mountain, Miss. Treasurer Senior Year Pianoforte with F. Addison Porter Blanche Marietta Speer Pen Argyl, Pa. Recording Secretary Senior Year Voice with Charles A. White