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

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l tHtorg of tl)e OIlaBS of 1919 From year to year each Senior Class has endeavored to claim for itself some distinctive feature, some quality which would set it apart from the classes of the years to come. But the class of 1919 holds a unique position in the record of graduating classes. Organized in the Fall of 1917 when wars and rumors of wars laid them- selves heavily on the hearts of the students, it has held together through the distracting element of unrest which has made itself felt throughout the life of the school and now, in the Spring of 1919, we are about to reach the milepost toward which we have worked during the past years. True, it offers no rest from travel for our purpose holds to enter the broad highway with those who have gone before us and in so far as possible to creditably reflect the influence of our years here. Perhaps, during the past two years war activities have held as great a place in our seething brains as our ever present struggle for the elusive art. Like the poor, our practice was always with us but the hours we have devoted to making bandages, sewing comfort kits, selling Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps and driving the Students ' War Friendship Fund to a successful finish are unnumbered. The fact that both girls and men from our class entered the service for work at home and over- seas was an added incentive to our efforts here. The social side of our life has by no means been neglected. The Class of 1918 gave us our first opportunity for developing a class spirit, by a welcoming party given soon after our class was organized and the gay spirit of comradeship which germinated there has thrived and developed by means of many more frolics and parties, until now we feel that the members of the class of 1919 are heartily loyal one to another and to the Conservatory which first bonded us together. To create and encourage a spirit of unity and earnestness in a task to which our Dean and Director have lent themselves with untiring energy. If we have attained even a minimum of success it is due to their sympathetic and understanding co-operation. Many things have been done for which we are thankful — many things have been left undone which should have been done; perhaps, at times our ambition has flagged when the chaotic condition of humanity seemed paramount. At other times it created a momentum which has finally brought the goal in sight. Now we are to go out again into a world once more resplendant with peace, trusting that the happy end of our class year is but the index page to successful years ahead for ourselves atid the classes to come. To carry on in the spirit of previous classes and to leave behind some tangible proof of our love and earnestness has been our aim. This we hope has been partly accomplished and if so the life of the Class of 1919 has not been in vain.

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3(n Suuing HUcmnry of n Wit h Marclj Gtl], 1919. at UnBtan, Mass.

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Marion Rtth Skinnek, President Spokane, Wash. Voice with Charles Bennett It is o f ood tiling to 6c rich, and a good thing to he strong But it is hetter to he hrred hij inang friends. Marguerite Webster Gesner, Treasurer Oswego, N. Y. Voice with Charles A. White ,4 nobler, trustier, truer heart, more loving or more loyal Never heat tvithin a human Ireast. Mary Carson Crr, ] ' ice-President Tanii)a. Florida Organ witli allace Goodrich Self unconscious and sircetlg unahle to guess Hoio much more lovelg hg far is the grace you possess. Josephine Gertrude Strassner, Recording Secretary Frankfort, Ky. Voice with Charles A. Wliite Ner r r,s- like . tars of tirilight fair, Like ticilight, too, her dusky hair.