North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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Senior History IT Q-ives 1110 much pleasure to look back upon the time when first this Class of ours saw the ivy-covered walls of old A. and M. Yet as I let my thoughts thus idly wander back to by-gone days, 1 can not but remember that the days through which our Class has lived saw much that gave us pain. Faces we had learned to love, fellow class-mates, men who ever had the love of Class and right before their eyes left our midst and entered the arena of a struggling world. ( )ur Class has missed these men, for several were among the back-bone of the Class, and I can but do justice by remembering that the Class feels now as if it were but half a Class, — a tree from which its strongest limbs were torn, — a man whose every cherished hope had fled. Our Class wdien first we entered college numbered 69 men, and now we count but 42, yet, the majority of these remaining few are loyal to each other itill and to the ideals set by the 69 men who matriculated in the Fall of 1901. ' e suffered as do all new men by Sophomoric hands the first few days we were upon the Hill, but now, those sufferings are a source of joy, for had we missed them, we would but feel that we had lost the real first phase of college life. We early settled down to routine duty, worked for the best, took an active part in athletics, and did fairly well for Freshmen, — even better than the pre- ceding classes, — so at least d id we think. As Sophomores, we were the very acme of them all, and remembered well th.e year we had suffered. We now felt duty-bound to right these wrongs and administer the dose to the Freshmen. This second year as college mates marked with us a fast-approaching unity, a development of spirit as it was, and in those days our Class was all that class implies. As Sophs, we held our first Class l)an(|uet, and well we remember the first 05 dinner. This banquet gave us to understand that we were entering into manhood, and left us with a democratic feeling in our hearts. We continued in advancing ideas, — some were new. while some, though old to other colleges, were new to . . and AI. Our Rooting Club was one of these, and we can say with jiride that this club was. of its kind, the very first that ever made the campus ring with ells and cries that urged our athletes to victorv.

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In athletics, we hcki an important place and gave to the varsity eleven two of its star players — Hadley and Shannonhousc. — while our Class team was too strong for others, for we challenged all but played none. For the varsity baseball nine, we furnished four men. — Chrcitzbcrg. IIowlc. Hadley and Shannonhousc. Our Junior year was but a repetition of our former years, and laurels new were placed upon our brow. Our football team drubbed the doughty Sophs., and when our dirt-begrimed gridiron heroes left the field of battle, the score stood 5 — o in our favor. This vear our Class put out five men for the varsity eleven — Abernethy, Hadley. Lykes, Scifert and Squires, and three for baseball — Chreitzburg. Hadley and Howie. Our second banquet was the next event thai brought our Class to notice, and it is hardly necessary here to say that this second dinner was even more successful than the first. Our Class was given credit by the Faculty for instituting such affairs as these, and we were proud indeed. Our next attempt to place the Class before the world in which we lived was made in organizing a Dramatic Club. which met with every possible success. Several of our members demonstrated their feminine ability to a perfection. The play ' s success was much due to Mr. Bowen. the College bursar, who gave his every thought and idle moment to its development, and the Class extends its thanks to him for thus aiding us in gaining fame. Commencement was now near, and we were all jubilant over the thoughts of soon being dignified Seniors. With the closing of our Junior year, our Class history practically ended. At the beginning of our Senior year, the Class met its Waterloo, and the facts from then on concern us not as a Class, but as a body of its truest members, known as Thugs, whose history, whose origin, and whose motives are amplified in other pages of this annual. Good-bye. A. and M. ; we go with thousands of others into the cold, harsh world of strife and enervating toil. In the day-dawn of life ' s battle we pause in peaceful contemplation, sadly gazing, seriously pondering, with a coiubination of curiosity, anguish and alarm. But we find refuge in the future — it is then that magical horizons spread out before us ; it is then that such splendid visions appear to us ; it is then that we hope to bestow wonders upon our old College, which form its true glory, its true wealth, and its true pride. HlSTORI. .N.