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

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Slimmer and the glad vacation, the blessed relief from studies and college work, came at last. We went our different ways with light hearts, but yet with a wee small yearning for that intangible something which departing from familiar haunts and faces gives. We were Seniors — not the gods that we used to think the Seniors were, but just the same naugh-seven ourselves. We were disappointed. Our highest hopes had been to become Seniors : yet when we became Seniors we experienced no appreciable difference. Every man that had stayed through his Junior year returned, and it gave us joy to shake the hands of each comrade and classmate as he returned. The year before we had petitioned and adjusted all matters perta ' ning to discipline and liberties, so that there has been no friction between our class and the govem ' ng bodies. Our class unity has been remarkable, and we have stuck together with a tenacity that seems marvelous. We feel that we have elected the best man for each place, and for this reason there have been no splits or factions in the class. Each thing that we have done has been for our College primarily and ourselves secondarily. We have spent our last Christmas at home as college men, and in a few more days we will face the end and the beginning: the end of our happy college days, and the beginning of our struggle against the world in which a man ' s a man, and no distinction or favors are made. We have learned a few things ; left many unlearned : yet we know that it is not all in what we have learned from books, but much in the habits and associations we have found, that will help or harm us in the future. ' e go from old . . and M. with sad hearts, we leave old comrades and associations perhaps never to see them again, to face the to ' l that will eventually .show our true worth: but we go with a loyalty to our . lma Mater that will not be shaken, and . . and M. will ever be a dear and bright spot in our memory. Historian.

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We soon took to athletics, and furnished some strong material both for football and baseball. And in the class baseball contest we defeated the Sophomores, to their great chagrin. At the clo.sc of the first year we went home, somewhat larger in knowledge and a great deal larger about the head because we were Sohps, and a Soph ' s a Soph. The following September we returned, a hilarious band of seventy-eight. We missed inany familiar faces, but we saw so many new ones which we thought needed our immediate attention, so that we lost no time in paying them calls, and teaching them singing, dancing, nature study (mostly animal calls), and the art of washing off lampblack and varnish without water. W ' c were so well jileased with these visits that we repeated them often, and under our careful guidance the Fresh- men soon learned the ways of the collesje. Once they were led astray by someone who told them to barricade the fourth. They barricaded, and also got themselves in a trap, for we, by a strategic move gained entrance, and — told them it was wrong to use beds and mattresses in that manner. As we taught the Freshmen well, we ourselves were well taught, and our class as a whole had a very high standing, both in scholarship and behavior. In athletics we furnished some of the best men, among them being Hardie. Sykes, Saddler and Watkins, and ' 07 was conspicuous in all the games. At last came our Junior year — the best of all years to a college student, for he begins to see and feel things in a different way. He understands why he should have learned lessons of other years, and of what use they will be in the future. Then, too, he begins the practical part of his work, and it becomes more interesting. We entered with fifty-eight of our former class mates, losing many of our best men from various causes. We were sorry to lose them, for some of them were the very backbone of our class ; but, nothing daunted, we entered upon our duties with a spirit and activity that has made us an exceptional record. Our work was hard, but we knuckled down to it with a stick-to-it-iveness that was bound to carry us through. In the beginning we had imbibed a spirit for the welcare of our College, and in this year the spirit began to manifest itself in work. We furnished some wonderful material for the best football team we had ever had, and on the baseball team we had McCatheran. Shu ford, and Staples. Not only did we furnish men for the teams, but we also contributed a large supply of rooting and spirit that has pulled A. and M. out of many a tight place. This year we won the Faculty Football Cup in the class contest. We elected an Agkomeck board for the following year, which early went to work, with a determination to do our best to make it the best yet. Final examinations came, and there were many anxious faces, and much burn- ing of the midnight oil ; but in the end we were triumphant, and none were dropped from the roll.

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