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

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Class Poem I. Together we ' ve gathered, from near and far. Bound in one tie — striving for one grand star. II. One year has past ; the tie is closer drawn ; In our new hfe another day has dawned. Many friends we have won in every sphere — ' o longer ebb or flow of tide we fear. III. Frivolities of vordant men we forsake, For grander prizes we now see at stake. Difficult problems we once feared to meet .• re gone, and new zeal came with their defeat. Three short Ijjissful ears have too swiftly flown,- — - We sadly submit : to manhood we ' ve grown. I . . re we dreaming? Is this the goal we sought? Ah ! so easy has it come : yet we fought. Four years we ' ve shared each other ' s sorrows — joys. But life ' s battle has come, and we must part, boys. F ' ellows, remember this your cullege home, . nd dream, often, of each other where ' ere you roam. New goals we see ! We close our college gate, — Farewell, we ' ve gone — Nineteen-hundred-and-eight. Ci.A.ss Poet.

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Senior Class i- Officers J. S. STROUD President. I. H. FARMER Vice-President. J. F. ZIGLAR Secretary. L. L. PITTMAN Treasurer. Motto : To-morrow ' s tangle to the winds resign. Flower: American Beauty. Colors : Blue and White.

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Senior Class History SOME four years ago there arrivetl at this College a band of young men — boys, I should say, — gathered together from all parts of the State, seeking the advantages of a technical education. A smile comes over the faces of all of us when we think of the first time we placed foot on A. and M. soil and marched up to the Main Building to the inspiring notes of the Freshman March. Tremblingly, we stood before the austere presence of Captain Phelps and were assigned to Bloody Fourth, or Freshman ' s Hang-Out. I ' .efore night- fall many of us began to get homesick and to wonder if this was the realization of all our glorious dreams of college life. But we had not long to pine thus, for the kind-hearted Sophs., who knew just haw we felt, called on us all that night and made us feel at home. During the next few weeks we were invited out almost every night to dances and musicales given in our honor in Pullen Park. About the first of October we effected a permanent class organization and began to feel that strength that comes from unity. Although very few of us had ever seen a football game before coming to college, the class entered the race for the football cup, and playing as if we had done it all our lives we made it an uncomfortably close game for the Juniors. But the crowning glory of the Freshman year was the winning of the baseball cup. To the great astonishment of the Sophs., who after beating the Jnniors considered themselves invincible, we easily won the game 6-2, thus laying the foundation for ' o8 ' s enviable athletic record. But passing on to the more glorious subject of being a Soph. It was with a feeling of lordly supremacy and glorious elation that we first traversed the campus as Sophomores, viewing with disdain the counterparts of our former selves, the meek and lowly Freshmen. Remembering the treatment we received from ' 07, we decided to surpass them in hospitality, and instead of one visit a night we sometimes made two or three. If I may be pardoned for making a slight digression, I will sav that the world owes the Soph, a debt that it can never fully repay. He. realizing the incompleteness of the Freshman course, endeavors, at the risk of criticism and persecution, not to mention loss of time from studies, to impart to the Freshman that polish ( no pun intended) and culture necessary to make a well-rounded college man. T would suggest to all college presidents a change of curriculum which will prevent any further imposition on this most obliging set of men. During this year we furnished a large number of men for the various Varsitv teams, besides breaking a college record in winning, a second time, the class championship in baseball. Entering school in our Junior year, the class began to experience the sense of fellowship born of long association together, and to feel more than ever the binding force of college spirit. Although, from various causes, our ranks had been greatly thinned, those remaining seemed to draw nearer together and form those close friendships which only grow stronger as the years pass. This year, our football team, which had all the time been gaining in strength, was an easv winner of the football cup. . fter the game the team was the guest of the class at a