Penn State University - La Vie Yearbook (University Park, PA)

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ENHKDLQS REVIEW THE HISTORY of 1905, is to awaken tender thoughts and sweet memories of such nature :15 can exist only in the breast of :1 true American College Man. It is not our intention to enter into a tabulated account of our exploits, for we might slight the had and exaggerate the good. Let those who know us hest keep within themselves the memory of the wrongs we have committed, setting them down as due t0 suvh causes as may suggest themselves: 21.x to our deeds of t'redit, we trust they speak for themselves; if not, our friends will ever be generous and llout them in the world. ' As the SCCOlltl Class to graduate in this em of new life, which marks advance and progress for State, we hope we have imbibed the spirit of forward mOVement, so- that ouralter-lives may be marked hy deeds of integrity and honor and cast :1 fair rellection on our Alma Mater. . It is the choicest privilege of the American youth, thathe can secure the blessings of an education, without which, lest he be particularly fortunate, he Cannot forge to the front rank in professional or commercial life. We, who have passed our four years in earnest quest of knowledge and education, and stand, as we do, on the brink of lifels labor, sz look back and bless the causes that made possible our privilege. Each year in the Circle has taught us maxims for application in life, and none 01' these stand out more boldly than that one expressed in the words of Benjamin l'lnrrison, HI-lc will not build high, who does not build himself-l' Just what events the various years have brought us individually, may not be generally agreed upon, yet each member of 1905 cannot but recall the birth and progress of college spirit. XVhon in our hrst year we were taught hour placel' in the ranks of men and Classes, then did we note, by the example of Upperclassmen zmd the stern rule of the Sophs, the nature of the spirit which calls upon a man to enter into his college life wherever and whenever his

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A 32 PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE talents permit. In our second year, that same spirit remained in us. and with it we coupled :1 love and reverence for old State, which sentiment and feeling was but added to in the years following. Our reign as Juniors and Seniors, with its attending dignity, was marked by a quiet though persistent effort to keep pace with the advance of the college age and to pluck from the tree of knowledge those blossoms within our reach. As we Clasp hands in a lust farewell, and as the tear glistens in the eye, HW'hcn fond memory brings the light of other days around us, days forever beyond our reach, count not that teara mark of weakness, but rather set it down as 21 gem of tribute from each member 01' 1905 to old Alma Mater, ouch recalling his years of guidance and protection, and the knowledge with which she has equipped him as, leaving her walls and precincts, he stands eager and ready for the trials of existence.