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

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Preface J' 299 N THIS book we have attempted, to the best of our ability, to produce a LA VIE which will have the general characteristics of other LA VIEs and yet to introduce enough individuality to avoid monotony. We trust that each individual who is remem- bered in any way or form on these pages will feel complimented, for every- body who. received attention was prominent enough to receive honorable mention. Therefore, consider a joke a favor, a real hard knock as a cour- tesy, and a real hard tearing-out as a necessity to develop your individual moral fibre. Realizing the satisfaction of knocking at knockers, we assure you that this book shall not lack in this element. It is the aim of this book to portray one year of the life at this institu- tion as well as to furnish a neat and interesting compilation of statistics and references of standing interest to friends of Old Penn State. Besides, we have also introduced several new features in this edition. Among these may be mentioned the unusually large amount of historic matter relative to the college and a number of biographical sketches of some of the most distinguished alumni of this institution. We do not attempt to reach a high literary standard, but merely a plain expression of things as we see them. Indeed, Robert Burns has well said: ' O wad some power the giftie gie us p To see ourselves as ithers see us. We have tried to remember all, from the gray-bearded and bald-headed old pedagogues, the roaring lion, the red-tape artist, the model freak, down to the insignificant joker, whom it seems the Almighty has made with the sole purpose of amusing his classmates and tormenting his instructors. We have not failed to give due credit to the upstarts just plucked from the green turf of the lowland meadows, but well worthy of the term 1910. Likewise, we do honor to our inferiors after having disciplined them to our amusement into the sphere of college life as the Class of 1909. Then looms up the Class of 1908 as the mountain in State's history. Each individual member of this class is an essential factor to the welfare of this institution. The loyalty of this class marks the sublimity of attainment. Above all we respect our superiors in age and experience, our early trainers, the Class of - 1

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O L AD 8 PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE 1907, who shaped the last stepping-stone from which we ascended to our lofty heights. They have crossed their mount of college fame and are now ready to enter the valley of humility, thence to climb for a place in the world. To them, to the alumni, and to our many friends we extend our best Wishes with the 1908 LA VIE. Sf? -bill 1 Q B 4:1 ..- - ..-.. ,. ,-,- ,...i - v.:A,. .-.--10.f4-.,-.1.g,, ..,.g,,,, , h . ,- , , v ' ' ' 4'f'f'1'-4 -Li ':i,:--....g.-.fgv-.ca.a1q1..v.-,.,f,,-,., ., ,, , ,-