Phillips Exeter Academy - PEAN Yearbook (Exeter, NH)

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Robert .-X. Lloyd VICE PRESIDENT Christopher D'.-Xnmnda CLASS AGENT

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SEN ICR CLASS 1952 C

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Memoirs of the Class of 1952 HUC. VENKTF, Etc. TNK5 1-:FW To TWG f HHRKNETSS FLRN ll o'??l, f .J e F I S 6, , ? A V f' I N i SS H The 'uiefws expressed in these memoirs do not izeeessarily represevzt the feelings of all the mevitlaers of the Senior Class, but they do 1'ep1'ese1zt the feelings of the Editors of the Pemz mid, we feel, tlaose of zz represevztntive vzumber of Seniors. Every Senior Class, in pondering its accom- plishments over a four year period at Exeter, seems to develop a sort of inferiority complex. The class of '52 has rather less of an inferior- ity complex and rather more justification for one than most of its predecessors. Our class has been, in general, a do-nothing class-its leadership has remained through four years in the hands of a very few and, although some of these leaders have been more outspoken and have accomplished more than those of some other classes, the class as a whole has never developed enough interest to make a move to back them up. Too many of our members have, through four years here, re- mained in a perpetual state of suspended ani- mation. As a group we have absorbed a cer- tain amount of knowledge, less piety, and al- most no virtue, and have managed to live as best we could. Few of us can, as yet, appre- ciate all that Exeter has probably done for us, many of us are more conscious of what Exeter has done to us. As to what we have done to or for Exeter .me -f'Why, not much of anything, except put- ting the school generally on the rocks. The person quoted wishes to remain anonymous, and should. The memoirs of past classes have told of the typical Exonian, moving into Dun- bar or Webster as a small, frightened prep q Huc Venite Pueriwj, emerging four years later from the sloughs of Easy street, a cyn- ical, disgusted senior f Ut Viri Sitisnj. Ac- cording to one faculty member, the fully indoctrinated four-year boy, upon graduation should be a ucynical, unsentimental, intellec- tual snobf' Some of us, by taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the Academy, have achieved, for better or worse, this Exeter end. Others of us, now but a few days from graduation, are still biding our time as we have done for four years, accepting the three things which Exeter, superhcially, offers us- heated rooms, three meals a day, and assign- ments. Thus, our generation now passes away into the limbo of alumni, the school, for better or worse, abideth forever. The prep school boy, as a species, is sup- posed to be a wily, devoted little Creature who tries to avoid the inevitable and get away with whatever he can, however, he generally reveres his divirza mater-the school. Many of us, however, out of character, consider our school not as a divine mother, but as an insti- tution. As such, it has had its good points -