Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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CLASS DAY COMMITTEE

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Presic1ent's Address EDWARD A. DILLON We can scarcely realize as we are on the point of saying goodbye that four years have come and gone since that Sep- tember night on which we stormed the very place Where We are gathered to-day for the last time. The spirit of that night has been with us during all these years. It has mingled in our work and in our play. It has taught us to love Princeton with unselfish loyalty and unswerving devotion. To-day we feel its potent influence so strongly that we are unable to restrain the feelings and sentiments that go surging through us at the thought of leaving the place We love so much. We realize only too well that when we say goodbye it is good- bye forever. Goodbye to friends who are true, teachers who are kind and pleasantg goodbye to all these fairy scenes where boyhood merged to manhood. For four brief happy years we have been cruising along sunny shores with every advantage of Wind and tide. But now We must go forth into the Wide unknown and seek our fortune in more turbulent seas. But We go forth with the seal of the University indelibly stamped on our charactersg with stout hearts and ready hands, prepared to carry on the duties and sacrifices that Princeton expects of her sons. We are steeled for the fray with the armor of our predecessors. The aggressive fighting spirit of protest for the right that stirred the fathers of this college in the days of seventy-six has settled on this class. The spirit that prompted us to defend and keep inviolate those cherished customs and tradi- tions when threatened by the hands of invadersg the spirit that taught us loyalty for a cause that looked hopelessg that applied the spark of enthusiasm to a team down and out, com- pelling fate to enter the lists and stem the tide of victory. Princeton has taught us all these things, independence, self- 25