Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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P7'6Sid671f,S Address with whom we come into contact may be rnade brighter and better for our having lived. Let us always be a help and never a hindrance, also let us remember particularly that the whole of life is nothing more than a time of preparation and that we must always be ready for whatever may be in store for us. VVe have the example of many illustrious Princeton men who have gone before us, and let us not fall short of the mark which they have made, but rather, better that mark, for only by so doing are we improving civilization. Now that our time is becoming very limited, what is it that makes Princeton seem so dear to us? What is it that seems of the greatest value touus here at present? The friendships which We have made here. They will always be of the greatest value to us, and it is of them that we will think when we recall the years spent at this University. The fact that we have all been friends has made our class always stand as a unit, and it is this that will bring us from all parts of the world to our reunions wherever and whenever they are held. We have shared one another's hopes and one another's joys and sorrows. From the lights in Freshman year to the exam- inations which are just over, we have all worked together for a common cause and now we all have a feeling of satisfaction and gladness for having finished our task. But together with this feeling is one of sorrow when we realize that all those who were our comrades at our first gathering are not with us to-day. An all-wise Providence has seen fit to call four of our classmates Home to Himself. Two as Freshmeng one as a Sophomoreg and one as a Senior. When the class wreath is broken, let each one of us take a Hower in memory of these men who have gone on before us, and offer up a prayer that the recollection of their manliness may always be- a help to us in our time of need. And now the time comes when we must part. Some of us may never return, and others only occasionally, but with each man go the best wishes of every other member of the class. So 'let each of us go out resolved to do our best, knowing that by so doing we will be bringing honor and glory to Princeton, and the Class of 1911. I3

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President's Address MAITLAND DWIGHT . -QELLOW CLASSMATES: For the last four years, if not for a much longer while, we have all been looking for- ward to this day: We have planned con- tre I cerning it and dreamed about it, and now 2 mejgdtgieg le- it has come. It has been this thought, the thought of what this Commencement means to us, the thought of being classed among Z the Alumni of this University, that has al- ways been before our minds and that has inspired us continually to renewed efforts. L., .f Sometimes we became discouraged, some- times F ate seemed against us, but whenever we realized what the goal towards which we were working, had in store for us, our few hardships seemed as nothing. At present, however, as we look back everything seems to be clothed in a golden hue, and our few discouragements, which at the time seemed very great, seem now to be the very foundation upon which our manhood has been built. It is among these surroundings that we have passed quickly from boyhood into manhood. Our ideas, our ambitions, in fact our very attitudes towards life has changed. Now we are men and we must do men's deeds. For the past few years we have been part of a great educational system and, although our world has been varied and important to us, it has been limited. To-morrow we go beyond these limitsg the world lies before us. Standing now as we are, on the very threshold of life, the question naturally arises: What are we going to do with our lives? What are we going to do with all these advantages which we have been permitted to enjoy here at Princeton? Although this is a difficult question, let us at least resolve to take such a position in the world that the lives of all those go mtg? f ex 95 :fr 1 - 13. - . l . d-. . ul.: - ..1k,1s1:.:'a:'f 11- .- 23 , 1, as-.gs A ' 42 Lf: 'si' I W ezg E F g i E- 'E 2 'E if ,E 5 A ,E fi -lv is 62 I2

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Class Prophecy LEMUEL SKIDMORE, IR. R. PRESIDENT CLASSMATES AND FRIENDS: It was on a warm afternoon of April in the year 1931, that a group of tourists stood on the piazza of the hotel at Chornonix, Switzerland, and watched a traveler daintily leaping from jag to jag up the almost per- pendicular side of the famous Mont Blanc. Suddenly one of the ladies of the party 5 J ,AZH screamed and swooned carefully into the outstretched arms of the athletic form be- side her. It belonged-the form, not the girl-to no other than Logan Cunningham, once the pride of the Princeton diamond, and now engaged in a tour of the continent with the champion Washington Club. Hastily tossing aside the unconscious girl, who described a beautiful outdrop into the every-ready arms of Beauty Woodle, who stood near, Cunny searched the mountain with his eyes, but the traveller had disappeared. Huh , snorted Cunny , I guess that's the last time that Guy will try to get away with any of that Upidee-Excelsior stuff . And he non- chalantly dropped a fifth lump of sugar into his tea-cup. This piazza incident I learned later. I did not know it at the time, for I was the traveller. After twenty years of un- successful business ventures and successful reunions, I had at last succeeded in getting a job placarding the Alps with bills advertising Old Doctor Arnold's medicine, Sure Cure for Croup, Measles, Pneumonia, Leprosy, and Pinkeyeg Satis- faction Guaranteed or We'll Stick you with something else. On each bill was a picture of Doc Arnold in characteristic pose, selling a freshman three calendars, a subscription to the Literary Digest and a Clio Hall banner. I had been wading laboriously through the snow CI hope I4 '