Springfield College - Massasoit Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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STijc JMassasoft 1 6 Senior Class, 1904 Class y ell Hippe-ko-ac, ko-ac, ko-ac, Hippe-ko-ac, ko-ac, ko-ac, Hoo rah — Hoo roar — T. S. - T. S. Naughty Four! Class Colors: Orange and Black Class Officers President I . A . Laudenslager Pice - President E. E. Thompson Secretary-T re a surer P. B. Samson H 1 s t 0 r 1 a n H . W. Russell

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Part I. The Aggregation Some time during the year of 1901, or in the years immediately preced- J ing, there came to many men in many cities and employed in many ways, the same impulse. It was a desire which grew as days passed by, and which caused them ultimately to find their way to Springfield, there to enroll as members of the Class of 1904 at T. S. They journeyed from all parts of our country and Canada, and later from India and France. From the far West came “ Pop” Wilbur, with a quick gray eye that sized up men as it had cattle and a determined look that meant business: the middle West sent Rea, and as if not yet satisfied, by a later instalment, Samson and Pinneo, our raven-haired wonder: New York state was well represented, and also New England and other parts of the East: and perhaps it would be well to specify that Holmes, Moule, Stafford, and Little came from Canada. Nineteen Four was not complete with the enrolment of September, 1901, for we did not catch sight of Seifert until October 9th, and though we were warned to “Flee from the Rath to come,” he did not appear until the 19th of that month; then there was Little to see on November 4th, and Flanagan came during the latter part of the month with the same rush which wouldn’t 18