Union College - Garnet Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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IO THE GARNET mysterious and awful god from foreign clime, who decorates the soli, tude of the woods and whose portrait embellishes our cover, has taken charge of the destinies of our class, and has granted Eighty-six ever¬ lasting prosperity;—not because Eighty-six is the only perfedl class ever matriculated; not on account of our surplus of intelligence and genius ; not for our industry and piety—for what count makes a god of human frailty or excellence?—but because, at our earliest oppor¬ tunity, by the bended knee and uncovered head of our class-mate and representative, we implored the protection of the grim-visaged image, and enrolled ourselves as the first class imbued with the sense of his might and power. Our service to our tutelary deity is not without the sanction of authoritative precedent. One morning our late president upon arising saw, staring from his lawn, the ghastly countenance of his precious idol, bedaubed with paint and otherwise disfigured by some nodlurnal band of sophomores whose barbarous instinct had impelled them to pollute the pious property of the Potter. Horror-struck and in anguish the heart-broken Doctor gave vent to his feelings in the exclamation which has served to assure us of the faultlessness of our selection of a guardian angel:— My god, the idol!’

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12 THE GARNET. I(cvppa JIIpIl IN folle io C OI2COr i - ESTABLISHED 1825. f esiSeipt Members. Prof. Jonathan Pearson, A. M., James Fuller, Hon. S. T. Benedict, J. Bayard Backus, Rev. T. G. Darling, D. D., Everett Smith, Gerardus Smith. Seniors. Edmund Taylor Perkins, Jr., Samuel Barlow Coffin, ♦Arthur Sylvester Anabi.e, ♦Thomas Grafton Addison, Frank Edward Bradley, ♦John Samuel Hoy. Juniors. Livingston J. Little, Allan Heyer Jackson, Edward Graham Hayes. Sophomore Lester Bordman Smith. Seelye William Little, John Mudgett Williams, C. Schuvler Davis, Edwin Sciiall Hunsicker. Left college. 11 active members.