Union College - Garnet Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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Bravely has the class of 1900 attended to its every duty. O’er the ashes of Calculus we bow in submission. May his rest be long - and deep ! Unflinchingly we wrestled with Mechanics, and we still bear marks of the struggle. “ Behold the victim ! view Mechanics’ slave, His form is thin and tottering to the grave. See the blear eyes, the step, once free and proud, The meagre face ! O, spare nol, cry aloud, ‘ This is thy work, Mechanics, this thy deed, These aching eyes, these hearts that inly bleed! ’ ’ We conquered, at last, and he is laid to rest. Juniors yet to be, “He is not dead but sleepeth. ” We commit his future to your keeping; may you come off as triumphantly as have we ! Nor is this all: we have manfully attended to duties in other fields. Never shall the fair daughters of the Electric City say, “We have piped unto you and ye have not danced,” for never did feet trip more lightly to the music of heart¬ beats, of sweet voices and harmonious sounds than those of this same chivalric class at the Soiree. When the New Year’s chimes rang out, we realized that they were ushering in the year that shall see us grave and reverend Seniors, that when those bells again shall sound ’t will be to ring in the new century—the year of 1900—which shall send us out from these old gray walls where we have lived as Freshmen, Sophomores, happy Juniors, and Seniors. Adrift upon an unknown sea, our barques shall sail to many ports, but, bound together by the ties of long association and a common love for our Alma Mater, we shall still be one in name—the class of 1900. 3 1

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TI171 HEN ’ ’ neath September’s glowing sun, the foliage of the trees surrounding the old gray walls of Union was changed from green to red and gold, a no less wonderful transformation took place in the class of 1900. We, the erstwhile “wicked and bloody Sophomores,” assumed the dignified mien, the sober ways befitting upper classmen. We buried the tomahawk and the scalping knife and cared not a whit whether Union’s Patron Saint wore a resplendent suit of red, or, cool and composed, appeared in green. The childish folly of salt and tomato fights was relegated to boyish under-classmen and we—the Juniors— walked the streets of Dorp serene and satisfied in our new found dignity. Warmly we espoused the cause of the Freshmen, who came, as usual, “Wearing the green;” much we enjoyed their banquet and disapprovingly we glared at the irrepressible Sophs who sought their ruin. 3°

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flDembers Is Archibald Lamon Anderson. . .Ballston Springs .69 N. C. Adelphic; Manager Class Foot Ball Team, 3; Class Base Ball Team, 3. Is Melvin Thomas Bender . Albany . A A $ House. A A P; Philomathean ; Literary Editor 1900 Garnet; Tennis and Banjo Clubs. Is Leland Lowell Boorn. Schenevus . A ©House. $ A G; Y. M. C. A.; Philomathean; Ass’t Editor 1900 Garnet. c Leslie Nathan Broughton. Delhi .15 S. C. Philomathean ; Class Secretary, 3. c Willard Dayton Brown. Lawyersville .9 S. C. Philomathean ; Y. M. C. A. c Evekett Garnsey Brownell.. .Ballston Springs . $ A G House. $ A G; Y. M. C. A.; Philomathean; Banjo Club, 1, 2; Soiree Committee. Is Will Clyde Campbell . Chicago , III . T A House. p V A; Vice-President of Class, 3; Junior Hop Committee; Adelphic. c Evan R. Cullings. Gifford .123 Nott Terrace. A P; Philomathean; Tennis, Camera and Shakespeare Clubs. Is Carl Porter Dalton. Salamanca .South Colonnade. Adelphic. Is Frederick Mortimer Davis, ... New York city .J3 0i7House. B G ; ’Varsity Track Team, 1, 2; ’Varsity Base Ball Team, 1 ; Ass’t Editor 1900 Garnet; Mandolin Club, 3. l Howard 1 DUN Ham. Schenectady .IV Romcyn St. A £; Sophomore Aid ’98 Senior Rail ; Associate Editor Concordi- ensis ; President of Class, 3 ; Junior Hop Com.; Shakespeare Club ; Ass’t Bus. Mgr. 1900 Garnet; Y. M. C. A. 3 2