University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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True, we do engage in inter-collegiate athletic contests, yet no one recognizes more keenly than we do, the dangers of excess. Let those carping critics who attack us because we turn some part of our attention to manly sports, be silent until they have seen us fail in the sphere of the scholar. So soon as athletics shall have been seen to have interfered with the courses of study in the University, we believe they should be abolished or restricted. Yet, we do not think—for statistics show to the contrary—that athletics have been in any measure detrimental to the standing of the men on the teams, nor have they lowered the standard of the college as a whole. In spite of the difficulty it experiences in obtaining money, the University of Georgia has a most efficient corps of professors, possesses well equipped laboratories and gives an opportunity for as high a course of study as almost any college in the South. Why is it then, that we find Georgia parents sending their sons outside of the State or to sectarian institutions, in preference to their own University ? Is it because they believe the reports spread abroad concerning the State college? These have been for many years the weapon with which her enemies have stabbed the University in the back, yet we have only to point to the achievements of her alumni to prove conclusively the falsity of the statement as regards the unfitness of our college as a training school for young men. What other institution is the Alma Mater of so many of the rising young men of Georgia—not to speak of the distinguished older graduates ? In every line of life they have attained distinction and arc a recognized power in shaping the fortunes of the State. Yet they were brought up in the atmosphere which our enemies would have you believe is least fitted for the development of noble characters. These evil reports must be stopped, it is the duty of every friend of the University to sec that no more slurs be cast upon her fair name. We do not ask that truth be suppressed, but that justice be done. l«

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trb c The curtain falls on Ninety-five, They’ll tread these classic halls no more, Their bark of life now sails away Far from the dear old campus’s shore. With feelings wrought'twixt pleasure bright And sorrow dark, they bid adieu, Amid the smiles there shines a tear, For friends are parting good and true. No more they’ll hear the college yell That echoed through the campus air; No more thcy’l walk by L. C. I. To gaze upon some fair one there. Relentless time has swiftly flown, Commencement day is here at last. Farewell to books and hard exams, They take their leave, the Senior class. Senior. Good bye we bid to all the Profs., Who here four years instructed us, We know they'll never find a class Who know so little how to ‘•bust. Farewell we say to all the hoys, From Freshman green to Junior wise, May every one now follow us And never, never miss a rise. Four years ago as Freshmen green, We entered at the U. of G.; To tread the road of knowledge here. That leads at last to a degree. Commencement day has now arrived, The chapel bell peals out once more. A fond farewell to Ninety-five, The curtain falls—our play is o’er. G. W. R.