University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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Preface. N behalf of the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Four, the staff presents to our Alma Mater, her patrons, and friends the eighth volume of the Reveille. Aiming to give a pleasing summary of the events of the year, we have tried to make the book a worthy representative of so vener- able an Institution. The labor has been of such a character as to make our efforts a pleasure, and, as a reward, we ask only a generous sympathy with the merits of jhe work. As far as ' possible, the different organizations have been given equal prominence, and personal references have been made with charity to all, with malice toward none. If the roasts are more spicy than heretofore, it is due to the existence of a demand which we have endeavored to satisfy, and not to any feeling of animosity on the part of the staff. We wish ' to thank all those who have so kindly assisted us, with contributions, to surmount the many unforseen obstacles to be met with in the production of a work of such magnitude. We now lay down our pens with the conscientious satisfaction that every effort has been directed towards the reputable and successful production of a work which we hope may reflect honor upon the Institution it represents, and may be, above all a lasting credit to the class producing it as the result of the long hours assiduously devoted to its completion. BOARD OF EDITORS.

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ILditorial Board. H. W. Burnside. ATHLETICS. E. W. Stoll, E. R. Sasscer. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. Thomas B. Mullendore. ASSOCIATE EDITORS. DEPARTMENTAL. LITERARY. L. W. Cruikshank, R. P. Choate, W. R. MitcheU. E. W. Merryman. HUMOROUS. E. C. Mayo, F. 0. Webster. ROSSBOURG CLUB. H. D. Watts, S. B. Shaw. CLASS AND HISTORICAL. J. Percy Gray. BOARD OF MANAGERS. Geo. L. Wentworth, Business Manager. ASSISTANT MANAGERS. James A. Anderson, J. G. Ensor, J. M. Streett. 6572?

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College ILsprit. R. W. SILVILSTLR, President. OLLEGE life means much to a young man. Behind his matri- culation usually stands the experiences of fifteen or sixteen years. Blessed the boy who has gained this experience not as the result of his own volition, but rather as the product of an initiative born of his will and this guided by the wise counsel of thoughtful and prudent parents. In these years, in the main, the framework of his future char- acter is constructed, the same safeguarded and supported by a moral training which makes its possessor keenly sensitive to the most insidious attacks which will certainly be made, upon this foundation of every manly life. I would there- fore caution parents to beware of subjecting a weakling, from the character stand- point, to the temptation of college life. Commence early to draw out and train physical as well as character strong points. The intellectual life should be the superstructure to be built upon the foundation of strong physical development and splendid character fiber. There is little danger to the young man, possessed of these qualities, who presents himself for a collegiate career. His : trong heart pumps rich blood to his brain which gives nimbleness to his faculties in their grapplings with problems certain to arise for their consideration. His character structure is shock proof to the assaults which will be certainly made upon it. We will suppose then that we have a splendid animal physically bridled and con- trolled by a strong character which has not been strained and weakened by the shocks and assaults of unimpeded temptations. Such attacks as have been made have been tempered by parental interference and in every conflict defeat has been the possession alone of the temptations and not the character. Hence the matri- culate enters college life with a conscious strength to resist temptation. This conscious strength has the reinforcement of a reserve power, and thus accoutred the probabilty of defeat is reduced to the minimum. Nothing makes us so strong as conscious strength. This is true morally, mentally and physically. Character, tempe s the disposition to a feeling of self sufficiency, arising from a realization