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

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These walks, altho giving us much of pleasure, were not the only things that made life worth living to us as college men. The athletics — how can we find any- thing in life to take the place of our college sports? What are we going to do for the gridiron, with her hardened and battered heroes, when we leave college for the last time? How can we quench the fire for baseball that burns in the heart of every true college man? My comrades, we must leave them to the ones who follow in our footsteps. The world is now our athletic field, and we are to cope with the problems which will require harder fighting than any of our college games, but the same great rules that brought victory to us in the past will apply in the future. Remember, fair play and justice will always be triumphant! En- deavor to lift your fallen comrades, and they will add strength to your own position. Let us strive to solve some of the problems in the game of life, and when to our life ' s work the last tattoo is sounded we will fall to sleep happy in the knowledge that we have added our mite to the advancement of the human race! Esperanto, ' 08.

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How can we ever forget her beauty as we viewed it for the first time, in the halo of ideahzing youth ! Around us on every side we see beautiful flower gardens, but all of them fall into insignificance as we look directly ahead of us. Here is the centra figure of the grounds, a large circular mound, crowned with castor beans, elephant ears and scarlet sage, so artistically arranged that one seeing it can never forget its beauty. Our minds now have to turn from the beauties with which we are surrounded, for we have before us the trying ordeal of facing the professors with the r long lists of examination questions. For the next few days nothing but work in warm classrooms fell to our lot, and when the final results were published they filled us with as much pleasure for the time being as all the beauties of nature com- bined, for we had passed and were now a part of the school. The dread of failure no longer put a check to our buoyant spirits, and we busied ourselves making friends with those who had started on the same road to graduation with us. Some of these boys have kept with us thruout the entire four years, and if we could but write of all of our fun as well as our duties in this time many of those who are contemplating a college course would decide to take one as soon as possible. Can we ever forget our walks through the country abolit college? How they seemed to draw out from our souls all that was pure and noble The hills and dales are again before us, and we live over again the pleasure that was then ours. We can see the old back road as it winds its way among the pretty farmhouses down the hill, with the tall, dark pines on either side, and out again into the valley below. The old mill, with its moss-covered water wheel, again looms up before us, and the picture is so real that it brings back to us the roar of the water madly rushing on over the rocks long worn smooth by the angry lashings of the wrath- ful element. We can see again the falls and the large boulders on every side. The spray again wets our cheeks as we stand at the base of the cataract and watch with ever increasing fascination the maddened waters churned into foam by its downward rush. There seems to be some potent charm in the scenery that brings us in close communion with the wild life of our prehistoric ancestors. The rough battle of the elements harmonizes with our thoughts, and we long to walk con- tinuously in companionship with the matchless beauties of nature. Once away from the falls the scenery is even more picturesque. Rocks on either hand rise almost perpendicularly from the stream. Here and there moun- tain laurel covers the face of the rock with masses of white flower clusters. The wild pansies are not to be forgetton, for in every place where the sunbeams can penetrate we find their friendly little faces turned up to ours in pleasant greeting. Wild geraniums and dog-toothed violets are scattered thickly oyer the low ground, while fringe trees and magnolias hang over the banks and reflect their blossoms in the clear, still water below. ID

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Officers and Faculty of Instruction R. W. Silvester, LL. D., President Professor of Mathematics Thomas H. Spence, A. M., Vice-President Professor of Languages Edward Lloyd, Major, U. S. A., Commandant Professor of Military Science H. B. McDonnell, B. S., M. D.. State Chemist Professor of Chemistry W. T. L. Taliaferro, A. B. Professor of Agriculture James S. Robinson Emeritus Professor of Horticulture Samuel S. Buckley, M. S., D. V. S., State Veterinarian Professor of Veterinary Science F. B. BombERGER, B. S., a. M., Librarian Professor of English and Civics. Charles S. Richardson, A. M. Professor of Oratory, Assistant Professor in English J. B. S. Norton, M. S., State Pathologist Professor of Vegetable Pathology and Botany T. B. Symons, M. S., State Entomologist Professor of Entomology and Zoology Harry Gw inner, M. M. E. Professor of Mechanical Engineering C. P, Close, M. S., State Horticulturist Professor of Horticulture T. H. Taliaferro, C. E., Ph. D. Professor of Civil Engineering and Physics Henry T. Harrison, A. M., Secretary of the Faculty Professor in charge of Preparatory Department, Assistant Professor of Mathematics P. M. NoviK, B. S. Associate Professor of Horticulture 12