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

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For friends must meet and friends must part, And hearts with joy must ever glow When thus they feel within them start The wells of love for friends they know. But each to his or her reward Must travel on the road of life, Unhelped, unaided, save by the sword, Which each must carry to the strife. But tho the gathering mist of age May bring with it its toils untold; Yet in this life, to me no page Will be more dear than that doth hold The memories fond of comrades true, Of friendships formed in those two years, When we were drawn as but a few Are drawn to share their joys and fears. Then may we on life ' s battlefield As comrades still go hand in hand; Each ready to uphold and shield Our college dear to all the land. To duty ' s roll-call ever hark — ■ Our very life to duty lend — Till the last reveille shall mark A wondrous day that knows no end. O. H. S., ' 08. 19

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Comrades Comrades we were, and comrades still, Altho within thy pleasant gates Are other places now to fill — The vacant places of the Fates. Fond memory turns me back again To those two years of joyous life, Which all too soon were pased and — then For me, the sterner call to strife. Oh college years — how calm, how bright; How like a dream they passed away! Two years have sunk to sleep in night; In memory now they wake to-day. My friends of then, my friends still are, Each tie is cherished in my heart, Tho time doth scatter us afar, In memory never will we part. One home, one life those years we spent. And then each cherished tie to sever — Oh what a pang that break has meant ; To me alone ' tis known forever. But comrades were we, then and now, And comrades still we shall remain, Tho we to Fate ' s decree must bow And maybe never meet again.

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History of the Class of 1908 O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us. — Burns It is with considerable satisfaction that we transmit herewith the history of our noble selves, for in our humble opinion the future lords of M. A. C, survey- ing with unprejudiced eyes the records of the past, will observe : There was a class, take it all in all. We shall not look upon its like again. And so we think that following generations, by a careful perusal of our chronicles, will obtain much information of valtie, and either bv following our example, or else harkening to a voice from the tomb bidding them to avoid those paths which lead to destruction, will be enabled to raise the standard of excellence beyond their most sanguine expectations. But let us pause a moment to decently inter our departed mates. There were some amongst us who were deserving of a better fate than theirs; some on whose ofTending head was laid the inexorable hand of Fate, and ' neath her scorching touch their life plans withered away. To those go out our heart- felt sympathies, and over their graves we shed a tear. Yet there were some who, like the old hare in the adage, slept, alas, too long, and awoke only to find, to their bitter disappointment, that their train of opportunities had gone by. And some there were who frittered away their time, who squandered their natural endowments with a prodigal hand, who forgot that to-day is the day of reck- oning. To these we extend our condolences as in duty bound. Legion is the name of those who have left our ranks since our Freshman year, and tho the sepa- ration of the tares from the wheat has been furiously administered; the task is still incomplete. Ever since our arrival we have been a vital force in athletics, and time and again have our representatives snatched victory from what seemed sure defeat, As Freshmen, our challenge to the effect that we would play any eleven from the