University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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FKKDKRICK G. Now Louis A. STRAUSS, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English. HERBERT JAV GOUI.DING, B.S., Assistant Professor of Descriptive Geometry and Drawing and Secretary of the Department of Engineering. ALFRED HOLMES WHITE, A.B., B.S., Assistant Professor of Chemical Technology. ARTHUR LYON CROSS, Ph., D. Assistant Professor of History. JOHN ROMAIN ROOD, LI,. B. Assistant Professor of Law. KDSON READ SUNDERLAND, A.M., LL.B., Assistant Professor of Law. JONATHAN AUGUSTUS CHARLES HILDNER, Ph. D. Assistant Professor of German. CLAUDE HAI.STED VANTYNE, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History. WILLIAM SYLVESTER HAZELTON, A.B., B.S., Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. EDWARD HENRY KRAUS, Ph. 1)., Assistant Professor of Mineralogy. AI.HKKT E. GRKKN CLARENCE LINTON MEADER, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Latin. Sanskrit and Comparative Philo- logy. HENRY BROOKS BAKER, M.D., A.M., Lecturer on the Administration of Health I.invs. JOHN STRONG PERRY TATI.OCK, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English. HUGO PAUL THIEME, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of French. WALTER MILKORD, B.S., F. E., Assistant Professor of Forestrv. 27

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1 906 Literary Class History Four years of college, then the wide wide world for us all. Xow that the end is so close at hand we are a little nearer to obtaining the prospective from which our college course should be viewed. We know more now than we did four years ago this with no reference to the 120 hours which we confidently look forward to in June we know more no v and the things which were strange and hazy to us then have become clearer now. We have learned things which the University calender made no provision for we have learned things from our pro- fessors which were never recorded in our note-books or crammed for at examination time. We have learned from each other, from our careless gatherings over pipe and bowl uptown and down. We learned things when we met late at night in a secluded spot when we talked over the philosophy of the infinite and the matter of fact philosophy of the finite, watching the hours pass until through the h aze of tobacco in the still hours of early morning we saw things in life and each other which will always remain part of our lives. We learned things from each other as we met in political rivalry or in political alliance, we learned things as arm in arm, with locked steps we marched forth to the rush or stood shoulder to shoulder in a great class conflict. We learned things, when we crowded together at the great athletic contests and as the fortunes of our University rose and fell, there welled up in our hearts a sympathy, a loyalty toward that University and its men which will always remain with us. We learned things at our great singing meets when with heads bared and hearts aglow we sang to Alma Mater and dreamed of the day of wider deeper college spirit which should knit closer than ever before the whole great heterogenous mass of students into a University of common ideals, common purposes, common attitude toward life. We learned things from our responsibilities in our Senior year when we felt that the college community looked to us as its leaders in promoting the welfare of the University. ' The year for us is almost at an end and with that end comes the passing of that definite unit the class of 1906 into the dissolution and disintegration of the world outside. With this passing from the shadow of old University Hall, and the increased clearness of vision which reflection on the act brings us, there must come to us all a feeling of regret that we could not have realized from our Freshman days on more of the truest im- port of college life. For our keenest appreciation of the University has come to us at the moment when we must be leaving it. For the lessons which it has taught us have been so subtly effective, so quietly operative that it is only at a time like this that we can realize them at all. Yet this deeper meaning is an actual tangible force in our life whether we realized it or not and must remain. We may truthfully say then, be our scholastic attainments what they may, that the college life is worth living, that we have been repaid for what sacrifices it may have cost us to come to college, that we are glad, and will always be, that we came to Michigan. The Freshman Year Time Flies, how true the words. It is no time at all since the bright day in October when we first filed into the Secretary ' s offices, our young eyes wide-opened with wonder at the strangeness of the college world. Yet we realized the gap we had left in numerous small towns in Michigan and outside and the reflection comforted us. Already we dreamed of the mighty part we would some day play in University life when as Seniors we should run the University, should smoke a pipe, be led by a bull-dog, acquire that air of insouciance and self- satisfaction which is worth more than riches. The class of 1906 we said the words proudly but in reality they meant little to us. Our first glimpse of their meaning came with the big rush when conscientiously we lined up for the charge, and felt the inspiration of com- mon hopes and common danger, when with the great surging crowd around us we defended the old cannon like good men and true; and though we were dragged away and forced to do things curious and unwonted, yet we took it like men for this we comforted ourselves, this is college life. Our opening month brought us our first experience in politics. It brought our first class meeting with Professor Goddard as pro tern President of igo6. It brought our first fight along the lines of fraternities versus independents a distinction which in the strengthening of the bond of class and college feeling we have since lost sight of. It left Snell our Freshman President. This year brought the annual Fresh-Soph meet when with Hodgen, Maddock, Ray Stewart, Hugg and other heroes we won our first great victory. The year brought the joys of hair-cutting with its stimulating sense