University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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Senior Class History. THE Class of 1901 has the honor of being the first to go out from this University in the new century. We spent most of our university life in the nineteenth century; we leave, having passed only a few months in the twentieth. It is fitting to review, in part, the work done, and to say a few words of the life of the Class during the past four years. As we look tack over our four years of university life, there come up memories and associations which we are unable to keep back. We shall speak briefly of the more important events — those which have impressed themselves so indelibly upon us. The Class of 1901 entered the University four years ago, one hundred and fifty strong. This was one of the largest classes in the history of the University. In many ways, we were like other Fresh classes which had preceded us, and not very difierent from those which have followed. It did not take us very long to get acquainted with some who are always willing to assist new men. There was one class which we did not wish to know that we were here, but they, too, soon found out that some new men had arrived on the Hill, so they, in welcoming us, made special inquiry where the Fresh were from, and, in an indirect way, wished to know where each new man roomed. The medicine usually applied to Freshmen (not internally, however,) did not fail to have its eftect on us. The time came for the annual watermelon feast, a collection was taken up, and we were especially invited to attend. We paid for the melons, but failed to participate in the feast. The remainder of the fall term was an uneventful one until the December examinations. When English I was reported, a new supply of red ink was ordered. Iji the spring term, as it has for the past century, Washington ' s birthday came around, and that historic holiday found us, for a part of the day, at least, in Memorial Hall receiving our well deserved medals. As time went by, the spring examinations found us in a better condi- tion than the fall examinations had. We were becoming accustomed to our surroundings and getting better acquainted with each other, and we breathed a little more freely, until the annual visit of the Sophomores, commencement week. 25