University of Pennsylvania - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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A .im M M The Commdiee ZS Indebfecl Z0 WALTER T. SINGER MR FREDERIC L. CLARK MR S. ROWLAND MORGAN MR W. RAWLE BROWN MR HARRY FOX MR H. KENNEDY HILL MR CHARLES H. CLARKE MR SAMUEL H. BAKER MR . .AND. . LAWRENCE S. BELLMAN WALTER D. BLAIR FRANK L. BODINE LEON N. GILLETTE CHARLES GILPIN, 3d EDWIN O. KUENZLI WALLACE E. RUHE WALTER H. THOMAS MR. ROSCOE L. WALKER RECORD U For their czssi5m1zcez'n p1'epfL1'i71g tim 'WL

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i 1 ,r ' ' DEDICHTIGN 0 ' E many memories of Ninety-ninel To you these passing whims We dedicate. Your spirit shall these pages animate, And speak to us in every Word and line. In golden letters We do here enshrine All that in you as Worthiest We rate 5 Let bitter jealousy and burning hate Ne'er taint a thought that We to you assign. To-clay we face the world a hundred strong: To-morrow, one by one must stand alone: Yet still within each heart your light shall shin And when ye speak, no time shall seem so long, No task so hard, but each can hold his own, As when all Worked as one for Ninety-nine.

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get 'MIBITRODUCTIOHWR , . 4' 5,5 QI iq 1ff,, 1572 NOTHER year has passed, and once more the graduating class presents to the public its 'nsvycjig f RECORD, the aim of which is, as Mr. Green says of his History of the English People, 9 defined by its title. It is customary for readers of the book to look upon it somewhat in the light of a burlesque, and a means whereby the class may get even with the professors K f for grievances and hardships of by-gone days. But the RECORD is more than this, and despite the trivial garb in which its ideas are clad, it is history, in that it narrates the actual events and activities ofthe class during its four years' existence. Now, history may be written in two ways. It may be written from the inside out, that is, it may be written by those who have taken part in the events narrated 5 or it may be written from the outside in, by those who view the events from the outside and have no part in them. The former method is the one pursued in the RECORD: it is written from the inside, and intended primarily for those who have taken part in the history narrated. Consequently there are many references that will be appreciated by the members ofthe Class only. Nevertheless the RECORD will be of interest to outsiders as pre- senting a true picture ofthe various phases of college life at Pennsylvania. There are two classes of persons who will read the RECORD, those who have read the Records of previous years, and those who have not. To the latter class there will be much that is new, albeit, much that is unintelligibleg to the former class there will be little that is new, much that is old. Yet do we not all know that History repeats itself, and particularly in college classes? The same groups and varieties of men are to be found in every class, and they come under the same intiuences and instructors as the men who preceded them. Under these circumstances, it is but natural that there should be similarities in the Class Records. Nevertheless several innovations will be found in the RECORD of the Class of Ninety-nine. Foremost of these innovations is the effort to make the book a true class record. Since the fall of ,Q5,- when Ninety-nine, the last class of the eighteen hundreds, entered college, its career has been a distinguished one on the athletic held, as well as in Ag.. 5