University of Pennsylvania - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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THE EDITORS gratefully acknowledge the assistance, in preparing the Record, SAMUEL CROWTHER, JR. CLARENCE I-IEXTER GOLDSMITH WILLIAM MITCHELL I'IOOVER CASSIUS I'IINDS WATSON CHARLES ROSCOE SPARE THOMAS DUNCAN WHELEN GEORGE FRANKLIN BRUMM ROBERT SMITH GAWTHROP of NIR. WALTER WILLIAM SHARPLEY and GARRICK NIALLERY, JR. WALTER LEE SHEPPARD CLARENCE STRATTON I ARTHUR REGINALD EARNSHAW HERBERT ADAMS GIBBONS THORNTON OAKLEY LOUIS HAROLD RUSH PAUL WELLWOOD IRWIN NIR. WELLINGTON HARVEY SPAULDING 4

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W'en we wuz freshmen, years ago. We used ter be an orful lot. We bothered all the People so They near got sick, an' like as not They kinder wished our Manners wuz A little more politerg 'cause We wuzn't jes as folks should be That's in a University. PREP! CE. Q v v. '9n'- JrC'Tr- Well, them wuz glorious days, you bet! We jes wuz havin' heaps 0' fun. But the Dean, he sez: now, donit ferget That all them Days 0' joy ez done, An' now yer got ter take yer Grub An' jes go Sally out an' rub Right up against the cold, hard world Wot ain't impressed by no degrees. Dat kind o' shocked us fera while, But We ain't much fer bein' sad. lt kinder allus wuz our Style Ter never worry 'bout wot's bad. So we jes thought as how We'd write A great big Book, so's we could see, W'en we wuz gettin' old an' White, Wot kind o' chaps we used ter te. So here's yer Book, an, if yer sees Sum things that yer can,t jes quite guess Jes yer remember, if yer please, They means a great Deal more to us.

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Introduction HE CLASS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ONE is the first to be sent forth from Old Penn in this great new century. During the last hundred years Pennsyl- vania has climbed, slowly at first, and then with marvelous and ever-increasing rapidity, to the foremost place among the Universities of the land, through periods of bitter crisisg through dark days into fair, and the sunshine of prosperity. But as we stand now at this, the great turning-point in our lives, it is for us to look not upon the past, but to the future, spreading out before us farther than eyes such as ours can hope to see. To some of us it is of little concern g to many a cause of intense and prolonged anxiety, to all of the utmost importance, ours to make it what we can. It is an old, old story, perhaps, this standing bewildered upon the threshold of the worldg but this time it is our story, and to us it is new. 5