University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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28 THE ARIEL taintyg second, Discord, third, Reconstruction, fourth, Union. Sopho- more year was a period of bitter factional strife, out of Which, Phoenix- like, arose an era of good feeling and readjustment, giving birth to the resplendent organization of to-day, which dazzles the eyes of envious underclassmen. Leaders rose and fell, but the ship of state rode on. The Brodies, the Kelleys, the Telliers, all had their day -to be eclipsed by the Harveys, the Riches and the Donahues. Socially and intellectually the class has always stood on a plane by itself-for where is there another such organization that can boast a .Kellogg and a Wfaddell like to om' Kellogg and our Wfaddell ? In athletics IQO2 has always stood high. In the Freshman year it met with defeat at the hands of the Sophomores by an average score, O-17, and the next year defeated 1903 by a score of 1640. in '98, IQOZ was represented by three men on the varsity football team, by four in VQQ, and six and four in 1900 and 1901 respectively. As Sophomores IQO2 won the inter-class baseball series, and has had from one to three men on the varsity baseball team each year, In the spring of 1901, the class had one man on the tennis team of four which administered a crushing defeat to Dartmouth. ln the Kingsley Prize Speaking 1902 took one prize in the Fresh- man year and all three prizes in the Sophomore year. In the cast of H Ralph Roister Doister, the college play of IQOO, we find that of the Efteen members were of 1902. In The Silent XVoman,'l given last year, our class hlled eight of the hfteen parts, and in the play of this year, She Stoops to Conquer, IQO2 still has more than its share of the honors. Six of the twenty young ladies in the cast of ff Much Ado About Nothing, .given in 1900, were of the class of 1902. . Nineteen-two has seen and taken part in many events of interest and pride to the college, and has witnessed many changes and advances in college affairs and policy. It has seen the entering class increase in numbers from 100 to 125. It has seen the baseball team defeat Pennsylvania and the football team from small beginnings tie Dartmouth. The tennis team has tied Bowdoin and defeated Dartmouth.

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VOLUME xvl 27 SENIOR EDITORIAL I-Ili past rises before us and we see our present Seniors in the days of their freshness. The class of IQO2 then num- bered about IOO eager youths and maidens burning with the thirst for knowledge, and ambitious with the hopes born of inexperience. They were gathered from far and near and represented, through their parents, if not through themselves, almost every conceiv- able walk of life. Nearly one-quarter of the class came up from Burlington and the Burlington I-Iigh Schoolg the majority of the remainder had been torn from the innocent Arcadian atmosphere of towns like lVIontpelier, St. Albans and Wfebster, lVIass., while a few hailed from such far distant and strenuous-communities as Wfashington, D. C., Iissex junction and Caisery, Armenia. Since the fall of '98, when first gathered this immortal class, a fear- ful process of elimination has been steadily going on in its ranks. lVIid- years and finals of the first year and other causes too many and complex to mention left only gaps where twenty-Hve of the band should have stood at the beginning of the second year. After this fatal first year was past, the survivors strengthened their grip and held grimly on though Fate and the Faculty disposed of nearly twenty more before Senior year opened. And even now, on the last easy but still rather slippery slope, there are among us, sad to say, some whose burdens may yet prove too heavy to be carried on to the goal. So IQO2 will register upon the roll of University graduates a scant half of its original five score. The class has had an interesting history. As a political body it has, in its four brief years, run through all the successive processes of action and reaction of political elements which it has taken the American Union over a century to pass through. Its political history, like that of our nation, has fallen. into four clearly defined stages: First, Uncer-

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VOLUME XVI 29 lt has seen the establishment of four annual events, the College Play, the Sophomore I-lop, the Athletic Banquet and the Athletic l-lop. The Cjfzzzk' has been changed to a fortnightly publication and issues eighteen numbers a year instead of twelve. A debating club has been formed. A chair in Commerce and Economics has been endowed and the Courses broadened in this department. lt has seen the raising of a gymnasium fund, the erection of an admirable gymnasium and the way paved for a track team. College politics have become purified and class politics, the great hindrance to our proper development in undergraduate activities, have been, in a large degree, eliminated. Nineteen-two has always been an energetic class, and while it has never as a class, perhaps, awaked to the sense of a mission in college, we feel that it has in its four years grown strong in college spirit, and has, it nothing else, striven to encourage and foster college loyalty and traditions. As the days roll on toward commencement the thought of leaving the old familiar haunts grows more and more distasteful. Vermont has been a good mother to us. XVe have had our troubles, individual and collective, but at commencement time they lie rather dim on the horizon. NVe have had our struggles, but they have not been disappointing or disastrous. VVe have had our good times, and they have been very good and very manyg and we have had and never expect to lose our college friendships. Wfe must cut loose, but these days in Vermont will ever live in our memories. . H Sit quiet, friends, and think it o'er. Aye, think how sweet the old days were ! Seek not, weep not: take nienioryg Let's have a loving cup with her- A cup with her,.and alsong with her, And a sitting still and long with her, For the old days, For the old, care-free days ! g A. 'oz