University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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30 THE ARIEIQ QBIUDI' QlfUffUI'f8l OR FOUR LONG YEARS we have endured the Class of 1905, and, during this time, we have marked with no little anxiety how a class may degenerate. In its Freshman and Sophomore years, 1905 seemed 5 to warrant great hopes. Strong in athletics and eager in spirit, it worked for the common good. Now all is changed. No longer its members work for Vermont, not even for '05 do they labor, but each man for himself strives night and day in some mean, underhanded pusillanimous way to increase his own power and 'add more to the list of honors opposite his dishonorable name. ' I said '05 has degenerated. They entered a class of men, green, but promising. There is left-Ye Gods-two Dartmouth castoffs and the S. A. C. It is true we might yet, with the lantern of Diogenes, find one honest man. Barrett, last spring, in the face of untold opposition, dared to uphold the right, and Newton, last fall, under difficulties so great that it seemed he must succumb, carried through the football season in a manner that deserves the approbation of all. For such men, no praise can be too lavish. Would that there were more like them. But the rest! Have you seen the noble president at a College meeting, his hands in his pockets, neck thrust well forward, an agricultural smile upon his face, a mass of igno- minious helplessness, while all about pandemonium reigns? Have you seen him at the football games, sitting supinely on a back seat, while a junior leads the cheers for old Vermont?