University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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VOLUME XIX 31 Let us turn from the model and look at the understudy. Behold Allen, the most recent football manager. Picture him on the Brown trip, freshly be-jeweled, clad in blue flannel shirt and antiquated dicer, following Mr. Cloudman like a dog lest he become lost. Is it surprising that a Brown man inquired if it was our custom to have a Freshman for manager? It was some weeks later that I saw him at Middlebury, still in the same blue shirt and dicer, leading the three fizzles for Middlebury, as a mark of his good breeding. Oh, Vincent, if you have learned nothing else in your College course, take to heart that little lesson in courtesy you there received, and your time will not have been lost. I If, gentle reader, you can stand the strain, stop for amoment and gaze at the other side of -the picture. See I-Iulett, the gentleman QPQ from Rutland. Imagine him as he walks, sur- rounded with a halo of fire, from which seems to issue the words, I am I-Iulett, ruler of 1905. And it is so, for in his very countenance there is something of a royal dignity that forbids all denial. And thus he lives and breathes amid his humble class- mates, honored, respected and obeyed. , In thus showing the good qualities of three members fit grieves me that I cannot say men 3 of the Senior class, I may do an injustice to the rest, but to consider all so minutely would be a waste of good time on a poor subject. And yet it pains me to pass over such specimens as Smith, now apparently gone by, Perkins, boozologist and all round sport, and the beloved Whit- comb, predecessor and teacher of the above-named Hulett. And in the same category I must place Hicks, who teaches Constitu- tional Law and Banking, when Professor Mixter is absent, and generally when he is present. Of the remainder of the class I will keep silent, for it is an old maxim that when nothing good can be said,.it is best to say nothing. I , Yet '05 is not without merit. There is one feature of its history by which all coming classes may well profit. It has been

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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?

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32 THE ARIEL remarkably clean from dirty politics. Last fall some of the members openly boasted that their votes were for the highest bidder, but that was a matter of business. This example certainly is well worthy of imitation. Sell your vote for as much as you can get, but don't be crooked. I In conclusion, '05, as you go out into the world this spring, you have our most heartfelt sympathy. May you early over- come your present faults. We know you are not entirely to blame. Self-conceited in your infancy, prematurely you grew overbearing, and we have suffered. Now is the time to change. Lay aside your sickly grins, your blue shirts and lordly airs. Clothe yourselves in the habits of gentlemen. Remember, but four years ago you were Freshmen, and four years hence you will be-who can tell? I study and grind for four college years, Then I add to my name A.B . Post graduate Work.- A.B disappears, And A.M. is my hard earned degree g The mill grinds again, and with still longer ears I am turned out a fiddle- DD. if mi ,f ii Mr. ,,f,gg., . ' .M MZQNI A