University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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SENIOR CLASS

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UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT,I909 31 Sfieninra U Age, too, shines out, and garrulous recounts the feats of youth. Ghgqyggeg EARLY four years of congenial life together have passed only too swiftly, and but a few busy, happy months have yet to elapse before the H Old Rf E Mill,', that welcomed the class of 1908, and the classic paths that have led it to learning, will know it no longer as an undergraduate body. N Weak in numbers, our class has shown recuperative 'ability and construc- tive strength that prove it to be indeed mighty in spirit. The passing years have done more for us than merely to decimate our numbers. They have taught us love for Alma Mrater, and respect for all who aid her in her work. They have opened to us wider fields of endeavor, and have given us courage to take our places therein. Best of all, the dead years have taught us the true spirit of life, the spirit that makes a man come from a defeat, unconquerecl, unafraid, and preparing for another encounter. The years surely cannot be called wasted that have taught a man, or a body of men, this invaluable lesson. ln retrospect, it is easy to see that our class has not acquitted itself along some lines as perhaps it might have done. Qui' athletic contests were, with but one shining exception, a series of crushing and disheartening defeats. Football, Baseball, Basketball, and Track all told the same story of defeat,-defeat due partly to a lack of suitable material, but mostly to internal dissensions, and to a blase spirit of N Don't caref, On the other hand, although the class as a whole has done little or nothing in athletics, there are some members who have worthily upheld its honor on field' and track. Ferrin and Frank have been able representatives on the gridiron for three years, while Ward, l-lanna, Cassidy and Wilson did good work until Fate and the Faculty took them from us.4 On the track, we have been well represented by Master, while Collison was one of the stars on the baseball 'teams the two years he was with us. Other departments of college activity owe much to the willing hearts and able hands of l908 men. In literary work the class has been very active. Smith, Brownell and Somerville have worked faithfully on the Cynic Board for four 'years and the present excellent character of the publication is due largely to their influence. Music, too, has attracted many of the class, as may easily be seen by consulting the roll of the Musical Clubs, while for three years the leader of the Mandolin Club has owed allegiance to l908. Moreover, the establishment of the College Band is, due, almost solely, to the efforts of Barton and' Salford. In the clubs and in all -the other diverse interests of a busy college life, there may be found 1908 men doing their Work in a quiet way and putting into it all the energies of their minds and bodies.