University of Maine - Prism Yearbook (Orono, ME)

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Senior History. IvI„L. thc-y arc Seniors now. At last their steady perseverance has been rewarded and they have reached that eminence toward which they have been so faithfully struggling for three long, weary years. Yes. Seniors, with the full measure of that delusive quality. “Seniordignity.” As one notes the graceful ease with which they “orate” before the student body in chapel, it is hard to realize that these dignified speakers were once awkward and ignoratu Freshmen. Hut nevertheless, it is an incontestable fact, wonderful as it may seem, and the records prove the fact that three years ago last August they made their debut as students of the Maine State College and mem- bers of the Coburn Corps. Hut what a difference between now and then. Then Freshmen and awkward privates, always worrying for fear they would Ik- late to recitations or drills. Now Seniors and com- missioner! officers, or honored members of the Signal Corps, and ever on the look out for some reason- able (?) excuse for cutting recitations or drill. In the “now” and “then” we have the alpha and omega of the record of 'On's college career. To make this record complete requires only that one should write of the joys, sorrows, trials and tribulations of the intervening years, and make record of the insurmountable obstacles surmounted, and of the various ways and means by which they achieved progress in the paths of learning.” (Classical allusion.) 25