University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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Comniiinicatioiis, Nearly three years ago we entered this College as the first class. As we look back, we see many improyenients ; even in that short period dormitories and other buildings necessary both for the Col- lege and the farm, have been erected. What shall we say for ourselves ? Are we the stereotyped Juniors of former days, in felt hat and shawl ? No, ' 71 is a jolly set of chaps, delighting in sugar scrapes and Hamp as much as anybody. We feel as though our course thus far has been productive of much good to the College. Have we not planted elms, whose gen- erous shade shall shelter future generations ? Have not jDines been set out around some of the lesser buildings ? Who but a ' 71 man could have had such forethought 1 Our relations with the Faculty have been, and are, very pleasant, and we are i:)leased to learn they are not afraid of us. AVith ' 72 we have had much to do. We hope they do not chafe under the recollections of rushes, mode trials, blanket-tossings, c. But bygones are bygones to us both, and Juniors and SojdIis smoke the pipe of peace. We have nothing to do with ' 73, save to help them organize ' ' secret societies. Many of us are votaries of the national game, and we furnish a goodly number to the Wilder Nine. Music hath icS charms for us, both vocal and instrumental. Among the instruments used are the piano, violin, violincello, cornet, clarionet and flute. We have learned to feel the pomp and circumstance of glorious war, in the drill of the manual of arms and bayonet exercise, imder the tutelage of Capt. Alvord.

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THE INDEX. The great question of the benefit of the College to the State is yet to be proved, and that only by the character and standing which its students shall sustain after leaving its walls, and when they erect the edifice of their future life on the foundation which if laid at all must be laid here. But we hope for the best, and trust that future numbers of the Index may show a rapid advance in all that pertains to oiu ' loved institution.

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6 THE INDEX. The pipe is the solace of nearly all of U3, anilwhah more rational enjoyment can we have than after supper to fill the Woodstock with cavendish, and in the blue wreaths of smoke see bright visions of the future ? We doubt if there ever was a class that worked together so well as ours. There seems to be a unity, a oneness of purpose, that has marked our course from the beginning until now, and may it always be so. We have but a little longer to stay, and when we leave our Alma Mater, let us do so with no cause for regret, and a determination to do rio ' ht. — I