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

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The Index. Another College year is lying at the Reaper ' s feet, and in the second volume of The Index we offer our friends a record of work accomplished and progress attained. A most fair and promising dawn of the opening year authorizes confident hopes of future suc- cess. Our circle has at last been completed with a class of thirty-two members, seemingly of good material, allowing us to enroll within these pages the four customary classes, each distinguished by special peculiarities, from the Senior, With, eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances, to the guileless, studious Freshman, With shining morning face. Our oft lamented vacancy in the Faculty has been filled, and we no longer need to look abroad for spiritual instruction, but home- like, can worship under a minister belonging to us alone. Our new Professor has also imparted fresh enthusiasm to other studies, and won at the outset the respect and confidence of the students.

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EDITORIAL. Perfect harmony exists between ruler and ruled, and a healthy moral sentiment among the students themselves, upholding law and order, renders hght and easy the task of governing. Muscular Christianity has also its votaries here as elsewhere. Without any outside aid we have raised a liberal sum as a basis for a boating organization, and a crew of four weeks ' training has already nobly and victoriously represented . our College in the popular Cedar SheU. It is our sad lot to record our first losses by death. First, a stu- dent, in the full vigor and hope of young manhood, was suddenly taken from us. And now a teacher, useful and beloved, has passed on before, leaving a bright example of life ' s work well done, more enduring than the most costly monument. Thus, through light and shade, through calm and storm, we are slowly but surely gaining ground, choosing rather to commence at the beginning than at the eleventh hour of our existence. Meeting discouragements necessarily accompanying a new enter- prise, we still feel we are laying the foundations, broad and firm, of an institution whose Hght radiating far and near, shall disarm old- time prejudice and ignorance, and reflect honor upon founders and State. By their fruits ye shall know them, and we confidently await the results, when annually she sends out her men, armed with a Hve education to battle with a live age.