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

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-GYD- HVnother year of the alloted four has taken its place in the immortal past. And in answer to the annual call we apply ourselves to the task of issuing the third number of The Index. Hoping that it may be welcomed and approved by all The Faculty Catalogue presents the College from their point of view. In it we have the curriculum, the various depart- ments of study, the list of students, in fine, the crystallized shell in which we live; but one looking at an egg shell is scarce- ly reminded of the yolk within; so the reader of the Faculty Catalogue would form-almost no conception of the throbbing, active lite beneath that cold, formal exterior ; to show the college from the Students ' stand-point, as a living, active body is our purpose. And at the beginning we would say that The Index does not purport to be a literary journal, but merelv a collection of college and class statistics, to any one but a member of the college, void of interest, but to a mem- ber of the college replete with interest, and will always, in the future, be a pleasant reminder of bygone days. The past year is one long to be remembered by all connect- ed with the College, especially so to the pioneer classes. We have seen the first class graduate from the Massachusetts Agri- cultural Colicky e, and no longer is she a childless institution j

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LiBRA UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS iftERST. ms. m ABBREVIATIONS. 3YQ N. C North College. S. C South College. '

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EDirORIAL. but is now exultant over her first Alumni. And in the fu- ture may the laurels won by her brave sons, return in their full glorv and honor, and by them magnanimously laid at the feet of their Alma Mater, their rightful progenitor. Already, we are happy to say, they have made their first contribution and that by no means insignificant, a handsome schlarship, and from the standard of scholarship required to obtain it, we surmise that in their opinion the standard of the College should be raised, which we hope may be the case. We congratulate the College in obtaining the services of so eminent and practical a mathematician as Professor Pea- body. An interesting and natural instructor, he at once gain- ed the respect and admiration of the students; he will, we are confident be a most valuable, and we hope permanent, addi- tion to the Faculty. Boating is still in the ascendant in the College, and we are confident that what man has done man can do again, but for the present season we are perfectly satisfied with the glorious and flattering results of the Regatta at Ingleside in July last, in which, with magnificent ease, the Bucolics passed the goal in 16.46 4 (from starting) the best time ever made, by a six-oared crew, in the annals of boating. And who doubts, seeing thus early its effects, the expediency and wisdom of permitting the students in our College to en- gage in boating. Honor to whom Honor is due long may it continue. The prospects of the College were never better than at the present time. And in reviewing its career up to the present and seeing the desperate struggle it has encountered and successfullv warded, the increasing interest of the public, the gradual awakening of the community to which the character of the College directly appeals, together with the active and cMiergetic co-operatit ii )f its Faculty, we feel warranted in say- ing thatthe succ;,ess of the College is inevitable. V