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

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THE INDEX. 74. -GyO One year of our College life has passed and we now find ourselves at the commencement of our Sophomore year with a decrease in our class of five members. Our Freshman year was as qiuet and undisturbed as could have been expected, and it was especially so after the last of those series of battles by the Bridge of Rushes, , We think that we did very well in our studies for a class that entered under such unfavorable auspices. It is not our fault if we do not stand as high in mathemat- ics as in our other studies. Perhaps if we had so chosen we might have done better in this branch, but human nature will have to be changed before men will study when they can get as high a mark by sponging. In chemistry we are doing the work of the second term of this year. In beautifying the grounds we flatter ourselves that we are not much behind any other class, having set out over thirty trees and otherwise improved the grounds between the North Dormitory and Laboratory. Let ' 75 go and do likewise. There is one thing in which we claim to be, and are, ahead of any other class, that is in our treatment of the Freshmen. We have treated them like gentlemen and the good feeling between the classes was shown by their having a game of foot ball (than which no other game offers better opportuni- ties) without having a Rush. We hope that ' 75 will treat ' 76 in the same manner, always rememberintr tb.e oft repeated (rolden Rule. C

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THE INDEX. petencv to enable it to act for itself. It was hard to work without money and against prejudice, but having the one, we hope in time to live down the other; and now, classmates, as we journey through the world of College life, and as the tide of Junior vear ebbs away, let us think joyfully of the coming davs, ' ' When we ' re Seniors, and we ' ve nausi ' ht at all to do. F.

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THE INDEX. The class of ' 75 M. A. C, although behind the four pioneer classes in point of time, is ahead of them in several otiier ways, in some of which it will no doubt, be in turn surpassed bv those that follow. It has the largest number of members, (fifty including specials,) repi-esenting eight of the states ami the Japanese and Indian Nations, the highest average in re- gard to age, and, partly, no doubt, on this account it passed the best average examination of al the classes yet admitted. Its size is due, in general, to the high reputation the college has already achieved, which was much increased bt)th in ex- tent and degree, by the glorious victory of the Universitv Crew in the regatta at Ingleside last July; a victorv, which at once established the name and fame ( f the Massachusetts Agricultural College in the boating world, and with all in- terested in boating matters. In schc larship, c., the class of ' 75 will endeavor to maintain its standing throughout the ca- reer so favorably begun. One feature worth noticing is the presence ot the Japanese members ot the class sent here by their government to studv our language, as well as those branches of science in which the Western nations, although much younger, are ahead of the eastern. The Sophs have (kindly,) mjt rushed us as yet, one rea- son being probably our numbers ; but the honcjr of ' 75 has been maintained whenever an opportunity offered, as in the f(jot-ball match with ' 74 (. n the Fair Grounds, at the time of the Cattle Show, when we came sadly near beatingtliem all three