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

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THE INDEX. three or four courses while some of us taking PIE as a factor, compute the area and volume and find they nearly equal in- finity. We have not yet had a chance to try our muscle at boating, but we have enough for all practical purposes, if the manner in which we handle the twelve pounders is a criterion. Our class nine need have no hesitation in claiming the col- lege championship. No other class has a nine that can beat it. Class supper at Greenfield and accompanying incidents, and our last farewell as a class to Mr. Naito, aie occasions that will long be remembered. No doubt, the remaining years of our course will pass as quickly as the two that have just gone, and even now we are looking forward to the time when we shall be grave and rev- erend Seniors. Classmates, let us so improve the time that is left to us that when we graduate we shall be an honor, both to ourselves and to our Alma Mater. S.

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THE INDEX. % — y HE past year has quickly flown, and we are no longer Sophomores, but have reached the enviable Junior year. We are just beginning to comprehend the mean- ing of those familiar words: For once I was a Sophomore, But now I am a man ! With a slight decrease in number, we begin the second half of our stay at the M. A. C. Nearly all of those who have departed from us are busily engaged in the various du ties of science, agriculture and music, — one who was unfortu- nately called to his home in Japan, has been appointed to an important and responsible position in that country. He still has an almost insatiable thirst for education, and we hope he will have a chance to satisfy it, either in this country or in Europe. In scholarship we can safely say we stand at the head. During the past year we have had a class average above any other in college. The principles of Mechanics; the Science of Fruit Culture; and the structure, form and habits of in- sects are a few of the many interesting studies in which we are now engaged. German and Rhetoric have taken the place of French and History. Zoology with all its prizes for increasing our love of snakes and turtles, is past, but not forgotten ; for what we don ' t know about it isn ' t worth knowing. All the practical surveying we are having this term, is find- ing the bearmg and distance of the dinner table, and having ar- rived at this station we do our levelho-sX. at going through

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THE INDEX. fLD SOL has n the consequenc raunication to LD SOL has made another annual trip, and, as one of ices, ' 77 is again called upon for a coni- the Index. It is with some trepida- tion that the task is undertaken as I scarce know what is best to be said. Our first year in College passed very pleasantly and profitably to the most of us with both Faculty and students, and we hope that by doing our duty faithfully and acting as gentlemen at all times, to continue this pleasant relation which now exists. Such of us as were not leached out have become perfectly familiar with the road to the boarding-house. Last term, however, the head leacher left and mine host appeared in the form of a Bridge; this helped us over the leaching diffi- culty and was a pleasant help in time of need. We commence our second year ' s work with eighteen mem- bers in the class, which is four less than it had one year ago ; Some have left without any apparent cause; one has gone on account of his father ' s advancing age, another for the good reason that his fathei wished him to and we are sorry to lose one on account of ill health. We hope California air will re- store him, and that we shall see him again well and strong. We have had one or two transient members; one of them soon became an invalid and extinguished himself with Never was any mist ' ry t ' me. This class seems determined not to follow customs and so did not set out class trees last term as other classes have done before us, but we expect to carry out that commendable practice before this term has reached its close. In the matter