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

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It is with many regrets that we leave our pleasant rooms in old Aggie, endeared to us by so many happy associations; and above all, we regret that we are to leave those dear girls, who have helped us to pass many a pleasant hour and kept us from being homesick. It will be but a few short weeks before we will leave the sheltering arms of our Alma Mater, and enter the different paths to which duty calls us. Whether we will ever meet again as a whole class, time only can tell. But some of us will no doubt meet together and talk over those good old times that we had when in college. G. 21

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DenioPi Class Colors — Peacock Blue and Old Gold. Class Yell — Wah hoo, IVah hoo, IVah hoo, Wahj Zip boom bah;, ' pi. IT is with mingled feelings of joy and sorrow that we hand in our last com- munication to the Index board. Three times have these contributions been passed in, representing as many years of our college life: years the experiences of which, through all the shifting scenes of the future, can never be erased from our memory. What they have brought us, each must answer for himself. As we look over our numbers now, we miss mariy faces that had become so familiar to us during our early college life, but who have, for one reason or an- other, dropped out, leaving only fifteen of the twenty-nine who entered with us; since then, however, we have added three new men to our class. We have now reached hard-pan, and those who have remained feel that is has not been in vain that four years of the best part of our lives have been spent in Agricultural halls. We trust that ' 91 has done her duty to her Alma Mater, as well as to herself. Have we not always taken a prominent part in athletics, and have we not been generous in financial support, also? What better way could we have taken to perpetuate the name of ' 91 than by establishing a college paper? We have been through the usual course of study, that has been changed somewhat since we entered college, the changes being always for the better. Chemistry we took up in the usual manner, with the addition of quite extended lectures on the pro- cess of fire- wg without the production of carbon. How is Psychology? a Junior asks, with anxiety upon his face; Is it harder than Rhetoric? My friend, so far as our representative faculties act, we should say that if you have a definite idea as to the non ego, and externality, or even the object object, you will find it comparatively easy; otherwise you will not. 20

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d unioPi Class Colors — Magenta and Old Gold. Class Yell — Rah-Rah-Rahj Oo-Ah-Oo; Oo-Ak-Ooj ' p2. TNOTHER of the four stepping stones of our college life has been passed, (S jL and it finds us in the enviable Junior year, with its pleasures, its duties aud responsibilities. ' 92 has stood the strain of the tirst half of her course with the accustomed grit, and although she has come out somewhat lessened in num- bers, yet in intellectual ability much has been gained. Upon assembling at chapel at the opening of the term, we found ourselves much diminished in numbers, but, as time passed on, all but six returned to their Alma Mater; and now, although some of the brightest and most popular faces are missing, we hope to press on to the graduation platform with unbroken num- bers. In our recitations, we have generally accjuitted ourselves with credit, and although a professor ' s frown may occasionally remind us that we are over-step- ping the bounds of a student ' s right to question, yet, as one of them said, We get there. On the campus, we have tried to do our duty. We cannot boast of a Stagg, or any other athletic celebrity, but we have all turned out and done our best. Our protege, the Freshmen, taken as a whole, are a good-looking class of men, and we wish them all the best of success and fun during their course. The size of their class enables them to take good care of themselves, so that, with a few points at the opening of the term, we were allowed to occupy our easy chairs, only occasionally reminding a Sophomore that he must not be noisy or attempt to make any disturbance. As we consider the course of study we pursue, we cannot but regret that 22