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

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To all — alumni, faculty, stu- dents — who love and hold in high esteem their Alma Mater, this institution, our college, The Index extends a hearty greeting.

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5 Fron hspiece. Greeting Calendar The Corporation The Faculty The Classes The Fraternities Athletics Clubs College Events Commencement In the Ravine Military Promenade In Memoriam . Review of the Year Prologue to Aggie Tales A Legend of the Past The Last Sophomore Mount A Fable .... Short-Course Men of iyoo The Taming of the Kidd A Petition The New Band Her Answer Alphabetical List of Factors at With Our Compliments Risible Razors The Aggie Man A Hopeless Case The Lament of the M. A. C C Class Statistics of 1902 Editorial Alumni Marriages Farewell Advertisements U 19 43 53 63 77 S7 91 92 94 100 103 106 107 112 114 117 122 123 123 124 127 128 130 131 132 133 139 149 174 175 177

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Herman Babson. ROM the standpoint of the student his relation to the members of the Faculty is one of the most important of the many relations incident to college life. This relation may have been anticipated, in a measure, before the student entered college. While yet a member of the high school and when the claims of rival institutions are engaging his atten- tion, the fame of certain professors in Riverdale College reaches his ears and his choice is made. More important and intimate does this relation become during the years of the college course. As the student passes from one class room to another he takes with him the results of the influence there felt, either as an inspiration to more strenuous effort or as a mental soporific that is placidly satisfied with the reach of present attainment. The years after graduation, too, are frequent reminders of this patient friend or that judicious counselor among the members of the Faculty of the old college, to which memory like a pilgrim gray shall love to return and linger in life ' s twilight hours. To gain the highest success as a teacher in college, one must be in close touch with the student body. He must be able to look at questions from the student ' s standpoint, to interpret correctly the changing phases of the life of the college, and to endure the thousand natural shocks that (college) flesh is heir to. It is well, in these days especially, if he be an athlete; but that is not enough. It is highly desirable that he be a scholar, well equipped and well developed, thereby deserv- ing and receiving the respect of every student ; but even this is not enough. He must be a man and a student, de siring knowledge, intent in his search after truth, looking upon life in the college world with even more courage and hope than inspire the young hearts about him, and never for a moment losing faith in the ultimate supremacy of industry and righteousness and purity. In one of the youngest Professors at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, the Class of 1902 has found man) ' qualities that belong to the ideal Professor. Born in Gloucester, Mass., in 1871, preparing for college in the public schools of his native city, Prof. Babson entered Amherst College in 1889, graduated in 1893, and in the same year came to the Agricultural College as Assistant Professor of English. The work in Rhetoric and American Literature was assigned to him and subsequently the instruction in Oratory was placed in his charge. Though giving his first thought and effort to the interests of the Agricultural College, he has assisted, in various ways , the departments of English Literature and Public Speaking in Amherst College, and from January to July, 1900, held the position of Instructor in Rhetoric in that institution. During these seven years he has written articles and stories that have been published in The New England Magazine, The Independent, McC lure ' s Magazine, and in other newspapers and periodicals. While the Class of 1902 have appreciated these efforts of Prof. Babson, and will take pride in whatever successes may await him in the field of literature, it is not for these that we now honor him. It is because, having been himself a college student, he enters into the life of the college student to-day; because as a teacher he has high ideals of work and illustrates them by his own example ; because with singular fidelity he devotes himself to the interests of those who enter his class room, that the Class of 1902 dedicates this volume of The Index to Prof. Herman Babson.