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

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interested to learn from Professor Brooks the other day that a short, pointed, concise method of stating- a fact, a method, in short, which, other things being equal, does not necessarily go into detail, should always be followed in present- ing a thought. It is true the fun has not always been wholly on our side. When the Chemical Department assured us that we probably understood a cer- tain principle better before it was explained than we would afterward, we thought it was a doubtful compliment at best; and when Professor Ostrander declared that the class did n ' t seem to have a very good idea of what work was we felt that he was adding insult to injur} - . However, considering that our class is numerically as large as it was a year ago, it does not look as though an unduly large proportion of us were destined to fall by the wayside. We are famous for being of an inquiring turn of mind. Nothing of note escapes our observation, and we are strong believers in the inductive method of procedure. A year ago we investigated the Belchertown fair. Last spring we experimented with the new cut system, and some of us met with disastrous results in experimenting with the over-cut system. Hodgkiss has spent a good deal of time this fall experimenting with the growth of what he called a moustache. It furnished a good specimen for microscopic study, but, sad to say, he let it go before we could complete our observations on its life history. But why worry the reader further? Our lesser exploits, are they not as innumerable as the grains of sand on the seashore? Suffice it to say we have had our fun, and good, hearty fun it was, too; free from mean and dirty tricks. Whenever we have danced we have always been willing to pay the fiddler. We have won and lost in athletics, we have scored ten-spots and zeros in the class room. But now half our college course is over and the time for play is nearly spent. We have done well in the past ; let us do better in the future. Serious work is before us; let us be ready for it. Let us in the time remaining prove that we can succeed, not only in the trivialities that we have met, but also in the things to come that are worth while. K.

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Our record last year closed just before the rope-pull. Everybody did us the honor of assuring us that we were certain to lose in that; and it wasn ' t quite the thing to win after everybody had predicted the opposite. Moreover it was highly discourteous to snake poor Corporal Tinker and his squad along the ground the way our team did that day. But then, we had to have that rope, even if it was only an old one, and have it we did, by a good nine feet. And right here it ought to be stated that the ' 03 historian got a little pre- vious last year. In his somewhat lurid account of the affair (written two days before the -rope-pull took place), he winds up by dramatically exclaiming, The result you all know; why mention it? He must have realized later, when the result was announced, that from his point of view there was mighty little rea- son for mentioning it. It was another case of He laughs best who laughs last. After the rope-pull, football occupied our attention and we practiced hard. Sunderland, which had proved a stumbling block the year before, now twice bit the dust, and finally we tackled the Freshmen. It was a hard struggle but we could n ' t lose, and, finally toward the close of the second half, Paul fell across the line for a touchdown. The Freshman celebration was once more indefinitely postponed, and T. Fred Cooke gulped down a second long and bitter sob. About this time, or may be a little later on, the Aggie Life cheerfully re- marked, If the Freshmen can win in basketball and baseball, they can still tie in the number of events won. Unfortunately for the Freshmen there was that big If in the way. We had seen a basketball once or twice before, and when the time came we did n ' t do a thing. The Freshmen danced around like a lot of peas in a hot skillet, but that was about all the good it did. The score was only about 24 to 4, or something like that. ' ' For the sake of completeness, as Professor Brooks loves to say, we might state that we also went into track athletics a little that winter and ran up about twenty points more than the Freshmen in that, too. Spring came, and with it baseball. We couldn ' t spoil our record and so we took that in 11 to 8. Everybody got pretty well rattled that day on both sides, but after all, All ' s well that ends well. The Freshmen hadn ' t had a single chance to celebrate in the whole year; and they do say the Freshmen were naturally great hands to celebrate, too. This unbroken series of victories indicates what sort of a position we have in athletics. And yet it doesn ' t tell half of the things we did. Why, we spent most of the year breaking in a new Prof, and if that is n ' t a tough job we don ' t know what is. We did the job well and succeeding classes ought to thank us for it. We also made things pleasant for some of the old standbys. We never tired of hearing of the beauties of the Baldwin apple and the Concord grape, particularly if the samples of both were at ha nd for illustration. We were much

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