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

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Senior Class 1902 Class Yell. Boom-a-racker! Boom-a-racker! Sis-boom-bah ! Naughty-two! Naughty-two! Rah! Rah! Rah!. Class Colors. Maroon and Black. Class Officers. IvEANDER ChaPIN Ci.AFLIN, Thorne Martin Carpenter, Henry Look Bodfish, Herbert Amasa Paul, Howard L,awton Knight, . Charles Milton Kinney, . John Martin Dellea, President. Vice President. Secretary and Treasurer. Class Captain. . Historian. Sergeant-al-ariHs. . Basket-ball Caplain

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Class History N MANY respects the career of a class in college, strikingly resembles the course of a human life. First of all, there is the same period of infancy. Everything is new and strange and the untried future stretches before, dim and dark and uncertain. Then comes the season of youth, and with it the days of pranks and scrapes and general recklessness. Then a brief time of early manhood, let us say, when the first taste of power comes and the first sense of any real responsibility is felt. And finally, the rapidly flitting moments of mature age, marked by a full participation in all activities, then by a gradual withdrawal from them, till nothing is left but to look back over the past and forward to the days when, with a short and sudden flash of prominence, there comes the end. Through all the vicissitudes of the several periods save the last, the class of 1902 has struggled, and just as the curtain rises on the final scenes, we sub- mit to the Index for the last time, our history. As we look back over the long period in which the class has been together, we can now see the picture clearly, freed as it is from the distortion hitherto produced by too short a perspective. Before the faint but uncolored rays which time casts over the scenes, events once thought to be of mountainous importance, are now completely forgot- ten; others little regarded at the time, now stand out in bold relief. In short, for the first time we get a correct vision of our past career. Of the early days we need say little. The story has already been told, and at a time when the sufferings and hardships of the Freshman ' s lot were much more vividly impressed upon our minds. Entering as we did, the first class to be protected by a solicitous Faculty from the hazer ' s clutches, we have yet much to remember. Not soon will we forget the blustering braggadocio, of Parmie and Crowell; the frequent encounters with Naughty-one, the happ} ' moments spent in the mathematical room, not to speak of the instructive hours of Agriculture, all cherished memories. With our Sophomore year, in- creased burdens came upon us; they were not neglected. Here again it is needless to spend time. Our adventures at Belchertown and within the por- tals of the Chemical Department are not unknown to men; nor will our un- checked athletic victories be soon forgotten. 27