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

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THE, 1905 INDEX, VOLUME 35 We of Mass ' chusetts find our dear old college in the midst of a beautiful region. Nature has indeed generously granted us all that one could wish in the way of hill and valley and meadow. Be it morning or noun or evening, there is always before our eyes a glorious panorama. Far to the north and the west and the south, green and fertile meadows stretch away to soft, distant hills, which with every passing hour change their color. Now they are bright and gay with sunshine ; now they are dull and sombre with rain ; now they are white and cold with snow. There, away to the west, rise the rounded tops of Holyoke and Nonatuck and Tom. Here to the north, guarding the wide fields of the Connecticut valley, silent and impressive stand Sugar Loaf and Toby. And all along the horizon, mile upon mile, the hills roll away, ever higher and higher, to where the sun goes down in a glory of crimson and gold. Who will ever forget these constant companions of our college days at • ' Mass ' chusetts, who will fail to appreciate what their hourly influence has been — what it is to be? Who will dare to say that they are less important to us than our books and our rules? Day by day we look upon them, come to know them as friends, feel their beauty, and realize their speechless yet eloquent appeal to us to grow better — for us to drink inspiration from them, and, when the time comes, to go out into the world and bravely do our duty. Dear hills and meadows! We will never forget you! As students and as coming alumni, we will ever praise you for the good you do us. You speak to us of breadth, of nobility, of freedom. You bid us be up and doing, bid us go on in our appointed paths like men. You tell us that life is grand and sublime, and bid us make others believe that it is. You tell us that the world is good, that it is growing better. And lastly, you speak to us and bid us go forth like simple and sturdy men, — loyal sons of our Alma Mater, good citizens of our glorious countr) . Herman Babson

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% t im ant) £peaiDotD2 urrountitng €)ur Belotieti mma £ ater n li li N THE ENDLESS DRAMA of Man ' s development, Nature has ever been a mighty actor. Man ' s natural environment, the mountains rising far into the skies, the frozen, glistening cliffs of berg and glacier, the green, luxuriant valleys, the restless ocean, the aj sun-parched desert, the broad expanse of field and prairie, the cold of eternal winter, the II heat of never-ending summer — all these have influenced and ever will influence his physical characteristics. Because of them and their peculiar, inevitable power, Man has consciously or unconsciously moulded himself into types and branches; and these in turn have expanded into races great and powerful, yet each distinct from the other. And not only the physical characteristics but also the mental characteristics have been thus moulded and modified. The Soul, the immortal Man, the invisible Spirit, greater even than Nature and outliving the very rocks themselves, this, too, is wonderfully influenced by natural environment. Man has always looked to Nature, has always depended on her for the help she freely offers in the upbuilding and the maintaining of great and noble qualities. Patriotism bows to Nature and gives ceaseless thanks for a nation ' s hills and valleys; knowledge knocks at Nature ' s door and countless secrets stand revealed ; religion sings of Nature ' s work in promoting purity, faith, godliness. God himself stands before mankind. For Nature is God ' s handiwork. Let it not be said of us, fortunate members of the most virile type of civilized man, and what is more, fortunate and privileged seekers after God ' s Truth, that we thoughtlessly or thanklessly receive what Nature offers us. Let it be known, on the contrary, that we look upon Nature — upon the hills and the valleys, the clouds, the sunrises, and the sunsets — with full and heartfelt appreciation of their wonderful value, their wonderful influence.

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December 23, 1903, Wednesday, to January 6, 1904, Wednesday Winter recess. January 6, 1904, Wednesday .... Fall semester resumed, at 8 a. m. February 3, Wednesday .... Fall semester ends. February 4, Thursday .... Spring semester begins, at 8 a. m. March 30, Wednesday, to April 5, Tuesday . . Spring recess. April 5, Tuesday ..... Spring semester resumed, at 8 a. m. June 15, Wednesday .... Commencement exercises. Sept. 15, Thursday VACATION OF THIRTEEN WEEKS Fall semester begins, at 8 a. m.