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

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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.

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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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o TRISTCCS ® His Excellency, The Governor, JOHN L. BATES Henry H. Goodell . ■ . Frank A. Hill ..... J. Lewis Ellsworth .... President of the Corporation President of the College Secretary of the Board of Education Secretary of the Board of Agriculture Sl emfirrs bp appointmrnt Term expires Henry vS. Hyde of Springfield . 1904 Merritt I. Wheeler of Great Barrington 1904 William R. Sessions of Springfield . 1905 Charles L. Flint of Brookline . 1905 William H. Bowker of Boston . 1906 George H. Ellis of Boston . 1906 J. Howe Demond of Northampton . 1907 Term expires Elmer D. Howe of Marlboro . 1907 Nathaniel I. Bowditch of Framingham 1908 William Wheeler of Concord . 1908 Elijah W. Wood of West Newton 1909 Charles A. Gleason of New Braintree 1909 James Draper of Worcester . 1910 Samuel C. Damo n of Lancaster . 1910