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

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2h THE 1905 INDEX, VOLUME 35 are done with boasting, and let our deeds attest our worth, for though we leave yet they remain as examples to you who follow. We have learned to love the place we call our college home, and leave it with regret ; but the happy years spent here will be incentives to draw us back no matter how far we may wander ; East or West or North or South, Massachusetts will be the lodestar of our lives. And now as we close the history of the class of Nineteen- Four we bequeath to our successors the motto that has held us as one and guided us through a happy college life : — III essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all thittgs, charity. R.

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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 25 1904 Class; i toxv T HERE is so little of interest or note for the Senior historian to record that he is somewhat handicapped for material. We have passed from the questionings and doubts of the Freshman to the boastfulness of the Sophomore ; floated peacefully down the current of the happy Junior year, and now are resting on the laurels of well-earned victories. This is the period of contemplation, when we review the occurrences of the past three years, when suggestion brings recollection of days spent on pleasure trips, of pranks played, of mischief concocted. This is the happiest year as well as the saddest. As a class we were together for the last time, probably, as Juniors; now we are more or less scattered, perhaps as preparatory to the final scattering. But withal the Senior year is the goal toward which our eyes are turned when Freshmen. Our ranks have been thinned to one-third our original number and ' tis rather the Survival of the unlike, than the Fittest, though we have had some good material added to the web, of which we are proud. One thing we regret is the loss of our mascot, for Fat thinks that unless he runs the Fair it will be a failure. One of the times to be remembered as long as memory remains, was our trip to Albany and Junior banquet. Though the weather tended to a dampening of our spirits, yet Neither wet, nor dry, nor cold, nor warm Could change the tenor of Nineteen-four. The annual Chemical trip was also one of the enlivening cccasions of the year and every one got home safe, although one or two strolled in the next day. The usual bugbear of the Junior has been fairly vanquished and we rest from the labors of Carhart in peace ; why, to tell the truth, we entered the vacation season without a condition in the class, a record to be fairly proud of. But we

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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 27 yiftembers of Mentor Clasps? Ahearn, Michael Francis Plant House C. S. C. R. A. . M. Football Team. Baseball Team. Basketball Team. South Framingham Northampton Millis Back, Ernest Adna Insectary C. S. C. Band. 1904 Index. Blake, Maurice 10 S. C. Q. T. V. Couden, Fayette Dickinson 17 S. C. Washington, D. C. 2K. R. A. M. Colleg-e Signal. Editor-in-chief 1904 Index. President of Senate. President of Reading Room Association. First Prize Flint Six. Fraternity Conference. Elwood, Clifford Franklin D. G. K. Fulton, Erwin Stanley C. S. C. Caotain Basketball Team. Gay, Ralph Preston SK. Gregg, John William 24 N. C. C. S. C. Baseball Team. Senate. 1904 Index. Band. Flint Six. Redding ' s Hatch Station 21 N. C. Griffin, Clarence Herbert 14 S. C. ■tSK. R. A. M. 1904 Index. Manager Football Team. Flint Sis. Gilbert, Arthur Witter 11 S. C. C. S. C. Secretary and Treasurer Reading Room Association. Boarding Club Director. Band. Green ' s Farms, Conn. Lynn Stoughton Mattapan Winthrop Brookfield