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

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26 THE 19nc INDEX, VOLUME XXX ' Graduate Students Back, Ernest Adna, Florence, 96 Pleasant Street. B.Sc, Massachusetts Agri- cultural College, 1904. Franklin, Henry Jaaies, Bernardston, 96 Pleasant Street. B.Sc, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1903. KiBBEY, Richards Carroll, Marshalltown, la., 96 Pleasant Street. B.A., Harvard University, 1904. OsMUN, Albert Vincent, Boonton, N. J., 116 Pleasant Street. B.Sc, Massa- chusetts Agricultural College, 1903. Staples, Parkman Fisher, Westboro, 96 Pleasant Street. B.Sc, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1904. Tottingham, William Edward, Bernardston, 116 Pleasant Street. B.Sc, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1903. Tower, Winthrop Vose, Roxbury, 3 Mount Pleasant. B.Sc, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1903. Whipple, Orville Blaine, Olivet, Kan., Plant House. B.Sc, Kansas Agri- cultural College, 1904. Special Students Ferguson, Mary Effie Van Everen, Central A ' alley, N. Y. Locke, Ada Elsie, Sornerville, Dining Hall. Magoun, Alice Neal, Bath, Me., 4 North Prospect Street. Redding, Charlotte Wilmarth, Amherst, 96 Pleasant Street. Thayer, Lucy Clarke, Hadley, 50 Gaylord Street.

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28 THE lOOG INDEX, VOLUME XXXVI Class History, 1905 We have been told that history is a record of past events, an account of what a people has accomplished; and VVurtz defines it as the evil that men do. HE EVENTS which make the history of a Senior class inter esting are, with us, the more conspicuous because of their absence. An old saying states that it is a long lane which has no turning, and the class of ' 05 having followed the well-trodden path in college life is at last nearing the turn of the road. Before departing in our new direction, may we submit for the last time, incomplete though it be, this brief history as a class. I could easily narrate to you a long series of events in our career, but such a repetition of our history, which has been often told in former Indexes, would be uninteresting. Rather would I present to you one or two glimpses of the deep imprints in the tortuous path over which we have slowly and surely felt our way. It is not for me, as Senior historian, to enumerate the various events of our college life, from that of verdant and trembling Freshman to that of the dignified Senior. Neither do I purpose to render an account of the evils (if they may be so called; .of the past three years ; how we devised a yell which made our tender- hearted Profs overflow with wrath ; how we burdened the goal posts with trembling Freshmen, who made the animals of the farm admire their imitators, or how nobly Babb and West succumbed after a terrible struggle for supremacy. Early did we acquire the habit of taking morning plunges. After seeing their effects properly demonstrated by Ouigley and Gregg, so enthusiastic was ' 05, that before morning a record-breaking crowd of us had taken to the water. And suffice it to say our example was somewhat reluctantly followed the next year by many of our friends from ' 06. Many of our most promising members have abandoned the religious idea and are now regular patrons of the Hamp and the South Hadley lines. I mention this simply to illustrate the general progress. Last year our spare moments were passed in giving to the Freshmen those finishing touches which the Sophomores had neglected. And without taking my word for it, you may look at the class to-day or read their history as proof of my statement. We are to-day well out of that embryonic stage of college life when, as repre- resentatives of the younger generation of Massachusetts, we lived a life within our-