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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE Senior Class History E WHO READS the class histories in the Index cannot help being impressed by certain features. The freshman history is filled with nervous expectancy and anticipation for the class really exists in the future. The Sophomore historian writes with all the enthusiasm which the emancipation from Freshman bonds brings to him and the class which he represents. The history of the Junior Class outlines those incidents occurring when it was a part of the other half, and is characterized by the dignity of which plug hats and corduroys and canes are only the symbols. With the Seniors it is yet different. One who writes the history of the highest class in college feels only too vividly that it is the last account of his class which will appear in the annual — next year he, and his classmates, will be numbered among the alumni. The ambitions and desires of the freshman, the wise fool- ishness of the sophomore and the ostentatious dignity of the junior roll in upon him and, together with that large interrogation point looming above the horizon whence lieth the next commencement, are apt to tinge his writings with a sadness and misanthropy quite out of place in an historical sketch. Of no class is this more true than of 1907. Three years ago we first became a part of that unit which is the student-body of Massachusetts. Then we were filled with bright plans for our coming college career. The future stood before us unrevealed, but flushed with the roseate dawn of a new day. Now, as our sun has passed its meridian and is sinking in all its crimson glory to illuminate a new world beyond this sphere, we pause a moment to consider the work which we have accomplished and to express our regret at the feats which we have not achieved and which must be left to our successors. It is not my intention to describe our career during the first two years in college for my predecessors have ably performed that task. Our records during the constructive age as freshmen and the destructive age as sophomores are given indelibly on the pages of the Index. Rather is it my task to recount our experiences as juniors during the past year. We found an interesting and willing class waiting last fall to be inducted into college life and, thanks to Shorty and other members of our victorious rope-pull teams, ' 09 easily defeated their opponents in the tug-of-war. Besides guiding the freshmen in the right paths we got out our Index and is not that a sufficiently difficult task for one year? One or two disappointments awaited us as juniors. The greatest of these was the failure of Tabby ' s renowned Chemical Trip to materialize. Anxiously we awaited the visit to the pulp mills and breweries, down the river, but in vain. To make up for this there was the
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THE 1908 INDEX VOLUME XXXVlII banquet tended, to us, by 09, in New York City, an entirely unsurpassed affair for the junior year. Truly volumes might be written of it, how many of our staid classmates from Abe down to Chimmie and Chauncey flew off on a tangent, in the big city — but let us charitably draw the curtain upon that never-to-be-forgotten episode of our college life. And so our junior year rapidly passed. We waded through Seager in Political Economy and most of us skidded through the Kid ' s course in Mineralogy on averages of 65 and 70. This fall when we strolled down to the bald-headed row m chapel we found three more of our bunch numbered among the unreturning brave. And thus it is that from sixty-six, we have diminished to twenty-five in number. Our freshman his- torian prophetically said: — Watch us grow not in numbers but in strength. The intricacies of the course of study in the first two years have entangled many of our number and the mastery of the physics course was accomplished by some of us, only as the whistle blew for the last time. But this veritable survival of the unlike has moulded us into a class which is unexcelled for its spirit and loyalty to self and college. For the last time, the snows of winter are falling on the hills to the westward, and ere the orb of day has completed another cycle of the seasons we shall have passed beyond. If, however, the good that men do lives after them, the fame and the honor of ' 07 will continue through the years as a tradition, even though the class is no longer enrolled on the books of the college. And, in closing, it only remains to express what has been the sentiment of 1907 from the beginning, is now and forever shall be: All up for dear, Old Bay State, ring out the tune. Loyal forever to the white and maroon.
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