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

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ADELPHIA Russell Lanphear (Pres.) R.chards- Chapma SENIOR FOOTBALL TEAM

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History ttt tlj? Dtakut You ask us for a history, but our thoughts are not of the past, they leap forward unbidden into the near unfath- omable future. At our elbows are Collegians containing the names of fourteen men of our number who have been selected for the officers ' training camp. Statistics also show twenty-one of our original class to be commissioned officers, and forty-five more to be in the service in other capacities. Eleven of these have already gone over. We see the past only as it reflects upon the uncertain present, and the veiled future. The memories of losing our freshman rope pulls and football game, and sophomore basketball, rifle, and banquet scrap, were always over- shadowed by those of winning freshman baseball, basket- ball and banquet, sophomore rope pulls, picture scrap, and football; but even coupled with thoughts of the Junior Prom and tree-planting, and our victory over all comers includ- ing the faculty in interclass football this fall, the whole is dim and unimportant. We see our Freshman days happy and scarcely ruffled by the gigantic conflict. Our Sophomore year heard only an occasional grumble over the increasing cost of living. But the Junior year began to bear in upon us a more personal interest in the struggle. It changed the whole face of that third term. Eagerly we looked for something to do in behalf of the great cause, and tumbled pell-mell into service, — mostly agricultural. There will be few who can forget those days of indecision, the upset condition which followed the forcing home of the news that this war was to be ours. For the most part, the sacrifice of the term was more than repaid in experience. Yet, in the following fall only 57 of our men returned to us. A feeling of restlessness pervaded the class, and still does. Why? One of the greatest questions that ever faces men confronts us now. What is my duty — await the draft, or enlist? These are questions each man is answering for himself, as his conscience and judgment dictate. As a result, we are losing men from oui classes, one at a time, slowly but surely. When we see their places vacant, we know one more decision has been made. Now it is that we merge ourselves into the common cause, and lose our own indi- vidual identities that future histories may tell of how America fought for Democracy and won. SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS Howard L. Russell .... President Robert L. Boyd Marshall O. Lanphear William Foley Vice-President Secretary- Treasurer Marshal