Ursinus College - Ruby Yearbook (Collegeville, PA)

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Senior Class History V .4 .4 FOR tht last time the chronicler of the Class of 1902 resumes his task. It is with a feeling of mingled pleasure and pain that he performs this duty. The duty is pleasant because we now triumphantly stand at the goal which we have striven after so eagerly for a number of years ; it is tinged with sadness, because, having reached that goal, we are about to sever some of our dearest associations. The Fall of ’98 saw us enter college filled with hope and lofty aspirations. We were a small but sturdy class. It is not our purpose to say much of our participation in athletics and our successes in inter-class scrimmages. What has seemed of vast importance in the past is lost to us in the higher and nobler pursuits of the present. What is of significance now. may be, and. we hope, will lie. of but passing interest to us in the future, because it is thus wc measure progress. We have advanced, but our course lias not always been characterized by closest harmony and unanimity. We have felt the influence of factions, yet they have had their good effect. We parted ways only to meet again, and to be better friends than before. It showed us that the ties which bind 11s together are stronger and more enduring than those of partisanship. Other ties have been formed which shall live. We have been led on and directed in Wisdom’s ways by kind and willing instructors. Our weak attempts have been strengthened ; our misdirected efforts corrected, and our whole mental and moral being elevated to a higher plane of thought and action. We have been made men and women—not “half-men. in whom that Divine handwriting has never blazed forth ; but quivers dubiously amid meaner lights or smoulders, in dull pain, in darkness, under earthly vapors. We have been prepared for the stern realities of life. We have drunk of the cup of knowledge and go forth prepared to meet the obstacles which may beset our path. How deeply we have drunk, and how ably we are prepared, the Future, that stern interpreter of our lives, alone can tell. 26