Ursinus College - Ruby Yearbook (Collegeville, PA)

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Senior Class $istorp 'T'HF cimI is not yet. but soon. Vet a little while, and our career as student' at Ursinus will have come to a • close. few more months, ami our four years of varied college life will be at an end. The real, earnest years of life will be upon us. and we will face that momentous question, lias it been worth while? Probably there is no experience in life so interesting as the four years of a college course. In the fall of 1904 there assembled at Ursinus twenty four candidates for matriculation as Freshmen. Fight of the candidates were girls. All succeeded in being registered, and awaited with feverish anxiety the opening of college. The fust day of the term was inaugurated with a slight skirmish with the husky 1907'$. Chapel was no sooner dismissed than a quick, sharp yell announced the presence of our enterprising class. The Sophs were upon us iu a minute, and hostilities began. Before there was any decisive issue, the Dean appeared on the scene and stopped the fracas. Posters soon appeared, supposedly for our benefit, but they mysteriously disappeared before wc had a good opportunity to study them. Then came the glorious moonlight night and the morning following, when our numerals appeared to the mortified gaze of the Sophs. The crowning feature of the year, however, was the class banquet What memories that night calls to mind!—the blinding snow-storm, when we slipped away; the cozy, warm banquet ha!! of The Hamilton: the toasts and souvenirs, and the glorious moonlight when we returned. Many were too laughs wc had over the discomfiture of the Sophs. They were worthy foes, however, and were among the first to congratulate us upon our success. The remainder of the year passed quietly, with one exception. The interclass baseball game came to an abrupt end in the eighth inning. The score stood S to 2 in oil 1 favor, when a decision of the umpire was questioned. The Sophs refused to continue, and the game was awarded to us. Upon our return for our Sophomore year, we were somewhat dismayed when we found that six out of our number had dropped out of college. This fact, however, seemed to unite the remaining few with closer bonds of fellowship, and we stood a firm unit. Wc imparted sound advice to the new Freshman class, and gave them the benefit of our experience. We also upheld our reputation in athletics by administering a defeat to '09 in the class baseball game. As Juniors we found our ranks still further depleted, and the friendship of classmates became more valued. We laid aside the carelessness and indifference of our former years, aril began to mold our minds to definite ends. • 2