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I ) SENIOR CLASS Officers Martin .1. McDonald . . Elmer M. Hcrtxlcr Howard M. Thornbury .1 oli ii I . Donavan. . .. . President Vice- President . .. . Secretary . . . . Treasurer
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(Hlaafl ifiatnry f T F IT wouldn’t be for the fellows here, you’d never see me around this place again, take it from me.” I heard this rather startling declara- tion not so long ago from one of our engineers who had the blues, or a Hunk,” or some other trifling incident. Though it was just a meaning- less outburst of feeling, it contained the germ of one of the biggest things of our college life. However rosy our comedians, scenario writers, and journalists picture a four-year vacation” at college, there are a great many things that are gulped down only because the fellows are with us. A good “crowd” carries us smoothly over the rough spots just as (they say) a good wife is the very best of antidotes for Despair in the journey through life. The bunch-spirit” is not the same as school-spirit, the latter is chief- ly dependent on things outside of the individual, while the former arises spontaneously out of the hearts of the fellows themselves. Two fellows en- tirely antagonistic to each other may be united in school spirit, but they are never united in the same crowd.” A strongly knit together band can build cities and move mountains; a few men bound together with the great- est ties of loyalty built Villanova, and the same spirit still haunts the build- ings it erected . After four years of life in the midst of a gang of regular fellows, and guided by Father Frank Driscoll (who is the best one of them all), the graduating class is about to go, each one a regular, honest-to-goodness he- man. It was the crowd that made things a pleasure, and it was the crowd that helped to blot out quickly the inevitable sorrows that must come in a four years crowded with incidents. The faces of the crowd will never leave our memories, even though we may never see them again. In 11)18, when the only correct shade for gentlemen was khaki, '22, the War-Babies” was born. Villanova impressed us more as a barracks than as an institution of learning. Classes and professors were only of sec- ondary importance, a prefect was a thing quite beyond our conception. Lieutenant A. 11. Scott, and his staff of lieutenants. Love, l.owrie. Brown, Fair, Nacc, and Blanchfield introduced to us the new word discipline, and the introduction was not a gentle one. The days were full ones, from the shivering roll-call in front of the Hag-pole at Reveille, to solemn Taps that Bugler Lyons sounded front the Bridge at night. In retrospect, it all seems wonderful, but at that time it was quite different. 25
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