Washington College - Pegasus Yearbook (Chestertown, MD)

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Class Poem. The goal is reached, the outstretched course is run, The victor's meed is ours, and we have done VVith all that dims the path of progress. Years Seem days, and days seem seconds now that fears Dissolved, have disappeared amid the accomplished record Henceforth time must have 11ew meanings and afford Perpetual triumph-ne'er dismay untoward. So here we standqand mark the milestones past, Recall the memories issuing iirst and last From out the associations of these years , Embrace the pleasant, shed a few, salt tears g Smile at the recollections of our innocent days,- Our adolescence, quaking, queer, and awkward ways, That held us in suspense and failure fast. What currents start with every back-look now Y Those dreaded shapes that, on beetling brow Of high success were seen professors vast, Have, in our new attainments, iinally passed Into the realm of men. And we ourselves, transformed By reaches into learning, sped unharmed Into their noble semblance-men at last! So Juniors, Sophs, and you ye Freshmen small, Look up, take heart, be not in dastard thrall Unto the Impossible V' Scorn that coward Word That we have put to Bight! And by us pattern If on the sweets of learning ye would fatten. Wliat we have done, perhaps ye, too, may dog Screw up your courage? dare be true Unto the example handed down to you Y 20

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look on the athletic records. the base-ball and foot-ball fields. the tennis court and every other kind of athletics. and you will behold great achievements accomplished by '95, which will be handed down to posterity. In the demerit book we can justly claim the highest records. Yes, we are an unfortunate set of beings, to be compelled to suffer the pains, and to swallow the medicine intended for others. VVe stand a bulvvark of defence to the Freshies and 25ophs in those hours when a hundred is staring them in the face or when 'ibay nags cannot be had on this side of the Atlantic to alleviate the pressure on the brain. I would tell you. my dear readers, how we combined with the Wise men Q25 wiped off the base-ball field the Freshies andCpJuniors5 in days to come. but l am not allowed to predict. so you can only surmise our victory. Witli an account of '!r5's ability I Will not have to deviate from my promise and tell its possibilities as Sufficient to the- day is the evil thereof. Oh I posterity I attend my H companions in arms and brothers in peril, with suc- cess in all their uridertakings 5 teach them the way of politics and the rulings of history. HISTORIAN. in ,

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