Westminster College - Argo Yearbook (New Wilmington, PA)

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streams of eloquence flowing from our inspired tongues. We may proudly say that for the first time in years we all gave our orations in our Junior year. The crowning glory of our Junior year, the pride of our whole college career, was our Argo. Many of our gifted classmen found themselves famous when the masterpieces contained on its pages were revealed to the world. Now thai the illustrious Class of ' 07 has followed our example by publishing this Argo, we take pleasure in picturing these two immortal works of literature going together down through the centuries, models for all annuals yet to he. Xow. in our Senior year, great difficulties are experienced in determining in which branch of knowledge we excel. Even the faculty cannot come to a satis- factory decision in the matter. Professor Freeman claims that chemistry is un- doubtedly our forte; Professor Shott dot ' s not hesitate to say that it is in physics we rank first: whereas Professor Ilewetson is equally certain thai as students of English we shine most brightly. That Dr. Campbell, too. has a view of his own iii regard to this question was shown by a remark made the other day: Why, bless you. he said, they take to history like ducks to water, these Seniors. Dr. Ferguson did not have a chance to teach us until tins year, hut he is already con- vinced of our superiority in the mental sciences. Which member of our highly respected faculty is right, we do not presume to judge. We modestly leave that decision for more competent judges than we: for, as you may have noticed, one of the most prominent characteristics of our class is a modest and retiring nature. We are not given to boasting. We Leave our glorious deeds to he heralded by others than ourselves. ' 06.

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Senior History ES, little Freshmen, we were once at your stage too. hard as it must be for you to realize it. Long ago, in the fall of 1902, we came to favor this scat of learning with our presence. It was not necessary for the other classes to hear us reciting in our class-room very many times before they were perceptibly awe-struck by our unusual ability. From the first the faculty ami our fellow-students instinctively felt that in following the rough path of knowledge we would leave no stone unturned and that no mountain would prove too great for us to overcome. And their intuitions have not proved false. In athletic- oui ' record has been exceptionally brilliant. In our Freshman year we were victors in nearly all our contests. The Sophomores ' 05, we must admit, succeeded in lowering our green and white, which floated so majestically over the athletic field. This served to spur us on to more determined endeavor. In the football and basketball games we played with that worthy class, victory was ours. Everyone remembers the discouragement of the ' o.Vs when, after spending the greater part of the flight in pasting around the town the posters upon which they had used so much of their time and genius, sunrise showed scarcely a trace id ' their labor. Returning for our Sophomore year, we missed the faces of several of our classmates, hut in their places were new students ready to join our ranks. So. with our number about the same, we kept on in our march down the path of glory. Who that attended our banquet to the Seniors will ever forget its unprecedented splendor? Among social events of our college world it stood unrivaled, so people said, until the Class of ' 07 banqueted the Seniors of ' 05. The marvelous scope of our power was more fully comprehended after we had given our Junior orations. Every Friday night for weeks the Chapel would he thronged by an eager and enthusiastic audience who would thirstily drink in the 17 I MM

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Senior l oll J. A. Barr, Edith B. Galbreath, Evelyn M. Bigger, H. L. Gordon, H. A. Cannon, Grace Graham. Pearl B. Carter, E. E. Hazlett, S. E. Calhoun, Alonzoa Mae ffoagland W. F. Christie, W. V Irons, C. F. Clutter. R. S. Johnson, G. L. Cochran, Hugh Lambie, L. J. Davison, Auley McAuley, James Dougherty, J. H. McBane, L. R. Deevers, Mary M. McCalmont, Jane Douthett, A. M. McClurg, W. .1. Everhart, R. S. McCown, Ethel Finney, Helen A. Melville. J. C. Negley, Lucile G. NTevin, C. L. Peairs, G. M. Pierce. D. I. Pose, William Eotzler, E. P. Sampson, Amy A. Seidel, Julia Ruth Snodgra Newton A. Tannehi Laura Thompson, Scott Xevin Watt. 24