Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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Senior Editorial. To the class of Eighty-five the future is becoming a very serious question, and yet inclination and pleasure lead us into memories of the past. Way on before us we see the glorious air-castles that we have built. There, too, is the realization of our long-cherished hopes. We know that our ideals can never be- come realities until we press forward into the future, and yet - we linger. As some soldier, eager to fight his country's battle, longing to reach the soldier's glorious renown, seeing his duty, and ready to do it, as he still lingers by the cottage-door, and thinks, in those last moments, of all the past joys and pleas- ures of his simple home, - so we, eager to leave our college home, yet linger, and, with one hand fast hold of the future, we with the other still grasp the past joys and pleasures of ourcollege life. Therefore it is, that we rejoice with a grevious mourning that we write for the last time. As our college course, for three years, comes before us, we regard it with entire satisfaction. We do not claim to be infallible, but we do claim manli- ness and common sense. We did not and do not believe in that specimen of scholar called a Grub. We believed in athletics, we believed in a recognition of physical exercise as a legitimate part of a man's development 3 we believed in having a mind of our own, and we believed in asserting our own opinions, and supporting them: and so we have sometimes fought. In many points we have differed from the respected authorities of the college, and, as we look back, we are not prepared to say that we are sorry for it. Eighty-five's position has been a very peculiar one in many respects: we are the largest and strongest class that ever entered this institution, we came in under a new rJgime,- we were the class with which that new regime had to experiment, we were obliged to be the pioneers in many new regions of policy, and we proved very unwilling and self-willed subjects, especially when we felt that things were tending back to the mother-apron-string idea. We have been, on the whole, victorious, although our wounds are many. We have carried out our belief in regard to athletics, and, in our many victories, we have '3