Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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Giass of '88. COLOR.-Light Blue and Silver. YELL. - Ho-Rah-Ho-Ruh-'Hou-PoIIa- De-PolIou- Eighty-eight. PI'6.Yl'IfL'7lf . Wa'-H'esz'def1! Secrclazj' and Chonzgus . Hzlrlozifzzz . 7y'L'!Z.S'Il1'EI' FFICERS. J. THOMAS. C. KNICKERBOCKER M. ALLEN. L. HUBHELI.. N. Huvcx.

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j 1 l?1'6SflI'ttQll isclitoriaf. THE time has come when we, too, may claim a share in the pages of the GUL. We, who a few short months ago were but a rumor, a future probabil- ity, to be talked over and conjectured about, have at last become a real, tan- gible class, - a fourth of our Alma Mater. We are fresh, you say? Of course we are. Why shouldn't we be? College life is new to us as we are new to the college. We have only just begun to know ourselves. Are we not Fresh- men? Yes, we are fresh, and we are glad of it,-fresh sinews and muscles to strengthen and support our Alma Mater, fresh fuel for her lamp of wisdom, minds still free from burdens of care or prejudice, hearts yet open to the warm and generous impulses of youth, spirits unstilled by emzui, light and buoyant to bear us over the difficulties continually opening before us, hands eager to help a feebler brother stumbling in our hard but upward path. May our fresh- ness never leave us to become dry and hardened in the heat of internal dis- putes and selhsh ambition, and, when the time shall come when we must leave the place that is now our college home, may we carry with us the same readiness to enter into our choice in life with a' will, the same courage to stand up for what we believe to be right, the same j9'e.vh1zfss, refined and polished by contact with our companions, that we brought with us on our arrival. Our life within these classic shades has been so brief that even yet our every-day sights and occupations seem new and strange to us. We still call our respected post-master Mr. Tafts, and we are yet wrestling with the great question, What is a :ey more-see more-say more, or something? Yet, in this short time,'we may already feel that we have not lived in vain, in spite of the fact that we have no Smith, Jones, or Brown among us. Without boasting, we may feel that since our arrival we have established a fair reputation as a class and have shown our independent spirit by adopting Oxford caps, and fa few of usb by carrying canes. Our friends, the Sophomores, as well as the Faculty, have learned that we are not slow in digesting what they have striven to teach us, and we, in turn, hope to teach Eighty-nine a thing or two. But we shall 7 . 31