Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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with these friends, and we hope that in the time to come they may continue to make it as pleasant for those who follow as it has been for us. The kindness and liberality of many of those who have our best interests at heart, as exhibited so often of late in the most substantial manner, are better appreciated by us than they perhaps realize. But it is to the individual members of the Faculty, more than to all others, that whatever of success we may have attained is due. Day by day, hour by hour, they have guided, controlled and directed our energies, at all times conscientious in the performance of their duties and at all times evincing a willingness to do all in their power to aid us in our work. A It is with these feelings and under these circum¬ stances that we publish this souvenir of our college life ; and as the years roll by and we live over again in memory the scenes of these by-gone college days, there will be an untold pleasure in the reminiscences which this book will call up. We assure the class that on the part of the editors all has been done in a friendly and impartial spirit, and we have intended to treat each man alike. Sometimes the allusions may seem too pointed, but we must remember that were they not characteristic and natural the circumstances would lose their charm. Our errors are manifold and our faults are glaring, but the limited time which we 4

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Z» $t efa(T of ' Si. Another Commencement Day has come and gone; another league in our life’s journey has been accom¬ plished, and to-day we stand at the point where our paths separate. Ours has been a pleasant journey while it has lasted, and we do not say “ Good bye ” to friends and classmates, we do not bid farewell to famil¬ iar scenes and accustomed duties, without feelings of genuine regret. Deep down in the heart of every man there is a feeling of sadness when he remembers that the college days of the class of ’84 are over. We have stood shoulder to shoulder through months of hard work ; we have conquered and overcome many difficulties. Our work has not been in vain and the reward of our labor is substantial and satisfactory. And as we to-day for the last time call our class-roll, we notice that many who started with us in the race have not finished, but this only makes the bond stronger between those of us who are left. To the greater part of our number Worcester has been a temporary home ; many of us have come from the far West or the far South ; but we one and all feel that in saying farewell to the people of Worcester we are taking leave of old friends. Our best wishes go 3

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could take from our regular work, and the other disad¬ vantages under which we labored, is our excuse. We hope that you will “censure us in your wisdom,” and if in time to come this little book will make an idle hour pass the quicker, we shall feel amply repaid for what time and labor we have expended upon it. Today we begin our life-work in earnest, and we hope that this little book will be a pleasant reminder of the days that are past. We have written our last examination ; we have attended our last recitation ; our college days are over. We have turned those pages except to memory, and opened others imprinted with the illuminated text of future ambition. Will we read these pages aright ? Time alone can tell. To-day we stand where the road branches; some of us go to the right, some to the left, but ere we part let us for the last time extend to one another the right hand of friendship and wish one another “God speed” on the journey of life. “The ways they are many and wide, And seldom are two ways the same. Side by side May we stand at the same little door when all’s done; The ways they are many, the end it is one. ' ’ — Editor. 5