Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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IO Inasmuch as there are at present in the Institute no four year course men, the several classes are referred to as Senior, Middle, Junior, and Apprentice, respectively. The name, “Aftermath,” which was first used by Ninety-one as the name of their now famous class-book, has for two reasons been adopted by us as the title of this, its immediate successor. First, because a better would be hard to find, and, second, because it is most desirable that some common name should be associated with the yearly publication of the students. We hope that future classes will help us in carrying out this idea and that next year’s class-book and those following it, will all be “ Aftermaths.”

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9 HE Editors of the “Aftermath of’93” in behalf of the members of their Class, submit within the covers of this volume the results of their work. The book is written not for the purpose of find¬ ing fault, of paying off old scores, nor of belittling those who have done their best to make us more manly and intelligent and to fit us for creditable positions in the busy world into which we are so soon to step. For nearly four years we have met the little failings of our in¬ structors, the shortcomings in the courses, the eccentricities of our fellow- students, as serious facts incidental to school life, and as such, in the press of daily duties, have passed them by. But now, after having become familiar with the ins and outs of Tech life, we pause a moment for a retrospect; we look at the past with a greater appreciation of the element of humor which it contains and in the following pages we sketch our course more from its ridicu¬ lous point of view, than has before be en possible. The Editors have no apologies to make. The Institute, the Faculty, our own classmates have indiscriminately been made the targets of our shafts, and if now and then an arrow makes its victim cringe, it is evidence enough that there is a vulnerable place in his armor, which, the sooner repaired, the better. Nothing is written in a spirit of malice, nor have we repeatedly dwelt upon some one point connected with Institute life with a view other than to bring about the correction of existing weaknesses, or possibly, abuses. Noth¬ ing has been allowed to appear upon the following pages until carefully considered and voted upon by the entire Board of Editors, and we all equally must share the responsibility.

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HON. P. EMORY ALDRICH, LL. D., President. REV. DANIEL MERRIMAN, D. D., Secretary. WALDO LINCOLN, A. B., Treasurer. HON. GEORGE F. HOAR, LL. D. CHARLES H. MORGAN, ESQ. STEPHEN SALISBURY, A. M. G. HENRY WHITCOMB, A. M. REV. AUSTIN S. GARVER, A. M. REV. CHARLES H. PENDLETON. CHARLES G. WASHBURN, S. B., A. B. ON THE PART OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. HON. WILLIAM W. RICE, LL. D. EX-OFFICIO. HIS HONOR, MAYOR HENRY A. MARSH.