Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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IT HAS BEEN the custom at the W. P. L in past years, for the Senior Class to publish, in the event of their graduation, what they were pleased to call a Class Book, on the cover of which they were pleased to have printed the word ‘‘Aftermath.” In this custom we find our excuse for the few disconnected sentences which the kind reader will observe later on, if his patience and good nature do not fail him. In accordance, also, with the said custom, as well as with a direct request made by our worthy predecessor, ’Do, we have called our small venture “The Aftermath.” And since we have followed custom thus far, we may as well continue throughout our little apology. Next, therefore, we must make clear to the public what a hard time we have had in writing our little epitaph. In the “Aftermath of ’!)4,” the reader will find most of the woes of the Class Book editor so neatly and nicely stated, that we could not for a moment think of attempting to better it, but there are one or two tribulations we should like to add. Firstly, hard times depress the mind; secondly, we no longer have the old-time Excuse Book to write half a dozen excruciatingly funny pages about; and lastly, as it is not considered good form to s])eak ill of the dear dei)arted, we are prevented from giving to the jjublic many of the delicious jokes for which ’94 served as the butt. As concerns the Committee of the Faculty, chosen to inspect our book before it went to i)ress, to correct our little mistakes and to censure our little indiscretions, we can only say that they have behaved toward us as kindness and consideration personified, and we take this oi)portunity to acknowledge the same. But one word more, and that is a borrowed one : Vhatever this book may be, it is all that is claimed for it.

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Corporation. -, President. REV. DANIEL MERRIMAN, D. D., Secretary. CHARLES G. WASHBURN, S. B., A. B. HON. GEORGE F. HOAR, LL. D. CHARLES H. MORGAN, ESQ. WALDO LINCOLN, A. B. HON. STEPHEN SALISBURY, A. M. G. HENRY WHITCOMB, A. M. REV. AUSTIN S. GARVER, A. M. REV. CHARLES H. PENDLETON. ON THE PART OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, HON. WILLIAM W. RICE, LL. I). EX-OFFlClO, HIS HONOR, MAYOR HENRY A. MARSH. Treasurer. Office vacant by the death of Judge Aldrich.