Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

Page 9 text:

Aftermath of the Class of 1909 of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute 0 ' Worcester, Massachusetts June, 1909

Page 11 text:

Foreword I ii ' ive you within these covers of mine ‘tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical- comical-historical-pastoral;” but mostly I have engaged to spin a web of reminiscence about the good Class of 1909. That the future is in a large measure bound up in the past I appre¬ ciate. So I would bind that past to that future by these memorials, in order that the genesis and denouement may be linked together into a com¬ prehensible life epic—into eighty-odd life epics. I have essayed to record in these pages the history achieved by the Class of 1909, and so take the whip hand over fickle memory, who might else mutilate the impressions now so vivid and so dear. I cannot subpoena you to give heed to my vaporizations,—and it may be that I am doomed for long to be a musty, unopened tome. Yet I shall count it well if—as the sands run—classmates shall open my covers and find and know again classmates and professors; may see again in fancy the sleepv lecture hall, the disorderly recitation room; amid the haps and mishaps yet to come may smile at the haps and mishaps that have been. The Aftermath. 8