The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25

in Peabody and from one of their number we have the following:
 The hard working engineers had no such recreation and had to seek the 1 less intellectual amusements of Polls and Bunnell's where such touching pieces as, Did She Love Him or Did She Nit" brought tears to our eyes while such masterpieces as "A Mys- tery of the Sad Sea Waves or Who Built the Ocean So Close to the Shore raised us to heights of ecstacy.
 Tncubating circles the stiffness of Byers was occasionally broken by the sonorous voice of Jack Baker who de- veloped the first inter department team that Shelf. ever produced. Brig. Naething, captain of the swimming team splashed little in the pool and explained a great deal how he did it. Pink Ward and Jack Derby kept up the big racket on Wall street and oc- casionally Squib Coe would startle McWheeny from his dreams of Erin's Isle by one of his vehement sneezes but otherwise, save for the Thaw trial there was nothing to break the monotony of existence
 1 Soon the first signs of spring ap- peared. Louis Porteous had several new vests and A. B. c. D. Brown showed us some startling color schemes in neckwear and hosiery Al dis, you must know, has been acting as Nellie. the beautiful cloak model for all young college playwrights ever since the day that he first went to Port Chester.
 But with the advent of spring came a terrible catastrophe. An epidemic of that dread disease known as "femini- tis'' swept the class. The first symp- toms are ruthless extravagance in postage stamps followed by an insati- able longing for Saturday night ac- companied by an inexplicable fondness for time tables. This dread malady, against which even the strongest is not proof, laid many of us low and although some of us recovered, Dame Rumor hath 1t that big Hook Bob Bardwell and some others will never be the same again.
 But as the days grew longer another feeling stole over the class. At first hardly perceptible. Just barely notice- able in little longer grasp of the hand and an indescribable feeling of friendship for every man that follow ed his name by o7S. As we gathered round the fire at the Senior receptions while Buck and Cack regaled us with yarns we began to realize that it was nearly over. Our college life, whether for better or worse was clos ing. Whether or not we had used our Opportunities as we should, whether or not we have done all we could it was too late now to change and in the eyes of most of our classmates we should stand forever as we are now,
 The spring term was quickly spent. Gil Kinney as captain of the ball team put up a good fight and we, as classmates, are proud of him and now when he leaves us and sees the world sailing at him across the plate may be swat it for at least a three-bag- ger. Chapin also played good ball while Johnnie Madden did some re- markable aerial work in left field. John nie is one of those ball players who play ball all this time
 Tn track Jim Marshall well held up 1 his end and under his able leadership Yale took prominen tplace in the in- tercollegiates. AS to crew it yet too early to foretell the outcome but with Bockwell's bravery and Barkalow's voice we ought to pull out ahead.
 All in all our class has well done it's part in university life Tn athletics this year alone we have had five cap tains, and of men we have had the unusually large number of fourteen l In education and intellectual lines Bill Benet, Jack Baker and Bartholomew have upheld as well. Bartholomew. If there is any university activity with which Marsh is not connected we'd 1 like to know it, Marsh, you have been great driving force in the right di- rection, and when you go out the life of the university will feel gap. I might go oh in detail as to how 1 Eddie Butler made his Y and what Ross Park did to the hammer, or describe the swiftness of Doc Coholan but the day is warm and all that is chronicled in that finest of all publications, the Shelf 1907 Class Book. And now friends when the last piercing whistle on the Thames had ceased to echo and the last long cheer has died away in the distance, our history as an under graduate body is ended. We have ] fought one good fight. We have fin- ] jished our course and this phase of our life is at an end. We leave the fa- maliar scenes of our struggles and tri- umphs. we part with the old friends and go out, wherever the vicissitudes of fortune may lead us, and in going we leave behind us our shortest glad dest years of life. But we carry with us that which shall never be talk en away. Friendships, friendships against which time and change shall naught vail We shall never all meet again. From now on we shall scatter, some of us to Africa, some of us to South America, some to the remotest corners of the earth But those ties of friendship shall keep us always to- gether and in whatever country we shall be, in whatever cline we find