'87.-E. W. Barrett, practising physician, Philadelphia, Penn. 87. Frederick A. Davis, home address, Hamilton, Mass. '87. Cyrus W. Fisherdick is now practising law in Denver, Colo. '87.-Edward R. Flint, class of '02 Harvard Medibal School, is now practising medicine at Clifton. Mass. '87.-W. N. Tolman, 25th Ward, Gas Works, Germantown, Pennsylvania. '89.-Burt L. Hartwell expects to take the degree of Ph. D. at Univ. of Penn. this year. '92. A daughter, Ruth Fransis, was born to Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Thompson, on May 14. Mr. Thompson is superintendent of a large estate in Thomson, Conn. '95.-C. B. Lane has been appointed head of the department of Dairy Husbandry, New Jersery Agricultural Experiment Station. '95.-Prof. E. A. White is now professor of horticulture at Storrs College, Conn. For some time he was engaged in that capacity at Texas Agricultural college. '97:-Charles Adams Peters, B. S., Ph. D., Yale, 1901, Professor of chemistry at the University of Iowa since September 1901. '98.-George H. Wright, 758 Classon Ave., Brook- Club and College Pins and Rings. lyn, N. Y. '00.-G. F. Palmer has successfully passed his examination for the degree of Ph. D. at Brown University, Providence, R. I. '00. Charles Milton Kinney is successfully engaged as an instructor in Music in Holyoke, Mass. 208 High street. '00. Two recent articles by A. W. Morrill are entitled "Notes on Some Massachus Abyrodes with descriptions of New Species" and "Notes on the Early Stages of Corylophodes Marginicollis Lec." The first, illustrated by two text figures, appeared in the April number of Psyche and the second, illustrated with one plate, appeared in the May number of the Entomclogical News. '00.-G. A. Drew, superintendent of the horticul It will be erected on the grounds occupied by the fa- NO. 1 COOK'S BLOCK, mous Columbian Exposition midway and will cost $1,000,000. A good opportunity for two young men to learn how to RAISE AND SELL VEGETABLES so that each acre tilled may be made to return from $500 to $1500. Write or call on H. M. HOWARD, 284 Fuller St., WEST NEWTON, MASS. AMHERST, MASS Pure Drugs and Medicines, FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES, IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC CIGARS, CIGARETTES, ETC. MEERSCHAUM AND BRIAR PIPES, FISHING TACKLE AND SPORTING GOODS. Metallic Cartridges for Pistols, Sporting and Springfield rifles. Sunday and night calls responded to at residence, fret deer west of Chase's Block. THE COLLEGE SIGNAL VOL. XIII. AMHERST, MASS., JUNE 16, 1903. NO. 15 Published Fortnightly by Students of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Students and Alumni are requested to contribute. Communications should be addressed. College SignAL, AMHERST, MASS. THE SIGNAL will be sent to all subscribers until its discontinuance is ordered and arrears are paid. Subscribers who do not receive their paper regularly are requested to notify the Business Manager. BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS by H. N. COUDEN, D. D., Washington, D. C. FRESHMEN: A. D. FARRAR, Amherst, A. F. Hayward, South Amherst, The General's Client Speech of Frederick Douglas, at Gettysburg, 1871 FRATERNITY BANQUETS, 9-30 P. M. TUESDAY, JUNE 16. ALUMNI MEETING in the Mathematical Room; 9 A. M. ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES, at the office of the Hatch Experiment Station, 9-30 A. m. MEETING OF THE COMMITTE ON EXPERIMENT DEPARTMENT, at the office of Hatch Experiment Station, 11-30 A. M. GRADUATION EXERCISES, ANNOUNCEMENT OF Prizes and Conferring of Degrees, 10 a. m, Commencement Speakers: H. J. FRANKLIN, Bernardston, A. PARSONS, North Amherst, W. W. PEEBLES, Washington, D. C., E. M. POOLE, North Dartmouth, W. E. TOTTINGHAM, Bernardston, Man's Battle with Insects Superintendents in Agriculture Southern Injustice Obstacles as Related to Success The New Form of Energy, Radio Activity Alumni Dinner, immediately following Graduation Exercises. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, JUNE 18 and 19. EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR ADMISSION, at the Botanic Museum, 9 A. M. for examination. Two days are required Editorials. CLASS OF 1903, we wish you Godspeed in the future that lies before you. May the highest success and the truest fame reward your efforts to achieve. In all your endeavors may you seek the noblest ends for the good of your brother, and in the interest of humanity, to whom you owe the civilization that gives you its blessing. But in all your success, be true to the Mater who has guided your thoughts and directed your effort. Let her interests be your interests, her desires your desires, and where she leads do you follow with encouragement and assistance. erence to the Class Tree. ONE thought comes to our minds in connection with the Commencement exercises and that is in refThis holds an important place in the festivities, more so in other institutions than in Massachusetts. In many colleges the class tree is planted in the Freshman year, an idea which we heartily endorse. It seems rather strange that the tree should be planted in the last year of our college life, when we leave it before it has had a chance to get a good start, to be cared for by others, who naturally have not the same interest in it that we have, and who would not attend to it as we should; whereas if planted in the first year of college life, it could and would be watched with a jealous care for at least three years, by which time it would have gained a THE report of the Inspector, Capt. James A. Ship-foothold and would perhaps be thriving well, by the ton, published in this issue is, in general, pleasing to time we buried the hatchet of war for a more peaceus, though we are hit, squarely, in a few instances. ful life. It is too late for us as a class to consider the It is a candid account of the condition of the battalion matter for action but we commend its adoption to you equipments and dormitories, and is helpful in pointing who are following. out our weak points. On the whole the battalion presented a satisfactory appearance; and though we consider our efforts as failing in many respects, yet in comparison with similar institutions, situated as we are, our drilling is creditable. Yet it seems to us that if there was more of the esprit de corps among the men and and a desire of each company to do its best we might be able to give an exhibition of drilling that would reflect credit upon Massachusetts. THOSE Well-known words of Lowell, It is but fitting at this season of college activities when the life and pleasures of the college world are drawing to a close for those who are at the Commencement of their duties in the larger, more really active, and, yes, more interesting world, that we should say a few words to the class that is leaving us. Four years of training in the arts and sciences that are of use and importance, you take with you to this other world, and the responsibilities resting upon you are greater than those of the ordinary citizen of the "This is the high tide of the year, world. Remember how much you owe to the ordinAnd whatever of life hath ebbed away ary man through whose benefactions you have been Comes flooding back with a rippling cheer," able to receive the training with which you are to are peculiarly applicable to the present time. This is meet your Destiny. The "ordinary man." as we the time when hearts are lightest and brightest; when term him, perhaps many of them, the "Great Silent graduates in school and college are in a flutter Men," whom Carlyle so heroically describes, is in of excitement; when campus and yard are decked in danger of being thought too little of by the collegetheir gayest. There is no prospect so bright and bred man. But this should not be. Through some cheering to the college man or woman as the thought inability he has been denied the privileges granted you, of the Commencement season. To the Senior it is and through noblesse oblige you should respect him. the finish of one important heat in life's race; to the To your magnanimity he should be able to turn in his alumnus it is the judge's stand of his own attempts. embarassment, since he helps you in your need. It is the occasion for the renewing of old ties, held True, since your abilities are larger, your successes should be greater, but the ordinary man is an element sacred in each heart, and the forming of new friend-of influence in the world which is strongly felt. So, ships. It is the happiest time of all the year. Let in all your dealings in life, let us ask of you, be conus make the most of it. siderate of the man who is beneath you. |