1897-]
This was Col. Jno. A. Woodward, whose services to our Alma
Mater are well known to every Alumnus. The history of the
successes in Athletics was narrated by Geo. R. Meek, ’9O. The
account closely resembled the history of the Civil War. This was
followed by Dr. S. 13. Newton’s observations upon our athletics of
the present year. These observations might be compared to the
history of the Lost Cause.
Our legal lights were represented by Milton W. Lowry, ’B4,
who frankly admitted that no success is ever gained without
earnest and persistent labor, and that if the success of State Col
lege depended in any measure upon the labors of the Alumni
Association those measures have not been attained in the past.
The State Legislature was represented among the guests by the
two members from Centre county—Hon. Jas. Schofield and Hon.
Robt. M. Foster—who expressed themselves as having constantly
before them the best interests of State College.
The occasion of this—the first banquet of the Alumni Associa
tion away from the College—will long be remembered by those
who participated in it, and it was the unanimous sentiment that
such a gathering should be called for annually, and that with
corresponding activities on the part of the Alumni Association in
the interests of our Alma Mater, a great good to her, which we
would all honor and cherish, would be accomplished.
Down the river we were floating
’Neath a dazzling summer sun.
She and I had gone out boating—
Down the river we were floating,
I her slightest fancy noting.
Thinking “ boating is such fun."
Down the river we were floating
’Neath a dazzling summer sun,
Up the river I was rowing
Underneath that copper sun.
’Gainst the stream so swifty flowing—
Up the river I was rowing;
But, alas, too surely knowing
11 Boating isn’t always fun."
Up the river I was rowing
Underneath that copper sun.
The Point of View,
THE POINT OP VIEW
Geo. C. Butz, ’B3.